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We'll be the first to admit it: We don't get to watch as much food TV as we'd like. When you're hunched over a humming stand mixer and covered in buttercream, it simply isn't practical to keep an eye on the LCD in the next room for the latest casting call of fourth-string regional chefs, freakish "ordinary Joes" and pseudo-celebrity kitchen dabblers (Brian Boitano? Really?) trying their hand at the reality cooking circuit.

But sometimes, in the winter lulls between the endless variants of Chefs "Top" and "Iron," we can't help but leave the sifter in the drawer, crack open a box of Cheez-Its and veg out for a little while on the sofa. Here's what we dropped in on this past week.

"Worst Cooks in America": We're not quite sure what purpose, exactly, the Food Network's latest amateur-abomination is supposed to serve. It certainly doesn't have the would-be sexy, aspirational-lifestyle qualities of Bravo's cooking shows ("Chef Academy," we're looking at you) -- unless, of course, you consider befuddled soccer moms and socially awkward copy editors fumbling with pasta makers "sexy."