Worst Food Forward

Hundreds of terrible home cooks came out for the nationwide auditions, but only 16 of the country's worst home cooks travel to New York City to compete in a culinary boot camp with Anne Burrell and Robert Irvine.

Farmageddon

Awakened by a live chicken in their penthouse, the 14 remaining recruits take a field trip to a farm where Chefs Anne and Robert challenge them to prepare the perfect omelet for their Skill Drill.

Frozen to Fabulous

After some difficulties, the recruits start in on the Main Dish Challenge where Chefs Anne and Robert demo a multi-component "Frozen Meal Makeover" using fresh and flavorful ingredients for the recruits to replicate.

Grill Skills

The recruits must execute elegant meals for two, sit down to eat with their chef and defend their dishes. The losing recruits are eliminated.

Game Day Party

For the Main Dish Challenge, the chefs shock their recruits with the news that they must cater an hors d'oeuvre party for NFL star Kris Jenkins and 30 of his guests! It's game time, and the two least-successful cooks are cut.

Facing Food Fears

The remaining six recruits attempt to conquer intimidating ingredients when they visit The Meat Hook, a New York butcher shop, where they learn to make a sausage meal from scratch for their Skill Drill.

Sweet Surprise

The final four compete in a "Culinary Decathlon" Skill Drill to test their knowledge thus far. Then, the chefs teach their recruits a complicated dessert technique featuring a flambé presentation.

Worst to First

The final two recruits face their toughest challenge yet: preparing a three-course meal in a real restaurant kitchen for a panel of demanding gourmands.

Best of the Worst

Sixteen of the country's worst home cooks arrive at Base Camp and attempt to "impress" Anne Burrell and Bobby Flay with their own signature dish.

Going Global

The recruits are tested on an international level as they attempt to learn to make hand-pulled Chinese noodles and meatballs from around the globe.

Extreme Flavor

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!

Late Night/Date Night

The 10 remaining recruits are up all night learning how to make a late-night treat at a local diner. Then, Anne Burrell and Bobby Flay take it up a notch and teach them how to make an exquisite, romantic entree for two.

Luck of the Irish

It's a St. Patrick's Day surprise as the recruits have to cater a party for 40 hungry Irish New Yorkers.

Something Fishy

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!

Kicked Off by Kin Folk

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

Worst to First: The Final Battle

It's winner-takes-all as the final two recruits battle it out for $25,000. Each recruit must cook a full, restaurant-style dinner for three of America's best chefs.

The Worst of the Worst

Chefs Anne Burrell and Bobby Flay find 14 of the worst cooks in America to compete in a culinary boot camp. The recruits are forced to say goodbye to the microwaves and cook to stay in boot camp.

Straight Edge Skills

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

Fire and Ice

Chefs Anne Burrell and Bobby Flay train the remaining ten recruits' palates as they work on creating their own unique flavor combinations.

Do It Yourself Cooking

Anne Burrell and Bobby Flay teach the Worst Cooks in America to stop relying on others and cook for themselves. The remaining eight recruits race a delivery boy in making their own homemade Chinese takeout.

Face Your Fears of Feeding Others

Chefs Anne Burrell and Bobby Flay take the remaining six recruits to the grocery store to make samples for the shoppers. Then, they face their toughest critics yet as they host a party for some large, hairy and scary bikers.

Revisit Your Past Before the Last

Chefs Anne Burrell and Bobby Flay challenge the final four recruits to see how far they have come in the last six weeks. The recruits are in for a surprise as they get to cook for some very special guests, their loved ones.

So Close I Can Almost Taste It

Chefs Anne Burrell and Bobby Flay go head to head in the finale. Three-time winner Anne is ready to fight for her crown, but Bobby wants redemption. Who was the better teacher? Who will walk away with $25,000?

Worse Than Ever

Coming off her first loss in four seasons to Bobby Flay, Anne Burrell's out for revenge. She scours the country for the 14 worst cooks in America, picks teams and gives the recruits their first cooking lesson.

Scratching the Surface

Since Chefs Bobby and Anne are starting from scratch with these bad cooks, the lessons for the week involve learning to cook from scratch -- including an "udder-ly" hands-on experience sourcing milk for homemade cheese.

Glazed and Confused

It's time to learn how to build flavors. From a sweet skill drill making doughnuts to a savory main dish challenge making roulades, the recruits are asked to experiment for the first time and create their own take on these dishes.

Surprise!

The recruits may have mastered putting out one plate of food but they are still a far cry from being able to cook for their families. Anne Burrell's and Bobby Flay's challenges this week teach them how to cook quantity.

Two-A-Day

The recruits wake up to surprise house guests - Bobby Flay and Anne Burrell craving the most important meal of the day, breakfast. However, it's not the only meal the recruits get in the habit of cooking on a regular basis.

Eat, Pray, Love

It's down to the final four and in order to make it to the finale, the remaining recruits will be cooking for the loved ones who nominated them for boot camp.

Timer's Up

It's Bobby Fray's last recruit versus Anne Burrell's last recruit to determine the ultimate winner of Worst Cooks in America. Finalists cook a three-course meal in a professional restaurant kitchen for a panel of culinary experts.

It Just Keeps Getting Worse

With Tyler Florence now beside her in the kitchen, Anne Burrell is out to claim her turf with a win. After an open call brings some truly horrible cooks to Anne and Tyler, the pair chooses 14 recruits to bring back to boot camp.

Prepping for Success

Anne Burrell and Tyler test the recruits' knowledge of food through trivia. The recruits attempt to cut down the competition, learning knife skills to prepare their dishes. They make Paella, some with fewer bandages than others.

Spice Up Your Life

The recruits try their hands at experimenting with flavor combinations with a Skill Drill where they serve Crepes in a blind tasting. Then they make their own international tacos.

Scared Straight Into the Kitchen

The recruits huddle-up to tackle game day dishes, creating deep-fried fan favorites for Anne Burrell and Tyler Florence. Will they make crowd pleasing dishes or be defeated by the fryer?

Feeding Frenzy

The recruits are faced with their biggest struggles yet -- cooking for others in larger quantities. They are asked to make a breakfast for special guest and breakfast expert, Good Morning America's Meteorologist Ginger Zee.

Blast From the Past

The final four recruits are faced with their most important challenge so far. They must recreate their signature dishes from the first episode, using their new-found skills and food knowledge.

Final Food Fight

With the final recruit for each team chosen, Anne Burrell and Tyler Florence work with them to choose a refined, three-course menu to be served to a panel of judges. Who will be named the winner and take home the $25,000?

Fear the Worst

Tyler Florence and Anne Burrell pick their teams after a casting call attracts some of the worst cooks they've ever seen. After the home cooks make their signature dishes, Anne and Tyler teach them how to make a balanced dinner.

Getting Stuffed

Anne and Tyler test the recruits' food knowledge with a game show-style battle of "Family Food." After winning clues, the cooks clumsily attempt to cook their partial recipes. Then, they must prepare a delicate cut of meat.

50 Shades of Flavor

First, the recruits learn about flavor combinations by tasting some unlikely pairings. Then the Skill Drill checks their creativity as they concoct unique ice cream sandwiches. When the last round is over, two cooks go home.

Taking It to the Streets

The home cooks must prepare four eggs, each in a different style, at the same time. Anne and Tyler see who cracks under the pressure and who keeps calm. Then, the recruits make four different Asian street food dishes.

The Cod Squad

The remaining recruits must use exotic proteins to grind out some unforgettable burgers. After serving their original sliders to Anne and Tyler, the recruits must each fillet a whole cod to make homemade fish and chips.

Blast From the Past

The final four home cooks must recreate a dish using only their taste buds and new skills. Then, they make a revamped version of their signature dishes for their loved ones, who must judge each dish without knowing who cooked it.

Final Food Fight 8

Anne and Tyler's final two recruits plan a refined three-course menu for a judges' panel of culinary experts. In the end, only the dishes can prove which recruit has gone from worst to best and will win the $25,000 prize.

Celebrity: Celebrity Dish-asters

Anne Burrell and Rachael Ray kick off the red carpet competition by having the new cast of celebrities cook a dish using ingredients from their swag bags. Then, after learning a simple dish, one celebrity doesn't get a call back.

Celebrity: Hawaiian Pig and a Poke

Rachael and Anne introduce the celebrity recruits to unique tropical flavors and challenge them to replicate their Hawaiian poke and pork dishes. The two celebrities with the worst dishes battle it out in an elimination challenge.

Celebrity: Oktoberfest Feast

Celebrity teams cook a traditional wiener schnitzel, but with a relay race twist. Then, they learn Oktoberfest-inspired meals like making sausages from scratch. Two recruits compete in a sausage challenge, and one is sent packing.

Celebrity: BOOOOT Camp!

Anne Burrell and Rachael Ray get Halloween-ready with scary challenges for the celebrities like unique monster Bloody Marys and frightening foods in their main dish. Then two celebrities face a devilish elimination challenge.

Celebrity: Celebrity Cheat Meals

Celebrity recruits test their culinary knowledge in trivia. Then, the teams must replicate Anne and Rachael's versions of chicken and waffles. The least successful recruits go head-to-head in a high-stakes butchering challenge.

Celebrity: Hollywood Goes Bollywood

The tables get turned as the remaining celebrities become teachers, directing Anne Burrell and Rachael Ray on how to make a dish. Then, the celebrities are introduced to Indian cooking before one more recruit is sent home.

Celebrity: Live and Let Dough

For the skill drill challenge, the celebrities execute a simple recipe that is missing some key words. Then, the recruits cook complicated pasta dishes for former Worst Cooks contestants Jenni "Jwoww" Farley and Kendra Wilkinson.

Celebrity: The Final Showdown

The last two recruits face a tough panel of culinary experts, including Sarah Gore, chef Akhtar Nawab and Laura Vitale. Anne Burrell and Rachael Ray coach their recruits, and one will walk away with $50,000 for their charity.

Best of the Worst

Worst Cooks in America revisits some of the craziest, messiest, Worst Cookiest moments in the show's history! Mentors face a serious challenge as they do their best to make experts out of seemingly hopeless cases.

Holiday House Call

Two sisters want to continue a family tradition, but the fire department always shows up when they're in the kitchen! Can Chefs Anne and Tyler help them conquer their fears and create a delicious family feast in just two days?

A Decade of Dish-asters

Mentors Anne Burrell and Rachael Ray assess the new recruits' skills in the kitchen. Then they face a main dish challenge with shrimp and live lobster, and those with the least successful dishes on each team are sent home.

Frozen Freak Out

The recruits break out of their shells starting with the most important meal of the day: breakfast. Then they bring the day full circle in the main dish challenge by ditching frozen microwave meals for home-cooked dinners.

All Aboard!

Anne Burrell and Rachael Ray teach the recruits all about flavor and then send them on a culinary trip around the world with ingredients that correspond to the cuisine of a foreign country.

Fish Freak Out

Two surprise mentors coach the recruits through the skill drill of making unconventional pizzas. Then, the recruits have to get their hands dirty and face their fishy fears by learning how to fillet and prepare a fish dinner.

All Fun and Game Day

The recruits put their culinary knowledge to the test in a game of Family Food. Then they must cook for a crowd and impress their guests with the ultimate game-day sandwich and an appetizer.

The Proof Is in the Pudding

Anne and Rachael bring in a special guest mentor to teach the recruits how to make a decadent chocolate dessert for Valentine's Day. For the main dish challenge, the recruits must cook a romantic meal to wow their loved ones.

Facing Your Fears

The recruits must face the foods they fear most by creating a dish that utilizes both their least favorite ingredient as well as a more obscure ingredient not used in everyday cooking.

Mardi Gras Mad

The recruits tackle the melting pot of flavors and techniques associated with New Orleans cuisine. For the main dish challenge, the recruits must individually replicate their mentors' New Orleans-inspired dishes.

The Reason You're Here

The final four recruits demonstrate their cooking skills and direct their mentors to make a dish. Then Anne and Rachael bring in VIP guests to decide which recruits move on to the finale for the chance of winning $25,000.

A Fine Finale

The final two recruits must prepare a three-course, restaurant-quality meal for a panel of culinary experts in the final challenge. The judges will pick the winning recruit who will walk away with $25,000.

Kitchen Disaster to Master

Starting with the grossest dishes ever seen on day one of boot camp, watch how the Worst Cooks mentors train season after season of hopeless cooks, from basic kitchen skills to advanced culinary techniques to complicated desserts.

Celebrity: Social Media Food Failures

The new cast of celebrity recruits arrive to Boot Camp and must make a dish inspired by food they've posted on their social media profiles. Later, mentors Anne Burrell and Rachael Ray teach the celebs how to make lobster dishes.

Celebrity: Shabby to Chic

Anne Burrell and Rachael Ray play a taste-and-describe game with the celebrity recruits and then demonstrate hors d'oeuvres, which their recruits must replicate exactly, as well as make their own.

Celebrity: Starting From Scratch

Boot Camp is transformed into Cafe Worst Cooks as the celebrities learn how to make classic crepes. For the main challenge, they have to butcher whole chickens, grill them and create their own unique side dishes.

Celebrity: Around the World in a Day

Mentors Anne Burrell and Rachael Ray test the recruits' knowledge of world cuisine by playing a fast-paced food game, and then the recruits are required to make their own hand-pulled noodles from scratch.

Celebrity: This Meat Is Offal!

The celebrity recruits put their culinary knowledge to the test by playing Family Food, a game of food trivia and culinary tasks. Afterward, they learn the art of beef butchering and go head-to-head in a high "steaks" challenge.

Celebrity: Get Baked

The celebrity recruits finally tackle desserts, starting with a fast-paced assembly line challenge. Then, they make over-the-top milkshakes topped with decadent sweets and battle it out in a cupcake challenge.

Celebrity: Tin Foil Chefs

As the competition nears its end, the oven mitts come off and the celebrities fight for a spot in the finale! They face their toughest challenge yet: an Iron Chef-inspired battle called Tin Foil Chef.

Celebrity: Finale the End!

The final two recruits put all the skills they've learned to use cooking a restaurant-quality meal for a panel of culinary experts. One recruit will be named the winner and awarded $25,000 for their charity.

Can It Really Be This Bad?

Mentors Anne Burrell and Tyler Florence teach 16 of the worst cooks in America how to make the most important meal of the day, and the recruit on each team with the worst breakfast dish is sent home.

Fish Are Food, Not Friends

Mentors Anne Burrell and Tyler Florence introduce the recruits to magical and mysterious kitchen gadgets. Then boot camp transforms into a fish market where the recruits learn to fillet and prepare fish.

Show Me the Vegetables!

The Worst Cooks boot camp is transformed into a Family Food game show where the recruits compete in trivia and culinary tasks. For the main dish challenge, they put down roots in the kitchen and learn about cooking vegetables.

Game Day!

Recruits compete in cornhole and darts to determine flavors for their craveable game day creations. For the main dish challenge, mentors Anne Burrell and Tyler Florence teach the recruits how to make irresistible stuffed burgers.

Leftovers Again?

The recruits learn how to create new dishes from common leftover ingredients. Then Anne and Tyler leave them alone for the first time to make pizza from scratch. Some pizzas impress the Chefs, while others get boxed out.

Sweets For My Sweetie

It's Valentine's Day at boot camp and the recruits are learning how to make sweets for their sweeties including molten chocolate cakes and a multi-component dessert.

Sausage Party

Anne and Tyler secretly watch the boot camp recruits as they learn the ugly truth of sausage making and present their dishes for a potluck dinner.

Can You Please Pas-Ta Sauce?

The recruits attempt to make fresh pasta from scratch with a little help from Italian nonnas who have years of pasta-making experience.

Flair Flair Everywhere

The final four recruits compete to represent Anne and Tyler in the finale. First, they learn high-flying bartending tricks. Then, they must cook a dish and perform a flashy tableside demonstration for some very special guests.

The Final Countdown

The final two recruits, with coaching from Anne and Tyler, cook a 3-course, restaurant-quality meal for a panel of culinary experts. Judges Paulette Goto, Jordan Andino and Michael Chernow determine the $25,000 grand prize winner.

Celebrity: Hit Me With Your Best Dish

The new cast of celebrity recruits arrives at Boot Camp to cook their signature dishes and learn how to make a classic breakfast dish.

Celebrity: Rolling in the Deep

The celebrities are thrown into the deep end by starting off with a fast-paced seafood tower relay game before tackling monkfish and learning how to make fish and chips.

Celebrity: Mother Dough

Boot Camp is transformed into Celebrity Game Night as the two teams go head-to-head playing multiple rounds of celebrity-driven food games. The two least-successful recruits then face off in a bruschetta challenge.

Celebrity: Nutritious and Delicious

Anne and Tyler get the celebrity recruits together for a unique taste-and-describe game with comfort foods. The recruits must then create their own meals that include a protein, side dish and dessert.

Celebrity: A La Cuisine!

The celebrity recruits must tell Anne and Tyler how to cook a dish before facing the Worst Cooks version of Iron Chef for a spot in the finale.

Celebrity: It's All for the Fans

The remaining celebrity recruits must impress their biggest fans with their newly acquired cooking skills before making a restaurant-quality meal for the judges.

By Land and Sea

Fourteen of the worst cooks in America enter culinary boot camp and make their signature dishes for chefs Anne Burrell and Robert Irvine. Then, the recruits dive into the deep end by learning to make a surf and turf dish.

Hibachi Heroes

In the game show Family Food, the teams go head to head in trivia rounds and culinary tasks testing their knowledge of the kitchen. Then they learn how to make a hibachi-style meal for the main dish challenge.

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

The recruits learn how to identify the ingredients of five mother sauces and then create chicken with pan sauce dishes for chefs Anne Burrell and Robert Irvine. Then the chefs teach them how to make fried chicken and cornbread.

The Ick Factor

The recruits expand their palates with some unusual ingredients in a Cake Walk-inspired game. Then they face their fears and get up close and personal with some creatures of the sea, harvesting ink to make fresh squid ink pasta.

Piece of Cake

The recruits work in teams to recreate a dish by taste alone, and then they have to bake a tiered cake to suit two special guest judges, Gesine Prado and Jason Smith.

Duck, Duck ...

The final four recruits start thinking about life after boot camp and learn to navigate a grocery store. Chefs Anne Burrell and Robert Irvine teach their ducklings how to make impressive duck two ways.

Finally the Finale

The remaining recruits use everything they've learned to recreate their baseline dishes, and then they make a three-course meal. Judges David Burtka, Daphne Oz and Melba Wilson determine the winner of the $25,000 prize.

Thanksgiving Redemption

Four much-improved former Boot Camp recruits team up to make a Thanksgiving feast for a chance to win $5,000 worth of kitchen equipment and a shot at culinary redemption.

The Perfect Bird

Fifteen of America's worst cooks enter boot camp hoping to put their kitchen nightmares behind them. Anne and Tyler are eager to see just what they're dealing with in their first-ever challenge.

Eggtastic

The remaining recruits enter boot camp to find it's been transformed into a casino complete with a game of Egg Roulette that may leave some recruits in an eggy mess.

Cowboy Cuisine

The recruits go back to the basics with a variety of meat-and-potatoes challenges that include a Skill Drill and a meat-based dish fit for a cowboy.

Meat Me at the Game

The recruits put their game faces on for a variety of Game Day challenges that involve a potato sack relay race, meatballs for tailgating and more!

Spice Up Your Life

The recruits get up-close and personal with their spice cabinets in challenges that include spice identification, impressive spice rubs and more!

Carnival Chaos

Boot camp has been turned into a carnival and the recruits are taking on a pie-eating contest, churros and good old-fashioned American pies.

Aloha, Recruits!

The recruits set sail for the islands as they take on a treasure hunt, a Hawaiian luau challenge and more!

In It to Win It

The remaining recruits fight for a spot in the finale in a game of Remote Control Chef and by recreating the finale dishes of past Worst Cooks finalists.

The Day We've Been Waiting For

The final two recruits get a private lesson from the chefs before taking on their last main dish challenge -- the winner will go home with $25,000!

Celebrity: This Isn't How It Looks in the Pictures

Eight of the worst celebrity cooks in America arrive at culinary boot camp, where they face their first challenge from chefs Anne Burrell and Tyler Florence. They teach the celebs to make a steakhouse meal and pick their teams.

Celebrity: Wheel of Misfortune

The teams of celebrity cooks go head-to-head for food games and trivia, and then they're tasked with replicating Anne Burrell's and Tyler Florence's movie-inspired dishes. A blind elimination challenge determines who goes home.

Celebrity: Take the Bait

Chefs Anne Burrell and Tyler Florence plunge the celebrities into the deep end of the kitchen by introducing them to fish. They assemble sushi rolls from a conveyor belt and then learn to make fish tacos with homemade tortillas.

Celebrity: Around the World in 60 Minutes

The celebrity recruits learn how to make Thai ice cream rolls and create their own flavor profile. Then chef mentors Anne Burrell and Tyler Florence teach them how to make paella.

Celebrity: Waited on Hand and Foot

Anne Burrell and Tyler Florence challenge the celebrity recruits to make their own champagne cocktail and blinis from scratch. Then, the pampered celebs must cater lunch for the entire Worst Cooks crew.

Celebrity: There's No "We" in Food

The celebrity recruits work in teams to recreate a dish from taste alone, and chefs Anne Burrell and Tyler Florence secretly watch their every move. Then the celebs face off in a Chopped-style showdown for a spot in the finale.

Celebrity: That's a Wrap

For the final challenge, the two remaining celebrities create a three-course meal for culinary experts Leah Cohen, Zac Posen and Melba Wilson, who decide which celebrity takes home $25,000 for the charity of their choice.

Nowhere to Go But Up

Chefs Anne Burrell and Bobby Flay open up boot camp for fourteen of America's worst cooks hoping to put their kitchen nightmares behind them.

My Big Fat Greek ...

The remaining recruits find boot camp has been transformed into a Mediterranean paradise where they face challenges involving various Greek staples.

Summer Catch, Summer Heat

The recruits prepare for summer fun with spicy flavor challenges and a fishy main dish challenge.

The Bird is the Word

The recruits enter the world of poultry with a bird-based quiz, omelets and a fried chicken dinner.

Viva Mexico!

The recruits find themselves south of the border with challenges involving pinatas, tostadas and mole.

A Very Brady Brunch

Boot camp has gone retro as the recruits face blindfolded taste tests, fondue and a beautiful brunch challenge.

A Little Goes a Long Way

The remaining recruits battle for a spot in the finale with an Aldi supermarket challenge followed by a high-end ingredient competition.

Two Cooks, One Prize

The final two recruits return to impress their moms and a panel of culinary experts for a chance to leave boot camp with $25,000.

Thanksgiving Redemption 2

Four former Worst Cooks recruits return to boot camp for a shot at culinary redemption in a competition focused on the toughest meal of the year: Thanksgiving dinner.

Bottom's Up

Food brainiac Alton Brown and Chef Anne Burrell welcome 16 of the worst cooks in America to boot camp. Alton and Anne want to see what they're dealing with, so they ask the recruits to make a baseline dish.

Indulge Me

The theme of boot camp is indulgence, and the recruits start off making indulgent salads and fresh mozzarella. Then they have to re-create Alton Brown's and Anne Burrell's craveable dishes to avoid being sent home.

Chinese New Year

The recruits find boot camp transformed for a Chinese New Year celebration. First, they play a game to gather ingredients for fried rice. Then Alton Brown and Anne Burrell guide the recruits through making dumplings.

Simple Yet Sophisticated

The recruits enter the world of culinary sophistication, starting by identifying different crepe fillings and learning how to make their own crepes from Alton Brown and Anne Burrell. Then the recruits create a duck dish.

Let's Get Ready to Tailgate

The teams of recruits face off in a game where they make game day dishes in order to move down the field to the end zone. They re-create burgers made by Alton Brown and Anne Burrell before tackling Southern tailgating staples.

Opposites Attract

The recruits learn how to combine unlikely ingredients, and Alton Brown and Anne Burrell challenge the recruits to make a flatbread including an unusual pairing. For the main dish challenge, they must pair fruit and meat.

Amore Sucre

It's a sweet week in boot camp, with the recruits trying to identify sweet treats using all their senses. Then they learn how to make napoleons and have to make a citrus tart with a meringue for the main dish challenge.

Incognito Cuisine

The recruits enter the world of clandestine cuisine and answer seafood trivia in order to reveal a picture puzzle. They learn how to make empanadas and then make shellfish dishes for the main dish challenge.

High Steaks

In the penultimate skill drill challenge, the recruits play remote-control chef and guide Alton Brown and Anne Burrell to make a dish they cannot see or taste. For the main dish challenge, the recruits make a steak dish.

The Final Countdown

The final two recruits get private cooking lessons from Alton Brown and Anne Burrell and learn to make a dish of their choosing. Then Alton and Anne teach their recruits how to make a three-course, restaurant-quality meal.

Famous Dish-asters

Chef Anne Burrell and Chef Tyler Florence are back in boot camp to whip seven of the worst celebrity cooks in America into culinary shape. For the baseline challenge, the recruits are tasked with making their go-to dish for a dinner party.

A Day at the Races

In honor of the Triple Crown, the celebrity recruits enter a race of their own to identify and put together flavors on a crostini. For the main dish challenge, the chefs teach the recruits how to make a fancy steak dinner worthy of any celebrity table.

Sea-List to A-List

The celebrity recruits dive into the world of seafood by solving a recipe riddle to make ceviche. For the main dish challenge, the chefs show them how to butcher their own fish and make the classic fish en papillote.

Robo-Dough

The roles are reversed in boot camp as the celebrity recruits instruct their chef on how to make a dish that they can't see, taste or touch. For the main dish challenge, chefs Anne Burrell and Tyler Florence teach the recruits to make homemade ravioli.

Sweet Showdown

The final four celebrity recruits first play a dessert scramble game and make their own parfaits. Then the final two recruits on each team cook head-to-head, and the bottom two say a bittersweet goodbye to the competition.

Fight for Food Fame

Former celebrity recruit Carson Kressley greets the final two, who team up with their chefs to make steak fajitas. Then they have to make a three-course meal to impress judges Dan Churchill, Jeff Mauro and Grace Mitchell for the grand prize.

Horrendously Homemade

Chefs Anne Burrell and Carla Hall welcome 14 horrible cooks to culinary boot camp. The recruits are asked to make their favorite homemade dishes to show off their cooking chops, or lack thereof, and chefs Anne and Carla choose their teams.

Garden of Eat'n

The recruits learn how food gets from the farm to their fork, and then chefs Anne Burrell and Carla Hall teach them to make meatless meals. In the main challenge, the recruits must cook farm-to-table dishes pairing a seasonal fruit and meat.

Sauce Boss

Boot camp gets a retro, '80s makeover, and the recruits use their palates and culinary senses to learn about different sauces in a zany game. In the main challenge, the recruits are tasked with making the ultimate saucy dish, enchiladas.

Between Two Buns

The recruits learn about flavor pairings in a wacky sandwich tasting game and then put their own spin on fried chicken sandwiches. In the main challenge, they rock and roll while creating unique roulades.

Hook, Line and Sink 'Em

It's time for the recruits to conquer the sea, first by playing a seafood identification game and then by whipping up steaming bowls of mussels. In the main challenge, the chefs task their recruits with making seafood risotto.

Bonkers for Baked Goods

The recruits get a crash course in cake decorating from pastry chef Zac Young and then have to decorate cupcakes. In the main challenge, they return to the savory side as they're asked to make fresh pasta from scratch.

This Ain't No Yolk

The recruits learn how to cook an elaborate breakfast spread. Then they hope to earn a spot in the finale as they execute dishes requested by their loved ones and serve them family-style for the remaining recruits and chefs Anne Burrell and Carla Hall.

Fight for Finale

Anne Burrell and Carla Hall teach their final two recruits how to make a three-course, restaurant-quality meal. Judges Adrienne Cheatham, JJ Johnson and George Mendes sample the recruits' final dishes in a blind taste test and award the $25,000 prize.

Best of the Worst: Ready for Redemption

Anne Burrell and her newest competitor, Michael Symon, welcome eight returning recruits eager to finally master the kitchen. The chefs start off with a culinary time trial to see who has improved and who has reverted to their old, disastrous ways.

Best of the Worst: Viva Las Boot Camp

The teams of recruits go head-to-head in a series of casino-themed culinary challenges. After winning some "cheddar" in the money booth, the recruits must make gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches and then high-end seafood dishes.

Best of the Worst: Happy Campers

The teams of recruits play a culinary scavenger hunt and then must cook dishes using only camping equipment and utensils. Chefs Anne Burrell and Michael Symon teach the recruits how to smoke and grill game meats for the main dish challenge.

Best of the Worst: Fly Me to the Flavor

The recruits arrive to find boot camp transformed into an airport, and chefs Anne Burrell and Michael Symon welcome them to "Worst Cooks Air" to set off on an exploration of international flavors, including appetizers and paellas.

Best of the Worst: Choux Ready for This?

The teams of recruits compete in boot camp's first "Tour de Petit Four," riding scooters around a French-themed obstacle course and collecting ingredients to create elaborate dessert platters. Then the chefs teach them how to make French eclairs.

Best of the Worst: No Cuts, No Glory

Chefs Anne Burrell and Michael Symon teach their final two recruits how to make a three-course, restaurant-quality meal. Then the finalists cook for culinary expert judges Einat Admony, Cliff Crooks and Sohla El-Waylly, who award the $25,000 prize.

Welcome to the Disaster Zone

Twelve recruits arrive at boot camp to meet up with chefs Anne Burrell and Cliff Crooks. The recruits must cook a loved one's favorite dish, and then they're tasked with replicating the chefs' surf-and-turf dinner before Anne and Cliff choose their teams.

Worst Cooks Warriors

The recruits find boot camp transformed into a gladiator-style arena, and chefs Anne Burrell and Cliff Crooks challenge their stamina, speed and palates. After making falafel platters, they have to prepare chicken adobo, and one recruit is sent home.

Beach Bites

Boot camp becomes a beachside resort, and chefs Anne Burrell and Cliff Crooks challenge the recruits to explore iconic summer dishes and ingredients. They create beach picnic baskets, make crab cakes with a sauce and salad and cook grilled fish dinners.

Don't Lose Your Noodle

With a focus on flavor, chefs Anne Burrell and Cliff Crooks test the recruits' palates with new ingredients. The amateurs create pasta bowls, learn how to make loaded mac and cheese and put their own spin on an elegant rack of lamb dinner.

Queen of Tarts

The recruits find boot camp transformed into a Mad Hatter-style tea party, and chefs Anne Burrell and Cliff Crooks send them down the rabbit hole to discover the world of desserts and pastry. They make fruit tarts as well as gnocchi and a hearty sauce.

The Good, The Bad and The Burnt

Chefs Anne Burrell and Cliff Crooks introduce their recruits to cowboy cuisine, Southwestern flavors and ingredients and teach them how to make eggs Benedict. Then the recruits tackle a classic Tex-Mex dish, chile rellenos.

Kitchen Ballers

The teams have to taste and describe a dish to chefs Anne Burrell and Cliff Crooks so that they can replicate it without seeing or tasting it themselves. Then the recruits must create an elegant dinner for two.

Let's Make a Meal!

The remaining recruits forage for produce at a rooftop farm and create unique dishes with farm-fresh ingredients. Their final challenge is making a three-course, restaurant-quality meal for judges Matt Abdoo, Kwame Onwuachi and Millie Peartree.

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

Chef Anne Burrell and co-host Jeff Mauro welcome a batch of '90s stars to culinary boot camp. The first challenge is to make a potluck dish so the chefs can choose their teams. Then the recruits have to make elevated versions of classic TV dinners.

That's So '90s: Clueless in the Kitchen

The celebrity recruits play Hollywood Stars, a '90s-style game show, and the winning team gets an advantage for the next challenge, where they create avocado toast. Then mentors Anne Burrell and Jeff Mauro teach their teams how to prepare Steak Oscar.

That's So '90s: Cross-Country Cooking

The celebs discover boot camp has been transformed into WC Peaks, and they compete in winter-inspired culinary games before making loaded waffles. Mentors Anne Burrell and Jeff Mauro show them how to make classic European schnitzel with potato sides.

That's So '90s: Going Coco-Nuts

The celebrity recruits play Legends of the Hidden Coconut and must solve a recipe puzzle and then cook coconut shrimp with a dipping sauce. Then things get fishy when mentors Anne Burrell and Jeff Mauro teach the celebs how to make seafood curry dishes.

That's So '90s: Baking Me Crazy

The celebs find boot camp transformed into a colorful, retro diner, and they have to make a loaded burger and fries in a fast-paced, tag-team cooking relay. For the main dish challenge, the recruits learn how to make fruit-filled pastry pockets.

That's So '90s: Saved by the Dough

Channeling their inner superheroes, the recruits have to complete an obstacle course in order to unlock clues and retrieve a mystery dish to recreate. Then they tackle an "im-pasta-ble" mission of making fresh pasta and sauce from scratch.

That's So '90s: From Worst to First

The celeb recruits draw on all their new culinary skills for the final challenge: creating a three-course, restaurant-quality meal. Judges Ilan Hall, Nilou Motamed and Ayesha Nurdjaja choose the winner of the $25,000 prize to charity.

Worst Cooks in America: The Hottest Mess Awards

It's an award show unlike any other as Worst Cooks in America celebrates the funniest culinary mishaps from all 24 seasons. From the worst dishes to butchery breakdowns, we applaud the very best moments and their comical results.

Love at First Bite: Fiery First Date

Chefs Anne Burrell and Jeff Mauro welcome 16 fun-loving singles who are eager to learn some cooking skills and impress future dates. The recruits make their signature "seal the deal" meals before Anne and Jeff reveal a new twist when choosing their teams.

Love at First Bite: That's Amore

Anne Burrell and Jeff Mauro introduce the recruits to the classic flavors and dishes of Italy. After a trivia-filled gondola ride and outrageous cooking relay, the singles take on sausage and pepper sandwiches, which includes making sausages from scratch!

Love at First Bite: Double Dish of Love

Anne Burrell and Jeff Mauro have their teams face off in boot camp's very first date night showdown, The Cupid Games. After a series of physical food challenges, the recruits learn how to make some date night favorites -- sushi and hand-pulled noodles.

Love at First Bite: Flavor of Love

Anne Burrell and Jeff Mauro challenge the recruits with a blindfolded taste test of dangling, flavored bagels with cream cheese. Then, the singles must create their own decadent breakfast sandwiches before trying their hand at fried chicken and slaw.

Love at First Bite: Some Like It Hot

Anne Burrell and Jeff Mauro have their teams compete in a game where recruits taste spicy ribs, find ingredient balls hidden in a hot tub and play catch with Velcro suits! Then, the recruits create spicy wontons and learn how to make spice-rubbed steaks.

Love at First Bite: If the Choux Fits

Boot camp transforms into a Parisian patisserie as Anne Burrell and Jeff Mauro task the singles with tasting and recreating pastries. Then, the teams create flavored profiteroles, and the recruits face cooking a romantic dinner for two on their own.

Love at First Bite: What Happens in Boot Camp

Anne Burrell and Jeff Mauro are fresh from a wild night of partying, and the recruits use clues to retrace their steps from the night before and locate a misplaced dish. Then, the singles learn about plating and presentation with a showstopping fish dish.

Love at First Bite: All Is Fair in Love and Cooking

Anne Burrell and Jeff Mauro test the final four with a challenge to create a composed dish using ingredients in curated meal kits. Then, the finalists prepare a three-course, restaurant-quality meal in hopes of impressing the judges and winning $25,000.

Spoiled Rotten: Spoon Fed

Anne Burrell and Tiffany Derry are ready to transform sixteen coddled culinary novices into home cooks, but first they need to see what they are working with. The recruits must recreate their favorite takeout dish, giving the chefs a look at their skills.

Spoiled Rotten: Culinary Cadets

The pampered recruits learn the kitchen basics as Anne Burrell and Tiffany Derry task their teams with replicating chicken paillard with salad. Then, things get spicy when the chefs teach their teams how to make lamb curry and see who can handle the heat.

Spoiled Rotten: Deep Sea Disasters

It's yacht week, and Anne Burrell and Tiffany Derry welcome the recruits to the S.S. Worst Cooks! The cooks will have to serve it up below deck to make seafood appetizers, shrimp and grits, and a delicious fish entrée worthy of the captain's table.

Spoiled Rotten: Supermarket Speedway

Anne Burrell and Tiffany Derry send the recruits into a place they've never been before: the supermarket! Then, they'll go head-to-head in a tostadas challenge and learn how to make fresh tortellini from scratch with sauce just like Nonna used to make!

Spoiled Rotten: From Farm to Fumble

Anne Burrell and Tiffany Derry teach their spoiled recruits that food doesn't come from an app as they navigate an outrageous farm-themed obstacle course. Then, the teams replicate biscuits and gravy before creating an entire composed dish on their own.

Spoiled Rotten: Bake It Till You Make It

Anne Burrell and Tiffany Derry challenge the recruits to throw a fabulous soiree with appetizers and a signature cocktail to impress the VIP chefs. To finish off this celebration, the cooks take on baking and decorating their own beautiful layer cakes.

Spoiled Rotten: Fight for the Finale

Anne Burrell and Tiffany Derry's final recruits go head-to-head to create a three-course, restaurant quality meal. After hitting a surprise twist, judges Matt Abdoo, Andrienne Cheatham and Michael Jenkins determine the winner of the $25,000 prize.