MasterChef: The Professionals: Season 8
Season 8 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 7.
- 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 8 Progress Shield
Episode 1
Nov 10, 2015 · 30 min
In this heat, chefs are challenged to make a classic French dessert and a blue steak.
Episode 2
Nov 11, 2015 · 30 min
In this heat, skills tests feature an omelette Arnold Bennett and filled brandy snaps.
Episode 3
Nov 12, 2015 · 30 min
The first quarter-final challenge is to create a dish from a selection of ten ingredients.
Episode 4
Nov 17, 2015 · 30 min
In the skills test, the chefs make a buck rarebit and joint a rabbit.
Episode 5
Nov 18, 2015 · 30 min
Three chefs prepare scallops in different ways: in a mousse, sauteed and as a tartare.
Episode 6
Nov 19, 2015 · 30 min
The chefs cook for some of the country's most discerning restaurant critics.
Episode 7
Nov 24, 2015 · 30 min
The chefs must fillet a sea bream and make the perfect watercress soup in the skills test.
Episode 8
Nov 25, 2015 · 30 min
Monica tests the chefs' butchery skills when she asks them to debone a pig's trotter.
Episode 9
Nov 26, 2015 · 30 min
The chefs' pastry skills are tested in the quarter-final round.
Episode 10
Dec 1, 2015 · 30 min
The last week of the heats kicks off with six new chefs.
Episode 11
Dec 2, 2015 · 30 min
The chefs prepare langoustines and cook high-end burgers in the final heat.
Episode 12
Dec 3, 2015 · 30 min
The week's six best chefs serve up a two-course menu to three restaurant critics.
Episode 13
Dec 8, 2015 · 30 min
The 12 best chefs cook off against each other in the MasterChef kitchen.
Episode 14
Dec 9, 2015 · 30 min
The chefs must work together to serve an exceptional dinner at London's Law Society.
Episode 15
Dec 10, 2015 · 30 min
The chefs travel to Lord's Cricket Ground to cook a fine-dining menu for Mike Gatting.
Episode 16
Dec 15, 2015 · 30 min
Two semi-finalists cook alongside joint Professional MasterChef champion Anton Piotrowski.
Episode 17
Dec 16, 2015 · 30 min
The semi-finalists cook for Tom Kitchin at his Michelin-starred restaurant in Edinburgh.
Episode 18
Dec 17, 2015 · 30 min
The last three semi-finalists work with chef Lisa Allen at the Michelin-starred Northcote.
Episode 19
Dec 22, 2015 · 30 min
It's finals week. After one goes out in the invention test, the chefs cook for their idols
Episode 20
Dec 23, 2015 · 30 min
The finalists travel to the medieval city of Alba in the Piedmont region of northern Italy
Episode 21
Dec 24, 2015 · 30 min
It's the final. Who will be crowned Professional MasterChef Champion 2015?