MasterChef 2014 moves into its third week and Rani, Terry, Dawn, Jack, Jess and Peter are the six new cooks on day 7 to take on the challenges within the MasterChef kitchen as set by judges John Tordoe and Gregg Wallace.

Meet the cooks:

Rani, 37, Teaching Assistant
Terry, 32, Mechanic – forced to enter by his wife
Dawn, 32, Witchcraft Merchant
Jack, 21, Graduate
Jess, 28, HR Specialist
Peter, 50, IT Recruitment.

For their first challenge, the cooks must serve up their calling card, a practiced dish that represents who they are as a cook. The time limit for this task is just one hour and their goal is to dazzle the judges with one plate of food that showed just what they can do.

They then faced the infamous invention test, choosing between two sealed boxes of ingredients – one sweet and one savoury. Chef John Torode also takes on this challenge himself, showing the viewers at home just what is possible with the few ingredients. He makes a pan fried duck dish from the savoury box.

The sweet ingredients include apples, chestnuts, cloves, sweet wine, amaretto, cinnamon sticks, and brioche, while the savoury box contains duck breast, mussels, rainbow chard, beetroot, spring onion, plums, coriander, thyme, coconut milk, puy lentils and goat’s cheese.
The cooks had just one hour to prepare a dish good enough to keep them in the competition before two are sent home.

The four remaining cooks faced one more challenge to obtain a place in the quarter-final. They had to cook an impressive menu for the second MasterChef champion, Peter Bayless, joins 2012 finalist Andrew Kojima and 2011 semi-finalist Jackie Kearney.

After a tough few days in the kitchen serving up some very interesting plates of food, it was Rani and Jack that impressed the judges the most and made it through to the quarter finals.

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