Worst Cooks in America

Worst Cooks in America is an American reality television series that premiered on January 3, 2010, on 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. In the celebrity edition of the show, the winning celebrity gets a $50,000 prize to donate to the charity of their choice.^[2][3] 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.^[4]

Worst Cooks in America
Genre	Reality television Cooking show
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	28
No. of episodes	212[1]
Production
Executive producers	Rowena DeLaRosa Bob Kirsh Nicola Moody Pip Wells
Production location	New York City
Running time	60-90 minutes
Production company	Optomen Productions, Inc.
Original release
Network	Food Network
Release	January 3, 2010 (2010-01-03) – present
Related
Worst Bakers in America

Mentors

Worst Cooks in America mentors

Mentor	Seasons
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29
Anne Burrell
Beau MacMillan
Robert Irvine
Bobby Flay
Tyler Florence
Rachael Ray
Alton Brown
Alex Guarnaschelli
Carla Hall
Michael Symon
Cliff Crooks
Jeff Mauro
Darnell Ferguson
Tiffany Derry
Antonia Lofaso
Gabriele Bertaccini

Series overview

Season	Episodes		Originally released			Recruits	Winner	Runner–up	Winning Mentor
			First released	Last released	Network
1	6		January 3, 2010 (2010-01-03)	February 1, 2010 (2010-02-01)	Food Network	12	Rachel Coleman	Jennifer "Jenny" Cross	Anne Burrell (1/15)
2	8		January 2, 2011 (2011-01-02)	February 20, 2011 (2011-02-20)		16	Joshua "Joshie" Berger	Georgann "Georg" Coleman	Anne Burrell (2/15)
3	8		February 12, 2012 (2012-02-12)	April 1, 2012 (2012-04-01)		16	Kelli Powers	Vinnie Caligiuri	Anne Burrell (3/15)
4	7		February 17, 2013 (2013-02-17)	March 31, 2013 (2013-03-31)		14	Alina Bolshakova	Rasheeda Brown	Bobby Flay (1/3)
5	7		February 17, 2014 (2014-02-17)	March 31, 2014 (2014-03-31)		14	Amber Brauner	Jamie Thomas	Bobby Flay (2/3)
6	7		January 4, 2015 (2015-01-04)	February 15, 2015 (2015-02-15)		14	Kristen Redmond	Genique Freeman	Anne Burrell (4/15)
7	6		September 23, 2015 (2015-09-23)	October 28, 2015 (2015-10-28)		7	Jenni "JWoww" Farley	Kendra Wilkinson	Anne Burrell (5/15)
8	7		January 4, 2016 (2016-01-04)	February 16, 2016 (2016-02-16)		14	Nick Slater	Lawrence Crawford	Anne Burrell (6/15)
9	8		September 14, 2016 (2016-09-14)	November 2, 2016 (2016-11-02)		9	Loni Love	Nicole Sullivan	Rachael Ray (1/2)
10	10		January 1, 2017 (2017-01-01)	March 5, 2017 (2017-03-05)		16	Daniel Mar	Ann Odogwu	Anne Burrell (7/15)
11	8		September 23, 2017 (2017-09-23)	October 11, 2017 (2017-10-11)		8	Perez Hilton	Melissa Peterman	Rachael Ray (2/2)
12	10		January 7, 2018 (2018-01-07)	March 11, 2018 (2018-03-11)		16	Hazell Mckenzie	Steven Crowley	Anne Burrell (8/15)
13	6		April 15, 2018 (2018-04-15)	May 20, 2018 (2018-05-20)		7	La Toya Jackson	Ian Ziering	Tyler Florence (1/1)
14	7		August 12, 2018 (2018-08-12)	September 24, 2018 (2018-09-24)		14	Bradley Garcia	Sarah Harris	Robert Irvine (1/1)
15	9		January 6, 2019 (2019-01-06)	March 3, 2019 (2019-03-03)		15	Allison Wolfe	Brittany Carel	Anne Burrell (9/15)
16	7		April 21, 2019 (2019-04-21)	June 2, 2019 (2019-06-02)		8	Tonya Harding	Alec Mapa	Anne Burrell (10/15)
17	8		August 4, 2019 (2019-08-04)	September 22, 2019 (2019-09-22)		14	Adrian Read	Juliann Sheldon	Bobby Flay (3/3)
18	10		August 4, 2019 (2019-08-04)	September 22, 2019 (2019-09-22)		16	Shannon Akins	Leo Lech	Anne Burrell (11/15)
19	7		May 10, 2020 (2020-05-10)	June 14, 2020 (2020-06-14)		7	Wells Adams	Johnny Bananas	Anne Burrell (12/15)
20	8		June 21, 2020 (2020-06-21)	September 2, 2020 (2020-09-02)		14	Ariel "Ari" Robinson	Zack Ignoffo	Alex Guarnaschelli (1/1)
21	8		January 3, 2021 (2021-01-03)	February 28, 2021 (2021-02-28)		14	Amber Leverette	Cameron Bartlett	Carla Hall (1/1)
22	6		April 25, 2021 (2021-04-25)	May 30, 2021 (2021-05-30)		8	Mercedes “Sadie” Manda	Domaine Javier	Anne Burrell (13/15)
23	8		January 5, 2022 (2022-01-05)	February 23, 2022 (2022-02-23)		12	Peachez Iman-Cummings	Marti Cummings	Cliff Crooks (1/1)
24	7		April 24, 2022 (2022-04-24)	May 29, 2022 (2022-05-29)		9	Tracey Gold	Jodie Sweetin	Anne Burrell (14/15)
25	8		January 1, 2023 (2023-01-01)	February 5, 2023 (2023-02-05)		12	Nick Trawick	Michael Judson Berry	Anne Burrell (15/15)
26	8		August 6, 2023 (2023-08-06)	September 10, 2019 (2019-09-10)		16	Jessica Singer	Samantha "Sami" White	Jeff Mauro (1/1)
27	6		January 7, 2024 (2024-01-07)	February 4, 2024 (2024-02-04)		16	Stacey Loper	Leona McTaggart-Chapman	Tiffany Derry (1/1)
28	7		January 5, 2025 (2025-01-05)	February 2, 2025 (2025-02-02)		10	Corinne Olympios	Adam Rippon	Antonia Lofaso (1/1)
29	6		July 28, 2025 (2025-07-28)	August 25, 2025 (2025-08-25)		16	TBA	TBA	TBA

Mentor records

Mentor	Wins	Losses	Win Pct.%
Alex Guarnaschelli	1	0	100%
Carla Hall	1	0	100%
Cliff Crooks	1	0	100%
Tiffany Derry	1	0	100%
Antonia Lofaso	1	0	100%
Bobby Flay	3	1	75%
Anne Burrell	15	12	58%
Rachael Ray	2	2	50%
Robert Irvine	1	1	50%
Jeff Mauro	1	2	33%
Tyler Florence	1	6	14%
Alton Brown	0	1	0%
Beau MacMillan	0	1	0%
Darnell Ferguson	0	1	0%
Michael Symon	0	1	0%

Notes