My Kitchen Rules Season 8

April 6, 2021

Every kitchen competition gets fierce with Pete Evans and Manu Feildel as the main members of the cast hosting one of the most popular and one of the most dramatic Australian cooking programs called My Kitchen Rules. Twelve teams of non-professional cooks and experienced chefs battle to get $250,000 in a hot cooking TV competition.

Format

Twelve teams start the competition. They are divided into two groups of six teams each. After a couple of first challenges, a new group consisting of 6 teams is added for the secret round. This makes a total of 18 teams participating in the show.

Original Format

That’s a so called “sudden death” format. Three-course meal is prepared by three teams and the team that doesn’t manage to fulfill this task is immediately eliminated. Those who passed the previous step participate in a cook-off challenge with further elimination.
After the cook-off, the remaining six teams enter the quarterfinals. Losing teams get eliminated in each of the quarterfinals. Team with the highest scoring goes straight to the grand final. Two teams remained participate in the semifinal.

Current format

Every episode of the project films a day of cooking and serving a three-course meal. After the meals are served to the judges, each judge rates each the courses separately. They create a general score. The team with the lowest score falls under the risks of elimination.

The contestants usually cook in their kitchens. However, it’s not obligatory – they are allowed to do that at their friends and relatives’ homes.
In seasons 6 and 7, after the completion of basic rounds, a secret round starts.

Rounds & Description

People’s Choice Challenge – the dish is cooked for half an hour and later presented to the public. Basing on the voices of guests one of the dishes becomes the People’s Choice. A team having the worst dish is given a chance to stay in the show passing through Sudden Death round. In the last season two teams were allowed to pass through Sudden Death.
Food Truck – used in the 5th season of the show. Held with the teams that successfully completed the People’s Choice round. The participants separated into two large even groups have to cook in a large trailer with two kitchens. The aim is to earn as much money as possible. The team that doesn’t manage to pass through this stage stays in the show but it’s not safe from the elimination as the team that wins this competition.
Rapid Cook-off – creating a half hour dish with a key ingredient.
Showdown – teams with worst dishes make a meal for an hour with the use of the key ingredient. The winning team passes to the Sudden Death round.
Sudden Death – two losing teams battle to stay in the show. IN earlier episodes blind tastings were used in order to make this challenge as fair as possible.