MasterChef Junior (U.S. season 3)
MasterChef Junior (U.S. season 3) | |
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Country of origin | United States |
No. of episodes | 8 |
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Original network | Fox |
Original release | January 6 – February 24, 2015 |
Season 3 of the American competitive reality television series MasterChef Junior premiered on Fox on January 6, 2015.
The winner was Nathan Odom, a 12-year-old from San Diego, California, with 11-year-old Andrew Zappley from West Deptford, New Jersey being the runner-up.
Top 19
Contestant[1] | Age | Hometown | Status | Winnings |
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Nathan Odom[2] | 12 | San Diego, California | Winner February 24 | 5 |
Andrew Zappley[2] | 11 | West Deptford, New Jersey | Runner-Up February 24 | 4 |
Jimmy Warshawsky [3] | 12 | Santa Clarita, California | Eliminated February 17 | 5 |
Jenna Kloner[4] | 12 | New York, New York | 5 | |
Ayla Destiny[5] | 11 | St. Louis, Missouri | Eliminated February 10 | 1 |
Kayla Mitchell[6] | 11 | Center Moriches, New York[6] | 1 | |
Riley Hahn[7] | 8 | Carrollton, Texas | Eliminated February 3 | 0 |
Ryan Kate Brandenburg[8] | 11 | Coppell, Texas | 1 | |
Jack Lembeck [9] | 12 | Chicago, Illinois | Eliminated January 27 | 1 |
Cory Nieves[10] | 9 | Englewood, New Jersey | 1 | |
Kyler Bock[11] | 10 | Coto de Caza, California | Eliminated January 20 | 0 |
Mia Wurster[12] | 10 | Menlo Park, California | 1 | |
Alexis Higgins[13] | 8 | Gilroy, California | Eliminated January 13 | 0 |
Micah Sanders[14] | 9 | Detroit, Michigan | 0 | |
AJ Espinoza | 10 | Freeport, New York | Eliminated January 6 | 0 |
Jianna Garcia[15] | 9 | Providence Village, Texas | 0 | |
Parker LaRocco[16] | 11 | New Buffalo, Michigan | 0 | |
Philly Vazzana[17] | 9 | Chicago, Illinois | 0 | |
Quincy Jamieson[11] | 12 | Los Angeles, California | 0 |
Elimination table
Place | Competitor | Episode | ||||||||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |||||||||
1 | Nathan | IN | IN | IMM | IN | IN | WIN | IN | IN | WIN | IMM | WIN | IN | WIN | WINNER | |
2 | Andrew | IN | WIN | IN | LOW | WIN | IMM | IMM | IN | IN | WIN | WIN | IN | IN | RUNNER-UP | |
3 | Jimmy | IN | WIN | WIN | IN | IN | LOW | IMM | WIN | IN | WIN | LOW | WIN | ELIM | ||
4 | Jenna | WIN | IMM | IMM | WIN | IN | WIN | WIN | LOW | HIGH | IN | WIN | IN | ELIM | ||
5 | Ayla | IN | IN | IMM | IN | IN | IN | IMM | WIN | IN | IN | ELIM | ||||
6 | Kayla | WIN | IMM | IMM | IN | IN | IN | IMM | LOW | IN | LOW | ELIM | ||||
7 | Riley | IN | IN | IMM | IN | HIGH | IN | IMM | IN | IN | ELIM | |||||
8 | Ryan Kate | IN | WIN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IMM | IN | HIGH | ELIM | |||||
9 | Cory | IN | IN | IMM | LOW | IN | WIN | IN | ELIM | |||||||
10 | Jack | WIN | IMM | IMM | IN | HIGH | IN | IMM | ELIM | |||||||
11 | Kyler | IN | IN | IMM | IN | IN | ELIM | |||||||||
12 | Mia | IN | IN | IMM | WIN | IN | ELIM | |||||||||
13 | Alexis | IN | IN | IMM | ELIM | |||||||||||
14 | Micah | IN | IN | IMM | ELIM | |||||||||||
15 | AJ | IN | ELIM | |||||||||||||
16 | Jianna | IN | ELIM | |||||||||||||
17 | Parker | IN | ELIM | |||||||||||||
18 | Philly | IN | ELIM | |||||||||||||
19 | Quincy | IN | ELIM |
- (WINNER) This cook won the competition.
- (RUNNER-UP) This cook finished in second place.
- (WIN) The cook won an individual challenge (Mystery Box Challenge or Elimination Test).
- (WIN) The cook was on the winning team in the Team Challenge and directly advanced to the next round.
- (HIGH) The cook was one of the top entries in the individual challenge but didn't win.
- (IN) The cook wasn't selected as a top or bottom entry in an individual challenge.
- (IN) The cook wasn't selected as a top or bottom entry in a Team Challenge.
- (IMM) The cook didn't have to compete in that round of the competition and was safe from elimination.
- (IMM) The cook was selected by the Mystery Box Challenge winner and didn't have to compete in the Elimination Test.
- (LOW) The cook was one of the bottom entries in an individual challenge but wasn't the last person to advance.
- (LOW) The cook was one of the bottom entries in an individual challenge and the last person to advance.
- (LOW) The cook was one of the bottom entries in a Team Challenge, and their team was last to advance.
- (LOW) The cook was one of the bottom entries in a Team Challenge and the only person from their team to advance.
- (ELIM) The cook was eliminated.
Episodes
No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Original air date | U.S. viewers (millions) |
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15 | 1 | "The Class of 2015" | January 6, 2015 | 5.33[18] |
The episode begins with all 19 kids (Jenna, Quincy, Andrew, Micah, Jimmy, Nathan, Mia, Philly, Kayla, Riley, Jack, A.J., Ryan Kate, Alexis, Parker, Jianna, Kyler, Cory, and Ayla) running into the MasterChef kitchen. The judges announce that their aprons are hidden in the pantry, and all the kids go and find them. When they return, the kids open their mystery boxes. They must create a restaurant quality dish using: salmon, mango, corn, broccolini, ginger, soy sauce, coconut milk, puff pastry, and tomatillos, as well as the staple pantry box. When they are done, the top three dishes are Jenna's coconut rice pudding with mango-mint compote, Jack's broiled salmon wrapped in Swiss chard and over a coconut fish broth, and lastly, despite accidentally cutting herself during cook time, Kayla's mango turnovers with coconut creme anglaise and mango coulis. In a surprise result, all three contestants end up winning the challenge as the judges felt it was such a close call that they couldn't choose one winner, and they go into the pantry with the judges to find out their advantage.
The theme of the Elimination Challenge was Pasta. The three choices were Ravioli, Lasagna, and Pappardelle. Since Jenna, Jack, and Kayla won the mystery box challenge, not only that they're safe from elimination and don't have to participate in this challenge, they got to choose which pasta the other contestants got to make. Jenna, Jack, and Kayla chose the Pappardelle for the other contestants to cook. The top three dishes which received rave reviews were Andrew's bacon crème sauce Pappardelle; Ryan Kate's Pappardelle with tomato-mushroom basil sauce; and despite having troubles in the end, Jimmy's Pappardelle with vodka (no vodka) sausage sauce. Despite being the youngest contestant, Riley's Pappardelle with tomato-shallot sauce also received great reviews from the judges. AJ's Pappardelle with Mexican Oregano tomato sauce has uneven pastry and the flavors didn't work as the judges commented it was a "fusion confusion". Despite her confidence, Jianna's Pappardelle with pesto sauce has uneven cut and size on her pasta, which resulted in unevenly cooked pasta. Quincy's Pappardelle with tomato sauce was so overcooked that it tasted like "mush" and the sauce was a bit too spicy. Parker's Pappardelle with spicy Italian sausage was described by Joe as "boiled pasta with meat", due to Parker not serving a sauce. Philly's Pappardelle with red sauce tasted bland, as it lacked salt. The judges called down Jianna, Quincy, Parker, Philly, AJ, Ryan Kate, Jimmy, and Andrew. The Judges say that Jimmy, Ryan Kate, and Andrew had the best dishes of the night. Thus eliminating a teary-eyed Jianna, Quincy, Parker, Philly, and AJ. The Judges tell them to keep their heads up high and to keep cooking. | ||||
16 | 2 | "Easy as Pie" | January 13, 2015 | 4.93[19] |
Since Andrew, Jimmy, and Ryan Kate had the best dishes from the previous challenge, they participated in this challenge, while the other contestants sat out. Andrew, Ryan Kate, and Jimmy had to whip up enough meringue for 12 lemon meringue pies. The first person to finish not only gets an advantage in the next challenge, but the winner gets to throw their pie with the most meringue either on Gordon, Graham, or Joe's face. In the end, Jimmy wins and gets to throw his pie onto Graham's face, much to Andrew's dismay.
After Jimmy won the individual challenge, the contestants compete in a team challenge to make sausages and prepare them for the judges. Since Jimmy won the previous challenge, he got to choose the teams. Targeting Andrew for elimination, he pairs him with Cory, who he thinks over-complicates dishes and will bring his biggest competition down. He then asks Kyler to join him. The other teams consisted Mia and Jenna, Ayla and Riley, Jack and Nathan, Ryan Kate and Kayla, and Micah and Alexis. While cooking, Cory and Andrew still are deciding on a dish, and Cory keeps getting ingredients from the pantry, much to Andrew's frustration. The two continued to have severe disagreements during cooking and fragmented as a team. Most of the other team worked reasonably well together with little disagreements. In the end, Mia and Jenna's pork and chorizo sausage with sauerkraut and roasted potatoes received rave reviews for the dish's rustic charm and perfect seasonings, and they was declared as the winners of this team challenge. Despite the fact that Ayla and Riley had to rush to cook their sausage in the last 10 minutes due to forgetting to boil their water earlier, their English pork and sage sausage with mustard mashed potatoes and onion gravy was well liked by the judges. Jack and Nathan's veal and boar sausage with polenta and spinach, and Ryan Kate and Kayla's pork and venison sausage with sauteed vegetables and polenta were both well received by the judges. Three teams didn't fare so well. Micah and Alexis cooperate excellently, but their pork sausage with white bean and Swiss chard stew was not well-received as their sausage were only composed of lean meat and falls apart when cut and tasted bland, and moreover, the beans were undercooked and the stew lacked seasonings. Jimmy and Kyler's pork and kangaroo sausage with egg and fennel salad received decent reviews, but their use of kangaroo in their sausage was not too well received and their sausage was dry. Andrews and Cory's chorizo and pork sausage with spinach and spaetzle received poor reviews as their sausage is dry and the spinach is bland, and the judges express a lot of disappointment in their team work and overall performance during the challenge. Bottom 4: Andrew, Cory, Alexis, and Micah Eliminated: Alexis and Micah Ultimately the judges decide that Micah and Alexis's stew was worse than Andrew and Cory's teamwork and they were eliminated | ||||
17 | 3 | "Grandad Gordon!" | January 20, 2015 | 5.53[20] |
Eliminated: Mia and Kyler Ultimately the judges save Jimmy for having a better dish than the other two, but is warned to get a grip by Graham leading to the elimination of Kyler and Mia. | ||||
18 | 4 | "Raw Talent" | January 27, 2015 | 5.15[21] |
Bottom 4: Jenna, Kayla, Jack, and Cory Despite Jenna's continuous errors and Kayla's declining performances, Jack and Cory are eliminated for having the worst sushi platter of the night, along with their declining performances as competitors, much to the shock of the other contestants. | ||||
19 | 5 | "Family Style" | February 3, 2015 | 4.96[22] |
Bottom 3: Kayla, Riley, and Ryan Kate In the end, the judges decide to save Kayla once again, eliminating a teary-eyed Riley and Ryan Kate, much to the other contestants devastation. Before they leave, Gordon asks them who will become the next MasterChef Junior. Ryan Kate says Nathan will win the competition while Riley says Andrew or Jimmy will take the title. However, the judges tell Kayla to get it together after being in the bottom 3 for the second time in a row. | ||||
20 | 6 | "Restaurant Takeover" | February 10, 2015 | 4.57[23] |
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21 | 7 | "Sunny-Side Up" | February 17, 2015 | 5.48[24] |
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22 | 8 | "The Finale" | February 24, 2015 | 4.83[25] |
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References
- ↑ "Meet The Junior Chefs of Season 3" (Press release). 2014-12-19. Retrieved 2014-12-20.
- 1 2 "Nathan Odom Wins ‘Masterchef Junior’ Season 3". February 24, 2015. Retrieved February 27, 2015.
- ↑ Michele Buttelman (February 17, 2015). "Jimmy Warshawsky Eliminated From ‘MasterChef Junior’ Just Short Of Finale". Retrieved March 5, 2015.
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- ↑ "Riley Hahn of ‘MasterChef Junior’ Season 3". December 20, 2014. Retrieved March 2, 2015.
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