MasterChef South Africa

Talented home chefs from across South Africa compete to impress expert judges. Each week they face a gauntlet of culinary tasks and challenges in order to remain in the competition and avoid elimination.

In this episode the contestants are tasked with cooking a dish personal to the judges and a technical challenge.

The 16 remaining cooks battle to impress judges Zola Nene, Gregory Czarnecki and Justine Drake and avoid elimination.

The contestants face the first team challenge of the series, with the cooks on the losing team subjected to a pressure test to avoid elimination.

The contestants have to show the judges what they could do with a few South African classics.

The chefs perform a pressure test as a tribute to famous chef Dorah Sitole.