After the first episode aired last week, I fell in love with
‘Worst Cooks in America!’ My love for it
could almost be put up on the shelf in my heart where ‘King of the Nerds’
resides. That’s how much I love this
show going into the second episode. The
episode starts off with all of the recruits at their house, where they are
given a note that they will be going on a boat, where they will be
fishing. So, they all dress up in these
ridiculous outfits that match their respective team color. The whole outfit was either red or blue, and
on top of that, they had matching toboggans!
The blue team looked like smurfs!
So, none of these people seem to have ever gone fishing
before in their lives, which really should come as no surprise. But, from what is shown, they all did pretty
nicely and caught some fish. Some of
them were even kissing their fish! Chet
seemed a bit worried about what they would have to cook/make/do with the
fish. Then Bobby and Anne show up and
say that this week, the recruits will be learning how to properly use all of
the different knives and that they will also be learning different knife cuts.
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| Stephen's horrific attempt at cutting an avocado during Survivor: Tocantins |
Then, they return back to the kitchen and are taught how to
make some simple fish dishes. They were
all pretty amazed by how to cut an avocado.
(Side note: Thank God, they didn’t
show them Stephen from Survivor: Tocantins’ technique! See attached GIF) They are then given time to recreate the dish
that they were taught, which included fileting a fish and chopping vegetables
mostly. We learn that Chet has a fear of
knives and that many others take little to zero caution when using knives,
which almost results in the severing of many fingers!
Alex “Primetime 99” Stein finishes with plenty of time left
for the skill drill challenge. Bobby
tells him that finishing the fastest doesn’t always have the best result, but
Alex seems pretty unfazed by it. At the
end of the challenge, and before the tasting, Dr. Bob discovers that at some
point during the challenge, he cut his finger so there was blood near his dish. Everyone on the red team pretty much
oversalted their fish which bothered Anne.
The blue team seemed to have done better with the challenge. Alex got pretty good remarks from Bobby, but
Bobby told him to slow down to avoid making small (or sometimes, big)
mistakes. Carla, who loves Bobby, made
her fish in the shape of a heart to show her love for him! Comedy gold!
Bobby tells her that her fish was perfectly cooked and I thought she was
nearly going to pass out! The winner of
the skill drill for the blue team is Alina and the worst is Big Mike. The winner of the skill drill for the red
team is Crystal and the worst is Dr. Bob.
Then, it’s time for the boot camp portion of the episode. Michael thinks that, after the challenge the
day before, they’ll be hunting down bison and cooking them on a campfire! This is why he is one of my favorites! We find out that they’ll be working with
fresh chicken. This could pose a problem
for Aadip because he is a vegetarian so, he doesn’t “eat chicken, is friends
with the chicken, is cool with chickens.”
Each team is taught how to make a dish and then the recruits are given
60 minutes to recreate those dishes.
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| Recruit Chet and his mentor Bobby Flay |
When they get to their work stations and uncover their
platters, they find that they have been given whole fresh chickens, head and
feet included! The looks of horror on their
faces cannot be matched! Michael is
doing well at cutting his chicken, while most of the others fail and butcher
their chickens into oblivion. Anne seems
to be a little tired of Dr. Bob and claims that he is not taking the
competition seriously because he is following none of the direction that he was
given before the challenge.
Then time is up and it’s time for the tasting. Up first is Bobby’s team, the blue team. As always, Chet’s design skills come to great
use and his plate looks AMAZING! Bobby
says, though, that Chet used too much alcohol in his dish and that he “could
get drunk off of it.” Carla’s dish is
missing a lot of chicken because she cut it so poorly and Bobby says that her
dish needed more flavoring and fell flat.
Big Mike’s chicken is undercooked and cannot be eaten. That could get him in a lot of trouble. Alina’s chicken looks really great as well
and receives good comments. Alex did
alright, but they barely showed much of his judging. We just saw his comments about how he liked
this challenge because the food was how he liked his women. (Forgive me, I don’t remember the exact word
that he used, but it was funny.)
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| Recruit Rasheeda and mentor Anne Burrell |
Then, it’s time for Anne’s team, the red team, to have their
tasting. Michael didn’t season his
chicken enough. Sue did really
well. (Side note: I have no clue who this Sue is! I don’t think I’ve ever seen her before this
very moment! WHERE did she come
from?!) Aadip had never cooked a chicken
before and didn’t receive the best comments about his dish. Crystal did alright, but I thought her dish
looked bad. Rasheeda, the one who is
here to learn how to cook to find love, didn’t do well either on the dish as a
whole, but her chicken tasted alright and I think Anne sees potential in
her. Dr. Bob is up last and his chicken
looks like it has been murdered! He didn’t
do well at recreating the dish that Anne showed them how to make and claims
that he hasn’t had the right amount of focus.
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| Dr. Bob is the third eliminated from the competition! |
Overall winner on the blue team this week was Alina. It was a great week for her! She was in the bottom two last week! Amazing turn-around! The best on the red team was Sue! (WHO ARE YOU!!!!!!!) They both win a $1,000
gift card to Kohl’s. The bottom two for
the blue team are Carla and Big Mike.
The bottom two for the red team are Rasheeda and Dr. Bob. The person leaving on the red team is Dr.
Bob. I think Anne wasn’t a very big fan
of him and found him too hard to teach.
Dr. Bob is proud of himself for how he did though. The person leaving on the blue team is Big
Mike. Yay! I wasn’t quite ready for Carla and her
hilarious lines to leave. Bobby didn’t
think that Big Mike was catching on to the teaching like everyone else was, and
saw that Mike was even cutting himself on accident during the challenge. Well, that’s all until next time!
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| Big Mike becomes the fourth eliminated from the competition! |
Here are some memorable quotes from this episode:
“Now I know why Anne Burrell’s hair is like that.”
“Filet-o-fish? That is a sandwich! You know where we get that at!” -Carla
“I can’t even cut an onion and now I have to filet a fish? Really?” –Chet
“Poor fish! He’s never going to swim again! Never! Ever!” –Carla
“It’s just a medley of flavors in my mouth, dancing, having a party.” –Alex on Bobby Flay’s dish.
“I thought I knew what an onion looked like, but apparently I do not.” –Chet.
“I do everything fast.” –Alex
“Alright! That’s pretty…. Ugly!” –Aadip
“Fish are from the sea. The sea is salty!” –Michael on why his fish is salty
*whispers* “I’m so scared right now” –Aadip
“Oh my gaaaaaaaaaaaaahd it has a head! It’s got feeeeeeet!” –Carla, on the chicken
“This is the boob, right?” –Aadip poking the chicken
“What happened to the rest of the chicken?” –Bobby Flay; “It died.” –Carla
“Doesn’t make sense. Like a poopy flavored lollipop.” –Big Mike, on why his chicken didn’t fully cook
“I really choked this chicken” –Michael
Also, something fun to add to this post, I’m basically BFFs with Chet, y’all!
‘Worst Cooks in America’ airs new episodes at 9 pm on
Sundays on the Food Network Channel!
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