It's the second week of heats, and once more the judges have aset of challenges the passionate amateurs must complete inorder to progress in the competition.Nine home cooks arrivewith both their dreams and ingredients ready for their firsttest, the Audition Round. This year's auditionees come fromall over the UK, cooking a range of dishes that aim tochallenge the palettes of the judges and make their taste budsdance. Cooking their Family Favourite Dish and making itMasterChef worthy, the hopefuls must show John and Gregg whothey are as a cook and how good they could become.John andGregg don't witness them cook in the MasterChef kitchen.Instead, they taste each dish in the Tasting Room. Just likediners in a restaurant, they judge each contestant's foodsolely on the plate that is put in front of them. After tastingall nine plates, John and Gregg pick their three favouritedishes, giving those cooks a well-earned MasterChef apron andimmunity from cooking in the next round.However, for theremaining six contestants, the competition is not over. Facedwith an invention test, they must pull out all the stops tocook a dish – sweet or savoury – good enough to get theminto the competition, and this time, John and Gregg are inthe kitchen witnessing their every move. The pressure isintense, and the stakes are high, as at the end, only fourcooks can join the three already fast-tracked in the next roundof challenges. For two - their MasterChef dream is over.
