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Original airdate |
Episode Title / Event |
| Week 1 |
| 1/01-1 |
5 May 2013 |
Series Premiere - Top 60 (part 1)
60 hopeful contestants competed for a place in the Top 35. They each had an hour (plus an additional five minutes in front of the judges of final cooking and presentation) to prepare a dish of their choice, with a number securing their place in the next stage of the competition. Half of the Top 35 is decided in this episode. |
| Week 2 |
| 2/02-1 |
11 May 2013 |
Top 60 (part 2)
The audition was continued. In this episode all of the Top 35 is decided. |
| 3/02-2 |
12 May 2013 |
Top 35
- Basic Skill 1 - Lilian, Michael and Setiyono were the first 3 to complete, and the winner of these three was Lilian, while Nabila, Sri and Kevin were the bottom 3 or the last 3 to complete, his passion saved Kevin to compete another day, leaving Nabila and Sri going home with this first challenge.
- Duplication Test 1 - There are 4 processed rice, which would be the next challenge. As the winner of previous challenge, Lilian had advantage for the next challenge, the first, she won't compete for the second challenge, which meant she was safe. The second advantage was she can pick any contestant who will cook each dish. The judges only called 2 contestant from each dish. From the first dish, Bubur (pouridge), Dayang and Meliana were called by the judges. From the second dish, Nasi Liwet, Elly and Patty were called. From the third dish, Nasi Uduk, Geoffry and Ratna were called. From the last dish, Nasi Kuning, Melati and Angella were called. Dayang, Ratna, Melati, and Patty were all declared as the best dish on their own category, so they were all safe with the rest of the contestant who weren't called. Ratna's dish was the winning dish, leaving Elly, Meliana, Angella, and Geoffry as the least impressive dish on their category, automatically, they were going to Pressure Test.
- Pressure Test 1 - The challenge was making two different colored pasta, red and green pasta, only one most impressive pasta will be saved in this challenge. The contestants were given 30 minutes, but the contestant who have complete before the time is up can serve their pasta. No one had made the perfect pasta, which is al dente pasta. But, Angella was declared as the best of all the pressure test contestant, so the rest contestants, which are, Elly, Meliana and Geoffry were eliminated.
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| Week 3 |
| 4/03-1 |
18 May 2013 |
Top 30
- Basic Skill 2 - The challenge of this episode is chicken. The first thing contestant had to do was catch the chicken. Some contestants, such as Kevin, Lilian and Rissa were terrified to catch the chicken. Then, the chicken's neck was cut by the professional, Mr. Naslim. The second thing to do was pluck the chicken, if the contestants have finished this step, the contestant can do the next step, which is cut the whole chicken into few parts. The least impressive cut were William, Sasti, Budi, Maichel and Revaldi. Sasti was eliminated because she had the worst cut, and the other were going to pressure test. Rissa has the best cut, so she won the challenge, and she is the first contestant in Top 24.
- Duplication Test 1 - The challenge is making one of three Chef Arnold's favourite chicken dish. They are Chicken Pilard, Avocado Salsa and Caramelized Lemon, Yellow Curry and Pan Roasted Chicken Breast with Textured Corn. Rissa as the winner of previous challenge had to pick who's gonna cook each dish. The, Chef Arnold demonstrated how to cook all of those dishes, he asked Rissa to help him, then he gave Rissa his first knife that he had as Rissa gift for winning the challenge. After all the contestant had finished cooking, the judges did sampling to their food. Without tasting their dish again, Angella, Kevin, Rani and Ernest (from Chicken Pilard team), Patty, Nurul, Ray, Brian, Tya (from Yellow Curry team), Denty, Nino, Melita, Melati, Lilian & Gio (from Pan Seared Chicken Breast team) are automatically advanced to the Top 24, leaving the judges had to taste the other contestants dish. It resulted Mimi was the best in her category and automatically advanced to the Top 24, which made Rissa, Kevin and the other contestant disappointed because she was the public enemy. Then, Ratna and Yogi had the impressive dish and automatically advanced to Top 24, but Lius' dish was the most impressive and made him won the challenge. While the other contestant celebrated their success, Gilang, Dayang, Dieta were all going to the pressure test, and Harris with the wrong cooked chicken was eliminated from this challenge.
- Pressure Test 2 - The challenge is making a chicken pie demonstrated by Chef Marinka, and she is helped by Lius, the winner of previous challenge. After they tasted the contestants' food, the judges sent Dieta, Dayang and Budi back home and sent Gilang and Revaldi to the Top 24. The final decision came down to William and Maichel, only one of them would be advanced to the Top 24, but the judges changed the rules and 25 contestant will be advanced to the gallery, which meant they both moved on with the other hopefuls who had moved from previous challenge to the Gallery MasterChef.
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| 5/03-2 |
19 May 2013 |
Top 25
- Mystery Box 1 - The episode began with the judges draped the MasterChef appron to all the contestant, then contestants faced the first mystery box of this season, there are their family photo and a letter inside there that brought the contestants to the tears. The contestants had to cook their family's dish. After the contestant had finished, Chef Marinka told them that they all did great job. After the judges did sampling, Chef Degan praised Mimi's food, Chef Arnold praised Angella's Sweet and Sour Crab, and Rani's Goat Curry, but they weren't the best 3. The judges called Patty, Rissa and Brian as the Top 3. Patty served a simple tasty Ayam Goreng Bumbu (Fried Chicken), Rissa served Kare Hitam Kentang Kucang (Black Curry with Mashed Potato), and Brian served Terik Putih Solo. Brian won the challenge, he had advantage for the next challenge.
- Duplication Test 2 - The challenge is making the judges family's dish. Chef Degan's dish was Daging Empal Suwir Sambal Matah , which is the hardest compared to another dish, Chef Marinka's was Sambal Goreng Udang Belimbing Wuluh and Chef Arnold's was Steam Kakap Putih Chinese Style & Nasi Hainan (Chinese Style Steamed White Snapper & Hainan Rice). As the advantage Brian won't cook for this challenge, and he could pick 8 contestants who had to cook each dish. Brian chose William, Nino, Mimi, Melitta, Ratna, Ray, Revaldi and Setiyono for Chef Degan's dish. He chose Rissa, Maichel, Denty, Lius, Rani, Kevin, Angela, and Gio for Chef Marinka's dish, and finally for Chef Arnold's, he chose Lilian, Nurul, Gilang, Patty, Yogi, Melati, Ernest and Tya. After sampling, the judges chose Ernest, Nurul and Tya for Chef Arnold's dish. Had the problem with the fish, the judges sent Ernest to pressure test, set Tya to the safe position and they asked Nurul to stay there. For Chef Marinka's dish, the judges chose Lius, Denty, and Rani. The judges sent Rani to pressure test, saved Denty, and asked Lius to stay with Nurul, and finally the judges chose Ray, Setiyono and Mellita for Chef Degan's dish. They criticized Ray's very spicy dish, and criticized Setiyono too. Then, they saved Ray because she had better presentation than Setiyono, sent Setiyono to pressure test, and asked Melitta to stay with Lius and Nurul. The judges revealed that Lius, Nurul and Melitta were the best from their category, as the winner they were given advantage for the next challenge
- Pressure Test 3 - The bottom contestant which are Ernest, Rani and Setiyono had to cook Pan Seared Ikan Ekor Kuning, Nasi Kuning Manado, Sayur Bunga Pepaya & Sambal Dabu-Dabu, but they wouldn't make only one dish, but 4 portions of that dish. Setiyono had good speed when cooking, while Rani had slow speed. On the last minute, Setiyono struggled with the plating, resulting the bad plating, and Ernest's fish is not cooked enough, Rani who had been underestimated by her speed did well at the taste and she was saved first, and raw fish on every plate sent Ernest back home.
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| Week 4 |
| 6/04-1 |
25 May 2013 |
Top 24
- Outside Challenge 1 - The contestants arrived at Pusat Pendidikan Pelatihan Kebakaran dan Undang-Undang DKI Jakarta, where the contestants will feed hundred hungry fireman. As the best on the previous challenge, Melitta, Lius and Nurul were ordered to be the captain of this challenge. As the winner, Melitta can pick which menu that she wants, there are blue menu (American barbecue), yellow menu (Oriental barbecue) and red menu (Indonesian barbecue). She picked blue menu (American barbecue). Then, Nurul picked yellow menu (Oriental barbecue), and Lius picked red menu (Indonesian barbecue). The other advantage, Melitta can pick the member of her team, she picked Mimi, Angella, Revaldi, Tya, Melati, and Maichel. Nurul picked Denty, Kevin, William, Rissa, Gilang, Nino and Gio for her team, and finally Lius picked Rani, Ray, Patty, Setiyono, Brian, and Yogi. The rules is the 1 team who collect most helmet from the fireman will win. After the voting time is over, it resulted that red team had least vote, and blue team had 2nd most/least vote, so the yellow team won with most votes, so the member of yellow team who won get the advantage and reward for the next challenge, and the rest of the contestant will compete on the next challenge.
- One Core Ingredient 1 - After losing previous the first outside challenge of this season, red & blue team must compete again, which is one core ingredient. There are 4 one core ingredient, they are Jalapeno, dried chilli, cabai kotokon and cabai hiyung, each yellow team member can pick 2 contestants who will cook each chilli. The contestants who will cook Jalapeno are Lilian (picked by Nurul), Setiyono (picked by Nino), Michael (picked by Denty) and Angella (picked by Gilang). The contestants who will cook dried chilli are Patty (picked by Nurul), Revaldi (picked by Rissa), Rani (picked by William), and Ratna (picked by Gilang). The contestants who will cook cabai kotokon are Mimi (picked by Denty), Yogi (picked by Gio), Ray (picked by Gio) and Brian (picked by Nino). The contestants who will cook cabai hiyung are Melitta (picked by Rissa), Tya (picked by Kevin), Melati (picked by Kevin) and Lius (picked by William). After sampling, the judges called Angella's Jalapeno Chicken Woku and Setiyono's Jalapeno Roll from Jalapeno. Then, called Revaldi's Dried Chilli Dumpling & Patty's Pasta Seafood Oriental from dried chilli. The judges did not taste any chilli on Patty's dish. For cabai kotokon, the judges called Mimi's Spicy & Sour Seafood Soup and Ray's Tempura with Chili Sauce. The judges felt that the pineapples on Mimi's soup were more dominant, and didn't feel that the chili on Ray's dish was the core ingredient, and finally for cabai hiyung, the judges picked Lius' Noodle Yellow Stir Fry and Melitta's Seafood Risotto. Then, the judges revealed that Lius, Patty, Ray and Setiyono were going to pressure test, and Angella is the winner of this challenge.
- Pressure Test 4 - The challenge is making Crepes with Mix Berry Flambe & Mascarpone. Then, Chef Degan demonstrated how to do flambe. The contestants had to make the crepes first, then do the flambe in front the judges, they can only make one shot. The judges gave contestants 30 minutes to make the crepes. After all the contestants had done making the crepes, the judges called the contestants to do the flambe. The first is Lius, he failed to do the flambe, which made all the contestants who watched and Chef Marinka worry about his position on this position. The next person to do the flambe is Ray, she succeed with the flambe, and had made the great taste on her dish too, so did Patty, and the final person, Setiyono failed to make the flambe too. The result is two contestants who failed to make the flambe, Setiyono and Lius were eliminated. Many contestants cried when they heard Lius, who had inspired many people was eliminated
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| 7/04-2 |
26 May 2013 |
Top 22
- Mystery Box 2/Duplication Test 3 - The episode began with the yellow team who won the outside challenge and Angella who won the one core ingredient challenge arrived at The Cook Shop, Chef Arnold's restaurant, as the reward, they would have dinner on that restaurant. The foods were demonstrated by the owner, Chef Arnold, after he had done demonstrated it, they all had dinner with Chef Marinka and Chef Degan. Back to the gallery, all the contestants faced the mystery box. Some of the contestants (Yellow team member & Angella) got the empty plate, and the rest of them didn't get anything. The challenge is duplicate Chef Arnold's main course dish, which is Pan Roasted Beef Tenderloin, Caramelized Onion, Pan Seared Fols Gros, Mashed Potato & Roasted Tomato Cherry, but the judges did not give them the recipe. So, they must use their own memory when Chef Arnold demonstrated it. After sampling, the judges only called the best 3 of them to taste their food. The 3 best are Gilang, Nino and William, but the winner is Nino.
- Taste Test 1 - As the winner of the previous challenge, Nino had an advantage to pick one of those food which are Mediterranean Soup, Thai Coconut Soup and Sup Kuah Kuning to be tasted. Nino picked Mediterranean Soup for this challenge. The contestants had to write the ingredients that they think are on that soup, the contestants had 2 minutes to taste that soup. The right ingredients that the contestants have written will be the ingredients that the contestants will cook for the next challenge, which is Invention Test. Ray and Tya had the least ingredients, which are only 3 ingredients, while Mimi and Melitta had the most ingredients which are 10 and 11 ingredients.
- Invention Test 1 - The contestants had 60 minutes to cook ingredients they have guessed. After the cooking time was over, the judges did sampling, they only called 6 contestant who represented the good and bad dish. The first dish to be tasted is Ray with Semur Ceplok Telur, the judges said that the flavour is tasty. The next contestant is Melati with Baked Snapper with Tomato Muscle Sauce, the problem with that dish was the cabbage garnish, who overkilled the sauce. The next contestant is Nino with his restaurant standard dish Seafood with Tomato Concase. The next contestant is Tya with her Scallop Crepe with Tomato Salsa, the judges commented that there is no taste on that food. The next food is Lilian's Snapper Ekado with Tomato Sauce. The last contestant who the food had to be tasted is William's Pan Seared Scallop with Two Ways of Scrambled Eggs, Baked Egg with Tomatoes & Crispy Fries, which is the dish that Chef Degan knows where the invention thing on that dish. The winner of this challenge will get the Right Hand Pin, that can be used for asking contestants' help on the Pressure Test, and the winner is William, while Tya, Lilian and Melati were going to the Pressure Test
- Pressure Test 5 - The challenge is duplicate Pan Seared Bread and Raisin Stuff Chicken on a Caramelized Onion Puree Wilted Brussel Sprout and Sauteed Potato. After have done cooking, the judges will taste all of their food. The first to be tasted is Tya's dish. Her sauce is more acidic than the example. The second is Melati's, she was praised by her great presentation. The last is Lilian. She was criticized with the presentation and the cut of her chicken. After tasting, Tya was saved first by the judges, and the final decision was Melati was eliminated, which surprised Lilian. The judges told them that Lilian dish' tasted better, than Melati only had the good presentation.
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| Week 5 |
| 8/05-1 |
1 June 2013 |
Top 21
- Mystery Box 3 - The box is filled with a few ingredients to make an Indonesian dish. After the contestants had done cooking, the judges did sampling. Before they called the Top 3 of that challenge. The judges commented a few dish who disappointed them, they are Lilian, Nino, William, Gio, Kevin and Revaldi. Luckily, the next challenge is not Elimination Challenge, so they were safe. After showing their disappointment, the judges called the Top 3. The first to be called was Denty. She served Kerapu Goreng dengan Bumbu Acar Kuning. The judges praised everything about her dish, her rice surprised Chef Arnold, who felt that the rice was similar to his grandma's. The second to be called was Rissa. She served Pindang Ikan Goreng Bumbu Bakar, that impressed the judges again. The final person to be called was Angella, who usually impressed the judges with her Indonesian dish. She served Singkong Santan Kerapu Bakar Rica. Finally, Angella was declared as the winner with her traditional food.
- Duplication Test 3 - As the winner of previous challenge, Angella's advantages are she won't compete for the next challenge and she will divide the contestants to 5 group, which one dish is cooked by 4 contestants. The first dish is from Asia (India), the dish is Murg Makhani with Naan. Angella put William, Nino, Maichel and Kevin on that group. The second dish is from American (Mexico), the dish is Beef Quesadillas, Salsa, Guacamole, Sour Cream. Angella put Brian, Yogi, Rani and Nurul on that group. The third dish is from Afrika (Morocco), which is Spicy Beef Meatball with Herb Cous-Cous. Angella put Tya, Gilang, Ratna and Patty on that group. The fourth dish is from Western Europe (England), which is Shepards Pie. Angella put Rissa, Denty, Mimi and Lilian. The fifth dish is from Southern Europe, which is Peas Risotto. Angella put Melitta, Revaldi, Gio, and Ray on that group. After the cooking time is up, the judges did sampling. They called Michael, Kevin and William for the first dish. The judges called Gio, Nurul, and Brian for the second dish. They called Gilang, Patty and Ratna for the third dish. They called Rissa, Lilian and Mimi for the fourth dish. The judges called Melitta, Gio, and Revaldi for the fifth dish. After discussing who will be going to the pressure test, they declared that Lilian, Patty, Kevin, Gio and Yogi were the worst from their each category and going to the pressure test, and Michael won the challenge.
- Pressure Test 6 - The challenge is duplicate Pumpkin Pie. Lilian had a problem at the last second. Her pie was burnt. After done cooking, the judges tasted all the contestants food. Before the judges tasted the food, the contestants must give the icing to that pie. Kevin looked sweating when he gave that pie, which made Chef Marinka mad about that. The judges praised Yogi and Gio's pumpkin pie, and they were safe. Then the judges declared that Lilian and Patty were eliminated.
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| 9/05-2 |
2 June 2013 |
Top 19 |
| Week 6 |
| 10/06-1 |
8 June 2013 |
Top 17
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| 11/06-2 |
9 June 2013 |
Top 16
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| Week 7 |
| 12/07-1 |
15 June 2013 |
Top 15
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| 13/07-2 |
16 June 2013 |
Top 14 |
| Week 8 |
| 14/08-1 |
22 June 2013 |
Top 12
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| 15/08-2 |
23 June 2013 |
Special Grey Team |
| Week 9 |
| 16/09-1 |
29 June 2013 |
Top 10 + Black Team (part 1)
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| 17/09-2 |
30 June 2013 |
Top 10 + Black Team (part 2) |
| Week 10 |
| 18/10-1 |
6 July 2013 |
Top 10 + Black Team (part 3)
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| 19/10-2 |
7 July 2013 |
Top 10 + Black Team (part 4) |
| Week 11 |
| 20/11-1 |
13 July 2013 |
Top 10 + Black Team (part 5)
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| 21/11-2 |
14 July 2013 |
The Real Top 10 |
| Week 12 |
| 22/12-1 |
20 July 2013 |
Top 9
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| 23/12-2 |
21 July 2013 |
Top 8
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| Week 13 |
| 24/13-1 |
27 July 2013 |
Top 7
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| 25/13-2 |
28 July 2013 |
Top 6 |
| Week 14 |
| 26/14-1 |
3 August 2013 |
Top 5
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| 27/14-2 |
4 August 2013 |
Top 4
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| Week 15 |
| 28/15-1 |
10 August 2013 |
Top 3
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| 29/15-2 |
11 August 2013 |
Road To Final |
| Week 16 |
| 30/16-1 |
17 August 2013 |
Grand Finale
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