BBC’s Young MasterChef brought many hidden culinary talents to light last year. Young adults from all over Britain will be returning to the platform once again to showcase their skills and participate in all kinds of exciting cook-offs and other challenges.
Young MasterChef consists of unique challenges that home cooks ages 18 to 25 can participate in and put their culinary knowledge to the test. These young chefs can be waiters, homemakers, or scientists during the day, but when they’re on the MasterChef platform, they’ve only got one goal, and that’s to impress the judges and leave the show with a victory on their hands.
For the first season, the judges chosen to be on the show were Poppy O’Toole and Kerth Gumbs. Poppy is an influencer chef who has 700,000 followers on her Instagram page and makes new, interesting recipes all the time. Kerth Gumbs is a TV personality and is the head chef at Ormer Mayfair in London.
Both of the chefs are perfectly suited to judge these young cooks and guide them with the advice that could put them on the path to success. Each episode usually features new chefs from different occupations and heritages trying to win the challenge of the day.
Recap
The show started with 5 new chefs from diverse lives arriving at the opening of the brand-new kitchen. These contestants included a psychology student, a nurse, a young mother, an entrepreneur, and a DJ trying to win the challenge that judges Poppy and Kerth had given them.
Episodes usually begin with Poppy and Kerth announcing the task for the day and then giving the contestants enough time to think about what they’ll be making for the day. Once the timer begins, these home cooks will cook up their delicious meals and present them beautifully.
The chefs that we see on Young MasterChef may be young and inexperienced, but for this BBC show, all you need is culinary skills and strong enthusiasm. The first few episodes of Young MasterChef will be the selection rounds, where new chefs will be joining the judges every day.
Episode 5 of Young MasterChef was an exciting pizza night where all of the young culinary talents presented unique flavor combinations—this season also had tons of other interesting challenges, like cooking different kinds of Indian curries, making a tasty but sophisticated seafood dish, and much more.
The chefs also had to make a very complex ice cream dish that would qualify for a high-quality MasterChef dessert. Episode 9 had the four remaining contestants compete in a tough battle of street food pop-up shops, while the finale had them cooking a delicious two-course meal.
Episode Schedule
An all-new season of Young MasterChef will be coming out on January 8th, 2024. Fresh episodes of this BBC cooking competition show will be aired on Mondays, with each episode lasting for a total of 29-30 minutes. Like the first season, Young MasterChef season 2 will likely have 10 episodes.
Young MasterChef Season 2’s Episode Schedule:
- Episode 1: January 8th, 2024
- Episode 2: January 15th, 2024
- Episode 3: January 22nd, 2024
- Episode 4: January 29th, 2024
- Episode 5: February 5th, 2024
- Episode 6: February 12th, 2024
- Episode 7: February 19th, 2024
- Episode 8: February 26th, 2024
- Episode 9: March 4th, 2024
- Episode 10: March 11th, 2024
This season of Young MasterChef will showcase 9 of the best young cooks from all over Britain coming to the series to test out their culinary skills. The judges will be choosing the best ones out of the 9 young cooks.
Streaming Guide
BBC Three will take up the airing of Young MasterChef’s episodes, with new ones coming out at 8:00 PM for viewers from the UK. Besides BBC Three, episodes of this peaceful yet challenging cooking series will be available to stream on BBC iPlayer or Sky.
Episode release times of Young MasterChef in other countries:
- United States: 3:00 PM, Mondays
- Canada: 3:00 PM, Mondays
- Germany: 9:00 PM, Mondays
- Philippines: 4:00 AM, Tuesdays
- Australia: 7:00 AM, Tuesdays
After the first season of Young MasterChef managed to gather quite the attention due to its exciting challenges, BBC decided to bring the much-loved series back to television with another set of home cooks willing to put their skills to the test.
