Worst Cooks In America

Hundreds of terrible home cooks came out for the nationwide auditions, but only the worst 16 travel to New York City to compete in a culinary boot camp with Anne Burrell and Robert Irvine.

Awakened by a live chicken in their penthouse, the 14 remaining recruits take a field trip to a farm where chefs Anne and Robert challenge them to prepare the perfect omelet.

After some difficulties, the recruits begin the main dish challenge. Chefs Anne and Robert demo a multi-component "frozen meal makeover" using fresh and flavorful ingredients for the recruits to replicate.

The recruits must execute elegant meals for two, sit down to eat with their chef and defend their dishes. The losing recruits are eliminated.

For the main dish challenge, the chefs shock their recruits with the news that they must cater an hors d'oeuvre party for NFL star Kris Jenkins and 30 of his guests! It's game time, and the 2 least successful cooks are cut.

The remaining six recruits learn to make sausage from scratch at the Meat Hook, a butcher shop in New York.

The final four compete in a "culinary decathlon" to test their knowledge thus far.

The final two recruits face their toughest challenge yet: to prepare a three-course meal in a real restaurant kitchen for a panel of demanding gourmands.