Worst Cooks in America (2010)
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.
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Episode 1 - The Perfect Bird
Release Date: 2019-01-06Fifteen 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.
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Episode 2 - Eggtastic
Release Date: 2019-01-13The remaining recruits enter boot camp to find it has been transformed into a casino complete with a game of egg roulette.
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Episode 3 - Cowboy Cuisine
Release Date: 2019-01-20The recruits enter boot camp and discover that they will be going back to the basics with meat-and-potatoes challenges.
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Episode 4 - Meat Me at the Game
Release Date: 2019-01-27The teams go head-to-head in a potato-sack relay race to collect ingredients for game-day meatballs.
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Episode 5 - Spice Up Your Life
Release Date: 2019-02-03The 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.
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Episode 6 - Carnival Chaos
Release Date: 2019-02-10After 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.
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Episode 7 - Aloha, Recruits!
Release Date: 2019-02-17The 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.
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Episode 8 - In It to Win It
Release Date: 2019-02-24It'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.
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Episode 9 - The Day We've Been Waiting For
Release Date: 2019-03-03The 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.