Aldo Ortado

The MasterChef kitchen welcomes 12 emerging home cooks and 12 of MasterChef's most loved past contestants. Together they will share their love of food and compete to become Australia's next MasterChef.

They enter the kitchen to find a Union Jack on top of each Mystery Box so who is joining them? Brendan is ready to fight, it will be his first cook following his injury.

Our 2018 cooks enter the MasterChef kitchen for their first challenge as the top 24. The contestants need to imagine they are hosting the judges at their house for a meal.

Auditions across the country have unearthed incredible home cooks, and they gather in the iconic MasterChef garden

With Gordon Week off to a flying start, the bottom 3 contestants in the invention test roll up to the kitchen ready to cook for their place in the competition with a pressure test.

The losing team from the MCG service challenge must face-off in this elimination challenge, cooking something inspired by the dish that made them fall in love with food.