Ben Trobbiani

Each cook gets one hour to make a dish. Those who impress all three judges will go on to the next audition. The cooks who impress only two judges will have to cook again.

The contest moves to Queensland and a mystery box challenge featuring local ingredients including coconut, blue swimmer crab, peanuts, quail eggs, lychees, oysters and pork belly.

The amateur cooks are introduced to Secrets Week, throughout which a secret will be revealed every day, whether it be a secret ingredient, recipe, technique or even a secret chef.

As the contest reaches the halfway stage, three hopefuls compete in an elimination challenge, creating a dish from a choice of proteins and other ingredients hidden beneath cloches.

As the week in Western Australia nears its end, three of the contestants face an elimination challenge, with all of them desperate to make it through to finals week.

Rick Stein joins the judges and chooses the ingredients for the next mystery box challenge, including cuttlefish, pine nuts, basil, garlic, tomatoes, Australian raisins and marrow bones.