Elimination Challenge 5: Barrie was given the opportunity to choose a protein of his choice and for the others to cook a dish in three different ways. Pressure Test 3: As the losing team, Aaron, Thea and Miranda are given 45 minutes to create a Moroccan-inspired Vegetable served with herbed using an array of vegetables and 28 unmarked spices. Then, Season 3 winner Mary Berg reveals the next elimination challenge. She then gives Thea's basket to Barrie; Barrie's basket to Trevor; Trevor's basket to Mai; and finally Mai's basket to Thea. Justine and Miranda are the Red and White Team captains respectively.
The home cooks are then surprised by their loved ones, and tasked to create an elegant family dinner that showcases the autumn harvest. Is MasterChef Canada worth watching? Justine and Matt receive immunity from elimination, and are then shown Mary's three favorite comfort food which the remaining home cooks need to elevate into a MasterChef-quality dish. After asking the team captains' opinions, the judges declared that the losing home cooks will decide together as to which of the cooks will be saved. Barrie produces the best dish, and is sent to safety. While Alisha takes the responsibility of the loss to herself, Aaron decided to save himself from the pressure test, disappointing Thea. Of the remaining home cooks, Mai's dish lacks salt, Matt's egg is overcooked, and Kimberly's dish has undercooked pasta and a broken egg.
Ultimately, Barrie produces the best dish of the challenge, while Trevor's dish also receives high praises. Elimination Challenge 2: Season 3 winner Mary Berg makes a special return to the MasterChef kitchen. The winner will receive a huge advantage in the elimination challenge. In the end, despite her initial advantage, Miranda's raw flank steak resulted her elimination. He picks the stone fruits as the task of the elimination challenge, and also be able to choose which home cooks to prepare a savoury or sweet dish. They have 20 minutes to gather ingredients to prepare a rice dish for the judges back at the MasterChef kitchen. Alisha was eliminated as a result.
Barrie was eliminated despite his initial advantage, sending Thea to the finale. The judges send Thea to safety as the others had critical flaws in their dishes. The judges then save Mai, therefore eliminating Alice. In the end, Barrie and Trevor are deemed as the winner of the challenge, securing their spots in the Top 3. Unlike previous years, they are allowed three uninterrupted hours to prepare a three-course meal for the judges, but must present their appetizer after 1 hour, the entree after 1.
Trevor's lacked taste and was underbaked, while Alisha's pastry was very poorly made. The cooks will taste the cake blind-folded to identify the ingredients used in the cake and then bake it. In the dessert course, Thea created a stunning café de olla-inspired offering with orange cake, sponge toffee, and cinnamon ice cream, while Trevor served a fallen ice cream cone with mint chocolate gelato and a crème fraiche whip. Chef makes a special appearance in the MasterChef kitchen. She decides to save herself.
After tasting, Barrie and Thea earned the final two spots. Thea produces the best pasta dish and the first to be saved from elimination. Thea then pairs up Justine with Matt, Miranda with Aaron and Trevor with Barrie. The cooks will then use one of these techniques to create a delicious salmon dish. Pressure Test 2: The home cooks on the losing teams will face a difficult pressure test featuring a classic French dessert:. The worst three dishes belong to Mai, Thea and Alice.
Pressure Test 1: The home cooks from the White Team are tasked to cook squid ink noodles with a soft boiled egg in only 30 minutes, including extracting the ink sac from the squids themselves. The judges decide that Justine and Matt produce the best replication. In a surprise twist, the judges give Thea the opportunity to hand her spot in the Top 5 to Aaron if she feels she is not ready to move forward in the competition. Justine's Red Team is declared as the winner. The teams need to prepare two appetizers an artichoke salad and a duck en croute and two entrees a beef tenderloin dish and a ham-wrapped monkfish dish. Barrie chooses Trevor and Mai, while Aaron chooses Thea and Miranda. He chooses Trevor, forming the Red team, which leaves Mai and Thea to form the Blue team.
Targeting Miranda and Thea, he chooses to save all the men, leaving Alice, Kimberly, Mai and Miranda to prepare savoury dishes, while Alisha, Justine and Thea will prepare sweet dishes. Thea is declared as the winner of the Mystery Box. Having created the best dish in the last elimination challenge, Barrie is given the option of choosing his partner. Miranda is given the option to save herself or one of her teammates. The best two dishes are Justine's and Miranda's. Thea's dish is lacking in spices, while Aaron's dish suffers the opposite from being overpowered with a heavy use of cloves.
Trevor is declared as the winner of the Mystery Box. Grace, Connor, Ali, Kimberly C, Jason, May, Raffaele and Sheila were then sent home, leaving Barrie, Chris, Jay, Jillian, Justine, Matt, Nii and Thea fighting for the last 4 spots. In the end, because the judges cannot decide which of the two has performed the worst in the challenge, both Justine and Matt are eliminated. The two home cooks are given 60 minutes to replicate a complex tropical dessert called the Hawaiian Mountain Cloud. Mai and Trevor both produce dishes that are enough to deem them safe, leaving Alice and Miranda to face the final pressure test. Targeting to eliminate Thea, Barrie chose wagyu beef for himself, while he gave Thea the pork and Trevor the chicken.