Overview - MasterChef

Overview

This hit cooking competition series sees award-winning chef Gordon Ramsay and other celebrity chefs put a group of contestants through a series of challenges and elimination rounds, in order to turn one home cook into a culinary master.

Seasons

• Name: Specials

  Episode: 4

  Date first aired: 2016-01-18

• Name: Season 1

  Episode: 8

  Season 1 of the American competitive reality television series MasterChef, which ran from July 27 to September 15, 2010, on Fox.

  Date first aired: 2010-07-27

• Name: Season 2

  Episode: 20

  Season 2 of the American competitive reality television series MasterChef had a two-night premiere on Fox on June 6 and 7, 2011. At the end of the third episode, which aired on June 13, 2011, the judges had tasted all 100 dishes and given white MasterChef aprons to 38 contestants. In the fourth episode that aired on June 14, 2011, the judges cut that number down to 18 contestants.

  Date first aired: 2011-06-06

• Name: Season 3

  Episode: 20

  Season 3 of the American competitive reality television series MasterChef had a two-night premiere on Fox on June 4 and 5, 2012. By the third episode, which aired on June 11, 2012, the judges had tasted all 100 dishes and given white MasterChef aprons to 36 contestants. In the same episode, the judges cut that number down to 18 contestants. The season concluded on September 10, 2012 with the first blind contestant Christine Ha winning the MasterChef title.

  Date first aired: 2012-06-04

• Name: Season 4

  Episode: 25

  Season 4 of the American competitive reality television series MasterChef had a premiere on Fox on May 22, 2013. Luca Manfè was the winner of this season, making him the first male contestant and previous season returnee to win MasterChef.

  Date first aired: 2013-05-22

• Name: Season 5

  Episode: 19

  Date first aired: 2014-05-26

• Name: Season 6

  Episode: 20

  Date first aired: 2015-05-20

• Name: Season 7

  Episode: 19

  Throughout Season Seven, host and award-winning chef Gordon Ramsay and renowned pastry chef Christina Tosi will welcome a number of special guest judges, including Wolfgang Puck, Aarón Sánchez, Edward Lee, Kevin Sbraga and Richard Blais, to help search for America’s best home cook.

  Date first aired: 2016-06-01

• Name: Season 8

  Episode: 21

  Throughout Season Eight, award-winning chef Gordon Ramsay and renowned pastry chef Christina Tosi will be joined by celebrated chef and restaurateur Aarón Sánchez on the judges’ panel, as they put the Top Forty contestants through a series of challenges and elimination rounds, in order to turn one home cook into a culinary master.

  Date first aired: 2017-05-30