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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 Celebrity: A La Cuisine!
    8.8/10(11 votes)

    #1 - 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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    Director:Unknown
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  2. Background image for Eggtastic
    8.8/10(14 votes)

    #2 - 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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  3. Background image for Celebrity: Rolling in the Deep
    8.4/10(10 votes)

    #3 - 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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  4. Background image for Celebrity: Mother Dough
    8.4/10(10 votes)

    #4 - 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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  5. Background image for Piece of Cake
    8.4/10(10 votes)

    #5 - Piece of Cake

    S14:E5

    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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    Director:Unknown
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  6. Background image for Hibachi Heroes
    8.3/10(13 votes)

    #6 - Hibachi Heroes

    S14:E2

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

    #7 - 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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  9. Background image for Winner Winner Chicken Dinner
    8.2/10(11 votes)

    #8 - Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

    S14:E3

    For the skill drill, the recruits must work in teams to identify the ingredients of five mother sauces and then create their own chicken with pan sauce dishes for their chef; the recruits make fried chicken and cornbread for the main dish.

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  10. Background image for The Ick Factor
    8.2/10(11 votes)

    #9 - The Ick Factor

    S14:E4

    The kitchen can be a scary place, but the recruits must learn to face their fears in boot camp; first, they're forced to expand their palates with some unusual ingredients in a Cake Walk-inspired game that proves to be anything but a cakewalk.

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    8.2/10(10 votes)

    #10 - Duck, Duck ...

    S14:E6

    The final four recruits start thinking about life after boot camp and learn to navigate a grocery store when boot camp transforms into Worst Cooks General Market; recruits reunite with their loved ones and must make them a dish.

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

    #11 - 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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  13. Background image for All Aboard!
    8.1/10(17 votes)

    #12 - 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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  14. Background image for Facing Your Fears
    8.1/10(14 votes)

    #13 - 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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  15. Background image for The Reason You're Here
    8.1/10(12 votes)

    #14 - 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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  16. Background image for Culinary Games
    8.1/10(10 votes)

    #15 - 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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  17. Background image for Cowboy Cuisine
    8.0/10(12 votes)

    #16 - Cowboy Cuisine

    S15:E3

    The recruits enter boot camp and discover that they will be going back to the basics with meat-and-potatoes challenges.

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  18. Background image for That's So '90s: The Fresh Chefs of Boot Camp
    8.0/10(15 votes)

    #17 - That's So '90s: The Fresh Chefs of Boot Camp

    S24:E1

    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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  19. Background image for Reality Stars on Mars
    8.0/10(7 votes)

    #18 - Reality Stars on Mars

    S28:E6

    The recruits compete in an intergalactic scavenger hunt called "May the Course Be with You" as they race to retrieve ingredients for their next dish. The longer they take, the less time they have to cook! Then, chefs Jeff Mauro and Antonia Lofaso invite the teams to dive into the deep with squid ink seafood pasta. The two bottom recruits face a blind elimination challenge, where they must make fresh pasta and sauce to avoid getting lost in space.

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  20. Background image for Eat, Pray, Love
    7.9/10(16 votes)

    #19 - Eat, Pray, Love

    S5:E6

    The final four recruits cook for their loved ones during a blind-tasting challenge to determine who will compete in the final.

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  21. Background image for Mardi Gras Mad
    7.9/10(14 votes)

    #20 - Mardi Gras Mad

    S10:E8

    The chefs learn how to tackle New Orleans cuisine; the recruits must work as a team to fill in the missing words on a recipe that they then have to execute; the recruits must individually replicate their mentors' New Orleans-inspired dishes.

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  22. Background image for The Perfect Bird
    7.9/10(15 votes)

    #21 - The Perfect Bird

    S15:E1

    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.

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  23. Background image for Multitasking
    7.8/10(18 votes)

    #22 - 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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  24. Background image for Worse Than Ever
    7.8/10(18 votes)

    #23 - 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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  25. Background image for The Proof Is in the Pudding
    7.8/10(14 votes)

    #24 - The Proof Is in the Pudding

    S10:E6

    A special guest mentor teaches the recruits the art of making a decadent chocolate dessert for Valentine's Day; the winner receives a special advantage in the main dish challenge, which consists of cooking a romantic meal.

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  26. Background image for Celebrity: A La Cuisine!
    7.8/10(14 votes)

    #25 - Celebrity: A La Cuisine!

    S14:E1

    Fourteen cooks join culinary boot camp with hopes of putting their kitchen nightmares behind them. Chefs Anne Burrell and Robert Irvine want to see what they are dealing with, so they ask the recruits to make their signature dishes. The recruits split into teams and learn to make a surf-and-turf dish.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Celebrity: A La Cuisine!" is the best rated episode of "Worst Cooks in America". It scored 8.8/10 based on 11 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 5/13/2018. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Eggtastic".