Worst Cooks in America Season 16
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.
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Worst Cooks in America
2010 / TV-G
Worst Cooks in America is a reality competition show on the Food Network. The show takes 12 to 16 contestants with poor cooking skills 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.
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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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The celebrity recruits are left to run free in boot camp, working in teams to recreate a dish from taste alone. Unbeknownst to them, though, chefs Anne Burrell and Tyler Florence are secretly watching their every move.
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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.
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Celebrity recruits learn how to make Thai ice cream rolls and must create their own flavor profile; then they depart for Spain, where chef mentors Anne Burrell and Tyler Florence teach them how to make paella; two chefs face the elimination round.
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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.
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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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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.
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