MasterChef Canada (season 5)

Mystery Box 1: The first Mystery Box features coffee as the main ingredient. Half the cooks are tasked to make a savoury dish while the other half will make a sweet dish. Kaegan, Beccy and Michael G. produce the three best coffee-inspired dishes for tasting. Kaegan wins the Mystery Box.

Team Challenge 1: The home cooks face their first off-site Team Challenge when they are asked to prepare a hearty meal for 101 Habitat for Humanity volunteers, who are constructing homes at a construction site. Split into two teams, they are given only two hours to create a family-style meal using cuts of chicken, with hungry volunteers casting a vote to declare their favorite. As winner of the elimination challenge, Jonathan is given the choice to pick either the protein or his team first - he chooses to pick a team member first. Michael V. chooses dark meat, leaving the white meat to Jonathan, who chooses Eugene, Marissa, Andy and Jen, forming the Red Team, while Michael V. chooses Michael G., Nadia, Reem and Kaegan, forming the Blue Team. As the last cook standing, Beccy chooses to join Jonathan's Red Team, which is the winner.

Mystery Box 2: The home cooks find a large delivery cardboard box from Chefs Plate, Canada's #1 meal kit service, which contains a large variety of ingredients, including sauce, syrup, fruits, dairy products, meat and vegetables. The cooks are tasked to design a home-inspired dish that can be produced in just 30 minutes. The winner of the Mystery Box will receive three huge advantages. The top three dishes are Michael V.'s, Nadia's and Michael G.'s. Michael G. wins the Mystery Box.

Team Challenge 2: The second off-site Team Challenge takes place along Toronto's lakeside off leash dog park at the dog-friendly Cherry Beach. The home cooks are given two hours to produce donuts for dog owners who frequent the park. The team with the most sales will win the challenge. Eugene chooses Michael V. and Nadia for his Red Team; Andy chooses Michael G. and Jen for his Blue Team; and Marissa chooses Beccy and Jonathan for her Green Team, who wins the challenge.

Pressure Test 2: The two losing teams will face the pressure test the next morning back at the kitchen where at least one cook will be sent home, but not all the cooks will be cooking. The winning Green team is given the advantage to decide which cooks would be saved in the Red and Blue teams. After discussion, they decide to save Andy in the Blue team and Nadia in the Red team. This leaves Michael G., Eugene, Jen and Michael V. being tasked to replicate a Russian salmon coulibiac in the upcoming pressure test. Jen produces the best dish and is the first to be sent safety. Despite his initial best efforts, Michael G.'s coulibiac has large gaps in-between his slightly under-cooked puff pastry crust and his slightly overcooked salmon, but has done well enough to advance safely forward, leaving Eugene and Michael V. on the bottom two, since they both forgot to season their salmon as they were layering, plus their pastry crust is very thick and hard. The judges decide that Michael V.'s coulibiac has more flaws than Eugene's, and he is eliminated as a result.

Gauntlet Pressure Test 1: Like the seventh episode of the previous season, the top 8 cooks face a trio of grueling and daunting consecutive pressure tests featuring French classics as the main ingredient, that will become progressively more difficult, revealing the home cooks' skills, strengths, and weaknesses, until one home cook is sent home by the end. The cooks must battle for survival to progress to the next stage of competition. The first pressure test requires the cooks to make a classic French omelette (frying stiffly beaten egg whites and butter on a pan) in just four minutes. While the omelettes made by Jen, Nadia, Jonathan and Marissa are a complete mess, Eugene and Beccy produce the two best omelettes very close to perfection (with Eugene's omelette being deemed picture perfect), both are the first to advance safely to the Top 7. They will also be team captains in next week's off-site team challenge. Additionally, Andy and Michael G. have also made intact omelettes perfectly cooked and decent enough to safely advance to the top 7.

Gauntlet Pressure Test 2: The remaining home cooks Jen, Jonathan, Marissa and Nadia face the second consecutive Pressure Test: a butter-basted steak cooked medium rare, with just 15 minutes (2 minutes to heat up the pan, 8 minutes to sear the steak and baste it with butter, and 5 minutes to rest it). Nadia and Jen emerged as the second round winners, and are made safe.

Gauntlet Pressure Test 3: Marissa and Jonathan go head-to-head for survival in the final pressure test where they must create a stunning crème caramel finished with a caramel sugar dome in 30 minutes. Marissa produces the best replication and is made safe while Jonathan proceeds methodically but falls dangerously behind, leaving everything under the wire, compounded when he oils the inside of his ramekin and fills it with sugar syrup instead of the outside, which makes it difficult to remove the sugar syrup dome. Finally, he makes a costly mistake when flipping his pudding out from the ramekin and his pudding collapses into a messy sauce, resulting in his elimination to the shock of the other cooks.

MasterChef Canada Redemption - Part 2 of 3: Made available online shortly after this episode was broadcast, Kaegan and Jonathan faced off in the final round of Redemption. They were both tasked with making a dish based on choices, the first of these being made by Jonathan for ranking higher than Kaegan. First, Jonathan selected the duck breasts, leaving Kaegan with the wild boar chops. Then, Kaegan selected the red potatoes, leaving Jonathan with the sweet potatoes. Then, Jonathan selected the broccolini, leaving Kaegan with the Brussels sprouts. Finally, Kaegan selected the Granny Smith apples, leaving Jonathan with the sweet oranges. The two home cooks began cooking with their ingredients. Ten minutes into the challenge, Claudio revealed that he, Alvin, and Michael are looking for someone who is inventive, resourceful, and flexible. Therefore, he added a twist to the challenge by telling them to switch places with each other at once.

Team Challenge 3: The Top 7 home cooks gathered for a Team Challenge in Kleinburg, Ont., at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, home to the iconic Group of Seven. They are tasked to create a three-course tasting menu inspired by the Group of Seven art themes (land, sea and sky) for seven esteemed recipients of the Order of Canada. Eugene chose Andy and Michael G. for his Red Team, while Beccy chose Marissa and Jen for her Blue Team. Nadia originally wanted to join Beccy's Blue Team but was ordered by Claudio to join Eugene's Red Team before announcing the winner of the MasterChef Canada: Redemption challenge. To the cooks' surprise, Kaegan returns as the last member of the Blue Team after emerging as the MASTERCHEF CANADA: REDEMPTION winner after beating Michael V. and Jonathan. In the end, the Red Team was declared as the winner for their creative menu. To their advantage, the Red Team (Andy, Michael G., Eugene and Nadia) safely advance to the Top 7 once again, this time, safe from pressure tests.

Mystery Box 3: The voice cast of Corner Gas Animated (Brent Butt, Tara Spencer-Nairn, Lorne Cardinal and Nancy Robertson) makes a surprise guest star during the Mystery Box Challenge to inspire the home cooks with some comic relief. The theme of this Mystery Box requires the home cooks to create elevated diner food. The winner of this challenge will be safe from elimination and receives a huge advantage. The top three dishes are Nadia's, Beccy's and Andy's. Andy wins the Mystery Box.

Team Challenge 4: The Top 6 home cooks face a super-charged Restaurant Takeover Team Challenge at Claudio Aprile’s Toronto restaurant, Copetin. The teams must make two technically demanding appetizers (octopus a la planche and beef tartare) and two entrées (sea bream and lamb) to a restaurant filled with discerning dinner guests. As the winners of the tag team, Michael G. and Kaegan are team captains; Michael G. chooses Andy and Nadia for his Red Team, while Kaegan chooses Eugene and Beccy for his Blue Team. While the Red Team performs smoothly and effectively through most of the service, the Blue Team falls dangerously behind service as Kaegan is overcome with stress. He eventually relinquishes his team captain role to Beccy, allowing the blue team to catch up. The Red Team is declared as the winner.

Mystery Box 4: As the competition tightens, the Top 5 are given the same coolers containing the same special ingredients they used in their audition dishes at the start of this season and are now required to produce another new dish that uses these ingredients in a new different direction to showcase how much they have grown during the competition. Furthermore, the judges surprise the cooks by bringing in their family members for a surprise guest visit, who will also be working alongside the home cooks during the challenge. The winner of the Mystery Box will be receiving a huge advantage for the next challenge. The best dishes are Andy's, Beccy's and Michael G.'s. Beccy wins the Mystery Box.

Individual challenge: In the Season 5 semi-finals, the final 3 home cooks face the first-ever Pop-Up Restaurant Challenge in the MasterChef Canada Kitchen with 30 of Canada’s top food bloggers and influencers in attendance. The cooks are tasked to create an entree that reflects one of three different restaurants with unique cuisines that have been set up for each cook. The winner of the challenge advances straight to finale. While each cook's entree has pros and cons, the judges decide that Beccy's elegantly plated dish with all elements cooked to perfection (albeit rather a tad under-seasoned) has done slightly better than Michael G. and Andy to earn the first spot in the season finale.