Chloe Carroll

The amateur cooks have one hour to recreate their signature dishes for the first auditions.

The top 24 enter the MasterChef kitchen for their first official challenge.

In the latest pressure test, the bottom three contestants have to recreate Alla Wolf-Tasker's Autumn-inspired duck dish.

The contestants return to the MasterChef kitchen in Melbourne to compete by making a dish that features bread.

The contestants are introduced to the master of sweets, who reveals their mystery box ingredients and their next invention test.

Nigella Lawson stops by with challenges and surprises for the contestants, her mystery box reveals a range of her favourite ingredients.