Top 16 Revealed Original Air Date: Jun 20, 2011
. MasterChef is a BBC television cooking game show. It initially ran from 1990 to 2001 and was later revived in a different format known as MasterChef Goes Large from 2005 onwards. In 2008, the "Goes Large" part of the name was dropped, but the format remains identical. The revamped format was devised by Karen Ross and John Silver, who updated the original Franc Roddam format. The series now appears in three versions: the main MasterChef series,
MasterChef: The Professionals for working chefs, and Celebrity MasterChef. All three versions have been commissioned up to and including 2011. A further version, Junior Masterchef, for 10-to-12-year-olds, was also broadcast in 2010. In the original series, three amateur cooks took part in each episode, with nine heats leading up to three semifinals and a final, in which they competed for the title of Masterchef. Their task was to cook a gourmet, three-course meal in under two hours. Contestants could cook whatever they liked,
Episode Synopsis: The wannabe chefs have one hour to prepare a dish using surprise ingredients found in a mystery box. Later, two hopefuls are eliminated
