Massachusetts Chef to Find Worst Cooks in America

If you ever start to think you're an awful cook, there may be hope for you yet: you're (probably) not the worst cook in America. That honor will go to the "winner" (loser?) of a new Food Network show, Worst Cooks in America.

After tonight's dramatic-cum-patriotic "Super Chef Battle" on Iron Chef America (the episode pits familiar TV faces Iron Chef Mario Batali and Emeril Lagasse against White House Executive Chef Cristeta Comerford and Iron Chef Bobby Flay, with special guest Michelle Obama), Food Network premieres the new show for bad cooks. Plymouth native Beau MacMillan, who attended Johnson and Wales University in Providence and worked under Chef Francois de Melogue at Crane Brook Tea Room in Carver, Massachusetts, is currently executive chef at elements in Phoenix. He's also one of the two "top chefs" on Word Cooks, and will be pitted against Anne Burrell to see whose team of terrible cooks can get less terrible over six episodes. The show's first episode tonight will sort out the worst of the worst, creating two teams of six bad cooks for MacMillan and Burrell to teach the ropes—or roast-tying strings—of basic cooking. The ultimate least-bad cook will win $25,000.

The Super Chef Battle's at 8pm; Worst Cooks, 10pm. All on Food Network. Just add a hungry, snowed-in audience!