You’ve been salivating over the prospect of its return and you’ll soon be able to dig in as TEN prepares to serve MasterChef’s fourth succulent year.

Taking the culinary experience beyond the MasterChef kitchen, MasterChef.com.au has spent the off-season inventing, preparing and taste-testing a new website to satisfy your appetite for both the show and the wider world of food.

Prepare to see recipes in a whole new light, as MasterChef.com.au has cooked up a tastier way for you to browse its comprehensive database of deliciousness. Advanced categorisation and search filtering allows you to access what you want when you want, add ingredients to your new-look shopping list and save your favourites.

A foodie’s dream come true, MasterChef.com.au’s new-for-2012 Food Hub embraces its every facet. You’ll find articles on everything from the best in-season produce to the perfect fare for that special occasion; chefs and food fanatics blogging till their collective heart’s content; as well as our resident food experts Sophia Young and Sally Feldman of MasterChef Magazine dispensing the pearls of their culinary wisdom.

The MasterChef Garden provides all the green-fingered know-how you’ll need to plant your own produce. And if you want to know exactly what in the food world’s making our lips smack, MasterChef Loves dishes up all the recommended reading, watching and dining any food lover could hunger for.

Boasting yet more exclusive content on its menu, MasterChef.com.au features unseen and behind the scenes footage from MasterChef 2012, along with every full episode on Catch Up TV. While extensive photo galleries capture all this season’s snappiest highlights for you to feast your eyes on.

We hope you’re hungry, because at this digital dining establishment ‘all you can eat’ is no empty promise.

Ladies and gentlemen, MasterChef.com.au is served...