- I don't have a secret ingredient.
- I don't know if this is melting or burning.
(foreign language)
I don't have a lot of options.
(screaming)
- My flan is gonna be the best.
(upbeat music)
- Welcome to the Latino Dad Cook Off
Quarantine/Social Distancing Edition.
Let me close this.
I'm your host, Maya.
Here safe in my house because that is what we need to do,
we're safer at home.
So please stay home everybody
and wash your hands and don't touch your face.
So today, these latino dads are making flan.
I have some experience in making flan
because I made it for a Pocha Concha episode.
So I know how it's supposed to look.
Oh shit.
I know how it's supposed to taste
although I won't be tasting it
which is pretty sad.
Let's frickin' see if they're gonna do it right.
Also, how are you guys doing?
Are you guys, you guys won't FaceTime me or something?
None of them have FaceTime me, at all.
Gadiel FaceTime me the other day
just to ask me if his eye looked weird.
Appreciated that.
Let's get this video started baby.
Hit it, transition.
- All right the time has arrived.
I'm a little worried because I've never
done flan in my life.
I actually had to research how to do flan
I ask my mom, I ask my roommate
but I'm very interested in seeing Eli is gonna do
because he's usually a mess as we all know.
- I don't know what I'm doing
I'm completely unconfident right now.
- I'm also a little afraid of Gadiel
only because he's done flan before.
He literally did a flan a week ago.
But you know what, I'm pretty confident in my cooking.
I am ready to win this battle, virtually.
Let's go.
- I don't think you could judge anyone for winning.
Because we cannot taste all three flans.
- Yeah that is true.
We're gonna judge on looks mainly
but I feel like no one will actually win today.
Gadiel you should be the most confident
'cause I've never made flan in my life
This is my first time.
- Believe in yourself Gadiel
- My flan is delicious as,
but I'm just little disappointed
that nobody is gonna be able to just taste it.
To be honest the flan that I made
it comes from my aunt, it's my aunt's recipe.
She made it once for me and my sister when we were kids.
Don't judge, don't knock it till you try it.
She does add raisins to the flan.
- Oh interesting.
- It's not a secret ingredient
'cause you can see it from far away, right?
- My flan has a deep beautiful history
where I googled it 30 minutes ago
so I'm really excited to share that with you guys.
- My flan is a combination of recipes
between my Mom and my roommate.
I'm also adding cream cheese
so I'm gonna make (foreign language)
- Damn I do that too.
I got cream cheese too. - Oh then, that's okay
- I'm gonna add a secret ingredient too though so.
- You got a secret ingredient too?
What's your secret ingredient?
- Don't worry about it you'll see after it.
- Transition.
- I'm nervous about the sugar
because I've never melted sugar in my life.
- My aunt usually puts in water
but I'ma just put in straight up sugar.
- I'm gonna start melting this sugar
while I do that I'm gonna start mixing everything over here.
I don't have a big blender, I have a NutriBullet
so I'm gonna use this.
Hopefully everything fits here.
- You gotta keep everything cleaned good.
(foreign language)
Did you guys wash your hands?
(foreign language)
- Eli? - Of course I washed my hands
(foreign language)
- I ain't playing any games.
I ain't playing any games in this corona era.
- Put the two cans of Aparita milk
- Damn Gadiel you have a nice blender over there.
That's a nice blender.
- I borrowed it.
(foreign language)
- Oh shit I got a blender too, hold up.
- Hopefully everything fits here
I don't know we'll just see.
- I preheated the oven already, I'll put in two
cans of evaporated milk.
- Let me check on my sugar,
oh my God.
- I gotta say, I know this is a competition,
but this is so nice to be cooking with all you guys.
- So I already preheated the oven,
(foreign language).
- Put the cream cheese.
- All right, I'm adding evaporated milk to the mix.
- And the extract, I don't know if they know about that.
And now I'm gonna give them my secret ingredient,
(foreign language)
- I don't know if this is melting or burning.
(foreign language)
(upbeat music)
- I don't have a secret ingredient,
and I need to get a secret ingredient.
So I'm gonna look in my kitchen and see if i can find
something to make it different,
'cause everyone has something.
What can I put in here to make different?
What can I put?
I've got quinoa, and it looks like I got coffee.
It's gonna be terrible.
- Okay, it's blending time.
(blending machine whirring)
- I'm gonna put chocolate.
- This one's too little so I have to pour a little bit off.
(foreign language)
- I used some old cocoa powder,
that I think its probably two or three years old
but I just hope,
I don't even know if that's how you make it.
I'm just taking chances.
- Boom.
- I used to make this in San Diego and people loved it.
I love making flan, I used to make it
in San Diego and people loved it.
(foreign language)
- Yeah, ain't turning around though.
- Yeah, be careful with this, sugar burns fast y'all.
- It burns fast but it also takes a long time to melt.
- Getting hot in this kitchen.
I forgot the vanilla, let me add it back to the mix.
I think that's enough.
- I cannot.
(foreign language)
- I'm gonna have to hand in gliding this
'cause this ninja does not wanna turn on.
I'm trying to turn this thing on, it won't turn on.
- All right my sugar is finally melting,
(foreign language)
- I'm hungry.
To make good mamajuana you need a shara mamajuana.
To make good flan you need a shara mamajuana.
- What?
- There we go, okay, now we're cooking.
(foreign language)
- Finally.
- What are you doing Eli?
I can't see nothing that you're doing.
I can hear you struggling with it.
- I don't have a lot of options.
- My flan is gonna be the best.
(screaming)
Oh my God.
(foreign language)
I'm scared.
(foreign language)
- Done, I put mine in the oven guys.
- Damn, already?
- Getting real.
I put the timer on, I don't know what
these guys are doing over there in their kitchen.
(foreign language)
And hopefully it taste good.
- I got the sugar nicely clumping together,
the hardest part was this blender situation,
I couldn't figure it out.
- Eli is struggling, he hasn't even blended anything.
- Figured it out now, but now we out here
we're gonna crush the damn game.
Also, for the record, they got family recipes.
- So your family never made flan?
- They got all this extra help,
me I'm just I'm starting the tradition,
it's coming from the heart.
Oh my God, it's happening.
- [Gadiel] Stop being a bitch.
You sound like a bitch.
- [Eli] I'm a one man army, son.
I'm a one man army.
- Stop whining.
(upbeat music)
- Well, guys, welcome to my kitchen.
This is my fridge and it has a lot of photos.
I actually have Gadiel and Eli, let me look for them.
Oh Gadiel is here.
(foreign language)
Eli is here, Eli is here and then you're
also somewhere else, oh, there you are.
- You really got us on your fridge?
- I would never put Eli on my fridge.
- [Eli] You really made me lose my appetite.
- All right, here we go, final blend.
(blending machine whirring)
Oh here it is, hell yeah.
(upbeat music)
- Dries so quick.
(upbeat music)
- Putting it in.
(upbeat music)
- That was a trip.
- How was it for you guys?
- It was stressful at first, I was worried, scared.
The biggest thing, the blender is what gave me a bad time,
and my secret ingredient, I'll tell you guys now, chocolate.
- You got chocolate.
- You put chocolate in a flan?
- That's some real shit.
- Nice, okay, spicing it up, all right.
- The sugar, I'm always like when I made flan before
I actually I burnt it once before so I know
how easy it get burnt.
This is my favorite way of making flan so everything's fine.
- Maya's gonna come and she's gonna judge it by visuals,
so make sure that your flan doesn't mess up
when you're transferring it to a plate,
'cause, if you do, I'm sorry.
All right, see you in 45 minutes.
Flan is out of the oven, it's looking pretty good.
Hopefully, I think the hardest part
is actually flipping it and not breaking it
so fingers crossed it doesn't break on me.
- I'm going to choose the one
that is the most promising to do the flip.
(upbeat music)
Now the moment of truth.
(foreign language)
- Come on, come on.
- Wow.
(foreign language)
(upbeat music)
- I've dressed up for you guys.
- We see that.
- Oh, you look beautiful, Maya.
- I know the presentation is everything,
I don't wanna see it in the pan
or in the little cup thing, I wanna see it presented.
And I'm looking for presentation above all.
- Okay.
- Evan.
- Wow, that look good.
- Wow.
- That is way more caramel
than what I was supposed to because
there's literally an ocean of caramel
around the flan, but this is it.
- Can I see you cut into it?
- Wow, that looks good. - Oh wow, that's nice.
- Wow, I'm not lying guys, this is bomb.
- Great job.
- It tastes cheesy because, oh Maya, I forgot,
I added cream cheese to mine, to make it flan de queso.
- This my first time, no recipe except for a Google search.
I added chocolate to mine as well.
This is, it's flat.
- Wow.
- You know what, I give you props for presentation.
- Oh my God, that looks real good, Eli.
- Yes, Eli.
- It's tiny, it's a little baby one, but he tried his best.
- I need you to cut into it and take a bite.
- Mine looks so dark.
- I put chocolate in it.
- Chocolate powder or like, chocolate chips?
- Hot cocoa powder that I found in my cupboard,
I don't know how old it is.
- Damn, this is good.
- The chocolate's subtle, I should've put more
chocolate in it, but you can taste,
I think you can taste some of the chocolate.
This is the first one I flipped.
- Okay, Gadiel.
- Y'all ready for mine?
- Whoa.
- Our family recipe's with raisins, and cream cheese,
and we got a little bit of (foreign language)
- I want that right now.
- I have to pick a winner, but in these times
I have to give it to all three of you guys.
- Aw.
- Wow, aw, look at this lovely.
- You so nice.
- If you want I'll save you some of the flan.
- Yeah, save some for me.
- I'm very happy that we got to sort of hang out,
like the old days, two weeks ago.
- It's different, it was really nice hanging out
with you guys and talking crap from afar
but its better when its IRL.
- Another successful Latino Dad competition that is ending
as everyone is the winner in this,
so I'm very proud of you guys.
- Everyone's the winner, we won.
(upbeat music)
- [Narrator] Poro like.