Sarah Todd

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.

Bonjour! Get ready for tonight's classic service challenge with guest chef Shannon Bennett. Each team must cook a French inspired entree, main and dessert for 20 diners plus the judges.

Contestants must create a dish using the same ingredients that were in the very first mystery box in MasterChef season one, The least impressive fare will send their chefs to a pressure test cook-off.

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.

The cooks with the four top dishes this week have won immunity from Sunday's elimination. Now they battle it out to win the final immunity pin, but only if they can ace the infamous Time Auction!

Vying for a shot at immunity, contestants are split into two teams for a service challenge. Each team must curate a three-course menu for either the Japanese or Italian restaurant they are cooking in.