Show guide
Fox's flagship cooking competition hands amateur home cooks a professional kitchen, a mystery box, and a panel of judges led by Gordon Ramsay, then asks them to cook like their lives depend on it. It is a savory show first, but the pastry rounds, dessert pressure tests, and plating standards give baking fans plenty to chew on. The scale of it, big prize, big kitchen, big personalities, makes it the loudest sibling in this whole genre.
Home cooks battle through mystery box challenges, invention tests, team challenges, and pressure tests, with eliminations narrowing the field each week until a finale cook-off crowns the MasterChef. The winner takes the title, the trophy, and a $250,000 prize.
$250,000 plus a cookbook deal
Fox and Hulu in the US, CTV in Canada, U in the UK.
Verified July 2026. Streaming availability changes often, so check the platform before you subscribe.
Sixteen seasons of the pass, every one archived below.
| Season | Aired | Episodes |
|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | Jul 27, 2010 to Sep 15, 2010 | 13 |
| Season 2 | Jun 6, 2011 to Aug 16, 2011 | 20 |
| Season 3 | Jun 4, 2012 to Sep 10, 2012 | 20 |
| Season 4 | May 22, 2013 to Sep 11, 2013 | 25 |
| Season 5 | May 26, 2014 to Sep 15, 2014 | 19 |
| Season 6 | May 20, 2015 to Sep 16, 2015 | 20 |
| Season 7 | Jun 1, 2016 to Sep 14, 2016 | 19 |
| Season 8 | May 31, 2017 to Sep 20, 2017 | 21 |
| Season 9 | May 30, 2018 to Sep 19, 2018 | 23 |
| Season 10 | May 29, 2019 to Sep 18, 2019 | 25 |
| Season 11 | Jun 2, 2021 to Sep 15, 2021 | 18 |
| Season 12 | May 25, 2022 to Sep 14, 2022 | 20 |
| Season 13 | May 24, 2023 to Sep 20, 2023 | 20 |
| Season 14 | May 29, 2024 to Sep 18, 2024 | 19 |
| Season 15 | May 21, 2025 to Sep 17, 2025 | 18 |
| Season 16 | Apr 15, 2026 to Aug 5, 2026 | 12 |
Each season guide will contain episodes, bakes, cast when available, and sources. Winners stay tucked away below so nothing gets spoiled by accident.
Tap a season to reveal its winner. Nothing is spoiled until you ask.
Every winner is verified against a cited source: Wikipedia and verified press per season.
Specific kit tied to MasterChef (US), each labelled with how solid the attribution is. When the exact model is not sold on Amazon we say so and point you at a buyable equivalent instead of faking a link.
Chef's knife roll (5-piece)
The single strongest attribution in the set: an officially licensed product explicitly tied to the show AND buyable on Amazon. The canvas roll mirrors the contestants' kit. Note the show's own store also sells it directly; the Amazon roll is the affiliate-linkable path.
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