Tommy Walton

The teams must create a unique appetizer and entree three times by using special ingredients; the pressure test has the chefs re-creating Christina Tosi's chocolate malted layer cake.

The contestants compete to see who can prepare the best rice dish in 60 minutes; for the elimination challenge, the cooks create dishes based on dynamic duo ingredients.

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.

The top five cooks must prepare a dish with pear, blue cheese, tomato, portobello mushroom and chocolate; former MasterChef winners and the challenge winner prepare baskets of ingredients for the pressure test.

Each team prepares a two-course menu for a 100th-episode celebration; contestants must make a three-layer birthday cake in the pressure test.

The contestants must prepare a flambe; the challenge winner selects which Southern dish the contestants will cook.