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S9 E3 · Big Box Showdown
MasterChef Canada is a reality TV series that premiered on CTV on January 20, 2014. It has 9 seasons and 107 episodes so far and is still airing new episodes. The latest episode, Season 9 Episode 3 "Big Box Showdown", aired on October 6, 2026.
The ultimate culinary competition offers home cooks a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to demonstrate their skill and passion, as they compete for $100,000 and the title of Canada’s next MasterChef.
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107 episodes · 9 seasons
2014 · 15 episodes · Last episode: 12 years ago
The final two compete in a three-course battle for the grand prize and the title of MasterChef.
The cooks use judge Joe Bastianich's favourite ingredient in the hopes of moving on to the finale.
The cooks prepare a family reunion dinner and in the pressure test, they face the most difficult challenge yet.
The cooks take over one of the judges' restaurants and the losers face a pressure test.
The remaining cooks duel with a tank of lobsters in a tag-team challenge with the winner receiving two advantages.
The cooks compete in a team challenge at Toronto City Hall and the losers face a challenging Pressure Test.
The contestants get creative with leftovers; upscale versions of common bake sale items.
The top 10 cooks face off at Canadian Forces Base Trenton and the losing team goes to war.
A Mystery Box Challenge takes the contestants back to their roots; an Alberta Beef challenge.
The cooks must cater an exclusive art gallery event, and the losers bake to save their lives.
A mystery box challenge with Canadian ingredients and beer.
The teams prepare lunch for the Toronto Maple Leafs; a contestant is sent home after a challenging pasta dish.
The first Mystery Box Challenge gives the winner an advantage in the Elimination Challenge.
Auditions for the Top 50 home cooks reach a dramatic conclusion as the final aprons are handed out. The cooks enter their first challenge, a Stress Test, where they must prepare a stunning chicken dish with very limited access to equipment. After a dramatic round of tasting, the judges choose the final group of home cooks moving forward to the MasterChef Canada kitchen.
Out of thousands of applicants, 50 Canadian home cooks are chosen to present dishes for the judges.
2015 · 15 episodes · Last episode: 11 years ago
The final two cooks compete for the title of MasterChef Canada.
The cooks compete in an off-site challenge and a chocolate dessert Pressure Test.
The cooks compete in an emotional Mystery Box and a strategic Elimination Challenge.
The cooks face the restaurant takeover; a comfort food dish challenge.
The remaining cooks face a cook-along challenge; an afternoon tea tag-team challenge.
Three eliminated cooks try to get back in the competition; one cook is sent home.
The home cooks are surprised with a mystery box; one cook is sent home.
The cooks cater a wedding and the losing team competes in a pastry challenge that sends at least one cook home.
The cooks are faced with a birthday cake mystery box; the cooks combine odd ingredients in the elimination challenge.
The home cooks prepare meals for students; a fresh pasta Pressure Test.
The remaining home cooks face an Italian-influenced Mystery Box Challenge; a season one winner Eric Chong-inspired elimination.
In the first team challenge, the cooks prepare lunch for the Cirque du Soleil cast and crew.
The cooks face their first mystery-box challenge; the winner will choose an Asian dish for the other cooks to make.
The remaining cooks fight to keep their white aprons and their dreams alive.
The final home cooks audition for a spot in the kitchen.
2016 · 15 episodes · Last episode: 10 years ago
The two finalists compete in a three-course challenge to determine the winner of the competition.
The three remaining cooks battle for a spot in the finale by preparing a meal for some of Canada's most influential chefs using Canadian ingredients.
The top four cooks reunite with their families and then shop for a meal.
Following a Mystery Box Challenge inspired by judge Michael Bonacini's techniques, the cooks create cocktail-inspired sweet and savoury dishes.
The cooks compete in a team challenge at Alvin's Chinatown restaurant. An elimination challenge pits the losing team against each other in a tough baking task.
Astronaut Chris Hatfield inspires the cooks for a Mystery Box Challenge.
The remaining eight cooks take on intimidating nursery rhyme-inspired ingredients.
The remaining cooks compete in teams for a gourmet sausage challenge in celebration of Oktoberfest.
A Mystery Box Challenge has the cooks baking from the heart.
The teams use a fashion collection as inspiration for a fancy lunch; a surf and turf test sends one cook home.
A Mystery Box Challenge requires the cooks to work together and the winners give the assignments in the pantry challenge.
In the first team challenge, the remaining cooks honour firefighting heroes in a rib cook-off.
The cooks face their first Mystery Box Challenge and the winner selects one of three international cuisines and some cooks get lost in translation.
Eighteen home cooks get a second chance, competing in two culinary challenges.
Forty home cooks from across the country compete for a spot in the Top 14.
2017 · 12 episodes · Last episode: 9 years ago
The final two cooks face off in a three course battle in the hope of becoming the next "Masterchef Canada"
The final elimination challenge will determine who makes it to the finale, as the home cooks create a dish using one luxury ingredient.
The final four cooks split into teams to create elegant family dinners for their loved ones; the members of the losing team face a dessert test.
The Top 5 emulate the judges favourite cooking techniques while creating unique salmon dishes.
Two teams face off in a special restaurant takeover to celebrate the 30th anniversary of judge Michael Bonacini's iconic Auberge du Pommier, an Oliver & Bonacini restaurant.
The Top 7 compete in an egg battle – working their way through a series of challenges that get progressively more difficult.
Chef Jamie Oliver challenges the cooks to create an appetizer for his new chain of Canadian restaurants.
The remaining home cooks are divided into three teams and are challenged to create gourmet burgers and fries for hungry motorcyclists.
The top 10 cooks are blindfolded while working in pairs in honour of Canada's upcoming 150th birthday.
In the first team challenge, the cooks prepare a meal for 105 new Canadians.
The top 16 cooks face off in a team challenge, which involves cooking lunch for first responders; two cooks from the losing team get eliminated.
Twenty-four home cooks compete to earn an apron and a spot in the top 12.
2018 · 12 episodes · Last episode: 8 years ago
The Top 2 home cooks vie for the title of “MasterChef Canada” Season 5 and the reward of $100,000 in prize money to launch their culinary dreams.
The remaining three cooks face the first ever Pop-Up Restaurant Challenge.
The pressure intensifies as former MasterChef Canada winners drop by for a surprise visit.
The Top 6 home cooks face a super-charged Restaurant Takeover Team Challenge with the losing team facing an Elimination Challenge.
The home cooks are presented with a massive Mystery Box Challenge and must prepare a diner dish inspired by the cast of Corner Gas Animated.
Eight MasterChef Canada home cooks – the remaining seven plus the home cook that emerges as the Redemption winner – gather for an off-site Team Challenge in Kleinburg, Ont., at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, home to the iconic Group of Seven. The teams are tasked with preparing a tasting menu for seven esteemed recipients of the Order of Canada, including Marc Kielburger, co-founder of international youth charity Free The Children; and renowned Canadian television icon, CTV News Special Correspondent Lloyd Robertson. After consulting the distinguished dinner guests, the MasterChef Canada Judges determine the winning team. The losing home cooks face a Pressure Test, and potential elimination.
The remaining top 8 home cooks face an intense series of three consecutive French-inspired pressure tests that will reveal their strengths, skills and weaknesses.
A Team Challenge finds the home cooks tasked with making donuts for dog owners who frequent an off-leash dog park in Toronto. The losing team must face a Pressure Test, resulting in at least one home cook being eliminated.
The top 10 are given a mere 30 minutes to tackle a mystery box and must create an original recipe featuring fresh ingredients. Then, a fungi-inspired elimination challenge puts an end to one home cook's food dream.
The home cooks face their first team challenge as they prepare a hearty meal for 101 hungry Habitat for Humanity volunteers.
The top 12 face their first Mystery Box Challenge and a budget-inspired elimination challenge sends one of the home cooks packing.
Home cooks from across the country audition for a spot in the top 12.
2019 · 12 episodes · Last episode: 7 years ago
In a three-hour, three-course showdown the two remaining chefs face off for the title of MasterChef Canada.
In a fiery Mystery Box challenge, the top three chefs compete for a spot in the finale.
The Top 4 home cooks travel to the Canadian Canoe Museum for a team challenge, and Indigenous guest chefs join the judges in tasting the teams' menus. Then, the losing team fights it out in the most challenging Pressure Test to date.
The home cooks are presented with a giant Mystery Box offering up a taste of home. Then, the Elimination Challenge causes the cooks to take a chance on tropical flavors when they spin a wheel to determine the fate of their dish.
Matt Sinclair mentors the Immunity cook which uses only equipment from a typical office kitchen. Best dish enters Round 2, where they will compete against culinary legend Donovan Cooke.
Home cooks put their knife skills to the test through a series of challenges.
The home cooks learn whether taking a risk is worth the reward, and at least one is eliminated after cooking with extravagant Asian ingredients.
The home cooks go back to school to compete in the biggest Team Challenge in MasterChef Canada history.
This week’s Mystery Box presents a blast from the past and at least one home cook’s journey comes to a spicy end.
The remaining home cooks face their first Team Challenge as they prepare a Caribbean meal for 121 wedding guests.
The home cooks face their first Mystery Box Challenge, and a meaty Elimination Challenge puts some of them in jeopardy.
The judges personally invite 18 of Canada's best home cooks to audition for a white apron and a chance at winning the 'MasterChef Canada' title.
2021 · 12 episodes · Last episode: 5 years ago
The finalists vie for the title of season 7's MasterChef Canada and the biggest prize ever awarded to the winner.
The remaining competitors face a three-round skills test, and one final cook to determine who will earn a spot in the finale.
This week the judges ask the competitors to pursue the sweet smell of victory with legendary desserts.
The top competitors are tasked with preparing food for a high-end dinner party for eight culinary insiders
The remaining competitors partner up for a classic tag-team challenge, filled with complex seafood dishes.
The remaining competitors receive a Mystery Box challenge based on the foods of the future with a special surprise twist.
The top cooks compete in a new culinary-themed game show, 'Kitchenary,' then face an Elimination Challenge based on their answers.
The competitors face a Mystery Box challenge to bring a modern, plant-based twist to classic comfort dishes.
The competitors face a Pressure Test with more than one surprise twist, and a special guest
The remaining competitors face their first Team Challenge as they prepare takeout orders for at-home diners.
The remaining competitors take on the artful cuisine of Japan throughout three grueling rounds of challenges.
Twelve of the best former competitors from previous seasons are back to win for a second chance at the life changing title.
2025 · 11 episodes · Last episode: 10 months ago
Three finalists have three hours to plate their dream three-course menus but only one will claim the MasterChef Canada title and prize.
The semi-finalists vie to go viral and are faced with an egg-ceptionally technical pressure test.
It's sink or swim for the final five who must craft two dishes - one raw and one cooked - using their freshly filleted fish.
In a secret showdown, the home cooks reimagine a series of takeout favourites, and a doughnut Pressure Test awaits those who don't deliver.
In the series' 100th episode, the Top Seven must bake it to the top with show-stopping cakes; one home cook wins big, while another goes home.
The Top 8 pair up for a Tag Team Challenge to prepare classic Italian dishes, tagging in and out under pressure.
Its time vs. ingredients as the Top 9 home cooks race for chicken cuts in a high stakes challenge where only one can rule the roost.
The Top 10 join forces for a team challenge that has them serving family-friendly, plant-based plates in the MasterChef Canada restaurant.
In their first Innovation Challenge, the home cooks must reimagine a pantry staple, and Mary Berg dons her apron for a hands-on demo.
Mystery box mayhem erupts as the Top 12 take on Canadian classics and surprise flavour combos for a powerful advantage.
The heat is on as 15 home cooks enter the kitchen, but only 12 will move forward.
2026 · 3 episodes · Last episode: 1 month ago
E1
Battle lines are drawn as 16 home cooks face two daunting challenges in a quest to claim one of only 12 White Aprons.
Mary Berg
Eric Chong
David Jorge
Trevor Connie
Christopher Siu
Jamie Oliver
Brent Butt
Tara Spencer-Nairn
Lorne Cardinal
Nancy Robertson
Tessa Virtue
Joe Bastianich
Graham Elliot
Chris Hadfield
Hekate
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The most recent episode of MasterChef Canada, Season 9 Episode 3 "Big Box Showdown", aired on October 6, 2026.
MasterChef Canada has 9 seasons with 107 episodes in total.
MasterChef Canada first aired on CTV on January 20, 2014.
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