Worst Cooks in America

Worst Cooks in America is an American reality television series that premiered on January 3, 2010, on the Food Network. The show takes 12 to 16 contestants (referred to as "recruits") with very poor cooking skills through a culinary boot camp, to earn a cash prize of $25,000 and a Food Network cooking set. 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.

Season 1: 2010
Chefs Beau MacMillan and Anne Burrell lead an intense culinary boot camp. They have six recruits each, and every week they must eliminate one recruit from each of their teams until there is only one from each team left. The final two create a three-course meal to fool a panel of restaurant critics into believing that the meal was created by the acclaimed chefs.

Recruits
Twelve chefs competed in the first season of Worst Cooks in America. Hometowns and occupations are available from the Food Network website. Chef Anne's team was known as the Red Team and Chef Beau's team was known as the Blue Team.

Contestant progress

 * Red : Team Anne
 * Blue : Team Beau

Season 2: 2011
Casting for season 2 of Worst Cooks in America was held at the LA Marriott Burbank Airport, Hotel & Convention Center on March 27, 2010. Food Network's website announced that Robert Irvine would replace Beau MacMillan for season 2. Season 2 debuted on January 2, 2011. In this season the chefs had eight recruits each.

Contestant progress

 * Red : Team Anne
 * Blue : Team Robert

Season 3: 2012
Anne Burrell hosted Season 3 with Bobby Flay, who defeated Robert Irvine.

Contestant progress

 * Red : Team Anne
 * Blue : Team Bobby

Contestant progress

 * Red : Team Anne
 * Blue : Team Bobby

Contestant progress

 * Red : Team Anne
 * Blue : Team Bobby

Contestant progress

 * Red : Team Anne
 * Blue : Team Tyler

Season 7: Celebrity Edition 1
Rachael Ray joins Anne Burrell to host season 7. The winner earns a $50,000 donation for their chosen charity. Because this season had only 7 total recruits, each team's worst recruit from that week's Main Dish challenge competed head to head in a quickfire elimination challenge instead of eliminating both recruits each week. This challenge involved more basic cooking techniques (e.g. knife skills) and the winner would be decided by a blind judging from both Anne and Rachael. The winning recruit stayed in the competition while the losing recruit was eliminated.

Contestant progress

 * Red : Team Anne
 * Blue : Team Rachael

Contestant progress

 * Red : Team Anne
 * Blue : Team Tyler