Original title
MasterChef Italia
Released
9/21/2011
Origin country
IT
Genre
Reality
Production companies
Sky, Magnolia TV, Endemol
Status
Returning series
Number of seasons
14
Number of episodes
334
Italian adaptation of the MasterChef format. The show features a series of challenges in which contestants must demonstrate their culinary skills. These include knowledge of edible products, exceptional creativity, and mastery of various cooking techniques and recipes. Additionally, contestants are expected to show adaptability in different situations, game strategy, and human charisma.
Milan, "Arch of Peace". This is the location chosen for the first off-site team challenge. The sixteen contestants test themselves with traditional Milanese dishes and will be judged by very discerning guests.
The fifteen contestants will face a hot Mystery Box and then a game-based Invention Test.
Landed in Sardinia, the thirteen amateur cooks have to satisfy very picky clients. The losing team will face the feared Pressure Test.
Our amateur cooks are testing themselves with a Mystery Box full of ingredients from the sea and the mountains. The Invention Test is entirely devoted to pastry. Special Guest, the Master Confectioner Iginio Massari.
The "Barlassina Country Club" (one of the oldest and most exclusive clubs in Italy) is the location of the off-site team challenge. Later, members of the losing team face off in an elimination challenge that requires them to prepare the best pesto sauce.
The eleven aspiring chefs return to the MasterChef kitchen. A coffee-themed Mistery Box is waiting for them, a fish-based Invention Test and...
The ten contestants left travel back to the Middle Ages. Using only Medieval cooking equipment, the two teams have to cook a perfect royal banquet. Later, the losing team face off in the Pressure Test.
In today's Mystery Box challenge, the amateur cooks have to steal an ingredient from another contestant. The famous chef Valentino Marcattilii is the guest of the haute-cuisine themed Invention Test.
The eight remaining home cooks are brought to Ceglie Messapica to measure themselves with Puglia's culinary traditions.
Many surprises in this week Mystery Box: a different cooking technique for each contestant and the ingredients' boxes swap. Star of the invention test: the veal kidneys.
The Sass Pordoi is the high altitude location of the off-site team challenge. Then, the losing team have to deal with a hard Pressure Test and a final Shoot-out.
The hopefuls cook pigeons. Then they compete in the Invention Test.
The five remaining contestants cook at Portofino's marina. Then, in the Pressure Test, they have to make the best Olivier salad to avoid the Final Duel.
In their first challenge of the day, the remaining chefs are asked to make a dish with mussels. Later, Lidia Bastianich, Joe's mum, visits the MasterChef kitchen, and puts the contestants' cooking skills to the test.
L’ultima prova in esterna nel resort dello chef pluristellato Alain Ducas, un Pressure Test “sbagliato” e un Duello riparatore. Last off-site challenge takes place in Alain Ducas' resort.
In the last Mistery Box, the three remaining hopefuls are tasked with creating a dish with foie gras.
In their final challenge in the kitchen, the two home cooks will conceptualize and prepare the most important three-course meal of their lives. Later, the judges will reveal Italy's next Masterchef, and the deserving home cook will walk away with a book deal and the 100.000 € grand prize. Find out whose culinary dreams will turn into a reality.
We return to 3 judges: Barbieri, Cannavacciuolo and Locatelli. The season started in December 2019. Cooking talent show has now become exciting.
The unmissable December tradition returns. Judges Bruno Barbieri, Antonino Cannavacciuolo, and Giorgio Locatelli in the new season of MasterChef Italia. Starting December 12, exclusively on Sky.
The new season of MasterChef is about to begin. Judges Cannavacciuolo, Barbieri, and Locatelli are ready to discover who will become the fourteenth Italian MasterChef.
The Live Cooking continues with emotions, cooking, and laughter: who will manage to impress our judges? Who has the right qualities to handle the tough life in MasterChef?
The Live Cooking sessions to enter the MasterClass continue! Those who received the grey apron must step up and try to pass the dreaded Blind Test.
The grey aprons will face off in front of the judge they failed to impress during the auditions: they will have only 15 minutes to win the challenge and secure the white apron.
In the MasterChef kitchen, the aspiring chefs are ready to tackle the first real Mystery Box, and the winner will receive the first Golden Pin of this season.
In the first outdoor challenge at the Casoni of Marano Lagunare, in the heart of Friuli Venezia Giulia, the aspiring chefs will cook for 25 diners, including fishermen and their families.
The aspiring chefs face the first Red Mystery Box: the worst performers will face the Pressure Test, trying not to lose their spot to the "pirates" Sara and Pino.
The MasterChef kitchen arrives at the Terme di Boario for an outdoor challenge dedicated to love. The aspiring chefs will cook for 15 couples celebrating their golden wedding anniversaries.
Aspiring chefs tackle the first Golden Mystery Box, and the best in the challenge will earn immunity from the Invention Test.
The first Skill Test will be a tribute to chef Gualtiero Marchesi with two of his former students: chef Andrea Berton and chef Davide Oldani.
A "green" Mystery Box awaits the aspiring chefs, who will have to create an exclusively vegetarian dish using only 15 minutes of electrical energy.
Special guest of the Skill Test is Peruvian chef Pia Leon, who will test the contestants with ingredients typical of her homeland.
In the Golden Mystery Box challenge, the contestants will face the dreaded judgments of two anticipated guests, Iginio Massari and his daughter Deborah.
The contestants face off in an External Challenge in Pontremoli, where the teams will cook on "testi," cast iron plates typical of the local tradition. The losing team will face the Pressure Test.
The aspiring chefs are ready to face an exceptional outdoor challenge at Villa Crespi, the Michelin-starred restaurant of Chef Antonino Cannavacciuolo.
The contestants face a new daunting Red Mystery Box: at stake is the last Golden Pin of the season, and those who fail will go to the Pressure Test.
The contestants will find headphones in the Mystery Box and listen to a podcast about 'gastronomic crimes' that will inspire the challenge. Guest: Pablo Trincia.
The aspiring chefs are ready to compete in a new outdoor challenge in Rovereto. The losers will have to face the Pressure Test with renowned chef Jacopo Ticchi.
After the adolescence-inspired Mystery Box, the contestants will face an unconventional and cutting-edge Invention Test with Chef Rasmus Munk.
The special guest of the Skill Test is the multi-Michelin-starred French chef Hélène Darroze, who will challenge the contestants with ingredients typical of her tradition.
In the Mystery Box, the aspiring chefs will have to put themselves to the test with many ingredients chosen by two former contestants from the last edition: Eleonora and Niccolò.
The contestants face the final External challenge at "Quattro Passi," a three-Michelin-star restaurant in Nerano, replicating the iconic dishes from the menu.
An iconic dish by Chef Mauro Colagreco will inspire the Mystery Box and determine the first finalist. After the Invention Test, one contestant will have to abandon the dream of the finale.
The journey in MasterChef is coming to an end, and only one will be crowned the winner, winning over the judges with their menu.
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