Leonardo Giglio

Now that the 18 final participants have been selected, the biggest gastronomic competition in Brazil officially begins!

The show gives us a flavor of the Far East when the chefs discover that the competition will take them on a journey through Japanese cuisine.

After achieving a place in the Top 10, the contestants are in for quite a surprise when all the eliminated contestants return for a repechage.

It's party time and the teams must bake a cake and 60 typical Brazilian pastries to serve to the judges and the invited pastry chefs.

New aspiring chefs relive the show's greatest challenges and meet their new juror: Rodrigo Oliveira, one of Brazil's greatest chefs.

For the first time this season, the contestants face an external challenge, outside the MasterChef kitchen, in the historic Sala São Paulo.