The worst episodes of MasterChef Junior
Ranked by viewer rating, lows first. Lit marks on the season rail place this list across the run. Vote on a placement to back it or contest it.
- 01
In this week's mystery box challenge, the junior home cooks must craft desserts using natural sweeteners in place of sugar. The winner will receive a sweet surprise and have his or her signature recipe featured in Family Circle magazine! Later, in an intense elimination challenge, each young cooks must prepare a dish inspired by his her family's heritage. It is then up to the judges to decide who stays and who goes home.
- 02
Award-winning chef and MASTERCHEF host Gordon Ramsay looks back at his favorite moments from this season, and charts the extraordinary journey this talented group of junior home cooks has taken.
- 03
Junior Edition: The Big Bake Sale
The eight remaining junior chefs split into teams for a bake sale challenge.
- 04
The Top 12 have just 15 minutes to make as many eggs benedict dishes as they can. Later, they must prepare one of the most difficult egg dishes of all time.
- 05
Junior Edition: Daphne's Baby Shower
The remaining chefs split into two teams and create the ultimate savory and sweet balanced meal.
- 06
Junior Edition: Totally Egg-streme!
Chefs must create a dish with an egg of their choice, ranging from a quail egg to an ostrich egg.
- 07
Twelve young home chefs enter the kitchen to battle it out for the trophy and the grand prize.
- 08
The Top 22 split up into teams and must prepare as many perfect-looking milkshakes as they can in just 10 minutes. The winning teams will be safe from elimination and one unlucky judge will get a sweet surprise! Then, the rest of the junior cooks will each have to put their own personal twist on a classic chicken-and-waffles dish. It is then up to the judges to decide who stays and goes home.
- 09
The junior home cooks split into two teams and take over the kitchen at an upscale hotel in Los Angeles, where they will be in charge of running room service during breakfast for guests at the hotel.
- 10
The remaining junior chef-testants have 45 minutes to create dishes inspired by their families using farm fresh ingredients.
- 11
The remaining home cooks create their own unique dishes but must use one common ingredient – chocolate.
- 12
Award-winning chef and MASTERCHEF host Gordon looks back at his favorite moments from this season, and charts the extraordinary journey this talented group of junior home cooks has taken.
- 13
Junior Edition: Punch and Munch
The contestants must punch a hole through a wall of mystery ingredients.
- 14
Junior Edition: Taste It, Make It
Fifteen chefs remain and must join together in groups to create show-stopping pizzas.
- 15
Junior Edition: All's Fair At Ren Faire
The remaining 14 junior chefs split into two teams to prepare a medieval-themed dish.
- 16
Junior Edition: Donut Holes & Hold Your Nose
The panel challenges the remaining 13 cooks to make one of their favorite treats: doughnuts.
- 17
Junior Edition: Where's Walnuts?
After facing a nutty mystery box challenge, 11 junior chefs compete in an elimination challenge.
- 18
Junior Edition: Motocross Mayhem
Teams must create the best American-style dishes for a team of hungry motor sports racers.
- 19
Junior Edition: Jalapeño Business
The remaining junior chefs must create one of the most popular fried, feisty and spicy finger foods.
- 20
Junior Edition: The Road to the Finale
Gordon Ramsay recaps some of the biggest moments of Season 8 of "MasterChef: Junior Edition."
- 21
The chefs are tasked with preparing hearty meals for the Harlem Globetrotters.
- 22
School's Out... But the Masterchef Kitchen is Open!
The Top 12 junior home cooks compete in the season's first mystery box challenge and must create an impressive dish using only the mystery ingredients. Later, the judges task the kids to each create an elevated, restaurant-quality burger in only 60 minutes. Find out which kids made the most delicious burger and advance to the next round.
- 23
The Top 20 junior home cooks face an out-of-this-world Mystery Box challenge with special guest astronaut Tracy Dyson, during which they must prepare a unique dish that highlights a stellar ingredient. The one who rockets to the top will have a significant advantage in the elimination challenge, when the contestants will be tasked with creating a stunning and delicious fish dish in order to move onto the next round.
- 24
The Top 20 face their toughest team challenge yet: preparing lunch service for a wedding of 75 guests. Both sides will be cooking racks of lamb and pan-seared halibut, and it will be up to the judges to decide which team wins and who from the losing team will head home.
- 25
The junior chefs split up into pairs and have to decorate and frost as many specialty donuts as they can in just 10 minutes, all while being tied by the ankle to their partner! Later in the kitchen, Gordon Ramsay's daughter, Matilda, gives the contestants a masterclass on how to make her version of a hamburger and French fries. Then, the junior chefs must do their best to replicate it before the judges determine who will be sent home.
