Junior MasterChef

{{about|the original British series|adaptations|#International versions}}

{{Use British English|date=January 2012}}

{{Infobox television

| genre = Cookery

| creator = Franc Roddam
Karen Ross
John Silver

| presenter = Loyd Grossman
John Torode
Donal Skehan
Nadia Sawalha

| narrated = India Fisher
Sharon Horgan

| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| runtime = 25–30 minutes

| num_series = 5 (original)
3 (revival)

| num_episodes = 65 (original)
38 (revival)

| company = Shine TV and Ziji Productions

| network = BBC One

| network2 = CBBC

| first_aired = {{Start date|1994|08|14|df=y}}

| last_aired = {{End date|1999|08|01|df=y}}

| first_aired2 = {{Start date|2010|05|10|df=y}}

| last_aired2 = {{End date|2014|11|21|df=y}}

| related = MasterChef UK

}}

Junior MasterChef is a British TV cookery competition, broadcast by the BBC, in which nine to twelve-year-olds compete to be crowned "Junior MasterChef". It is a spin-off from the main British series of MasterChef.

Junior MasterChef first ran from 1994 to 1999, presented by Loyd Grossman. After a long hiatus, it was revived in 2010 in a revamped format,{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/08_august/24/junior.shtml |title=CBBC gets children cooking as Junior MasterChef is announced |publisher=BBC Press Office |date=24 August 2009 |access-date=30 November 2010}} presented by writer and actress Nadia Sawalha, who won the 2007 series of Celebrity MasterChef, and professional chef John Torode, who also presents MasterChef. The revival series was commissioned by CBBC controller Anne Gilchrist and produced by Shine Television and was broadcast on CBBC and BBC One. A further series was commissioned in 2012 for broadcast on CBBC[https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2012/junior-masterchef.html BBC – Media Centre – Junior MasterChef returns to CBBC] and again in 2014.

Original series

Based on the MasterChef format, and using the same set, the original Junior MasterChef was for cooks up to the age of 16. It ran from 1994 to 1999 and was presented by Loyd Grossman.

Revival series

Junior MasterChef was briefly revived in 2008 for a Children in Need special after the success of the 2006 series. It was won by Billy.

The first new series, targeting children aged 9 to 12, premiered on 10 May 2010 on CBBC. India Fisher continued to provide the voiceover, and the judging panel consisted of John Torode and former Junior MasterChef champion, Lawrence Julian Roberts.

Georgia, who turned 13 by the time the finals occurred, was the 2010 winner.[https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2010/05_may/28/junior.shtml BBC – Press Office – CBBC's search for Junior Masterchef 2010, winner revealed] From the 2012 series, Sawalha was replaced by Irish cook Donal Skehan.{{cite web|url=https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2012/1004/440658-skehand/

|title=Skehan is Junior MasterChef UK judge |publisher=RTÉ.ie |date=4 October 2012 |access-date=28 October 2017}}

Age limit rules

The online application formhttp://downloads.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/beonashow/junior-masterchef-application-form.pdf {{Dead link|date=February 2022}} for the CBBC series filmed in 2012 clearly shows that applicants had to be between 8 and 13 years old on 6 August of that year. Filming of the early heats would start on that same date.

Winners

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Year

! Winner

1994

| Camilla Askaroff

1995

| Lawrence Julian Roberts

1996

| Lucy Wright

1997

| Jamie Lee Morgan

1998

| Adam Cowley

1999

| Tim Walmsley

2010

| Georgia Bradford

2012

| Tom Barlow-Kay{{Cite web|url=http://www.stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk/news/10068192.stroud-schoolboy-tom-barlow-kay-12-wins-junior-masterchef/|title = Stroud schoolboy Tom Barlow-Kay, 12, wins Junior MasterChef| date=25 November 2012 }}

2014

| Phoebe Riley

Transmissions

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Series

! Start date

! End date

! Episodes

colspan="4"|Original series
1

| 14 August 1994

| 13 November 1994

| 13

2

| 16 July 1995

| 22 October 1995

| 13

3

| 4 August 1996

| 27 October 1996

| 13

4

| 11 March 1998

| 31 May 1998

| 13

5

| 18 April 1999

| 1 August 1999

| 13

colspan="4"| Revived series
1

| 10 May 2010

| 28 May 2010

| 13

2

| 5 November 2012

| 23 November 2012

| 15

3

| 10 November 2014

| 21 November 2014

| 10

International versions

Legend:

{{Color box|#92FF8D|border=darkgray}} Still in production  

{{Color box|#FF7777|border=darkgray}} No longer airing  

class="wikitable"
CountryNameHost(s)JudgesNetworkAir dates
style="background-color: #FF7777"|{{flagu|Albania}}

| MasterChef Junior Albania

| Redjan Mulla (narrator)

| Sokol Prenga
Xheraldina Vula
Julian Zguro

| RTSH

| 27 March 2018 – 12 June 2018 (season 1)

style="background-color: #FF7777"| {{flagu|Australia}}

| Junior MasterChef Australia

| George Calombaris
Gary Mehigan
(Season 1-2)
Andy Allen
Melissa Leong
Jock Zonfrillo

| Gary Mehigan
George Calombaris
Matt Preston (Season 1)
Anna Gare
Matt Moran (Season 2)
Andy Allen
Melissa Leong
Jock Zonfrillo

| Network Ten

| 12 September 2010 – 15 November 2010 (Season 1)
25 September 2011 – 23 November 2011 (Season 2)
11 October 2020 (Season 3)

style="background-color: #FF7777"| {{flagu|Belgium}} {{in lang|nl}}

| Junior MasterChef Belgium

| unknown

| Wout Bru
Fatima Marzouki

| vtm

| 18 January 2012 – 2012

style="background-color: #FF7777"| {{flagu|Brazil}}

| MasterChef Junior

| Ana Paula Padrão

| Erick Jacquin
Paola Carosella
Henrique Fogaça

| Band

| 20 October 2015 – 15 December 2015

style="background: #90EE90"|{{Flagu|Canada}}
{{Flagu|Quebec}}

|MasterChef Junior Québec

| colspan="2" |Martin Picard

Stefano Faita

|TVA

|April 2025 – present {{small|(Season 1)}}

style="background-color: #92FF8D"|{{flagu|Chile}}

| Junior MasterChef Chile

| Diana Bolocco

| Christopher Carpentier
Yann Yvin
Ennio Carota

| Canal 13

| 21 March 2016 – present

style="background-color: #FF7777"| {{flagu|Finland}}

| Junior MasterChef

| colspan=2|Tomi Björck
Meri-Tuuli Lindström

| Nelonen

| 19 August 2012 – 7 October 2012

style="background-color: #FF7777"| {{flagu|France}}

| Junior MasterChef

| Carole Rousseau

| Frédéric Anton
Yves Camdeborde
Sebastian Demorand

| TF1

| 22 December 2011; 5 July 2012; 27 December 2013

style="background-color: #FF7777" rowspan=2| {{flagu|Greece}}
{{flagu|Cyprus}}

| rowspan=2 |Junior MasterChef Greece

| Maria Mpekatorou

| Yiannis Loukakos
Lefteris Lazarou
Dimitris Skarmoutsos

| Mega Channel

| 27 November 2011 – 5 February 2012

colspan=2 | Eleni Psyhouli
Manolis Papoutsakis
Magky Tabakaki

| Star Channel

| 13 September 2018 - 24 December 2018

style="background-color: #FF7777"| {{flagu|Hungary}}

| MasterChef Junior Hungary

| {{N/A}}

| István Pesti
Zsófia Mautner
Bence Szendrei

| Viasat 3

| 13 October 2018 – 15 December 2018

style="background-color: #FF7777"| {{flagu|India}}

| Junior Masterchef Swaad Ke Ustaad

| {{N/A}}

| Kunal Kapoor
Vikas Khanna
Surjan Singh Jolly

| Star Plus

| 17 August 2013 – 2 November 2013

style="background-color: #FF7777"| {{flagu|Indonesia}}

| Junior MasterChef Indonesia

| {{N/A}}

| Arnold Poernomo
Degan Septoadji (Season 1)

Rinrin Marinka
Bara Pattiradjawane (Season 2)

| RCTI

| 6 April 2014 – 17 March 2015

style="background-color: #92FF8D"| {{flagu|Israel}}

| Junior MasterChef Israel

| unknown

| |Haim Cohen
Eyal Shani
Micahl Anski
Yonatan Rochfeld:he:אייל שני

| Channel 2
(Keshet)

| 22 April 2012 – present

style="background-color:#92FF8D"| {{flagu|Italy}}

| Junior MasterChef Italia

| Joe Bastianich
Carlo Cracco

| Bruno Barbieri
Lidia Bastianich
Alessandro Borghese

| Sky Uno
Cielo

| 13 March 2014 – present

style="background-color: #92FF8D"|{{flagu|Jordan}}

|Junior MasterChef Jordan

| Mahmoud Al-Omari

| Soumia Khalifa
Ahmed Saaed
Firas Mamdouh

| Amman TV

| 6 May 2019 − present

style="background-color: #92FF8D"| {{flagu|Morocco}}

| ماستر شيف جونيور
(MasterChef Junior Morocco)

| Mariam el Kamil

| Mariam Ettahri
Moha Fdal
Khadija Bensdira

| 2M

| 9 October 2018 – present

style="background-color: #92FF8D"|{{flagu|Mexico}}

| Junior MasterChef México

| Anette Michel

| Adrián Herrera Díaz
Benito Molina Dubost
Betty Vázquez

| Azteca Trece (Azteca)

| 3 April 2016 – 3 July 2016
5 March 2017 – present

style="background-color: #92FF8D" rowspan=2|{{flagu|Netherlands}}

| Junior MasterChef

| {{N/A}}

| Alain Caron
Peter Lute

| Net 5

| 28 November 2011 – 24 December 2011

Junior MasterChef

| {{N/A}}

| Alain Caron
Ron Blaauw

| SBS 6

| 12 October 2012 – present

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| Junior MasterChef Pinoy Edition

| Judy Ann Santos-Agoncillo

| Fern Aracama
Rolando Laudico
JP Anglo

| ABS-CBN

| 27 August 2011 – 18 February 2012

style="background-color: #92FF8D"| {{flagu|Poland}}

| Masterchef Junior

| Michael Moran

| Michael Moran
Mateusz Gessler
Anna Starmach

| TVN

| 21 February 2016 – 24 April 2016 (Season 1)
19 February 2017 – 23 April 2017 (Season 2)

style="background-color: #92FF8D"| {{flagu|Portugal}}

| Masterchef Júnior

| Teresa Fernandes (narrator)

| Manuel Luís Goucha
Rui Paula
Miguel Rocha Vieira

| TVI

| 22 May 2016 – 31 July 2016 (Season 1)
2017 (Season 2)

style="background-color: #FF7777"| {{flagu|Russia}}

| MasterChef Deti

| colspan="2" | Alexandr Belkovich
Andrey Shmakov
Giuseppe D'Angelo

| STS

| 7 November 2015 – 25 December 2016

style="background-color: #92FF8D"| {{flagu|Spain}}

| MasterChef Junior

| Eva González

| Pepe Rodríguez
Jordi Cruz
Samantha Vallejo-Nágera

| La 1

| 23 December 2013 – 6 January 2014 (Season 1)
30 December 2014 – 3 February 2015 (Season 2)
1 December 2015 – 5 January 2016 (Season 3)
20 December 2016 – 17 January 2017 (Season 4)
20 December 2017 – TBA 2018 (Season 5)

style="background-color: #92FF8D"| {{flagu|Sweden}}

| Sveriges yngsta mästerkock

| colspan=2|Tina Nordström
Leif Mannerström
Markus Aujalay

| TV4

| 9 April 2014 – present

style="background-color: #92FF8D"| {{flagu|Taiwan}}{{zh}}

| Kid's Kitchen

| colspan=2|William Hsieh
Big Stomach
LIZ
SOAC

| CTS

| September 2015 – present

style="background-color: #92FF8D" rowspan=2|{{flagu|Thailand}}

| Junior MasterChef Thailand

| colspan=2|Patiparn Pataweekarn
Ban Boribun
Chatchaya Ruktakanit

| Channel 3

| 3 February 2013 – 2 June 2013

MasterChef Junior Thailand

| Piyathida Mittiraroch

| M.L. {{ill|Pasan Sawasdiwat|th|หม่อมหลวงภาสันต์ สวัสดิวัตน์}}
M.L. {{ill|Kwantip Devakula|th|หม่อมหลวงขวัญทิพย์ เทวกุล}}
Pongtawat Chalermkittichai

| Channel 7

| 19 August 2018

style="background-color: #92FF8D"| {{flagu|Turkey}}

| MasterChef Junior Turkey

| colspan=2|Danilo Zanna
Somer Sivrioğlu
Mehmet Yalçınkaya

| Exxen

| 2021

rowspan=2 style="background-color: #92FF8D"| {{flagu|Ukraine}}

| MasterChef Dity (Kids)

| rowspan=2 colspan=2| Hector Jimenez-Bravo (1-2)
Tatiana Litvinova (1-2)
Mykola Tischenko (1)
Sergey Kalinin (2)
Dmitriy Gorovenko (2)

| rowspan=2| STB

| rowspan=2| 3 February 2016 – 25 May 2016 (Season 1)
31 January 2017 – 30 May 2017 (Season 2)
January 2018 (Season 3)

MasterChef Pidlitky (Teens)
style="background-color: #92FF8D"| {{flagu|United States}}

| MasterChef Junior

| Gordon Ramsay

| Joe Bastianich (Seasons 1-3 & 6)
Graham Elliot (Seasons 1-4)
Christina Tosi (Season 4-)
Aaron Sanchez (Season 7)

| Fox

| 27 September 2013 – present

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{{flagu|Vietnam}}

| Junior MasterChef Vietnam

|{{N/A}}

|Jack Lee
Phan Tôn Tịnh Hải
Alain Nguyễn

| VTV3

| 2 October 2016 – present

In the Taiwanese version, the series is based on the same concept as Junior Masterchef, but there are no mystery box challenges, and there are no eliminations (but there had been cases where a contestant has quit the competition for health reasons). After the first individual challenge, there are a series of team challenges, where team captains cannot enter the pantry, the person who earns the most points (doubled as a winning team captain in team challenges) wins. The eventual winner will receive home appliances instead.

See also

References

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