Master Chef Khmer
Founder
MasterChef is a television program which originated in the U.K. created by Franc Roddam. The first series was presented by Loyd Grossman in 1990, who was joined each week by a professional chef and a celebrity to act as judges.
In each episode, Grossman and the guest judges discussed the menus, talked to the contestants, and finally ate and judged the food. The judges’ “cogitations” originally took place off-camera, but later episodes included edited highlights of the discussions after the food had been tasted and before the winner was announced.
Gordon Ramsey
MasterChef in the US, which launched in 2010. It was adapted by celebrity chef, TV personality and restaurateur Gordon Ramsay. The competition includes a large kitchen area with several cooking stations which is overlooked by a balcony, a well-stocked pantry, a freezer/fridge area and a fine-dining restaurant/seating dining area room used for certain challenges.
Gordon Ramsey often appears as a guest judge on Australia’s MasterChef, which is the longest running international franchise being the first to spin-off the UK in 2009. It is now produced in more than 40 countries and airs in over 200 territories.
MasterChef Khmer (Cambodia)
MasterChef Khmer aired the first season running from 19 August 2018 to 3 February 2019, on the Cambodian Television Network (CTN). The judges were Rin Nara, Elisabeth Sethavrath (Jessica), and Sophearong Rithy, with a few hundred participants competing for the title of Cambodia’s first Master Chef.
During the competition, the following challenges were regularly featured:
Skills Test: Cooks are challenged to perform a list of common cooking techniques or styles, or to replicate a particular cooking method of a dish (i.e. steaks done to an exact wellness). This type of test is also sometimes used as an Elimination Test.
Mystery Box: Cooks are all given a box with the same ingredients and must use only those ingredients to create a dish within a fixed amount of time. The judges will select three dishes based on visual appearance and technique alone to taste, and from these three select one winner who usually gains an advantage of some type in the elimination test.
Elimination Test: After the challenge is explained, judges evaluate all dishes based on taste and visual appeal. The judges nominate the worst dishes for elimination and criticize them before eliminating at least one contestant.
Team Challenge: The cooks are split into teams by either team captains or the judges. They often occur in a restaurant takeover or pop-up restaurant taking the place of the staff of a particular restaurant. Diners taste both meals and vote for their favorite. The winning team advances, while the losing team will participate in the Pressure Test or face elimination based on the teams’ performance.
Pressure Test: Another form of the Elimination Test, in which losing team members compete against each other to make a standard dish within a limited amount of time that requires a great degree of cooking finesse. Each dish is judged on taste, visual appeal and technique, and the losing chef is eliminated.
Once the competition is reduced to either the final two or three competitors, the finalists will compete against each other in a three-course cook-off. All courses of the meal are judged and an overall winner is crowned. The winner walks away with $50,000 cash and the MasterChef trophy. During the first season of MasterChef Chan Kanha was the finalist and known as the ‘Best Female in MasterChef Khmer’.
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Ms. Chan Kanha, the Best Female in MasterChef Khmer (Season 1) started from humble beginnings as just a simple home cook, but with a passion!