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The Best Episodes of Worst Cooks in America

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...
  1. Background image for Sausage Party
    9.0/10(15 votes)

    #1 - Sausage Party

    S12:E7

    Each team gets an out-of-order recipe and the recruits must work together to figure out how to unscramble it. Then Anne Burrell and Tyler Florence tell the recruits they are being left alone in boot camp, but secretly watch every move from a remote command post. For the main dish challenge, the recruits learn the ugly truth of sausage making. The tasting is a potluck dinner, so their sausages must impress both the Chefs and their fellow recruits.

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    Director:Unknown
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  2. Background image for Can You Pleas Pas-Ta Sauce?
    8.9/10(15 votes)

    #2 - Can You Pleas Pas-Ta Sauce?

    S12:E8

    The remaining recruits take charge during “Remote Control Chef” by tasting a dish put in front of them and describing it so Tyler Florence and Anne Burrell can recreate it. For the main dish challenge, recruits attempt the difficult task of making fresh pasta from scratch with a little help from Italian nonnas who have years of pasta-making experience. The top recruits earn a spot in the semi-finals.

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  3. Background image for Flair Flair Everywhere
    8.9/10(14 votes)

    #3 - Flair Flair Everywhere

    S12:E9

    The final four recruits learn the art of showing off; they learn high-flying bartending tricks and make happy-hour cocktails with bar snacks; for the main dish challenge, the recruits must cook a dish and perform a flashy tableside demonstration.

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    Director:Unknown
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  4. Background image for Celebrity: A La Cuisine!
    8.8/10(11 votes)

    #4 - Celebrity: A La Cuisine!

    S13:E5

    The oven mitts come off as the celebrity recruits fight for a spot in the finale; in the first challenge, the celebrities must tell mentors Anne Burrell and Tyler Florence how to cook a dish; they face their toughest challenge yet.

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  5. Background image for Eggtastic
    8.8/10(14 votes)

    #5 - Eggtastic

    S15:E2

    The 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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  6. Background image for Celebrity: Waited on Hand and Foot
    8.8/10(13 votes)

    #6 - Celebrity: Waited on Hand and Foot

    S16:E5

    Boot camp is transformed into an elegant cocktail party; mentors Anne and Tyler announce that the recruits each have to make their own champagne cocktail and a tray of blinis from scratch; celebrities must cater lunch for the entire crew.

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    8.7/10(16 votes)

    #7 - Game Day

    S12:E4

    It’s game day at Worst Cooks boot camp, and the recruits must make varsity-worthy nachos inspired by different flavor profiles. They get into the game day spirit by competing in a game of cornhole to determine what flavor profile they will use. For the main dish challenge, mentors Anne Burrell and Tyler Florence teach their recruits how to make irresistible, stuffed burgers. The recruits step up to the plate and throw darts at a map to determine which of the 50 states will inspire their own craveable creations. The recruits who score touchdowns with their burgers will continue on, but those who fumble in the kitchen will be cut from their teams.

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  9. Background image for Sweets for My Sweetie
    8.7/10(13 votes)

    #8 - Sweets for My Sweetie

    S12:E6

    On Valentine's Day, a prancing cupid finds his way into the kitchen and the recruits test their ability to whip cream and create molten chocolate cakes; for the main dish challenge, they must make a swoon-worthy, multi-component dessert.

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  10. Background image for Show Me the Vegetables!
    8.6/10(13 votes)

    #9 - Show Me the Vegetables!

    S12:E3

    The Worst Cooks boot camp is transformed into a game show, Family Food, and the teams of recruits go head-to-head in trivia rounds and culinary tasks that test their knowledge. For the main dish challenge, they're finally ready to put down roots in the kitchen and learn about cooking vegetables. Some will make dishes that taste fresh from the garden, but some recruits will leave mentors Anne Burrell and Tyler Florence missing the meat.

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  11. Background image for Leftovers Again?
    8.6/10(14 votes)

    #10 - Leftovers Again?

    S12:E5

    The recruits are halfway through boot camp and they’re learning how to create new dishes from common leftover ingredients. They play a taste and describe game, “What’s in My Mouth? Leftovers Edition,” and then Anne Burrell and Tyler Florence leave the recruits alone for the first time to make pizza from scratch. Some pizzas impress the Chefs in the blind taste test, but others get boxed out.

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  12. Background image for Celebrity: Take the Bait
    8.5/10(13 votes)

    #11 - Celebrity: Take the Bait

    S16:E3

    Celebrity recruits are introduced to fish; for the skill drill, teams race to assemble sushi rolls off a speedy conveyor belt; for the main dish challenge, recruits make fish tacos with homemade tortillas.

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  13. Background image for Fish Are Food, Not Friends
    8.4/10(14 votes)

    #12 - Fish Are Food, Not Friends

    S12:E2

    Mentors Anne Burrell and Tyler Florence introduce a game in which the recruits meet some magical and mysterious kitchen gadgets. The recruits become fast friends with the most important tool of all, a knife, to make fajitas while demonstrating their knife skills. Then boot camp transforms into a fish market, and the recruits get up close and personal with the catch of the day as they learn to fillet and prepare fish. The recruits who don't get along with their new friends end up sleeping with the fishes.

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  14. Background image for Celebrity: Rolling in the Deep
    8.4/10(10 votes)

    #13 - Celebrity: Rolling in the Deep

    S13:E2

    Anne and Tyler throw the celebrities into the deep end and start off the day with a fast-paced seafood tower relay game; things get ugly when the recruits tackle monkfish and learn how to make fish and chips.

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  15. Background image for Celebrity: Mother Dough
    8.4/10(10 votes)

    #14 - Celebrity: Mother Dough

    S13:E3

    Anne and Tyler watch their teams go head-to-head in the kitchen playing multiple rounds of celebrity-driven food games; the recruits have to make their own unique pizzas; the two least successful recruits face off in a bruschetta challenge.

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  16. Background image for Celebrity: Around the World in 60 Minutes
    8.3/10(11 votes)

    #15 - Celebrity: Around the World in 60 Minutes

    S16:E4

    Celebrity recruits learn how to make Thai ice cream rolls and must create their own flavor profile; then they depart for Spain, where chef mentors Anne Burrell and Tyler Florence teach them how to make paella; two chefs face the elimination round.

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  17. Background image for Celebrity: There's No We in Food
    8.3/10(10 votes)

    #16 - Celebrity: There's No We in Food

    S16:E6

    The celebrity recruits are left to run free in boot camp, working in teams to recreate a dish from taste alone. Unbeknownst to them, though, chefs Anne Burrell and Tyler Florence are secretly watching their every move.

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  18. Background image for Celebrity: Nutritious and Delicious
    8.2/10(10 votes)

    #17 - Celebrity: Nutritious and Delicious

    S13:E4

    Chefs Anne Burrell and Tyler Florence gather the celebrity recruits to play a unique taste-and-describe game with delicious comfort foods; actress Melissa Peterman arrives to help with the main dish challenge.

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  19. Background image for Meat Me at the Game
    8.2/10(12 votes)

    #18 - Meat Me at the Game

    S15:E4

    The teams go head-to-head in a potato-sack relay race to collect ingredients for game-day meatballs.

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  20. Background image for Worse Than Ever
    8.1/10(17 votes)

    #19 - Worse Than Ever

    S5:E1

    Coming off her first loss in four seasons, to Bobby Flay, Anne Burrell is out for revenge. In a rematch, they scour the country for the 14 worst cooks in America, pick teams and gives the recruits their first cooking lesson.

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  21. Background image for Blast From the Past
    8.1/10(14 votes)

    #20 - Blast From the Past

    S6:E6

    The Recruits are down to the final four when they are faced with their most important challenge so far. They recreate their signature dishes from the first episode, using their newfound skills and food knowledge, showing who has truly improved and who is still a Worst Cook. The next day, the Recruits are shocked to find they will be cooking for their family members. As this is a blind tasting, the Recruits risk being sent home by their very own loved ones.

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  22. Background image for All Aboard!
    8.1/10(17 votes)

    #21 - All Aboard!

    S10:E3

    Anne Burrell and Rachael Ray teach the recruits all about flavor, starting with a skill drill that puts their tongues and taste buds to the test. For the main dish challenge, the recruits put their newly-learned flavor combination skills to work as they take a culinary trip around the world and make a roulade inspired by a basket of ingredients that corresponds to the cuisine of a foreign country.

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  23. Background image for Facing Your Fears
    8.1/10(14 votes)

    #22 - Facing Your Fears

    S10:E7

    The recruits must create a dish with both their least favorite ingredient, as well as a more obscure ingredient, under the mentorship of Anne Burrell and Rachael Ray; the chefs must spatchcock a Cornish game hen and put a twist on a side dish.

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  24. Background image for The Reason You're Here
    8.1/10(12 votes)

    #23 - The Reason You're Here

    S10:E9

    In order to demonstrate how well they have learned cooking skills and techniques over the last nine weeks, the final four recruits step into their mentor's shoes and direct Anne Burrell and Rachael Ray to make a dish. Then, for the main dish challenge, Anne and Rachael bring in VIP guests that hit very close to home and who will be key in deciding which recruits move onto the finale for the chance of winning $25,000.

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  25. Background image for Culinary Games
    8.1/10(10 votes)

    #24 - Culinary Games

    S20:E2

    The recruits participate in the first annual Boot Camp Culinary Games and compete in culinary-related events, from whipping cream to stomping tomatoes. Then, Chef Anne Burrell and Chef Alex Guarnaschelli teach them how to roll sushi for their skill-drill challenge and make traditional Japanese bento boxes for the main dish challenge. The bottom recruit on each team will say "sayonara" to boot camp.

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  26. Background image for Multitasking
    8.0/10(17 votes)

    #25 - Multitasking

    S1:E4

    The recruits learn how to make fresh pasta. Then they prepare a variety of hors d'oeuvres while catering a 30-person cocktail party.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Sausage Party" is the best rated episode of "Worst Cooks in America". It scored 9/10 based on 15 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 2/18/2018. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Can You Pleas Pas-Ta Sauce?".