MasterChef Canada
Amateur chefs compete in this Canadian version of the reality-cooking series.
Genre: Reality-TV
Cast:Claudio Aprile , Michael Bonacini , Alvin Leung , Charlie Ryan , Dora Cote , April Lee Baker , Jeremy Senaris , Andrew Al-Khouri , Christopher Siu , Dorothea VanHerwaarden , Mai Nguyen , Barrie McConachie , Jennifer Jenkins , Andrew Hay , Marissa Leon-John , Andre Bhagwandat , Benjamin Miner , Kaila Klassen
S1.E1 ∙ White Is the New Black
In the series premiere of this Canadian version of the reality-cooking series, 50 amateur chefs arrive to prepare food for the judges.
S1.E2 ∙ Chicken Little
The chefs are tasked to cook a chicken dish, using only one pan.
S1.E3 ∙ First Kick at the Box
The first mystery-box challenge takes place, giving the winner a significant advantage in the elimination challenge.
S1.E4 ∙ The Puck Drops Here
The chefs prepare lunch for the Toronto Maple Leafs during the first team challenge. Later, a pasta cook-off ends with an elimination.
S1.E5 ∙ Where's the Beef
The chefs are tasked to choose from one of three Canadian ingredients and pair it with beer.
S1.E6 ∙ Edible Art
The chefs are tasked to create beautiful and delicious food for an art-gallery event. Later, the losing team is subjected to a baking competition.
S1.E7 ∙ Brains Before Beauty
A sentimental mystery-box challenge requires the contestants to return to their roots. The winner is granted an advantage in an Alberta Beef contest.
S1.E8 ∙ Major Steaks
A team challenge takes place at Canadian Forces Base Trenton.
S1.E9 ∙ Great Canadian Bake Off
A challenge involving the judges' favorite leftovers is featured. Later, the chefs are tasked to create gourmet versions of popular bake-sale items.
S1.E10 ∙ Meals on Wheels
A team challenge, focusing on culinary skills and entrepreneurship, takes place at Toronto City Hall. Later, the losing team faces a pressure test.
S1.E11 ∙ Claws Out
The remaining chefs participate in a tag-team challenge, involving a tank of lobsters.
S1.E12 ∙ Line of Fire
The chefs are tasked to take over a judge's restaurant. Later, the losing team faces a pressure test.
S1.E13 ∙ Family Style
The chefs create a dinner menu for a family reunion. Later, they face a particularly difficult challenge during a pressure test.
S1.E14 ∙ Not-Your-Average-Joe
The contestants create a meal, for judge Joe Bastianich, using the chef's favorite ingredients.
S1.E15 ∙ And Then There Were 2
The first season ends with the Top 2 finalists engaging in a three-course cook-off, in hopes of winning the $100,000 grand prize.
S2.E1 ∙ Fit to Be Tied
Season 2 kicks off with home cooks auditioning for a spot in the kitchen.
S2.E2 ∙ Patriotic Pantry
The home cooks, who survived the auditions, move on to the next challenge.
S2.E3 ∙ Constant Cravings
Chefs prepare an Asian classic in the first Elimination Challenge.
S2.E4 ∙ Juggling Act
In the first team challenge, chefs prepare lunch for the cast and crew of Cirque du Soleil.
S2.E5 ∙ Slice of Life
Black truffle and artisan pizza are two ingredients used in the challenge.
S2.E6 ∙ One Potato, Two Potato
Cooks prepare poutine dishes and compete in a fresh-pasta Pressure Test.
S2.E7 ∙ No Piece of Cake
An elimination challenge, featuring a birthday-cake mystery-box, sees cooks combining odd-couple ingredients.
S2.E8 ∙ Wedding on the Waves
A wedding is catered, and the team that gets creamed competes in a pastry challenge.
S2.E9 ∙ Good Things in Small Packages
The home cooks are surprised with a Mystery Box, and an Elimination Challenge sends one or more cook home.
S2.E10 ∙ Walking on Eggshells
Three eliminated chefs receive a chance to cook their way back into the competition.
S2.E11 ∙ Tea for Two
The Top 7 do a cook-along Mystery Box with judge Claudio Aprile, and a tag-team challenge to replicate an afternoon-tea tray.
S2.E12 ∙ Fine Dining Under Fire
Home cooks engage in the Restaurant Takeover, and a Pressure Test challenges them with a comfort-food dish.
S2.E13 ∙ From Home, with Love
Featuring a Mystery Box competition and an Elimination Challenge.
S2.E14 ∙ The Trip to Bountiful
An off-site challenge has every chef out for themselves, and a Pressure Test involves chocolate dessert.
S2.E15 ∙ Ring of Fire
In the Season 2 finale, two home cooks compete for the $100,000 prize.
S3.E1 ∙ Yes, No, Maybe So
Forty home cooks from across the country compete for a spot in the Top 14.
S3.E2 ∙ A Cut Above
Eighteen home cooks get a second chance, competing in two culinary challenges.
S3.E3 ∙ At Home and Abroad
The cooks face their first Mystery Box Challenge and the winner selects one of three international cuisines and some cooks get lost in translation.
S3.E4 ∙ Trial by Fire
In the first team challenge, the remaining cooks honor firefighting heroes in a rib cook-off.
S3.E5 ∙ Off the Hook
A Mystery Box challenge requires the cooks to work together and the winners give the assignments in the pantry challenge.
S3.E6 ∙ Feast Your Eyes
The teams use a fashion collection as inspiration for a fancy lunch; a surf and turf test sends one cook home.
S3.E7 ∙ From the Heart
The home cooks bake with heart during a Mystery Box Challenge.
S3.E8 ∙ Oktoberfest Feast
The remaining cooks compete in teams for a gourmet sausage challenge in celebration of Oktoberfest.
S3.E9 ∙ Head and Shoulders, Knees and Toes
The remaining eight cooks take on intimidating nursery rhyme-inspired ingredients.
S3.E10 ∙ Out of This World
Astronaut Chris Hadfield inspires the cooks for a Mystery Box Challenge.
S3.E11 ∙ Demon at the Pass
The remaining cooks take over Alvin Leung and Eric Chong's Asian restaurant.
S3.E12 ∙ Cooking with Cocktails
Following a Mystery Box Challenge inspired by judge Michael Bonacini's techniques, the cooks create cocktail-inspired sweet and savoury dishes.
S3.E13 ∙ Meals and Wheels
The top four cooks reunite with their families and then shop for a meal at the market.
S3.E14 ∙ Only the Best
The three remaining cooks battle for a spot in the finale by preparing a meal for some of Canada's most influential chefs using Canadian ingredients.
S3.E15 ∙ Finale
The two finalists compete in a three-course challenge to determine the winner of the competition.
S5.E1 ∙ Opportunity Knocks
Home cooks from across the country audition for a spot in the top 12.
S5.E2 ∙ How Do You Take Your Mystery Box?
The top 12 face their first Mystery Box Challenge and a budget-inspired elimination challenge sends one of the home cooks packing.
S5.E3 ∙ Building an Appetite
The home cooks face their first team challenge as they prepare a hearty meal for 101 hungry Habitat for Humanity volunteers.
S5.E4 ∙ Fast and Epicure-ious
The top 10 are given a mere 30 minutes to tackle a mystery box and must create an original recipe featuring fresh ingredients. Then, a fungi-inspired elimination challenge puts an end to one home cook's food dream.
S5.E5 ∙ Barker's Dozen
A Team Challenge finds the home cooks tasked with making donuts for dog owners who frequent an off-leash dog park in Toronto. The losing team must face a Pressure Test, resulting in at least one home cook being eliminated.
S5.E6 ∙ Vive La Pressure Test
The remaining top 8 home cooks face an intense series of three consecutive French-inspired pressure tests that will reveal their strengths, skills and weaknesses.
S5.E7 ∙ The Magnificent Seven (+1)
The home cooks head to an off-site Team Challenge at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection where they must prepare a Group of Seven-inspired meal for the Order of Canada recipients. (Reality).
S5.E8 ∙ Cooking with (Corner) Gas
The home cooks are presented with a massive Mystery Box Challenge and must prepare a diner dish inspired by the cast of Corner Gas Animated.
S5.E9 ∙ On the Line of Fire
The Top 6 home cooks face a super-charged Restaurant Takeover Team Challenge with the losing team facing an Elimination Challenge.
S5.E10 ∙ Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
The pressure intensifies as former MasterChef Canada winners drop by for a surprise visit.
S5.E11 ∙ Pop-Up Star
The remaining three cooks face the first ever Pop-Up Restaurant Challenge.
S5.E12 ∙ Three Courses, One Crown
The two remaining cooks compete for the title of MasterChef Canada in the final.
S6.E1 ∙ Masterchef Canada Invitational; Home Cooks, Your Roots Are Showing
Eighteen home cooks audition for a white apron; the cooks face their first Mystery Box Challenge and a meaty Elimination Challenge.
S6.E2 ∙ Top Hats and Tails
The home cooks face their first Mystery Box Challenge, and a meaty Elimination Challenge puts some of them in jeopardy.
S6.E3 ∙ Tastes Like Teen Spirit
The remaining home cooks face their first Team Challenge as they prepare a Caribbean meal for 121 wedding guests.
S6.E4 ∙ School Lunch!
This week's Mystery Box presents a blast from the past and at least one home cook's journey comes to a spicy end.
S6.E5 ∙ Risk and Reward
The home cooks go back to school to compete in the biggest Team Challenge in MasterChef Canada history.
S6.E7 ∙ Knife Fight!
Home cooks put their knife skills to the test through a series of challenges.
