MasterChef Thailand (season 3)

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MasterChef Thailand
Season 3
No. of episodes17
Release
Original network Channel 7 HD
Original releaseFebruary 3 (2019-02-03) –
June 9, 2019 (2019-06-09)
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MasterChef Thailand is the Thai version of the competitive reality TV series MasterChef which premiered on Channel 7 on February 3, 2019. [1] [2] [3]

Contents

Contestants

ContestantAgeHometownOccupationStatusNumber of Wins
Nuntawat Chanyalikit (Max)36 Bangkok Flight attendantWinner
on June 9		5
Patcha Kalyanamitr (Toei)26 Bangkok Shoe painting business ownerRunners-up
on June 9		8
Chanin Cheema (Quest)26 Bangkok Painter4
Jessica Wang (Paope)24 Bangkok Self-employedEliminated
on May 26		4
Sahadol Tantrapim (Pond)27 Chiang Mai Flight attendant3
Suchat Jaicham (Ball)30 Nakhon Nayok Shrimp farming ownerEliminated
on May 19		6
Chanon Ruangsri23 Uthai Thani TraderEliminated
on May 12		4
Rapassa Sirilertsopon (Lukkate)35 Bangkok Dessert Cookery TeacherEliminated
on April 28		3
Jitsak Lim-pakornkul (Gino)42 Phuket Brand and marketing Director2
Aekkarat Wachirathongpaisarn (Aek)30 Udon Thani FreelanceEliminated
on April 14		1
Nathinee Jiamprasert (New)38 Samut Prakan EmployeeEliminated
on April 7		2
Saichon Sornprasert (Robert)40 Bangkok TraderEliminated
on March 31		0
Chatchasa Aupichit (Nuey)34 Nonthaburi Marketing freelanceEliminated
on March 17		1
Phakin Meejinda (Mark)19 Udon Thani StudentEliminated
on March 10		1
Nathakhun Laonoonchai (Perth)21 Bangkok StudentEliminated
on March 3		1
Sorakom Kaewsamerta (Ram)39 Chiang Mai Real estate developerEliminated
on February 24		0
Naphat Hempattarasuwan (Jringjung)25 Nan StudentEliminated
on February 17		0
Piyakorn Ouypron (Mind)24 Khon Kaen DoctorEliminated
on February 10		0
Kornrawee Thitiamonvit (Korn)44 Suphan Buri Image consultant0

Elimination table

PlaceContestantEpisode
2345678910111213141516/17
1MaxINIMMPTININHIGHIMMLOWININWINWINIMMINIMMWINIMMINWININININLOWWINNER
2QuestHIGHIMMWINHIGHINWINIMMPTHIGHHIGHWINHIGHININIMMPTINHIGHPTHIGHLOWLOWWINRUNNERS-UP
ToeiWINIMMWININININIMMWININWINPTININLOWPTWINIMMWINWINWINIMMININ
4PaopeINIMMWININIMMHIGHIMMWINININWINHIGHINWINIMMPTININPTINININELIM
5PondINIMMPTINIMMININPTWINIMMPTININLOWLOWWINIMMINWINHIGHINELIM
6BallINIMMWINWINIMMINHIGHWINININPTINLOWWINIMMWINIMMLOWWININELIM
7ChanonINIMMWINININININWINHIGHINWININWINLOWPTPTLOWLOWELIM
8LukkateLOWINWININIMMINIMMWINHIGHLOWWINININLOWPTPTINELIM
9GinoINIMMWINHIGHWININIMMNPTINLOWPTINLOWLOWLOWPTELIM
10AekINIMMLOWINIMMININWINININLOWININLOWELIM
11NewINIMMPTINLOWINIMMWINININWININELIM
12RobertHIGHIMMLOWINIMMINLOWNPTININELIM
13NueyLOWLOWWININININIMMNPTINELIM
14MarkINIMMPTINLOWINWINELIM
15PerthLOWINWININININELIM
16RamLOWINPTINELIM
17JringjungINIMMELIM
18MindLOWELIM
KornLOWELIM
  (WINNER) This cook won the competition.
  (RUNNER-UP) This cook finished in second place.
  (WIN) The cook won an individual challenge (Mystery box challenge or Invention Test).
  (WIN) The cook was on the winning team in the "Team challenge" and directly advanced to the next round.
  (HIGH) The cook was one of the top entries in an individual challenge, but didn't win.
  (IN) The cook wasn't selected as a top or bottom entry in an individual challenge.
  (IN) The cook wasn't selected as a top or bottom entry in a team challenge.
  (IMM) The cook didn't have to compete in that round of the competition and was safe from elimination.
  (PT) The cook was on the losing team in the Team challenge and competed in the Pressure test.
  (PT) The cook didn't have to compete in the Team challenge but competed in the Pressure test.
  (NPT) The cook was on the losing team in the Team challenge, did not compete in the Pressure test, and advanced.
  (RET) The cook won the Reinstation Challenge and returned to the competition.
  (LOW) The cook was one of the bottom entries in an individual challenge, but wasn't the last person to advance.
  (LOW) The cook was one of the bottom entries in an individual challenge, and the last person to advance.
  (LOW) The cook was one of the bottom entries in the Team challenge and they were the only person from their team to advance.
  (LOW) The cook was one of the bottom entries in the Team challenge, and their team was last to advance.
  (ELIM) The cook was eliminated from MasterChef.

Episodes

Episode 1

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.

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.

Episode 2

Mystery Box Challenge 1: Main ingredient: Durian

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

Invention Test 1: Main ingredient: Khaki (Pork legs)

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.

Episode 3

Team Challenge 1: Cook bento set with desert (Thai cuisine) for 201 banana boat riders.

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 captainMembers
ToeiPerth, Chanon, Nuey, Ball, Quest, Lukkate, Gino and Paope
RobertRam, 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.

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

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.

Episode 4

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.

Invention Test 2: Main ingredient: Cow gut

Episode 5

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.

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.

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

Episode 6

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

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 captainMembers
MarkQuest, Robert, Pond, Gino, Max and Nuey
BallNew, 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Episode 7

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

Invention Test 4: Making a dessert dish

In this round, Pond gets to choose a main ingredient to the 12 other contestants. He chose:

(From easiest to hardest)

Main ingredientPeople
Mixed berriesBall, Robert, Max and Paope
CoconutNuey, New, Chanon and Lukkate
Bitter melon Gino, Aek, Toei and Quest

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

Episode 8

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

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 captainMembers
ToeiPond, Robert, Aek, Ball and Gino
QuestPaope, 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.

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

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.

Episode 9

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

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.

Episode 10

Team Challenge 4: Cook an assigned Korean cuisine set (in pairs).

Since Chanon won the last challenge, he deserves a chance to pair up every contestants including himself, in which he chose:

GroupsMembers
1Gino and Lukkate
2Quest and Max
3Pond and Toei
4Ball and Paope
5Chanon 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.

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.

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.

Episode 11

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

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 captainMembers
BallMax, Toei and Pond
PaopeQuest, 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.

The results was announced on April 28 in Masterchef kitchen.

Episode 12

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

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.

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.

(By the assigned order)

ContestantsTypes of crabsDifficulty
QuestPukatoy (Tiny Crabs)Hard
PondSalted CrabsHard
ToeiJapanese Hairy CrabMedium
Paope Mongrove Crab Easy
Lukkate Soft Shell Crabs Easy
Max Flower Crab Easy
Chanon Alaska King Crab Medium
BallJapanese Snow CrabMedium

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

Episode 13

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

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 captainMembers
ToeiMax, Ball and Pond
QuestPaope 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.

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

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 (in medium rare), 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.

Episode 14

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.

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.

Episode 15: Semi-Final

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.

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.

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

Episode 16-17: Finale

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 (1 hour) on each course, and 10 minutes in the supermarket (this includes all three courses). A contestant with the overall best presentation will be crowned as the next Masterchef, with 1,000,000 baht and a personal cookbook.

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