Sam Kaeokon MasterChef UK Wiki, Age, Gay, Partner, Nationality, Ethnicity
Sam Kaeokon Biography – Sam Kaeokon Wiki
Sam Kaeokon is an amateur cook, vocational trainer, and a contestant on MasterChef UK 2025. Born in Thailand, Sam moved to the UK in 2014. His core style of cooking is authentic Thai food. He also loves to be creative with Thai fusion, taking inspiration from the countries he’s visited.
Sam started cooking a very young age, helping his mother and grandmother in the kitchen. His grandmother taught him the basics in Thai cuisine. Speaking about how he got into cooking, Sam told the BBC: “Growing up in Thailand was challenging, so I had to learn how to cook from a very young age and how to be frugal and inventive with what I had. I would often help my mum and grandma in the kitchen, and my grandmother taught me the basics in Thai cuisine and my love for cooking grew from there.”
Speaking about his earliest cooking memory, he said: “When I was at school, as a team of three, my mum, grandma and I won the cooking competition. But my first memory was cooking rice on an open fire. I ended up with charcoal everywhere, and all over my face, but the rice was perfect!”
Sam Kaeokon Age
MasterChef’s Sam Kaeokon was born in 1996 in Thailand.
Sam Kaeokon Partner
MasterChef UK contestant Sam Kaeokon lives in Swindon with his boyfriend, Danny.
Sam Kaeokon MasterChef UK
Sam Kaeokon is a contestant on MasterChef UK 2025, judged by John Torode and Gregg Wallace. He will battle it out in the MasterChef kitchen in the second week of heats alongside Aileen, Hazel Coates, Marcella, and Trevor Scarlett.
He revealed the news in an Instagram post: “I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be competing in #MasterChefUK this year, tune in on Wednesday 13th August at 8pm on BBC One and @bbciplayer to see how I do.”
Sam entered MasterChef this year to “push myself outside my comfort zone.” He said: “Before I moved to the UK, I had never seen the show before but now I absolutely love the show and have been hooked on it ever since I moved over here. Over the last five years, I kept saying to my boyfriend, I want to apply but never did. I’ve never had much confidence in my ability to cook and really wanted to push myself outside my comfort zone!”
The MasterChef contestant would love to write a cookbook that celebrates Thailand and his style of cooking. His favourite ingredient to cook with is chilli. He said: “I love spicy food so my favourite ingredient would have to be chilli, closely followed by the perfect jasmine rice. There is nothing more comforting than rice. I grew up eating it every day and it’s my go to. Chilli is the cornerstone of my cooking, however it be used – from a chilli dip with pineapple and unripe mango to the perfect pad-kra-pao (chicken basil).”
Sam Kaeokon Nationality
He is of Thai nationality.
Sam Kaeokon Ethnicity
He is of South Asian ethnicity.
Sam Kaeokon’s Instagram handle is @samkaeokon.
