6.7/1038 votes#1 - Premiere: Immunity Challenge: Finale-Worthy Dish
Season 12 Episode 1 - Aired 4/13/2020
The highly anticipated cooking show is back for an incredible 12th season, with a tasty new recipe - and cooking legend Gordon Ramsay will be in the kitchen the ENTIRE first week!Returning to the MasterChef kitchen are 24 much-loved and respected former contestants, Although these familiar faces from the past 11 seasons have forged incredible careers in the food industry, they all have some unfinished business - they are back to win.
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6.5/1027 votes#2 - Team Challenge
Season 12 Episode 2 - Aired 4/14/2020
Each team must cook a three-course meal for 120 guests. The judges reveal three ingredients: black garlic, ginger and potatoes. Each team must feature one of the ingredients in each course.
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7.0/1025 votes#3 - Relay Style Team Challenge
Season 12 Episode 3 - Aired 4/15/2020
Teams must cook a three-course meal in a relay style cook. Each team member starts a course and after 20 minutes must swap to the next course. The most cohesive menu with the best dishes wins.
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6.5/1022 votes#4 - Immunity Challenge: Keeping Up with Gordon
Season 12 Episode 4 - Aired 4/16/2020
After impressing the judges in the round robin relay challenge, the winning team are back in the kitchen cooking for immunity and a chance to be safe from the next elimination.
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6.3/1024 votes#5 - Gordon Ramsay's 90-Minute Elimination Challenge
Season 12 Episode 5 - Aired 4/19/2020
Every contestant is up for elimination, except the winner of the immunity challenge. The pressure mounts for all contestants to deliver delicious dishes and keep their place in the competition.
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6.8/1023 votes#6 - Ultimate BBQ Challenge
Season 12 Episode 6 - Aired 4/20/2020
The contestants compete in the ultimate barbecue challenge, cooking for a staggering 1200 people. The team who least impresses will find themselves cooking in the pressure test.
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6.2/1021 votes#7 - Two-Round Pressure Test: Orana
Season 12 Episode 7 - Aired 4/21/2020
In the first pressure test of the season, contestants must cook three dishes from judge Jock Zonfrillo's three-hatted, award-winning restaurant, Orana. The least impressive dish will send someone home.
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6.8/1021 votes#8 - Melissa Leong's Mystery Box
Season 12 Episode 8 - Aired 4/22/2020
In the first mystery box challenge of the season, the 22 remaining contestants discover the ingredients have been chosen from all corners of the globe, by judge Melissa Leong.
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6.9/1018 votes#9 - Immunity Challenge: Judges' Taste Test / MasterClass
Season 12 Episode 9 - Aired 4/23/2020
The five contestants with the most impressive dishes from yesterday's challenge find themselves back in the kitchen ready to cook off in an immunity challenge. Plus, MasterClass with Andy and Jock.
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6.7/1019 votes#10 - Judges' Ingredients Elimination Challenge
Season 12 Episode 10 - Aired 4/26/2020
In this episode's elimination challenge, every contestant bar one, the winner of the immunity challenge, is up for elimination. The contestant with the least impressive dish will be going home.
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5.5/1022 votes#11 - 3-Round Team Showdown
Season 12 Episode 11 - Aired 4/27/2020
The contestants are split into three teams of seven and compete in a three-round cook-off. After the third round, the bottom six contestants are revealed and will cook off in the next episode's pressure test.
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6.7/1015 votes#12 - Self Pressure Test
Season 12 Episode 12 - Aired 4/28/2020
It's a pressure test with a difference. Each contestant has written their own pressure test recipe and has to create a dish to wow the judges. The least impressive dish will send its maker home.
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6.9/1015 votes#13 - Barter Mystery Box
Season 12 Episode 13 - Aired 4/29/2020
The judges reveal that each contestant's mystery box contains four ingredients which they can barter with one another for. The top four dishes will see their makers cook for immunity in the next episode.
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7.2/1017 votes#14 - Curtis Stone's Time Auction Immunity Challenge
Season 12 Episode 14 - Aired 4/30/2020
Today's immunity challenge with Curtis Stone sees four contestants compete in a MasterChef time auction. The more time they spend on buying ingredients, the less time they have to cook.
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7.1/1016 votes#15 - Textures Elimination Challenge
Season 12 Episode 15 - Aired 5/3/2020
This challenge is all about texture. In round one, contestants must cook a dish with the best crunch. Round two is all about a gooey texture. The least impressive gooey dish will send its chef home.
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7.1/1014 votes#16 - Thai Team Challenge
Season 12 Episode 16 - Aired 5/4/2020
The contestants leave the kitchen for a week of off-site challenges. Teams must make two entrees and three mains for 50 diners. The least impressive team faces a pressure test.
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7.1/1016 votes#17 - Pressure Test: Guess The Ingredients & Replicate The Dish
Season 12 Episode 17 - Aired 5/5/2020
Helly Raichura, of Enter Via Laundry, bases this taste test on her popular dish, 'pasta not pasta'. Contestants who guess the least ingredients correctly must replicate the dish in a challenge.
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7.3/1016 votes#18 - Locally Sourced Mystery Box
Season 12 Episode 18 - Aired 5/6/2020
This episode's ingredients are sourced by locals who grow fruit and vegetables in their backyards. The three most impressive dishes from the mystery box challenge will cook in an immunity challenge.
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7.1/1015 votes#19 - Sushi Train 100 Plate Immunity Challenge
Season 12 Episode 19 - Aired 5/7/2020
Three contestants are told they must prepare 100 small plates each, consisting of five different dishes. All dishes will be served on the sushi train and will be colour-coded in this blind tasting.
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7.1/1015 votes#20 - Take-Away Elimination Challenge
Season 12 Episode 20 - Aired 5/10/2020
In today's take-away elimination challenge contestants must make a dish that will stand the home delivery test. Contestants have 90 minutes from the start of the cook to completed delivery.
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7.1/1014 votes#21 - Double Twist Team Challenge
Season 12 Episode 21 - Aired 5/11/2020
Contestants learn that there will be a twist with every challenge this week, so they must think on their feet to survive another week in the MasterChef kitchen. Tonight two twists really stir the pot.
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5.7/1019 votes#22 - Pressure Test: Darren Purchese's Passionfruit Pavlova
Season 12 Episode 22 - Aired 5/12/2020
Contestants have three hours to complete a simply stunning Darren Purchese dish, but in the final hour of the cook, a twist that no one could anticipate is thrown at the contestants.
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6.8/1014 votes#23 - Mystery Box - with a twist!
Season 12 Episode 23 - Aired 5/13/2020
Contestants have 75 minutes to cook a dish using one or more of the eight ingredients in the mystery box. The contestants are pushed to the limit when a twist is delivered to their benches.
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6.3/1026 votes#24 - Katy Perry Immunity Challenge & Masterclass
Season 12 Episode 24 - Aired 5/14/2020
Katy Perry guest judges a very special Hot 'N' Cold challenge to honour the iconic MasterChef theme song. The contestant with the best dish will find themselves safe from the elimination.
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6.2/1014 votes#25 - Elimination Cook-Off Challenge
Season 12 Episode 25 - Aired 5/17/2020
Contestants are cooking off against the other contestant on their bench. The best dish from each bench will be safe, while the remaining contestants must cook in the elimination round.
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The Best Episodes of MasterChef Australia Season 12
Every episode of MasterChef Australia Season 12 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of MasterChef Australia Season 12!
MasterChef Australia is a Logie Award-winning Australian competitive cooking game show based on the original British MasterChef. It is produced by Shine Australia and screens...
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Season 12 Ratings Summary
"Premiere: Immunity Challenge: Finale-Worthy Dish" is the best rated episode of "MasterChef Australia" season 12. It scored 6.7/10 based on 38 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 4/13/2020. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Team Challenge".