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James thank you. You have restored my faith in my own cooking! Compared to these I am worthy of 3 Michelin stars. At the very least, I know how to open a can and how not to crush shellfish in a pestle and mortar, resulting in shards of shell mixed into the meat! WOW, just WOW! And that knife guard thing? I cannot even find any words for that! Baby Gaga in Covent Garden, London closed some years ago.
I've got to be honest, first time I ever dealt with an avocado, I tried to do that. Some time after I learned the proper way to cut one from a sushi restaurant where they prepped everything in front of you, it's not hard to do at all.
Oh, I grew up with zero cooking knowledge. At 18, I barely knew how to cook pasta. My mom always cooked, and I just kinda didn't learn. Now, at 22, I probably cook better than my mom. It's actually kinda insane how much I learned over almost 4 years. Last time I went to visit my mom, I had to jump in and rescue her bolognese, she oversalted it and didn't know how to fix it.
@@RaccKing21 yeah that is common , mothers cook with out letting kids help or teaching kids stuff and then we end up with people who need to learn on their own :/
Yeah I had a friend try to bake a pizza.. he put it at 400 degrees for 10minutes and the cardboard was still on it.. I left and made my own pizza.. The first time I ever cooked my own thought out meal.. was sautéed onions (with butter on low heat) with jalapeños, green and red peppers, and hamburger meat on a 2nd pan, and noodles in a pot for 10mins after the water was boiling and mix it all together in a bowl and added soy vay teriyaki sauce The school I went too had the worst cooking teacher it was nothing but basic peanut butter and jelly almost everyday it got to the point where I said hell even the schools cafeteria staff make better food than you and I left that class and went there and bought nachos, and a sub and went back..
I can do you one better. Navy Bootcamp. Grown ass men that can't figure out how a washing machine works, how to write in capital letters, or how to walk in a straight line without bumping into people.
Once on the street, I walked past two people talking and only heard, "So I used white chocolate instead of olive oil, and it was delicious!" I always was so curious what on earth the recipe could have been, but that sounds like a positively normal substitution compared to gummi bears in lieu of duck fat.
Yeah white chocolate is just sweetened (highly inflammatory) seed oil, so it makes sense as long as you can balance the sweetness or hopefully it was meant to be sweet.
For those who don't know, that show is basically bootcamp for bad cooks. Some of the contestants sign up themselves, some are signed up by their loved ones. This video is covering the first event of the respective seasons, which is when the new contestants show off their "skills." Afterwards, they are split into two teams and throughout the season will train under their celebrity chef and compete in a series of challenges against the opposing team until only one remains.
To add on to the comment, some of the heavily-improved contestants actually found success in the food industry and even returned as guest judges much like how Jon Taffer hires the staff of rescued bars to do recon for him in Bar Rescue.
You wouldn't believe the shit I have to go through. Me doing an initial safety training with a cook: "What do you do when your hot oil pan catches on fire?" Cook: "Pour lots of water on it OFC!!! I know this, my dad's a firefighter." *facepalm Me, during a work injury meeting with the union representative and injured employee: "So how did you get that nasty cut?" Cook: "I was opening a can" Me: "How?" Cook: "With a knife" Me:"Why knife??"' Cook:"It was closer than the can opener, and I saw my grandma do it all the time." Me: "So you cut the can lid and the knife slipped?" Cook: "Nah, it wouldn't open, so I stabbed it, both hands, overhead swing, with full force" *facepalm from me *facepalm from union representative
"Rachel Ray's the judge? She should be one of the contestants..." Thank you! I thought I was crazy for not liking her. Watching these people cook though, I will never feel crazy again.
@@timothyaugustine7093 most of the judges are professionals. Anne, Robert, Carla, and Alex are all professional chefs. Rachel is the exception. I think she is only on there because she is popular with a lot of viewers.
Wow, as a Mexican, the avocado part got me speechless. Are those people for real? We've all had our not so brilliant moments in the kitchen but, damn, they exceeded my expectations.
Yeah and avocados are in most grocery stores so not really exotic. But a lot of Americans have never eaten something that didn't come out of a box or a packet to get boiled or microwaved. The one that got me couldn't use the can opener!
@@angelachouinard4581 what's surprising me is that she hasn't cut herself while trying to saw thru the avocado seed! And I don't care how sharp that knife is, a couple of sawing passes like that, it ain't sharp no more.
@@debbiethomas2622 Yeah broke one of the cardinal chef rules wrecking a knife. Seriously you are right and a lot of the people on this show are lucky no one wound up in ER
Chef James usually sounds so calm and relaxed in these videos, but throughout this entire thing, you can hear that starting to crack. You can nearly feel the scream boiling up in the back of his throat.
I was part of a huge mom's forum once and there was a whole thread dedicated to "confessions" from breastfeeding moms who were preparing meals for the family, found out they were outta milk, and replaced it with breast milk and never told their hubby/kids. So it happens more often than you might think lol.
I had a party where at least half the people were late pregnant or just delivered. So we had a milk fight shooting each other wildly eventually the non milkers. Got into it by trying to catch the milk in their mouth. 😅
A friend of mine was in a bar in Amsterdam once when a woman entered and got into a fight with the bartender. She unleashed a tit and squirted milk into his face from a couple of yards away. lol@@rejn1420
I only went to culinary school in a community college so I wouldn’t call myself an expert by any means, but excluding the judges I have more knowledge and experience cooking than that entire kitchen combined.
That woman who pulled potatoes out of boiling water with her fingers is unbelievable. How did she do that? I see that she ended up screaming in pain but you'd think after the first time she would stop, but no she proceeds to do it 2 more times 3 more because she dropped one into the water again!! Edit: oh wow I forgot I even commented this. Glad everyone enjoyed it 👍. As someone who cooks often, I've grabbed things with my hands. When it hurts I just hold a frozen mason jar of chicken broth and it makes the pain stop. 😂😂😂
It's durable most of the cooks I used to work with would take onion soup out of the cheese melter bare handed. If you are very fast with touching it you don't get burned.
I think I have to show this Video to my husband xD some Times I really like to "experiment" in the kitchen and some Times it isn't really tasty. But still edible xD don't know if this is always the case with the dishes in the Video xD
This is legitimately one of my favorite tv cooking competitions. The chef’s will tease the contestants about their meals, but you can tell how much they want them to actually succeed. As these are “the worst cooks” in America the show really focuses on helping them build skills and learn how to cook. It’s a really light fun show and if you’re new to cooking you might learn something too! I know I have!
There was one contestant who was an art teacher from NC, who used a tenderizing mallet to drive her knife through the food. Instead of using a knife like normal, she’d put the knife on top of the food and wang the dull side of the knife with the mallet. Over and over. She’d been cooking like that for years.
My favorite season of worst cooks is when Alton Brown was the cohost. He had some of the best one liners that have always stick out in my mind. One episode when a contestant would not stop opening an oven to check on a cake she was baking Alton just screamed across the room "It's an oven not a nuclear reactor it wont get hot unless you close it!"
Y'know, before today if someone asked me 'do you think anyone would ever have to seriously say "you cut with the sharp end of the knife"' I would've said 'no.' I miss that hypothetical timeline.
I'm impressed that one managed to cut through an avocado seed, I didn't even know that was possible. I hope none of the food on that show was actually eaten by anyone.
Avocado pits contain a much higher concentration of persin than the flesh, so yeah hopefully not eaten by anyone. Granted persin is not nearly as toxic to humans as to certain other animals but still not good to be eating.
I at least love that the contestants are good sports about it. The judges know how to make their confusion and disappointment clear without crossing any lines, and the cooks know that they have so much to learn, and they're willing to. Despite all the disasters it seems like a really comfortable dynamic.
I'm confused. My mom is not a good cook (with exception of some pastry), I literally preferred raw fruits and vegetables to cooked foods through my childhood. However, I learned all the basic-basics, like what the spatula for, just by looking at her or other people. How are these people managing to avoid most of that knowledge?
In this density of stupid things this is for 100% acting, not real. But sure people do lack of basic skills and knowledge in rl, too. Just not to a degree like shown here. P.s. unfortunately very most reality tv is anyway partially or completely scripted, shouldnt be a surprise.
I think the show is becoming more and more suspect as the seasons go by. Whether intentional on behalf of the show or due to people trying to make a bit of a name on the show. I mean, I feel I could sandbag my way into the show by channeling TikTok garbage, Jack and Kay.
The only one I can relate to is the guy who forgot to lock his bowl on the stand mixer. My first year having one, I occasionally forgot to twist it into place when in a hurry or distracted, and once the bowl moves you kind of forget where the speed control lever is because the spinning has your brain following it in circles. At least dough, the only thing I have ever mixed in one that would make it spin, is pretty safe even if it tries to fly and flip itself into a pizza crust.
**just to note I did not have the mixer bowl facing, ummm, away from me. I don’t understand how the set even allows that as an option. That seems like a bad prank being played, “pros” setting it up backwards and a guy who hasn’t used one assuming they aren’t screwing him up on purpose.
Sushi is very popular in Mexico. My kids (two daughters) have never had a problem with veggies or anything. My youngest started eating fried grasshoppers around 5 years old. She's now a chef . Both of my daughters started helping in the kitchen, since they were little in small tasks. If I'd had boys, they'd have helped and learned to cook as well. I can't fathom people so absolutely clueless in the kitchen.
I used to live with a fifty year old woman and her grown sons. Her idea of cooking steak was to pan fry it to the consistency of boot leather. While her burritos were flavorful, they had undercooked slices of garlic. When she made spaghetti each plate started with a Kraft single. I'm astounded that her boys survived her attempts at home cooking.
I mean raw garlic gives a nice flavour to the food. I honestly prefer the flavour of raw garlic over cooked garlic. I usually add in raw garlic into my bolognese right before serving, so it doesn't cook out the nice aroma. But of course I use a garlic press for that. About the steaks, while not pleasant to eat, as long as it's not burned to a crisp, it's not dangerous. My grandmother wasn't a great cook at all compared to my mother or my other grandmother, but compared to what I see regurarly, she was decent. She was a great baker though.
My grandparents always said they hated Sushi, until I convinced them to go to a traditional Japanese restaurant and I explained to them what the different roles where and what each of them would probably like, after that my grandfather would being Sushi home for everyone after work every now and then.
I've seen this show before, but the people they found for this season are on a whole other level. Between the lady cutting through the avocado seed and the guy ripping the chicken apart by hand, I don't think have ever seen anything like this before.
This is a compilation from 1 to 12ish seasons, I think. The video is over 5 years old but thanks to utub algo, it keeps popping up. The current WC season is 23 or 24.
Fun fact about can opening... if you find cement or asphalt.. you can rub the can upside down on it for a few minutes, and the vibrations will cause the seal to come undone. It'll then pop right off. :D
I think Kay avoids obvious mistakes because it is her kitchen, she tries to cook but she just under or over does things or uses misprepared ingredients, she still knows how not to lacerate herself and can take the knife guard off.
That one girl may think she killed her grandma. But one of the contestants that they showed is an actual convicted murderer. She won her season, and now it’s impossible to find it. I guess her image slipped through the cracks on this compilation.
I cannot believe this is real. I know, everyone's experience is different, and I loved watching my mom cook and bake, and eventually help her - and I'm sure plenty of people didn't have that opportunity. But how someone could go through life without at least some absolute basic kitchen skills is mystefying to me.
They always had someone else prepare food for them obviously. They appear to be mentally slow while in the kitchen, but hopefully they are better in other aspects of life.
I don’t think I believe it. They seemed too ignorant to make it through normal life. And it’s not like they were young. I would believe someone over or under cooking stuff, but not knowing how to open a can? I think they’re playing up their ignorance. They have to be….right?
"As a certified safety professional, I can walk into any room and recognize Hazards" I wonder if before the show he went through the room and pointed at most of the contestants going "You, you, you, you, DEFINITELY you, you, ..."
The lady with the breast milk omelettes at least informed the judges she’s made it. I think the auditions of season 2 on MasterChef one of the hopeful participants made special Mac and cheese and didn’t tell them her breast milk is what made it special till after they tasted it. She didn’t make it on for obvious reasons
Prob due to handling. It’s reasonable to assume dairy milk is safe to consume because of pasteurisation and storage, but the same can’t be said about whoever the human it belonged to. I avoid it all lol@@caelestigladii
@@caelestigladii have to totally agree , weird to use milk from your own species (that’s perfectly adapted for your needs) … but will happily drink other animals milk! I find it a weird way to think- but each to their own 🙂
A couple of notable things from this show, one season had a contestant that won that later went on to be convicted of murdering her kids. Food Network has since scrubbed that season from existence. In another season there was a lady that was so bad she got eliminated from the show before they even picked teams because during the segment where they cook their "signature" dish her station was an absolute mess. Every piece of equipment she used, including knives and food was just thrown on the floor at her feet and the mess around her station was up to her knees.
I've seen the video of the woman who have a ton of shit on her side on the floor, like how did she manage to make all of this dirty, how many thing did she cook ? that was f'ed up
I remember a contestant on Hell's Kitchen once, cooking her signature dish for chef Ramsay on episode 1, which consisted of dried pasta and sauce from a jar. And she simply could not understand what the problem was. I seem to remember her defending herself by saying "nobody makes pasta sauce". She might was well have ordered in a pizza for the effort she put in.
They can't script people to do dangerous things, that would get them in trouble so fast....But they definetly do hard work during casting to select the giantest of knobs that they can possibly find. Like if you ever watched the casting for xxx got talent you have seen some really bad performers thinking they are great and this show got all of those people.
@@terrylaze6247 plus hiring script writers and actors would make those shows too expensive, there is a reason the channels spit out millions of these reality shows, they are dirt cheap to make since all they have to do is make sure to hire idiots and turn on the camera. They probably get a whole season for less than a scripted episode would cost.
For some reason, I have an easier time understanding how someone could not notice a safety guard than I do understanding how they could not understand when they’re being told they’re using the wrong side of the knife. 😂
Most cooking TH-camrs I can tell haven’t been on a line and I came in to this expecting the same… but I can definitely tell you know how it all goes and that’s really refreshing. I’m no chef but I am a career line cook and gosh it’s so nice to watch a guy that gets it.
When I was a kid we did cooking classes for the first three years of high school each week for 2 hours and learned the basics for baking, roasting etc and that included the boys too. That was in the late 70's early 80's in Australia, We did proper meals and ate them there on plates or in some cases if it was a cake or tart, you would eat it at home. Some of the best we ever did was learning how to make Cornish Pasties, quiche, sponges and even had a go at croissants from scratch making the pastry and baking them before eating them at home. We even did some meat dishes like chops, scotch eggs and a basic meat sauce you could use for pies or pasta depending on what you added or subtracted from it. I learned so many basic skills there. When my kids went to high school, their Home Economics (as it was called in my day) had reduced down to cooking the odd cake, and doing a lot of cupcake and cake decorating and was only for half of one year. Maybe its a generational thing but I could cook a proper meal from scratch at about 14, including a dessert if needed while my kids who are late teens and early 20's still need help with a white sauce.....
My parents started teaching me how to cook as soon as I turned 8. In school home ec was just like you described. When I transferred to a bigger Highschool they offered 3 levels of culinary classes and I took all of them and was in the culinary team. I loved it. My mom told me that that her home ec classes included cooking, sewing, money management, taxes, checks, loans, and other things. I wish we stilled had classes like that. I was totally lost when I had to do my taxes for the first time, and when I got my home loan. I was lucky that my mom was there to walk me through it and teach me. We need real life classes back.
I have been watching your show and I simply love it! All the good and the bad recipes!! I am a homecook myself and do enjoy the lessons i learned from your show! Thank you Chef James!
One of the best parts was Chef Alex's disbelief that the contestant has never opened a can of food ever. I love Anne & Alex, also what a treat to see Robert Irvine too! But your reactions are always the best parts of the video, especially your judgements in this one, I couldn't stop laughing 😂😂
I dont see why opening a can, of all the things in that kitchen, was so weird. I am 34 and have playing around in kitchen since I was old enough to hold a knife, formally cooking since I was 8. And I have opened a can barely 3-4 times in my life and that was pre-2005. Now, we have those pull-back-tab cans, so learning to use a can-opener was never needed.
I mean, if she had said "Cans? I only use fresh and locally sourced ingredients in my home cooking, so I never opened one.", that could have saved it. But also - I have myself not opened a can with an opener in years that didn't have a pull tab. And the last time I did, it was because the pull tab ripped off.
As someone who taught herself to cook in her mid-20s, I get some of these. The complete misjudgement of how much cheese/butter/oil goes in a dish? Been guilty of that. When you have never observed anyone cooking (in real life, or on TV), you really don't have an instinct for these things. It took me a few days of frying everything in like a cm of oil before I realized most recipes just mean a thin coating of oil on the pan when they say "add oil". The attempts to cut through an avocado or zest potato skins - weirder, but I can see how they reach those conclusions under pressure. When you're on TV, even if you feel "there must be an easier way of doing this", you don't have the opportunity to google for the better method. I have definitely had to google "how to cut X" for most fruits and veggies at some point in my life. But then there are the _truly_ baffling things - who sticks their hand into boiling water and thinks "ya, this must be what cooks do every day, sounds 'bout right"!? Girl, do you have any self preservation instincts or nah!?
My favorite part from any episode of this was the guy that literally put a chunk of cheese on the grill when making grilled cheese as he thought that you had to cook the cheese separately from the bread
I have seen people grill cheese before, but not like that. It’s usually done over low heat on a board, and only to infuse a certain Smokey flavor into the cheese. Such as using hickory chips to get a hickory flavor into a large block of cheddar.
These people can't be for real. The fact that normal kitchen utensils are foreign to them is mind-boggling. Seriously, I could cook better when I was ten. My Gran started teaching me when I was six, and she taught me how to light and control her woodstove. That's why I love cast iron cookware so much. Cooking is such a basic life skill, and I did it professionally for 40 years. Please, no more Jack, lol. I watched two reaction videos from Chef Tsao, and...well, it made me want to throw up. Great video, as usual, Chef James!
I watched this show for a while. The first season the contestants seemed like terrible cooks. After that, it was clearly just people hamming it up to play dumb for the camera, just like every other reality show.
i myself am autistic and went through special education. instead of the specialized classes, we did get mathematics, history,... at school, but we also had classes for cooking, basic electric repairs, cleaning, washing and other household tasks. we had lessons on financial education to learn more about efficient saving,...
Sounds honestly amazing. I just learned how to peel potatoes/carrots at 16years, because my mom would never allow me to. Slowly started cooking more and am now expected to also cook some meals for the family.
@@trixfox45 thats good progress. remember that even by using mostly the same ingredients, by simply using different methods to prepare them and combine them, you can make many different dishes. with tomato sauce, minced meat and wraps, you can have a pretty good dinner. rolling meatballs, baking them in a pan, making tomato sauce, adding the meatballs to the tomato sauce and frying some fries or by putting in an air fryer or in the oven, you get another great dish with mostly the same ingredients. hard boil an egg, cover it in a thick layer of minced meat that has been mixed with an egg yoke (the yellow part) and bread crumbs, bake potato slices in a pan and yet another great dish that almost everyone will like, is easy and fun to prepare and does not even cost much.
@@lsamoa back when i was in school we learned basic wood working (sawing, sanding, gluing) and hand sowing in grade school, basic metal working (sawing, shearing, drilling, filing, de-burring) and machine sowing in middle school and finally how to read circuit diagrams, soldering and actually wiring a circuit as well as cooking in high school, this was the norm in germany back then.
@@windhelmguard5295 Very useful life skills, Germany had the right idea back then. My school didn't have any of this, so I had to learn it all by myself and that took ages. It would have been better if I got to learn it at school.
I had to teach myself how to cook a little later in life. I've definitely had some recipes come out bad as i learned. But I'm feeling better after watching this! (Cooking videos like this channel and some others have been a great help!) 😊👍
It doesn't matter if you start cooking late. What matters is common sense and know a little bit about food safety or safety in general. Culinary showstoppers can come later. I bet your skills have improved a lot since you started.
@@bluewingedchaoscat Thx! Yeah, construction worker single dad 3 kids. Definitely a 5 year learning curve.. Started by just ordering out or pre-made meals, now I have 20 or 30 different things i can make from scratch that are "repeats". It has been very enjoyable time as I keep learning, and the kids started helping too! You're correct that food safety is a must, for sure picked up a lot of tips from youtube videos. 👍
@catherinedavidson7145 Yup, kids love cheesecake factory. We couldn't afford it, so did the copy recipe. Bought the right pan and everything. First one came out great, but downhill from there. Burned as I was so mad at the waste of money! 🙄 (I do a few times a year now as a treat, but am very careful) 😉
@@ChefJamesMakinson Best part was when you couldn't believe that guy was ripping chicken with his fingernails, your accent really came out with that one 😂
I was saucier in my kitchen, and new people ALWAYS messed up the flow of the whole kitchen, at least for a couple of days. But I worked my way up from dish. So I, personally, was new many times. I tried my best to mentor them. And I would always show them the places to move in order to get out of the way.
Oh no! Chef James! You used to be so sweet and polite when you first started this channel. 2 minutes in and we have had about 5 catty/ sarcastic remarks from you. Love it. 😂❤
12:07 He had the audacity to say "In Korea they cook with banana or coconut peels" Sir, those plants are not native of Korea. And also, they use more like woods and spices (like traditional chinese medicine)
Worst Cooks in America happens to be one of my favorite shows. Yes, the baseline challenge is always a cluster f$ck, but they DO get better as the season progresses.
thank you!!! I was hungry 20 mins ago, now I completely lost my appetite 😂 You know a cooking show is gonna be hilarious when one of the judge is a person who usually throw things in a pot and calls it food 😂
This was a treat. I've seen some of these moments (especially the avocado one) but seeing your reactions to the home cooks was great. As always you are still polite and trying to advise which is nice. Thanks for the video!
This is definitely entertaining. Need more of them. I do think most are fake and acting like they don’t know anything to be on the show. I’m here for it though😂
I think a lot of it are people who are not familiar with cooking following TikTok videos. I think that is kind of sad, since the majority of the videos do not work and have been (heavily) edited done by people looking for their few minutes of fame.
12:20 LMAO "peppercorns, they just explode in your mouth, full of flavour" 🤣 We've all had it happen, when the grinder is old or rubbish and you get lumps or half parts of peppercorns. It's like eating 1000 curries in one go
Yes. He now works for a private company that does healthy baked goods without chemicals and GMO frankenfood. He comes up with all the recipes.@@ChefJamesMakinson
6:04 if you want to add sprinkles to a savory meal; just thinly dice some herbs, dried flavorants (like mushrooms) & spices. Oh almost forgot, don’t forget to use coarse salt!
After watching this I feel like I’m a gourmet chef 😂. All this time I thought that I was ok but not great. Thank you for making me feel better about my cooking.
'Just wash it in hot water and it's fine'!! By that logic, I can mix my hair into someone's smoothie - Don't worry, I I shampooed this morning, it's fine 😂
This show makes me, someone who microwaves 99% of my food, feel like I can cook. Also, I've SEEN Sushi before, but not in real life, and I've never eaten it. I wouldn't have a clue how to make it, but I'd definitely be able to make something that LOOKS like Sushi.
I remember there was a special sushi package they sold at Lidl which has the basic ingredients for sushi and teaches you how to make it. It came with sushi sticks, a wooden sushi roll (used to shape it), dried algae, etc. Esentially you get bits of salmon and place them in the freezer, get them out after a few days so it kills any potential worms, cook some rice by boiling it and then just use the wooden roll to place the algae, rice and salmon in that order. You esentially get a giant sushi roll which you'll need to cut to make smaller sushis and then they're ready afterwards. Not that hard when you think about it, it's more about preparing the fish beforehand and having the rice and algae ready. Just dip in some soy sauce and enjoy. (I'm not a cook so please don't follow this since I don't remember it that well, I'd recommend watching some videos on youtube or cooking recipes which go into more detail)
As someone who has never touched the microwave in years and has given its place and outlet to a dehydrator, these people give me a certain satisfaction that comes with cooking meals that would not be out of place in a second-rate French restaurant.
Thank you James for sharing parts of the video. If I watched it by myself, I'd be yelling at the screen! I'd like to how these people were raised. Didn't anybody have a parent who could cook? Unless people are faking it, how can they be so ignorant?? I was blessed to have a wonderful mother who always cooked from scratch.
Yes! My grandmother taught my mom well and she passed her knowledge on to me. Now my daughter and my son cook wonderful meals for their families. Culinary skill is a generational gift of love and care.
Decades ago I did a bunch of odd jobs for a temp agency. I was helping the company rep redo the shelves in a grocery. I think it was Campbell's soup. Some high school kids came around with a shopping list and were discussing what to buy. The company rep was in her 30's originally from Argentina and asked me what it was about. I said the parents were not teaching the kids so the schools were teaching a class in life skills, how to plan meals, make a shopping list, pick out foods and in some school, cook. I never forget the shocked reaction by the rep. So yeah, kids did have parents who didn't cook and left microwave meals for the kids or worse, cereal.
Literally my favorite part of that show is seeing guest judges on the first episode. You get to watch the faith in humanity drain out of them as they realize that no, this isn't just a bit, this isn't for laughs. These people really ARE this bad at cooking.
5:04 German here, from the north. I'm fortunate enough to have a little sushi shop in a grocery store just a few minutes away. They prepare and sell it right there. Pre-made or pre-packaged sushi was available before that as well, but I'm not going to touch that stuff with a ten yard stick. The sushi they make in that little shop looks sooo much nicer and fresh. The range of dishes they offer is also far greater. Can't say much about the taste though. I do like it, but I've never had "the real stuff", as you would at a good sushi place.
In this case, there is LOTS of smoke at the end of the chimney considering how much those dudes and dudettes burnt. Their smoke detectors must've buzzed and finally croaked.
It's weird to me many times that people don't know the basic cooking because I just grew up watching the heck out of food Network, and I'm good at translating theory to actual practice. The thing with Rachael Ray is that she's not a bad cook. She just has some weird ideas for combinations. She's got processes and execution down, she's just... I'm trying to find a nicer way to say "really really white," but I think I've already said it now. Her whole brand is quick sheets to make something that approximates something else quickly. It's not a bad thing to be able to do that honestly, but nobody's going to think that anything she's doing is "authentic" by any means. However, she will be the first one to tell you that she's basically just a home cook that got lucky. She has no real chef training
Also with these people you have to remember that most of core audience isn't looking for actual authenticity, but easy to do "ethnic" recipes. So watching these TV chefs, is not for you, but to show average person to do something that won't probably kill them.
She really is a terrible cook, though. If you don't know how to make something, you don't make a video to showcase your idiocy lest viewers (us) conclude, rightfully, "Oh wow. She's incompetent."
11:30. The only time I’ve ever used plastic bags for cooking was for camping trips. Essentially we cooked and seasoned some chicken the night before, placed it in plastic bags, froze it, and then thawed it on a kitchen stove in a pot of boiling water. Worked super well.
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I was actually not able to watch this, not my cup of tea. They are just too bad.
Hello Chef James..
Always loved to see your reaction. I would suggest you to ask Uncle Roger to react on this. It will be his worst night mare... Really excited to see his reaction if he agrees
James thank you. You have restored my faith in my own cooking! Compared to these I am worthy of 3 Michelin stars. At the very least, I know how to open a can and how not to crush shellfish in a pestle and mortar, resulting in shards of shell mixed into the meat! WOW, just WOW!
And that knife guard thing? I cannot even find any words for that!
Baby Gaga in Covent Garden, London closed some years ago.
im eating lunch rn, best time to watch one of these vids!
@@GaryG1974I would say being able to poach an egg would stump these people.
It is impressive she can cut through the avocado core like nothing
me too its not that easy
Its a mystery. 😂😂😂
I've got to be honest, first time I ever dealt with an avocado, I tried to do that. Some time after I learned the proper way to cut one from a sushi restaurant where they prepped everything in front of you, it's not hard to do at all.
There's a reason why they cut themselves all the time on that show. They give them the "not playing around" knives
Although I think they ruined the knife in the process.
I remember thinking that there was NO WAY a person can reach adulthood without knowing how to cook AT ALL. But apparently it's possible
Oh, I grew up with zero cooking knowledge. At 18, I barely knew how to cook pasta. My mom always cooked, and I just kinda didn't learn.
Now, at 22, I probably cook better than my mom. It's actually kinda insane how much I learned over almost 4 years. Last time I went to visit my mom, I had to jump in and rescue her bolognese, she oversalted it and didn't know how to fix it.
@@RaccKing21 yeah that is common , mothers cook with out letting kids help or teaching kids stuff and then we end up with people who need to learn on their own :/
Yeah I had a friend try to bake a pizza.. he put it at 400 degrees for 10minutes and the cardboard was still on it.. I left and made my own pizza..
The first time I ever cooked my own thought out meal.. was sautéed onions (with butter on low heat) with jalapeños, green and red peppers, and hamburger meat on a 2nd pan, and noodles in a pot for 10mins after the water was boiling and mix it all together in a bowl and added soy vay teriyaki sauce
The school I went too had the worst cooking teacher it was nothing but basic peanut butter and jelly almost everyday it got to the point where I said hell even the schools cafeteria staff make better food than you and I left that class and went there and bought nachos, and a sub and went back..
I can do you one better. Navy Bootcamp. Grown ass men that can't figure out how a washing machine works, how to write in capital letters, or how to walk in a straight line without bumping into people.
@@maleficent3333 "learn" (in these cases).lol
I thought I was bad at cooking but the bar is apparently much much lower than I thought. I’m actually a mediocre cook. Thank you for enlightening me.
I'm glad that you are happier!
Try to improve and set the bar little higher? You might be happy to cook 😊
They are just bad ... not bad at something, just intrinsically bad ...
It is more knowledge then anything. If you have never cooked or watched someone cook, you will be good at cooking
what bar? there is no bar, the bar is gone :O
Once on the street, I walked past two people talking and only heard, "So I used white chocolate instead of olive oil, and it was delicious!" I always was so curious what on earth the recipe could have been, but that sounds like a positively normal substitution compared to gummi bears in lieu of duck fat.
Yeah white chocolate is just sweetened (highly inflammatory) seed oil, so it makes sense as long as you can balance the sweetness or hopefully it was meant to be sweet.
@@MrTaylork1seed oils are NOT inflammatory. That's a shit myth made up by carnivore dieters so stop spreading shit on the internet okay?
My guess would be an olive oil cake.
As long as it's for a sweet pastry, in the dough, why not.
But folks, never use white chocolate to cook eggs on a pan.
@richardallen144 you mentioned white chocolate and all I can think about is the "exotic tar tar" from Hell's Kitchen
For those who don't know, that show is basically bootcamp for bad cooks. Some of the contestants sign up themselves, some are signed up by their loved ones.
This video is covering the first event of the respective seasons, which is when the new contestants show off their "skills." Afterwards, they are split into two teams and throughout the season will train under their celebrity chef and compete in a series of challenges against the opposing team until only one remains.
Ah, that makes a bit more sense...
EVEN if I still think they MUST be playing this up a bit more for the views.
so glad they actually learn how to cook after this
@@tnecniwoh gonna let you know...they're not. They are really this bad
@@jayharv285
I genuinely don't get how that is possible. XD
Have they lived under a rock?
To add on to the comment, some of the heavily-improved contestants actually found success in the food industry and even returned as guest judges much like how Jon Taffer hires the staff of rescued bars to do recon for him in Bar Rescue.
The fact that they made a safety specialist participate in this makes me laugh so hard lol, like why did they do that to him
It's hilarious because he had knife safety down just wasn't good at cooking. He ran for fire extinguishers and lids a few times during the season
probably were short on contestants and he was already on set
I bet he's like the cousin of one of the producers and they just wanted to make him suffer for...stealing the last slice of pizza 10 years ago
You wouldn't believe the shit I have to go through.
Me doing an initial safety training with a cook: "What do you do when your hot oil pan catches on fire?"
Cook: "Pour lots of water on it OFC!!! I know this, my dad's a firefighter."
*facepalm
Me, during a work injury meeting with the union representative and injured employee:
"So how did you get that nasty cut?"
Cook: "I was opening a can"
Me: "How?"
Cook: "With a knife"
Me:"Why knife??"'
Cook:"It was closer than the can opener, and I saw my grandma do it all the time."
Me: "So you cut the can lid and the knife slipped?"
Cook: "Nah, it wouldn't open, so I stabbed it, both hands, overhead swing, with full force"
*facepalm from me
*facepalm from union representative
I found it funny how he was being so proactive about keeping his distance from the other contestants.
"Rachel Ray's the judge? She should be one of the contestants..." Thank you! I thought I was crazy for not liking her. Watching these people cook though, I will never feel crazy again.
its not a personal thing for me it's just her level of cooking
I mean, you gotta set the bar low for these contestants. It's not worth the time being judged by professional cooks and chefs.
@@timothyaugustine7093 most of the judges are professionals. Anne, Robert, Carla, and Alex are all professional chefs. Rachel is the exception. I think she is only on there because she is popular with a lot of viewers.
Ha! Great comment
I wholeheartedly agree with the fact that she should had been a contestant on the show.
"Rachel Ray is the judge? She should be one of the contestants" LMAO 🤣
Hahaha 🤣
So much truth in this.
To be honest, used to love watching her as a small kid with my mom. Now being an adult, I realize just how awful most of those dishes were.
At least she knows her equipments. Not her ingredients, but at least her equipments
Chef James: The Linguistical Murderer!
Wow, as a Mexican, the avocado part got me speechless. Are those people for real? We've all had our not so brilliant moments in the kitchen but, damn, they exceeded my expectations.
🤣 they say it is real!
Yeah and avocados are in most grocery stores so not really exotic. But a lot of Americans have never eaten something that didn't come out of a box or a packet to get boiled or microwaved. The one that got me couldn't use the can opener!
@@angelachouinard4581 true on the can opener but then again, if she is aware of it at all, it's probably the electric one, not the hand one.
@@angelachouinard4581 what's surprising me is that she hasn't cut herself while trying to saw thru the avocado seed! And I don't care how sharp that knife is, a couple of sawing passes like that, it ain't sharp no more.
@@debbiethomas2622 Yeah broke one of the cardinal chef rules wrecking a knife. Seriously you are right and a lot of the people on this show are lucky no one wound up in ER
Chef James usually sounds so calm and relaxed in these videos, but throughout this entire thing, you can hear that starting to crack. You can nearly feel the scream boiling up in the back of his throat.
I was holding back I have to cut some of the meaner comments I made hahaha
Uncle Roger is getting to him. hahahahaha
@@ChefJamesMakinsonOh my God I wanna hear the meaner comments
@@dracothegreat1950that makes two of us, uncage the beast James
Uncle Roger will get heart attack every second of this 😂
I was part of a huge mom's forum once and there was a whole thread dedicated to "confessions" from breastfeeding moms who were preparing meals for the family, found out they were outta milk, and replaced it with breast milk and never told their hubby/kids. So it happens more often than you might think lol.
😳 😂😂😂😂
I had a party where at least half the people were late pregnant or just delivered. So we had a milk fight shooting each other wildly eventually the non milkers.
Got into it by trying to catch the milk in their mouth. 😅
@@rejn1420 you watch too much hentai
@@rejn1420 what the fu$$ 😂😂😂😂. Thanks for that image.... Jesus
A friend of mine was in a bar in Amsterdam once when a woman entered and got into a fight with the bartender. She unleashed a tit and squirted milk into his face from a couple of yards away. lol@@rejn1420
I only went to culinary school in a community college so I wouldn’t call myself an expert by any means, but excluding the judges I have more knowledge and experience cooking than that entire kitchen combined.
I think we all do tbh
"Okay, moment of truth. _(shriek of regret)_ BAD TRUTH! BAD TRUTH!" I almost cried at that part, sweet Jesus.
That woman who pulled potatoes out of boiling water with her fingers is unbelievable. How did she do that? I see that she ended up screaming in pain but you'd think after the first time she would stop, but no she proceeds to do it 2 more times 3 more because she dropped one into the water again!!
Edit: oh wow I forgot I even commented this. Glad everyone enjoyed it 👍. As someone who cooks often, I've grabbed things with my hands. When it hurts I just hold a frozen mason jar of chicken broth and it makes the pain stop. 😂😂😂
Heat needs time to transfer.
And that water was anything but boiling.
Id be suprised if these potatoes were done...
It's durable most of the cooks I used to work with would take onion soup out of the cheese melter bare handed. If you are very fast with touching it you don't get burned.
Onion soup out of a cheese melter? What
@@austingautier2730 Yes when it's in the ceramic bowl not on metal.
@@austingautier2730 onion soup has cheese on the top
And I thought *I* was bad in the kitchen! I'm basically a pro compared to these people! Thanks for the laugh, chef James, this video is a gem.
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is not funny at all!!
I think I have to show this Video to my husband xD some Times I really like to "experiment" in the kitchen and some Times it isn't really tasty. But still edible xD don't know if this is always the case with the dishes in the Video xD
This is legitimately one of my favorite tv cooking competitions.
The chef’s will tease the contestants about their meals, but you can tell how much they want them to actually succeed. As these are “the worst cooks” in America the show really focuses on helping them build skills and learn how to cook. It’s a really light fun show and if you’re new to cooking you might learn something too! I know I have!
@@tiggerbooth6968 thank goodness I was worried they wouldn't
There was one contestant who was an art teacher from NC, who used a tenderizing mallet to drive her knife through the food. Instead of using a knife like normal, she’d put the knife on top of the food and wang the dull side of the knife with the mallet. Over and over. She’d been cooking like that for years.
I wonder if she knows you can sharpen knives, or its just a case of whatever she had at home was so rounded off that was the only way
What show is this from?
@@iremainteague5653I dunno, but it should be called "Don't let these people breed"
omg, we need a mandatory licence for cooking
Those poor knives :c
My favorite season of worst cooks is when Alton Brown was the cohost. He had some of the best one liners that have always stick out in my mind.
One episode when a contestant would not stop opening an oven to check on a cake she was baking Alton just screamed across the room "It's an oven not a nuclear reactor it wont get hot unless you close it!"
It's people like this that give Jack such confidence.
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He certainly knows how to open cans 😉
Speaking of Jack, around 11:21 reminds me of Jack’s Lazy Man’s Omelette video. I swear one of those “omelettes” ended up getting Sharpie ink on it.
Y'know, before today if someone asked me 'do you think anyone would ever have to seriously say "you cut with the sharp end of the knife"' I would've said 'no.' I miss that hypothetical timeline.
I'm impressed that one managed to cut through an avocado seed, I didn't even know that was possible. I hope none of the food on that show was actually eaten by anyone.
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Those must be some serious knives. I can never keep my knives sharp enough to cut an avocado pit into a bunch of slices.
Avocado pits contain a much higher concentration of persin than the flesh, so yeah hopefully not eaten by anyone. Granted persin is not nearly as toxic to humans as to certain other animals but still not good to be eating.
Some of the deadly ones are not, but they do try the dishes and they react to it.
What makes anyone even think you're supposed to eat the stone??
I at least love that the contestants are good sports about it. The judges know how to make their confusion and disappointment clear without crossing any lines, and the cooks know that they have so much to learn, and they're willing to. Despite all the disasters it seems like a really comfortable dynamic.
Now imagine Ramsey or Marco Pierre in that place
I think Ramsey would go horse in the first five minutes, and people would run out crying.
Well, if you're willingly on a show called The Worst Cooks in America then I can't imagine thinking much of your cooking skills in the first place.
@@SCDarkSoul well at least in series 1 they didn't know
I'm confused. My mom is not a good cook (with exception of some pastry), I literally preferred raw fruits and vegetables to cooked foods through my childhood. However, I learned all the basic-basics, like what the spatula for, just by looking at her or other people.
How are these people managing to avoid most of that knowledge?
I dont know
Same. This can't be real.
In this density of stupid things this is for 100% acting, not real. But sure people do lack of basic skills and knowledge in rl, too. Just not to a degree like shown here.
P.s. unfortunately very most reality tv is anyway partially or completely scripted, shouldnt be a surprise.
I think the show is becoming more and more suspect as the seasons go by. Whether intentional on behalf of the show or due to people trying to make a bit of a name on the show. I mean, I feel I could sandbag my way into the show by channeling TikTok garbage, Jack and Kay.
@@actiondork
I want to bet a fair amount that these people are told to play it up a bit.
"Then she substituted with gummy bears, which are not the same thing" This is why my house gets egged every year, isn't it?
His comment on the pepper "explode in your mouth, full of flavor!!" That's uncle roger level irony, pls do more 😂😂😂😂
The only one I can relate to is the guy who forgot to lock his bowl on the stand mixer. My first year having one, I occasionally forgot to twist it into place when in a hurry or distracted, and once the bowl moves you kind of forget where the speed control lever is because the spinning has your brain following it in circles. At least dough, the only thing I have ever mixed in one that would make it spin, is pretty safe even if it tries to fly and flip itself into a pizza crust.
**just to note I did not have the mixer bowl facing, ummm, away from me. I don’t understand how the set even allows that as an option. That seems like a bad prank being played, “pros” setting it up backwards and a guy who hasn’t used one assuming they aren’t screwing him up on purpose.
Sushi is very popular in Mexico. My kids (two daughters) have never had a problem with veggies or anything. My youngest started eating fried grasshoppers around 5 years old. She's now a chef . Both of my daughters started helping in the kitchen, since they were little in small tasks. If I'd had boys, they'd have helped and learned to cook as well. I can't fathom people so absolutely clueless in the kitchen.
Ooh, I'm from Canada and fried grasshoppers are now one for the bucket list! Thanks!
Wow you fed your child fried bugs? You should have been investigated.
@@Bayloy mate, fried bugs, especially grasshoppers, are actually good and healthy to eat.
@@ryank.6033 yeah nah. I live in America friend I'm not gonna willingly revert to some third world shit.
Your loss. Fried hoppers are pretty neat and crunchy.
"And then I see this thing in the middle" I'm dying 😂😂😂😂
I used to live with a fifty year old woman and her grown sons. Her idea of cooking steak was to pan fry it to the consistency of boot leather. While her burritos were flavorful, they had undercooked slices of garlic. When she made spaghetti each plate started with a Kraft single. I'm astounded that her boys survived her attempts at home cooking.
Old person guide line for cooking meat is must be cooked well , no red blood in it
@@fendysusanto876 Yeah, well, there's well done and then there's boot leather. Her steaks were neither well done nor done well.
@@KageNoTora74 more like
Well,, it's already done
They probably gave it all to the dog and lived almost entirely off cereal and cookies.
I mean raw garlic gives a nice flavour to the food. I honestly prefer the flavour of raw garlic over cooked garlic. I usually add in raw garlic into my bolognese right before serving, so it doesn't cook out the nice aroma. But of course I use a garlic press for that.
About the steaks, while not pleasant to eat, as long as it's not burned to a crisp, it's not dangerous.
My grandmother wasn't a great cook at all compared to my mother or my other grandmother, but compared to what I see regurarly, she was decent. She was a great baker though.
My grandparents always said they hated Sushi, until I convinced them to go to a traditional Japanese restaurant and I explained to them what the different roles where and what each of them would probably like, after that my grandfather would being Sushi home for everyone after work every now and then.
I've seen this show before, but the people they found for this season are on a whole other level. Between the lady cutting through the avocado seed and the guy ripping the chicken apart by hand, I don't think have ever seen anything like this before.
These are clips from half a dozen seasons. You can see the various chefs joining Anne Burrell.
This is a compilation from 1 to 12ish seasons, I think. The video is over 5 years old but thanks to utub algo, it keeps popping up. The current WC season is 23 or 24.
Sprinkles on the salad...just for the color.. I mean..wow candy on food.
Fun fact about can opening... if you find cement or asphalt.. you can rub the can upside down on it for a few minutes, and the vibrations will cause the seal to come undone. It'll then pop right off. :D
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I think Kay avoids obvious mistakes because it is her kitchen, she tries to cook but she just under or over does things or uses misprepared ingredients, she still knows how not to lacerate herself and can take the knife guard off.
That one girl may think she killed her grandma. But one of the contestants that they showed is an actual convicted murderer. She won her season, and now it’s impossible to find it. I guess her image slipped through the cracks on this compilation.
What? Really?? Which one?
@@ChefJamesMakinson 4:38 black woman
@@BagZGaming You mean the thin woman with the glasses?
@@howardgilman5698 no, the heavier set one in the orange shirt. Ariel Robinson. She was convicted of beating her foster child to death.
@@AWriterWandering That's a fucking yikes....
Hope she stay locked up for good.
I cannot believe this is real. I know, everyone's experience is different, and I loved watching my mom cook and bake, and eventually help her - and I'm sure plenty of people didn't have that opportunity. But how someone could go through life without at least some absolute basic kitchen skills is mystefying to me.
They always had someone else prepare food for them obviously.
They appear to be mentally slow while in the kitchen, but hopefully they are better in other aspects of life.
Even just from osmosis of watching someone cook in a movie should have brought them further than this.
At some point it's not even about cooking but basic surviving skills.
Who in their right mind willingly put their hands in boiling water?!?
Omg, what a waste of food😢😢😢!
I don’t think I believe it. They seemed too ignorant to make it through normal life. And it’s not like they were young. I would believe someone over or under cooking stuff, but not knowing how to open a can? I think they’re playing up their ignorance. They have to be….right?
"As a certified safety professional, I can walk into any room and recognize Hazards"
I wonder if before the show he went through the room and pointed at most of the contestants going "You, you, you, you, DEFINITELY you, you, ..."
The lady with the breast milk omelettes at least informed the judges she’s made it. I think the auditions of season 2 on MasterChef one of the hopeful participants made special Mac and cheese and didn’t tell them her breast milk is what made it special till after they tasted it. She didn’t make it on for obvious reasons
I find it quite funny how some people would readily consume cow milk yet gag at human milk. Weird.
Prob due to handling. It’s reasonable to assume dairy milk is safe to consume because of pasteurisation and storage, but the same can’t be said about whoever the human it belonged to. I avoid it all lol@@caelestigladii
@@caelestigladii have to totally agree , weird to use milk from your own species (that’s perfectly adapted for your needs) … but will happily drink other animals milk! I find it a weird way to think- but each to their own 🙂
disease communicability is a thing for same-species. i don't know you, i don't want to share your germds.@@caelestigladii
A couple of notable things from this show, one season had a contestant that won that later went on to be convicted of murdering her kids. Food Network has since scrubbed that season from existence.
In another season there was a lady that was so bad she got eliminated from the show before they even picked teams because during the segment where they cook their "signature" dish her station was an absolute mess. Every piece of equipment she used, including knives and food was just thrown on the floor at her feet and the mess around her station was up to her knees.
I've seen the video of the woman who have a ton of shit on her side on the floor, like how did she manage to make all of this dirty, how many thing did she cook ? that was f'ed up
TYPICAL WOKE NETWORKS
I have to see this. What season was the messy lady in?
I remember a contestant on Hell's Kitchen once, cooking her signature dish for chef Ramsay on episode 1, which consisted of dried pasta and sauce from a jar. And she simply could not understand what the problem was. I seem to remember her defending herself by saying "nobody makes pasta sauce". She might was well have ordered in a pizza for the effort she put in.
Good for your family, but not for professional chefs
@@normalhuman9878 Maybe for some types of lasagne or pasta bake, but otherwise absolutely not.
@@nathangamble125for a lazy meal it's absolutely fine to use store bought pasta sauce, running a family is hard and exhausting
@@normalhuman9878 Good for education, bad for health. No wait it's neither.
@@mitchystuff sure, just don't complain that everything is unaffordable when you pay like 3x as much for convenience...
He used the wrong term for the sharp EDGE of the knife, but it was the heat of the moment and he was trying not to strangle her or laugh at her LOL
This really builds my confidence as a cook. I am not at Chef James level by far, but these people are short bud chefs.
hahaha😂
I almost spat my coffee out when she called a grater a high tech gadget. It was a real what the...? Moment. 😅
Opps, she said high-tech machine.
Yeah I couldn’t believe an actual adult admitting that. I learnt to cook from 3ish years old and even then I could figure out a grater or a whisk.
Seriously unbelievable and hilarious, to the point of thinking it has to be scripted. Very entertaining 10/10!!
they say it is real!
They can't script people to do dangerous things, that would get them in trouble so fast....But they definetly do hard work during casting to select the giantest of knobs that they can possibly find.
Like if you ever watched the casting for xxx got talent you have seen some really bad performers thinking they are great and this show got all of those people.
@@terrylaze6247 plus hiring script writers and actors would make those shows too expensive, there is a reason the channels spit out millions of these reality shows, they are dirt cheap to make since all they have to do is make sure to hire idiots and turn on the camera. They probably get a whole season for less than a scripted episode would cost.
They are probably told to exaggerate their ineptitude and come up with crazy ideas and pretend they believe them. It's like improv.
Ah yes, high tech folded sheet of metal with sharp holes, peak industry achievement
For some reason, I have an easier time understanding how someone could not notice a safety guard than I do understanding how they could not understand when they’re being told they’re using the wrong side of the knife. 😂
Think about how dumb the average person is, then remind yourself half the human population is dumber then that.
Especially when it wasa serrated knife...
Like a clef or something, sure, fine. But a serrated knife!?
Most cooking TH-camrs I can tell haven’t been on a line and I came in to this expecting the same… but I can definitely tell you know how it all goes and that’s really refreshing. I’m no chef but I am a career line cook and gosh it’s so nice to watch a guy that gets it.
I used to work a lot of service, very long and busy hours! 😉
When I was a kid we did cooking classes for the first three years of high school each week for 2 hours and learned the basics for baking, roasting etc and that included the boys too. That was in the late 70's early 80's in Australia, We did proper meals and ate them there on plates or in some cases if it was a cake or tart, you would eat it at home. Some of the best we ever did was learning how to make Cornish Pasties, quiche, sponges and even had a go at croissants from scratch making the pastry and baking them before eating them at home. We even did some meat dishes like chops, scotch eggs and a basic meat sauce you could use for pies or pasta depending on what you added or subtracted from it. I learned so many basic skills there. When my kids went to high school, their Home Economics (as it was called in my day) had reduced down to cooking the odd cake, and doing a lot of cupcake and cake decorating and was only for half of one year. Maybe its a generational thing but I could cook a proper meal from scratch at about 14, including a dessert if needed while my kids who are late teens and early 20's still need help with a white sauce.....
My parents started teaching me how to cook as soon as I turned 8. In school home ec was just like you described. When I transferred to a bigger Highschool they offered 3 levels of culinary classes and I took all of them and was in the culinary team. I loved it. My mom told me that that her home ec classes included cooking, sewing, money management, taxes, checks, loans, and other things. I wish we stilled had classes like that. I was totally lost when I had to do my taxes for the first time, and when I got my home loan. I was lucky that my mom was there to walk me through it and teach me. We need real life classes back.
I have been watching your show and I simply love it!
All the good and the bad recipes!!
I am a homecook myself and do enjoy the lessons i learned from your show!
Thank you Chef James!
One of the best parts was Chef Alex's disbelief that the contestant has never opened a can of food ever. I love Anne & Alex, also what a treat to see Robert Irvine too! But your reactions are always the best parts of the video, especially your judgements in this one, I couldn't stop laughing 😂😂
im glad to hear!
I love Alex!! She's awesome.
I dont see why opening a can, of all the things in that kitchen, was so weird. I am 34 and have playing around in kitchen since I was old enough to hold a knife, formally cooking since I was 8. And I have opened a can barely 3-4 times in my life and that was pre-2005. Now, we have those pull-back-tab cans, so learning to use a can-opener was never needed.
To be honest I haven't seen any cans that actually need a separate opener in years if not decades, everything now comes with the pull tab
I mean, if she had said "Cans? I only use fresh and locally sourced ingredients in my home cooking, so I never opened one.", that could have saved it.
But also - I have myself not opened a can with an opener in years that didn't have a pull tab. And the last time I did, it was because the pull tab ripped off.
As someone who taught herself to cook in her mid-20s, I get some of these.
The complete misjudgement of how much cheese/butter/oil goes in a dish? Been guilty of that. When you have never observed anyone cooking (in real life, or on TV), you really don't have an instinct for these things. It took me a few days of frying everything in like a cm of oil before I realized most recipes just mean a thin coating of oil on the pan when they say "add oil".
The attempts to cut through an avocado or zest potato skins - weirder, but I can see how they reach those conclusions under pressure. When you're on TV, even if you feel "there must be an easier way of doing this", you don't have the opportunity to google for the better method. I have definitely had to google "how to cut X" for most fruits and veggies at some point in my life.
But then there are the _truly_ baffling things - who sticks their hand into boiling water and thinks "ya, this must be what cooks do every day, sounds 'bout right"!? Girl, do you have any self preservation instincts or nah!?
My favorite part from any episode of this was the guy that literally put a chunk of cheese on the grill when making grilled cheese as he thought that you had to cook the cheese separately from the bread
I have seen people grill cheese before, but not like that. It’s usually done over low heat on a board, and only to infuse a certain Smokey flavor into the cheese. Such as using hickory chips to get a hickory flavor into a large block of cheddar.
@@prestonestes1388 that is called smoking man. Not grilling
@@prestonestes1388 there are cheeses to buy that are specifically made to be grilled. But not like this one xD
Halloumi cheese is usually grilled, most commonly on a griddle pan but you can do it in the BBQ too. Google it.
Yeh, my mother make halloumi, but in a pan, not on the grill. Stuff is so good 😋
These videos make me feel better about my cooking skills. Like a lot better.
Common sense is such a blessing
These people can't be for real. The fact that normal kitchen utensils are foreign to them is mind-boggling.
Seriously, I could cook better when I was ten.
My Gran started teaching me when I was six, and she taught me how to light and control her woodstove. That's why I love cast iron cookware so much.
Cooking is such a basic life skill, and I did it professionally for 40 years.
Please, no more Jack, lol.
I watched two reaction videos from Chef Tsao, and...well, it made me want to throw up.
Great video, as usual, Chef James!
I don't know a body language expert just told me that they are not acting. 🤔 what a sad day for humanity
I watched this show for a while. The first season the contestants seemed like terrible cooks. After that, it was clearly just people hamming it up to play dumb for the camera, just like every other reality show.
It seems pretty real to me. I don't think most people can act that well.
My god of course they are acting 😂😂
@@ChefJamesMakinson That's an amazing detail
"Rachel Ray's the judge? She should be one of the contestants" Rachel Ray forever catching heat and rightfully so 😭🤣
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i myself am autistic and went through special education.
instead of the specialized classes, we did get mathematics, history,... at school, but we also had classes for cooking, basic electric repairs, cleaning, washing and other household tasks. we had lessons on financial education to learn more about efficient saving,...
That's really great, sounds like your school was a good one. Every kid should have such lessons, they're so useful.
Sounds honestly amazing.
I just learned how to peel potatoes/carrots at 16years, because my mom would never allow me to. Slowly started cooking more and am now expected to also cook some meals for the family.
@@trixfox45 thats good progress. remember that even by using mostly the same ingredients, by simply using different methods to prepare them and combine them, you can make many different dishes.
with tomato sauce, minced meat and wraps, you can have a pretty good dinner.
rolling meatballs, baking them in a pan, making tomato sauce, adding the meatballs to the tomato sauce and frying some fries or by putting in an air fryer or in the oven, you get another great dish with mostly the same ingredients. hard boil an egg, cover it in a thick layer of minced meat that has been mixed with an egg yoke (the yellow part) and bread crumbs, bake potato slices in a pan and yet another great dish that almost everyone will like, is easy and fun to prepare and does not even cost much.
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back when i was in school we learned basic wood working (sawing, sanding, gluing) and hand sowing in grade school, basic metal working (sawing, shearing, drilling, filing, de-burring) and machine sowing in middle school and finally how to read circuit diagrams, soldering and actually wiring a circuit as well as cooking in high school, this was the norm in germany back then.
@@windhelmguard5295 Very useful life skills, Germany had the right idea back then. My school didn't have any of this, so I had to learn it all by myself and that took ages. It would have been better if I got to learn it at school.
11:20 i was quaking when i saw that 😭😭 and he says “what could go wrong “ ohh noooo
I had to teach myself how to cook a little later in life. I've definitely had some recipes come out bad as i learned. But I'm feeling better after watching this! (Cooking videos like this channel and some others have been a great help!) 😊👍
It doesn't matter if you start cooking late. What matters is common sense and know a little bit about food safety or safety in general. Culinary showstoppers can come later. I bet your skills have improved a lot since you started.
@@bluewingedchaoscat Thx! Yeah, construction worker single dad 3 kids. Definitely a 5 year learning curve.. Started by just ordering out or pre-made meals, now I have 20 or 30 different things i can make from scratch that are "repeats". It has been very enjoyable time as I keep learning, and the kids started helping too! You're correct that food safety is a must, for sure picked up a lot of tips from youtube videos. 👍
Keep up the good work and hey! I burned a cheesecake today. Glad your children are interested - great way to bond.
@catherinedavidson7145 Yup, kids love cheesecake factory. We couldn't afford it, so did the copy recipe. Bought the right pan and everything. First one came out great, but downhill from there. Burned as I was so mad at the waste of money! 🙄 (I do a few times a year now as a treat, but am very careful) 😉
I'm glad to hear that!
Hey James, thank you for watching this to entertain us 🤣
You are welcome!
That had to hurt
@@ChefJamesMakinson Best part was when you couldn't believe that guy was ripping chicken with his fingernails, your accent really came out with that one 😂
I was saucier in my kitchen, and new people ALWAYS messed up the flow of the whole kitchen, at least for a couple of days. But I worked my way up from dish. So I, personally, was new many times. I tried my best to mentor them. And I would always show them the places to move in order to get out of the way.
Oh no! Chef James! You used to be so sweet and polite when you first started this channel. 2 minutes in and we have had about 5 catty/ sarcastic remarks from you. Love it. 😂❤
😂😂 I'm still holding back!
I'm absolutely speechless. I couldn't cook this bad if I tried 🤣🤣🤣 thanks for the great laugh Chef James.
you are welcome!
my family uses scissors in the kitchen for some things, but never in my life have i seen anyone cut a STEAK 😭
12:07 He had the audacity to say "In Korea they cook with banana or coconut peels" Sir, those plants are not native of Korea. And also, they use more like woods and spices (like traditional chinese medicine)
I COULD NOT BELIEVE MY EARS
Like SIR korea is not a tropical country??? Where tf you think they grow bananas and coconuts 💀
Worst Cooks in America happens to be one of my favorite shows. Yes, the baseline challenge is always a cluster f$ck, but they DO get better as the season progresses.
6:22 did she admit that she might have been involved in the death of her great aunt as if it was a funny anecdote?
Uhm someone call the cops
thank you!!! I was hungry 20 mins ago, now I completely lost my appetite 😂 You know a cooking show is gonna be hilarious when one of the judge is a person who usually throw things in a pot and calls it food 😂
You are really good at reacting kindly to these people and offering alternative solutions. Like you are a natural teacher.
This was a treat. I've seen some of these moments (especially the avocado one) but seeing your reactions to the home cooks was great. As always you are still polite and trying to advise which is nice. Thanks for the video!
You are welcome!
This is definitely entertaining. Need more of them. I do think most are fake and acting like they don’t know anything to be on the show. I’m here for it though😂
I think a lot of it are people who are not familiar with cooking following TikTok videos. I think that is kind of sad, since the majority of the videos do not work and have been (heavily) edited done by people looking for their few minutes of fame.
they say its real!
9:03"i had to mash these patatas." lmao he's smashing uncooked potatoes 💀💀
4:30 If a grater is a high tech machine I can only imagine how she'll react to a blender
Wait until that lady who's never used a high tech grater has to use something as high tech as a peeler! This video was hilarious lol
😂 haha
a mini chopper or Cuisinart would blow her mind
When I want to feel better about my cooking, I watch shows like this one.
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12:20 LMAO "peppercorns, they just explode in your mouth, full of flavour" 🤣
We've all had it happen, when the grinder is old or rubbish and you get lumps or half parts of peppercorns. It's like eating 1000 curries in one go
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Alright I had to go when I heard "breast milk omelette." Lol 😂
This made me extra grateful for my mom teaching me how to cook.
Love your dives into the crazy cullinary world. My son is a chef. He just brought me 4 quarts of canned spaghetti sauce. Love your stuff.
That is awesome! I hope he enjoys what he does!
Yes. He now works for a private company that does healthy baked goods without chemicals and GMO frankenfood. He comes up with all the recipes.@@ChefJamesMakinson
what a legend. I aspire to be like your son someday and bring my parents delicious foods.
This is my mom and me's guilty pleasure show and holy every time watch it we go "there's no way this is real"
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That was possibly the most polite request for subs and likes I have ever seen, and your content lives up to it Sir. Subscribed!
Thanks for the sub!
6:04 if you want to add sprinkles to a savory meal; just thinly dice some herbs, dried flavorants (like mushrooms) & spices. Oh almost forgot, don’t forget to use coarse salt!
Imagine putting sprinkes in your bacon or hamburger 💀
After watching this I feel like I’m a gourmet chef 😂. All this time I thought that I was ok but not great. Thank you for making me feel better about my cooking.
This video became a part of my year-end youtube marathon. Thank you for sharing Chef James!
My pleasure!
'Just wash it in hot water and it's fine'!!
By that logic, I can mix my hair into someone's smoothie - Don't worry, I I shampooed this morning, it's fine 😂
James PLEASE make more reaction videos to Worst Home Cooks. This had got to be one of my favorite videos by you 😂 have a great week!
Thank you! haha I will try but there is not a lot of material online
This show makes me, someone who microwaves 99% of my food, feel like I can cook.
Also, I've SEEN Sushi before, but not in real life, and I've never eaten it. I wouldn't have a clue how to make it, but I'd definitely be able to make something that LOOKS like Sushi.
I remember there was a special sushi package they sold at Lidl which has the basic ingredients for sushi and teaches you how to make it.
It came with sushi sticks, a wooden sushi roll (used to shape it), dried algae, etc.
Esentially you get bits of salmon and place them in the freezer, get them out after a few days so it kills any potential worms, cook some rice by boiling it and then just use the wooden roll to place the algae, rice and salmon in that order. You esentially get a giant sushi roll which you'll need to cut to make smaller sushis and then they're ready afterwards.
Not that hard when you think about it, it's more about preparing the fish beforehand and having the rice and algae ready. Just dip in some soy sauce and enjoy.
(I'm not a cook so please don't follow this since I don't remember it that well, I'd recommend watching some videos on youtube or cooking recipes which go into more detail)
As someone who has never touched the microwave in years and has given its place and outlet to a dehydrator, these people give me a certain satisfaction that comes with cooking meals that would not be out of place in a second-rate French restaurant.
Thank you James for sharing parts of the video. If I watched it by myself, I'd be yelling at the screen! I'd like to how these people were raised. Didn't anybody have a parent who could cook? Unless people are faking it, how can they be so ignorant?? I was blessed to have a wonderful mother who always cooked from scratch.
Yes! My grandmother taught my mom well and she passed her knowledge on to me. Now my daughter and my son cook wonderful meals for their families. Culinary skill is a generational gift of love and care.
I have no idea! thank you!
Decades ago I did a bunch of odd jobs for a temp agency. I was helping the company rep redo the shelves in a grocery. I think it was Campbell's soup. Some high school kids came around with a shopping list and were discussing what to buy. The company rep was in her 30's originally from Argentina and asked me what it was about. I said the parents were not teaching the kids so the schools were teaching a class in life skills, how to plan meals, make a shopping list, pick out foods and in some school, cook. I never forget the shocked reaction by the rep. So yeah, kids did have parents who didn't cook and left microwave meals for the kids or worse, cereal.
Literally my favorite part of that show is seeing guest judges on the first episode. You get to watch the faith in humanity drain out of them as they realize that no, this isn't just a bit, this isn't for laughs. These people really ARE this bad at cooking.
5:04 German here, from the north. I'm fortunate enough to have a little sushi shop in a grocery store just a few minutes away. They prepare and sell it right there.
Pre-made or pre-packaged sushi was available before that as well, but I'm not going to touch that stuff with a ten yard stick. The sushi they make in that little shop looks sooo much nicer and fresh. The range of dishes they offer is also far greater. Can't say much about the taste though. I do like it, but I've never had "the real stuff", as you would at a good sushi place.
3:32 I went to the Food Network because I thought there would be some thing good on TV but when I turned it on, I saw this monstrosity.
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Ohh man, I definitely feel your pain, Chef James. xD There has to be a light at the end of this bad food tunnel.
when it ended there was! haha 😂
In this case, there is LOTS of smoke at the end of the chimney considering how much those dudes and dudettes burnt. Their smoke detectors must've buzzed and finally croaked.
"Breast milk omlets"
Me: (Immediately remembers breats milk pasta from MasterChef USA) 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That avocado clip is still one of my favorites of all time. It still is baffling to this day.
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But not being able to use a can opener - if I hadn't watched that with my own eyes I wouldn't have believed it.
@@heatherwolmarans8287 and it's not even the weird opener that doesn't have an obvious clasp!
11:20 Bro was really making Jack's "lazy omlette" there. 😂
He's there in spirit, if nothing else.
It's weird to me many times that people don't know the basic cooking because I just grew up watching the heck out of food Network, and I'm good at translating theory to actual practice.
The thing with Rachael Ray is that she's not a bad cook. She just has some weird ideas for combinations. She's got processes and execution down, she's just... I'm trying to find a nicer way to say "really really white," but I think I've already said it now. Her whole brand is quick sheets to make something that approximates something else quickly. It's not a bad thing to be able to do that honestly, but nobody's going to think that anything she's doing is "authentic" by any means.
However, she will be the first one to tell you that she's basically just a home cook that got lucky. She has no real chef training
A lot of people don't know any basics with cooking but not knowing how to open a can is on another level! haha
Also with these people you have to remember that most of core audience isn't looking for actual authenticity, but easy to do "ethnic" recipes. So watching these TV chefs, is not for you, but to show average person to do something that won't probably kill them.
She really is a terrible cook, though. If you don't know how to make something, you don't make a video to showcase your idiocy lest viewers (us) conclude, rightfully, "Oh wow. She's incompetent."
Google "rachel ray net worth". There is a reason why her content is what it is.
the worst part is Gen-Z is all about tik-tok & Instagram. and they believe everything is true on these platforms, even nonsense cooking reels.
this makes me more grateful I grew up in a family of chefs and was taught how to cook before adulthood
11:30. The only time I’ve ever used plastic bags for cooking was for camping trips. Essentially we cooked and seasoned some chicken the night before, placed it in plastic bags, froze it, and then thawed it on a kitchen stove in a pot of boiling water. Worked super well.
This was hilarious, mesmerizing, and terrifying. Bravo.
Thank you for making my self taught, ADHD powered home cooking feel like professional level!
my face never left this expression “😧”