Chopped junior

Maybe you’ve heard of the little show on Food Network called Chopped? In a nutshell four chefs compete to win prize money, there are three rounds (appetizer, entree and dessert) and a chef is eliminated in each round until there are only 2 remaining. At the beginning of each round the contestants are given a …

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For our latest Young Women Activity, the girls really wanted to do a "Chopped" competition. They have been asking for quite some time, so we finally put it together. We did it a little different than the show though. We only did a dessert round and no one was chopped. There was an award for every team. Here are the details: First, I divided them into four groups. They didn't get to choose their groups. I had them draw their colored groups from a bucket. I had a dishware set that included two…

Last weekend we threw my daughter a birthday party at the house. I tried to offer numerous other options and even attempted bribing her, but she wouldn't budge. She wanted a Chopped Birthday Party. I wondered about the state of my sanity while pulling it together and was really nervous at the thought of having 9 little girls over to my house for a Chopped competition, but to my surprise it went way better than I could have ever expected! The girls had an absolute blast and seeing them so…

Jimmy and I decided we needed to do chopped again. Our first go around was exciting, so we called on our judges to find us some more secret ingredients to complete in our home version

“Four chefs, three courses, and only one chance to win.” If these words bring excitement to your heart, then this printable version to play chopped at home!

Amelia and Catalina Frías, daughters of Miami Herald Food Editor Carlos Frías, will appear on the Oct. 3 episode of “Chopped Junior” on the Food Network, hosted by Ted Allen. Chefs Marcus Samuelsson and chef-brothers Bryan and Michael Voltaggio judged the winners.

Set your lunchbox apart from the rest with these recipes inspired by Chopped Junior mystery basket ingredients.

Chopped Mystery Basket activity for culinary arts and family and consumer science classes. Students create dishes either virtually or with real ingredients based on the baskets given to them.