MasterChef: The Professionals: Season 5
Season 5 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: The Professionals Season 4.
- 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 5 Progress Shield
Episode 1
Nov 5, 2012 · 30 min
Ten chefs from kitchens all over Britain begin this year's competition. The chefs must make one dish using a selection of just seven ingredients.
Episode 2
Nov 6, 2012 · 30 min
Five of the ten chefs return to face Monica and Gregg in a skills test before the judges decide who will be eliminated.
Episode 3
Nov 7, 2012 · 30 min
Each chef has to make honeycomb and then mould it into three different dessert decorations, with only 15 minutes to show off their skill.
Episode 4
Nov 8, 2012 · 30 min
The six best chefs from this week's heats return for this week's quarter final. First they must prove to Michel and Gregg they have what it takes with a dish of their own invention
Episode 5
Nov 12, 2012 · 30 min
In this heat, ten chefs plucked from kitchens across Britain arrive at the Masterchef kitchen to face the first of two tests. They must prove to Monica and Gregg that they have ski
Episode 6
Nov 13, 2012 · 30 min
Five of the ten chefs from the previous heat face Monica and Gregg in a skills test. Only the best four chefs will get through to cook for Michel Roux Jr.
Episode 7
Nov 14, 2012 · 30 min
The five chefs from the first heat face Monica and Gregg in a skills test; the best four then meet Michel Roux who demonstrates how to prepare foie de lotte, monkfish liver three w
Episode 8
Nov 15, 2012 · 30 min
8/24 The best four chefs showcase their skill to the UK's hardest to please restaurant critics.
Episode 9
Nov 19, 2012 · 30 min
Ten chefs are challenged to create a dish from a selection of seven ingredients.
Episode 10
Nov 20, 2012 · 30 min
To begin, the remaining four chefs are challenged to prepare three different sauces.
Episode 11
Nov 21, 2012 · 30 min
The remaining five chefs from the last heat are challenged to prepare a beef kidney.
Episode 12
Nov 22, 2012 · 30 min
The week's five best chefs must create a dish of their own invention.
Episode 13
Nov 26, 2012 · 30 min
In this heat, ten chefs face their first test, to create a dish from a selection of beef mince, wild mushrooms, aubergine, red wine, pears, brioche and almonds.
Episode 14
Nov 27, 2012 · 30 min
The remaining five chefs are challenged to make a crepe soufflé.
Episode 15
Nov 28, 2012 · 30 min
The remaining five chefs face a skills test to prepare and serve sea urchin.
Episode 16
Nov 29, 2012 · 30 min
The week's six best chefs must create a dish of their own invention.
Episode 17
Dec 3, 2012 · 30 min
Hoping to progress to the last six, the chefs make a show-stopping dish for the judges.
Episode 18
Dec 4, 2012 · 30 min
The first pair of semi-finalists go head to head as they face three grueling challenges.
Episode 19
Dec 5, 2012 · 30 min
The second pair of semi-finalists go head to head in service at Midsummer House with double Michelin starred Daniel Clifford who has run the restaurant for 15 years. They must meet
Episode 20
Dec 6, 2012 · 30 min
The last pair of semi-finalists go head to head in service at the UK's only two Michelin starred pub, The Hand and Flowers in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, as they fight for a place in
Episode 21
Dec 10, 2012 · 30 min
Michel Roux Jr and Masterchef Judge Gregg Wallace are on the hunt for an ambitious talented chef who wants to make it to the top of the culinary world. After five weeks of competin
Episode 22
Dec 11, 2012 · 30 min
The three chefs cook a three course menu for one, two, and three-Michelin-starred chefs including culinary godfathers, Anton Mosimann and Michel Roux.
Episode 23
Dec 12, 2012 · 30 min
The three finalists compete at the one restaurant which has been more influential to its generation than any other in the world - Heston Blumenthal's.
Episode 24
Dec 13, 2012 · 30 min
It's the final of professional MasterChef and there is just one challenge left.