Master Chef

MasterChef enters its 15th season with a brand-new theme… “MasterChef : Dynamic Duos!” For the first time in history, pairs of home cooks will participate together, in hopes of becoming America’s Next MasterChefs. From married and dating couples, to mothers and daughters, siblings, best friends and even divorcees - relationships are tested in some of the toughest challenges to date. Tonight, Gordon Ramsay and Joe Bastianich welcome new judge, Award winning chef Tiffany Derry, as they embark on their search for America’s best home cook duos. And it all starts with Audition Battles, as eight pairs of home cooks go head-to-head fighting to win legendary white aprons.

Tonight, the duo’s who failed to get white aprons in the audition rounds, get a surprise second chance. Having already failed once to make it into the competition, the returning duos must convince the judges that they deserve aprons by making not one, but three identical, restaurant worthy dishes. Just four duos will redeem themselves and join the top eight white apron winners, securing a prized place in the Top 12.

No one knows how to throw a dinner party better than couples! And when it comes to hosting, two cooks are definitely better than one. For their first challenge of the season, the Top 12 duos must impress the judges with their finest dinner party dish. At the end of the evening, the pair with the worst dish will be the first to leave the MasterChef kitchen and the duo with the best dish will receive a strategic advantage.

In the first Mystery Box challenge of the season, the Top 11 duos enter the kitchen to find not one, but two boxes at their station. They lift them to discover one box contains sweet ingredients and the other, spicy ingredients. Each pair of cooks must combine the two boxes of ingredients to make a harmonious, MasterChef-worthy dish. The duo with the winning dish will get an advantage in the next challenge, while the duo with the worst dish will be out of the competition.

The Top 10 duos head out of the MasterChef kitchen for their first team challenge. In a stunning pier-side setting, the two teams are tasked with feeding over 100 local fishermen and women. Both teams find themselves in choppy waters as the weather takes a turn for the worse and relationships start to show strain. The team with the most votes from the diners remain safe from elimination, while the worst performing team face the dreaded pressure test.

The five duos on the losing team from the previous challenge face the first pressure test of the season; dessert mystery box challenge.