Worst Cooks in America season 1


Worst Cooks in America 1, is the first season of the American competitive reality television series Worst Cooks in America. It premiered on Food Network on January 3, 2010 and concluded on February 1, 2010. Rachel Coleman was the winner of this inaugural season, with Jennifer "Jenny" Cross as the runner-up.

Format

Worst Cooks in America is an American reality television series in which contestants with poor cooking skills undergo a culinary boot camp for the chance to win $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. Each episode features two core challenges: the Skills Drill, which tests their grasp of basic techniques demonstrated by the chef mentors, and the Main Dish Challenge, where they must apply those skills to recreate or invent a more complex dish under specific guidelines. The weakest performer is eliminated at the end of each episode. The final two contestants prepare a restaurant-quality, three-course meal for a panel of food critics, who evaluate the dishes based on taste, presentation, and overall improvement.

Judges

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.
ContestantAgeHometownOccupationTeamStatus
Rachel Coleman23Brooklyn, New YorkMarketing Website editorAnneWinner
on February 1, 2010
21Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaWaitressBeau
38Cumberland, Rhode IslandDance Studio OwnerBeauEliminated
on January 31, 2010
Eddie Chang32Jersey City, New JerseyIT project managerAnneEliminated
on January 31, 2010
Marque Hernandez41Brea, CaliforniaDirector of Clinical OperationsBeauEliminated
on January 24, 2010
Rebecca Hooper43Sandy, UtahSalon OwnerAnneEliminated
on January 24, 2010
Sophia Gettys27Aurora, ColoradoStay-at-home MomAnneEliminated
on January 17, 2010
Susie Shoman53Georgetown, South CarolinaBeauEliminated
on January 17, 2010
Kelly Johnson31Scottsdale, ArizonaCorporate litigation attorneyAnneEliminated
on January 10, 2010
David Summey29Charlotte, North CarolinaSalesmanBeauEliminated
on January 10, 2010
Wilhelmina Josephine29Aliso Viejo, CaliforniaInsurance claims adjusterBeauEliminated
on January 3, 2010
Hamed Hamad27Journalist and fashion consultantAnneEliminated
on January 3, 2010

Elimination Chart

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