Season 8 · Episode 4 — Feeding the Lifeguards
The top 19 chefs will have to prepare and cook fresh fish for 101 lifeguards who will then vote on their favorite dish.
Season 8 episodes
E1In the Season Eight premiere episode, 40 of America's best home cooks travel to Los Angeles to compete in the MASTERCHEF Battle for a White…
E2In Part Two of the Battle for a White Apron, the remaining chefs compete for a spot in the Top 20. Only nine aprons remain and it will be u…
E3Top 20 will have to take 12 of the most popular ingredients found on any American home cook’s shopping list and make the judges a MASTERCHE…
E4The top 19 chefs will have to prepare and cook fresh fish for 101 lifeguards who will then vote on their favorite dish.
E5The Top 18 home chefs must cook some of the world's finest shellfish for their mystery box challenge.
E6This week on MASTERCHEF, the cooks take part in a challenging skills test, during which they must prepare racks of lamb with fine artistry.…
E7The home cooks travel for The Belvedere restaurant in Beverly Hills, to take over the dining room breakfast service in two teams.
E8The Top 15 are given a mystery box challenge that tasks them with creating a dish featuring a different body part of a cow.
E9The kitchen is transformed into a full dining room to welcome purveyors of local ingredients, including butchers, vegetable farmers, beekee…
E10Reigning champion Shaun O'Neale returns and chooses ingredients from his cookbook to be part of the mystery-box challenge. The winner will…
E11The Top 12 head to Las Vegas for a team challenge in which they serve 50 VIPs in entertainment and hospitality at Caesars Palace for its 50…
E12The Top 11 are given a bag of live crawfish and have to cook them in order to extract the most meat possible. The six weakest cooks go head…
E13The six weakest cooks go head-to-head in an elimination challenge, during which they make a crawfish dish created by Gordon Ramsay. Then, t…
E14In this week's mystery box challenge, the Top Nine must create a dish that is reminiscent of their favorite family breakfast, using Nutella…
E15The Top Eight head to Big Bear Lake to cook fresh fish.
E16In this week's mystery box challenge, the Top 7 must create an Asian-inspired dish that centers around one of the most prominent utensils i…
E17The Top 6 split up in teams for a classic MasterChef challenge - to cook for food critics, writers, and chefs at a pop-up restaurant in a S…
E18In this week's mystery box challenge, the Top 6 get a special treat as their family members join them in the MasterChef kitchen. The contes…
E19The remaining home cooks will face a series of skills tests that will determine who will make it to the finale.
E20The remaining chefs compete for the trophy and the $250,000 prize with guest judge Joe Bastianich.
E21The remaining chefs compete for the trophy and the $250,000 prize with guest judge Joe Bastianich.