Cath Collins

It’s day three of Home Cooks versus Pro Cooks. All this week contestants are going head-to-head with professional chefs in classic MasterChef challenges.

Emelia gives the contestants her choux recipe and sets the challenge – this is a two round elimination where everyone must put their own spin on the choux pastry and can cook either sweet or savoury.

Each contestant is assigned an ingredient and must make a choice: either take the ingredient they can see to feature in their dish, or take a gamble to select the one they can’t.

Continuing on their Victorian road trip, the contestants find themselves in Cactus Country.

The judges reveal that today will be a marathon, not a sprint, as the three cooks will have five hours on the clock to compete the dish.

There is a big twist to today’s Pressure Test, and that is there will be no recipe.