NaN/100 votes#1 - All-in Service Challenge
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/20/2013
The series premiere sees our 18 hopefuls put straight to the test by renowned chef Marco Pierre White and Matt Preston in an all-in service challenge.
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NaN/100 votes#2 - Guerrilla-style pop-up
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/21/2013
Sixteen contestants face the Pop Up Tram Challenge: a classic City Circle tram in Melbourne has been fitted out guerrilla-style as a pop-up restaurant.
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NaN/100 votes#3 - Last Chance Invention Test
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/22/2013
The eight chefs from yesterday's challenge must face-off as individuals cooking for their lives in the Last Chance Invention Test. They must show off their skills and tell a story about their lives.
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NaN/100 votes#4 - Re-Invention Test
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1/27/2013
In a MasterChef Professionals first, the Re-Invention Test gives contestants the opportunity to cook a classic dish but as the name suggests, it's re-invention not recreation that is the key.
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NaN/100 votes#5 - Pressure Test
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 1/28/2013
Adriano Zumbo makes a guest appearance to shake up our 15 professional chefs, but nothing can prepare them for what Adriano's got in store for them.
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NaN/100 votes#6 - Restaurant Challenge
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 1/29/2013
The losing teams from the Pressure Test compete in the Restaurant Challenge. Each team is given a three-dish menu to reproduce in which certain elements must be cooked to the minute.
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NaN/100 votes#7 - Sunday Roast Re-Invention Test
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/3/2013
They're dishes we all know and love, and on the Classic Re-invention Test menu, a contestant draws a knife from the block to reveal an old family favourite, the Sunday roast.
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NaN/100 votes#8 - Quick Fire Skills Test
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 2/4/2013
This episode sees 13 contestants put to a Quick Fire Skills Test: Three rounds, each with a different core ingredient and a diminished time limit.
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NaN/100 votes#9 - Restaurant Challenge
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 2/5/2013
The losing six contestants from the skills test are put to the restaurant service challenge and face world renowned chef Jacques Reymond, who has brought five of his best cooks with him.
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NaN/100 votes#10 - The Classic Re-Invention Test
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 2/10/2013
In a real treat for sweet lovers, this week’s knife block contains classic desserts. One of the contestants draws a knife from the block to reveal that The Professionals will be re-inventing the classic Australian dessert, the pavlova. Without a recipe, the worst performer will be going home.
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NaN/100 votes#11 - Mystery Box
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 2/11/2013
MasterChef fans rejoice: it’s the return of the Mystery Box and it’s back in a big way. While most of us would treat vegetable peelings, puff pasty trimmings, prawn heads and chicken fat as food scraps destined for the compost bin, tonight our professional chefs are challenged to turn waste into first-class meals. The two worst-performing contestants will face off in tomorrow night’s service challenge.
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NaN/100 votes#12 - Restaurant Service Challenge
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 2/12/2013
This challenge can be summed up in one word: intense. The two worst-performing contestants from last night’s Mystery Box challenge face off in tonight’s service challenge. With Matt joining 120 patrons in the restaurant and Marco working the pass, the two contestants must prepare and cook everything themselves. It’s a real battle of mate versus mate as the two cook off to secure a place in the Top 10.
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NaN/100 votes#13 - Off-Site Challenge
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 2/17/2013
In an offsite challenge like no other, the top 10 contestants are going bush! They must cook for 50 high country cattlemen but there's one hitch? They have no ovens and no electricity.
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#14 - Immunity Super Invention Test
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/18/2013
This episode sees the winning team from last night's high country challenge faced with the biggest invention test ever! Laksa. Who will get immunity?
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NaN/100 votes#15 - Double Service Challenge
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/19/2013
The double service challenge begins with a lunch service of two mains, but just when they think they're done they are told to reset for a three course dinner service.
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NaN/100 votes#16 - International Invention Test
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/24/2013
With nine different cuisines featured in tonight's Knife Block, it's a truly internationally flavoured program.
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NaN/100 votes#17 - Offsite Challenge
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/25/2013
Tonight's offsite challenge sees the eight contestants split into two teams as they forage through suburban homes, knocking on doors and working with whatever ingredients they receive.
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NaN/100 votes#18 - Three-course Italian Service Challenge
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/26/2013
The winning team from last night's offsite challenge are split into two teams of two, and each team must design and cook a three-course Italian meal for some very tough customers, 120 Italians.
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NaN/100 votes#19 - The Classic Re-invention Test
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 3/3/2013
Tonight’s knife block features dishes that have inspired Shannon Bennett over his career and the lucky knife reveals Shannon’s grandmother’s rabbit stew as the order of the day. As we all know, it’s about reinvention, and for one contestant their culinary journey comes to an end.
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NaN/100 votes#20 - Pressure Test
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 3/4/2013
Curtis Stone worked for Marco for six-and-a-half years. He joins Marco in the kitchen to teach the contestants one of the dishes that he cooked in Marco’s restaurant, Quo Vadis. The contestants must pay attention as Curtis shows them how the dish is made. Then, they are on their own, and they must recreate the dish without a recipe.
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NaN/100 votes#21 - Restaurant Service Challenge
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 3/5/2013
Donovan Cooke is in the kitchen tonight. One of Marco’s toughest protégés, each restaurant Donovan has opened has been awarded with three stars. His latest venture, Atlantic, is well on its way to the same accolade. For this restaurant service challenge, the professionals have been given six of Donovan’s dishes from Atlantic, two entrees, two mains and two desserts. With Donovan running the pass, all contestants should be on alert, and it’s time for one to say goodbye.
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NaN/100 votes#22 - Luxury Mystery Box
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/10/2013
Welcome to finals week and our top six contestants are faced with a mystery box challenge. They lift the lids to reveal an array of fine dining ingredients: caviar, vintage champagne, abalone, white truffles and chocolate. With just one hour to create a dish, the contestants are out to impress. The contestant with the least impressive dish will leave the competition.
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NaN/100 votes#23 - Pressure Test
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/11/2013
The heat is on as guest chef Peter Gilmore joins Matt and Marco for tonight’s pressure test. The man behind the legendary snow egg dessert and the eight textured chocolate cake has returned with a dish from his highly awarded restaurant Quay. There are just three hours on the clock in which to replicate Peter’s fragrant poached chicken. One contestant will fail to impress the judges with this technical and complicated dish and be sent home.
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NaN/100 votes#24 - Offsite Challenge, Pop Up Restaurant
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/12/2013
It’s the last challenge of finals week as the top four split into two teams to create their own pop up restaurants. Each restaurant must cater for 60 diners. The two teams need to pick a theme for their restaurant, design their dining rooms and create a stunning three course meal, consisting of two entrees, two mains and one dessert. The stakes are high as the four contestants fight for their place in the finale, but for one, their ride comes to an end. Who will be the final three in the running to take home the MasterChef: The Professionals crown?
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NaN/100 votes#25 - Finale
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/17/2013
The three finalists face a trio of daunting challenges to decide the overall winner, including a leek and lobster terrine.
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The Best Episodes of MasterChef Australia: The Professionals Season 1
Every episode of MasterChef Australia: The Professionals Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of MasterChef Australia: The Professionals Season 1!
MasterChef Australia: The Professionals is an Australian cooking television show, based on the original BBC MasterChef: The Professionals. It aired on Network Ten from 20...
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"All-in Service Challenge" is the best rated episode of "MasterChef Australia: The Professionals" season 1. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/20/2013. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Guerrilla-style pop-up".