Victoria Season 7 @johncarasig

Led by his intuition and experimental style in the kitchen, John Carasig loves nothing more than having fun and creating delicious food.

Strongly influenced by his Filipino heritage and renowned for his precision desserts, since leaving the competition John has also cooked extensively with Italian flavours and techniques. It’s this all-round approach to cuisines, styles and flavours that cement John’s place as one to watch in the competition.

Inspired in the kitchen by his mum, John is best known in Season 7 for excelling in mystery box challenges and his white chocolate velouté during a team relay challenge. John can laugh about the mistake now, and is confident he has what it takes to showcase his leadership skills and lead the Favourites to victory.

Born in the Philippines, John is passionate about connecting with his culture and adapting it with the best Australian produce. Just six years of age when he started preparing family meals for his parents and two younger sisters, the family moved to Melbourne when he was 10.

Following his first appearance on MasterChef Australia, John started Adobo Kitchen Bean To Bar Chocolates creating single origin handcrafted chocolates. The brand is now relaunching as TSOKOLATE.

With a background in architecture and industrial design, John works in the travel industry as a flight attendant, but has remained grounded for much of the COVID pandemic.

Working from home with his fiancé Dave, the pair started Human Hair Wigs By Dave during the pandemic, creating custom made human hair wigs for dancers, Drag Queens, cancer patients and those suffering from alopecia. John has also started sewing incredible outfits for Dave who works as a Drag Queen.