Ticket To Bootcamp: (New Series) Only 120 amateur cooks are selected from more than 6000 hopefuls. After tasting their dishes, the judges will hand out only 50 aprons.

Bootcamp: The top 50 amateur chefs compete in the MasterChef Bootcamp, from which only 18 will go through to the MasterChef Kitchen.

The final 18 Masterchef SA contestants are chosen.

The truly traditional South African braai was the focus on the final round of boot camp. It took place at Roots restaurant in the Cradle of Humankind. The contestants had 45 mins to “braai” a dish good enough to go on the Roots menu.

Does dessert come to mind when you think braai? Not to me so why would some of the contestants make a dessert when the focus is a braai? Yes one can grill fruits etc but still, I don’t think a dessert is synonymous with a braai. Poor old Sarel used milk chocolate to make a sauce. Andrew Atkinson didn’t hold back whilst pointing out this mistake to Sarel.

In this weeks episode of Masterchef SA we find the contestants in the ever so modern kitchen for the first time.

The mystery box: What’s inside? Something they have never cooked before says Andrew Atkinson.

Berdina thinks it’s brain or intestine. No, it’s a photo of themselves. Where their culinary journeys began, something that reminds them of their childhood.

It was the team challenge and everyone met at the Nederburg Estate. The challenge was to cook for the Estates Employees in the Harvest Celebration. 2 courses for 40 guests.

The 75 minute invention test