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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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Checked Jul 22, 2026
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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
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.
Where to watch Worst Cooks in AmericaEpisode 2
The remaining recruits enter boot camp to find it has been transformed into a casino complete with a game of egg roulette.
Where to watch Worst Cooks in AmericaEpisode 3
The recruits enter boot camp and discover that they will be going back to the basics with meat-and-potatoes challenges.
Where to watch Worst Cooks in AmericaEpisode 4
The teams go head-to-head in a potato-sack relay race to collect ingredients for game-day meatballs.
Where to watch Worst Cooks in AmericaEpisode 5
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.
Guest stars Bobby Flay
Episode 6
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.
Where to watch Worst Cooks in AmericaEpisode 7
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.
Where to watch Worst Cooks in AmericaEpisode 8
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.
Where to watch Worst Cooks in AmericaEpisode 9
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.
Where to watch Worst Cooks in AmericaEpisode information updated Jul 24, 2026
Anne BurrellSelf - Host
Beau MacMillanHimself - Host
Robert IrvineSelf - Host
Rachael RaySelf - Host
Tyler FlorenceSelf - Host
Alton BrownSelf - Host
Alex GuarnaschelliSelf - Host
Darnell FergusonSelf - Co Host
Food NetworkUnited States
Optomen ProductionsUnited States
All3Media AmericaUnited States
Objective Media GroupUnited States
Optomen TelevisionUnited Kingdom
