Season 9

1 Season 23 Episodes

Forty of the top home chefs in the nation are selected to participate in a cooking competition judged by three critically-acclaimed culinary experts who test their palates, knowledge and skills in order to transform the novice chefs into masters.

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Season 9

SEASON PREMIERE

S9 E1 The Judges Do Battle

A group of 43 talented home cooks participate in the Battle of the Apron challenge, where they will compete for a position in the Top 24.

Aired 5-31-18 • TV-14 L

S9 E2 The Judges Do Battle, Pt. 2

The judges each will have eight aprons to hand out to the home cooks whom they deem worthy.

Aired 5-31-18 • TV-14 L

S9 E3 The Judges Do Battle, Pt. 3

Forty-three of America’s finest home cooks compete in the MASTERCHEF Battle of the Apron challenge.

Aired 6-7-18 • TV-14 DL

S9 E4 Home State Heroes

The Top 24 must prep, cook and plate one dish featuring an ingredient unique to each of their home states.

Aired 6-7-18 • TV-14 DL

S9 E5 Gordon Ramsay Masterclass

Gordon Ramsay demonstrates the proper technique to break down a crab, which the contestants must successfully replicate.

Aired 6-14-18 • TV-14 L

S9 E6 Trouble Brewing

The Top 20 visits the historic Anheuser-Busch brewery for their first team challenge, where they must prepare a beer-infused lunch for 100 employees.

Aired 6-21-18 • TV-14 L

S9 E7 World Cup Dishes

A mystery box challenge forces the home cooks to make a dish using walnuts as a common ingredient.

Aired 6-28-18 • TV-14 L

S9 E8 A Gordon Ramsay Wedding

The contestants head to Malibu, CA, and cook for MASTERCHEF Season Seven winner Shaun O’Neale’s wedding.

Aired 7-11-18 • TV-14 L

S9 E9 The Big Not Easy

The contestants must create a dish using two items from a mystery box that contains fresh seafood.

Aired 7-19-18 • TV-14 L

S9 E10 Rise or Fall

The remaining home cooks are put into pairs and are challenged to use five ingredients to prepare a restaurant-quality dish.

Aired 7-26-18 • TV-14 L

S9 E11 The Kids Are Alright

The Top 14 contestants are broken up into two teams before they are challenged to prepare 39 dishes of one recipe for a group of critical judges.

Aired 8-2-18 • TV-14 L

S9 E12 Frying Tonight

The Top 13 contestants must make a dish with a deep-fried element for their mystery box challenge, where the judges will also cook with them.

Aired 8-9-18 • TV-14 L

S9 E13 Just for the Halibut

The Top 12 face another skills test in which they must replicate how to properly break down a halibut.

Aired 8-16-18 • TV-14 L

S9 E14 Sky's the Limit

The home cooks that remain are divided amongst themselves into two teams and are given a difficult challenge to prepare dishes for 100 hungry airmen.

Aired 8-23-18 • TV-14 L

S9 E15 Tag Team

The contestants must prepare to compete in the feared Tag Team Challenge.

Aired 8-23-18 • TV-14 L

S9 E16 American Heroes

The eight remaining home cooks are split into two different teams and are pressed for time to serve 25 California firefighters restaurant-quality dishes.

Aired 8-30-18 • TV-14 L

S9 E17 Waste Not Want Not

The seven home cooks that remain tackle a Mystery Box challenge where they must prepare the best-quality dish that they can from food scraps.

Aired 8-30-18 • TV-14 L

S9 E18 The Restaurant Takeover

The Top Six face the Restaurant Takeover Challenge at Providence in Los Angeles.

Aired 9-6-18 • TV-14 L

S9 E19 Cooking with Heart

The remaining five receive a heart-warming mystery box challenge, in which contestants will create a dish inspired by their loved-ones.

Aired 9-6-18 • TV-14 L

S9 E20 Battle of the Beef

The Top Five competitors tackle multiple pressure-filled tests that use one common protein, beef; the two weakest performers battle to move on.

Aired 9-13-18 • TV-14 L

S9 E21 The Semi Final

In teams of two, the final home cooks must prepare a delectable entrée for chefs Daniel Boulud, Jonathan Waxman and Lidia Bastianich.

Aired 9-13-18 • TV-14 L

S9 E22 Finale Pt. 1

The three remaining home cooks will face their final challenge when they are each asked to prepare a three-course menu for the judges.

Aired 9-20-18 • TV-14 L

SEASON FINALE

S9 E23 Finale Pt. 2

The top three compete for the first prize of a quarter of a million dollars, and the coveted title of MasterChef.

Aired 9-20-18 • TV-14 L