Season 3 premieres Sunday, October 11 at 7.30pm.
10 could have chosen to start the show on October 4 but it is Labor Day long weekend in ACT, NSW and SA.
Queenâs Birthday in Qld too.
New promo with premiere date added.
The contestant profiles were posted 10Play this morning. As promoted previously, Ryan is the son of 2018 MasterChef winner Sashi Cheliah.
The Top 14 Mini MasterChefs Are Here.
Junior MasterChef Australia. Premieres Sunday, 11 October At 7.30pm On Network 10.
Almost 2,000 aspiring young cooks aged 9-14 from right around the country applied to follow their food dreams and become part of Junior MasterChef Australia 2020.
A talented final crop auditioned in front of judges Jock Zonfrillo, Melissa Leong and Andy Allen before the Top 14 talented tiny chefs-in-the-making were selected and handed their coveted aprons, walking through the famous doors to take their places in the competition.
Having grown up watching their idols in the very same MasterChef kitchen, itâs now their turn to fire up the ovens, get their pots and pans, and race to the pantry to create the most inventive, incredible and delicious dishes they have ever cooked to impress the judges, and special guest chefs alike.
Are they up to the task? YES CHEF!
Letâs meet the Top 14 contestants: Ben, Carter, Dev, Etka, Filo, Georgia, Laura, Phenix, Porsha, Ruby, Ryan, Salvo, Tiffany and Vienna.
Whatever happened to that?
They just rewrote the article because it was incorrect. 
Itâs entirely possibly 10 couldâve delayed launching the series by 2 weeks, they are clearly fumbling for any content to fill the schedule at the moment.
TV Week is holding a reader competition in which you can win one of 25 official Junior MasterChef apron prize packs, consisting of two denim aprons (adult size and children size). Entries close October 11 at 11.59pm AEDT.
Notice the gong behind Jock in the first promo? Thatâs the immunity gong the kids would compete for in the first episode (rather than the immunity pin in the original version).
Synopsis for week one:
Sunday 11 October (90 minutes)
The top 14 mini cooks have an open pantry to create their signature dish. The top two dishes will win the chance to use the immunity gong and save themselves from elimination during the competition.
Monday 12 October
Collecting their own honey from a beehive, contestants must create a sweet or savoury dish that heroes honey. The best two dishes win immunity from the first elimination.
Tuesday 13 October (90 minutes)
The first elimination starts out with a blindfold taste test. Those who move into the second round must cook a dish that the judges can eat using only a spoon, chopsticks, or a real life human hand.
Mel has been doing interviews ahead of the showâs return this Sunday. She was in TV Week last week and The Sunday Telegraph yesterday. Today she is on advertising news site B&T.
The show retained many elements from MasterChef: Back to Win earlier this year - weekly immunity, all-in elimination, individual plates for judges during testing, contestants wearing gloves while handling ingredients, and social distancing (including kitchen benches at a small angle to the back wall to achieve 1.5m distance).
According to the preview, guests for this season of JMC include Back to Win champion Emelia Jackson, Kirsten Tibballs, Darren Purchese and Curtis Stone (via a pre-recorded video from his Los Angeles home).
Overall I think it was a great first episode.
Agree.
I thought the gong was a good change, and the graphics package has been refreshed a little, which is nice to see.
Curtis Stone would have made an appearance in person if was not due to the covid-19 restrictions and lockdowns mind you
I notice that Bunnings is a sponsor of Junior MasterChef, providing the plants and wheelbarrow for the garden outside the kitchen. This is the first time the hardware chain sponsors the MC franchise.
I was disappointed there was no intro for tonightâs episode. The intro featuring every contestant in action with a song playing in background has been a feature since the original MasterChef Australia began in 2009.
In tonightâs episode, the kids had to get honey from a beehive provided by Australian firm Flow Hive.
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Tonightâs episode of Junior MasterChef features a sweet surprise!
(Founder Cedar Anderson)'s sister, (and talented beekeeper) Mitra, joined 14 contestants on set to help educate on the importance of bees, how honey is made and to help the kids harvest their very own fresh honey straight from the hive.
With their hero ingredient collected, what will the contestants make and which contestants will claim immunity? We canât wait to find out.
Tune in tonight at 7:30pm on Channel 10. Link in bio & stories.
Congratulations to all the budding chefs involved!
@JohnsonTV iâm bummed also not seeing the intro also, but you do remember this was filmed during Melbourneâs Stage 4 Lockdown
Not sure about the correlation between those two variables. If they were able to produce the show under lockdown then surely they could do the opener (they could really just rip footage from each episode and put it on the intro).
I wondered if 10 and Endemol Shine skipped the opener to save on music rights fees? They had featured Katy Perryâs Hot n Cold in the intro since the original version began in 2009, and must have paid the record company a lot of money each year to use the track.
The song featured on the first two seasons of JMC was Kids by Robbie Williams and Kylie Minogue.
Unrelated side note: back during the original Junior MC, wasnât it a different production company to the main version (which I think at the time was Neighboursâ company Fremantle)