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- *Mystery Box 3: The cooks, with full access to the pantry, are given one hour to make a savoury dish using the mystery ingredient durian. The top three dishes tasted in the challenge were Shamsydar, Zander, and Gen. While all three dishes impressed the judges, Gen's dish of durian polenta croquembouche gave her the win and an advantage in the following elimination challenge.
*Challenge Winner: Gen
*Elimination Challenge 2: Bjorn Shen presented his "balls" , "belly" , and "squash" and tasked the top five with recreating all three dishes. After sampling the dishes, the cooks were given two hours, a copy of the recipe, and all the necessary ingredients to complete the task. Gen, being the winner in the Mystery Box challenge, was allowed to call on Chef Bjorn to assist her up to three times, for one minute each time, at any time during the cook.
*Aaron's recreation of Shen's dishes fell short of the mark, eliminating him.
*Eliminated: Aaron (en)
- * Season Finale: Singapore's two best home cooks, Gen and Zander, had to prepare a five-dish Asian-style course in 2.5 hours: a meat dish, a fish dish, a vegetable dish, a starch dish and a dessert.
* Meat: Gen served Duck Confit with seared Duck Breast and candied Oranges, while Zander served Flank steak with Asian Chimichurri.
* Fish: Gen served Clam Mornay, while Zander served Pan-seared Snapper with Lemongrass Beurre blanc.
* Vegetables: Gen served roasted eggplants with Sichuan peppercorn sauce, while Zander served shaved Fennel salad with soy and honey.
* Starch: Gen served Herb Quinoa salad, while Zander served Fettuccine Carbonara with Sichuan peppercorns.
* Dessert: Gen served a Red Wine Fig Mochi with Ice Cream and Walnuts, while Zander served Ondeh-ondeh Panna cotta with Gula Melaka Sponge Cake.
* Final Two: Gen and Zander
* Winner Revealed: Zander Ng was named the first-ever MasterChef Singapore winner and won a $100,000 prize package, which include a cookbook deal, kitchen appliances, a trophy and a three-month internship with Bjorn Shen in Artichoke and Damian D’Silva in Folklore.
* MasterChef Winner: Zander Ng (en)
- * Mystery Box Challenge 1: The Top 10 contestants are given one hour to cook a dish that use only the ingredients which reflects the national colours of Singapore red and white. As Vidhya was named the worst dish in the previous elimination challenge, she was penalised with a five-minute handicap. The top four dishes were Shamsydar, Aaron, Vidhya, and Gen. Aaron wins the challenge.
* Challenge Winner: Aaron
* Invention Test 1: Aaron is given a choice of three different dishes each representing the cuisines that have most inspired the three judges: D'Silva presented Garam Assam , Shen presented Squid & Schmaltz , and Morrice presented Yusheng . Aaron, looking for an advantage, chose Morrice's Yusheng; the cooks then had one hour to make a Chinese-themed dish to impress. The two chefs with the worst dishes were both eliminated. Aaron and Nicholas made the two best dishes and were made team captains for the team challenge in the next episode. The bottom three were Joshua, Diana, and Vidhya.
* Winners: Aaron and Nicholas
* Bottom three: Joshua, Diana and Vidhya
* Diana was declared safe, thus eliminating both Joshua and Vidhya.
* Eliminated: Joshua and Vidhya (en)
- * Team Challenge 1: The eight contestants are split into two teams with the winners of the last challenge, Aaron and Nicholas, assuming the role of team captains. The judges assigned Diana, Gen, and Sharon to join Nicholas on the Red Team, and Sowmiya, Shamsydar, and Zander to join Aaron on the Blue Team. After Nicolas ballots Western for the Red Team, the Blue Team is left to prepare an Asian meal. Each team is then given four hours to prepare at least four dishes in their chosen cuisine for 200 students from the Singapore Sports School. Amongst the 200 students is Calvin Kang, as well as athletes who participated in the Commonwealth Games, Southeast Asian Games and Youth Olympic Games. The students, after tasting each of the menus, cast their votes to decide which team had the best performance, and the team with the most votes would win. The Blue Team wins the challenge with 158 votes cast, beating the Red Team's 43.
* Challenge Winners/Immune: Aaron, Sowmiya, Shamsydar, and Zander
* Pressure Test 1: The losing cooks are challenged to make a curry meal in 75 minutes. They are allowed to choose any style of curry they want and have access to the full pantry. In addition to their curry dish, their curry must also begin with a starch, and they must also serve a side dish and a drink. At the end of judging, Gen's curry meal was named the best by the judges, sending Diana, Nicholas and Sharon to the Bottom three.
* Bottom three: Diana, Nicholas and Sharon
* Nicholas was eliminated.
* Eliminated: Nicholas (en)
- * Team Challenge 2: The top six cooks were greeted in a local Cold Storage supermarket. Shamsydar, Zander, and Sharon, by-virtue of being the top three cooks in the last challenge, were assigned the role of team captains and were given red, green, and yellow aprons, respectively. The remaining three cooks went for a ballot to determine the team pairings Gen drew the yellow apron, Sowmiya with the red apron, and Aaron with green. Each team was given a budget of S$50 to purchase their ingredients for the cooking part, among the ingredients have to be from the special buys shelves . Teams then have one hour, using only the ingredients purchased from the supermarket to cook a family meal of four , with Morrice's nephew Max and his friend Caden joining in the panel. The green team's take on chilli crab pasta and the five-spice brulee impressed the judges and won the challenge, thus Aaron and Zander were exempt from the Pressure Test.
* Challenge Winners/Immune: Aaron and Zander
* Pressure Test 2: The four cooks were greeted by chef Ming Tan and were informed that they would be cooking an Asian-style Lobster Bisque. The cooks, without first seeing or tasting the dish, or having a recipe to read, had to follow chef Tan as he cooked the dish and gave instructions. They had to finish their own dishes within ten seconds of chef Tan completing his dish. The cooks with the proper execution of Tan's bisque would pass the challenge. Shamsydar, despite having allergies with seafood, served the best bisque of the challenge.
* Bottom three: Gen, Sowmiya and Sharon
* Sowmiya's presented the worst bisque, ultimately sending her home.
* Eliminated: Sowmiya (en)
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