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Worst Cooks in America
Overview
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.
Status
Returning Series
Network
Food Network
Seasons & Episodes
Season 15
Episodes
The Perfect Bird
Fifteen bad cooks enter boot camp with dreams of putting their kitchen nightmares behind them. Chefs Anne Burrell and Tyler Florence want to see what they are dealing with so they begin by asking the recruits to make their signature dishes.
Eggtastic
The remaining recruits enter boot camp to find it has been transformed into a casino complete with a game of egg roulette.
Cowboy Cuisine
The recruits enter boot camp and discover that they will be going back to the basics with meat-and-potatoes challenges.
Meat Me at the Game
The teams go head-to-head in a potato-sack relay race to collect ingredients for game-day meatballs.
Spice Up Your Life
The recruits begin by getting up-close and personal with their spice cabinets in a "Skill Drill" game that requires the teams to identify various commonly used spices.
Carnival Chaos
After finding that boot camp has been turned into a carnival, the recruits are asked to participate in a pie-eating contest for the chance to dunk their opponent's chef.
Aloha, Recruits!
The recruits begin by embarking on a treasure hunt fit for a pirate when their teams are tasked with discovering clues left for them by pirate captains Anne Burrell and Tyler Florence.
In It to Win It
It's the penultimate week of boot camp and if the remaining recruits want a spot in the finale, they must first work in teams to play Remote Control Chef.
The Day We've Been Waiting For
The final two recruits learn a three-course, restaurant-quality meal before the Main Dish Challenge; judges Debi Mazar, Michael Psilakis and Jessica Tom take the recruits' dishes into a blind taste test to determine the $25,000 grand prize winner.
Top Cast
Anne Burrell
Self - Host
