MasterChef UK: The Professionals

The show returns for its sixteenth series as 32 ambitious chefs from across the country battle to become the 2023 champion.

Four more chefs face Skills Tests. Two must prepare and cook spiced monkfish, while the others demonstrate their pastry skills with a twist on a banana sundae.

This year’s first quarter-final sees the strongest five chefs from the first two heats return to battle it out in the MasterChef kitchen.

Four of the country’s most determined chefs have their skills tested in two challenges under the unforgiving gaze of the judges.

In the second heat of the week, four new hopefuls must prove that they have the talent, flair and commitment.

It’s the quarter-final, and the four best chefs from this week’s heats return to the MasterChef kitchen.