Season 3 Breakdown

Normal Episodes: 20
TV Specials: 0
TV Movies: 0

MasterChef Season 3 (2012)

MasterChef Auditions #1 3x01 Auditions #1
Amateur cooks from across the country compete during the first day of auditions to win a place as a masterchef contestant.
Jun. 04, 2012
MasterChef Auditions #2 3x02 Auditions #2
Amateur cooks from across the country compete in a second day of auditions to be a Masterchef contestant.
Jun. 05, 2012
MasterChef Auditions #3/Top 36 Bootcamp 3x03 Auditions #3/Top 36 Bootcamp
The third and final day of auditions to become a Master Chef contestant rounds out the field of 36 contestants who face their first challenge. The 36 amateur chefs are asked to cook ...
Jun. 11, 2012
MasterChef Top 18 Compete 3x04 Top 18 Compete
The eighteen amateur chefs begin the days competition with a mystery box. The chefs are given a Duck breast and other ingredients from which they must create a stunning entree for the ...
Jun. 12, 2012
MasterChef Top 16 Compete 3x05 Top 16 Compete
The chefs are divided into two teams and told to cook a hearty meal for 201 hungry soldiers who will be their judges. The two teams get their meals out to the troops who vote for the ...
Jun. 18, 2012
MasterChef Top 15 Compete 3x06 Top 15 Compete
The fifteen chefs face their second mytery box challenge, and the selection of meats they see upon lifting the boxes was a shock to all. Despite the difficult challenge the amateur ...
Jun. 19, 2012
MasterChef Top 14 Compete 3x07 Top 14 Compete
The fourteen remaining amateur chefs divide up into two teams to cook room service breakfast for 130 hungry hotel guests. The losing team returns to the Masterchef kitchen to face the ...
Jun. 25, 2012
MasterChef Top 13 Compete 3x08 Top 13 Compete
In the Mystery Box challenge. The chefs are given food that can be purchased at Wal-Mart for fifteen dollars and asked to prepare a dish that would sell for forty dollars at a fine ...
Jun. 26, 2012
MasterChef TBA 3x09 TBA
The amateur chefs find themselves on Venice Beach where they are divided into three teams and asked to prepare a seven dollar meal for the crowds of Venice Beach. The teams each have ...
Jul. 02, 2012
MasterChef TBA 3x10 TBA
The contestants begin the show with a mystery box competition, and a professional chef joins in on the competition to show the amateur chefs what is expected of a Masterchef. The winner ...
Jul. 03, 2012
MasterChef Top Nine Compete 3x11 Top Nine Compete
The amateur chefs begin the show with a mystery box challenge where they find a sea urchin, one of the most difficult and dangerous ingredients in the sea. The winner of the mystery ...
Jul. 09, 2012
MasterChef Top 8 Compete 3x12 Top 8 Compete
The contestants travel East into the desert to a Cowboy Ranch where they are divided into two teams and tasked with cooking 101 steak dinners for a bunch of hungry cowwboys who are ...
Jul. 16, 2012
MasterChef Top 7 Compete 3x13 Top 7 Compete
The show begins with the largest Mystery Box in Masterchef history on the stage in front of the contestants, and as it is lifted Chef Paula Dean is revealed. As special guest judge, ...
Jul. 17, 2012
MasterChef Top 6 Compete, Part 1 3x14 Top 6 Compete, Part 1
The six contestants are surprised when they are told to go to the Gallery and that they would not be cooking in this episode. Then they see the last nine conteatstants eliminated return ...
Jul. 23, 2012
MasterChef Top 6 Compete, Part 2 3x15 Top 6 Compete, Part 2
The now seven contestants are greeted for the third time in a row with another mystery box challenge. This mystery box for a change is alive, prawns. The contestant with the winning ...
Jul. 24, 2012
MasterChef Top 6 Compete, Part 3 3x16 Top 6 Compete, Part 3
The remaing six contestants are split into two teams and asked to cook dinner for customers in a fine dinning restaurant. After dinner service the judges decide a winning team based ...
Aug. 14, 2012
MasterChef Top 5 Compete 3x17 Top 5 Compete
The final five contestants open their mystery box to find it empty and then told to pick ingredients they would like to use to make an incredible entree of their choosing for the judges. ...
Aug. 21, 2012
MasterChef Top 4 Compete 3x18 Top 4 Compete
The remaining four contestants split up into two teams. In this episode three world class chefs, Daniel Boulad, Alain Ducasse, and Guy Savoy, are invited to help judge the contestants ...
Aug. 28, 2012
MasterChef Top 3 Compete 3x19 Top 3 Compete
The final three contestants face their last mystery box challenge where they are allowed to pick their own ingredients and make a dish they would include in their cookbook if they are ...
Sep. 04, 2012
MasterChef The Winning Chef is Chosen 3x20 The Winning Chef is Chosen
After serving the most important three course meal of their lives a winner is chosen.
Sep. 10, 2012
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Season 3 Characters

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Season 3 Videos

03x01 Audition #1
03x01 Audition #1 (42:12)

03x05 Top 16 Compete
03x05 Top 16 Compete (42:02)

03x20 Winner Chosen
03x20 Winner Chosen (41:52)

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Season 3 Trivia

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