MasterChef: Series 4
Season 4 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of MasterChef Season 3.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 4 Progress Shield
Episode 1
Jan 7, 2008 · 30 min
Restaurateur John Torode and fruit and veg man Gregg Wallace look for the country's next masterchef. The contestants have been picked from hundreds of applicants and will face thre
Episode 2
Jan 8, 2008 · 30 min
Restaurateur John Torode and fruit and veg man Gregg Wallace look for the country's next masterchef. The contestants will face three tests. First, they will invent a dish from scra
Episode 3
Jan 9, 2008 · 30 min
Restaurateur John Torode and radio presenter Gregg Wallace host as six new contestants are put through gruelling culinary challenges
Episode 4
Jan 10, 2008 · 60 min
Six more contestants will face heats and one will go through to the quarter-finals.
Episode 6
Jan 15, 2008 · 30 min
Restaurateur John Torode and radio presenter Gregg Wallace host as six new contestants are put through gruelling culinary challenges
Episode 7
Jan 16, 2008 · 30 min
Restaurateur John Torode and radio presenter Gregg Wallace host as six new contestants are put through gruelling culinary challenges
Episode 8
Jan 17, 2008 · 60 min
Three contestants have to survive the heat of a professional kitchen. Today they are cooking at The Royal Automobile Club. Can they keep their cool and stand the pace of this frant
Episode 9
Jan 21, 2008 · 30 min
The three contestants who have shown the most potential will have to survive the heat of a professional kitchen. The three remaining contestants have to cook at the Derrion Farrell
Episode 10
Jan 22, 2008 · 30 min
The three contestants who have shown the most potential will have to survive the heat of a professional kitchen. This time, they are cooking at the Automat in London
Episode 11
Jan 23, 2008 · 30 min
The three contestants who have shown the most potential will be thrown into the kitchens of the Kazan restaurant.
Episode 12
Jan 24, 2008 · 60 min
In this hour long episode, another finalist will be chosen. The week's four finalists will then compete for a place in the semi finals.
Episode 13
Jan 28, 2008 · 30 min
The three contestants who have shown the most potential will be thrown into the kitchens of the Le Pont de la Tour
Episode 14
Jan 29, 2008 · 30 min
The three contestants who have shown the most potential will be thrown into the kitchens of the Gilgamesh restaurant.
Episode 15
Jan 30, 2008 · 30 min
The three contestants who have shown the most potential will be thrown into the kitchens of Mosimann's restaurant.
Episode 16
Jan 31, 2008 · 60 min
In this hour long episode, another finalist will be chosen. The week's four finalists will then compete for a place in the semi finals.
Episode 20
Feb 7, 2008 · 60 min
In an hour long episode, a finalist will be chosen. They will then battle the week's other three winners to create the best two course meal.
Episode 21
Feb 11, 2008 · 30 min
Three previous contestants return for another shot at the title. But they've been here before, so this time things are tougher: they have to survive an 18-hour shift in a professio
Episode 22
Feb 12, 2008 · 30 min
Three previous contestants return for another shot at the title. But they've been here before, so this time things are tougher: they have to survive an 18-hour shift in a professio
Episode 23
Feb 13, 2008 · 30 min
Three previous contestants return for another shot at the title. But they've been here before, so this time things are tougher: they have to survive an 18-hour shift in a professio
Episode 24
Feb 14, 2008 · 60 min
Three previous contestants return for another shot at the title. But they ve been here before, so this time things are tougher: they have to survive an 18-hour shift in a professio
Episode 25
Feb 18, 2008 · 30 min
It’s the first semi final and six hopefuls are back. Two will be sent home. The contestants are challenged to create a dish using chicken.
Episode 26
Feb 19, 2008 · 30 min
The four finalists are sent to Luton and Dunstable Hospital canteen where they have to cater for 400 hungry doctors and nurses. Can they work as a team?
Episode 27
Feb 20, 2008 · 30 min
The four finalists have to prepare a dinner party for the Man Booker Prize judges at Charles Dickens's house.
Episode 28
Feb 21, 2008 · 60 min
The four finalists are sent to four different restaurants to cook a two-course meal for three of the country's toughest critics. Only three of them will survive.
Episode 29
Feb 25, 2008 · 30 min
Final week. The three finalists go to Rochdale to cater for the cast and crew of the BBC's drama Waterloo Road.
Episode 30
Feb 26, 2008 · 30 min
Final Week. The three finalists are flown to the Belizean jungle to cater for the British Army. They will then cater a dinner party.
Episode 31
Feb 27, 2008 · 60 min
Final Week. First, the finalists cater a luxury wedding for 120 at Blenheim Palace. Next, they return to London and at the Dorchester hotel cook a three course meal for seven chefs
Episode 32
Feb 28, 2008 · 60 min
The three finalists cook a meal in the studio and go to France to work in a kitchen. It's been on a gentle simmer for the past six weeks, now it reaches boiling point: 132 contesta