The new season of Food Network’s “Worst Chefs in America Celebrity Edition” has a “Full House” of ’90s stars.
With a new theme called “That So 90’s,” the series (which premiered on Sunday and airs on Discovery+) has put together a lineup that will have viewers of a certain age say, “I loved them!”
Jodi Sweetin, who played Danny Tanner’s middle daughter Stephanie on ABC’s “Full House” and the Netflix revival “Fuller House,” and Tracey Gold, the clever Carol Seaver on ABC’s “Growing Pains,” are among the cast. Acting celebrities who are trying to improve their performance. Cooking skills with the help of a chef and competition for the first place among the chefs who lack it.
Jodi Sweetin, who employs the blue team, competes for “America’s Worst Chefs Celebrity Edition”.
Other contestants include “Boy Meets World” actor Matthew Lawrence, whom Sweetin and Gold described as a tough competition. Laurie Beth Denberg (“All That”); Elisa Donovan (“Clueless”); Jenny Kwan (“California Dreams”); Mark Long (“Rules of the Road”); Nicole Tom (“The Nanny”) and Curtis Williams (“The Parent” Hood”).
The Sweetin and Gold stars burned brightly in the ’90s, just like the fires flashed in their kitchens.
Sweetin, 40, saw flames rising from her oven about a month ago. The culprit: She left the pizza boxes the night before, after her therapist fiancé Mescal Wasilowski turned them on the next day.
“It was so epic, because we almost burned the house with that,” she says. I spot smoke coming from the furnace. “And we open them and they shoot out the pizza boxes.” Regardless, she says her downfall when it comes to cooking is really her tendency to ask for a recipe rather than follow it.
Gold, who says she cooks for her family at night, learned a valuable lesson during the pandemic: “Don’t put frozen shrimp in hot oil.” The good news is that the 52-year-old quickly managed to contain the sparks. But overall, she lacks variety in her recipes and repeats the same handful, which usually includes pasta. She says the bacon pasta dish is popular with her four children: Sage, 25, Billy, 23, Aiden, 17, and Dylan, 14. But even a good recipe can get tiring. “I made it a lot, though some of them already protested it.”
In The Worst Chefs, contestants are split into two teams and Anne Borrell or Jeff Mauro, two Food Network characters, are appointed as mentors. As the competition continues, contestants are disqualified after cooking challenges until only one remains. The winner receives $25,000 to their chosen charity.
Red’s Tracey Gould says her skills in the kitchen have improved a lot since she’s competed in “America’s Celebrity Edition Worst Chef.”
As gold knows, there is no picnic.
“You’re really allowed to be the worst cook on day one,” she says. “Because once you get your tutor, they expect you to start learning and they will no longer look at you as the worst cook. You’ve got valuable learning skills out of the best, and you should be able to implement that.”
Sweetin remembers recording days from 12 to 14 hours last June.
“The ‘Worst Chef’ movie was really hard, long and exhausting at times, although I loved it,” she says. But the coconut shrimp snafu caused great distress. “It’s been a few days,” she explains. “I was tired. I was exhausted, and I never thought I would resent the coconut shrimp, but here I am.”
Recovered using the leadership principles of Girls Inc. The charitable organization that chose to donate its profits. Sweetin says her on-screen father, the late Bob Saget, would be “very proud” of her participating in the cooking competition. The comedian died in January at the age of 65 from “acute head trauma”.
“Bob has always been a very proud father,” Sweetin says. “Even if we tried something and it wasn’t great, he was always like, ‘I got this. I’m very proud of you. You are doing an amazing job. You do a lot of great things, Goddess. I’m very proud of you.’ …and Bob was also a foodie – so he liked to know I was learning how to cook something. “
The movie “Worst Chefs” provided a triumphant moment for gold. The actress was open about battling anorexia in the ’90s. She says she doesn’t want her recovery to be the focus, but she admits that her eating disorder is a risk to me.
“I was proud of myself,” she says. “There was definitely a time in the early ’90s I couldn’t even be on the show, because I couldn’t taste anything. Anne Burrell and Jeff Mauro, the main things when talking to you are, ‘You have to taste and taste and taste.’ So I was tasting all the time. I couldn’t. He did it back in the day. So, it was definitely a victory.”
Gould, who has played with the Surfrider Foundation, says her skills in the kitchen have “improved a lot” since she competed. “When I go to the supermarket and buy pre-sliced onions, I feel a little guilty because I learned how to cut onions.”
Sweetin also says the show bolstered her game for the chef, but she longs for gadgets she had in the kitchen that she lacked at home, and says what she’s learned doesn’t always interest her daughters, Zoie, 14, and Beatrix, 11. Instead, she makes suggestions to the chef. Resident, Wasilewski.
“Really, I’ve just become a back-seat chef criticizing what he’s actually doing,” she admits. “This is not helpful.”
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