Alex Gearing

50 young cooks gather for the first round of challenges after being selected from over 5,000 Junior Masterchef applicants.

The remaining thirty kids compete to secure a place in the Top 20 by cooking their best dishes for the judges.

The top 20 contestants put their skills to the test as they cook in an invention test with two core ingredients.

The top 12 contestants arrive in the MasterChef Kitchen for the first time and compete in a mystery box challenge.

In their first offsite challenge, the kids are divided into teams to take over a high school tuck shop for the day.

In their first taste test, the contestants must guess the ingredients in a giant 8.5 metre-long pizza.