Bid now for the chance to cook dinner with Josh Reisner and Adaiah Stevens in your tri-state area home.
Josh and Adaiah competed in Season 2 of Fox's MasterChef Junior, a new culinary competition series for talented kids between the ages of eight and 13 who love to cook, as part of a new multi-year deal with award-winning chef Gordon Ramsay.
“MasterChef Junior” is nothing like other cooking shows. As Time’s James Poniewozik wrote, "it’s the best cooking show on television, and much of that is because the show is genuinely enthusiastic about demonstrating and teaching cooking, where other shows focus on product placement and drama". “MasterChef Junior”, a twist on FOX's "MasterChef" competition, follows 16 of the nation's best home cooks aged 8 to 13 as they battle for a $100,000 prize. Each week, contestants face elimination from the competition while enduring the scrutiny of notoriously tough chef Gordon Ramsay and his two co-judges, Joe Bastianich and Graham Elliot.
Josh Reisner, age 11, is a native New Yorker and has been cooking for over five years and was in the top 8 of MasterChef Junior, Season 2. He loves to make comfort-food inspired dishes, and his favorite meal to cook is his braised short ribs with mashed potatoes, wilted spinach and braised cippolini onions. Josh has a real passion for food and loves to eat oysters, sushi, pork belly and artisinal ramen and wants to inspire kids everywhere to cook. On weekends and the summer, you can usually spot Josh helping out at Smorgasburg in Brooklyn, or experimenting with ramen when he's not trying out new foods in New York City.
Adaiah Stevens started cooking at age 4, beginning with cookies and quickly graduating to more complicated dishes, such as fish and filet mignon. Today, she's a culinary whiz, whipping up fare as diverse as French macarons and Japanese curries. Adaiah was one of the top 4 contenders of MasterChef Junior, Season 2 and cooks inpiring dishes for her family every day. Her signature dish is Salmon with lemon butter sauce on a bed of kale and sweet potato stir-fry. Adaiah loves putting twists on classic dishes and making them her own. Though she's not even in high school yet, Adaiah has high culinary ambitions, which include opening a bakery and starting a line of gluten-free desserts.
Now you can cook with two of these junior MasterChefs — with their super-sized passions for cooking and food.