MasterChef: The Professionals: Season 9
Season 9 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 8.
- 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 9 Progress Shield
Episode 1
Nov 8, 2016 · 30 min
In this opening heat, the chefs must cook a steak diane and a raspberry tart.
Episode 2
Nov 9, 2016 · 30 min
The chefs must cook a T-bone of plaice and a wild garlic veloute.
Episode 3
Nov 10, 2016 · 30 min
The week's six strongest chefs face the first quarter-final.
Episode 4
Nov 15, 2016 · 30 min
For Monica's skills test, the first three chefs have 15 minutes to make sea bass ceviche.
Episode 5
Nov 16, 2016 · 30 min
The skills tests involve a sauce maltaise asparagus and a banoffee cheesecake.
Episode 6
Nov 17, 2016 · 30 min
In the quarter-final, the six best chefs from the week's heats return to the kitchen.
Episode 7
Nov 22, 2016 · 30 min
Six new chefs take on taramasalata and tagliatelle carbonara in the skills tests.
Episode 8
Nov 23, 2016 · 30 min
Six new chefs take on lamb tartare and filleting a John Dory in the skills tests.
Episode 9
Nov 24, 2016 · 30 min
In this quarter-final, the chefs reinvent steak and kidney pie and cook a two-course menu.
Episode 10
Nov 29, 2016 · 30 min
It is the final heats week. Three chefs must make an artichoke barigoule.
Episode 11
Nov 30, 2016 · 30 min
The last six chefs battle to make it through to the quarter-finals.
Episode 12
Dec 1, 2016 · 30 min
The best chefs of the week must reinvent a sweet family favourite, fruit crumble.
Episode 13
Dec 6, 2016 · 30 min
The 12 chefs must create a savoury dish using a surprise selection of ingredients.
Episode 14
Dec 7, 2016 · 30 min
Five chefs team up to create an exceptional dinner at the Royal Society of Medicine.
Episode 15
Dec 8, 2016 · 30 min
The second group of chefs create a menu for guests at the French ambassador's residence.
Episode 17
Dec 14, 2016 · 30 min
The first three semi-finalists work alongside the inspirational chef Alyn Williams.
Episode 18
Dec 15, 2016 · 30 min
The chefs are sent to work under one of the country's rising stars, George Blogg.
Episode 19
Dec 20, 2016 · 30 min
The remaining four chefs start the finals week with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to cook at one of the most prestigious events in the culinary calendar, The Chef's Table.
Episode 20
Dec 21, 2016 · 30 min
The four finalists first cook off in the MasterChef Kitchen. For one chef their MasterChef journey will be at an end, while the final three will travel to Oslo to learn from the st
Episode 21
Dec 22, 2016 · 30 min
The remaining chefs cook for the last time, and one will be crowned the 2016 champion.