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Episodes 8
Team Challenge: Four-Course Dessert Menu
The contestants are tasked to create a four-course dessert menu, with each team needing to prepare 10 serves of each dessert to the judges. Which team will go head to head in the elimination?
Read MoreOff-site Challenge: Afternoon Tea at The Hotel Windsor
In the team challenge, contestants are split into two teams to prepare afternoon tea for 100 guests at Melbourne's The Hotel Windsor.
Read MorePressure Test
In what promises to be one of the toughest pressure tests yet seen in the MasterChef Australia kitchen, the bottom four contestants from the invention test must cook off to survive in the competition.
Read MorePressure Test - Darren Purchese
The losing team from yesterday's invention test are in the kitchen, ready to fight for their place in the competition.
Read MorePressure Test - Darren Purchese
Those that failed to impress in the previous episode are facing the dreaded pressure test. Our cooks are charged with recreating a Darren Purchese dessert, and whoever doesn't impress the judges will be going home.
Read MorePressure Test: Darren Purchese's Passionfruit Pavlova
Contestants have three hours to complete a simply stunning Darren Purchese dish, but in the final hour of the cook, a twist that no one could anticipate is thrown at the contestants.
Read MoreMammoth Elimination Challenge
In this mammoth elimination challenge, the contestants discover not only will they be cooking a four-course meal for the MasterChef judges, but for six of the hottest chefs in the country.
Read MoreDarren Purchese (Pressure Test)
Contestants must cook a sweet pressure test recipe of their own design. Darren Purchese will be running the floor and mentoring the contestants and the judges will do a blind tasting of each dish.
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