The yummiest local cooking competition, My Kitchen Rules SA, returns to M-Net (DStv Channel 101) this September for the ultimate culinary face-off. The fast-paced and intense cooking competition will see teams of avid home cooks go head-to-head in a bid to impress their fellow competitors and celebrity judges - J'Something and David Higgs - all in the hopes of winning the R1 million grand prize.

"The pandemic has made food, cooking at home and cooking together as a family big again. All this time that South Africans have spent inside the kitchen and online following their favourite foodies raises the bar for the new season," says award-winning Chef and MKRSA judge David Higgs.

The amateur foodie pairs will start their pressure-cooker journey in an Instant Pop-up Restaurant round, where each couple will host their competitors and the two celebrity judges with a themed three-course dinner. Then, couples who avoid the chopping block in round one will proceed to the Challenge Knock-Out Competition rounds, where they will battle against each other in a series of cooking challenges at the MKR kitchen HQ and various off-site locations.