Top Chef Junior

Season 1

Season 1 Contestants

Elimination table

Episodes

Episode 1: Dishing Up Dreams

• Quickfire Challenge: Transform your family favorite meal into a restaurant quality masterpiece
• * Winner: Milo
• Elimination Challenge: Create a dish that showcases your food dream
• Guest judge: Richard Blais
• * Winner: Rahanna
• * Out: Fernando

  Episode 2: Food Truck Frenzy

• Quickfire Challenge: Highlight your cooking technique in a dished based on a memorable adventure
• * Winner: Jasmine
• Elimination Challenge: In less than 24 hours, open 3 food trucks to the public

• Guest judge: Dave Danhi
• * Winner: Fuller
• * Out: Katelyn

  Episode 3: Battle of the Buds

• Quickfire Challenge: Create an ice cream dessert
• * Winner: Jasmine
• Elimination Challenge: Create a dish highlighting one of the five tastes

• Guest judge: Brooke Williamson
• * Winner: Audrey
• * Out: Max

  Episode 4: Chef's Best Friend

• Quickfire Challenge: Make a gourmet dog treat
• * Winner: Milo
• Elimination Challenge: Create a cohesive meal using ingredients typically found in your refrigerators at home

• Guest judge: Sherry Yard
• * Winner: Rahanna
• * Safe: Jasmine

  Episode 5: Food Fight!

• Quickfire Challenge: Impress Bryan Voltaggio and Michael Voltaggio with your culinary skills
• * Winner: Owen
• Elimination Challenge: Four head-to-head 30 minute food fight rounds coached by Bryan and Michael Voltaggio

• Guest judge: Tito Ortiz
• * Winner: Kenzie
• * Out: Audrey

  Episode 6: It's No Cake Walk

• Quickfire Challenge: In pairs, using only one hand each, make a dozen cupcakes
• * Winner: Henry & Maxine
• Elimination Challenge: Bake a 14-inch extreme cake

• Guest judge: Joshua John Russell
• * Winner: Rahanna & Milo
• * Safe: Maxine
• * Withdraw: Fuller

  Episode 7: Glow Big or Go Home

• Quickfire Challenge: Make a dish using a cut of beef selected from the "Beef or Buzzer" game board
• * Winner: Rahanna
• Elimination Challenge: Using at least one ingredient that glows, make a late night dish for Maisy Stella's Glow Party
• Guest judge: Casey Thompson
• * Winner: Milo
• * Out: Maxine

  Episode 8: Field Day!

• Quickfire Challenge: Create an elevated nacho dish
• * Winner: Milo
• ** The overall winner won a Buzzfeed Tasty Video prize. The top 3 in the quickfire challenges also won immunity.
• Elimination Challenge: Create a spin on burger & fries or BBQ plate with a side & sauce
• Guest judge: Nick Lachey
• * Winner: Milo
• * Out: Kenzie

  Episode 9: Un-bee-lievable

• Quickfire Challenge: Make a dish highlighting honey
• * Winner: Henry
• Elimination Challenge: Create a kids' menu with an elevated entrée, side & dessert
• Guest judge: Emeril Lagasse
• * Winner: Owen
• * Safe: Milo

  Episode 10: Restaurant Wars

• Quickfire Challenge: Create an amuse-bouche
• * Winner: Rahanna
• Elimination Challenge: Create and design 2 restaurants to open in 24 hours

• For winning the quickfire challenge, Rahanna was assigned to both teams
• Guest judge: Cat Cora
• * Winner: Henry
• * Out: Jasmine

  Episode 11: The Claw

• Quickfire Challenge: Cook a lobster dish using the basic pantry or add ingredients from the claw game
• * Winner: Henry
• Elimination Challenge: Create an exotic surf & turf dish
• as Henry wins, he is allowed to choose a protein and then no one is allowed to choose that protein
• Guest judge: Dave Salmoni
• * Winner: Milo
• * Out: Henry

  Episode 12: Cooking for Treasure

• Quickfire Challenge: "Keepin' Up With Curtis." Chefs are challenged to replicate Head Judge Curtis Stone's dish alongside him.
• * Winner: Milo
• Elimination Challenge: After a tiki-themed scavenger hunt at Universal Orlando Volcano Bay, create a Polynesian luau
• Guest judge: Roy Yamaguchi
• * Winner: Milo
• * Safe: Rahanna

  Episode 13: Lemon Aid

• Quickfire Challenge: At the Houdini Estate, chefs must unlock boxes to retrieve proteins.
• * Winner: Owen
• Elimination Challenge: As part of a fundraiser in connection with Alex's Lemonade Stand, chefs must prepare a dish featuring lemons.
• Guest judge: Susan Feniger
• * Winner: Owen
• * Out: Milo

  Episode 14: You Are Top Chef Junior!

• Quickfire Challenge: None
• Elimination Challenge: The chefs were asked to create a three-course meal representing their culinary past, present and future.
• Guest judges: Antonia Lofaso, Tiffany Derry
• * Winner: Owen
• * Out: Rahanna

  Season 2

Season 2 Contestants

Elimination table

Episodes

Episode 1: Stirring Up a Celebration

• Quickfire Challenge: Make a perfect bite with food from a Buffet in 30 Minutes
• * Winner: Carson
• Elimination Challenge: Showcase your Dish for a Food Festival
• Guest judge: Richard Blais
• * Winner: Eric
• * Bottom Three: Nikki, Londyn, Tyler
• * Out: Tyler

  Episode 2: Sunny Side Up

• Quickfire Challenge: Create a Unique Ramen Dish in 20 Minutes
• * Winner: Kate
• Elimination Challenge: Make a Brunch Dish and serve it to judges on Hotel Rooftop.
• * Winner: Ella
• * Bottom Three: Londyn, Noah, Sophie
• * Out: Sophie

  Episode 3: Rolling In Dough

• Quickfire Challenge: Create a spin on Pizza.
• * Winner: Simon
• Team Challenge: Make a kid-friendly dish with ingredients given.
• Yellow Team: Eric, Londyn, Nikki, Noah, Olivia
• Blue Team: Carson, Ella, Kate, Rogers, Simon
• * Team Challenge Winners: Eric, Londyn, Nikki, Noah, Olivia
• * Winner: Londyn
• * Bottom Three: Carson, Kate, Rogers
• * Safe: Kate

  Awards and nominations