Krissi Biasiello

In their first team challenge, the Top 18 home cooks face their pickiest judges yet when they visit a local elementary school and are tasked to create a healthy, balanced meal for over 300 school children.

Judge Gordon Ramsay cooks alongside the home cooks and prepares a dish using the mystery box ingredients, including cod. Two more home cooks will leave the MASTERCHEF kitchen for good.

The remaining 16 home cooks compete in a team challenge and cook a hearty and balanced steak meal for 101 firefighters. The losing team will face a pressure test and cook their best eggs benedict dish. 

The contestants must create an exquisite dish using foreign delicacies in the mystery box challenge. Then, a very special guest, Joe’s mom and legendary chef Lidia Bastianich, joins the judges to determine the best and the worst pasta dishes in the elimination round.

Later, the contestants visit a Hollywood set and cook a lunch meal for the cast and crew of GLEE. The home cooks will split into two teams to prepare a delicious chicken, salmon and vegetarian lasagna dish. The stars of GLEE – Jane Lynch, Cory Monteith and Matthew Morrison – help the judges determine the winning team. In the end, two more home cooks will be eliminated.