Episode 5

Young MasterChef reaches its halfway point. The rookie cooks are down to the last eight, and the twists continue.

In the age of melt-in-your-mouth online videos, mouth-watering melting cheese, pouring sauces, oozing chocolate and dripping burgers, hashtag Food Porn is rife. Judges Poppy O’Toole and Kerth Gumbs set the cooks the challenge of not only producing a mouth-watering plate of food, but to film a video that will stand out on any social media that has the concept of hashtag Food Porn at its core.

If ever there was a time to make the nation reach through the television, it’s now. For one of them who fails to do so, it’s regrettably, curtains.