The Top 18 contestants compete in their first mystery box challenge of the season and must create a unique and delicious dish using duck and bananas. Later, the remaining amateur cooks are forced out of their comfort zone when the judges challenge them to cook an outstanding dish using unusual and intimidating ingredients. Find out which contestants make the cut after the first emotional elimination round.

The fifteen chefs face their second mytery box challenge, and the selection of meats they see upon lifting the boxes was a shock to all. Despite the difficult challenge the amateur chefs were able to satisfy the judges, a winner was chosen, and given the usual advantage of selecting the meals the others will cook. This time the winner of the mystery box challenge took throwing his competition under the bus to a new level, at least he tried to.