Synopsis for week 1 of Fans and Faves
Monday 18 April
The kitchen welcomes 12 emerging home cooks and 12 of the program’s most loved past contestants. Together they will share their love of food and compete to become Australia’s next MasterChef.
Tuesday 19 April
In a massive service challenge, it’s Fans versus Favourites, course versus course in the ultimate three-course battle, with the winning teams heading to the immunity decider challenge.
Wednesday 20 April
Split into four teams across four benches, 12 contestants discover they have 75 minutes on the clock to create a dish using the ingredients from a particular layer of the balanced diet food pyramid.
Thursday 21 April
It’s this season’s first immunity challenge. Choosing ingredients from mystery cloches, the contestant with the best dish wins immunity and will sit out the elimination challenge.
Also see
This will include the first MasterClass of the season. In the past few seasons it had mainly aired on Thursday nights, after an elimination challenge or an immunity challenge.