Junior MasterChef

Do you like cooking? Did your grandma used to make amazing food and did she give you her secret recipes? When your friends were learning to ride a bike were you in the kitchen learning how to chop, slice, boil and fry? Are you creative? Have you got your own recipes? Would you like to  be the best chef? Can you cook under pressure and think on your feet?

If you can answer ‘yes’ to a few of these questions, then how about being a contestant on Junior MasterChef?  Junior MasterChef is a BBC TV series where children in the UK enter a cooking competition to be the best young cook in the country.

There were over two thousand applicants for the first series of Junior MasterChef but only 32 children could get through to the televised heats. In the grand finale, two chefs were asked to make their own three-course meal for the presenters. They received very good comments from the judges. The winner was 13-year-old Georgia Bradford.

The TV programme now has an American version. One of the judges on the American programme, which is called MasterChef Junior, is the famous chef Gordon Ramsay. The winner of the programme in the USA gets an amazing prize of $100,000. You can also enter the competition in many different countries, including Australia.

Even if you can only cook a little and only have a few cooking skills, remember that cooking is an important life skill. You might not win Junior MasterChef but cooking can be a brilliant hobby and it is easy to find simple recipes in cook books and online.