This week’s first set of six cooks will face a tough Invention Test in Week 5 of MasterChef 2014. To make it through to the next stage to cook for the invited guest judges, they will have to use their creative talent to serve up a superb dish to satisfy Greg and John otherwise they will be shown the door.

However, before they start to sweat over their ingredients to create a dish to impress, chef John Torode takes on the challenge himself, showing the viewers at home just what is possible with the few good quality ingredients.

In two sealed boxes of ingredients – one sweet and one savoury, the cooks must choose the one they feel will give them the best chance to showcase their skills.

The sweet box today contains: rhubarb, pomegranate, puff pastry, an orange, semolina, a lime, flaked almonds and popping candy.

The savoury box contains: pollock, sausages, capers, fennel, turmeric, cherry tomatoes, baby spinach, couscous, parmesan cheese and quail’s eggs.

For his dish, John opts for the savoury box and serves up herb crusted pollock dish.

For the amateur cooks, they have just one hour to cook a dish good enough to keep them in the competition. The two that produce the least impressive dish as judged by John Torode and Greg Wallace, will see their Masterchef experience cut short as they board the bus home.