In this week's mystery box challenge, the Top 7 must create an Asian-inspired dish that centers around one of the most prominent utensils in culinary history - chopsticks! The winner gets a huge advantage moving forward, leaving the remaining home cooks to compete in a pasta-themed elimination challenge.

Chopsticks & Pasta

The top five chefs face two challenges involving a mystery box and replicating a restaurant quality dish.

Semi Final

Thirty-six home cooks arrive with the intent of being placed in the Top 20, but the contestants must pass the audition rounds and impress the judges to earn the coveted apron; the contestants hope to earn a valuable "Judges' Pass."

The Epic 10th Season Auditions - Pt. 1

The MasterChef kitchen heats up as the top ten contestants are faced with a fiery mystery box challenge.

Feel The Burn - Mystery Box

Only eight aprons are left for the hopeful home cooks to earn so they can pass through the audition rounds, where they have less than 45 minutes to prepare their signature dish and leave the judges wanting for more before the Top 20 are chosen.

Auditions - Pt. 2 / The Battle Round

Home cooks serve up their signature dishes to the judges; guest judge Emeril Lagasse.

Emeril Lagasse: Auditions Round 1

One chef selects a dessert for each of his or her fellow competitors to bake to perfection. Anything less will force the contestants to face elimination.

Bake to Win

The top five chefs are faced with tow separate elimination challenges in the semifinals: a baked Alaska and an intricate lobster tortellini.

Semi Finals

The top 17 home chef's return to the kitchen for their second mystery box challenge, but this time with a twist -- one region begins the challenge 10 minutes behind the rest.

Birds of a Feather Mystery Box

In the next challenge, with help from some familiar home cooks, the remaining 3 will have one hour to prepare an amazing appetizer dish. The contestants will then have one hour to create entrees and one hour to create a dessert. After evaluating the final dishes, the judges will reveal America's next MasterChef, and the deserving home cook will walk away with the trophy, a book deal, and the $250,000 grand prize.

The Finale (1)

In this week's mystery box challenge, the Top 6 get a special treat as their family members join them in the MasterChef kitchen. The contestants will then have to cook a dish inspired by their families before competing in an elimination test that will send one or more of them home.

Something Fishy

With two eliminations on the line, the pressure is on for the losing team in the tag-team challenge.

Tag Team Tears & Tantrums

The top 13 must break down Alaskan king crabs; the contestants cook for chef Masaharu Morimoto.

King of The Crabs

The chefs who advance to the finals prepare an appetizer and entree with the support of Graham Elliot.

Finale - Special Guest Graham Elliot (1)

The contestants must get at least three yes votes this season to earn an apron, and in today's episode it is contestants from the Northeast region. Daphne Oz is the guest judge. The first contestant competing for an apron is Carla and she does not advance. Richie is the next contestant and he advances with three yes votes. Nina is next and earns three yes votes and an apron. Purvi is next and her dish impressed all four judges earning her an apron. Eddie is next and only gets two yes votes therefore he did not advance; however, Joe offers him training in some of his restaurants after the show. Ross also fails his audition. Brynn is next and earns four yes votes and an apron. Ryan is the day's last auditionee and gets three yes votes earning him the final apron for the Northeast region.

Regional Auditions - The Northeast

The South region is the final region for auditions, and this week Tiffany Derry joins the judges for the voting. Reagan starts off the auditions and gets four yes votes and the first apron of the night. Austyn is up next but gets two immediate no votes, so she fails. Kendal is next and gets four yes votes for the evening's second apron. Jessica attempts her audition next but she gets two no votes and does not pass. Michele follows with her audition and also gets two no votes thus failing. Jennifer is next and gets three yes votes, breaking the streak of failures and earning the night's third apron. Sav follows with her audition and gets an overwhelming four yes votes and the fourth apron. When Kolby auditions, Gordon brings his grandfather in to taste the dish and witness Kolby being awarded the fifth and final apron.

Regional Auditions - The South

The top six chefs face the ultimate challenge of taking over the world's largest Hell's Kitchen restaurant.

Restaurant Takeover Hell's Kitchen

The remaining chefs work in pairs and switch off cooking back-and-forth during the tag team challenge.

Tag Team

The top 8 chefs face a surprise and discover that they must work in pairs to cook identical dishes from opposite sides of a wall.

The Wall

The top three chefs must create a three-course meal, starting with an awe-inspiring appetizer

Finale: Part One

The final two cooks prepare three-course meals; the judges choose the winner.

Winner Chosen

Three basic utensils are used by the Top 7 contestants in a mystery-box challenge.

The Top 20 must quickly demonstrate their culinary expertise before they encounter their first mystery box challenge, where they must create a Ramsay-inspired dish, but only 18 home cooks can progress further in the competition.

Gordon's Mystery Box

The cooks have 60 minutes to present their best beef dish to the judges.

Backyard BBQ

More than 100 cowboys and cowgirls in Horse Town, U.S.A., gather for the MasterChef rodeo, where the Top 14 chefs divide into two teams to create the best steak and sides. The team that doesn't live up to the cowboys' standards faces the possibility of elimination.

Cooking for Horse Town U.S.A.

The Midwest region contestants begin their auditions, with Graham Elliot joining as the guest judge. Grant is the first contestant up and gets three yes votes and the first apron. Sarah is next and also gets three yes votes and an apron. Kevin gets two no votes to start with and does not advance. Yomira is next, and while it is not stated how many no votes she received, she does not earn an apron. Marquela is next and has the same negative result. Charles is next and gets four yes votes and the third apron of the night. Wayne is next and also gets four yes votes and an apron. Kyle and Trevor have their auditions shown intermingled with each other, in the end Trevor does not earn an apron but Kyle does.

Regional Auditions - The Midwest

The remaining home chefs face the hardest challenge yet in this celebration of "MasterChef's" 250th episode; the kitchen heats up when the chef with immunity is tasked to assign each contestant with an iconic cake to re-create.

United Cakes Of America

The chefs face their toughest mystery box challenge yet -- fish.

Fish Out of Water Mystery Box

The final three home cooks take on their last challenge in the MasterChef kitchen in front of a live audience. Each chef has to whip up a spectacular three-course meal, knowing only one deliberation stands between them and the $250,000 prize.

Finale (1)

The contestants have 45 minutes to prepare a restaurant quality dish that features coffee; Gordon Ramsay shares his own espresso-infused dish.

Storm's a Brewin'

Culinary boot camp awaits the 16 remaining hopefuls at California's Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base, where they'll work in teams to prepare a healthy, balanced meal for 200 servicemen and women.

Top 16 Compete

The contestants tackle a seafood challenge, with the winner choosing what dessert the others will prepare in the elimination round.

Top 18 Compete

A final team challenge establishes who will move on to the top three.

Top 4 Compete

The Top 10 home cooks enter the Wild West when they face their next team challenge and create steak meals for 101 cowboys and ranchers. The team that receives the most winning votes will moo-ve on in the competition, while the remaining home cooks will face the next pressure test. For the pressure test the losing team will bake tarts and see who can bake their way to victory.

Moo-vers And Bakers

In the next mystery box challenge, the Top 5 home cooks must create a dish using pear, blue cheese, tomato, portabella mushroom, and chocolate. The winner receives both safety from elimination and the power to choose among 4 baskets of ingredients for the elimination challenge, baskets that were put together with the help of the 3 former MasterChef winners.

Return of the Champions

The remaining 16 home cooks get a very special treat leading into the next challenge as Chef Ramsay demonstrates how to properly deconstruct a lobster.

Gordon Ramsay Masterclass

Top 20 will have to take 12 of the most popular ingredients found on any American home cook’s shopping list and make the judges a MASTERCHEF-worthy dish.

America's Grocery Bag

The Top 6 split up in teams for a classic MasterChef challenge - to cook for food critics, writers, and chefs at a pop-up restaurant in a Southern California vineyard.

Pop-Up Restaurant

The three remaining home cooks must each prepare a three-course menu for the judges; the home cook with the best overall menu wins the prize and the coveted title of MasterChef.

The Finale (2)

Contestants must create a sweet dish and a savory dish from a surprise ingredient; an elimination.

Someone's Toast

In under 75 minutes, the contestants must replicate a cake for the judges.

Let Them Eat Cake

Special guest judge Candace Nelson gives the home cooks 75 minutes to create one dozen macarons.

Small Dessert, Big Problems

TV host Daphne Oz reveals the contents of the week's mystery box challenge to the top eight, leaving the contestants 60 minutes to create an elevated one-pan dish using the cast iron pan.

One Pan Wonder

In the first elimination round of the season, all 20 chefs must cook something inspired by the dish that originally sent them home. The chef that recreates their elimination dish in the most elevated, refined and skillful way will win immunity.

Dish That Sent You Home

The West region contestants begin their auditions. This week the guest judge is Susan Feniger. Lizzie is the first contestant to audition and she earns four yes votes earning her the night's first apron. Both GiGi and Tyson fail their auditions. Amanda is next earning three out of four yes votes earning her the next apron. Megan auditions next and only gets two yes votes. Madame Donut is the next contestant and she gets four yes votes earning her the next apron. Kennedy also gets an apron with four yes votes. James and Calvin have their auditions intermingled; Calvin does not win an apron but James does.

Regional Auditions - The West

The remaining home chefs face their first mystery box challenge -- apples; with both sweet and savoury flavours on the table, the chef with immunity is tasked with assigning each region which kind of dish to cook.

Apple Mystery Box

The home chefs face their first team challenge when they're tasked with pairing up with another region and grilling a delicious meal for 101 firefighters and emergency personnel.

Trial By Fire: Field Challenge

The chefs split into two teams to prepare a lunch for over 100 kids at Dodger Stadium; the chef with immunity gets to choose one member from each team who must swap sides and work with the other regions.

Dodgers Stadium Field Challenge

The remaining nine home cooks must prepare a restaurant quality barbecue plate.

Patio Grilling Challenge

Winner Revealed

The judges split the cooks into teams to prepare breakfast for hotel guests; the members of the losing team must prove they deserve to stay in the competition.

Top 14 Compete

Part 1 of 3. Eight previously eliminated contestants return and compete for a chance to win back their aprons and continue on in the competition. Each hopeful selects one ingredient to make up the mystery box, and then they are required to use all of the items to create a dish that proves they are worthy of a second chance.

Top 6 Compete, Pt. 1

A game-changing twist surprises the five remaining hopefuls during a mystery-box challenge. Later, the wannabe chefs are tasked with re-creating one of Graham Elliot's signature dishes that he served to President Obama at his flagship restaurant.

Top 5 Compete

The cooks must create a dish that features coffee as one of the main ingredients; during the pressure test, the contestants team up to re-create an elaborate party platter.

A Storm's A-Brewing

The 6 remaining contestants compete in the series' classic pop-up restaurant challenge.

This week on MASTERCHEF, the cooks take part in a challenging skills test, during which they must prepare racks of lamb with fine artistry. Those who fail to impress the judges will face an elimination challenge that includes recreating Gordon Ramsay's signature lamb chop dish. It is then up to the judges to decide who will leave the kitchen.

Silenced by the Lambs

The six weakest cooks go head-to-head in an elimination challenge, during which they make a crawfish dish created by Gordon Ramsay. Then, the Top 10 face a chicken-and-potato team challenge.

Gordon’s Game of Chicken

The Top Eight head to Big Bear Lake to cook fresh fish.

The Great Outdoors

A mystery box challenge involving food scraps; a mystery box challenge involving fresh ingredients.

Waste Not Want Not

Model Alessandra Ambrosio offers input for the Top 17's next mystery box challenge, which includes an additional twist that throws some cooks off balance, but only 15 home cooks can be chosen to continue on to the next round.

Hot & Spicy

The remaining home cooks face another elimination challenge in which they have 60 minutes to closely replicate the dish du jour, tarte Tatin that must be prepared with silky crème anglaise sauce, or risk surrendering their apron and going home.

Gordon Takes on a Tarte

The top 16 cooks fight for immunity in a challenge to create an authentic three-course Italian meal.

Joe Takes a Risk

The top 10 contestants test their speed in a special team challenge at the Irwindale Speedway, where they have 75 minutes to cook for 101 race car crew members.

NASCAR Finish Line Feed

The top four chefs travel to the historic Hatfield House, where they must cook a venison dish.

London Calling (2)

Chef Masaharu Morimoto sets the bar high with his monkfish demonstration, leaving the cooks desperate to impress in their first elimination challenge.

Chef Morimoto: Monkfish Challenge

The remaining chefs are challenged with a "Winner's Mystery Box," curated by the Season 3 Champion, Christine Ha. The contestants are tasked with creating a Michelin-starred Vietnamese dish, but there's a catch - they must use every ingredient given to them.

Winners Mystery Box - Christine Ha

The Top 12 chefs are challenged to a tag-team cook-off, as they approach the halfway point in the competition. They're tasked with choosing a partner and cooking three menu items from Gordon Ramsay's Michelin-starred restaurants, taking turns against the clock.

In order to secure a spot in the Top 10, the remaining chefs partner with GrubHub to elevate a traditional take-out dish into a gourmet concoction.

GrubHub Challenge

Keeping up with culinary trends and tapping into nostalgia, Chef Ramsay brings a new challenge to the kitchen. The Top 10 chefs are tasked with elevating traditional gas station and road trip snacks into gourmet dishes.

Gas Station Gourmet

The Top Nine chefs are faced with another Winner's Mystery Box challenge, this time from MasterChef Season Nine winner Gerron Hurt. With no more immunity pins up for grabs, each contestant must create a dish that packs heat using an assortment of chilies and peppers.

Winners Mystery Box - Gerron Hurt

The three remaining chefs rush against the clock to complete their final entree and whip up a gourmet dessert with the help of former judge Christina Tossi; a new champion is crowned.

Finale - Special Guest Christina Tosi (2)

The home chefs enter the kitchen for their first challenge: creating a state fair-inspired dish; whoever wins the challenge grants the rest of their region immunity from going home.

State Fair Food

The remaining home chefs must tackle a classic MasterChef test -- the tag team challenge; the contestants take turn preparing a delicious three-course meal.

The remaining five home cooks take on two rounds of challenges that determine who moves on to the finals.

Semi-Finals: Pasta & Keeping Up with Gordon

The chefs must incorporate the iconic beer, Blue Moon, into their dishes and ensure that the bright flavors are at the forefront of their creations.

Beer Necessities

The top six home chefs get a break from the MasterChef kitchen to take over Ramsay's Rooftop, an exclusive pop-up restaurant open for one night only in the heart of Downtown Los Angeles.

Ramsay's Rooftop Restaurant Takeover

The chefs must create entrée and dessert courses that highlight the generational backgrounds and culinary skill sets of each chef

Finale: Part Two

The Top 9 duos face a brand new challenge ‘Recipe Telephone’. In a culinary relay, each duo is split up and one person must cook for the first half and they swap places with their partner to complete the dish.

Recipe Telephone

After a nationwide search, only the best amateur cooks – including a stock broker, a professional opera singer, a plastic surgeon, as well as the first blind cook to enter the competition - 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, originality, creativity and presentation. But most importantly, the amateur cooks must demonstrate a genuine passion for food and a drive to win in order to earn a coveted white apron and move on to the next round.

Auditions (1)

The amateur chefs are taken to a Southern California rodeo, where they'll work in teams to feed a hearty meal to 101 hungry cowboys. Members of the winning team advance to the next round of competition, while the others face off in a pressure test that has them preparing six eggs in four different ways.

Top 8 Compete

Auditions No. 2

The cooks compete to feed 500 male and female troops on a desert Army base; the losing team faces a pressure test featuring blueberry pie.

Top 20 Compete

The home cooks split into two teams and create menus of healthy football game concessions for an entire stadium; the cooks on the losing team must create three unique prawn dishes in a pressure test.

Top 10 Compete

The remaining home cooks will learn from the best as they enter a special taste-it-and-make-it challenge. Each contestant must recreate Gordon Ramsay's signature Beef Wellington. The home cooks with the worst dishes will compete in the next pressure test, featuring another Gordon Ramsay dish — scallops with puree of English peas, bacon, and quail eggs, finished with shaved truffles. Find out who can keep up with the master and who will be sent home for good.

Gordon's Greatest Hits

The remaining chefs are put into teams to take over a Los Angeles restaurant, where they have to come up with two appetizers and two entrées for dining customers. The losing team take part in a pressure test that sees them having to come up with three different pasta dishes.

The Restaurant Takeover

After the Battle of the Apron concludes, the Top 20 home cooks in America meet the first guest judge of the season – culinary icon Wolfgang Puck..

Wolfgang Puck

The Top 15 home cooks are challenged to serve 101 hungry veterans!

Vets, Jets, and Home Cooks

The Top 10 cooks have one hour to make breakfast using a chocolate-hazelnut spread, and the winner gets to choose the dish for the next elimination challenge.

Sweet Surprise

The top 19 chefs will have to prepare and cook fresh fish for 101 lifeguards who will then vote on their favorite dish.

Feeding the Lifeguards

The kitchen is transformed into a full dining room to welcome purveyors of local ingredients, including butchers, vegetable farmers, beekeepers and herb growers, when the contestants split up for a team challenge using their guests' products. Later, the losing team must prepare cannoli as part of a pressure test.

Holy Cannoli

In this week's mystery box challenge, the Top Nine must create a dish that is reminiscent of their favorite family breakfast, using Nutella as the key ingredient. The winner gets a huge advantage moving forward, leaving the rest of the chefs to pair up for a Mexican-themed tag team challenge.

A Mexican Tag Team Challenge

The remaining chefs compete for the trophy and the $250,000 prize with guest judge Joe Bastianich.

The Top 12 face their third skills test and replicate the proper way to break down a halibut. Those who fail to impress the judges are then tasked with creating a stunning original dish using their broken-down fish. Some contestants yield a bountiful filet, while others offer up a poor portion of protein.

Just for the Halibut

The contestants learn they will be competing in the Tag Team Challenge.

In two teams of nine cooks, the Top 18 prepare for a 10th anniversary-themed pool party by preparing food for 100 important guests that include former "MasterChef" winners and contestants, but only one team can earn immunity.

10th Season Pool Party!

The team who failed to impress the pool party guests are given only 45 minutes to completely break down a chicken and prepare it into a delectable dish, but one contestant will be forced to surrender their apron after the timer runs out.

The Blind Chicken Show

In the first Mystery Box challenge chef Michael Mina is the guest judge. The cooks must create a beef dish without knowing what cut of beef they will be cooking until the mystery box is opened.

Michael Mina: Meat Roulette

The pioneering king of the food truck revolution, Roy Choi, tasks the home cooks with making a street food dish worthy of a Michelin star restaurant.

Roy Choi: Elevated Street Food

The remaining four semi-finalists are challenged to a "3 Chef Showdown" - a brand-new culinary triathlon that sees the home cooks making three dishes back-to-back - alongside three different Legendary chefs. This is a window into the fast-paced world of a professional chef, with each round's prize being a guaranteed spot in the finale.

Semi-Final: 3 Chef Showdown (2)

Season 12 of MASTERCHEF is all about redemption, when All-Star competitors from the last 11 seasons return to the show to see if they have learned from their past mistakes. For the first time ever, MASTERCHEF is re-opening the door to some of the most memorable and talented cooks in the competition's history, including two MASTERCHEF Junior Edition cooks now competing as adults! 40 chefs get called back to audition, but only 20 will claim a coveted white apron. The returning chefs compete in groups of four in head-to-head audition battles. In each round, the two chefs that create the most impressive comeback dish will secure a spot this season.

Audition Battles (1)

This hit cooking competition series sees award-winning chef Gordon Ramsay and other celebrity chefs put a group of contestants through a series of challenges and elimination rounds, in order to turn one home cook into a culinary master.

All Episodes of MasterChef

Season 1

Winner Revealed

Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 9/15/2010

Top 14

Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 8/10/2010

Top 11 Compete

Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 8/25/2010

Top 6 Compete

Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 9/8/2010

Top 9 Compete

Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 9/1/2010

Top 14 Compete

Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 8/18/2010

Auditions (2)

Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 8/3/2010

Auditions (1)

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 7/27/2010