Season 8
Ultimate Braai Master is an outdoor cooking show which features various teams of two, each made up of a Braai Buddy and the Braai Master.
The teams are given different cooking challenges and each week, the weakest team faces elimination.
Season 8 is located in the Western Cape, the South African seafood capital.
Little do the contestants know that the braai motto "rain, wind or shine – we braai" is going to literally test their will to stay in the competition.
Who will take ownership of the next Ultimate Braai Master title?
In the Season 8 premiere, "From the Earth": The 10 teams partake in their first challenge of preparing a venison and loin shank with a flat bread on a rock.
They also have to incorporate at least two ingredients used by indigenous San people.
The Host
Tapfuma Makina
Zimbabwean-born Tapfuma Makina is known as a sports host and presenter and has hosted shows on HeartFM, Top Billing and eNCA.
A Rhodes University alum, Tapfuma's plans to continue on and study medicine after completing his BSc in Biochemistry and Microbiology changed direction after becoming a presenter on campus radio.
He has since hosted premieres and awards across sports, enterprise and entertainment.
The Judges
Pete Goffe-Wood
Celebrity chef Pete Goffe-Wood made his mark on the Cape Town food scene back in the early '90s when fusion food was still a novelty in South Africa.
His bold and brave Asian-European- and African-inspired combo creations raised local food eyebrows.
Benny Masekwameng
Celebrity chef Benny was born and bred in Alexander in Johannesburg.
He graduated from what is now the Durban University of Technology with a diploma in catering management, and thereafter commenced his culinary journey, which would see him become executive chef at the then Mondo Vino restaurant at Montecasino in Fourways, Johannesburg.
Winners
Braai Bokke (Marnes van der Westhuyzen and Jean Coetzee)