- Hello, my name is Zack Loss and I am nine years old
and today, I'm having two chefs compete
to create my dream dish.
(alien voice) Take me to your leader.
Yeet.
(intense music)
(women greeting)
- Hey
- How's it going?
- It's good.
- I'm Hannah by the way
- I'm Katie.
- We heard you know a lot about aliens.
- I'm sorta like, the alien
specimen specialist.
I know two types of aliens, the ones that I know more about
is this alien called a mini mudoo.
So they have triangular feet, instead of hands like we do,
they have claws like crabs and they have four antennae,
with two eyes and one mouth.
- Zack is just such a well spoken kid,
he's very smart and he's very passionate
about anything he talks about, clearly.
- Now that we know what they look like, I'm dying
to know, what do these mini mudoos eat?
- So, of course since they are in space they have to
eat things from space.
So, they have this like giant moon chunk here.
They also like chunks of a planets.
So, lets just say that they eat chunks from,
I dunno, Jupiter.
And inside there would be like a hint of
the big storm eye.
It can be a bit spicy for their taste
(women ooing)
- Spicy.
Sometimes kids say they want spicy.
But they don't.
- [Zack] They also have comets,
they are extra extra hot.
- So he's drawing the comet and I'm getting very excited
about the fire that he's drawing
'cause I think I could have some good ideas for that.
- For the garnishes, they have like
specks of moon dust around their plate.
I mean like, they really like their moon dust!
They also have some rings from Saturn!
And other rings from Neptune!
- So the drawing keeps getting more detailed.
I don't really know how I'm going to
fit all of this on one plate.
Or what food is going to make all of these shapes.
- I think I might have an idea for the rings.
I don't know if he's gonna like it.
- We won't let you down, Zach.
- Okay!
Good luck!
(upbeat music)
- So my game plan for this dish,
is two fluffy purple, Japanese style pancakes,
a little puddle of yogurt with some fruit in the middle
to make it look like that storm.
For the mundoos,
I think I'm gonna crush some chocolate cookies
and use the bigger pieces
as those moon rocks that he was talking about.
So for the rings I have strawberries,
mango, and peach rings, the candy.
And I might do a mixture of the three.
- Here's my plan.
I'm going to make rice krispie moon rock comet and Jupiter,
I'm going to dip those in a glaze
of Greek yogurt, and powdered sugar
that I'm going to marble with gel food coloring.
And then I'm going to make rings for Saturn and Neptune
with hand pulled taffy.
And then I'm going to melt Jolly Ranchers,
and make little fire sticks for the comet.
For the moon dust, I'm going to get some nerds,
throw those all at the bottom of the dish,
and sprinkle a little bit on our moon rock.
And there you go.
(upbeat drum music)
- (both at same time) All right.
(both laugh)
- So these rings, this is where I'm like risky,
and maybe not worth the effort.
I'm going to make some taffy from scratch.
- Why?!
Oh my gosh!
- This is my first time on, "I Draw, You Cook,"
and like, I am just so nervous about it.
Also Hannah has two kids!
I don't have kids!
- Katie has such an advantage because I have two kids.
Am I well rested?
No.
Are my pants ironed?
No.
Do I remember what day it is?
No.
I'm a complete shell of a human.
Okay, I think we should get started.
'Cause we both have a lot to do.
- Yeah
- Where's my stuff, okay?
- I hope that they make it both huge,
delicious, and well, may the best chef win.
- The taffy I have to be like pretty accurate about, so.
I just want to make sure
I'm doing all the right proportions.
I'm going to first get my sugar,
and I'm going to sift in corn starch.
And then I'm going to add in some corn syrup.
Which I know is, ya know, pretty intense.
This is a kid's dream dish.
So, I'm just going big,
I'm going big on the sweets.
- See you also have the advantage
of not being a mom, like that's--
- Am I breaking a rule?
I'm just like sweets, sweets while your mom's gone.
I'm going to let this get to 250.
If it goes above that, when this candy cools,
it is going to crack.
And it will not be that great taffy pull that we need.
(egg cracking)
- Oh no!
This is going to be the hot mess edition.
- Yeah.
- [Hannah] "I Draw, You Cook"
- [Both] Hot mess!
- So what I'm assuming makes these Japanese pancakes fluffy
is the egg whites are beaten separately.
So I beat the egg whites, til they have stiff peaks,
that means when you lift up the beaters,
it comes to a point and it stays like that.
- That's gonna take a bit.
- This all happened a lot faster in my head.
I'm going to mix that up with pancake batter
and milk and butter and a little bit of egg yolk,
and hopefully it comes together.
I'm kinda winging it.
And then I'm going to use these thick ring molds
to hopefully get them to be
a little more vertical and fluffy.
Usually the first pancake is always bad,
whenever you're making pancakes.
Like I throw out the first pancake.
- So this one is just a test,
this is just like a --
this is for you.
- I don't know how full I'm supposed to do this.
- For the comet fire,
I'm just going to melt some Jolly Ranchers in the microwave.
- I didn't know you could microwave--
- [Katie] Yeah!
- [Hannah] What?!
- But you've gotta make sure you're in --
it's a good super safe heat proof bowl.
- [Hannah] Okay.
They look like those hands that stick and you like...
(both laugh)
So he drew flames coming out of his comet,
so I have mangos,
so I'm going to slice them very thin
and fan them out to be my comet flames.
- All right and here we go!
(Hannah ooing)
Pour out the taffy, let it cool,
and then we have to work the taffy,
and that means I'm just going to be pulling it,
over and over and over again
until it starts changing colors more white and solid.
You know those machines that pull the taffy,
I'm the machine today.
- Can I use your bigger tongs?
Do you have bigger tongs?
- I don't.
- You do.
- Oh take them.
I wasn't trying to sabotage you.
A wink.
- Get this under.
Oh
em
gee.
This is going to spill.
I'm going to throw up.
If I can't flip this pancake,
I have to start all over,
I've already waited so long
to have this pancake cook all the way through
because I poured a lot of batter in this ring.
(screams)
- [Katie] Did you flip it?
- No! I dropped it!
- [Katie] Oh no.
- I'm just praying at this point
that I can flip the pancake and have a success.
(whispering) I can't, I can't do it.
(metal hits pan)
(scream) Oh (bleep).
(laughs) No!
- [Katie] No!
- I need to do less batter.
Let's get this out of here.
Oo, that's sticky.
- It's gonna be sticky,
everyone just has to bear with me.
I mean, my hands look horrifying,
and I'm really sorry that you have to see this.
Just like, if no one could look at me right now,
that's what I would like.
- [Hannah] Aw!
- I've made this before and it is way sticker than normal,
I mean, it usually sticks to your hands a little bit,
but it is way sticker.
I think you might have made like a good choice
of what you did.
I think I'm trying to do too many things at once,
and I'm a little worried about this taffy
not getting to the right point.
This is a workout.
- I can't imagine.
I have these cookies because he talked a lot
about moon dust.
I feel like moon dust is probably gray-ish.
- For like, the moon dust,
I'm thinking that they're gonna put white cheese
like scraped
and cut.
- I feel like I have everything else nailed down,
but I'm just waiting on these pancakes.
They're taking a long time.
I'm afraid that I'm gonna have another flop of a flip.
I feel like I need something to do while I wait for this.
- [Katie] I know.
- Everyone on cooking shows is like,
got my sauce going,
and I'm gonna make a quick ice cream.
And I'm just like watching a pancake.
A normal pancake is very standard.
The bubbles start to pop on one side,
and you know it's pretty much done.
It's very easy to tell.
But with this much batter in it,
and with the size of it,
it's totally different.
So if these don't work,
I'm giving up and I'm just going to do
some regular pancakes.
And you get what you get
and you don't get upset.
(echo)
(celebratory music)
(echo)
(celebratory music)
Yes!
Second times the charm!
I flipped it!
I don't even care what happens
at the end of this competition at this point
'cause I flipped my dang pancake.
I did it.
I flipped it.
How are you doing?
- Not good.
(both laugh)
I just got too much grease on it.
I greased my hands too much and now the taffy is too moist,
it's getting stringy, which is not what you want with taffy.
Okay, I am going to regroup
myself here.
Rice Krispy treat,
so quick, easy.
You just throw in butter,
add all of our marshmallows,
let that all melt down.
I'm gonna add in my rice krispies,
I'm gonna stir that in, kinda eyeball it.
And just for fun, I add a few more marshmallows at the end
so you get little marshmallow chunks.
I feel like with these rice krispies,
I'm gonna get it back on track.
To make the marble glaze,
I'm going to sift powdered sugar,
add some Greek yogurt, my food coloring,
and swirl that together.
And then I'm going to dip in my rice krispy.
- I have all my pieces, and now hopefully,
they all go together on this plate.
For the Jupiter that he drew with the storm,
I'm just using vanilla Greek yogurt,
and I'm going to put a little bit of mango
to make that little orange circle in the middle.
- As I'm taking the moon rock out of the glaze,
I know this is going to work, so I'm feeling like
we might be okay.
(candy hitting glass)
- Oh, it's so happy!
Little more moon rock.
- [Katie] Moon rock down here, boom.
- Katie's dish looks like a dish just for kids.
And my dish looks like a brunch option
at a hipster restaurant.
Are you done?
- Yeah. I think I'm all good.
(high fives) We did it.
- [Both] We did it.
- I think we should see what Zach thinks.
- I'm so nervous.
- Do I have cookies in my teeth?
- No, you're good.
No cookies.
(classical music)
- Visually, I feel good about the dish.
I tried really, really hard.
I really went the extra mile in terms of getting creative,
and it all comes down to whether or not this appeases
a nine year olds taste buds.
The closer Zack gets to eating my dish,
the more nervous I'm getting.
- Because this is my first time,
I'm feeling really, really nervous.
I think that it looks really fun, and really cool,
and if I was a kid, I would get excited to see it.
But I do think it's a lot of sugar, so.
We'll see if this kid can take it.
(classical music)
- Bring on my planetary feasts!
(Zach ooing)
This is
not what I expected.
And I forgot to mention
that I don't really like blueberries.
- (groans) I thought for sure that I was safe with that.
Dangit.
- Oh, the inside is like a purple!
That's cool!
Mm!
It's light and fluffy, so good.
Especially with the moon dust.
- He liked the pancake!
I feel like I might have a chance.
- Okay, so for the strawberries,
they taste good.
They could be a bit more riper though.
What I like best would be the yogurt,
and the pancake batter thing,
and the thing I like least
would be these or the blueberries.
- I'm getting mixed signals from him,
that is giving me flashbacks from last season,
and I'm just, I'm not feeling very good about this.
- Now bring on my other planetary feast!
(Zach ooing)
Wow!
This one definitely resembles the drawing more.
- I feel so good!
I thought it looked like the drawing,
he thought it looked like the drawing.
- I mean like, it's not moon dust,
moon dust could...
I'm not saying that this is actually true,
they say that the moon is made out of cheese!
- Apparently moon dust is supposed to taste like cheese.
Did not know that.
- May need some help prying this from the plate.
(record scratch)
Whoa!
- I just heard a loud thud,
which I'm just hoping is not the taffy.
But probably is the taffy.
- Let's just pretend that didn't happen, okay!
So sticky!
I think this is like rice krispie treats or something.
Rice krispies is my second favorite cereal.
(classical music)
Mm, these are delicious.
I like these, the rice krispies,
the part which I hated the most would be the rings
because they were so hard to get out
because they were so sticky
and you couldn't even get them off
without prying and flipping them over.
- After all of that work, after all of that struggle,
he didn't like the taffy!
Guys, I don't even know what's happening anymore.
(classical pop music)
(All greeting each other)
- Hello!
So if you had to pick one of the alien meals
as your favorite, which one would it be?
- The winner is...
The pancakes!
- No.
- Oh my gosh, that was mine!
- And I present to you,
this!
(Katie awwing)
- You're a winner, Hannah!
- I won!
I wasn't expecting to feel so excited about winning,
but this really means a lot,
because I did try really really hard on my dish.
- Thank you chefs for creating a dish
that would feed an entire planet of mini mudoos.
(jazz music)