History Awesome / MasterChef

* Much like in its first season, the second US season of MasterChef Junior starts off with children of ages 8 to 13 dishing out amazing dishes, though the most exceptional example goes to 9 year old Oona. After having one of the best dishes in the mystery box challenge, she moves on to make a crostini with chicken liver pate in the elimination challenge and ends up yet again in the best 3 dishes. What makes this particularly exceptional is that Oona had never made chicken liver pate before, she just decided she really wanted to make it, risking elimination, and she just nails it.

* One of the Mystery Box challenges in season 4 has Gordon, Graham and Joe introduce a guest that will be cooking with the contestants. The guest turns out to be... Gordon Ramsay, in his chef attire. Once the contents of the Mystery box are revealed (black cod, with an assortment of spices) Gordon takes 30 minutes doing things like talk to his fellow judges, observe the contestants and drink tea. The last 30 minutes he spends preparing, cooking, and plating his dish, showing the contestants the expertise of a world class chef. When the contestants taste his creation, they say it was absolutely delicious.

* U.S. season 5, episode 14: Jaimee and Leslie were paired together to make dim sum, and they spent the majority of the challenge arguing with each other, and everyone thought they had set themselves up for disaster...which made it even more impressive when they had by far the best food of the challenge, only receiving a few minor nitpicks while the other teams made dishes that looked horrific and tasted mediocre at best. TeethClenchedTeamwork taken UpToEleven.

* Cutter ''winning'' the pressure test with his truffles, which is very impressive because he has been weak with desserts (except for his panna cota) and chocolate is such a temperamental ingredient to work with, especially with time constraints. Gordon is so impressed that he insists Cutter take them up onto the balcony and share them with the other chefs. Even Joe grudgingly admitted they were great!

* Cutter ''winning'' the pressure test with his truffles. Gordon is so impressed that he insists Cutter take them up onto the balcony and share them with the other chefs. Even Joe grudgingly admitted they were great!
** He gets a second moment in the previews for episode 11, in which Joe tells him that his dish is "the best he's cooked so far in the competition".

* VERY much YMMV: U.S. Season 5, episode 8: Cutter standing up to Joe Bastianich, for some. Joe's been getting a lot of heat this season for twisting certain contestants' words and making them look bad, so seeing someone finally take him to task felt quite satisfying. On the other hand, some others felt that Cutter was being disrespectful and needed to keep his mouth shut, especially considering he was only getting mixed reviews instead of outright bad ones (whereas Dan, who eventually went home, received terrible reviews but took it like an adult). Some people speculated that this was why Cutter stayed - he showed he had passion and cared about his food, while Dan's nonchalant acceptance made it seem like he'd given up.

* VERY much YMMV: U.S. Season 5, episode 8: Cutter standing up to Joe Bastianich, for some. Joe's been getting a lot of heat this season for twisting certain contestants' words and making them look bad, so seeing someone finally take him to task felt quite satisfying. On the other hand, some others felt that Cutter was being disrespectful and needed to keep his mouth shut, especially considering he was only getting mixed reviews instead of outright bad ones (whereas Dan, who eventually went home, received terrible reviews but took it like an adult).

** Although somewhat counter-intuitively, saving only himself would have ultimately been ''better'' for the rest of the team, as with more people cooking, everyone's odds of remaining in the competition go up. Still a classy move.

** Gordon offered a choice to Willie - he could either save himself from the pressure test (forcing the entire Blue Team to take part instead), or he could save three people (and he would have to compete in the pressure test). He gracefully accepted responsibility for the Blue Team's loss and chose to save Daniel, Victoria and Francis L., and then easily won the pressure test.

* Season 5, episode 8: Cutter standing up to Joe Bastianich, for some. Joe's been getting a lot of heat this season for twisting certain contestants' words and making them look bad, so seeing someone finally take him to task felt quite satisfying.

** Gordon offered a choice to Willie - he could either save himself from the pressure test (forcing the entire Blue Team to take part instead), or he could save three people (and he would have to compete in the pressure test). He gracefully accepted responsibility for the Blue Team's loss and chose to save Daniel, Victoria and Francis L.

** Seeing Christine absolutely ''own'' her role as the leader of the Red Team was definitely awesome - she solved problems and didn't let anything leave the kitchen that wasn't 100% perfect, leading her team to victory.

* Season 5, episode 4: The contestants are tasked with creating a box of twelve donuts, and Francis L. decides to create twelve different kinds of donuts (in his words: "Go big, or go BIGGER!"); when the judges learn of his plan, they think he's crazy, and do not expect it to work. When Ramsay opens his box, he admits to being [[MindScrew mind-screwed]] at the sight, and after tasting a donut flavored with prosciutto, stout, and maple syrup, Ramsay says it's amazing. Usually, when the judges predict someone's dish will be bad, it will be bad, so seeing Francis L. defy the judges' expectations is pretty damn awesome.

* One of the Mystery Box challenges in season 4 has Gordon, Graham and Joe introduce a guest that will be cooking with the contestants. The guest turns out to be... Gordon Ramsay, in his chef attire. Once the contents of the Mystery box are revealed (black cod, with an assortment of spices) Gordon takes 30 minutes doing things like talk to his fellow judges, observe the contestants and drink tea. The last 30 minutes he spends preparing, cooking, and plating his dish, showing the contestants the expertise of a world class chef. When the contestants taste his creation, they say it was absolutely delicious.

* The premiere of MasterChef Junior has a few of these, as children aged 8 to 13 bust out amazing dishes in just one hour, some of them being dishes that contestants have struggled with or just completely failed at in the adult version of the show, such as French macaroons, molten lava cakes, sushi, and tortellinis.

* The premiere of MasterChef Junior has a few of these, as children aged 8 to 13 bust out amazing dishes in just one hour, some of them being dishes that contestants have struggled with or just completely failed at in the adult version of the show, such as French macaroons, molten lava cakes, sushi, and tortellinis.

* The premiere of MasterChef Junior has a few of these, as children aged 8 to 13 bust out amazing dishes in just one hour, some of them being dishes that contestants have struggled with or just completely failed at in the adult version of the show, such as French macarons, molten lava cakes, sushi and tortellinis.

** [[spoiler:And of course, Christine winning season three.]]

** Later in the season, Christine is the captain in a team challenge. Thus far in team challenges, captains struggle on trying to think of what Christine could do, due to her being blind, and often she gets stuck on just serving the food and maybe a bit of prepping and cooking. Also, she pretty much always gets picked last. One of the team challenges, however, had Christine herself as captain. After things started out chaotic, loud and messy, Christine got tired of that, put her foot down and took some serious charge, putting order in the kitchen, delegating tasks, keeping everybody focused and communicating while still doing prep and some cooking of her own. All of this was key to leading her team to victory.

* In the 3rd season of the US version, [[{{Jerkass}} Ryan]] tried to screw [[DeafComposer blind chef]] Christine by giving her a '''live Dungeness crab''' for the elimination test. Obviously, the [=MoA=] goes to Christine who not only completes her dish, albeit with some difficulty, but she made the winning dish of crab ceviche cocktail! Gordon Ramsay was so shocked by how it looks that he wondered if she was really blind.
** The [=MoA=] also goes to Ramsay, who saw through Ryan's trick and forced him to taste her dish. Unlike season two's Christian when he was put in the same position, Ryan admitted that the dish was delicious.
** Also, while she didn't make it into the top two, Monti used canned crab to make scotch eggs, which Ramsay thought was an insane idea until he and the rest of the judges tasted them and declared them delicious. It's especially noticeable after Gordon tastes it, as his chuckle and facial expression indicate that he was not expecting the dish to be that good.
* Christine again in the third US season. Thus far in team challenges, captains struggle on trying to think of what Christine could do, due to her being blind, and often she gets stuck on just serving the food and maybe a bit of prepping and cooking. Also, she pretty much always gets picked last. One of the team challenges, however, had Christine herself as captain. After things started out chaotic, loud and messy, Christine got tired of that, put her foot down and took some serious charge, putting order in the kitchen, delegating tasks, keeping everybody focused and communicating while still doing prep and some cooking of her own. All of this was key to leading her team to victory.
** And of course, Christine winning season three.

* Christine again in the third US season. Thus far in team challenges, captains struggle on trying to think of what Christine could do, due to her being blind, and often she gets stuck on just serving the food and maybe a bit of prepping and cooking. Also, she pretty much always gets picked last. One of the team challenges, however, had Christine herself as captain. After things started out chaotic, loud and messy, Christine got tired of that, put her foot down and took some serious charge, putting order in the kitchen, delegating tasks, keeping everybody focused and communicating while still doing prep and some cooking of her own. All of this was key to leading her team to victory.

** Also, while she didn't make it into the top two, Monti used canned crab to make scotch eggs, which Ramsay thought was an insane idea until he and the rest of the judges tasted them and declared them delicious.

* Christine again in the third US season. Thus far in team challenges, captains struggle on trying to think of what Christine could do, due to her being blind, and often she gets stuck on just serving the food and maybe a bit of prepping and cooking. Also, she pretty much always gets picked last. One of the team challenges, however, had Christine herself as captain. After things started out chaotic, loud and messy, Chrstine got tired of that, put her foot down and took some serious charge, putting order in the kitchen, delegating tasks, keeping everybody focused and communicating while still doing prep and some cooking of her own. All of this was key to leading her team to victory.

** The [=MoA=] also goes to Ramsay, who saw through Ryan's trick and forced him to taste her dish. He was forced to declare that it was delicious.

** Also, while she didn't make it into the top two, Monti used canned crab to make scotch eggs, which Ramsey thought was an insane idea until he and the rest of the judges tasted them and declared them delicious.

** Also, while she didn't make it into the top two, Monti used canned crab to make scotch eggs, which Ramsey thought was an insane idea until he and the rest of the judges tasted them and declared them delicious.

** The [=MoA=] also goes to Ramsay, who saw through Ryan's trick and forced him to taste her dish. He was forced to declare that it was delicious.