In the style of Masterchef meets Junior Bake Off, we present a seven-week trial of cooking skills, education and patience.
5 to 10 year olds meet Michelin-star chefs, who throughout the competition will help develop their culinary skills.
There may be chaos - just keep the crayons out of the kitchen!
In total, the competition will run for seven weeks. The Antichefs will therefore be presented as 7x60 minute episodes.
The first part of the competition.
Weeks one through four of the series showcases the first part of the competition. These episodes are broken into three parts:
Introducing The Chefs
There are four groups of children, usually siblings, friends or simply interesting pairings. Each pairing has a chef assigned to cook for them. The children will be probably be expecting something basic like chicken nuggets.
Steps:
Chefs are brought into a fancy restaurant to prepare a word-class meal. We explore their background and history.
The meal is served to children (5 year-olds to 10 year olds), without the chefs knowing.
The children provide their feedback which is delivered to the kitchen.
The chefs are bought out into the dining room for the reveal
The kids then select their favourite (or least bleh :?) meal to learn how to cook it themselves.
Educating The Children
Once the a dish has been selected, each group must work with the chef to learn how to make it. They'll be walked through the process and the nutritional and educational value between each step.
After this, they must cook it! They'll be allowed some creative freedom.
The Real Review
The parents and guardians of the children will be subjected to a blind taste test. They will score each dish based on taste and presentation. Similar to Masterchef, where the judges discuss amongst themselves each dish, the chefs will do the same. They can talk about the skills each child presented and whos meal they think will win.
The highest scoring dish will win a prize and be entered into the next step of the competition.
Turning up the heat.
The winners from each week are put into a bracket and be guided by their Michelin-star chef to create a meal of their own design.
Further Education
The inspiration for the meals are explored. The history of where the dishes and ingredients come from is presented in a format that children can follow, but remains interesting and detailed enough for adults.
Competition
Like before, the dishes will be scored by presentation as well as taste. Creativity will also play a factor in the design of the dish. This time, the judges will be the three chefs who didn't help make the meal.
Two winners will be selected to enter...
Who will be the winner?
One More Time
The best two pairings of children and chefs will compete to win a holiday for themselves and their parents.
Now cooking opposite eachother, in a Gordon Ramsey-esque open kitchen scenario. The children-chef pairings are given 90 minutes to prepare a three course meal while observed by their parents and guest judges.
One of those dishes (starter, main or desert) must be made entirely by the children with no outside help. The pressure is on!
The same voting rules apply, and the best dish wins the holiday.
The face of our show is anincredibly important aspect of our brand image. We envision our judges and presenters to be a mix of male and female well-known celebrity chefs in the industry. As a family show, our choices should be non-controversial. Our chef-pairings should be from Micehllin-star restaurants.
All recipes featured will be provided online and on social media. Reels made for Instagram and Tik-Tok can air at broadcast for those on the platforms to watch and follow the recipes. The audiences are encouraged to cook with their children and submit photos online. These can be featured in later programmes.