9.0/1013 votesLoading...#1 - Sausage Party
Season 12 Episode 7 - Aired 2/18/2018
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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#2 - Can You Pleas Pas-Ta Sauce?
Season 12 Episode 8 - Aired 2/25/2018
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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- 8.8/1015 votesLoading...
#3 - Game Day
Season 12 Episode 4 - Aired 1/28/2018
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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#4 - Sweets for My Sweetie
Season 12 Episode 6 - Aired 2/11/2018
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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8.7/1026 votesLoading...#5 - Late Night/Date Night
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 3/4/2012
The 10 remaining recruits will be up all night learning how to make a late-night treat at a local diner, then Anne Burrell and Bobby Flay will take it up a notch and teach them all an exquisite romantic entrée for two.
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#6 - Show Me the Vegetables!
Season 12 Episode 3 - Aired 1/21/2018
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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#7 - Leftovers Again?
Season 12 Episode 5 - Aired 2/4/2018
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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#8 - Flair Flair Everywhere
Season 12 Episode 9 - Aired 3/4/2018
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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#9 - Fish Are Food, Not Friends
Season 12 Episode 2 - Aired 1/14/2018
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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#10 - Celebrity: A La Cuisine!
Season 13 Episode 5 - Aired 5/13/2018
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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#11 - Eggtastic
Season 15 Episode 2 - Aired 1/13/2019
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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#12 - Celebrity: Waited on Hand and Foot
Season 16 Episode 5 - Aired 5/19/2019
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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8.5/1027 votesLoading...#13 - Going Global
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 2/19/2012
The recruits will be tested on an international level as they attempt to learn to make Hand Pulled Chinese Noodles and meatballs from around the globe. Will the recruits pull through or will they create an international disaster?
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#14 - Celebrity: Take the Bait
Season 16 Episode 3 - Aired 5/5/2019
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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#15 - Celebrity: Rolling in the Deep
Season 13 Episode 2 - Aired 4/22/2018
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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#16 - Celebrity: Mother Dough
Season 13 Episode 3 - Aired 4/29/2018
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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#17 - Piece of Cake
Season 14 Episode 5 - Aired 9/9/2018
Chefs Robert Irvine and Anne Burrell leave the recruits to their own devices, asking them to work in teams to recreate a dish by taste alone. Unbeknownst to the recruits, the chefs secretly watch their every move and are shocked by what they see. For the main dish challenge, the recruits have to bake a tiered cake to suit two special guest judges, Food Network’s Gesine Prado and Jason Smith. In the end, Anne and Robert decide which recruits satisfy their sweet tooth and which ones leave them with a toothache.
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#18 - That's So '90s: The Fresh Chefs of Boot Camp
Season 24 Episode 1 - Aired 4/24/2022
Chef Anne Burrell and co-host Jeff Mauro welcome a fresh batch of celebrity recruits to culinary boot camp, hoping to take these '90s stars from culinary duds to all that and a bag of chips in the kitchen. In order to choose their teams, the chefs need the 411 on what these recruits can and can't do in the kitchen, so Anne and Jeff ask the celebrities to cook a potluck dish. For the main dish challenge, the recruits have to make elevated versions of classic TV dinners, and the chefs decide which dishes deserve to be syndicated and which recruits should be cancelled from the competition.
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8.3/1028 votesLoading...#19 - Best of the Worst
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 2/12/2012
Sixteen hapless home cooks begin culinary boot camp in the Season 3 opener. First, the recruits prepare signature dishes, which are then critiqued by hosts Anne Burrell and Bobby Flay. Later, they learn the basics of cooking breakfast.
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8.3/1027 votesLoading...#20 - Flavor Combos
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 2/26/2012
It's all about flavors for the recruits as they have to make and top their own pizza and have their palates tested with extreme and odd flavor combinations. With 12 recruits left, they will all have to fight to taste victory!
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#21 - Hibachi Heroes
Season 14 Episode 2 - Aired 8/19/2018
Boot camp transforms into the game show Family Food and the teams go head to head in trivia rounds and culinary tasks testing their knowledge; a Teppanyaki chef performs dazzling tricks over a grill; the recruits learn to make a hibachi-style meal.
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#22 - Celebrity: Around the World in 60 Minutes
Season 16 Episode 4 - Aired 5/12/2019
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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#23 - Celebrity: There's No We in Food
Season 16 Episode 6 - Aired 5/26/2019
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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#24 - The Bird is the Word
Season 17 Episode 4 - Aired 8/25/2019
For this episode, the recruits learn to make fried chicken.
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#25 - Multitasking
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1/24/2010
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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The Best Episodes of Worst Cooks in America
Every episode of Worst Cooks in America ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into 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...
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Network:Food Network
Best Episodes Summary
"Sausage Party" is the best rated episode of "Worst Cooks in America". It scored 9/10 based on 13 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 2/18/2018. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Can You Pleas Pas-Ta Sauce?".