MasterChef 2016 -, Season 7, Finale, New MasterChef Crowned.

One almost walked off the show, one teaches school by day and one is a DJ. The top three in MasterChef Season 7 battle it out and a winner emerges!

MasterChef 2016 - Season 7, episode brings it down to final three.

I don't think I've ever seen such challenges in a cooking show, including Iron Chef and Next Food Network Star. These contenders are, by contract, amateur chefs. Yet the food they must prepare most home cooks never tackled.

MasterChef 2016 -, Season 7, episode aired 8/31/16. Grueling eliminations ends down to top five.

MasterChef Season 7 now down to top five. More cooking in this episode than professional chefs have to do. Some snark about the Chesapeake Bay.

MasterChef 2016 -blurb, Season 7, episode aired week of 8/24/16-down to seven.

Finally the Master Chef contenders make stuff that WE make. Using potatoes. NO WAIT! What the hey?

MasterChef 2016 - Season 7, episode aired 8/3/16-cruel ruling on the best contestant.

She's a young thing. But she made the best sausage and was destined to win MasterChef. But she didn't follow the rules and was cruelly disqualified.

MasterChef 2016 -blurb, Season 7, Birthday parties, birthday cakes and one gets sent home.

Every once in a while cooking contest contenders submit a raw food. And so it was too on Master Chef but the team wins and pressure challenges making birthday cakes must occur.

Gordon Ramsay practices hyperbole in describing his Master Chef Cooking show. He even lies a little bit.

Gordon Ramsay practices hyperbole in describing his Master Chef Cooking show. He even lies a little bit.

MasterChef 2016 Season 7, Pies and a spicy mystery box

The Master Chef contenders bake pies to include one with bacon! AND WHERE DID GORDON RAMSAY SAY HE WAS KICKED???

MasterChef 2016 -blurb, Season 7, episode 4-Scallops, lamb and a wedding.

The contenders prepare a wedding meal for a former MasterChef contender and leadership is ascertained. Or not.

MasterChef 2016 - Season 7, episode 3-Puck and Potatoes

Wolfgang and a box of potatoes provide the challenge that had them winning or going home.

MasterChef 2016 -blurb, Season 7, episode2 1 and 2 bring it down to 20 contenders

Bone marrow, waffles and tacos, lots of grits…all on MasterChef as this show begins its Season 7.