MasterChef

2010

4.7

573 reviews

TV-14

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Season 4 episodes (25)

1 Auditions #1

5/22/13

Season-only

Award-winning chef Gordon Ramsay, restaurateur Joe Bastianich and acclaimed chef Graham Elliot return to the MASTERCHEF judging panel. After a nationwide search, only the best home cooks – including an archaeologist, a high school gym teacher, a former pro-football player and a firefighter – were flown to Los Angeles for a chance to prepare their signature dishes and present them to the judges. The judges will taste for flavor, creativity and presentation. But most importantly, in order to earn a coveted white apron and move to the next round, the home cooks must have an immense passion for food and be determined to win. Then, the auditions continue as the judges critique the good and the bad and winnow down the competition. Download part 1 now!

2 MasterChef -

5/21/13

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3 Auditions #3 (Top 19 Revealed)

5/29/13

Season-only

The judges continue to winnow down the competition in the final round of auditions, but the stakes are raised as the remaining hopefuls are put to the ultimate test in an intense lamb challenge. The top 19 contestants compete in their first mystery box challenge of the season and must create an exceptional dish using the most basic mystery box ingredients. Later, the contestants participate in the season's first emotional elimination round. Download part 1 now!

4 Top 19 Compete

5/29/13

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5 Top 18 Compete

6/5/13

Season-only

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.

6 Top 17 Compete

6/5/13

Season-only

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.

7 Top 16 Compete, Part 1 of 2

6/12/13

Season-only

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. Download part 1 now!

8 Top 16 Compete, Part 2 of 2

6/12/13

Season-only

The bottom four contestants from the previous challenge will try their luck in Las Vegas for the first time in MASTERCHEF history. The four home cooks will split into two teams to prepare their most impressive burger dish at Gordon Ramsay BurGR at Planet Hollywood. The losing team will go head to head in a cook-off that will send one contestant home for good. Download part 2 now!

9 Top 15 Chefs Compete

6/19/13

Season-only

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.

10 Top 14 Chefs Compete

6/19/13

Season-only

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.

11 Top 13 Compete

6/26/13

Season-only

The remaining contestants must think on their feet when they cook a mystery box challenge with the most unexpected ingredient and a limited pantry. Later, in the elimination round, Season Three Winner Christine Ha, the first ever blind contestant, returns to MASTERCHEF with a big surprise for the contestants.

12 Top 12 Compete

6/26/13

Season-only

The home cooks prepare an unforgettable meal for a wedding party. The winning team is safe from elimination, while the losing team faces a pressure test involving macaroons. In the end, two more home cooks will be eliminated.

13 Top 11 Compete

7/10/13

Season-only

Actress and restaurateur Eva Longoria surprises the contestants and selects Mexican-inspired ingredients for the mystery box challenge. The contestant who creates the most impressive restaurant-quality dish will determine which food basket each of the remaining contestants will receive in the elimination round.

14 Top 10 Compete

7/10/13

Season-only

In the team challenge, the home cooks hit the beach and cook fish tacos for more than 100 hungry surfers. The surfers will determine the winning team, who will earn a huge surprise – tickets to the 2013 MLB All-Star Game in New York City. Meanwhile, the losing team faces a pressure test and must cook a perfect chicken breast three ways. In the end, two more contestants will go home.

15 Top 9 Compete

7/17/13

Season-only

In the next mystery box challenge, the remaining nine contestants will create their most impressive sausage link dish using a sausage maker. The winner of the challenge will select which ingredient the contestants will cook with in the canned versus fresh elimination challenge. Some contestants will receive the canned version of the ingredient while others will receive the fresh ingredient. Find out which contestant is the weakest link when one more contestant is sent home.

16 The Top 8

7/24/13

Season-only

The Top 8 chefs are taken to a remote field for an overnight challenge in which they must cook for sustenance and create lunch for the judges using limited ingredients. Later, the losing team competes in a spun-sugar-dessert pressure test.

17 Top 7 Compete

7/31/13

Season-only

The Top 7 chefs compete in a mystery-box challenge in which they create dishes inspired by their loved ones. Later, an elimination round featuring a tag-team sushi challenge takes place.

18 Top 6 Compete

8/7/13

Season-only

Eliminated contestants from this season are given the opportunity to cook their way back into the competition. In the first part of the challenge, the returning contestants must prepare as many perfectly cooked fried eggs as possible, but only two contestants will advance to the next stage. Then, the remaining contestants must prepare a perfect salmon dish that the judges and current contestants will judge in a blind taste test. The contestant whose dish earns the most votes wins a spot back in the MASTERCHEF kitchen.

19 Top 7 Compete (+ 1 Returnee)

8/14/13

Season-only

In the next mystery box challenge, the contestants must prepare a delicious and perfectly cooked T-bone steak dish. The home cook with the best dish earns immunity and assigns a different type of poultry to the remaining contestants in the elimination round. Later, pressure runs high as the competitors must cook the most important poultry dish and prove that they deserve to stay in the game. Find out which home cook flies the coop

20 Top 6 Compete

8/21/13

Season-only

In the next team challenge, home cooks take over WP24, a fine-dining, downtown Los Angeles restaurant, and are tasked to re-create some of the restaurant's most popular dishes, including appetizers and entrees. With limited time to prep, cook and serve a discerning group of diners, the pressure is on in the kitchen, and the judges and the diners have a tough decision to determine the winning team. Later, the losing team faces elimination in another heated pressure test, where the remaining contestants must execute a perfect plate of fried calamari with a side of marinara sauce. Find out which contestant is sent home after another emotional elimination.

21 Top 5 Compete, Part 1 of 2

8/28/13

Season-only

The judges get some very special help from their sons, who stop by the MASTERCHEF kitchen to judge the next mystery box challenge. The judges' kids will choose the mystery box ingredients and help their dads pick the best and worst dishes.

22 Top 5 Compete, Part 2 of 2

8/28/13

Season-only

In a field challenge, the remaining five home cooks visit a ranch where they will each prepare one Southern-inspired dish as part of a special summer luncheon for local charity volunteers. Guest judge Paula Deen will determine which two home cooks will immediately advance to the Top Four, while the bottom three contestants will face a pressure test that will end the competition for one home cook.

23 Top 4 Compete

9/4/13

Season-only

The final four cooks will split into two teams in the next mystery box challenge, and they will prepare a three-course meal using notable ingredients from all over the United States. The winning team will be safe from elimination, while the members of the losing team will go head-to-head in a chocolate desserts pressure test that will end the competition for one home cook.

24 Top 3 Compete

9/4/13

Season-only

The judges challenge the remaining three contestants to cook with the same ingredients they used in their initial auditions, while creating an elevated and sophisticated version of the same dish. The home cooks must demonstrate how far they've come in the competition in order to earn a spot in the finale and move one step closer to winning a life-changing grand prize.

25 Winner Chosen

9/11/13

Season-only

The Top Two finalists have one last chance to prove to the judges that they have the passion, skill and drive worthy of the MASTERCHEF title. In their final challenge in the MASTERCHEF kitchen, the two home cooks will conceptualize and prepare the most important three-course meal of their lives. Later, the judges will reveal America's next MASTERCHEF, and the deserving home cook will walk away with a MASTERCHEF trophy, a book deal and the $250,000 grand prize. Find out whose culinary dreams will turn into a reality.

About this show

Gordon Ramsay stars in MasterChef, the new series that takes amateur chefs - many of whom simply cook as a hobby - and attempts to turn one of them into a culinary master. Contestants on MasterChef will be put through the paces with various challenges as they compete head-to-head to create delicious dishes.

Ratings and reviews

4.7

573 reviews

V Rh

June 14, 2021

I hoped the change of hosts might revitalise this show but sadly not. It is just the same old, same old, same old etc., with different faces. The new hosts just utter the same lines, give the same sideways looks and hold the (supposedly suspenseful) pauses as the previous hosts. Obviously they have not changed the script writers. The contestants are excellent and for the most part interesting and they certainly know how to cook however the format of this stale show needs to be rejigged.

James Cox

July 27, 2020

Cool GameSpot thats supposed to be about cooking. What ruins it..everyone crying about "thier cause" to be there. The gloyifing of ones sexual orientation and a obivous forced diversity feel contribute to a reasonable lack of interest. Just cook, bring on the best cooks, stop trying to balance things in order to possibly please people who might not have been interested.

Doris Mahala

June 29, 2017

I have watched MasterChef series with the adults and with the children. I am amazed by the way this show gives not only instruction to the children but also challenges them. When they accomplish a recipe that I know that I could never accomplish and have never heard of I would think "these kids are smart, really smart!" I think that Ramsay is a little to rough on the kids, but they take it like a duck to water and momma duck just quacking away. {l.o.l.} However, when I saw that some people just could not scramble eggs and make toast I just shuddered. That is one of my fav. breakfast. In fact I must have an egg or eggs everyday. I need protein and it is hard for someone with my income to be afford meat so I get it with dairy after I have to take medication for mild intolerance to some dairy products. Would love to have a way and means to learn how to make my own cheeses and would love to find a dairy that will sell dairy products [raw milk or un-homogenized milk] Would love to learn how to make dishes from Sweden, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Portuguese dishes, Basque... so many different food and countries.

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