Junior MasterChef: Pinoy Edition

Episode 0

The Appetizer

Episode 1

Top 60 Heat 1

Episode 2

Top 60 Heat 2

Episode 3

Top 60 Heat 3

Episode 4

Top 30 Invention Test

Episode 5

Top 30 Pressure Test

Episode 6

Top 20 Mystery Box Challenge/Invention Test

Episode 7

Top 20 Team Challenge

Episode 8

Top 20 Basic Skills Test/Invention Test

Round 1 is squeezing of oranges. Round 2 is tomato blanching. Final round is to make a salad dressing.

Episode 9

Top 20 Pressure Test

Episode 10

Top 18 Mystery Box Challenge

Episode 11

Top 18 Invention Test

Episode 12

Top 18 Team Challenge

Episode 13

Top 18 Basic Skills Test/Invention Test

Episode 14

Top 18 Pressure Test

The bottom 6 cooks create chocolate kasuy caramel tart as their pressure test. The four pressure points are filling, crust, cooking time, and coulis. Two cooks are eliminated.

Episode 15

Top 16 Mystery Box Challenge

The top 16 cooks create a vegetarian dish out of 4 ingredients. The mystery box contains tomatoes, sayote, eggplant, mustasa, basil, pinipig, chestnuts, honey, kesong puti and silken tofu.

Episode 16

Top 16 Invention Test

The child cooks are grouped into teams of 3 members. Being the winner of the recent mystery box challenge, Philip Amarillo chooses baby back ribs as the main ingredient among lamb rack, baby back ribs and spare ribs.

Episode 17

Top 16 Team Challenge

For this off-site team challenge, cooks are grouped into green and yellow teams. They will cook lechon baboy. Also, the teams will cook two other dishes from the innards of the piglet.

Episode 18

Top 16 Catch-Up Challenge/Pressure Test

Catch-up challenge is called watch, cook and learn. First 7 kiddie cooks will qualify if they are able to create 3 50g Moroccan meatballs as their skill test. The 7 qualifying kids will cook the Moroccan meatballs with tomato sauce and couscous as demonstrated by Chef Ferns. Third, second and first place will get 2, 4 and 6 points respectively. The bottom 6 will undergo to the pressure test to cook the herb and nut buttered crusted chicken with mushroom risotto, sautéed spinach, roast garlic and basil oil. The 4 pressure points are: the crust must be crunchy and flavorful; chicken breast should be exactly cooked; risotto's consistency must be correct and the plating. Three kiddie cooks are about to be eliminated.

Episode 19

Super 12 Mystery Box Challenge

The super 12, starting with a clean slate, uncovers the mystery box with keso de bola, hamon, pineapple, lapu-lapu, elbow macaroni, marble potatoes, egg, orange juice, pili nuts, star anis, pandan, and tablea (chocolate) and will make use of at least 4 of these ingredients to cook for their "super merry dish."

Episode 20

Super 12 Invention Test/Team Challenge

For the invention test, the main ingredients are halaan, alupihang dagat and squid. Miko Manzano chooses halaan (clams). The team challenge has a theme of local gone global wherein local dishes are prepared with foreign techniques. Bianca De Vera, being the winner of the invention test, will have to choose between two set menus - green and yellow set menu. Green menu includes bulalo cabbage wrap, pinoy burrito, and banana chocnut brownies whereas the yellow menu includes bagoong sushi, adobong pusit pasta, and buko pandan shots. Bianca chooses the green menu and the kiddie cooks are divided into two groups.

Episode 21

Super 12 Catch Up Challenge

The team challenge win will be determined by the Treston Community. In the first round of the catch up challenge, kiddie cooks should name each herbs, spices and vegetables and after qualifying, they will cook a dish whose taste is determined by a roulette.

Episode 22

Super 12 Pressure Test/Top 11 Team Challenge

The bottom 8 kiddie cooks are up for elimination. They will make a variant of sans rival called Princess Carmen, a recipe by Chef Jessie Sincioco. The pressure points that must be noted are: meringue must be crunchy; the filling must be light and fluffy; assembly; presentation and plating; and the coulis. For the team challenge, green and yellow teams are led by Chefs Carlo Miguel and Hasset Go, respectively. The kiddie cooks will create the recipe called Asian Surf and Turf which consists of dumplings, beef tenderloin, potatoes, grilled asparagus, and miso soup.

Episode 23

Super 11 Invention Test

For the invention test, the junior chefs will create a recipe out of balut, the main ingredient.

Episode 24

Super 11 Team Challenge

The kiddie cooks venture into a farm and are divided into yellow and green teams. Since Kyle Imao is the recent challenge winner, he gets to pick the team he wants. The teams will cook a dish with ingredients available in the farm and cream dory as the main ingredient. Also, the teams should make pies as dessert.

Episode 25

Super 12 Catch-Up Challenge

In the catch-up challenge, kiddie cooks shall identify all 25 ingredients of the gigantic pizza for 10 minutes. The first fast 5 kiddie cooks with most number of correct answers will advance to the second round. On the second round, the kiddie cooks will create a Pinoy-styled pizza.

Episode 26

Super 11 Pressure Test/Top 10 Mystery Box Challenge

Chef Jackie Laudico presents suman-panacotta cake as the dish the bottom kiddie cooks will make. The pressure points are: the rice cake should be cooked right; the coconut cream must be mixed correctly and its gelatin must be set; mango sauce, latik glaze, and chocolate sauce must be smooth, colorful, and not crystallized; and lastly, the coconut tuile must be thin and golden brown. One kiddie cook will be eliminated. The top 10 now proceeds to mystery box challenge. The kiddie cooks will make a Korean dish made out of at least 4 non-traditional Korean ingredients from beef tenderloin, maya-maya, pechay baguio, cucumber, carrot, spring onions, azuki bean, chili flakes, sesame seeds, and nata de coco.

Episode 27

Top 10 Team Challenge

For the team challenge, kiddie cooks are divided into two groups and they are to make a super loaded carbohydrate and protein-rich dish for 20 people to be judged by the UP Dragonboat Team.

Episode 28

Top 10 Invention Test/Pressure Test

The theme of the invention test is roots to riches. The cooks will create a dish made of root crops. The winner of the team challenge has chosen ube among gabi and kamote as the main ingredient. In addition, cooks will make another dish that will complement their main dish. For the pressure test, the cooks will imitate the orange balsamic adobo of Steph Zubiri.

Episode 29

Top 10 Elimination Test

For this elimination test, the bottom junior cooks will debone a bangus for the first round and on the second round, they will create a rellenong bangus dish.

Episode 30

Top 9 Mystery Box Challenge

Episode 31

Top 9 Invention Test

Episode 32

Top 9 Team Challenge

The egg relay mini-challenge team winner is the first to pick the main ingredient among ground chicken, ground pork, or ground beef. In the main competition, the three teams will undergo into a food relay challenge wherein each team member will stop in a cooking station to prepare a dish with their chosen main ingredient.

Episode 33

Top 9 Pressure Test

Each teams will create two dishes based on the specialty dish of Gladys Reyes called Chicken Malunggay Pesto Pasta. The first dish will make use of all ingredients (basil, malunggay, cheese, pine nuts, garlic, olive oil, salt, ground chicken and pasta). The second dish is a deconstruction of the specialty dish.

Episode 34

Top 9 Elimination Test/Top 8 Mystery Box Challenge

For the elimination test, the bottom cooks will peel and devein shrimps. The cooks with least number of deveined shrimps will go to the next round. The second round will have the cooks create a shrimp dish with watermelon as one of the main ingredient. One cook will be eliminated. The top 8 mystery box challenge will have a theme of Global Pinoy. The cooks will create a dish with local and international ingredients which are bagoong, calamansi, papaya, toge, isdang dorado, cashew, and quail eggs (local) plus red sugar beets, green apple, and pancetta (international).

Episode 35

Top 8 Invention Test

The theme of the invention test is Asian flavors. The winner of the mystery box challenge, as part of his privilege, will choose the Asian cuisine (Japanese, Vietnamese, Chinese, and Indian) they will create for the rest of the kiddie cooks.

Episode 36

Top 8 Team Challenge/Pressure Test

Kiddie cooks will create a Filipino dish called sinigang and will be divided into four teams. They will be tagged by four special guests. These special guests have with them the 4 main ingredients: mango (Kakai Bautista), guava (Tado), kamias (Rubi Rubi), and sampalok (Jayson Gainza). For the pressure test, kiddie cooks will recreate Chef Buddy Trinidad's Heavenly Chocolate. The four pressure points to be followed are brownie must be moist and chewy; there must be more chocolate mousse than the peanut butter in the layering; its plating; and chocolate mousse must be smooth.

Episode 37

Top 8 Elimination Test

Episode 38

Wildcard Mystery Box Challenge

10 eliminated kiddie cooks are given the chance to clinch a spot to get in. In this wildcard mystery box challenge, the box consists of seven ingredients that represents seven colors of the rainbow: red dalagang bukid, orange kiat-kiat, yellow lomi noodles, green sili leaf, blue chocolate candies, purple kamote, and violet talong. The wildcard kiddie cooks should create a 'rainbow dish' out of these ingredients.

Episode 39

Wildcard Invention Test

The theme of the wildcard invention test is wet and wild. The top 8 kiddie cooks have the privilege to choose which among the three main ingredients (kuhol, talangka (crablets), catfish) is going to be used by the wildcard kids. The top 8 kiddie cooks will choose the best three dishes and will continue on to the next wildcard challenges and the rest of the dishes will be judged by the regular judges. Two wildcard kids will be eliminated.

Episode 40

Wildcard Skills Test/Off-site Team Challenge

Skills test has two rounds. The first round will have the wildcard kids identify the 23 ingredients of the hototay soup. The bottom pointers of that round will go to the next and will cook a soup dish. Two wildcard kids will be eliminated. In the off-site team challenge, the wildcard will cook carinderia foods: soup, ulam, desert and rice and the winner will be voted upon by carinderia patrons.

Episode 41

Wildcard Pressure Test/Special Test

In this pressure test, the wildcard kids must create the chocolate cake with strawberries and mango sauce of China Cojuangco. The pressure points are: the cake must be moist, glossy mango and chocolate gannache sauce, garnish, crunchy brandy snaps. In the special test, wildcard kids should create their own special dish.

Episode 42

Super 8 Special/Pressure Test

This time the judges will coach the young chefs then they will participate in a cook-off challenge. In the special test, young chefs should create a special sauce for a particular dish to be determined by popping a balloon. The bottom half pointers in that round will go through a pressure test. In the pressure test, they will re-create apahap with kasubha sauce on a bed of pasta. The pressure points to be considered are: apahap should be crispy on the outside and juicy in the inside, crunchy breadsticks, plating, al dente or firm pasta, and butter sauce. Af this test, two young chefs will be eliminated.

Episode 43

Super 6 Team Challenge

Kiddie cooks will be paired with their guardians (mother, father, or grandfather). However, guardians are not allowed to cook. Then they will be divided into two teams. Their main ingredient will be determined by their client who bought it in the seaside market.

Episode 44

Super 6 Mystery Box Challenge

In mystery box challenge, the super 6 children will make use of three pair of ingredients to make a dish from the mystery box which are: sago and gulaman, mango and bagoong, tokwa't baboy, tomato and itlog na pula. The highest pointer will automatically advance to final 4.

Episode 45

Super 6 Invention Test

For this invention test mud crabs, chosen by the judges, is the main ingredient. Kiddie cooks will create their own mud crab dish. One kiddie cook is allergic to the crabs. At the end, three kiddie cooks will advance to final 4.

Episode 46

Finale