Pizza or Mac and Cheese _ MasterChef Canada _ MasterChef World

Guys , let's take two minutes and just look at everything and get inspired .

The one thing that I would think about as kids is simple .

I think the biggest challenge cooking for kids is just figuring out what they might like to eat .

My favorite when I was a kid , it was always pizza Friday .

And if they came out with like weird little square pizzas with like square pepperonis , I would have been like , oh , I'm thinking about cutting squares out of the pepperoni just to be like kind of meta cute .

It's like such a simple thing .

But yeah , uh we have pasta , a good team leader is just someone that listens .

You can do macaroni and cheese with a Parmesan bread crumb .

I think mac and cheese is a great idea because you could feed the masses with it if we can win them over with gigantic brownies like a whipped cream sprinkles on top like a I would guess that zero kids dislike brownies .

This is not evidence based research , but in my estimation , zero , I think a pudding is a good idea and if we can get an avocado in there , they're also getting nutrition Exactly .

I know for a fact , Jenny has a million things going through her head because she's a mom and she knows what the kids would like if we have a dip .

The veggie should be raw .

I'm glad to have her on my team .

123 big guy on the pizza dough .

I think the most time consuming thing is getting the , the dough and the sauce .

Right .

Just because , I mean , it's a foundation of pizza and you don't want to mess that up .

Our team is going to work in like parallel duos .

We've got Chanel and Josh on the pizza and sauce and me and Alyssa on the brownie .

Once each duo gets our like main task squared away , we're gonna reconvene to talk about the vegetables .

I just wanna make sure this is melted it all the way through making a brownie as well as the pizza is a bit risky just because we only have so many ovens and we only have so much time , but I just wanna make it extra awesome and fun and delicious for them .

We need four cups in each of ours .

Ok , Jennifer is doing amazing as a leader .

Everything's super organized .

Everybody knows exactly what they're doing .

Check this out .

Double 15 .

We're just having a blast .

I think we have the perfect team right now .

I cannot believe this today .

We are making mac and cheese with ground beef , followed by vegetables with ranch dipping .

Sauce and then chocolate pudding to finish it all off .

So we got regin doing the main which is the mac and cheese .

Me and Jenny are starting the dessert and then we have Chrissy over there working on the ranch dip for the vegetables .

Everyone's good .

Everyone's calm .

It's just how fun .

Andre is not an in your face type of leader .

His approach is to just trust his teammates .

You know , we're all here .

We all can cook .

I'm making the beef .

Uh We're gonna do uh ground beef , macaroni and cheese .

I make macaroni and cheese all the time .

So it's second nature for me .

Easy .

Peasy , lemon squeezy .

Wow .

Uh What a workout .

I am worried because time management , it's an issue with regime .

Look at you go with your ground beef regime does things his way always and when it's a team setting , you're only as strong as your weakest teammate .

You didn't even start the cheese man .

It's £10 of ground beef , ok ?

But don't worry kids love chocolate .

Plan for the oven is get the brownies in post haste and 25 minutes later get them out .

Get those pizzas right in there immediately .

Pizza time , my kids do like pizza .

Very simple kind of pizzas and flavors on the red team .

I'm the only one that has kids and just knowing what we go through every day trying to feed our kids .

I think I bring that knowledge .

We have to make 11 , 12 seats of pizza .

But we're cooking for 161 kids .

Like , that's a crazy amount of people .

How many dollars you got down ?

1234566 .

Ok , almost there .

I don't know about you guys but you know , we're old dads .

I remember when my son was little , I would try and get him engaged in different flavors and different tastes and textures .

Sometimes you have to change the appearance , the shape , you have to make food look really attractive .

Absolutely .

You know , you have to start kids off at a very young age to create that really adventurous palate .

You start them when you're young and you set them up for the future .

I'm actually making stars out of the candy cane beats .

They're gonna go with the ranch dip that I've made .

At this point .

I have a lot to prove being picked last .

It doesn't feel good for anybody , but I just have to keep going .

I'm gonna kick some ass here .

So kick some butt who we're getting there .

You're making the mac and cheese , right ?

Yes .

Chef .

You know , you have under an hour , right ?

I think mac and cheese can come together really quickly .

So how many portions do you think you have right here ?

These are probably like 10 , so only 30 here chef .

So you have 30 portions .

You have , you have 161 kids .

So how long did these take to cook , uh , about 20 minutes .

You actually don't have enough time .

If I were you , I would get water on here ASAP .

Ok , because you will run out of time .

I can guarantee you , you only use these burners .

Let's go .

There's no time I need to pump out regime .

Pour it in .

If we mess up this mac and cheese , we're completely screwed .

Let's go .

Let's go .

It's time to really put it into gear .

Come on .

I uh this cheese taking a lot longer than I thought it's craziness going on in here .

I'm definitely worried that we're running behind .

It just seems like we're grating cheese for like a half an hour to an hour .

Ok ?

And we definitely have to get back on track to get these pieces in the oven .

This pizza seems to be so labor intensive grating all that cheese , cutting the pepperoni into squares so time consuming .

I'm thinking that that cutting squares out of literally all of these lunch and meats is gonna be way too time ambitious .

We originally wanted square pepperonis , but it's gonna take too much time guys .

We're gonna go straight up Windsor style diced pepperoni .

Windsor Ontario has some of the best pizza in the world which is shredded pepperoni on top of the cheese .

Shout out to Windsor .

Thanks for saving the day here .

Minutes left .

Five minutes left .

You better be filling the trays now in five minutes a hungry and 61 hungry kids are entering the room guys .

We're gonna set up an assembly at the front .

Yeah , you have to be mega organized for plating .

Once those kids come through the door , it's unrelenting .

They're hungry .

Now .

You're on bed .

Yeah , Josh , you got pizza .

Yeah , I got pizza .

Chanelle , you're on cucumber time is of the essence .

This is Ro Brownie's next to the pizza guys , guys .

I need people up here .

Come on , come on , come on guys .

It's a lot of work to plate one plate , let alone 161 .

And I think that's tripping everyone up , guys , get the mac and cheese up here .

Yeah , we need this mac and cheese on here guys .

Like now I have all the plating set up at the front but our macaroni and cheese is being plated at the very back of the kitchen .

Two minutes .

You only have two more minutes left .

Andre is the most mellow person ever .

But right now I really think we need a leader because we are so unorganized right now .

It's ridiculous .

There's no carrots in some of these .

Oh my God , you only have one more minute left .

Take this , just take a in the oven for us to pull out this win .

We have to get way more organized than what we're doing right now .

Come on guys , let's put it together .

Ok .

Let go , let go , let go , let go , let go .

Now we're just running around like chickens with their heads cut off .

You know , it's lunchtime the kids are coming , kind of hear it .

Getting louder in the hallway is coming towards us .

It's getting louder and louder .

You can hear footsteps and louder footsteps and louder footsteps .

54321 .

It's lunch time .

I'm loud in this megaphone man .

Tell me when they say it's lunch time , they mean it , it's just like a mountain of kids .

Each one of the school kids will get two plates .

The red team's features pepperoni pizza and a brownie dessert .

The blue team is serving up mac and cheese with avocado chocolate pudding .

You have pizza .

You have brown .

Enjoy you like extra sprinkles .

All right .

You guys like mac and cheese .

Yeah , this room is booming .

Think we're working fast enough .

Yeah , this is the cutest thing that's ever happened .

These kids are the cutest , the trays are like bigger than some of their torsos .

The pizzas , the size of their face .

Best pizza Friday ever .

My favorite team is red .

I love the brownie and the pizza .

The mac and cheese is really good , but I didn't like the pudding though .

A little bit bitter and I don't really like like it .

That's my best friend .

Or do you want spring ?

Yeah .

Are you gonna vote for blue cheese ?

I like the red here .

Let us was a big time .

We've really done everything , right ?

Like I need it .

Oh , my God .

You having a good lunch .

So which tray did you like better ?

Why , why , why , why the mac and cheese is really good ?

The sauce like phenomenal .

Wow , you should be a food critic .

What was the favorite thing to eat for lunch today ?

What was your favorite thing about the red team ?

The brownie ?

Of course .

Is that correct ?

That's an avocado chop mousse .

What are you ready to find out who's at the head of the class ?

Ok .

Science club on my couch .

I can feel my heart racing a million miles .

A 2nd .

32 .

Yeah .

Wow .

It's so exciting .

Like , I just feel so grateful to all these little ones .

It's so cool .

It's so exciting .

Congratulations to the red team .

As you can see from the scoreboard , your team won in a landslide 37 votes , separate us from the blue team today .

It was an amazing feeling to see that .