Masterchef Italy - Season 2
Episode List
E1 - Auditions - Part 1
Aired: December 13, 2012
E2 - Auditions - Part 2
Aired: December 13, 2012
E3 - Top 18 Revealed
Aired: December 20, 2012
E4 - Rustic Cuisine
Aired: December 20, 2012
E5 - A Big Mystery Box / Invention Test with Spyros
Aired: December 27, 2012
E6 - Team challenge at the Arch of Peace
Aired: December 27, 2012
Milan, "Arch of Peace". This is the location chosen for the first off-site team challenge. The sixteen contestants test themselves with traditional Milanese dishes and will be judged by very discerning guests.
E7 - A... Hot Mystery Box
Aired: January 03, 2013
The fifteen contestants will face a hot Mystery Box and then a game-based Invention Test.
E8 - Team challenge in Sardinia
Aired: January 03, 2013
Landed in Sardinia, the thirteen amateur cooks have to satisfy very picky clients. The losing team will face the feared Pressure Test.
E9 - From Sea to the Mountains
Aired: January 10, 2013
Our amateur cooks are testing themselves with a Mystery Box full of ingredients from the sea and the mountains. The Invention Test is entirely devoted to pastry. Special Guest, the Master Confectioner Iginio Massari.
E10 - The Golf Club
Aired: January 10, 2013
The "Barlassina Country Club" (one of the oldest and most exclusive clubs in Italy) is the location of the off-site team challenge. Later, members of the losing team face off in an elimination challenge that requires them to prepare the best pesto sauce.
E11 - Scent of coffee / To each his own
Aired: January 17, 2013
The eleven aspiring chefs return to the MasterChef kitchen. A coffee-themed Mistery Box is waiting for them, a fish-based Invention Test and...
E12 - A jump back in time
Aired: January 17, 2013
The ten contestants left travel back to the Middle Ages. Using only Medieval cooking equipment, the two teams have to cook a perfect royal banquet. Later, the losing team face off in the Pressure Test.
E13 - A mistery at MasterChef / Haute Cuisine
Aired: January 24, 2013
In today's Mystery Box challenge, the amateur cooks have to steal an ingredient from another contestant. The famous chef Valentino Marcattilii is the guest of the haute-cuisine themed Invention Test.
E14 - Culinary Tradition / Fillet challenge
Aired: January 24, 2013
The eight remaining home cooks are brought to Ceglie Messapica to measure themselves with Puglia's culinary traditions.
E15 - Eight cooking techniques in a Mystery Box
Aired: January 31, 2013
Many surprises in this week Mystery Box: a different cooking technique for each contestant and the ingredients' boxes swap. Star of the invention test: the veal kidneys.
E16 - High altitude cooking
Aired: January 31, 2013
The Sass Pordoi is the high altitude location of the off-site team challenge. Then, the losing team have to deal with a hard Pressure Test and a final Shoot-out.
E17 - Take the flight / Veneto territory
Aired: February 07, 2013
The hopefuls cook pigeons. Then they compete in the Invention Test.
E18 - In the jewel of Ligurian Riviera / Mirroring the chef
Aired: February 07, 2013
The five remaining contestants cook at Portofino's marina. Then, in the Pressure Test, they have to make the best Olivier salad to avoid the Final Duel.
E19 - Mussels / Traditional cuisine
Aired: February 14, 2013
In their first challenge of the day, the remaining chefs are asked to make a dish with mussels. Later, Lidia Bastianich, Joe's mum, visits the MasterChef kitchen, and puts the contestants' cooking skills to the test.
E20 - An 'awarded' challenge / Fixing mistakes
Aired: February 14, 2013
L’ultima prova in esterna nel resort dello chef pluristellato Alain Ducas, un Pressure Test “sbagliato” e un Duello riparatore. Last off-site challenge takes place in Alain Ducas' resort.
E21 - The Semifinal
Aired: February 21, 2013
In the last Mistery Box, the three remaining hopefuls are tasked with creating a dish with foie gras.
E22 - Winner Revealed
Aired: February 21, 2013
In their final challenge in the kitchen, the two home cooks will conceptualize and prepare the most important three-course meal of their lives. Later, the judges will reveal Italy's next Masterchef, and the deserving home cook will walk away with a book deal and the 100.000 € grand prize. Find out whose culinary dreams will turn into a reality.