NaN/100 votesLoading...#1 - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 3/2/2018
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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#2 - The Boys Are Back in Town
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 3/2/2018
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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#3 - Recipe for Love
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 3/9/2018
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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#4 - American Classics
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 3/16/2018
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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#5 - Recipe for Love
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 3/23/2018
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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#6 - No Sugar, Sugar
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 3/30/2018
The junior home cooks face a mystery box challenge that tasks them with making desserts using natural sweeteners other than sugar.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#7 - Donut Sweat It
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 4/6/2018
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.
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6.0/101 votesLoading...#8 - Room Service
Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 4/13/2018
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.
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6.0/101 votesLoading...#9 - Tag Team
Season 6 Episode 9 - Aired 4/13/2018
The remaining junior chef-testants have 45 minutes to create dishes inspired by their families using farm fresh ingredients.
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6.0/101 votesLoading...#10 - Under Pressure
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 4/20/2018
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.
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6.0/101 votesLoading...#11 - A Can Do Attitude
Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 4/20/2018
Then, the remaining home cooks create their own unique dishes but must use one common ingredient: chocolate.
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6.0/101 votesLoading...#12 - Popup Restaurant
Season 6 Episode 12 - Aired 5/4/2018
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.
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6.0/101 votesLoading...#13 - Grandma Gordon
Season 6 Episode 13 - Aired 5/4/2018
The remaining junior home cooks prepare dishes inspired by their grandmothers.
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6.0/101 votesLoading...#14 - The Finale Pt. 1
Season 6 Episode 14 - Aired 5/18/2018
After a season's worth of challenges that tested the cooking abilities of young contestants from across the nation, only three junior home cooks remain.
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6.0/101 votesLoading...#15 - The Finale Pt. 2 The Winner
Season 6 Episode 15 - Aired 5/18/2018
The final three contestants carry on cooking their 3-course meal. In the end, only one will be crowned the winner and receive a check for $100,000.
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6.4/1032 votesLoading...#16 - Girl Power
Season 7 Episode 10 - Aired 5/7/2019
The Top 10 face a difficult team challenge in which they prepare dishes for a group of important female role models, who will determine who make it to the Top 8; the losing team must replicate a 3-Michelin-star dish after a Gordon masterclass.
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6.5/1024 votesLoading...#17 - Finale
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 5/18/2017
In the last cook-off of the season, guest judges Wolfgang Puck and Martha Stewart join, as the two finalists prepare a three-course meal from scratch. In the end, only one will be crowned the winner and receive a check for $100,000.
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6.8/1026 votesLoading...#18 - Tag Team
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 4/20/2017
MasterChef welcomes guest judge Chef Edward Lee...and the contestants' families! In the season's first mystery box challenge, the junior home cooks must prepare a delicious dish of their choice, inspired by their families. Then, in the next challenge, the young cooks team up in pairs to replicate a sushi platter and the judges will decide which two kids will go home.
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6.8/1023 votesLoading...#19 - The Semi-Finals
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 5/18/2017
The Top 4 are in for a sweet challenge, as they recreate a chocolate molten lava cake to perfection. The winner will receive a huge advantage and could win a spot in the final round. Next up is the elimination challenge, during which each contestant will have to create a dish using one of the world’s most popular meats. Two of the young chefs will be sent home, leaving only two to battle it out for the grand prize.
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6.8/1038 votesLoading...#20 - Punch And Munch
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 3/17/2022
Sixteen pint-sized chefs from all around the country earn their white aprons and are tasked with their first challenge: a secret item they must use as the star of their dish. The cooks must impress judges Gordon Ramsay, Aarón Sánchez, and Daphne Oz.
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6.9/1032 votesLoading...#21 - Kitchen Emergency
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 3/9/2017
The 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 featuring a delicious filet mignon and the guests will vote on which is better - the team with the most votes will win the challenge. Then, it's up to the judges to determine which two cooks from the losing team will head home.
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6.9/1031 votesLoading...#22 - A Presidential Mystery Box
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 3/16/2017
The Top 14 junior home cooks receive a mystery box challenge inspired by the White House garden from former First Lady Michelle Obama. The young cooks must come up with an original recipe that is both healthy and presidential worthy, and the winner will receive a special once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! For the next challenge, Julie Bowen steps into the MasterChef kitchen to watch the kids make a dish in honor of their moms. Then, it's up to the judges to decide which contestant will go home.
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6.9/1027 votesLoading...#23 - Pie-Eyed
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 3/23/2017
Guest 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 into groups of three and have 10 minutes to make as many pies as possible. The winning team will be safe from elimination and will get to give the judges a sweet surprise! For the next challenge, the young chefs must use a blow torch to make either an appetizer, entrée, or dessert using ingredients from the MasterChef pantry. Then, it's up to the judges to decide who stays and who goes home.
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6.9/1025 votesLoading...#24 - The Finale
Season 8 Episode 16 - Aired 6/23/2022
Two finalists compete for the $100,000 prize; the chefs must create an entrée and dessert that best represents themselves.
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6.9/1018 votesLoading...#25 - Gordon Demo
Season 9 Episode 8 - Aired 5/6/2024
The remaining four chefs must cook alongside Gordon Ramsey himself; tasked with replicating one of Gordon's iconic duck dishes, each contestant must match Gordon's pace, precision and passion.
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The Worst Episodes of MasterChef Junior
Every episode of MasterChef Junior ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of MasterChef Junior!
American version of the culinary competition series that gives talented kids between the ages of 8 and 13 the chance to showcase their culinary abilities...
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Network:FOX
Worst Episodes Summary
"Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" is the worst rated episode of "MasterChef Junior". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 3/2/2018. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Boys Are Back in Town".