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Worst Cooks in America

  • TV-G
  • 2010–
  • 30 seasons
  • Reality, Comedy
  • 6.6

12 to 16 contestants with poor cooking skills are taken through an eight-week culinary boot camp, to earn a cash prize of $25,000. The recruits are trained on the various basic cooking techniques including: baking, knife skills, temperature, seasoning and preparation. The final challenge is to cook a restaurant quality three-course meal for three food critics.

Episodes

7 episodes
  1. 1Celebrity: A La Cuisine!

    Aug 13, 2018

    Fourteen cooks join culinary boot camp with hopes of putting their kitchen nightmares behind them. Chefs Anne Burrell and Robert Irvine want to see what they are dealing with, so they ask the recruits to make their signature dishes. The recruits split into teams and learn to make a surf-and-turf dish.

  2. 2Hibachi Heroes

    Aug 19, 2018

    Boot camp transforms into the game show Family Food and the teams go head to head in trivia rounds and culinary tasks testing their knowledge; a Teppanyaki chef performs dazzling tricks over a grill; the recruits learn to make a hibachi-style meal.

  3. 3Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

    Aug 26, 2018

    For the skill drill, the recruits must work in teams to identify the ingredients of five mother sauces and then create their own chicken with pan sauce dishes for their chef; the recruits make fried chicken and cornbread for the main dish.

  4. 4The Ick Factor

    Sep 2, 2018

    The kitchen can be a scary place, but the recruits must learn to face their fears in boot camp; first, they're forced to expand their palates with some unusual ingredients in a Cake Walk-inspired game that proves to be anything but a cakewalk.

  5. 5Piece of Cake

    Sep 9, 2018

    Chefs Robert Irvine and Anne Burrell leave the recruits to their own devices, asking them to work in teams to recreate a dish by taste alone. Unbeknownst to the recruits, the chefs secretly watch their every move and are shocked by what they see. For the main dish challenge, the recruits have to bake a tiered cake to suit two special guest judges, Food Network’s Gesine Prado and Jason Smith. In the end, Anne and Robert decide which recruits satisfy their sweet tooth and which ones leave them with a toothache.

  6. 6Duck, Duck ...

    Sep 16, 2018

    The final four recruits start thinking about life after boot camp and learn to navigate a grocery store when boot camp transforms into Worst Cooks General Market; recruits reunite with their loved ones and must make them a dish.

  7. 7Finally the Finale

    Sep 23, 2018

    The remaining recruits face off in one last skill drill to determine who will compete in the finale; to see how far they've come, the recruits re-create their baseline dishes using all the techniques they learned in boot camp.

Where to watch Worst Cooks in America

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Series cast

Anne BurrellSelf - Host226 episodes
Tyler FlorenceSelf - Host36 episodes
Bobby FlayHimself32 episodes
Alton BrownSelf - Host10 episodes
Robert IrvineSelf - Host8 episodes
Alex GuarnaschelliSelf - Host8 episodes
Darnell FergusonSelf - Co Host8 episodes
Jeff MauroSelf - Co Host7 episodes
Gabriele BertacciniSelf - Host7 episodes
Tonya HardingSelf - Contestant7 episodes
Wes BergmannSelf - Contestant7 episodes
Frankie GrandeSelf - Contestant7 episodes
Adam RipponSelf - Contestant7 episodes
Corinne OlympiosSelf - Contestant7 episodes
Matthew LawrenceSelf - Contestant7 episodes
Elisa DonovanSelf - Contestant7 episodes
Jodie SweetinSelf - Contestant7 episodes
Tracey GoldSelf - Contestant7 episodes

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