AustHan's World: Hannah recaps episode #3 of 'Worst Cooks in America!'

We’re down to the final ten recruits on ‘Worst Cooks in America!’ The episode starts off at the contestants’ house where Michael and Aadip find a cooler. They open it and find a note that leaves them thinking that their challenge will involve making ice cream. It turns out that they will be making gelato for this first challenge. Carla informs us that she only knows about chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry ice cream. On the other hand, Michael informs us that he gets sick if he eats ice cream. He decides to try the ice cream anyway because he wants to do well in the competition and give it his all. Bobby and Anne present them with some different samples of gelato and they must guess the flavor, where of course, no one guesses the correct flavor. But, the flavors were weird things like green tea so don’t blame them! (Funny side note: Carla tried the green gelato that ended up being the green tea gelato, but her guess on the flavor was mocha!)

Anne teaching her red team

Then, we move on and Bobby and Anne teach them how to make gelato and waffle cones. The recruits will be coming up with any flavor combination that they want to for this challenge. Bobby and Anne will leave while the recruits make their gelatos and then the taste test will be a blind taste test, so they won’t know who made what until they reveal the scores.

Alex has decided to make a bacon and maple flavored gelato. It turns out that a lot of the recruits are using bacon in their flavors. It seems like if they don’t use bacon, they using some kind of salad as their inspiration, but all in all, everyone is coming up with pretty interesting combinations. Rasheeda is making a lemon, lime, and orange gelato, which sounds pretty good to me, but I guess it actually tastes terrible. During the whole challenge, Michael is really struggling and is sick from eating the gelato, like he knew he would be. Since Sue is a mother, she pauses her work to help Michael so he would feel better, but she stepped away too long and her gelato mix turned into eggs, like Bobby and Anne warned against during their teaching. Chet did a good job of not letting his turn into eggs. During the challenge, Alex picks on Sue and the rest of the red team for being behind.

My favorites from the blue team, Alex and Chet, helping
one another out during the gelato challenge.

Aadip struggles at making his waffle cone. His many attempts fail, so he’s running out of batter and just decides to go with the best one of his attempts. The challenge ends and Chet feels very confident about how he did. Michael thankfully did finish on time, but barely, and is just glad that this challenge is over.

Next, it’s time for the blind taste test. From what is shown, it doesn’t seem like Anne and Bobby liked too many of the gelatos. They said there were a lot of weird flavors and textures. Then, they reveal the order from worst to best, and it was: Sue (where she got too caught up in helping Michael), Michael, Carrie Lee, Rasheeda, Alex, Aadip, Alina, Chet, Crystal, and Carla. Carla won the challenge, and overall, the blue team came out on top for the challenge!

For the main dish challenge, they will be making their own signature burgers. Alex should do amazing with this challenge considering how much he loves burgers. Chet feels good about the challenge as well. Anne and Bobby teach their own teams a burger that they came up with. Bobby says to not press burgers with the spatula because it takes all of the juices out of the burger. Now they have to make their own signature burgers and cannot copy what Bobby and Anne showed them. They also have to make a side dish to complement their burgers. Like the dessert challenge, this will be a “blind” challenge, but what the cooks don’t know is that there are secret cameras and Bobby and Anne can watch.

Aadip doing his best attempt at grilled cheese!

The recruits then go to work on making their burgers and there is a lot of crazy stuff happening in the kitchen. Aadip is making a grilled cheese which goes against the challenge, but what’s really hilarious about this is that he is just putting his slices of cheese straight onto the grill, which I am not a great cook but, I’m about 99% sure that’s not how you make grilled cheese. Alina is putting cinnamon on her burger before cooking it. That just sounds like a terrible idea. Chet’s burger will be a mix of sweet and hot, just like him. While chopping carrots for his burger, Michael almost chops a finger off! Carrie Lee fell in the kitchen while working. Aadip makes the mistake of not washing his hands while cooking and tasting his food, which contaminates his food. Sue is making the mistake of smashing her burgers on the grill with her spatula, which means it will end up being very dry like they were warned against. Ruh roh!

Then we start seeing some fires! Alex is the first to catch his grill on fire and his fire gets pretty big. For a moment, he even tried to put out his fire with more oil, which would have just made it worse. Chet’s grill also catches on fire and the look of horror on his face is priceless. We find out that Chet is afraid of fire, so watching him try to put out the fire is actually hilarious. Before you know, the whole kitchen is full of fires and smoke!

Then, the challenge is almost over and Rasheeda remembers that she forgot to make a side dish, so she just throws some chips on her plate as her side. Carrie Lee’s burger looks burnt beyond recognition. Overall, it doesn’t seem like anyone really did that great, so it’s hard to tell who will go home on this episode.

Love is still in the air for Carla and Bobby!

It’s time for the taste test and the blue team is up first. Bobby liked Carla’s burger and she is so happy about that, and the Bobby and Carla love saga continues. “Help me!” –Bobby; Bobby then tastes Alina’s cinnamon burger and is apprehensive about it, but said it actually tasted pretty good. Bobby gave Chet’s burger a great review. Alex informs Bobby that he made a “burgdog” and it’s called that because “it bites you back.” Bobby said that Alex’s burger was too much and the flavors started to become muddled. Alex, as always, tries to defend against his mistakes and for that, Bobby thinks that Alex may be too hard to teach because he does too much defending of the mistakes that he makes.

Then, it’s time for the red team’s taste test. Anne says that Crystal’s turkey burger was not the best she’s ever had, but it also wasn’t the worst she’s ever had. Rasheeda gets in trouble for basically making what Anne showed them before the challenge, but says that Rasheeda did a pretty good job with it. Aadip made a triple grilled cheese, but Anne doesn’t taste it since it got contaminated. She also gets onto Aadip because he didn’t follow the rules of the challenge and even told him there were many different vegetarian options for this challenge. Sue overcooked her burger and it was too dry. Michael did pretty well though, but got in trouble for his cutting skills.

Overall, it seems like Bobby’s team did a lot better overall than Anne’s team, but it’s hard to tell who will go home.

Primetime 99 Alex Stein is no longer on the grind for Worst
Cooks and is the fifth eliminated from the competition! :(

It’s now time for the results of the challenge. The most successful of the red team was Michael. Anne tells him thought that raw vegetables aren’t the best to put on a burger though, and Bobby laughs and says “that’s the best of your team?” He acts pretty happy because he knows his team did better overall. I’m still happy with Michael being the most successful though! The most successful of the blue team was Chet! My favorites are rocking it on this challenge! Then, we find out that the bottom two of the blue team are Alex and Carrie Lee. Oh no, not Alex! The bottom two of the red team are Sue and Aadip. Oh no, not Aadip! (Side note: My favorites are Michael, Chet, Alex, and Aadip.) Before Bobby announcing who he’ll be sending home from his team, Alex and Carrie Lee battle it out some. Carrie Lee says that she listens to his teaching and that Alex doesn’t. Alex says that he has a bigger love for food because he eats more of it. Ha! Bobby sends home Alex though!! Then Anne tells Aadip that he is the one that she is sending home from her team. This is so depressing! Two of my favorites are out on the same episode. I QUIT! (Just kidding) But until next week!