Junior MasterChef

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Kelmarin ain ada tgk kat youtube satu rancangan masakan iaitu Junior MasterChef Australia (season 1)..

Yang menariknya rancangan ini merupakan satu pertandingan masakan diantara budak yg berumur 8 hingga 12 tahun...Dan masakan diorg bukan nye masakan biasa2 tapi sangat menakjubkan..Ain respect sngat diorg ni...

Kita ikuti berita ni...

MasterChef unveils its newest ingredient: kids 

FIFTY children aged between eight and 12 are vying to become finalists in Australia's first Junior MasterChef competition as the television juggernaut finds yet another way to cash in on its omnipresent profile.

The Sun-Herald can reveal the 50 children - chosen from more than 5500 applicants around the country - gathered on Friday in an industrial studio at Redfern's Technology Park.

The youngsters opened the next version of the free-to-air phenomenon under the gaze of new judge Anna Gare plus regular taste-testers Matt Preston, George Calombaris, Gary Mehigan.

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Gare, who has four children with the Australian and Chicago Bulls basketball great Luc Longley, is a celebrity cook and caterer best known until now for her pay-TV roles on The Best in Australia and more recently Quickies in My Kitchen on the LifeStyle Food channel.

She is a former musician, having achieved success in a band from Perth called the Jam Tarts.

She has also had stints acting, including in a TV miniseries, Stark, based on the book by the English comedian Ben Elton, who is married to her sister Sophie.

Gare, 41, turned down a mentor role on the original MasterChef Australia, deciding to stay in Perth with her blended family rather than move to Sydney for the filming.

''I'm thrilled and excited to be going on to such a hugely popular program,'' she said yesterday. ''I've seen some of the junior kitchen superstars in action and there is some really amazing talent there. I can't wait to get started.''

Insiders who have seen the Junior MasterChef contestants in action are amazed at their expertise.

''The one overwhelming thing I can say is that these kids don't just cook,'' said Mark Fennessy, whose company Shine Australia is producing the series for Ten. ''They absolutely blow you away with their skills and what they deliver.''

One girl showed up and confidently offered to make one of the most difficult desserts the adult MasterChef contestants have tackled, a croquembouche.

''Not only can these kids do something like that,'' Fennessy said. ''They can do it extremely well.''

The original MasterChef is a proven hit with children. Last year's ratings showed 20 per cent of the audience was made up of viewers under 15, compared with Channel Seven's Home and Away, which was on at the same time and had 11 per cent of viewers under 15.

Changes have been made to the format for the junior series - to screen on Ten over six weeks later this year - in an effort to increase that younger demographic. Exact details have yet to be announced but in Britain, where their junior version premiered two months ago, the pressure-cooker environment has been toned down.

A similar softening will be in place in Australia. ''In the eliminations, for example, four children go at a time so nobody is being singled out,'' Fennessy said.

''We'll be doing the Friday Masterclasses but they'll be more 'cook-along' rather than just instructional. The style of the judging is very positive and based on encouragement. This is more of a celebration of cooking. We're very mindful and sensitive of trying to encourage and support the kids.''

Much of the action will be based on the MasterChef kitchen but there will be off-site challenges. ''When we started MasterChef Australia we never realised the level of interest it would attract from younger viewers,'' Fennessy said.

Ada lagi berita....

In the Junior series, contestants will not be eliminated every week, though four will be eliminated at a time once the top 12 is decided.Every eliminated contestant receives a range of prices.

From left :: Pierre,Jack,Sam,Isabella,Sofia,Alex,Emily,Cassidy.

Sit from left :: Nick,Sienna,Anthony,Lucy.

Dan pemenangnya ialah.....ISABELLA

Isabella is Junior MasterChef champion

Junior MasterChef winner Isabella plans to spend her prize money on a trip to Italy and her own restaurant.

The Queensland schoolgirl has been crowned Australia's first Junior MasterChef - after defeating her own twin sister.

"We hope to share the money and save up for Italy because I've never been and I really want to go with my whole family; and put some of that towards our restaurant because that's a big dream of ours," Isabella said, The Daily Telegraph reports.

Isabella's twin, Sofia, won $5,000 for making it into the top four, bringing the twin’s total winnings to $20,000, kept in a trust fund.

The twins plan to open their future restaurant, called Is-sofia, somewhere riverside in Brisbane.

Their mother Sylvana, father Simon, and nonna Rosa said they were proud of both girls.

"They are definitely both winners to us,'' Sylvana said.

And there may be another future MasterChef winner in the family yet, with the twin’s nine-year-old brother Roman planning to apply for next year’s show.

Isabella, 12, said she felt "amazing" when the show's judges announced she would take home a $15,000 trust fund and urged her to one day open her own restaurant.

Isabella, who specialises in homestyle Italian cooking, faced stiff competition on her way to success - including her sister Sofia.

As Isabella was announced the winner on the Network Ten on Monday night, Sofia said: "I'm so proud of her. She has done an amazing job."

Australia's favourite mini chefs served up a delicious finale feast on Monday night, which saw Isabella compete against Jack, also 12, from Tasmania, in two high pressure challenges to take home the top prize.

On her win Isabella said: "I still can't believe it! The biggest dream I've ever had has come true, and to think I had my sister there with me, it feels like I won for both of us."

Since it first aired early September, Junior MasterChef scored big with viewers across the country.

The first episode enticed 2.2 million viewers, and although numbers have fallen slightly, it is still regularly attracting well over a million viewers.

 Tahniah Isabella...dia selalu m'dapat top 4 setiap minggu sbb tu boleh menang...
Best sngat2 tgk diorg msak..Walaupon diberi masa hnya sejam utk masak dua menu tapi diorg berjaya jgk menyiapkannya...Good Job...

p/s :: bilalah Malaysia nk buat rancangan seperti ni yek???...huhuhu..