MasterChef Thailand season 3

MasterChef Thailand is the Thai version of the competitive reality TV series MasterChef which premiered on Channel 7 on February 3, 2019.

Episodes

Episode 1

Original airdate: Sunday 3 February 2019

30 contestants started the competition, but only 19 will advance to the next round. In the first round of auditions Quest, Max, Chanon, Aek, Toei, Pond, Ram, Mark, Jringjung, Perth, Nuey, New, Mind, Korn and Lukkate won their aprons.

Eliminated: Boom, Ton, Golf, Fang, and Loom

The 10 remaining contestants are given another chance to win their aprons, but in a twist the judges will eliminate those that made the worst dishes immediately. In this round Paope, Robert, and Ball won their aprons and Gino won the last spot in the Top 19.

Eliminated Immediately: Q and Korn
Eliminated: Maprang, Xngun, Pan Pan, and Arm

Episode 2

Original airdate: Sunday 10 February 2019

Mystery Box Challenge 1: Main ingredient: Durian

Time: 60 minutes
Three best dishes: Quest, Robert and Toei
Winner: Toei

In this round, the judges have picked six bottom dishes below. For the rest that did not get called may immune to the next round.

Bottom six: Perth, Korn, Lukkate, Nuey, Ram and Mind

Invention Test 1: Main ingredient: Khaki

Time: 60 minutes
Bottom three: Nuey, Korn and Mind

After this round ends, Nuey, Korn and Mind got chosen as bottom three. Since Toei won the Mystery Box round, she gets to save one contestant from three. As a result, Toei chose to save Nuey.

Eliminated: Mind and Korn

Episode 3

Original airdate: Sunday 17 February 2019

Team Challenge 1: Cook bento set with desert for 201 banana boat riders.

Location: Nonthaburi Pier

Since Toei wins the first mystery box, she get to choose her own teammates from the 17 contestants. She chose Chanon, Quest, Perth, Ball, Nuey, Gino, Lukkate, and Paope. The rest will be formed as a team and get to choose their own team captain, which is Robert.

Team captain	Members
Toei	Perth, Chanon, Nuey, Ball, Quest, Lukkate, Gino and Paope
Robert	Ram, Mark, Aek, Pond, New, Max and Jringjung

For the bento set, both teams need to have five different servings with a dessert in Thai cuisine for 201 banana boat riders.

Time: 90 minutes for preparing, and 60 minutes for serving.

As a result, red team won blue team with score of 123 to 78.

Winners: Red team

Pressure Test 1: Deep-fried catfish
Original: The deep-fried catfish needs to be crispy, and has a diameter at least seven inches. They also need to serve it with Yum Mango.

Time: 50 minutes
Bottom three: Robert, Aek and Jringjung
Eliminated: Jringjung

Episode 4

Original airdate: Sunday 24 February 2019

Mystery Box Challenge 2: Beef offal
For this week's mystery box is the beef offal, in which the contestants will not know what parts will they receive. Before opening, the contestants have to go into the supermarket for their menu. After opening, there are eight different parts, which including tenderloin, sirloin, calf, and T-bone in easy, blood and cowhide in medium, tail and testicles in challenging.

Time: 60 min.
Three best dishes: Quest, Ball and Gino
Winner: Ball

Invention Test 2: Main ingredient: Cow gut

Time: For this round, each contestants will receive a different amount of times, which are 60 min, 45 min, and 30 min, managed by Ball. He chose to have 60 min for Toei, Nuey, New, Perth and Gino, 45 min for Chanon, Quest, Max, Ram and Mark, and 30 min for Aek, Lukkate, Robert, Pond and Paope. Instead, people with 30 minutes get to immune to the next round.
Winner: Gino
Bottom three: New, Mark and Ram
Eliminated: Ram

Episode 5

Original airdate: Sunday 3 March 2019

Mystery Box Challenge 3: Canned food to fine-dining
Since Gino won the last round, he deserves a chance to take away 10 cans from a contestant, which is Ball.

Time: 60 min
Three best dishes: Max, Quest and Paope
Winner: Quest

Invention Test 3: Main ingredient: Stingray.
In this round, Quest get to choose her seven opponents to compete. She chose to have Ball, Mark, Aek, Robert, Pond, Chanon and Perth. The rest that didn't get called may immune to the next round.

Time: 60 minutes

As a result, Mark did the best, Ball in second.

Winner: Mark
Bottom two: Robert and Perth
Eliminated: Perth

Episode 6

Original airdate: Sunday 10 March 2019

Team Challenge 2: Cook main dish with a dessert for 302 students and 11 principals.

Location: Tea Oil and Plant Oils Development Center- Chiang Rai

For today's team challenge, all 14 contestants receive a 75-minute free flight to Chiang Rai, which is more than 900 kilometers away from Bangkok. Nonetheless, they all will be facing on one of the hardest team challenge in Masterchef Thailand history when they've arrived.
Mark and Ball, winners from the previous challenge, now get to choose their own teammates. After choosing, the judges have them switch teammates that they've chosen.

Team captain	Members
Mark	Quest, Robert, Pond, Gino, Max and Nuey
Ball	New, Paope, Toei, Aek, Lukkate and Chanon

Today, both teams have to cook main dish with a dessert for 302 students age 7-10 using ONLY veggies and grains. Plus, they also have to cook them to Dr. Sumet Tantivejkul, a Secretary General of the Chaipattana Foundation, with faculty principals of 11 people within the development center.

Time: 2 hours for preparing, 60 minutes for serving.

As a result, red team won blue team with the score of 163 to 150.

Winners: Red team

Pressure Test 2: Raspberry soufflé
In this round, Mark, the team captain, get to choose his three teammates to immune to the next round. He choose to save Nuey, Gino, and Quest. Instead, that chance now belongs to the team captain from the winning team, which is Ball. He decided to save Nuey, Gino, and Robert.

Save: Nuey, Robert and Gino

For this pressure test, Mark, Quest, Pond, and Max have to face a challenge from a special guest: Chef Gai Thananya Wilkinson. Her signature dish today for the four contestants to complete is Raspberry soufflé.

Time: 45 minutes

As a result, there are three people whose soufflé are not fully cooked. However, Max and Mark are the bottom two, because their soufflé were more undercooked.

Bottom two: Max and Mark
Eliminated: Mark

Episode 7

Original airdate: Sunday 17 March 2019

Mystery Box Challenge 4: Japanese ingredients + lobsters into modern cuisines.

Time: 60 minutes
Four best dishes: Quest, Lukkate, Pond and Chanon
Winner: Pond

Invention Test 4: Making a dessert dish
In this round, Pond gets to choose a main ingredient to the 12 other contestants. He chose:

Main ingredient	People
Mixed berries	Ball, Robert, Max and Paope
Coconut	Nuey, New, Chanon and Lukkate
Bitter melon	Gino, Aek, Toei and Quest

Time: 90 minutes

After the taste, Toei did the best, Quest in second.

Winner: Toei
Bottom three: Lukkate, Gino and Nuey
Eliminated: Nuey

Episode 8

Original airdate: Sunday 31 March 2019

Team Challenge 3: Cook 3 different flavor sausages to 101 paramotor riders.

Location: Si Racha, Chonburi

Today's team picking will be different. Both Toei and Quest have to select team members for the other team. Since Toei ranks first last week, she gets to pick first.

Team captain	Members
Toei	Pond, Robert, Aek, Ball and Gino
Quest	Paope, Max, Chanon, Lukkate and New

For today's team challenge, both teams have to cook three different flavor sausages with two sides to 101 paramotor riders. There are conditions to both teams that the sausages needs to be creative, and weigh at least 100 grams each.

Time: 90 minutes for preparing, 60 minutes for serving.

As a result, red team won blue team with score of 71 to 30.

Winners: Red team

Pressure Test 3: Ravioli egg-yolk
Original: The egg yolk needs to be raw after the judge cuts down the ravioli. The pasta needs to be fully cooked, and has a diameter of at least four inches. They also need to create their own sauce and the fillings in the dish.

Time: 40 minutes
Bottom two: Robert and Aek
Eliminated: Robert

Episode 9

Original airdate: Sunday 7 April 2019

Mystery Box Challenge 5: Making desserts without milk and cream.

Time: 90 minutes
Three best dishes: Quest, Max and Paope
Winner: Max

Invention Test 5: Main ingredient: Frogs
For today's invention test, Max gets to choose a main ingredient for everyone to cook. There are quails, frogs, and eels. In these three choices, Max chose frogs for everyone to compete. After the rest of 10 contestants get to shop in the supermarket, Max deserves another chance to switch all of four people's ingredients that they have brought. Max chose Quest and Aek to switch, also did Ball and Toei.

Time: 60 minutes
Winner: Chanon
Bottom three: Ball, Gino and New
Eliminated: New

Episode 10

Original airdate: Sunday 14 April 2019

Team Challenge 4: Cook an assigned Korean cuisine set.
Since Chanon won the last challenge, he deserves a chance to pair up every contestants including himself, in which he chose:

Groups	Members
1	Gino and Lukkate
2	Quest and Max
3	Pond and Toei
4	Ball and Paope
5	Chanon and Aek

There is a special guest today which is Chef Art, who will be given today's challenge. He brought his Korean cuisine set including Korean fried chicken, Kimchi-jjigae, Tteokbokki, and Bibimbap. Chef Art did demonstrate the steps on how to make these dishes. The 10 contestants will have 90 minutes to cook all four dishes, and they will not be working together at once. Meaning, there will be one person cooks and another stays aside the station. They will need to switch places when the 15-minute alarm is up.

Time: 90 minutes

As a result, Ball and Paope did the best, while Quest and Max are in second. For Ball and Paope, they deserves to be team captains for the next team challenge.

Winners: Ball and Paope

Pressure Test 4: Baking large-size macarons
In this round, the six contestants will need to create two flavors of macarons, and 12 pieces total.

Time: 60 minutes
Bottom three: Pond, Aek and Gino
Eliminated: Aek

Episode 11

Original airdate: Sunday 21 April 2019

Team Challenge 5: Cook four assigned signature dishes to 50 VIPs

Location: Tamsui Fisherman's Wharf- Taipei, Taiwan

For this week's team challenge, the nine contestants each receives a flight ticket to Taiwan. The flight is four hours long, and it's the biggest team challenge in Masterchef Thailand's history. Sadly, Chanon cannot fly to Taiwan with the other contestants due to his high fever. This makes him have to compete Pressure Test with the losing team.
For this team challenge, both team captains got to choose their own teammates by playing head and tail coin game to see who goes first. After the game ends, Paope gets to pick her teammates first.

Team captain	Members
Ball	Max, Toei and Pond
Paope	Quest, Lukkate and Gino

Today, both teams will be cooking the hotel's signature dishes including two appetizers and two main dishes, that were demonstrated by Chef A-ji. All dishes have to be like original with their look, taste, and the amount. The contestants will be served the dishes to 50 VIPs by their orders.

Time: 60 minutes for preparing, and another 60 minutes for serving.

The results was announced on April 28 in Masterchef kitchen.

Winners: Blue team

Episode 12

Original airdate: Sunday 28 April 2019

Pressure Test 5: Cook a signature dish from Masterchef Thailand Season 2's winner's cookbook

Special Guest: First, winner of Masterchef Season 2.

Today, there will be a contestant competing with Paope's team, which is Chanon. However, they will be cooking a signature dish from First, which is Deep-fried duck and Khao Soi gel. The dish includes the duck thigh, Khao Soi gel, Shell-shaped pasta, and Acar jelly.

Time: 60 minutes
Bottom two: Gino and Chanon
Eliminated: Gino

Invention Test 6: Main ingredients: 8 types of crabs
In this round, all contestants will be assigning a type of crab to their friends. Starting with Ball, the team captain of winning team, then a person who got assigned a crab by him person will go next. This pattern will go on and on until it reached the last person. There are levels of difficulties for each type.

Contestants	Types of crabs	Difficulty
Quest	Pukatoy	Hard
Pond	Salted Crabs	Hard
Toei	Japanese Hairy Crab	Medium
Paope	Mongrove Crab	Easy
Lukkate	Soft Shell Crabs	Easy
Max	Flower Crab	Easy
Chanon	Alaska King Crab	Medium
Ball	Japanese Snow Crab	Medium

Time: 60 minutes

After the taste, Toei did the best, Quest in second.

Winner: Toei
Bottom three: Ball, Chanon and Lukkate
Eliminated: Lukkate

Episode 13

Original airdate: Sunday 12 May 2019

Team Challenge 6: Cook a Thai-cuisine fine-dining dish with a drink for 30 Royal Embassies

Location: Masterchef Kitchen

There are now 7 contestants remain in the competition. Meaning, there will be a team with more teammates and another less. Since Toei wins first in the previous challenge, she deserves a chance to choose whether have more time or have more teammates than the other team. She decided to have more teammates, meaning Quest's team has less teammates, but more time.
Now it's time to pick teammates, but by playing head or tail coin game like the previous team challenge. Quest deserves a chance whether she would pick head or tail. And she picked head, means that Toei picks tail. As a result, it is tail, so Toei gets to pick first.

Team captain	Members
Toei	Max, Ball and Pond
Quest	Paope and Chanon

For today's challenge, both teams have to cook a fine-dining dish in Thai cuisine for the 30 Royal Embassies of Thailand from 15 different countries around the world. Also, they have to make a drink out of milk that link to the dish they made.

Time: 90 minutes for red team, 75 minutes for blue team.

As a result, blue team won red team with the score of 22 to 8.

Winners: Blue team

Pressure Test 6: Beef Wellington
Guest: Gordon Ramsay
In this round, Quest, Paope, and Chanon all faced a challenge from a 16 Michelin stars chef, and that is Chef Gordon Ramsay. He had brought us his signature dish of Beef Wellington that includes tenderloin beef, duxelles, parma ham, and finally wrapped with puff pastry. Plus, the three contestants have to create their own sauce and sides that link to their wellington.

Time: 60 minutes
Eliminated: Chanon

Episode 14

Original airdate: Sunday 19 May 2019

Mystery Box Challenge 6: Create a dish using 5 things
For today's last mystery box challenge, all six contestants will have only 5 things to create a fine-dining dish. There are jasmine rice, Short mackerel, small Thai eggplants, 1 egg, and rose. The winner of this round will be the first to qualified to Semi-final of Masterchef Thailand.

Time: 60 minutes
Three best dishes: Toei, Pond and Quest
Winner: Toei

Invention Test 7: Improving your first dish in Masterchef kitchen
In this round, the five contestants have to improve their first dish in Masterchef kitchen that they saw it in the picture that were in front to them. This will show to the judges that they have improved their skills from the past months.

Time: 60 minutes
Bottom two: Quest and Ball
Eliminated: Ball

Episode 15: Semi-Final

Original airdate: Sunday 26 May 2019

Invention Test 8: "Back to Basic"
In the first round of Semi-final, the five contestants are creating a creative dish in theme "Back to Basic" . However, they will have up to 10 minutes in Masterchef supermarket to shop their ingredients. But when they entered the supermarket, all they saw are bananas in every type even banana leaves and blossoms. Additionally, the ingredients are limited found in the equipment room.

Time: 60 minutes
Bottom two: Quest and Pond
Eliminated: Pond

Pressure Test 7: Four Royal-Thai snacks
It has come to the last round before the finale, the four contestants receive a challenge from M.L. Kwantip Devakula, one of our judge. She had brought the four royal-Thai snacks including Krathong thong, Cho muang, Moo Sarong, and La tiang. Three people who did the closest will be qualified to the final round of Masterchef Thailand.

Time: 90 minutes

As a result, Quest did the closest to original, winning the challenge. Toei also did enough to make it to the finals.

Pressure Test Winner: Quest
Bottom two: Max and Paope
Eliminated: Paope
Advancing to the Finals: Quest, Toei, and Max

Episode 16-17: Finale

Original airdate: Sunday 2–9 June 2019

For the final round, Quest, Toei, and Max have to cook their three different courses that they have prepared at home, which are appetizer, main course, and dessert. The contestant needs to make three dishes, one for each judge. They have 60 minutes on each course, and 10 minutes in the supermarket. A contestant with the overall best presentation will be crowned as the next Masterchef, with 1,000,000 baht and a personal cookbook.

Time: 60 minutes for each course.
'''Masterchef Thailand Season 3 Winner: Max Nuntawat Chanyalikit'''