
MasterChef (2010)
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Graham Elliot as Self - Judge
Episodes 112
Auditions (1)
The search for a culinary master begins.
Read MoreAuditions (2)
The home cooks endure an intense grilling.
Read MoreTop 14 Compete
The contestants enter the kitchen for the first time.
Read MoreTop 11 Compete
The cooks impress with just one cupcake.
Read MoreTop 9 Compete
The home cooks cater a high-end wedding.
Read MoreTop 6 Compete
The contestants undergo a Mystery Box challenge and an Invention Test.
Read MoreWinner Revealed
America's best home cook is revealed.
Read MoreAudition 1
100 amateur chefs are flown to Los Angeles to see if they have what it takes to be the next MasterChef. The contestants prepare their signature dishes for the panel of judges. Only those who impress the judges with their presentation, creativity, and originality will get an apron and move onto the next round.
Read MoreAudition 2
Round 2 begins with the amateur chefs trying to impress the judges with their signature dishes. Contestants compete for a chance to win the MasterChef apron which guarantees them a spot in the next round.
Read MoreAudition 3 & Top 38 Revealed
The field has been narrowed down, and the top 38 are revealed.
Read MoreTop 18 Revealed
The contestants must show the judges that they can pass two culinary stress tests before moving onto the next round. First, slicing apples consistently, and with as little waste as possible, and second, creating the best chicken dish they can in order to impress the judges, and move onto the next round.
Read MoreTop 16 Revealed
The contestants have one hour to make a dish using mystery ingredients. The winner picks the main ingredient in the elimination round.
Read MoreTop 16 Compete
The contestants are split into two teams, each team creating a five course meal. One person is eliminated.
Read MoreTop 15 Compete
The contestants compete, and try to advance to the next round.
Read MoreTop 14 Compete
The remaining contestants compete in order to advance to the next round.
Read MoreTop 13 Compete
Vegetarian meals are made by the 13 remaining hopefuls. Then, Season 1 winner Whitney Miller shows up and challenges the wannabe chefs to prepare a dish from her cookbook.
Read MoreTop 12 Compete
The Top 12 prepare food for a celebrity cocktail party
Read MoreTop 11 Compete
The hopefuls cook lobsters. Later, they compete in an aphrodisiac challenge.
Read MoreTop 10 Compete
The Top 10 cook for the judges' mothers. Later, they must prepare eggs Benedict.
Read MoreTop 9 Compete
The Top 9 home cooks flex their culinary muscles in another grueling challenge to prove to the judges they have the passion and skill it takes to advance to the next round. Find out which contestants wow the judges and who winds up on the chopping block in the next elimination round.
Read MoreTop 8 Compete
The contestants will need to prepare a slider and a side for each kid. But there's a catch: They cannot use beef or potatoes. And the kids aren't just the guests; they are the judges, too.
Read MoreTop 8 Compete Again
After no elimination last night, the Top 8 home cooks again flex their culinary muscles in another grueling challenge to prove to the judges they have the passion and skill it takes to advance to the next round. Find out which contestants wow the judges and who winds up on the chopping block in the next elimination round.
Read MoreTop 6 Compete
The remaining six home cooks arrive at the acclaimed Los Angeles restaurant Patina at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Chef Gordon Ramsay tells them that they won't be eating in the restaurant; they'll be cooking there.
Read MoreTop 5 Compete
The final five home cooks in the competition gather in the "MasterChef" kitchen, where judges Gordon Ramsay, Graham Elliot, and Joe Bastianich reveal the latest Mystery Box Challenge. The contestants have to prepare, cook, and present an incredible dish using all or some of the ingredients inside a wooden crate: a variety of ground meats and an assortment of vegetables, rice, and potatoes.
Read MoreTop 4 Compete
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Top 3 Compete
The Top 3 chefs face off in a grueling final challenge, and the judges determine the winner in the Season 2 finale. At stake is $250,000 and the coveted title of MasterChef.
Read MoreWinner Revealed
The Top 3 chefs face off in a grueling final challenge, and the judges determine the winner in the Season 2 finale. At stake is $250,000 and the coveted title of MasterChef.
Read MoreAuditions (1)
After a nationwide search, only the best amateur cooks – including a stock broker, a professional opera singer, a plastic surgeon, as well as the first blind cook to enter the competition - were flown to Los Angeles for a chance to prepare their signature dishes and present them to the judges. The judges will taste for flavor, originality, creativity and presentation. But most importantly, the amateur cooks must demonstrate a genuine passion for food and a drive to win in order to earn a coveted white apron and move on to the next round.
Read MoreAuditions (2)
The auditions continue as the judges critique the good and the bad and continue to winnow down the competition. Those who impress the judges will earn a coveted white apron and move one step closer to becoming the next MasterChef.
Read MoreAuditions (3) and Top 36 Bootcamp
The final round of auditions is held in Los Angeles. Then, the 36 remaining hopefuls compete in a ground-beef challenge in hopes of earning a spot in the Top 18.
Read MoreTop 18 Compete
The Top 18 must create gourmet dishes using duck and bananas. Later, they're challenged to cook with unusual and intimidating ingredients.
Read MoreTop 16 Compete
Culinary boot camp awaits the 16 remaining hopefuls at California's Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base, where they'll work in teams to prepare a healthy, balanced meal for 200 servicemen and women.
Read MoreTop 15 Compete
Fifteen hopefuls remain, and they're tasked with creating unique dishes using unconventional—and unappetizing—cuts of meat in a challenge that tests their resourcefulness.
Read MoreTop 14 Compete
The judges split the cooks into teams to prepare breakfast for hotel guests; the members of the losing team must prove they deserve to stay in the competition.
Read MoreTop 13 Compete
A budget-friendly mystery-box challenge requires the wannabe chefs to create a gourmet meal using only $20 worth of ingredients. Later, another hopeful is sent packing.
Read MoreTop 12 Compete
The 12 remaining hopefuls are split into three teams for a food-truck challenge that requires them to create budget-friendly meals for beachgoers.
Read MoreTop 11 Compete
Judge Graham Elliot joins the amateur cooks in the kitchen, taking part in a mystery-box challenge. Later, a double elimination sends two hopefuls home.
Read MoreTop Nine Compete
The amateur chefs must cook with exotic ingredients from the sea
Read MoreTop 8 Compete
The amateur chefs are taken to a Southern California rodeo, where they'll work in teams to feed a hearty meal to 101 hungry cowboys. Members of the winning team advance to the next round of competition, while the others face off in a pressure test that has them preparing six eggs in four different ways.
Read MoreTop 7 Compete
Paula Deen is a guest judge for a Southern-inspired mystery-box challenge. Later, the hopefuls are paired up to cook a complicated Japanese dish.
Read MoreTop 6 Compete, Pt. 1
Part 1 of 3. Eight previously eliminated contestants return and compete for a chance to win back their aprons and continue on in the competition. Each hopeful selects one ingredient to make up the mystery box, and then they are required to use all of the items to create a dish that proves they are worthy of a second chance.
Read MoreTop 6 Compete, Pt. 2
Part 2 of 3. The seven remaining hopefuls find shrimp in the mystery basket, and must make standout dishes with a very limited pantry. The winner then determines which savory ingredient the others will have to incorporate into desserts in the elimination round.
Read MoreTop 6 Compete, Pt. 3
Conclusion. The six remaining hopefuls compete in a team challenge at Hatfield's, a Hollywood hot spot, where they attempt to replicate the acclaimed restaurant's signature dishes. Later, members of the losing team face off in an elimination challenge that requires them to prepare steak three different ways.
Read MoreTop 5 Compete
A game-changing twist surprises the five remaining hopefuls during a mystery-box challenge. Later, the wannabe chefs are tasked with re-creating one of Graham Elliot's signature dishes that he served to President Obama at his flagship restaurant.
Read MoreTop 4 Compete
Four hopefuls remain, and they must work in teams of two to prepare a gourmet meal for three world-renowned chefs: Daniel Boulud, Alain Ducasse and Guy Savoy. The winning pair will each earn a spot in the Top 3, while the losing team face off in a pressure test featuring soufflé.
Read MoreTop 3 Compete
Part 1 of 2. Season 3 finale: The three remaining hopefuls are tasked with creating a dish that best embodies their personality and passion for food. Then, each prepares a pair of legs—chicken, lamb and frog—in hopes of scoring a spot in the Top 2.
Read MoreWinner Chosen
In their final challenge in the kitchen, the two home cooks will conceptualize and prepare the most important three-course meal of their lives. Later, the judges will reveal America's next, and the deserving home cook will walk away with a book deal and the $250,000 grand prize. Find out whose culinary dreams will turn into a reality.
Read MoreAuditions No. 1
Home cooks present dishes to the judges.
Read MoreAuditions No. 2
Home cooks present dishes to the judges.
Read MoreTop 19 Revealed
The judges pare down the competition in the final round of auditions; the cooks take on a lamb challenge; the top 19 contestants face a mystery box challenge; the contestants face elimination.
Read MoreTop 19 Compete
The top 19 contestants face a mystery box challenge; the contestants face elimination.
Read MoreTop 18 Compete
The cooks must create a healthy meal for over 300 school children.
Read MoreTop 17 Compete
The cooks must prepare a dish using mystery box ingredients, which include cod; two contestants are sent home.
Read MoreTop 16 Compete (1)
The cooks prepare a steak meal for firefighters; the challenge losers cook eggs benedict.
Read MoreTop 16 Compete (2)
Four cooks prepare burger dishes at Gordon Ramsay BurGR in Las Vegas.
Read MoreTop 15 Compete
A mystery-box challenge involving foreign ingredients takes place; chef Lidia Bastianich judges pasta dishes.
Read MoreTop 14 Compete
The contestants prepare a meal for the cast and crew of "Glee." Jane Lynch, Cory Monteith and Matthew Morrison serve as judges.
Read MoreTop 13 Compete
The contestants deal with a mystery-box challenge that involves an unusual ingredient and a limited pantry; Season 3 winner Christine Ha surprises the chefs.
Read MoreTop 12 Compete
A meal is prepared for a wedding party.
Read MoreTop 11 Compete
Restaurateur Eva Longoria selects Mexican-inspired ingredients for a mystery box challenge.
Read MoreTop 10 Compete
The contestants must prepare fish tacos for hungry surfers; in a pressure test, contestants must prepare a perfect chicken breast three different ways.
Read MoreTop 9 Compete
The nine remaining contestants make sausage link dishes using a sausage maker, with the winner choosing the ingredient to be used in the canned versus fresh challenge.
Read MoreTop 8 Compete
The cooks compete in an overnight challenge; the losing team faces a spun sugar dessert pressure test.
Read MoreTop 7 Compete
The cooks create dishes inspired by loved ones; tag-team sushi challenge.
Read MoreTop 6 Compete
Previously eliminated contestants get the chance to get back in the competition by perfectly frying an egg and preparing a salmon dish.
Read MoreTop 7 Compete Again
The cooks must prepare a T-bone steak dish; the challenge winner assigns a type of poultry to the other contestants.
Read MoreTop 6 Compete
The cooks must re-create popular dishes served at a fine-dining restaurant in downtown Los Angeles; the losing team must prepare a perfect plate of fried calamari with a side of marinara sauce.
Read MoreTop 5 Compete (1)
The judges are joined by their sons, who help critique a mystery box challenge; re-creating a dish.
Read MoreTop 5 Compete (2)
Two cooks advance to the finals while the remaining three face a pressure test.
Read MoreTop 4 Compete
The cooks split into two teams for the mystery box challenge.
Read MoreTop 3 Compete
The remaining three contestants cook more sophisticated versions of the dishes they made in their initial auditions.
Read MoreWinner Chosen
The final two cooks prepare three-course meals; the judges choose the winner.
Read MoreTop 30 Compete
Host award-winning chef Gordon Ramsay, along with fellow judges restaurateur Joe Bastianich and acclaimed chef Graham Elliot return for Season Five, putting the latest group of contestants through a series of challenging elimination rounds and turning one home cook into a culinary master.
Read MoreTop 22 Compete
The contestants must prepare a unique dish in the first mystery box challenge -- which features ingredients typically used in desserts; in the next round, the contestants prepare a classic American dish.
Read MoreTop 20 Compete
The cooks compete to feed 500 male and female troops on a desert Army base; the losing team faces a pressure test featuring blueberry pie.
Read MoreTop 18 Compete
The contestants tackle a seafood challenge, with the winner choosing what dessert the others will prepare in the elimination round.
Read MoreTop 17 Compete
The contestants prepare a seafood menu for a beachfront wedding; one team faces a challenge featuring a meal with steak and fries.
Read MoreTop 16 Compete
A mystery-box challenge has the Top 16 chefs preparing dishes using canned foods. The winner will work with former "MasterChef" champion Luca Manfe and "MasterChef Junior" winner Alexander Weiss to select a specialty dish for the elimination round.
Read MoreTop 15 Compete
The contestants must put aside their difference as they pair up to create a surf-and-turf dish; the challenge losers face a pressure test featuring spring rolls.
Read MoreTop 14 Compete
The remaining 14 cooks work in two sets of teams at a busy, iconic diner in Los Angeles; the members of the losing team must make a three-layer red velvet cake during a pressure test.
Read MoreTop 13 Compete
The cooks must create a dish using Alaskan king salmon; during the elimination round, the cooks create a dish using one judge's favorite ingredients.
Read MoreTop 12 Compete
The cooks prepare romantic dinners for couples celebrating anniversaries; Ramsay's wife joins him for dinner; the losing team create their own truffle recipes for a box of chocolates.
Read MoreTop 11 Compete
For the first time, the contestants get to choose between two mystery boxes: one filled with high-end ingredients and one containing ordinary items; the winner of the challenge chooses which type of stuffed pasta the remaining cooks make.
Read MoreTop 10 Compete
The home cooks split into two teams and create menus of healthy football game concessions for an entire stadium; the cooks on the losing team must create three unique prawn dishes in a pressure test.
Read MoreTop 8 Compete
The cooks split into teams of two and prepare a poultry dish using different parts of the chicken; two pairs face a pressure test with eggs.
Read MoreTop 7 Compete
The remaining contestants receive hometown encouragement as they prepare savory apple dishes; while the challenge winner is safe from elimination, the other contestants form teams of two and make a variety of potstickers.
Read MoreTop 6 Compete
Ramsay works alongside the cooks as they take over a high-end restaurant in Los Angeles; croquembouche pressure test.
Read MoreTop 5 Compete
Joined by VIP kitchen guests, the cooks prepare dishes inspired by loved ones; the cooks face a challenge involving rare protein dishes.
Read MoreTop 4 Compete
A final team challenge establishes who will move on to the top three.
Read MoreTop 3 Compete
The Top 3 contestants create dishes for a panel of judges from all 50 U.S. states. The winner earns an automatic spot in the Top 2, while the other two chefs face a pressure test involving desserts.
Read MoreWinner Chosen
In the Season 5 finale, the winner is chosen after the Top 2 compete for the trophy, a book deal and a $250,000 grand prize.
Read MoreLet the Battle Commence
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The Battle Continues
After the Battle for the Apron concludes, the Top 22 home cooks in America will face their first Mystery Box Challenge. Each contestant is given 20 staple ingredients that anyone could find in their home and tasked with preparing a dish for the judges -- were the judges to show up at their homes for dinner. The winner of the Mystery Box Challenge will receive a significant advantage in the season's first pressure test, during which contestants must make their versions of an apple pie.
Read MoreYou're The Apple Of My Eye
The Top 22 home cooks in America will face their first Mystery Box Challenge. Each contestant is given 20 staple ingredients that anyone could find in their home and tasked with preparing a dish for the judges -- were the judges to show up at their homes for dinner. The winner of the Mystery Box Challenge will receive a significant advantage in the season's first pressure test, during which contestants must make their versions of an apple pie.
Read MoreCinnamon Roll-er Coaster
The remaining 20 home cooks will face their first team challenge of the season at an amusement park. Once teams are decided, each team will be tasked with creating its version of an amusement park burger and fish and chips dish for thousands of amusement park guests. The winning team will be safe from elimination, while the losing team will have to face the first pressure test of the season, during which the home cooks will make 12 cinnamon rolls.
Read MoreClawing to Victory
The next mystery box challenge has the home cooks come out of their shells and prepare unique crab dishes for the judges. The home cook who prepares the best crab dish will receive a significant advantage before the next elimination challenge. Then the remaining home cooks will create their versions of sweet or savory dishes, using the same surprise ingredient of corn.
Read MoreWhat Happens in Vegas Steaks in Vegas
In the second field challenge of the season, the home cooks will take a surprise trip to Las Vegas, where they will be split into two teams to take over Drai's Nightclub and feed 101 Las Vegas performers. The team who receives the most winning votes from the Las Vegas performer diners will be safe from the next pressure test, while the losing team will be dealt with a deuce steak contest at Gordon Ramsay's Steak. In the pressure test, the home cooks will face two steak challenges testing temperature and taste, and one contestant will be sent home.
Read MoreBring Home the Bacon
In the next challenge, it's proven that Breakfast is indeed the most important meal of the day when the home cooks are each tasked to create an elevated breakfast dish in 45 minutes. Not only will the winner have immunity in the next mystery box challenge, but they will also receive two additional advantages. Later, in the mystery box challenge, contestants must create TV dinners.
Read MoreHappy Birthday MasterChef
Each team will prepare a two-course menu for the 100th episode celebration, during which VIP guests will dine on oyster and caviar appetizers and a duck breast entrée, followed by a special surprise dish by judge Christina Tosi. The losing team will face the next pressure test, in which contestants must create a three-layer birthday cake.
Read MoreGordon's Greatest Hits
The remaining home cooks will learn from the best as they enter a special taste-it-and-make-it challenge. Each contestant must recreate Gordon Ramsay's signature Beef Wellington. The home cooks with the worst dishes will compete in the next pressure test, featuring another Gordon Ramsay dish — scallops with puree of English peas, bacon, and quail eggs, finished with shaved truffles. Find out who can keep up with the master and who will be sent home for good.
Read MoreRice Rice Baby
In the next mystery box challenge, the remaining home cooks must create a rice dish in 60 minutes. The contestant with the winning dish will be featured in Family Circle Magazine and will not have to participate in the next elimination challenge. Then, in the elimination challenge, contestants will be tasked with creating dishes based on dynamic duo ingredients. Find out who will make it into the Top 10 best home cooks in America.
Read MoreMoo-vers And Bakers
The Top 10 home cooks enter the Wild West when they face their next team challenge and create steak meals for 101 cowboys and ranchers. The team that receives the most winning votes will moo-ve on in the competition, while the remaining home cooks will face the next pressure test. For the pressure test the losing team will bake tarts and see who can bake their way to victory.
Read MoreFamily Reunion
The Top 10 home cooks will cook family style when they face their next team challenge and create family style meals for VIP diners. After each team prepares their family style meals, they are greeted by the dinner guests, their family members. Each diner will vote for one team's meal and the team with the most votes will be safe from the next pressure test. In the pressure test, the losing team home cooks must create a gnocchi-in-brown-sage-butter-sauce dish. Find out who will go home and who will move on.
Read MoreA Little Southern Flare
The cooks prepare a flambé in a mystery box challenge, and the winner is safe from elimination and also gets to choose which Southern dish the contestants must make. The winner also receives two other significant advantages.
Read MoreGetting A-Head in the Competition
n the next team challenge, the remaining home cooks will split into teams to prepare vegetarian meals for guests of the MasterChef restaurant. Teams will have access to any ingredients that they choose in the MasterChef pantry, as long as the dishes are vegetarian. The winning team will be safe from elimination, while the losing team must cook in the next pressure test and create delicious well-composed meals using various cuts from an animal head.
Read MoreA Storm's A-Brewing
The cooks must create a dish that features coffee as one of the main ingredients; during the pressure test, the contestants team up to re-create an elaborate party platter.
Read MoreThe Restaurant Takeover
The remaining chefs are put into teams to take over a Los Angeles restaurant, where they have to come up with two appetizers and two entrées for dining customers. The losing team take part in a pressure test that sees them having to come up with three different pasta dishes.
Read MoreReturn of the Champions
In the next mystery box challenge, the Top 5 home cooks must create a dish using pear, blue cheese, tomato, portabella mushroom, and chocolate. The winner receives both safety from elimination and the power to choose among 4 baskets of ingredients for the elimination challenge, baskets that were put together with the help of the 3 former MasterChef winners.
Read MoreThink Inside the Box
The 4 remaining contestants use special ingredients from Gordon and Graham in the next team challenge. Each team must create a unique appetizer and entrée, and create them 3 times. The losing pair face a pressure test in which they must recreate judge Christina Tosi's world-famous Chocolate Malted Layer Cake to see who will round out the Top 3.
Read MoreTeam Gordon Ramsay
In the next challenge, with a little help from a few other home cooks, the remaining three contestants will create dishes for 30 restaurant guests who serve an important role in the judges' culinary world. The home cook with the most number of votes will move on in the competition, while the remaining two home cooks will face the next pressure test, during which they must complete three classic MasterChef dishes. The home cook with the best dishes will move on to the finals.
Read MoreThe Finale
In the final challenge in the MasterChef kitchen, the Top Two home cooks will have one last chance to prove to the judges that they deserve the MasterChef title by creating a three-course meal. After evaluating the final dishes, the judges will reveal America's next MasterChef, and the deserving home cook will walk away with a MasterChef trophy, a book deal and the $250,000 grand prize.
Read MoreCelebrity Showdown (2016)
Get ready for the ultimate snack-down when award-winning judge Gordon Ramsay and renowned pastry chef Christina Tosi invite celebrities into the MasterChef kitchen to battle it out against each other for charity. The 2-hour special tests the culinary skills of the celebrity competitors, and also pits previous MasterChef winners against some of MasterChef Junior's Season 4 contestants, as they compete in culinary showdowns to win a cash prize for the charities of their choice. Celebrity Competitors Include Supermodels Gigi Hadid and Devon Windsor; Brooklyn Nine-Nine's Terry Crews and wife, Rebecca Crews; The Last Man on Earth's Boris Kodjoe and wife, Nicole Ari Parker; and Empire's Kaitlin Doubleday and Ta'Rhonda Jones; as well as MasterChef Winners Luca Manfe, Christine Ha, and Claudia Sandoval; and MasterChef Junior Season 4 Contestants Addison, Amaya, and Zac.
Read MoreCelebrity Showdown (2017)
Get ready for the ultimate snack-down when chef Gordon Ramsay and pastry chef Christina Tosi invite celebrities into the MasterChef kitchen to show off their culinary skills and compete in head-to-head contests for charity.
Read MoreCelebrity Family Showdown (2019) Part 1
Celebrities and their family members show off their culinary skills in exciting challenges for charity. First up: Johnny Weir and his brother Boz go head-to-head with Tara Lipinski and her husband Todd in a fish dish showdown. Then, in a reality TV Blind Taste Test, Lisa Vanderpump and her daughter, Pandora, compete against "Jersey Shore" costars Snooki and JWoww.
Read MoreCelebrity Family Showdown (2019) Part 2
Tori Spelling and her daughter, Stella, compete against Jennie Garth and her daughter, Fiona; and Evander Holyfield and his daughter, Ebonne, battle Oscar De La Hoya and his daughter, Atiana.
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