- Don't talk to me until I've had my morning brown
banana.
- Let's talk about that.
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Now, sometimes you buy produce
that isn't quite ripe enough to eat yet.
I once bit into a hard pear and I hated it.
Took me quite a while to get back on pears.
- Oh. You're back on pears now?
- I'm back on pears now.
But then sometimes, I wait too long,
and then I check on that pear,
and it's died in a fruit bowl
because I forgot about it.
- RIP. Rest in pear.
But that's when a voice from the ether pops up and says
"Those bruised bananas are perfect for banana bread!"
And you're like "What? Who is that talking?
Is that even true?"
- I think it is.
Yeah. I hope it is.
And what about green bananas?
Should we be using those?
I hope so.
It's time for,
"Who in Their Ripe Mind Would Swipe Ripe on This Food?
It's Too Ripe! Amiripe?"
(chiptune music)
- [Stevie] Boys, today you'll be tasting a lineup
of different foods, and three versions of each,
one made with unripe produce,
one made with perfectly ripe produce,
and one made with severely overripe produce,
and I mean severely.
All to determine if there's actually
a meaningful difference in the taste.
Each round you'll guess which one is ripe,
and the winner receives some berries and cream
from a little lad.
- Oh.
- [Stevie] Yes, yes. - And what is this?
- [Stevie] This is mango cobbler,
and most recipes say fresh, ripe,
and even almost overripe fruits
work well in this syrupy dessert,
but let's see what you think.
- When you bake some fruit,
you want it to be overripe a lot of times.
- I've never had
mango cobbler. - Listen, when somebody says
"cobbler" I'm always so glad
that they're talking about the dessert
and not the shoemaker, you know?
'Cause if someone's like "I brought cobbler"
and it's just a guy who makes shoes, I'm like
"Okay, another one of those."
- Mm. That's good.
- [Rhett] Oh, man. I love cobbler!
- Cobbler's so good.
All you gotta do is a cup of sugar, a cup of butter,
a cup of fruit.
- You don't know anything about that.
- That's it.
Then you put it-
- How do you know those recipes?
- You put it in the oven.
'Cause it's what I just said.
That's it. You put it in the oven for like I don't know.
I don't know, a couple minutes.
350, I don't know.
- There's a difference in the taste here.
- 'Cause the first one, I almost didn't taste mango.
(Link coughs)
- So you want us to tell you which one we like the best,
but also, more importantly, which one is the ripe fruit.
- [Stevie] Yeah.
I want you to casually tell me which one you like the best,
and the differences you perceive.
And then I want you to tell me which one's ripe,
to play the game.
- I mean, I've had a lot of peach cobbler,
I've had a lot of blackberry cobbler,
I've never had a mango cobbler.
- Never had a mango cobbler,
'til now. - But it's very close
to a peach cobbler, but better.
- Whoa!
- That one was a little more fruity.
- I don't know what to tell you, man.
I mean...
- I mean, there's no mango in any of these that's like
crunchy or I need to bite through.
- [Rhett] It's been completely annihilated.
- But that one, it's almost like, where's the fruit?
Did it disappear 'cause it was so overripe?
Are we just doing hands?
- [Stevie] Yeah.
Well, tell me, which one did you like the best?
- Actually, I got a tangy piece of fruit there.
- I love all of 'em,
because my favorite thing about the cobbler
is not the fruit part.
Like if I get a peach cobbler,
I eat around the peaches.
'Cause I just love
the cobbler part. - They all taste really good.
I honestly can't tell ya.
There's one that I like the most,
but I think it might be the one that is the overripe one,
and it just has a little bit more full flavor.
- [Stevie] Okay. So...
- [Link] I like this one the most.
- Yeah, but I don't wanna tell you
which one I like the most.
I'm gonna tell you which one I think is the ripe one.
- [Stevie] Hand over ripe, three, two, one.
- I think this is-
- This is the best one.
I think that's the overripe one.
- No, I think that one's the overripe one,
because the fruit has disappeared entirely.
- You might be right.
I just had a tangy piece of fruit when I went back to it.
- I heard you.
- [Stevie] Okay.
Okay, so, I just forgot
how to push my mic button for a second.
I am enthralled, is what's happening.
- You should be.
- [Stevie] The ripe one
is the one that Link has his hand over,
that you both thought tasted the best.
And then, Rhett, your hand is over the overripe one,
and then the one- - This is the least ripe.
- [Stevie] Yeah, and I think that that's why
you couldn't taste the fruit as much,
because it wasn't ripe.
- [Link] Oh, when you found a piece of fruit,
it's more crunchy.
I didn't even find a piece of fruit.
But this does- - [Rhett] So you liked
the one that was the ripe one, not the overripe one.
- Right.
- We both liked this one the most.
- Right.
And that makes me think
that, oh look at this, here's an actual mango,
and here comes, look at,
we're being handed overripe mangoes,
and this one's underripe, perfectly ripe-
- And overripe.
Now, the thing about mangoes,
if you get 'em from the grocery store,
most of the time it's gonna be underripe,
and you're going to have to wait,
and it's gonna be hard to wait,
and it feels like there's a short window,
it feels like there's a pear-type window for a mango.
And you don't want a underripe mango,
'cause then it feels like "Why does anyone like this?"
No, I'm saying, if you cut it up and eat it straight,
not put it in anything. - Oh, that's not good.
But I think we feel good about the instructions.
- We feel good.
- The Goldilocks moment is the place to be with the recipe.
- Yeah, yeah, Link understands the instructions,
we're good to go.
(chiptune music)
- [Stevie] All right, up next you have banana bread.
- Yeah, we do.
And here's a piece.
- I know that you wanna make banana bread
with brown bananas,
but this one right here...
- Lay it down here so we can compare 'em.
- What if I don't want to?
- Then you shouldn't, but I mean,
I don't know why you wouldn't, I mean...
I'm just saying, look how much darker this one is, to those.
I'm just observing that.
- Also, there's no,
you can't see any banana in this.
- Oh, hold that.
What if you don't want to? I don't know.
I'm gonna lurch.
- I'm saying you can't,
you can see individual bananas in those,
and maybe if bananas are so ripe, they just...
Disintegrate into the-
- But why is this one darker?
That's probably 'cause it's overripe, but,
that tastes good.
Let's break bread together.
- I would've thought that the riper the banana,
the more moist it would've been.
- Ooh, this one's better.
That one's much more moist.
- [Rhett] This tastes like banana bread,
that tastes like bread.
- And then we got this one, though.
Older bread.
So two of these aren't any good.
- This is strange, you want us to tell you
which one is the ripe banana.
- [Link] Mm-hm. - [Stevie] Yeah.
- [Rhett] Okay.
- Okay, I think we're ready for that.
- [Stevie] Two, one...
- Has to be...
This one's the driest, I thought.
- I can't even see the banana in this one,
so I just figured that this was the,
'cause this one's gotta be the most ripe,
and I can still see the banana,
so maybe-
- I can taste the banana in that one,
I can't even taste the banana in this one.
- [Stevie] The banana bread with the ripe bananas
was the one that Link chose.
- I'm telling you, man.
Yeah, there's just more, look at that.
- That's a banana.
- [Stevie] Yeah, and then the one you chose, Rhett,
was unripe, so that's why I think maybe it looked so weird.
And then the-
- I like to eat a unripe banana,
those are my favorite type to eat, raw.
- This is a brown banana.
- So the brown banana makes the best banana bread.
- [Stevie] Yeah, which I think you said before, yeah.
- 'Cause you're right about the taste,
but why can't I see any banana
in the one that is the rawest banana?
Like why can't I see any banana in it?
Like the chunks of banana,
you would think that the harder the banana was...
Why does it disintegrate?
I need a food scientist. - [Stevie] Well you're eating
the ripe one right now,
the unripe one...
- You can see the banana.
- Oh. Yes, that does make sense.
'Cause it's so ripe,
that it's disintegrated.
It's what I said at the beginning,
and then I completely had a mind screw in my own brain.
- The point is...
- [Stevie] No, no.
- No. - Yep.
I'm not even listening to him.
- [Stevie] Okay, to reestablish, you said banana bread,
you're supposed to make with overripe bananas,
that tastes the best.
Correct, correct, correct.
- So I'm still confused.
So you can see bananas in the really ripe ones
and the unripe ones,
but when it's ripe you can't see the bananas.
- I don't think seeing the bananas matters.
No one...
- I just feel deceived.
- Just don't, just taste it.
- But where do the bananas go? - If you wanna make
banana bread, use overripe bananas.
If you wanna feed a banana to me,
use an underripe banana.
And if you want to show bananas in the bread,
don't use a ripe banana.
(chiptune music)
As you can see, we can't.
- [Stevie] So, it's a guacamole round,
and, it's a little obvious, visually,
so that's why you're blindfolded.
- Yes.
I mean, making guacamole with a hard...
- [Rhett] This feels like we could be able to tell.
- Thing, is not gonna be good.
(crew chuckles)
Yeah, not gonna be good.
And then,
now we move on over.
You didn't like that first one?
- I don't know, it's just the idea, too.
It might just be the idea.
- [Link] What is this?
- Is that it?
What is that?
- [Stevie] Yeah.
- This is little bowl?
- What is this?
- [Stevie] That is little bowl.
- Oh my gosh.
What in the world?
I'm batting zero over here,
you eating anything you like?
- What was that?
- I know.
It's what I'm saying.
- What was that?
- It wasn't me.
What are you referring to?
The guacamole?
- What just happened?
- Did something just happen?
- I don't know.
- I'm not doing anything.
- I don't know what happened.
- Hm.
Hm.
Hm. Hm.
- [Rhett] Oh. - Huh.
(chip crunches)
- I'm not ready.
I don't wanna lose the location.
- Why are you...?
(crew laughs)
- I'm locked into it.
- I mean, one of these is absolutely horrible.
But the other two are pretty much neck and neck for me.
And I gotta be honest,
neither one of 'em is great guacamole.
- You're right about that. Needs salt.
- Like, it needs other ingredients.
- All right, I've gotta guess.
- [Stevie] Okay, hand over ripe.
Three, two, one.
- Oh, so we're disagreeing.
Masks off. - I'm not sure, though.
- Which one did you like the best?
- [Rhett] Not that one.
- [Link] Oh, yeah.
- I liked this one the best.
- You have to have patience
if you're gonna make some guacamole.
- [Stevie] Yeah, so obviously the one in the middle
is the unripe,
and Rhett, you took like a huge, huge bite of it.
But the ripe guacamole is on Link's side,
the one that Rhett picked.
- Yeah, this is overripe.
- That's mushy right there.
There's the mushy mushy. - And it wasn't
necessarily horrible, but- - [Link] It's not bad.
- [Rhett] This tasted like I got some pico.
You know what I'm saying?
- I mean, you don't really want to prematurely use a fruit,
is what we're learning so far.
- Right.
- Like, you can wait, and if you're gonna miss your window,
you wanna overshoot it, is what we're learning.
'Cause to me, these were basically the same.
- I think I may have actually
liked the overripe one the most.
Don't tell anybody.
- I just didn't like any of 'em, 'cause, yeah,
like you said, needed salt. - Needed salt.
(chiptune music)
- As you can still see, we still can't.
- Oh.
- [Stevie] Okay, this is the smoothie round,
so you're blindly searching for straws here,
and each smoothie has pears, kiwis, and strawberries.
- Oh.
And, okay, so they were-
- Where's the straw?
- They're either ripe, unripe, or overripe,
and they were frozen. (crew laughs)
You having trouble?
- I don't wanna tell you what happened.
- That's a big straw, though.
- There may have been a moment when I was going like...
I was straw anticipating and I was holding my own mug.
And I'm sorry.
There it is.
- How embarrassing.
Glad I'm not you today.
- Mm.
Aya whoawa.
Ahem, I think I, ooh.
Ahaha, mm-mm.
- That, I dunno, I just, I need to see what's next,
to know what to compare it to.
'Kay.
This is me.
Ooh, that one's a lot juicier than the first one.
The first one was a thick daddy.
- What is this made of?
- Pears, strawberries, kiwi.
- Did she already say that?
- Yes. - I was trying
to find my straw. - Yes, yes.
And I think nothing else.
That one was a lot juicier.
- This smoothie has got...
- Ooh, now here we go.
- [Rhett] Unpleasantness.
- This was gooier, but it's the most flavorful.
- [Rhett] Huh.
- This is the best one.
Does that mean it's overripe?
Because we asserted
that you wanna put your overripe stuff
in your smoothie.
- Man.
- Yeah, it's that simple, right?
Don't overthink it.
Don't overthink it. - [Stevie] Hand over ripe,
three, two, one.
- Yup. Right there.
Right there.
- This is the correct one.
So we agree. - [Stevie] But you...
But Link, you just went against-
- Nope, that's not what I wanted to do.
What I wanted to do was this one.
- [Stevie] Okay.
- I swear.
- [Stevie] I like that you put your blindfold back on
after you had taken, okay.
Yeah, so, the ripe smoothie is in the middle.
And the overripe is the one that you thought was the best,
so you were correct with your assumption, and then-
- [Rhett] I just thought the overripe one would be bad.
- Well you're the one who says
to put the overripe bananas in the...
- Banana bread, not in, oh, no.
- But I put overripe bananas in smoothies, too.
- Yeah, they're frozen, though.
They're frozen and they're brown
and I have the peels on.
- Yeah?
- But this is not banana.
This is just fresh fruit. - No, it's pears,
strawberries, and kiwi.
- But look how much color there isn't
in the one that's not ripe.
- Oh, wow.
- It's like, they ripen and they create color.
Is that how they make crayons? - The smoothie
is the great rescuer of fruits.
Don't ever throw out your fruit.
Smoothie it up.
That's what we're learning.
Or banana bread it up.
- Well, Link, you were pretty strong in this,
I think you won something.
- [Stevie] Yep, you get a nice bowl of berries and cream
from a little lad.
- He's back.
- Berries and what else?
- I remember you.
- Ready?
(aerosol hisses)
♪ Berries and cream, berries and cream ♪
♪ I'm a little Chase that loves berries and cream ♪
- Wow, I'm kinda glad I didn't win.
(Rhett laughs)
♪ Berries and cream, berries and cream ♪
♪ I'm a little Chase that loves berries and cream ♪
- Well why are you gonna feed him? It's for you!
It's for you!
- Yeah. I was trying to get him to feed me.
I went like that to get him to feed me.
- Thank you, little Chase.
- Oh, you're very welcome.
- You can go now.
- Okay.
- Was that a TikTok thing from a while back?
- Yeah, and you did it.
- I do remember that, yeah.
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