Are you ready? Yes, Chef!

Are you ready? Yes, Chef! Then quickly the twenty junior Australian chefs grab the ingredients and bring them to the cooking station. No more than one hour later, there will be well-presented fine cuisines on the table ready to be judged. That is another innovative and educative TV program from the country next door, which shows talented young people in pursuing the title of Junior Masterchef.

The question is how those kids get accustomed to many ingredients which some of them are unfamiliar even for adults. The next question is when they start to use cooking tools either common tools or hi-tech appliances. And the third question, how parents treat them at home. The talent will not be just a free-gift from no where. It must be the result of some processes.

In my observation, parenting method takes a major role in build skill and personality in a child. In some scenes of the program, parents are very supportive and showing their credit expressively. Their action is adequate to create positive environment for the kids to cook confidently and happily. But the support which is showed on TV is just the tip of iceberg. Support that's given at home are even bigger. The family must love to cook and the kids are involved. While some parents are keeping their children away from the kitchen, these inspiring parents just have their children to cook together in the kitchen. How to interpret danger makes a different when we talk about knives, gas stove, microwave, glass or else. Masterchef's parents always emphasize a knife has function and must be used in an appropriate way. Otherwise, you or people will get hurt.

This is another hypothetically cause of a junior masterchef, family background. Some contestants come from restaurant-owner families. Other contestant is the grand-grand daughter of a legendary cake factory. It is not the main factor but still can influence skill and vision.

The last but not least is the learning ability. This is the ultimate role of being something remarkable. Those junior chefs must have high passion and desire to cook and to learn to be better and to be the best. They are only 12 years old and under, but with that great passion they performance is beyond all average chef out there. Yeah, I'm the average chef at home, and today I cook chicken noodles.