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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,

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Worst Cooks in America Season 1 Episode 1 - Into the Fire
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    #1 - Into the Fire

    S1:E1

    In the series premiere, 24 terrible home cooks arrive in New York City, hoping to be selected for a 10-day culinary boot camp with chefs Beau MacMillan and Anne Burrell. Then, the field is narrowed down to 12 hopefuls and they begin competing for a $25,000 grand prize.

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  2. Worst Cooks in America Season 1 Episode 2 - Looking Good
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    #2 - Looking Good

    S1:E2

    The recruits learn five fundamental knife skills at the Arirang Hibachi Steakhouse. Then, each attempts to prepare a teppanyaki-style dish. For the Main Dish Challenge, Anne and Beau post a recipe on the blackboard, only to erase it halfway through the challenge.

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  3. Worst Cooks in America Season 1 Episode 3 - Feelin' the Flavor
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    #3 - Feelin' the Flavor

    S1:E3

    The importance of flavor is emphasized when the recruits learn to make crepes. Then, Anne and Beau teach the basics of marinating and grilling.

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  4. Worst Cooks in America Season 1 Episode 4 - Multitasking
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    #4 - 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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  5. Worst Cooks in America Season 1 Episode 5 - Are You Ready
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    #5 - Are You Ready

    S1:E5

    The final four recruits learn to cook a complicated dessert before teaching the dish to a group of high-school football players. Then the finalists must reinvent the terrible dish they cooked for Anne and Beau on their very first day.

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  6. Worst Cooks in America Season 1 Episode 6 - The Final Test
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    #6 - The Final Test

    S1:E6

    Season 1 comes to a close as the final two recruits prepare a three-course meal for food critics, who think they're eating dishes prepared by Anne and Beau. Then, the amateur chef who serves the best-executed meal is declared the winner.

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  7. Worst Cooks in America Season 2 Episode 1 - Worst Food Forward
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    #7 - Worst Food Forward

    S2:E1

    Sixteen unskilled home cooks arrive in New York City to begin a culinary boot camp in the Season 2 opener. Hosts Anne Burrell and Robert Irvine divide the recruits into two teams and challenge them to butcher a whole chicken and replicate the entrées they've been taught.

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  8. Worst Cooks in America Season 2 Episode 2 - Farmageddon
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    #8 - Farmageddon

    S2:E2

    The remaining recruits take a field trip to a farm, where they're challenged to prepare the perfect omelet. Later, the hopefuls try to re-create a pork dish, relying only on their own memory after their notebooks are taken away.

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  9. Worst Cooks in America Season 2 Episode 3 - Frozen to Fabulous
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    #9 - Frozen to Fabulous

    S2:E3

    The hopefuls must replicate three simple sauces and incorporate them into seafood dishes. Later, they re-create frozen meals using fresh and flavorful ingredients.

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  10. Worst Cooks in America Season 2 Episode 4 - Grill Skills
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    #10 - Grill Skills

    S2:E4

    The recruits construct creative burgers in a grilling Skill Drill. They then prepare elegant meals for two and dine one-on-one with their chef, defending their dishes.

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  11. Worst Cooks in America Season 2 Episode 5 - Game-Day Party
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    #11 - Game-Day Party

    S2:E5

    The recruits cater a cocktail party for Kris Jenkins of the New York Jets. Later, there's a double elimination.

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  12. Worst Cooks in America Season 2 Episode 6 - Facing Food Fears
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    #12 - Facing Food Fears

    S2:E6

    The six remaining recruits make sausage from scratch during a trip to a butcher shop. Then, they face their seafood fears when tasked with cleaning and prepping whole fish and squid.

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  13. Worst Cooks in America Season 2 Episode 7 - Sweet Surprise
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    #13 - Sweet Surprise

    S2:E7

    The final four compete in a culinary decathlon. Later, their loved ones show up and reveal a favorite dish they'll have to prepare.

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  14. Worst Cooks in America Season 2 Episode 8 - Worst to First
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    #14 - Worst to First

    S2:E8

    The final two recruits must prepare a three-course meal in a real restaurant kitchen for a panel of demanding gourmands. Chefs Anne and Robert devise a menu, send the recruits shopping for ingredients and then help their recruit practice the menu for three short hours. The next day, the recruits find themselves at New York’s Tribeca Grill, where they'll cook for culinary experts Marc Murphy, Donatella Arpaia and Drew Nieporent. After much deliberation, the panel reveals its choice for the best-executed meal.

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  15. Worst Cooks in America Season 3 Episode 1 - Best of the Worst
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    #15 - Best of the Worst

    S3:E1

    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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  16. Worst Cooks in America Season 3 Episode 2 - Going Global
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    #16 - Going Global

    S3:E2

    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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  17. Worst Cooks in America Season 3 Episode 3 - Flavor Combos
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    #17 - Flavor Combos

    S3:E3

    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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  18. Worst Cooks in America Season 3 Episode 4 - Late Night/Date Night
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    #18 - Late Night/Date Night

    S3:E4

    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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  19. Worst Cooks in America Season 3 Episode 5 - Luck of the Irish
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    #19 - Luck of the Irish

    S3:E5

    Eight recruits will be asked to re-create one of Anne Burrell and Bobby Flay's favorite meals using nothing but their sense of taste, smell and sight while their teachers secretly watch and judge. Then it's a St. Patrick's Day surprise as the recruits have to cater a party for 40 hungry Irish New Yorkers.

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  20. Worst Cooks in America Season 3 Episode 6 - Something Fishy
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    #20 - Something Fishy

    S3:E6

    It's time to get down and dirty as the recruits visit a fish market and have to make a colossal raw bar tower. Anne Burrell and Bobby Flay will then put their names on the line as the recruits cook for the chefs' own families!

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  21. Worst Cooks in America Season 3 Episode 7 - Kicked Off By Kinfolk
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    #21 - Kicked Off By Kinfolk

    S3:E7

    The recruits have to impress their hardest critics yet in hopes of moving on to the finale. First they'll feed 30 screaming third-graders, then they'll have to cook a family-style meal for their loved ones who sent them to boot camp.

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  22. Worst Cooks in America Season 3 Episode 8 - Worst to First: The Final Battle
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    #22 - Worst to First: The Final Battle

    S3:E8

    In the final battle, the two remaining recruits must execute their own three-course menu for a panel of culinary titans at David Burke Kitchen, a restaurant in New York City. Bobby and Anne work with their respective recruits to design the menus, taking into account their personal culinary journeys. The contestants learn new techniques, shop for groceries, practice their menus and execute all three courses in a dramatic end to an exhausting competition. Finally, the panel of culinary experts — including David Burke, Marcus Samuelsson and Susan Feniger — determine which chef has moved from worst to first and will walk away with the $25,000 grand prize.

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  23. Worst Cooks in America Season 4 Episode 1 - The Worst of the Worst
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    #23 - The Worst of the Worst

    S4:E1

    Chefs Anne Burrell and Bobby Flay are back to turn teams of charmingly helpless recruits into fearless culinary masters.

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  24. Worst Cooks in America Season 4 Episode 2 - Straight Edge Skills
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    #24 - Straight Edge Skills

    S4:E2

    This week Chefs Anne Burrell and Bobby Flay test the knife skills of the worst cooks in America. The remaining 12 recruits hit the high seas in a fishing skill drill and also have to take a huge step into the world of farm to table butchery.

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  25. Worst Cooks in America Season 4 Episode 3 - Fire and Ice
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    #25 - Fire and Ice

    S4:E3

    Chefs Anne Burrell and Bobby Flay train the remaining 10 recruits' palates as they work on creating their own unique flavor combinations. The worst cooks freeze while making gelato and play with fire — as well as burgers — in this week's challenge with special guest Willie Degel.

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Into the Fire" is the worst rated episode of "Worst Cooks in America". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/3/2010. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Looking Good".