Episode
MasterChef Junior: The Boys Are Back in Town
Overview
The 40 junior home cooks are split up into two groups – girls and boys. All 20 boys must prepare the perfect chicken breast dish. Only 12 winners earn an apron and a chance to move on.
Details
- Series
- MasterChef Junior
- Season
- Season 6
- Episode
- Episode 2
- Air date
- 2018-03-02
- Runtime
- 42 min
Episode context
The Boys Are Back in Town is Episode 2 in Season 6 of MasterChef Junior. It aired on 2018-03-02. The runtime is 42 min.
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Episode 1: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
The 40 junior home cooks are split up into two groups – girls and boys. All 20 girls are tasked with making a flawless medium-rare filet mignon dish. Only 12 winners earn an apron and a chance to move on.
Episode 3: Recipe for Love
The Top 20 face a team challenge to prepare a lunch service for a wedding party of 75 guests, which will consist of racks of lamb and pan-seared halibut.
More episodes from this season
Episode 4: American Classics
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.
Episode 5: Recipe for Love
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.
Episode 6: No Sugar, Sugar
The junior home cooks face a mystery box challenge that tasks them with making desserts using natural sweeteners other than sugar.
Episode 7: Donut Sweat It
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.
Episode 8: Room Service
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.
Episode 9: Tag Team
The remaining junior chef-testants have 45 minutes to create dishes inspired by their families using farm fresh ingredients.
Episode 10: Under Pressure
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.
Episode 11: A Can Do Attitude
Then, the remaining home cooks create their own unique dishes but must use one common ingredient: chocolate.
Episode 12: Popup Restaurant
The junior chefs cook for 30 MASTERCHEF JUNIOR alumni at a pop-up restaurant. The losing team will head back to the MASTERCHEF kitchen for a pressure test designed by Season Five winner Jasmine Stewart.
Episode 13: Grandma Gordon
The remaining junior home cooks prepare dishes inspired by their grandmothers.