MasterChef Canada (season 1)

Mystery Box 1: The top three dishes are made by Carly, Eric, and Marida. Marida won the first mystery box.

Team Challenge 1: The competitors have to cook for the Toronto Maple Leafs. Pino and Dale are the team captains. Pino was the Blue Team captain, and Dale was the White Team captain. The teams had to make one pasta dish and one fish dish for the challenge. Pino chose Marida, Julie, Carly, Tammara, Dora, and Danielle. Dale chose Eric, Brooke, Mike, Josh, and Kaila. Danny could not cook because he was sick with the flu, but he had to compete in the pressure test. After the Leafs, alumni and family members voted, the Blue team won with 26 votes to 11.

Mystery Box 2: The cooks had to create burgers with a meat grinder using many different meats. Near the end of the challenge, Eric severely cut his hand and was forced to sit out, leaving him with no dish to present. The best dishes were Dale's, Kaila's, Josh's, and Mike's. Kaila won the Mystery Box challenge.

Team Challenge 2: The cooks were sent to Toronto's distillery district for their next team challenge to serve many famous artists. The judges were allowed to decide the winning team. Dora chose Carly, Mike, Marida, Julie, and Tammara for the Red Team, while Danielle chose Dale, Josh, Eric, Kaila, and Pino for the Blue Team. The cooks had to prepare three canapés. The Red Team comes out on top, and the Blue Team must face a pressure test.

Mystery Box 3: The 11 finalists faced a Mystery Box challenge that takes them back to their roots. The top three were Pino's, Marida's, and Eric's. Eric won the Mystery Box challenge, granting him immunity.

Team Challenge 3: The remaining home cooks head to CFB Trenton for the team challenge of cooking a rib-eye steak with two sides for 151 members of the Canadian Forces. Kaila becomes captain of the Red Team. She selects Danielle, Dale, Julie, and Marida. Pino becomes captain of the Blue Team and he selects Eric, Mike, Tammara, and Carly. The blue team wins with an overwhelming 107 out of 151 votes.

Mystery Box 4: The top 9 finalists were given a Mystery Box that contained ingredients that the judges enjoyed working with. There were four top dishes: Tammara's, Danielle's, Marida's, and Kaila's. Danielle's dish was deemed the best.

Team Challenge 4: At the Nathan Phillip Square in Toronto, the eight home cooks are asked to run a food truck, either Mexicana or Italiano. Tammara chose the first one, leaving the other to Eric. At first Tammara, Marida, Mike and Julie were the Blue Team while Eric, Pino, Danielle, and Kaila formed the Red Team, but the judges gave Tammara the advantage of trading a member. She exchanged Julie with Pino. They had two hours to cook and serve a dish with the assigned style. The Blue Team won by a narrow margin of only 15 dollars.

Mystery Box 5: The contestants had to cook lobster. They were given 45 minutes. The top three dishes were Mike's, Tammara's, and Eric's. Mike was declared the winner.

Team Challenge 5: Tammara and Pino are team captains in a "Restaurant Takeover" of judge Claudio Aprile's Origin North. Restaurant owner Aprile chooses the teams. The Red Team consists of Tammara, Kaila, and Mike, while the Blue Team consists of Pino, Marida, and Eric. The judges determine the Blue Team to have the worst performance and subject them to the pressure test.

Team Challenge 6: The five remaining contestants are reunited with their families, and then asked to create a family style meal, consisting of an entrée and two sides, for a combined table of family members and judges. The remaining five contestants are split into two teams. Marida is allowed to select one or two members for her team. Marida selects only Tammara to create a team of two, leaving Eric, Kaila, and Mike as members of the opposing team. Marida and Tammara are judged to have done the best with the challenge and are safe from elimination.

Mystery Box 6: Special guest Joe Bastianich assembles the box with his favorite Italian ingredients, adding a white wine from his vineyard. The judges reveal that the person with the worst dish will be sent home immediately, in addition to the winner receiving an advantage in the elimination challenge. Kaila's is named as the winning dish. Tammara was deemed to have cooked the worst dish and is eliminated.

Eric and Marida compete for the title. They are instructed to create a three-course meal, and the best meal will win the $100,000 and the title of MasterChef Canada. They are given one hour to make each course. For her appetizer, Marida creates a pumpkin callaloo soup with coconut lime crème fraîche, crispy pig tail, and lime pepper sauce, while Eric creates a crispy pork belly with vegetable dumplings and wasabi mayonnaise. In the entrée round, Eric makes lobster with egg noodles, and Marida composes taro-leaf steamed black cod with pigeon pea purée, mango chutney, and cucumber. In the dessert course, Marida makes an apple crumble with coconut ice cream and rum sauce, while Eric makes an Asian take on a banana split, composed of tempura-fried bananas with red bean and green tea ice cream.