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. Jenny won the Mystery Box.

Team Challenge 1: The Top 10 home cooks were tasked to cook Caribbean dishes for 121 guests in a wedding for their first team challenge. With the best dish from the last elimination challenge, Tony was given the choice to have first pick of the proteins or team members. He chose to pick team members, selecting Andre, Jenny, Alyssa and Cryssi, while Chanelle selected Jennifer, Rozin, Colin and Josh. For the challenge, Chanelle’s Blue Team cooked crab and shrimp for their appetizer and chicken for their entree, while Tony’s Red Team prepared a red snapper appetizer and a beef tenderloin entree. In the end, the Red Team beat the Blue Team by a mere 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. Josh was the winner of the Mystery Box.

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

Mystery Box 3: The home cooks learn 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. Home cooks who chose the secret (opaque) box will have a full one hour to cook, but those who chose the safe (clear) box must wait for the clock to tick down to 45 minutes. Only the men (Andre and Josh) chose the safe box, whereas all the women chose to take a risk with the secret box. The secret box 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. Cryssi won the Mystery Box.

Jenny and Alyssa had to face Rozin and Tony as they were put through a series of three challenges involving knife skills in a redemption challenge.

Redemption Challenge Part 1: The four homecooks's skills in using 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 just 14 minutes. Jenny and Tony execute a near perfect dish, while Rozin's noodles stick together but is presented nicely. Due to poor time management, Alyssa presents a salad that is messy and missing elements, resulting in her elimination.

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

Team Challenge 3: The Top 6 cooked in the annual Restaurant Takeover in Michael Bonacini's Leña Restaurante. Josh and Cryssi were chosen as team captains by the judges as they were the two contestants that have never led a team challenge. Josh chose Jennifer and Chanelle for his Red Team, and Cryssi chose Rozin and Andre for her Blue Team. The appetizers chosen by Chef Michael were a broken avocado salad and dish with clams and chorizo, and the entrees were 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 lack of communication and thereby required assistance from Michael and Julie, his chef de cuisine. Returning to the MasterChef Canada kitchen the next morning, the judges declared both teams were the losers, as they felt that neither team performed well enough to be given the win to be safe - a first in MasterChef history.

Mystery Box 4: The Top 5 home cooks are faced with a giant Mystery Box where their loved ones are waiting inside: Jennifer's boyfriend; Cryssi's sister; Chanelle's husband; Josh's wife; and Andre's aunt. For this Mystery Box, the home cooks' loved ones will not only be cooking alongside them, but in fact they will be doing majority of the cooking in the hour. The home cooks were tasked to coach them from the side and only given 18 minutes to help them during the cook. The cooks and their families were tasked to create 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 remaining 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 of 2 must create a three course tasting menu consisting of three dishes that honor the Three Sisters ingredients: corn for appetizer, beans for entree, and squash for dessert. With the best winning dish from the last elimination challenge, Andre was given the advantage to choose his teammate. Andre selected Jennifer, leaving Cryssi with Josh as a second team of two by default. Andre and Jennifer won the team challenge, automatically advancing the Top 3 semifinals.

Mystery Box 5: The remaining 3 semifinalists (Andre, Jennifer and Josh) were excited when the 3 judges introduced guest judge Tessa Virtue (an Olympic ice dancer and gold medalist) to the judging panel as the special guest star. Tessa explained the theme of this last Mystery Box challenge of the season. The 3 semifinalists were tasked to create 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 Mystery Box.