The junior chefs show kindness and help each other out, but someone must still be chopped by a judging panel featuring Maneet Chauhan, actor Rico Rodriguez and Fabio Viviani.
The junior chefs are asked to create meals their mums would love that will also impress judges Maneet Chauhan, Cooking Channel's Haylie Duff and actress Alison Sweeney.
The appetiser round features a weird hot dog and a cheese that doesn't want to melt; retro candies result in some surprising pops in the entrée plates; cookie dough in the dessert basket.
Some sugary items in the first basket have the competitors wondering how to create balanced fish dishes; time management issues create big problems for one junior chef.
Rings of meat and doughnut hybrids find their way to the grill pans in round one; the judges are happy to see a select piece of beef in the second basket; fruit on the grill in the dessert round.
A new round of talented junior chefs storms the kitchen. After some heart-shaped pasta in the appetiser round, cookies and milk are discovered in the dessert basket.
Ted Allen
Host
Amanda Freitag
Other
Marc Murphy
Alex Guarnaschelli
Scott Conant