第 1 季 共 13 集
播出时间：2010年7月28日
第 1 集 Auditions (1)
播出时间：2010年7月28日
Cooks share their signature dishes with the judges in hopes of advancing to the next round of the competition.
第 2 集 Auditions (2)
播出时间：2010年8月4日
Auditions continue as amateur cooks try to impress the judges.
第 3 集 Top 14
播出时间：2010年8月11日
The home cooks will have to prove that they have mastered basic kitchen skills such as cutting an onion and cooking an egg perfectly, and at the end fifteen of the thirty will be sent home.
第 4 集 Top 14 Compete
播出时间：2010年8月19日
The contestants enter the kitchen for the first time.
第 5 集 Top 11 Compete
播出时间：2010年8月26日
The remaining 14 chefs enter the MasterChef kitchen for the first time in order to prepare for their first team challenge: feeding hundreds of Marines at Camp Pendleton. The team that wins is safe from elimination, while the team that loses returns to the kitchen to compete during the first pressure test.
第 6 集 Top 9 Compete
播出时间：2010年9月2日
In their first challenge of the day, the chefs are asked to make one cupcake, which turns out to be harder then any of them expect. Cat Cora visits the MasterChef kitchen, and puts the contestants' cooking skills to the test.
第 7 集 Top 6 Compete
播出时间：2010年9月9日
The remaining chefs need to feed 100 truckers at a remote California truck stop. The losing team returns to the kitchen to face a pressure test, which consists of naming as many foods as they can from a table of farmer's market ingredients.
第 8 集 Winner Revealed
播出时间：2010年9月16日
In their first challenge of the day, the chefs are asked to make a dish with dungeness crab
第 9 集 9 Chefs Compete (2)
播出时间：2010年9月2日
The contestants must cater a high-end wedding, and things go awry when the main course goes missing. The losing team goes back to the MasterChef kitchen to face a pressure test, and one more chef will be eliminated.
第 10 集 6 Chefs Compete (1)
播出时间：2010年9月9日
The contestants undergo a Mystery Box challenge and an Invention Test.
第 11 集 6 Chefs Compete (2)
播出时间：2010年9月9日
The contestants go fishing, and use their catches for their entrees. Another chef will be eliminated.
第 12 集 Winner Revealed (1)
播出时间：2010年9月16日
The remaining contestants face off for the title of MasterChef USA.
第 13 集 Winner Revealed (2)
播出时间：2010年9月16日
The conclusion to the series finale, the announcement of the winner of the $250,000 prize.
