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S25E1 Culinary Clickbait
3.115 votes
Best episode
S3E4 Late Night/Date Night
8.829 votes
Top season
Season 12
8.5avg
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2d 1h
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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Worst Cooks in America Season 25 Episode 1 - Culinary Clickbait
    3.1/10(15 votes)

    S25:E1

    Chefs Anne Burrell and Darnell "Superchef" Ferguson welcome 12 technically savvy but culinary challenged recruits to their cooking boot camp. Before picking teams, Anne and Darnell kick off the competition by having the recruits make their signature dish to show off their skills -- or lack thereof -- in the kitchen. Then in the Main Dish challenge, the recruits learn a unique way to cook chicken -- under a brick! After assessing everyone's skills, Anne and Darnell choose their teams.

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  2. Worst Cooks in America Season 23 Episode 1 - Welcome to the Disaster Zone
    4.4/10(18 votes)

    S23:E1

    A new batch of kitchen chaos, food fumbles and culinary confusion is fresh out of the oven as 12 recruits arrive at boot camp to meet up with chefs and mentors Anne Burrell and Cliff Crooks. Even though some of these recruits know each other, they're all strangers to the culinary arts. To start the competition, Anne and Cliff have them show off their skills (or lack thereof) by cooking a loved one's favorite dish. For the main dish challenge, the recruits must replicate the chefs' surf-and-turf dinner. Anne and Cliff are shocked by the kitchen disasters, and the recruits hope they are chosen for a team.

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  3. Worst Cooks in America Season 9 Episode 8 - The Final Showdown
    5.2/10(14 votes)

    S9:E8

    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.

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  4. Worst Cooks in America Season 18 Episode 10 - The Final Countdown
    5.2/10(14 votes)

    S18:E10

    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. For the main dish challenge, the two finalists put all their new culinary skills to the test in order to impress judges Kelly Choi, Brian Mazza and Jet Tila, who do a blind taste test and determine the winner of the $25,000 prize.

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  5. Worst Cooks in America Season 7 Episode 1 - Celebrity Pot-un-lucky
    5.7/10(18 votes)

    S7:E1

    With Rachael Ray beside her, Chef Anne Burrell faces a new challenge — celebrities who can't cook. They only have six weeks to transform seven pampered celebs into kitchen stars. To assess everyone's skills, Anne and Rachael host a potluck and find themselves tasting some very interesting dishes. After Anne and Rachael pick teams, one celebrity is sent back to Tinsel Town.

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  6. Worst Cooks in America Season 26 Episode 1 - Fiery First Date
    5.9/10(22 votes)

    S26:E1

    Chef Anne Burrell and returning mentor, Jeff Mauro, welcome the newest batch of recruits to culinary boot camp. These 16 fun-loving singles are disasters in the kitchen, but they're eager to learn some cooking skills and impress future dates. Before picking teams, Anne and Jeff kick off the competition by having the recruits make their signature "seal the deal" meals to show off their skills, or lack thereof, in the kitchen. Then in the Main Dish challenge, the recruits learn how to make duck paired with a fruit sauce. After assessing everyone's skills, Anne and Jeff reveal a unique twist when choosing their teams.

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  7. Worst Cooks in America Season 10 Episode 2 - Frozen Freak Out
    6.0/10(16 votes)

    S10:E2

    Mentors Anne Burrell and Rachael Ray help the recruits break out of their shell by starting with the most important meal of the day: breakfast. First, the teams get cracking in a game that will get their hands messy and show how much they know about the many different egg dishes. The mentors then bring the day full circle in the main dish challenge by teaching the recruits how to ditch frozen microwave meals and create a home-cooked dinner that will have their friends and family coming back for more.

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  8. Worst Cooks in America Season 11 Episode 8 - Celebrity: Finale The End!
    5.8/10(12 votes)

    S11:E8

    The final two recruits cook a restaurant-quality meal for a panel of culinary experts; in the end, one recruit will be named the winner and awarded $25,000 for their charity.

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  9. Worst Cooks in America Season 23 Episode 2 - Worst Cooks Warriors
    5.8/10(12 votes)

    S23:E2

    The recruits find boot camp transformed into a gladiator-style arena. Chefs Anne Burrell and Cliff Crooks explain that to be a successful chef, the recruits need stamina, speed and a developed palate. For the skill drill challenge, the recruits learn how to make a falafel platter fit for a culinary titan, and in the main dish challenge, they're tasked with making flavor-packed chicken adobo. Anne and Cliff judge all the dishes, and the battle is over for one recruit.

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  10. Worst Cooks in America Season 16 Episode 2 - Wheel of Misfortune
    5.8/10(11 votes)

    S16:E2

    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.

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  11. Worst Cooks in America Season 30 Episode 4 - Culinary Outlaws
    5.6/10(8 votes)

    S30:E4

    The recruits find themselves in a dusty Wild West town where sheriffs and chefs Jeff Mauro and Tiffany Derry wrangle them into action. In the skill drill challenge, the celebs must reclaim stolen recipe ingredients and rustle up some Tex-Mex tacos. Then, it's time for a high-stakes main dish challenge: cowboy rib-eye steaks with potato and vegetable sides. The best recruits advance to the next week, but for the bottom two, it's a blind elimination cook-off showdown making loaded quesadillas with a dipping sauce.

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  12. Worst Cooks in America Season 9 Episode 1 - Celebrity Dish-Asters
    6.4/10(21 votes)

    S9:E1

    Celebrity contestants compete in the Season 9 premiere, which begins with Anne Burrell and Rachael Ray assessing the skills (or lack thereof) of their celebrity recruits, who are asked to cook a dish, using some unique ingredients from Hollywood gift swag bags. Later, instructions are given for how to prepare a simple steak and eggs dish.

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  13. Worst Cooks in America Season 7 Episode 6 - Final Food Fight
    6.1/10(12 votes)

    S7:E6

    Chef Anne Burrell and Rachael Ray lead the final two celebrity recruits to a professional kitchen for their final challenge: Cook a refined three-course menu for a panel of culinary experts. The recruits work tirelessly to determine which mentor gets the bragging rights, which recruits' charity will win $50,000 and who will be crowned the first winner of Worst Cooks in America: Celebrity Edition.

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  14. Worst Cooks in America Season 20 Episode 1 - Doomed Dinners
    6.1/10(12 votes)

    S20:E1

    Chef Anne Burrell and new mentor Alex Guarnaschelli welcome 14 of the worst cooks in America into boot camp with frightened but open arms. In order to pick teams and see what they're working with, Chef Anne and Chef Alex task the recruits with a baseline challenge to make their favorite childhood dish. Then, for the main dish challenge, the recruits learn how to spice up their cooking by making Jamaican jerk chicken. The two recruits who cluck it up will be sent home.

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  15. Worst Cooks in America Season 3 Episode 8 - Worst to First: The Final Battle
    6.5/10(24 votes)

    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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  16. Worst Cooks in America Season 14 Episode 7 - Finally the Finale
    6.2/10(12 votes)

    S14:E7

    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.

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  17. Worst Cooks in America Season 23 Episode 3 - Beach Bites
    6.1/10(10 votes)

    S23:E3

    Boot camp becomes a beachside resort, and chefs Anne Burrell and Cliff Crooks ask the recruits to explore some iconic summer dishes and ingredients. To start, the teams face off in a head-to-head relay race to make a beach picnic basket, and they're tasked with making crab cakes with a sauce and salad. In the main dish challenge, the chefs fire up the grill and have the recruits cook grilled fish dinners. It's smooth sailing for some, but the recruit with the least successful dish must sail off into the sunset.

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  18. Worst Cooks in America Season 23 Episode 4 - Don't Lose Your Noodle
    6.1/10(10 votes)

    S23:E4

    With a focus on flavor, chefs Anne Burrell and Cliff Crooks test the recruits' palates with a variety of new and fun ingredients. After plunging face-first into pasta bowls, it's time for the recruits to create their own. The chefs teach them how to make loaded mac and cheese, and in the main dish challenge, the recruits must put their spin on an elegant rack of lamb dinner. While some of the amateurs have palates bursting with potential, it's time to say farewell to one recruit.

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  19. Worst Cooks in America Season 19 Episode 1 - Famous Dish-asters
    6.6/10(25 votes)

    S19:E1

    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. But before the chefs can pick their teams, they want to see what skills -- or lack of skills -- they're working with. For the baseline challenge, the recruits are tasked with making their go-to dish for a dinner party. After the recruits are split into teams, the chefs show them how to cure those dinner party dish-asters with a delicious boozy brunch that they must replicate in order to stay in the competition.

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  20. Worst Cooks in America Season 7 Episode 2 - Takeout or Get Out
    6.3/10(13 votes)

    S7:E2

    The celebrity recruits put their palates to the test in a blindfolded taste and identify game. After seeing what they're working with, Chef Anne Burrell and Rachael Ray focus on getting the celebs to lose their biggest kitchen crutch — takeout. The two recruits with the worst takeout dishes go head-to-head in an elimination challenge.

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  21. Worst Cooks in America Season 16 Episode 7 - Celebrity: That's a Wrap
    6.3/10(12 votes)

    S16:E7

    The final two celebrity contestants are asked to re-create their baseline dishes using all the techniques they've learned over the past six weeks; the finalists prepare a three-course meal for culinary experts Leah Cohen, Zac Posen and Melba Wilson.

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  22. Worst Cooks in America Season 29 Episode 2 - Culinary Pageant
    6.4/10(12 votes)

    S29:E2

    It's showtime! The recruits step up to the spotlight in the first-ever Boot Camp Culinary Pageant. Competing head-to-head, they show off their kitchen skills in hopes of being crowned Mister or Miss Boot Camp -- and scoring a sweet advantage for their team. Then, it's time to get fancy as chefs Anne Burrell and Gabe Bertaccini teach their teams the delicate art of cooking scallops in the skill drill challenge. Later, in the main dish cook, the recruits take on a restaurant classic, steak au poivre. Those who can't keep up will be sent packing.

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  23. Worst Cooks in America Season 30 Episode 5 - Glitz, Glam and Gourmet
    6.2/10(8 votes)

    S30:E5

    The recruits swap their designer threads for aprons as they host their very own award-worthy afterparty. From menu planning to décor, the teams must take charge of creating an event that's high on flavor and flair. Once the party's over, it's time for the main dish challenge, where chefs Jeff Mauro and Tiffany Derry task their teams with crafting brunch burgers with fries and a Bloody Mary -- the ultimate morning-after meal. For the bottom two, the pressure builds in the blind elimination cook-off where they must make avocado toast with a fried egg.

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  24. Worst Cooks in America Season 30 Episode 6 - Agents of Flavor
    6.2/10(8 votes)

    S30:E6

    The recruits embark on a mission as culinary spies and race through a scavenger hunt to uncover ingredients and piece together a mystery dish. Then, in the main dish challenge, chefs Jeff Mauro and Tiffany Derry teach their teams how to make elevated proteins and luxury desserts. But the pressure doesn't stop there -- the bottom two face off in a blind elimination cook-off to create a high-end hors d'oeuvre worthy of a secret agent's approval.

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  25. Worst Cooks in America Season 29 Episode 1 - Boot Camp's Got Talent
    6.6/10(15 votes)

    S29:E1

    Chefs Anne Burrell and Gabe Bertaccini have just seven weeks to turn a talented bunch of culinary train wrecks into kitchen stars, but first, they need to know what they're up against! The recruits kick things off with their signature showstopper dish. Then, in the main dish challenge, they tackle the ultimate test: recreating the chefs' "winner winner chicken dinner." Those with promise move on while the rest face elimination.

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Culinary Clickbait" is the worst rated episode of Worst Cooks in America. It scored 3.1/10 from 15 votes. Written and directed by Unknown, it aired on January 1, 2023. This episode scored 1.3 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Welcome to the Disaster Zone".

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