Season 5 · Episode 1 — Quest for the Apron (1)
Sixteen of the country's finest junior home cooks compete for eight of the Top 20 spots of the season. After being split into four groups, each with a distinct signature dish, the kids get started. Only two contestants from each group will find out if they will succeed in moving on to the next round of challenges.
Season 5 episodes
E1Sixteen of the country's finest junior home cooks compete for eight of the Top 20 spots of the season. After being split into four groups,…
E2The remaining junior chefs compete for the final 12 spots in the Top 20. Making dishes ranging from cupcakes, to steak and lobster, the you…
E3The Top 20 face the season's first mystery box challenge, during which they must cook dishes using both sweet and savory ingredients. Later…
E4The Top 18 return to the kitchen to face off in 2 challenges. In the first, the young cooks are split into teams and have 10 minutes to mak…
E5The Top 16 face off in their first team challenge, during which they cook lunch for first responders. Each team will have to create a dish…
E6The Top 14 junior home cooks receive a mystery box challenge inspired by the White House garden from former First Lady Michelle Obama. The…
E7Guest judge Richard Blais enters the kitchen to see what the kids can cook up. In the first challenge, the Top 12 junior home cooks team up…
E8Guest judge Richard Blais enters the kitchen once again, but not to judge the remaining 10 junior home cooks. There's a big surprise in the…
E9The Top 12 junior home cooks take their talents to the great outdoors, where they will cook for America's Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts. For t…
E10In the first challenge, the young chefs are split into teams of two and must replicate a gingerbread house. Then, in the next challenge, Aa…
E11MasterChef welcomes guest judge Chef Edward Lee...and the contestants' families! In the season's first mystery box challenge, the junior ho…
E12The Top 6 are split up into two teams, and have 75 minutes to create an entrée for VIP guests who range from firefighters to professional s…
E13The remaining young cooks face a high-pressure team challenge, during which they must cook for food critics, chefs and journalists at a pop…
E14The Top 4 are in for a sweet challenge, as they recreate a chocolate molten lava cake to perfection. The winner will receive a huge advanta…
E15In the last cook-off of the season, guest judges Wolfgang Puck and Martha Stewart join, as the two finalists prepare a three-course meal fr…