MasterChef

Forty of America's best home cooks present their signature dishes to the judges: Gordon Ramsay, Graham Elliot and the newest addition to the panel, Christina Tosi.

Some of America's best home cooks present their signature dishes to the judges: Gordon Ramsay, Graham Elliot and the newest addition to the panel, Christina Tosi.

The contestants faced their first mystery box challenge; in a pressure test, contestants must prepare their version of an apple pie.

The teams create their own versions of an amusement park burger and a fish and chips dish for park guests; the losing team faces a cinnamon roll pressure test.

In the next mystery box challenge, the home cooks will have to come out of their shells when they must prepare unique crab dishes for the judges.

In the second field challenge of the season, the cooks take a surprise trip to Vegas, where they split into two teams to take over Drai's Nightclub and feed 101 Vegas performers.

In the next challenge, it's proven Breakfast is indeed the most important meal of the day when the home cooks are each tasked to create an elevated breakfast dish in 45 minutes

The cooks must taste and then re-create Ramsay's signature beef Wellington; the cooks with the worst dishes compete in a test featuring another one of Ramsay's signature dishes.

In the next mystery box challenge, the remaining home cooks will be faced with an assortment of rice. Each contestant must create a rice dish in 60 minutes.

The cooks create steak meals for 101 cowboys and ranchers; the losing team participates in a pressure test baking tarts.

The Top 10 home cooks will cook family style when they face their next team challenge and create family style meals for VIP diners.

The contestants must prepare a flambe; the challenge winner selects which Southern dish the contestants will cook.

In the next team challenge, the remaining home cooks will split into teams to prepare vegetarian meals for guests of the MASTERCHEF restaurant.

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.

In the next team challenge, the Top Six home cooks will face the wildly popular restaurant takeover.

In the next mystery box challenge, the Top Five home cooks must create a dish using pear, blue cheese, tomato, portabella mushroom and chocolate.

The teams must create a unique appetizer and entree 3 times by using special ingredients; the pressure test has the chefs re-creating Christina Tosi's chocolate malted layer cake.

With help from a few other home cooks, the remaining three contestants will create dishes for 30 restaurant guests who serve an important role in the judges culinary world.

Two of the cooks create a three-course meal; the winner is revealed.