Worst Cooks in America

12 to 16 contestants with poor cooking skills are taken through an eight-week culinary boot camp, to earn a cash prize of $25,000. The recruits are trained on the various basic cooking techniques including: baking, knife skills, temperature, seasoning and preparation. The final challenge is to cook a restaurant quality three-course meal for three food critics.

Last Episode
Mar 8th, 2020 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. 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.
# Title Aired
1 Best of Worst Cooks in America Feb 14th, 2014
2 Best of the Worst Nov 9th, 2016
3 Holiday House Call Nov 16th, 2016
4 Kitchen Disaster to Master Aug 23rd, 2017
5 Thanksgiving Redemption Nov 11th, 2018
6 Thanksgiving Redemption 2 Nov 10th, 2019
8 Halloween Redemption 2 Sep 26th, 2021
8 Halloween Redemption Oct 18th, 2020
9 The Hottest Mess Awards Jan 2nd, 2023