Out of thousands of applicants, 50 Canadian home cooks are chosen to present dishes for the judges.

White Is the New Black

Auditions for the Top 50 home cooks reach a dramatic conclusion as the final aprons are handed out. The cooks enter their first challenge, a Stress Test, where they must prepare a stunning chicken dish with very limited access to equipment. After a dramatic round of tasting, the judges choose the final group of home cooks moving forward to the MasterChef Canada kitchen.

Chicken Little

The first Mystery Box Challenge gives the winner an advantage in the Elimination Challenge.

First Kick at the Box

The teams prepare lunch for the Toronto Maple Leafs; a contestant is sent home after a challenging pasta dish.

The Puck Drops Here

A mystery box challenge with Canadian ingredients and beer.

Where's the Beef?

The cooks must cater an exclusive art gallery event, and the losers bake to save their lives.

Edible Art

A Mystery Box Challenge takes the contestants back to their roots; an Alberta Beef challenge.

Brains before Beauty

The top 10 cooks face off at Canadian Forces Base Trenton and the losing team goes to war.

Major Steaks

The contestants get creative with leftovers; upscale versions of common bake sale items.

Great Canadian Bake Off

The cooks compete in a team challenge at Toronto City Hall and the losers face a challenging Pressure Test.

Meals on Wheels

The remaining cooks duel with a tank of lobsters in a tag-team challenge with the winner receiving two advantages.

Claws Out

The cooks take over one of the judges' restaurants and the losers face a pressure test.

Line of Fire

The cooks prepare a family reunion dinner and in the pressure test, they face the most difficult challenge yet.

Family Style

The cooks use judge Joe Bastianich's favourite ingredient in the hopes of moving on to the finale.

Not-Your-Average-Joe

The final two compete in a three-course battle for the grand prize and the title of MasterChef.

And Then There Were Two

The final home cooks audition for a spot in the kitchen.

Fit to Be Tied

The remaining cooks fight to keep their white aprons and their dreams alive.

Patriotic Pantry

The cooks face their first mystery-box challenge; the winner will choose an Asian dish for the other cooks to make.

Constant Cravings

In the first team challenge, the cooks prepare lunch for the Cirque du Soleil cast and crew.

Juggling Act

The remaining home cooks face an Italian-influenced Mystery Box Challenge; a season one winner Eric Chong-inspired elimination.

Slice of Life

The home cooks prepare meals for students; a fresh pasta Pressure Test.

One Potato, Two Potato

The cooks are faced with a birthday cake mystery box; the cooks combine odd ingredients in the elimination challenge.

No Piece of Cake

The cooks cater a wedding and the losing team competes in a pastry challenge that sends at least one cook home.

Wedding on the Waves

The home cooks are surprised with a mystery box; one cook is sent home.

Good Things in Small Packages

Three eliminated cooks try to get back in the competition; one cook is sent home.

Walking on Eggshells

The remaining cooks face a cook-along challenge; an afternoon tea tag-team challenge.

Tea for Two

The cooks face the restaurant takeover; a comfort food dish challenge.

Fine Dining Under Fire

The cooks compete in an emotional Mystery Box and a strategic Elimination Challenge.

From Home, with Love

The cooks compete in an off-site challenge and a chocolate dessert Pressure Test.

The Trip Bountiful

The final two cooks compete for the title of MasterChef Canada.

Ring of Fire

Forty home cooks from across the country compete for a spot in the Top 14.

Yes, No, Maybe So

Eighteen home cooks get a second chance, competing in two culinary challenges.

A Cut Above

The cooks face their first Mystery Box Challenge and the winner selects one of three international cuisines and some cooks get lost in translation.

At Home and Abroad

In the first team challenge, the remaining cooks honour firefighting heroes in a rib cook-off.

Trial by Fire

A Mystery Box Challenge requires the cooks to work together and the winners give the assignments in the pantry challenge.

Off the Hook

The teams use a fashion collection as inspiration for a fancy lunch; a surf and turf test sends one cook home.

Feast Your Eyes

A Mystery Box Challenge has the cooks baking from the heart.

From the Heart

The remaining cooks compete in teams for a gourmet sausage challenge in celebration of Oktoberfest.

Oktoberfest Feast

The remaining eight cooks take on intimidating nursery rhyme-inspired ingredients.

Head and Shoulders, Knees and Toes

Astronaut Chris Hatfield inspires the cooks for a Mystery Box Challenge.

Out of This World

The cooks compete in a team challenge at Alvin's Chinatown restaurant. An elimination challenge pits the losing team against each other in a tough baking task.

Demon at the Pass

Following a Mystery Box Challenge inspired by judge Michael Bonacini's techniques, the cooks create cocktail-inspired sweet and savoury dishes.

Cooking with Cocktails

The top four cooks reunite with their families and then shop for a meal.

Meals and Wheels

The three remaining cooks battle for a spot in the finale by preparing a meal for some of Canada's most influential chefs using Canadian ingredients.

Only the Best

The two finalists compete in a three-course challenge to determine the winner of the competition.

Finale

Twenty-four home cooks compete to earn an apron and a spot in the top 12.

Special Delivery

The top 16 cooks face off in a team challenge, which involves cooking lunch for first responders; two cooks from the losing team get eliminated.

Kitchen Emergencies

In the first team challenge, the cooks prepare a meal for 105 new Canadians.

True Patriot Love

The top 10 cooks are blindfolded while working in pairs in honour of Canada's upcoming 150th birthday.

The Blind Leading the Blind

The remaining home cooks are divided into three teams and are challenged to create gourmet burgers and fries for hungry motorcyclists.

Burgers For Bikers

Chef Jamie Oliver challenges the cooks to create an appetizer for his new chain of Canadian restaurants.

Jamie in the House

The Top 7 compete in an egg battle – working their way through a series of challenges that get progressively more difficult.

Egg Showdown!

Two teams face off in a special restaurant takeover to celebrate the 30th anniversary of judge Michael Bonacini's iconic Auberge du Pommier, an Oliver & Bonacini restaurant.

Auberge Anniversary

The Top 5 emulate the judges favourite cooking techniques while creating unique salmon dishes.

Take Five

The final four cooks split into teams to create elegant family dinners for their loved ones; the members of the losing team face a dessert test.

Harvest Family Dinner

The final elimination challenge will determine who makes it to the finale, as the home cooks create a dish using one luxury ingredient.

Sweet Francaise

The final two cooks face off in a three course battle in the hope of becoming the next "Masterchef Canada"

Home cooks from across the country audition for a spot in the top 12.

Opportunity Knocks

The top 12 face their first Mystery Box Challenge and a budget-inspired elimination challenge sends one of the home cooks packing.

How Do You Take Your Mystery Box?

The home cooks face their first team challenge as they prepare a hearty meal for 101 hungry Habitat for Humanity volunteers.

Building An Appetite

The top 10 are given a mere 30 minutes to tackle a mystery box and must create an original recipe featuring fresh ingredients. Then, a fungi-inspired elimination challenge puts an end to one home cook's food dream.

Fast and Epicure-ious

A Team Challenge finds the home cooks tasked with making donuts for dog owners who frequent an off-leash dog park in Toronto. The losing team must face a Pressure Test, resulting in at least one home cook being eliminated.

Barker's Dozen

The remaining top 8 home cooks face an intense series of three consecutive French-inspired pressure tests that will reveal their strengths, skills and weaknesses.

Vive La Pressure Test

Eight MasterChef Canada home cooks – the remaining seven plus the home cook that emerges as the Redemption winner – gather for an off-site Team Challenge in Kleinburg, Ont., at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, home to the iconic Group of Seven. The teams are tasked with preparing a tasting menu for seven esteemed recipients of the Order of Canada, including Marc Kielburger, co-founder of international youth charity Free The Children; and renowned Canadian television icon, CTV News Special Correspondent Lloyd Robertson. After consulting the distinguished dinner guests, the MasterChef Canada Judges determine the winning team. The losing home cooks face a Pressure Test, and potential elimination.

The Magnificent Seven

The home cooks are presented with a massive Mystery Box Challenge and must prepare a diner dish inspired by the cast of Corner Gas Animated.

Cooking with (Corner) Gas

The Top 6 home cooks face a super-charged Restaurant Takeover Team Challenge with the losing team facing an Elimination Challenge.

On the Line of Fire

The pressure intensifies as former MasterChef Canada winners drop by for a surprise visit.

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?

The remaining three cooks face the first ever Pop-Up Restaurant Challenge.

Pop- Up Star

The Top 2 home cooks vie for the title of “MasterChef Canada” Season 5 and the reward of $100,000 in prize money to launch their culinary dreams.

Three Courses, One Crown

The judges personally invite 18 of Canada's best home cooks to audition for a white apron and a chance at winning the 'MasterChef Canada' title.

MasterChef Canada Invitational

The home cooks face their first Mystery Box Challenge, and a meaty Elimination Challenge puts some of them in jeopardy.

Home Cooks, Your Roots Are Showing

The remaining home cooks face their first Team Challenge as they prepare a Caribbean meal for 121 wedding guests.

Top Hats and Tails

This week’s Mystery Box presents a blast from the past and at least one home cook’s journey comes to a spicy end.

Tastes Like Teen Spirit

The home cooks go back to school to compete in the biggest Team Challenge in MasterChef Canada history.

School Lunch!

The home cooks learn whether taking a risk is worth the reward, and at least one is eliminated after cooking with extravagant Asian ingredients.

Risk and Reward

Home cooks put their knife skills to the test through a series of challenges.

Knife Fight!

Matt Sinclair mentors the Immunity cook which uses only equipment from a typical office kitchen. Best dish enters Round 2, where they will compete against culinary legend Donovan Cooke.

Immunity Challenge – Donovan Cooke

The home cooks are presented with a giant Mystery Box offering up a taste of home. Then, the Elimination Challenge causes the cooks to take a chance on tropical flavors when they spin a wheel to determine the fate of their dish.

Wheel of Fruit

The Top 4 home cooks travel to the Canadian Canoe Museum for a team challenge, and Indigenous guest chefs join the judges in tasting the teams' menus. Then, the losing team fights it out in the most challenging Pressure Test to date.

Gifts From the Earth

In a fiery Mystery Box challenge, the top three chefs compete for a spot in the finale.

Fire and Ice

In a three-hour, three-course showdown the two remaining chefs face off for the title of MasterChef Canada.

Final Showdown

Twelve of the best former competitors from previous seasons are back to win for a second chance at the life changing title.

The Dish That Haunts You

The remaining competitors take on the artful cuisine of Japan throughout three grueling rounds of challenges.

Japanese Showdown

The remaining competitors face their first Team Challenge as they prepare takeout orders for at-home diners.

MCC4U

The competitors face a Pressure Test with more than one surprise twist, and a special guest

Pressure, Italian Style

The competitors face a Mystery Box challenge to bring a modern, plant-based twist to classic comfort dishes.

Plant Based Paradise

The top cooks compete in a new culinary-themed game show, 'Kitchenary,' then face an Elimination Challenge based on their answers.

Kitchenary!

The remaining competitors receive a Mystery Box challenge based on the foods of the future with a special surprise twist.

Food of the Future

The remaining competitors partner up for a classic tag-team challenge, filled with complex seafood dishes.

Seafood Extravaganza

The top competitors are tasked with preparing food for a high-end dinner party for eight culinary insiders

This week the judges ask the competitors to pursue the sweet smell of victory with legendary desserts.

The Sweet Taste of Success

The remaining competitors face a three-round skills test, and one final cook to determine who will earn a spot in the finale.

Ordinary to Extraordinary

The finalists vie for the title of season 7's MasterChef Canada and the biggest prize ever awarded to the winner.

Back to Win Finale

The ultimate culinary competition offers home cooks a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to demonstrate their skill and passion, as they compete for $100,000 and the title of Canada’s next MasterChef.

All Episodes of MasterChef Canada

Browse all episodes of MasterChef Canada

Season 1

White Is the New Black

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/20/2014

Chicken Little

Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/27/2014

First Kick at the Box

Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 2/2/2014

The Puck Drops Here

Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 2/10/2014

Where's the Beef?

Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/17/2014

Edible Art

Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/24/2014

Brains before Beauty

Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 3/3/2014

Major Steaks

Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 3/10/2014

Great Canadian Bake Off

Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 3/17/2014

Meals on Wheels

Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 3/24/2014

Claws Out

Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 3/31/2014

Line of Fire

Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 4/7/2014

Family Style

Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 4/14/2014

Not-Your-Average-Joe

Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 4/21/2014

And Then There Were Two

Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 4/28/2014