Junior Chef Showdown: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Small cooks display extra-large talent on Junior Chef Showdown, a new culinary competition series that showcases the abilities of extraordinary young chefs between the ages of 9 and 13. Each week they face a Skills Test and a Cooking Challenge that determine who leaves the kitchen and who survives to cook another day. Tackling everything from fresh pasta to hand-whipped meringue to perfect medium rare steak, the junior chefs wow with their technique and creativity, as well as their boundless enthusiasm and support for one another. 

Celebrity chefs Lynn Crawford, Anna Olson and Jordan Andino judge and mentor the participants, taking on the difficult task of honing the original 14 down to just three. The finalists go head to head for the Junior Chef Showdown title which comes with a cash prize of $25,000 and a family vacation courtesy of Air Transat.

Series details

• Title: Junior Chef Showdown
• Format: Reality
• Language: English
• Genres: Food
• Premiere date: 2020-04-19
• Status in TVmaze: Running
• Network listed by TVmaze: Flavour Network
• Network country: Canada
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 48008
• TVDB ID: 381118

Cast and credited roles

• Lynn Crawford — Judge/Mentor
• Anna Olson — Judge/Mentor
• Jordan Andino — Judge/Mentor

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2020-04-19; final listed air date 2020-06-07; episode order: 8.
• Season 2: premiered 2021-04-26; final listed air date 2021-06-13.

Source and licence

Adapted from Junior Chef Showdown on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.