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MasterChef Junior: Season 7

15 episodes Premiered Mar 12, 2019 Updated Oct 2, 2026

Season Seven will showcase a mystery box challenge focusing on the most important meal of the day – breakfast. Additionally, the young chef-testants will attend and prepare a meal for 51 circus performers, create a restaurant-quality fish dish, compete to see which team can first roll out a perfect sheet of pasta to 24 feet and power through the fan-favorite pop-up restaurant challenge, until one talented kid is name

Previously on MasterChef Junior

Season 7 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of MasterChef Junior Season 6.
  • ⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • ⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • ⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
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Season overview

Season Seven will showcase a mystery box challenge focusing on the most important meal of the day – breakfast. Additionally, the young chef-testants will attend and prepare a meal for 51 circus performers, create a restaurant-quality fish dish, compete to see which team can first roll out a perfect sheet of pasta to 24 feet and power through the fan-favorite pop-up restaurant challenge, until one talented kid is named America’s newest MASTERCHEF JUNIOR, taking home the MASTERCHEF JUNIOR trophy and $100,000 grand prize.

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Season 7 Episodes

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S7·E1 Mytharc

New Kids on the Block

Mar 12, 2019 · 42 min

Twenty-four junior home cooks from across the United States visit the MasterChef kitchen and immediately face difficult lunch and breakfast challenges that include mystery box chal

S7·E2 Core

Going Bananas

Mar 12, 2019 · 42 min

Twenty-four junior home cooks from across the United States visit the MasterChef kitchen and immediately face difficult lunch and breakfast challenges that include mystery box chal

S7·E3 Core

Under the Big Top

Mar 19, 2019 · 42 min

The 20 junior home cooks face a carnival-themed challenge that will test their leadership and communication abilities as they prepare meals for Circus Vargas performers.

S7·E4 Core

Off The Hook

Mar 26, 2019 · 42 min

The 18 remaining junior home cooks must prepare a worthy dish with a fish that they must debone entirely on their own in the hopes of winning a special advantage; the cooks reflect

S7·E5 Core

Something to Trifle With

Apr 2, 2019 · 42 min

The Top 16 junior home cooks are split into three teams before they are given only 20 minutes to create as many delicious English trifles as possible; the team that fails to impres

S7·E6 Core

Quacking Under Pressure

Apr 9, 2019 · 42 min

The top 14 junior home cooks face a difficult mystery box challenge where they must learn to butcher an entire duck and make a dish from it; The cooks are paired up and challenged

S7·E7 Core

Camp MasterChef

Apr 16, 2019 · 42 min

The Top 14 young home cooks visit the great outdoors to feed hungry campers with delicious recipes that may be featured in a magazine; the losing team faces a pressure test to make

S7·E8 Core

Kidz Bop Kitchen

Apr 23, 2019 · 42 min

The Top 12 are visited by the children from Kidz Bop, who introduces a special twist on the young cook's next mystery box challenge; the winning cook secures a needed advantage in

S7·E9 Core

Pasta Race

Apr 30, 2019 · 42 min

The Top 10 junior home cooks are put into teams and compete against one another to roll out the longest pasta sheet that they can make as quickly as they can; The losing team faces

S7·E10 Core

Girl Power

May 7, 2019 · 42 min

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 mu

S7·E11 Core

Too Corny

May 14, 2019 · 42 min

The Top Eight are put into pairs and must overcome a mystery box challenge that tests their creativity as they must use corn to create a delectable dish, after which they get ready

S7·E12 Core

The Restaurant Takeover

May 21, 2019 · 42 min

The Top Six cooks are given full control over the kitchen at Mélisse, a Michelin Star-rated restaurant in Los Angeles, where they must appease hungry and expectant guests who will

S7·E13 Core

The Semi-Final

May 28, 2019 · 42 min

The junior home cooks face their final mystery box challenge, which tests their ability to create a dish that draws inspiration from their loved ones; those who risk elimination el

S7·E14 Mytharc

The Finale, Part 1

Jun 4, 2019 · 42 min

Twenty-four junior home cooks have been whittled down to just the final three, who give their last-ditch efforts to impress the judges with the best three-course meal that they hav

S7·E15 Mytharc

The Finale, Part 2

Jun 4, 2019 · 42 min

The final three junior home cooks continue to try to impress the judges by creating the best three-course meal to win the $100,000 grand prize.

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