Season 1

The winner is revealed.

After enduring a series of intense pressure tests and grueling challenges, the moment has finally come for one MASTERCHEF contestant to claim the title of America's Best Home Cook. In the season finale, judges Gordon Ramsay, Joe Bastianich and Graham Elliot determine which amateur cook truly has the potential to transform their culinary dreams into reality. The contestants who have made it this far in the competition have earned the judges' respect, but only one will walk away with $250,000 and a cookbook-publishing deal and embark on a life-changing journey.

In their first individual challenge, the contestants are required to cook fresh Sculpin fish for professional food critics Jeffrey Steingarten, Tanya Steel, and Barbara Fairchild.

The judges force the home cooks work for their food as they all go fishing and are allowed to use only what they caught to make a delicious meal.

The contestants must cater a high-end wedding, and things go awry when the main course goes missing. The losing team goes back to the MasterChef kitchen to face a pressure test, and one more chef is eliminated.

The contestants were given sixty minutes to prepare a dish using a live Dungeness crab.

The contestants cook hamburgers for 100 truck drivers.

The contestants were given ingredients to make one cupcake.

For their first team challenge, the contestants cook for one hundred marines and their families.

For their first mystery box challenge the contestants had 45 minutes to create a dish using a double cut pork chop with other ingredients.

The contestants take 2 basic skills tests: 1st to chop onions and continue until judges tells them to stop, the judges dissect the chopped onions, if they don't meet the judge's standards, they are eliminated.The 2nd was to cook one egg any style using any ingredients in 30 minutes.

The contestants have one hour to cook one dish.

The contestants have one hour to cook one dish.