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.

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.

The room erupts in tears and applause as the domestic goddess herself Nigella Lawsonwalks through the doors.

It's day two of Judge's Auditions With 18aprons given away yesterday, there are just six left.

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.

Our mystery box winner and the top two dishes from the invention test will have the chance to cook for immunity with Gordon Ramsay as their mentor.