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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

6 episodes
  1. 1Celebrity Pot-un-lucky

    Sep 23, 2015

    With Rachael Ray beside her, Chef Anne Burrell faces a new challenge — celebrities who can't cook. They only have six weeks to transform seven pampered celebs into kitchen stars. To assess everyone's skills, Anne and Rachael host a potluck and find themselves tasting some very interesting dishes. After Anne and Rachael pick teams, one celebrity is sent back to Tinsel Town.

  2. 2Takeout or Get Out

    Sep 30, 2015

    The celebrity recruits put their palates to the test in a blindfolded taste and identify game. After seeing what they're working with, Chef Anne Burrell and Rachael Ray focus on getting the celebs to lose their biggest kitchen crutch — takeout. The two recruits with the worst takeout dishes go head-to-head in an elimination challenge.

  3. 3Celebrity Showdown

    Oct 7, 2015

    Chef Anne Burrell and Rachael Ray's remaining celebrity recruits start the week by testing their food knowledge in a game that gets everyone's competitive side fired up. They then have to use their newfound food knowledge to make a signature celebrity sandwich. Anne and Rachael select the cooks of their least favorite sandwiches into a blind elimination challenge.

  4. 4Riddle Me This

    Oct 14, 2015

    When the remaining celebrity recruits walk into Boot Camp, they find two huge boards with incomplete recipes. As a team, they work to fill in the blanks and cook the recipe. Then the recruits are tasked with making fresh pasta with seafood, pushing the culinary boundaries of the seafood-averse.

  5. 5Tapas Can't Stop Us

    Oct 21, 2015

    Chef Anne Burrell and Rachael Ray teach the final three recruits about entertaining, showcasing how to make chips, salsa and guacamole from scratch. Then, putting their entertaining and multitasking skills to the test, the celebs are challenged to make several tapas to be served simultaneously. The final blind elimination of the season will determine which two recruits head to the finale.

  6. 6Final Food Fight

    Oct 28, 2015

    Chef Anne Burrell and Rachael Ray lead the final two celebrity recruits to a professional kitchen for their final challenge: Cook a refined three-course menu for a panel of culinary experts. The recruits work tirelessly to determine which mentor gets the bragging rights, which recruits' charity will win $50,000 and who will be crowned the first winner of Worst Cooks in America: Celebrity Edition.

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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