Darren Purchese

MasterChef Australia is a Logie Award-winning Australian competitive cooking game show based on the original British MasterChef. It is produced by Shine Australia and screens on Network Ten.

Baking enthusiasts are put through a series of grueling elimination challenges, baking a mouth-watering selection of cakes, pies, tarts, pastries, bread, biscuits and desserts, all in the hope of being crowned Australia's Best Home Baker.

MasterChef Australia All-Stars is an Australian cooking reality show which screened on Network Ten from 26 July 2012 to 19 August 2012. It featured a number of returning contestants from the first three seasons of MasterChef Australia (including season 1 and season 3 winners Julie Goodwin and Kate Bracks), revisiting past challenges in order to raise money for charity.

Some of the most exciting names in pastry, desserts and all things sweet and delicious will bring their elite skills to the competition as they contend to be the nation’s first Dessert Master, and with $100,000 on the line, the pressure is on not to fudge it up.

A cooking contest hosted by Scott Pickett and Poh Ling Yeow, where highly awarded chefs at the top of their game, go head-to-head to perfectly replicate famous Aussie snacks. Plus, Yvie Jones journeys deep into our food factories to find the secrets that go into the creation of Australia’s favourite snacks.