Melanie Persson

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.

In a massive service challenge, it's Fans versus Favourites, course versus course in the ultimate three course battle, with the winning teams heading to tomorrow's immunity decider challenge

It's this season's first immunity challenge! Choosing ingredients from mystery cloches, the contestant with the best dish wins immunity and will sit out Sunday's elimination challenge.

In a grungy Fitzroy warehouse, contestants lift the lids on their mystery boxes, leading to coffee beans spilling out across their bench as judges reveal they must create a dish that features coffee.

The bottom two teams from yesterday's challenge face elimination and must split their 90 minute cooking time over two rounds, with the creator of the least impressive second round dish going home.

Guest chef Shannon Bennett returns with 10 of his favourite fridge and pantry items to create today's mystery box. The two least impressive cooks will face off in tomorrow's pressure test.