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- A few dozen home chefs battle it out in the Masterchef Kitchen to earn the best chef title, judged by top Australian chefs.
- MasterChef Australia All-Stars is an Australian cooking reality show which screened on Network Ten from 26 July 2012. It featured a number of returning contestants from the first three seasons of MasterChef Australia (including season 1 and season 3 winners Julie Goodwin and Kate Bracks), revisiting past challenges in order to raise money for charity.
- Celebrity MasterChef Australia is an Australian competitive cooking game show. It is spin-off of MasterChef Australia, itself an adaptation of the British show MasterChef, and features celebrity contestants. Matt Preston, George Calombaris and Gary Mehigan returned as judges for the show. Former world-record holder and Olympic medalist Eamon Sullivan won the series, taking home $50,000 for charity Swim Survive Stay Alive.
- Indira Naidoo, Kirk Pengilly and Josh Thomas. Pengilly moved on to the semi-finals.
- Michelle Bridges, Kathleen de Leon and Peter FitzSimons. Bridges moved on to the semi-finals.
- Eamon Sullivan, Anna Bligh and Simon Westaway. Sullivan moved on to the semi-finals.
- Alex Perry, Wendy Harmer and Simon Katich. Katich moved on to the semi-finals.
- Rachael Finch, George Negus and Ryan O'Keefe. Finch moved on to the semi-finals.
- Fuzzy Agolley, Alex Lloyd and Peter Rowsthorn. Lloyd moved on to semi-finals.
- The first semi-final consisted of the six semi-finalists competing in an individual Mystery Box challenge, and a Christmas lunch-themed Invention Test where they competed in pairs, with one member of the worst performing pair to be eliminated. Paired with Alex Lloyd, Simon Katich was the contestant eliminated.
- The five remaining contestants were required to staff the kitchen at Altitude Restaurant in Sydney. Contestants were allocated a course, and following service they must present the dish they have prepared for service to the judges for tasting, with the contestant with the worst dish to be eliminated. Michelle Bridges was the contestant eliminated.
- The four remaining contestants competed in a Pressure Test involving recreating a croquembouche, with the contestant with the least accomplished dessert to be eliminated. Alex Lloyd was the contestant eliminated.
- The final involved three rounds, a Taste Test, a dessert-only Invention Test and a Pressure Test, with points being won as the contestants progressed. Based on accumulated points, Rachael Finch and Kirk Pengilly came third and second respectively, with Eamon Sullivan declared the winner of Celebrity MasterChef Australia.
- The MasterChef All-Stars returned to the kitchen and were given a "rude awakening" by Adriano Zumbo with the greatest classic MasterChef dessert: Season 1's croquembouche. The Blue Team produced the worst copy of Zumbo's piece with various technical flaws. As it boiled down to the Red Team and the Yellow Team, the judges preferred the overall decoration and silky custard of the Yellows over the consistency and richer caramel of the Reds. The Yellows won the first $20,000 at $5,000 per contestant for their charity of choice.
- The teams were faced with a four-round challenge, in which one member from each team cooked against each other. The winner of each round would earn $5,000 for their charity. Each team captain picked their champion, and the team that won the previous challenge would get to pick the cuisine to be cooked in the next round. As the Yellows won the previous challenge, team captain Kate got the first cuisine and contestant pick. She pitted herself against Julie and Jonathan in Lebanese food. Jonathan produced a bad dish, while Julie managed to snag a win. Julie then picked Poh to go up against Marion and Dani in Chinese. Dani scored a surprising win with her modern take on a traditional Chinese dessert. Kate then let Kumar take on Aaron and Chris in Indian cuisine, with Chris' sophisticated salmon dish taking the prize over top favourite Kumar's mussel curry. Justine, Callum and Hayden were assigned French cuisine by Julie, and it was Callum's dish that pulled off the first win for the Reds.
- The teams prepared a sausage sizzle for 100 trainee firefighters. The winning team would be determined by total votes given by the firefighters and would be given an advantage for the next day's Mystery Box Challenge. The Blue Team's pork and fennel sausages splitting and oozing all their fat led them to be dry and left them in third place with 28 votes. It was a tie between the Yellows and Reds with 36 votes each. As the decision came down to the judges, they preferred the Red Team's dish despite inconsistency in size and pronounced them the winners.
- The contestants found eight ingredients in their Mystery Boxes each chosen by a world-famous chef, including Heston Blumenthal's signature dry ice, Rick Stein's spanner crab and a sea urchin picked by Anthony Bourdain. Marion, Kate and Kumar cooked the top three dishes, and it was Marion's delicate and technical Crab and Sea Urchin Soufflé with Singaporean Black Pepper Sauce that earnt $10,000 for her charity.
- The All-Stars participated in a race to be the first to finely dice 1 kilo of onions. The winner would get an advantage for their team in the upcoming challenge. Poh won it for the Blue Team. The Fix-That-Dish Challenge was a relais challenge in which the teams were to fix a poor bolognese in 45 minutes. Only the first in line would learn what the dish was, and each following team member would have to leave obvious hints for the next cook. The Blues' advantage consisted of all four team members knowing what the dish was and getting two minutes to strategize. The Yellows plated the worst dish, mostly due to errors from Kumar and Dani. It was between the Reds, who oversalted their bolognese by adding too much Parmesan at the end, and the Blues, who added too much sugar. It was the latters' choice to use pappardelle that got them the win, as it was deemed a better fit than spaghetti for a traditional bolognese.
- The Blues were each faced with three of their failed dishes from series 1. The dish they would have to revisit would be determined by a random draw from a knife block. It turned out to be an all-dessert challenge as every contestant drew a tricky dessert from the block. For Justine it was the Warm Pear Tart from the Celebrity Chef Challenge against Matt Moran (episode 44). For Chris, it was Zumbo's Vanilla Panna Cotta with Macaroons from Week 11's Pressure Test (episode 61). For Julie, it was her Passionfruit Puddle Pie from a Finals Week Elimination (episode 67) and for Poh, it was Matt Moran's Chocolate Tart from the Grand Finale. Poh and Chris got 2.5 hours to cook as their dishes were more intricate, while Julie and Justine had to wait on the balcony for an hour before their cooking time started. All three dishes showed great improvement from their season 1 counterparts, but Julie and Poh's were considered the top two. Though the judges considered both desserts virtually flawless, it was a split-hairs decision due to Poh failing to perfectly temper her chocolate on her highly technical dish. Julie won the $10,000 for Oxfam, but she decided to split it with Poh due to how close the decision was.
- Upon learning that two cooks would be eliminated in the next challenge, the All-Stars were pitted against twelve of the best chefs in Australia to win guaranteed immunity. Whoever cooked a better dish than the chef they were paired with, as judged in a blind tasting by three food critics, would receive immunity from the next day's Pressure Test. Kate, Dani and Justine were the only three to pull this off and received immunity. Chef Darren Purchese, paired with Kate, also promised an extra $1,000 donation from his restaurant to Kate's charity.
- All contestants except for Dani, Kate and Justine (who had immunity) had to cook Gary's Beef Wellington with an accompanying red wine sauce in 2 hours and 15 minutes. Despite struggling with the dish's various elements, everyone managed to put up a passable dish. Jonathan, who had already cooked the dish in the Top 50 portion of Season 2, was "miles ahead" during cooking and delivered a stellar Wellington and sauce. Julie, Marion and Callum were also applauded. Chris, Poh, Aaron, Hayden and Kumar's dishes all had significant flaws, but Aaron and Kumar made the most mistakes and were eliminated.
- With $5000 up for grabs, the contestants were asked to revisit and improve the first dish the cooked on MasterChef. After 75 minutes the standout dishes were Justine's Coq Au Vin, Callum's deconstructed Peaches and Cream, Chris' Chicken Tagine and Kate's Retro Coffee Cake. Kate won the challenge, winning the money for her charity and immunity from the next day's Elimination Challenge.
- With two more people going home, the All Stars faced a three-round chicken elimination challenge. Given 30 minutes, unlimited use of the pantry and a whole chicken, the only catch was, if they went through to subsequent rounds the chicken they had leftover was all they had to use. Round one saw Dani, Marion and Poh safe as the best performers. With 20 minutes in the second round, this time it was Justine, Callum and Chris who produced the best dishes, leaving Julie, Hayden and Jonathan in the 10-minute round three. Despite all producing great dishes, Julie's had the slight edge over Hayden and Jonathan who were therefore eliminated. Jonathan received $5000 for his charity.
- With $5,000 at stake for today's winner, the judges were joined by three members of the Country Women's Association. The All-Stars each had to bake and assemble a cake in 1 hour and 40 minutes and had to meet up to the CWA's exacting standards regarding flavour, size and overall look and detail. As no one received exceedingly bad comments, it came down to selecting a top three that made the least mistakes. Kate claimed third position with her lamingtons, Poh came in second with her passionfruit cake despite struggling to get it in the oven in time, and Julie's perfectly detailed Neapolitan cake scored the win and another $5,000 for Oxfam.
- Great joy among the All-Stars as they got to chop up their Mystery Boxes as kindling for a barbecue with prawn and chicken as core ingredients. Aside from the contents of the box, they each got to pick five ingredients from the pantry and were given 75 minutes to cook their barbecue dish. With such elementary cooking processes, there was very little room for error. In the end, the judges found at least some fault with Kate, Marion, Poh and Callum's creations, and Marion and Poh were sent home as the producers of the two worst dishes.