MasterChef Australia opens season with Robert Irwin guest spot

tvJun 10, 202618130

Robert Irwin guest-starred on MasterChef Australia’s season opener as contestants tackled a challenge built around native Australian ingredients. Cooks scrambled through pantry choices and improvised with unfamiliar items, including an on-air gag about ants and a chaotic shelf moment. The episode put native produce front and center while highlighting that many of these ingredients remain hard to source and afford for home cooks. Featuring First Nations chefs would add deeper cultural context and technique for cooking with these ingredients, underscoring why the segment matters beyond a novelty challenge.

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@crowbar.wtf

Robert Irwin in tomorrow night - they better be cooking snakes or roadkill or something. #MasterChefAU

3246d ago

Mike Sharp2

Love a bit of Ray. I heard a story up North, catch a ray, use a circular punch and sell the wings as scallops.

MandyCheevers ✒️

@mandycheevers.bsky.social

I'm not saying he's not a really nice guy but if we're doing Aussie As week I again ask #MasterchefAU why have we not got a First Nation's Cook. Bring us Mark Olive, Norni Bero, bring back Mindy Woods, Jack Brown, for a start. In fact do a whole week with FN's chefs. #MasterchefAU

1245d ago

MandyCheevers ✒️5

Sure it's great to start the season with an acknowledgment of country. Now do more #MasterchefAU

True Krys

@heartmadeofsoul.bsky.social

Dot CANNOT go when Luke should have left so many eliminations ago #MasterChefAU

845d ago

The end is nigh

@loresey.bsky.social

I think add to the banned phrases list that "I'm not ready to go home". Like, has anyone in #MasterChefAU history ever said they were?

845d ago

Megan

@427impala.bsky.social

This pho broth is hot, literally and figuratively, and I keep slurping it into the back of my throat and nearly coughing myself to death 😂 But it's so TASTY (and not at all my own creation) #masterchefau

745d ago