MasterChef may be a pre-taped show, but tonight's mystery box ingredient is 100% live: the MasterChefs are forced to contend with fresh, living prawns. Some contestants rise to the promise of such a fresh ingredient, while others do not--Monti has even mo more

Though the pressure on the prospective MasterChefs has steadily increased over the past few weeks, tonight every one of them gets the night off: the eight most recently eliminated contestants return, and they are the ones competing for an open space in th more

While MasterChef 's elimination rounds have typically focused on dignified craft and culinary finesse, the location-based team challenges have skewed far more populist. Past assignments have included feeding marines, hotel guests and beach bums, and tonig more

The strangeness of the MasterChef M ystery Box is one of most captivating elements of the show: outside of one paid segment hocking big box steaks, the Mystery Box has consistently delivered some of the most compellingly atypical challenges of the series. more

For better or for worse, one of MasterChef' s defining characteristics is its disorienting, ever-changing competition rules. This week's mystery box challenge brings two surprises: there's an added chef as Graham cooks alongside the contestants and a subt more

Though the MasterChef contestants are amateurs when they arrive on the show, they'll have an extensive resume of professional cooking experience by the end of the season. Tonight's episode finds the prospective MasterChefs working three separate food truc more

Another week, another mystery box challenge. So far, the box contents have been almost exclusively strange. This week, however, the contestants are relieved to discover grocery store T-bone steaks and fresh produce. http://www.buddytv.com/articles/masterc more

As any food critic worth their salt knows, culinary mastery means sleep deprivation and grade school-level pettiness. That's the thinking behind tonight's hotel-themed MasterChef , in which the judges drag the contestants out of bed at 3:30am and, as is t more