Chefs Jeff Mauro and Antonia Lofaso assess the culinary carnage by asking the infamous star recruits to whip up their go-to dinner party dish; in the main dish challenge, the teams learn to butcher a whole fish and replicate an elegant seafood dish.
Jeff Mauro and Antonia Lofaso challenge the teams to flex their culinary muscles and cook mussels; in the main dish challenge, the recruits tackle the tricky balance of sweet and sour pork; the bottom two must face off in a blind elimination.
Celebrity heroes take on superstar villains for a chance at $25,000.
Anne Burrell and Tiffany Derry are ready to transform sixteen coddled culinary novices into home cooks, but 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.
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.
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; the teams replicate biscuits and gravy before creating an entire composed dish on their own.
Anne Burrell and Tiffany Derry send the recruits into a place they've never been before: the supermarket; they 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.
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 beautiful layer cakes.
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.
Chefs Anne Burrell and Jeff Mauro welcome 16 fun-loving singles who are eager to learn some cooking skills and impress future dates.
Anne and Jeff introduce the recruits to the classic flavors and dishes of Italy with a trivia-filled gondola ride, an outrageous cooking relay, and making sausage and pepper sandwiches, which includes making sausages from scratch.
Anne Burrell and Jeff Mauro have their teams face off in boot camp's very first date night showdown, The Cupid Games, in which the recruits learn how to make sushi and hand-pulled noodles.
Anne Burrell and Jeff Mauro challenge the recruits with a blindfolded taste test of dangling, flavored bagels with cream cheese; the singles must create their own decadent breakfast sandwiches before trying their hand at fried chicken and slaw.
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; the recruits create spicy wontons and learn how to make spice-rubbed steaks.
Boot camp transforms into a Parisian patisserie as Anne Burrell and Jeff Mauro task the singles with tasting and re-creating pastries; then, the teams create flavored profiteroles, and the recruits face cooking a romantic dinner for two on their own.
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; the singles learn about plating and presentation with a showstopping fish dish.
Anne Burrell and Jeff Mauro welcome a fresh batch of celebrity recruits who may have won over hearts in the 1990s but don't win over anyone's taste buds in the kitchen; for a baseline challenge, the celebrities cook a potluck dinner.
The celebrity recruits play Hollywood Stars, a '90s-style game show, and the winning team gets an advantage for the next challenge, where it creates avocado toast; Anne Burrell and Jeff Mauro teach their teams how to prepare steak oscar.
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.
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.
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.
The celeb recruits draw on all their new culinary skills for the final challenge: creating a three-course, restaurant-quality meal.
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.
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.
Boot camp becomes a beach side resort, and 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.
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.
Chefs Anne Burrell and Cliff Crooks introduce their recruits to cowboy cuisine, Southwestern flavors and ingredients, and teach them how to make eggs Benedict; the recruits then tackle chile rellenos, a classic Tex-Mex dish.
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; the recruits must then create an elegant dinner for two.
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.
Anne Burrell and her newest competitor, Michael Symon, welcome eight returning recruits who are eager to 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.
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.
The recruits arrive to find boot camp transformed into an airport; 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.
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.
Chefs Anne Burrell and Michael Symon teach their final two recruits how to make a three-course meal, and the judges choose a winner; former recruits react to an episode with celebrities, an hors d'oeuvre cook-off and chef Tyler Florence.
Anne Burrell and Michael Symon are back with more chills and grills as four disastrous "Worst Cooks" recruits return to boot camp for Halloween redemption; they must face their fears in the kitchen to create a spooktacular feast for the judges.
Chefs Anne Burrell and Carla Hall ask 14 recruits to make their favorite homemade recipes; the recruits replicate their chef's favorite Asian takeout.
Chefs Anne Burrell and Carla Hall show the recruits how to make meatless meals, and the recruits are judged on their pairings of seasonal fruit and meat; former recruits react to a derby day-themed episode of "Worst Cooks in America."
Boot camp gets an '80s makeover, and the recruits use their palates and culinary senses to learn about different sauces; in the main challenge, the recruits are tasked with making enchiladas.
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.
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.
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 Anne Burrell and Carla Hall.
Anne Burrell and Carla Hall teach their final two recruits how to make a three-course, restaurant-quality meal. Adrienne Cheatham, JJ Johnson and George Mendes sample the recruits' final dishes in a blind taste test and award the $25,000 prize.
Chef Anne Burrell and Chef Tyler Florence are ready to whip seven of the worst celebrity cooks into culinary shape; recruits are tasked with making their go-to dish for a dinner party; how a boozy brunch can cure their dinner party dish-asters.
It's Derby Day at boot camp; Anne Burrell and Tyler Florence challenge recruits to identify flavors as they make crostini; recruits have to make fancy steak dinners while proving that they have more skills in the kitchen than the very worst.
Boot camp is transformed into a nautical oasis, equipped with fish tanks and a live mermaid; for their skill drill challenge, the recruits solve a recipe riddle to make ceviche; the main dish challenge is fish en papillote.
The roles reverse in boot camp as the recruits and chefs play the fan-favorite game Remote Control Chef; in the game, the recruits instruct their chef on how to make a dish that they cannot see, taste or touch; the recruits make homemade ravioli.
For the skill drill, the recruits team up with their chefs in a recipe relay race where they will be working together to make steak fajitas; chef Anne and chef Tyler break off to teach their recruits their finale menus.
Sixteen of the worst cooks in America enter boot camp with dreams of putting their kitchen nightmares behind them; Anne Burrell and Alton Brown ask the recruits to make a baseline dish and the results are truly disastrous.
The theme is indulgence and their first lesson is that salads can be indulgent; the recruits play a game where salad elements are tossed into a bowl on their teammate's head; the hosts teach the recruits how to make fresh mozzarella.
The recruits enter the world of culinary sophistication, starting with a game where they have to taste and identify different crepe fillings; Anne Burrell and Alton Brown show them how to make their own crepes; the recruits create a duck dish.
It's game day, and the teams of recruits face off as they make game day dishes in order to move down the field to the end zone.
The recruits learn how to combine unlikely ingredients and kick things off with a game where they must punch their way to success.
It's a sweet week in boot camp, with the recruits playing a culinary version of Candyland in which they must identify sweet treats using all their senses.
The recruits enter the world of clandestine cuisine and play a game where they answer seafood trivia in order to reveal a picture puzzle.
In the penultimate skill drill challenge, the recruits play remote-control chef and tell Alton Brown and Anne Burrell how to create a dish they can't see or taste.
The final recruits get private cooking lessons from Alton Brown and Anne Burrell, learning to create a dish of their choosing.
Fourteen of the worst cooks in America enter boot camp with dreams of putting their kitchen nightmares behind them; Anne Burrell and Bobby Flay see just what kind of disasters they're dealing with by asking the recruits to create a date night dish.
The remaining recruits explore Greek cuisine with a game that explores the tradition of plate smashing before learning how to make the Greek classics tzaziki and dolmas; the chefs task the recruits with making their own mezze platters.
The recruits take a taste buds challenge; chefs Anne Burrell and Bobby Flay ask the recruits to create their own pretzel and dipping sauce that incorporates both sweet and spicy flavors.
The recruits enter the world of poultry where they start off with a bird-based quiz game before making their very own omelets; The recruits learn how to make perfect fried chicken.
The recruits return to boot camp and find themselves south of the border.
Boot camp has gone retro and the recruits must work together as a family while tasting and describing dishes while blindfolded.
In the penultimate week of boot camp, the remaining recruits battle it out for their spot in the finale.
Four former recruits return to boot camp for a shot at culinary redemption in a competition focused Thanksgiving; chefs Anne Burrell and Scott Conant kick things off by asking the recruits to make a side dish using a Thanksgiving ingredient.
Eight of the worst celebrity cooks in America arrive at culinary boot camp, and chefs Anne Burrell and Tyler Florence ask them each to cook their favorite restaurant dish to see how they measure up to the original.
It's Celebrity Game Night at boot camp, and the teams of celebrity cooks go head to head for food games and trivia, including a Wheel of Horror; celebrities go on a museum tour of famous movie dishes and are asked to replicate movie-inspired dishes.
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.
Celebrity recruits learn how to make Thai ice cream rolls and must create their own flavor profile; they depart for Spain, where chef mentors Anne Burrell and Tyler Florence teach them how to make paella; two chefs face the elimination round.
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.
Team cooking.
The remaining recruits enter boot camp to find it has been transformed into a casino complete with a game of egg roulette.
The recruits enter boot camp and discover that they will be going back to the basics with meat-and-potatoes challenges.
The teams go head-to-head in a potato-sack relay race to collect ingredients for game-day meatballs.
The recruits begin by getting up-close and personal with their spice cabinets in a "Skill Drill" game that requires the teams to identify various commonly used spices.
After finding that boot camp has been turned into a carnival, the recruits are asked to participate in a pie-eating contest for the chance to dunk their opponent's chef.
The recruits begin by embarking on a treasure hunt fit for a pirate when their teams are tasked with discovering clues left for them by pirate captains Anne Burrell and Tyler Florence.
It's the penultimate week of boot camp and if the remaining recruits want a spot in the finale, they must first work in teams to play Remote Control Chef.
The final two recruits learn a three-course, restaurant-quality meal before the Main Dish Challenge; judges Debi Mazar, Michael Psilakis and Jessica Tom take the recruits' dishes into a blind taste test to determine the $25,000 grand prize winner.
Fourteen of the worst cooks in America enter culinary boot camp; chefs Anne Burrell and Robert Irvine ask the recruits to make their signature dishes, with disastrous results; the recruits split into teams and learn to make a surf-and-turf dish.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The remaining recruits face off in one last skill drill to determine who will compete in the finale; to see how far they've come, the recruits re-create their baseline dishes using all the techniques they learned in boot camp.
Anne Burrell and Tyler Florence welcome back four former recruits for a Thanksgiving redemption; the much-improved recruits team up to make a Thanksgiving feast for a chance at culinary atonement and $5,000 worth of kitchen equipment.
The new cast of celebrity recruits arrives at Boot Camp, and chefs Anne Burrell and Tyler Florence immediately hit them with their first challenge to cook their signature dishes so the chefs can assess their skills in the kitchen.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sixteen of the worst cooks in America, including a sportscaster, a feisty granny and a professional balloon artist, arrive at boot camp with dreams of putting their kitchen nightmares behind them.
Mentors Anne Burrell and Tyler Florence introduce a game in which the recruits meet some magical and mysterious kitchen gadgets.
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.
It's game day in boot camp, and the recruits must make varsity-worthy nachos inspired by different flavor profiles.
The recruits learn to create dishes from common leftover ingredients; they play the taste and describe game What's in My Mouth? Leftovers Edition; Anne Burrell and Tyler Florence leave the recruits alone for the first time to make pizza from scratch.
Each team gets an out-of-order recipe and the recruits must work together to figure out how to unscramble it; for the main dish challenge, the recruits learn the ugly truth of sausage making; the recruits must impress the chefs with a potluck dinner.
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 re-create it.
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.
The final two recruits cook a three-course, restaurant-quality meal using the skills they learned over the past 10 weeks; judges Paulette Goto, Jordan Andino and Michael Chernow hold a blind taste test and determine the winner of the $25,000 prize.
The celebrities must make a dish inspired by food they've posted on their social media profiles; the mentors teach the celebrities how to make some lobster dishes, which proves to be disastrous for some of these clueless cooks.
Taste and describe game with the celebrity recruits; mentors demonstrate hors d'oeuvres, which their recruits must replicate exactly, as well as make their own; the two celebrities with the worst dishes go head-to-head in an elimination challenge.
Celebrities learn to make classic crepes; novice cooks butcher whole chickens, grill them, and create their own unique side dishes; the two least successful recruits go head-to-head in a chicken challenge, and one recruit is sent packing.
Anne Burrell and Rachael Ray test their knowledge of world cuisine; the recruits stretch their cooking boundaries by making hand-pulled noodles from scratch; an international-themed blind elimination challenge.
Playing a game of food trivia and culinary tasks; the recruits learn the art of beef butchering and the least successful recruits go head-to-head in a high steaks challenge.
The celebrity recruits finally tackle desserts, starting with a fast-paced assembly line challenge; over-the-top milkshakes topped with decadent sweets; the two recruits with the worst desserts battle it out in a cupcake challenge.
As the competition nears its end, the celebrities fight for a spot in the finale; they face a worst cooks battle inspired by Iron Chef called tin foil chef; the celebrities with the best dishes head to the finale.
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.
Reliving the outrageous transformation from kitchen disaster to master; watch how the mentors train season after season of hopeless cooks, from basic kitchen skills, to advanced culinary techniques, to complicated desserts.
The new recruits enter boot camp to find photos of their culinary failures on their stations; mentors Anne Burrell and Rachael Ray judge the recruits' signature dishes; the recruits must cook shrimp and live lobster in a main dish challenge.
Mentors Anne Burrell and Rachael Ray help the recruits prepare breakfasts; the teams show how much they know about different egg dishes; the recruits learn how to create a home-cooked dinner.
Anne Burrell and Rachael Ray teach the recruits about flavor; the recruits use their new flavor combination skills to make a roulade inspired by the cuisine of a foreign country.
Two culinary pros replace Anne Burrell and Rachael Ray to mentor the recruits in preparing unconventional pizzas; the recruits fillet and prepare a fish dinner.
Boot camp transforms into a game day arena; the recruits play a game of Family Food; the recruits must prepare the ultimate game day sandwich and an appetizer.
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 for their loved ones.
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.
The recruits 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.
The final two recruits must prepare a three-course, restaurant-quality meal under the guidance of Anne Burrell and Rachael Ray; the culinary experts pick a winner based on a blind tasting, and the winning recruit walks away with $25,000.
Hawaiian poke and pork dishes are made by the recruits; two celebrities go head-to-head in an elimination challenge.
Anne Burrell and Rachael Ray have their teams cook a traditional wiener schnitzel while in a relay-race while playing beer pong; the celebrities learn Oktoberfest-inspired meals including making sausages from scratch; one recruit is sent packing.
Anne Burrell and Rachael Ray set up a Halloween-themed boot camp; celebrities must make unique monster Bloody Marys; they tackle frightening foods in their main dish; the two celebrities with the worst dishes compete in a blind elimination challenge.
The celebrity recruits play food and pop-culture related trivia; Anne Burrell and Rachael Ray show off their variations of chicken and waffles that their teams must replicate; the least-successful recruits compete in a butchering challenge.
The tables turn when the remaining celebrities have to direct Anne Burrell and Rachael Ray in making a dish; for their main dish challenge, the celebrities are plunged into the often-intimidating world of Indian cooking.
The celebrities must prepare a recipe with missing key words; the remaining recruits must make complex pasta dishes for special guests and former contestants Jenni Jwoww Farley and Kendra Wilkinson.
The final recruits cook a restaurant-quality meal for a panel of culinary experts, including Sarah Gore, chef Akhtar Nawab and Cooking Channel's Laura Vitale; Anne Burrell and Rachael Ray mentor the final two who hope to win $50,000 for charity.
Chefs Anne Burrell and Tyler Florence are coming to the rescue of two of the worst cooks in America, sisters Brittany and Lesley, as they take on the challenge of hosting their entire extended family for a holiday dinner.
Chefs Tyler Florence and Anne Burrell choose 14 recruits to train at culinary boot camp; after the cooks make their signature dishes, Tyler and Anne pick their teams and attempt to teach them how to make a well-balanced dinner.
Chefs Anne Burrell and Tyler Florence test the recruits' knowledge of food in a game show-style battle, during which they go head-to-head to win the steps for an incomplete recipe.
The recruits learn all about flavor combinations by taste-testing some unlikely pairings, then they test their creativity as they construct ice cream sandwiches; the showdown continues when the recruits must create their own filling for empanandas.
Chefs Anne Burrell and Tyler Florence give the recruits a hard lesson in kitchen multi-tasking; then, the kitchen gets even hotter when the recruits make four different Asian street food dishes.
The final four recruits must replicate a dish with no help from their mentors; the recruits must cook a revamped version of their Day 1 signature dishes for their loved ones.
The final remaining recruits plan a refined three-course menu that will be served to a panel of culinary experts.
The fourteen new recruits, nominated by family and friends for their horrendous cooking skills, are selected to compete in a grueling culinary boot camp.
The teams face-off in an effort to gain recipe steps through food trivia; learning and executing knife skills; the recruits must successfully create the Spanish dish paella.
The recruits try their hand at experimenting with flavor combinations and are tasked with creating their own international tacos.
The recruits are asked to make a breakfast for guest star, Good Morning America's Meteorologist Ginger Zee.
The final four must recreate their signature dishes from the first episode, using their newfound skills and food knowledge.
The final recruits work with their mentors to create a refined three course menu to be served to a panel of expert judges.
The teams are picked and given their first lesson in cooking, starting with an American favorite: pizza.
The recruits learn that great food starts with fresh ingredients when they take a trip to a farm to learn how to cook from scratch.
The recruits learn how to build flavors and must create their own take on dishes using doughnuts and roulades.
The recruits wake up to surprise houseguests Chef Bobby and Chef Anne with breakfast; two challenges in a single day.
The remaining recruits cook for the loved ones who nominated them for boot camp in a blind-tasting challenge.
The finalists cook a refined three-course meal for a panel of culinary experts.
Fourteen of the worst cooks in America compete in a culinary bootcamp.
The worst cooks have their knife skills tested; fishing skills drill on the high seas.
Homemade Chinese takeout; baking a cake for a special occasion with the help of Ron Ben-Israel.
The chefs host a party for some scary bikers.
Special guests arrive for the chefs to cook for.
Chefs Anne Burrell and Bobby Flay go head to head.
16 of the worst cooks make their own dish; back to basics with breakfast.
Hand pulled Chinese noodles and meatballs.
The recruits make their own pizzas with odd flavors.
Late night treat; romantic entree for two.
Eight recruits re-create favorite meals of Anne Burrell's and Bobby Flay's; catering for 40 hungry Irish New Yorkers.
The recruits make a colossal raw bar tower; cooking for the chefs' own families.
The two remaining contestants make three course menus for a panel of culinary experts; David Burke, Marcus Samuelsson and Susan Fenigner.
Sixteen of the country's worst home cooks compete in a culinary boot camp run by chefs Anne Burrell and Robert Irvine, hoping to up their kitchen game.
Contestants must prepare one of three sauces for a seafood dish in an effort to increase their understanding of flavor; frozen meal makeover; two worst cooks are eliminated.
Burger-grilling skill drill; blind taste test for the best burger; one chef gets an advantage.
Teams work together to unscramble recipes and cook the dish as they are being secretly watched.
The chefs learn how to make a sausage meal from scratch; seafood fears in the main dish challenge.
A "culinary decathlon" to test the final four; complicated dessert technique; loved ones favorite dishes are prepared.
The final two prepare a three course meal after practicing for only three hours.
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.
The 10 recruits learn to execute five fundamental knife cuts.
The chefs provide a basic crepe dish for the recruits to flavor for a blind taste test.
The chefs teach their team how to make fresh pasta, filling and sauce; the recruits are surprised to learn they must cater a cocktail party for 30 guests.
Each chef teaches two recruits a difficult dessert.
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.