MasterChef Korea Celebrity


MasterChef Korea Celebrity is a South Korean competitive cooking game show. It is spin-off of MasterChef Korea, itself an adaptation of the British show MasterChef, and features celebrity contestants. The program was broadcast on O'live from February 22 to April 12, 2013 for 8 episodes. The last winner received ₩100,000,000 and a refrigerator of the sponsor as prize.

Judges

  • Chef Kim Sohyi
  • Chef
  • Food marketing expert Noh Hee-young

Competition overview

List of episodes and detail of missions

Episode 1 (February 22)

For 60 minutes, make a most confident dish using all skills to show the passion in cooking. The winner could choose the main mission's theme ingredient first and could distribute its to other contestants.
For 60 minutes, make a dish using the kind of noodles distributed by the mystery box's winner, who was safe from elimination and did not compete in this mission: Dang-myeon, Pasta, Memil-myeon, Ssal-guksu-myeon, So-myeon, Kal-guksu-myeon

Episode 2 (March 1)

For 60 minutes, make exactly anything that chef Kang Leo has made after observing his cooking process and tasting his dish. The winner could choose the main mission's theme ingredient first and could distribute its to other contestants.
For 60 minutes, make a dish using the kind of sauce or paste distributed by the mystery box's winner: Ganjang, Gochujang, Doenjang

Episode 3 (March 8)

For 60 minutes, make dish using anything brought back by the managers, who have only five minutes to choose the ingredients.
For 10 minutes, make a gyeran-mari with ten eggs after observing the dish of Kim Seung-min, MasterChef Korea Season 1's winner. The mystery box's winner was safe from elimination and did not compete in this mission.

Episode 4 (March 15)

For 60 minutes, make a meal suitable for spring picnic and arrange in three layers of box.
Taste chef Kim Sohyi's bibimbap and guess the ingredients in it. Each contestant was called in to do the mission which would be stopped when they guess a wrong ingredient. Who have the least answers would be eliminated. The mystery box's winner was safe from elimination and did not compete in this mission.
Result : Kim Sung-soo, Son Ho-young, Shin Eun-jung, Tony An, Shin Bong-sun, Henry

Episode 5 (March 22)

For 60 minutes, make a meal suitable for children using dairy products in the box. Two child chefs appeared as the special judges for this mission.
For 60 minutes, make a special waffle dish. The mystery box's winner was safe from elimination and did not compete in this mission.

Episode 6 (March 29)

For 2 hours, make a three-meal menu for a party of 47 female guests. Five contestants divided into two teams whose the leader are the mystery box's winner and the best dish's contestant in previous episode. Guests would vote directly for their favorite dish by pressing the corresponding color button of the team.
  • Red Team : Shin Bong-sun, Fei
  • Blue Team : Hwayobi, Shin Eun-jung, Son Ho-young
For 60 minutes, make a dish using the leftover foods in fridge. Only two members of the losing team competed in this mission, team leader Hwayobi decided that she and Shin Eun-jung would compete, i.e. Son Ho-young was safe from elimination and did not compete in this mission.

Episode 7 (April 5)

For 30 minutes, make a simple and healthy breakfast using the ingredients in the box. The winner could choose the main mission's theme ingredient first.
For 60 minutes, make a dish using the theme ingredient chosen by another contestant. Except the mystery box's winner, after choosing the theme ingredient, all contestants had to invert the cooking place included their theme ingredient chosen.
  • Before: Son Ho-young, Shin Bong-sun, Hwayobi, Fei
  • After: Son Ho-young, Shin Bong-sun, Hwayobi, Fei

Episode 8 (April 12)

For 2 hours, make a Korean three-course meal.
Some guests appeared as supporters: former contestants such as Lee Kye-in, Seo Hye-jeong, Shin Eun-jung, Hwayobi, and other celebrities such as Park Jin-young, Kim Sook,, Danny Ahn, Jia, 15& and Baek A-yeon.