Hundreds of terrible home cooks came out for the nationwide auditions, but only 16 of the country's worst home cooks 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 for their Skill Drill.

After some difficulties, the recruits start in on the Main Dish Challenge where 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 attempt to conquer intimidating ingredients when they visit The Meat Hook, a New York butcher shop, where they learn to make a sausage meal from scratch for their Skill Drill.

The final four compete in a Culinary Decathlon Skill Drill 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.