MasterChef Canada (season 6)

Mystery Box 1: The first Mystery Box featured an array of root vegetables. The judges decided that the three best dishes belonged to Jennifer, Cryssi and Jenny, and Jenny won.

Team Challenge 1: For their first team challenge, the Top 10 home cooks were tasked with cooking Caribbean dishes for 121 wedding guests. With the best dish from the last challenge, Tony was given the choice of picking the proteins or team members. He chose to pick team members, selecting Andre, Jenny, Alyssa and Cryssi, while Chanelle selected Jennifer, Rozin, Colin and was left with Josh. For the challenge, the Blue team cooked crab and shrimp for their appetizer and chicken for their entree, while the Red team prepared a red snapper appetizer and a beef tenderloin entree. In the end, the Red Team beat the Blue Team by a slim margin of 3 votes.

Mystery Box 2: The Top 9 home cooks were greeted by their teenage photos underneath their mystery boxes. As Season 5 winner Beccy Stables made her return to the MasterChef kitchen, the home cooks were tasked to elevate their favorite dish from their teenage years. The best three dishes belonged to Jennifer, Rozin and Josh, and Josh won.

Team Challenge 2: The Top 8 was tasked to prepare school lunches for 161 school kids for one of the biggest team challenges ever. With the best dishes from the last elimination challenge, Jennifer and Andre were appointed team captains for this challenge. Jennifer as the Red team captain chose Josh, Alyssa and Chanelle, while Andre, as the blue team captain, chose Jenny, Rozin and was left with Cryssi. The Red team won the challenge with 99 to 62 votes.

Mystery Box 3: The home cooks learned whether taking a risk was worth the reward in this mystery box. There were two boxes: one clear box containing potato, squash, pork chop and maple syrup, and an opaque box containing unknown ingredients. The home cooks who chose the opaque box had a full hour to cook, but those who chose the clear box had to wait for the clock to tick down to 45 minutes. Andre and Josh chose the safe box. Alyssa, Jennifer, Cryssi, Jenny and Chanelle chose to take a risk with the secret box, which contained largely exotic ingredients including black cod, escarole, passion fruit and tamarind paste. In the end, the best dishes belonged to Chanelle, Josh and Cryssi, and Cryssi won.

Jenny, Alyssa, Rozin and Tony were brought back into the MasterChef Canada kitchen and subjected to a series of challenges involving knife skills; after each, one of the four would be eliminated, and the last cook standing would rejoin the competition.

Redemption Challenge Part 1: The four home cooks' skills in using a chef's knife were tested by having to julienne cut red onions, sweet peppers, zucchinis, carrots, and mangos to make an Asian rice noodle salad with Thai chilli vinaigrette in 14 minutes. Jenny and Tony made near perfect dishes. Rozin's noodles stuck together but were presented nicely. Due to poor time management, Alyssa presented a salad that was missing various components, resulting in her permanent elimination.

Redemption Challenge Part 2: The remaining three home cooks had to filet a Dover sole and use two of the fillets to make Sole meunière in just 8 minutes. All three cooks had issues with their fish - Tony's fillets were slightly underdone, Rozin's fillets were too light from his butter not being hot enough, and Jenny's fillets were uneven in size from leaving too much meat on the carcass, causing one to be overcooked. Jenny was eliminated in this round.

Team Challenge 3: The Top 6 home cooks cooked in the annual Restaurant Takeover in Michael's Leña Restaurante. Josh and Cryssi were chosen as the team captains by the judges as they had never led a team challenge. Josh, as the Red Team captain, chose Jennifer and Chanelle, and Cryssi, as the Blue Team captain, chose Rozin and was left with Andre. They had to prepare two appetizers: a broken avocado salad and clam dish with chorizo, and two entrees: an Atlantic salmon dish and a roasted lamb sirloin dish. While both teams performed well in the appetizer round, they both struggled equally in the entree round due to a lack of communication and required assistance from Michael and Julie, his chef de cuisine. Returning to the MasterChef kitchen the next morning, the judges declared both teams losers, as they felt that neither team performed well enough to be awarded immunity from the pressure test - a first in MasterChef history.

Mystery Box 4: The Top 5 home cooks were faced with a giant mystery box where their loved ones were waiting inside: Jennifer's boyfriend, Cryssi's sister, Chanelle's husband, Josh's wife, and Andre's aunt. In the challenge, the home cooks' loved ones not only cooked alongside them, but in fact did most of the cooking in the hour. The home cooks were tasked with coaching them from the side and were only given 18 minutes to help them during the cook. They were tasked with making a fried chicken dish with biscuits, gravy and coleslaw. After tasting all the dishes, the judges decided that Andre and his aunt were the winners of the Mystery Box, earning him an advantage in the elimination challenge.

Team Challenge 4: The final four home cooks arrived at the Canadian Canoe Museum and divided in pairs of 2 for a team challenge cook-off to honour Indigenous agriculture for a shot at immunity. Each team had to create a three course menu consisting of three dishes that honor the Three Sisters ingredients: corn in the appetizer, beans in the entree, and squash in the dessert. With the best winning dish from the last challenge, Andre was given the advantage choosing his teammate. Andre selected Jennifer, leaving Cryssi with Josh as the other team by default. Andre and Jennifer won the challenge, automatically advancing to the semifinals.

Mystery Box 5: The 3 semifinalists were excited when the judges introduced Olympic ice dancer and gold medalist Tessa Virtue to the judging panel as the special guest star. Tessa explained the theme of the last mystery box challenge of the season. Andre, Jennifer, and Josh were tasked with making a stunningly elevated, dramatic dish with the theme of “Fire and Ice” using molecular gastronomy to elevate their plating to artistically inventive and innovative heights. Andre produced the best dish and won the challenge.