Chloe Carroll

The amateur cooks have one hour to recreate their signature dishes for the judges' first auditions, as the judges and nine past winners offer their support.

Chefs face a three-round sudden death skills challenge. They have to dice vegetables using a brunoise cut, prep a hollandaise sauce and cook a salted caramel sauce.

The contestants competing in the day's pressure test have just three hours to recreate guest chef, Brendan Wessles', lemon meringue pie from scratch.

The top 24 try to stand the heat in the kitchen, with 90 minutes and an open pantry to cook their dishes and impress the judges, focusing on hospitality.

On the first day of dessert challenges, the 12 contestants are tasked to cook their dishes in 30 minutes with ingredients from the Mystery Box chosen by Adriano Zumbo.

Cake artist Katherine Sabbath is welcomed as the guest judge, and introduces one of her cake designs, a raspberry white vanilla layered cake with tempered white chocolate raspberry bark.