{"id":3510,"date":"2010-02-01T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/?p=3510"},"modified":"2016-03-10T07:33:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T12:33:45","slug":"worst-cooks-in-america-ep-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/worst-cooks-in-america-ep-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Worst Cooks in America Ep 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finally! “Cook-fidence”!<\/h1>\n

\"\"Worst Cooks in America was back with their penultimate episode last night, leaving me conflicted.<\/strong> It\u2019s a lousy show. Bringing family members to the cloistered can\u2019t-cooks is a divisive tear-inducing tactic, but I\u2019m still compelled to watch.<\/p>\n

Why do I keep watching this Food Network show? <\/strong> It\u2019s because I\u2019m chuckling under my breath at the irony of Worst Cooks in America. Among all their celebrity chefs, new catch-phrases, and cross-promotion for product placement, the network is actually teaching someone to cook! I don\u2019t think they expected THAT to happen.
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\nWhile the MTV of Food has been focused on the juicy \u201creality show\u201d clips of crying when cooking<\/strong> for the past 4 weeks, something has happened. With the audience having been excluded, the 4 remaining contestants suddenly know all kinds of culinary terms and techniques.<\/p>\n

What could possibly be the difference that turned off all the waterworks?<\/strong> It\u2019s sudden cooking confidence. I\u2019ll coin it \u201cCook-fidence\u201d!<\/p>\n

Cook-fidence is what the contestants of Worst Cooks in America suddenly have.<\/strong> It\u2019s not because they\u2019ve learned EVERYTHING about cooking. They\u2019ve learned enough to leave the written recipe behind. It\u2019s liberating! Tears of joy and accomplishment replace tears of frustration.<\/p>\n

Just a small amount of knowledge<\/strong>, just a pinch of basic cooking methods, and the permission to create things on their own has inspired them with great confidence. They don\u2019t possess every cooking secret, they\u2019ve learned a simple few that then allows their creativity to take over.<\/p>\n

Cook-fidence has taken the place of written recipes and all the results are better<\/strong> on Worst Cooks in America. It can happen in your home when you learn to cook with basic methods over cooking recipes.<\/p>\n

Previous Posts about Worst Cooks in America:
\nThe Flavors in Jennifer Cross’ Head Saved her Butt<\/a>
\nCooking is About Crying and Salt<\/a>
\nWorst Cooking Instructors in America<\/a>
\nAre You the Worst Cook in America?<\/a><\/p>\n

Burn Your Recipes!
\nCook with Basic Cooking Methods over written recipes!
\n\"3DVDe-set\"
\nGet the complete 3-DVD series HERE!<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cook-fidence has taken the place of written recipes and all the results are better on Worst Cooks in America. It can happen in your home when you learn to cook with basic methods over cooking recipes. Take an online cooking course or cooking lessons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":24062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[40,47,54],"tags":[56,57,133],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3510"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}