- Oh God, that was definitely too much vanilla, okay.
That's fine, I'll put more sugar.
- (FBE) We let Google Translate do its worst on a classic recipe
and then asked four bilingual people to follow the steps
all in their second language.
It's a race against the clock and every wrong step loses points
in Google Translate vs. Bilingual People.
Your whole recipe has been translated into Arabic, are you ready?
- I am ready as I'll ever be.
- Yeah, I'm ready, I'm ready!
I haven't watched Chopped all my life for nothing.
- (laughs) Okay, I'm ready.
- (speaks Hindi) Okay, that means small bowl.
- (speaks Tamil) Okay, this is like pure Tamil.
This is like proper.
- Mixing two cups.
Wait, actually no, it does not make sense.
- Okay, so one cup of water with 1/4 cup of flour,
mix it in a small bowl.
- (speaks Hindi) I need two cups of something,
but of what?
- Okay, let's think, in a recipe, would butter go first?
- I got the flour and the water, I'm mixing it.
- (FBE) Do you have a guess, Kennedy, what you think you're making?
- I feel like I'm making chocolate chip cookies,
'cause of the chocolate chips, but who knows.
- (speaks Hindi), I think (speaks Hindi) means combined.
- (speaks Arabic), I don't know what (speaks Arabic) means.
- That translation is off.
I know that it's telling me to do one teaspoon of baking soda.
- Was it half a cup, or was it a full cup?
Or was it a, um, okay.
- The water and flour doesn't look right.
I'm just hoping after I put in everything together,
it turns into some type of dough.
- You can't really translate certain things word for word,
so oop, in French, oh my God, I'm making such a mess.
- You know what, I'm guessing it's one teaspoon of baking powder.
Yeah, that makes sense.
- Hopefully I don't screw this up, but here we go.
- (speaks Hindi)? What?
- I've never heard of that word. (speaks Arabic) I'm thinking is bowl.
- Add five teaspoons of salt, and put it somewhere
is what it translates to?
- It literally tells you to put it far away.
(FBE laughs)
It's already letting me know put this food away from you,
it's dangerous.
- What kind of salt should I use?
Sea salt, or regular salt? No, I guess regular salt.
Salt is salt, right? Like you taste a difference?
- (FBE) Okay, well, you got about 10 minutes left, so...
- Oh my God.
How do I only have 10 minutes left? Okay, let's move on.
- So this sounds like a lot of salt,
but we're just gonna go with it.
- (speaks Hindi) Okay, so, you need one cup of warmed butter
in the other thing, okay, so I need one cup of butter?
- Dang, one whole, that's a lot of butter.
- There's nothing else I could do one cup of besides butter,
unless it's eggs, what about the eggs, oh my gosh.
This Tamil is like the proper Tamil, you know?
Like the Shakespeare English of Tamil.
- (speaks Arabic), in a big bowl, I think.
(speaks Arabic), 75, what?
- .75 of what is that? Is that supposed to be baking soda?
'Cause I already put the baking...
- (speaks Hindi) What the hell is that word?
- Okay, so it's saying in the biggest bowl,
to put .75 cups of granulated sugar.
- Alright dude, real cooks, they don't, I'm okay, 3/4 cups sugar.
Okay, got it.
- (FBE) You're just dumping it. (laughs)
- No, real cooks don't measure. They gotta, it's like the eyeballing.
- One, two...
And shoot, I think I'm out of sugar. Oh my God, I thought I had more.
- I feel like it's translating the actual ingredients pretty well,
but the directions are a little clunky.
- The only word I get out of this is bowl.
That's the only word I'm understanding,
so what about it?
- Huh, brown, oh brown sugar, brown sugar,
I was like what's brawn?
- This feels like a lot of sugar.
- I'm gonna mix my eggs and my butter,
because I think that's the right thing to do.
I just put eggs and butter, yeah that's right, that's right,
'cause you don't want it to curdle, right?
Isn't that a word?
- Hold up! (FBE laughs)
Okay, okay.
- Okay, ooh God. (speaks French)
- What, not even my grandparents speak like this.
- (speaks Arabic) What the heck?
Okay, um...
- (FBE) Is this making any sense, Jassir?
- Absolutely not.
- The big bowl to beat
the ingredients with an electric mixer.
- Only the first four sentences make, four words make sense.
Get your biggest cup, and that's it.
- I'm guessing it says mix. I'm guessing that's...
(metal clatters) Oh my gosh, you hear that fall?
I'm probably doing this wrong.
That doesn't sound right, do you hear that?
(ingredients splashing)
- This is not looking that great. (FBE laughs)
But I think it's saying to mix everything together.
- (FBE) Okay.
- So I think I'm going to do that.
- (FBE) Alright, so Kennedy, I have to warn you.
You have five minutes left, and whatever you have
in five minutes... - Oh my God!
- (FBE) ...must go in the oven.
- Oh my God, how many steps do we have, 15?
Okay, um, okay, I gotta hurry up.
- (speaks Hindi) Okay, so it needs an egg.
It needs an egg. I know what (speaks Hindi) means.
- (speaks Tamil) Oh, one egg!
One egg, oh shoot. Okay, that says one egg.
There's four eggs in here.
- That definitely means add an egg. So I'm adding an egg, okay.
- Alright, one egg.
- Mix this a little bit.
- (speaks Hindi) vanilla. Do we need vanilla extract?
- I know it is telling me
to put a teaspoon of the vanilla extract.
- I don't have time, bro, to like do one teaspoon,
so I'm just, that, oh God, that was definitely too much vanilla.
Okay, that's fine, I'll put more sugar.
(whispers) It all fell. It all fell, oh God!
Oh God, oh God, okay.
- So what I'm doing right now is I'm just mixing it
and hoping something will turn out.
This doesn't even look right, this like looks wrong.
- (speaks French) Um, alright,
so it's telling me to beat the egg and the vanilla
until the texture is smooth.
- Basically, I gotta keep mixing this until it gets beat.
I don't know if this is enough egg.
- Yeah, it's not bad. It's batter, for sure.
- Oh my God, okay. Alright, this is a disaster.
- Yeah, I think Google Translate definitely did me wrong.
I don't know if it was the measurements
or what exactly the deal is.
- Those directions are not helping, it probably made it worse.
So I'm just going to mix my... (ingredients squelching)
Ew, did you hear that?
- (speaks French) I don't really know what that means.
I'm gonna use my context clues maybe and say that it's telling me to like,
mix the flour mixture until it's like all together,
and it has to be firm.
- Okay, it's saying now mix it with, I think the smaller bowl,
which I already did.
- This is, like the batter is legit, you see this?
- I don't even know what I'm doing.
This looks like soup, this looks like pancake batter.
Okay, you know what? It's fine.
- Oh, (speaks Hindi). Okay, chocolate, okay,
that looks like chocolate, so I'm gonna whip out the chocolate.
- It's telling me to add two cups of the chocolate chips.
- Oh, I'm guessing it's chocolate chips, right?
Like what else would need two cups?
- I'm not gonna add that much 'cause I know this is messed up.
- You know how we do it in this household.
You already know the vibes. (FBE laughs)
Look, this, tell me this doesn't look good.
- Okay, I'm guessing it says make it into balls,
because what else would that say?
(speaks Tamil) I know that means place.
- Something with two inch pieces?
This right here, to me, at this point is alien language.
- It wants me to put the dough onto the baking pan.
This is not a dough at all, where did I go wrong?
- I'm just gonna add in more flour just for fun.
- Ew, no, that does not feel right at all.
This feels like soup. Ew, ew, did you see this?
- (FBE) Alright.
- This looks like garbage.
- (FBE) And that is time. (buzzer rings)
- Okay.
- (FBE) Whatever you have must go in the oven.
- This is what they look like right now. (laughs)
I'm gonna put it into the oven.
- Okay, this is going in the oven!
- Okay, so put in the oven for 8 to 10 minutes.
That's what it's telling me.
Ooh, this is actually gonna work, guys.
This is gonna work.
Fresh! - (FBE) Nice.
Very nice.
- It's something, it's something.
- (speaks Tamil) Does that mean, that means 8 10.
Eight dot, so I'm guessing 8 minutes, 10 seconds?
- Alright, so it's saying to cook it between 8 and 10 minutes.
And then in parentheses it says
the zones are crispy is what it says.
I'm afraid to see what... Oh no! (laughs)
They look awful!
- Like, I mean... - (FBE) Oh!
- It doesn't look horrible,
it just looks like if I eat it, I get salmonella.
- They're just...
- (FBE) Oh wow, did they bake at all? - They baked a little bit.
Like some of the chocolate is melted.
This does not look at all like I think chocolate chip cookies should look.
- Dude, check this out!
- (FBE) Wow, that's not bad.
- Yeah, it's still moving a little bit, you know?
- (FBE) But it shouldn't be moving! - Might not be done, but...
- Here we go everyone.
That's, that looks absolutely abysmal.
- After you take it out, wait for two minutes, I'm guessing.
- Honestly, I'm at a loss for words.
- (speaks Hindi) So it's basically, let it cool down for two minutes.
That's what it's trying to say.
- (FBE) Now that the cookies are baked,
let's reveal the translations and see your scores.
The first step was to add 2 1/4 cups of flour to a small bowl.
- Okay, I did that.
- I didn't do that at all. I think I put one cup.
I gotta reread that, I could've swore I saw water.
Wow, oh my God.
- But I don't know about two cups and a quarter.
I might've missed a quarter.
But I feel like I got most of it right.
- Okay, I got that, I got that.
- (FBE) No you didn't! - Yeah I did!
I added two cups of flour to the bowl!
- (FBE) Step two, add one teaspoon of baking soda to the same bowl.
- Okay, I think, I'm pretty sure I did that.
- Damn, that was probably not accurate then.
Eh, you could give me the point, you know?
- (FBE) Step three, add five teaspoons of salt to the same bowl.
- I also did that. - (FBE) You got the point on that one.
- Okay.
- I did that, wow, okay! (bell rings)
- It still feels like too much salt,
but I guess that's what I did. (laughs)
- (FBE) Step four, add one cup of softened butter to a large bowl.
- Also did that one. - Did that right.
- To separate bowl, right?
- (FBE) Uh, yes, to a separate bowl. - Yes, okay, I did that.
- (FBE) Step five was to add 3/4 of a cup of granulated sugar
to that same bowl. - Yep, did that also.
- (FBE) Now you skipped that step.
- I skipped that, so I did that after. (buzzer rings)
I mean, I guess the sugar had to go somewhere, right?
- (FBE) Step six was add 3/4 of a cup of packed brown sugar
to the same bowl. - Yeah, yeah.
- (FBE) Nope, that did not happen.
- Also got that one. - That I did.
- (FBE) In the large bowl, beat the ingredients
with an electric mixer on medium speed,
or mix with spoon about one minute,
or until fluffy, scraping side of bowl occasionally.
- Oh okay, so this is when electric mixer and everything came in,
and I had no idea, okay. (buzzer rings)
- Yeah, so I did do that, but I think the water
just screwed everything up.
- I did mix it. (laughs)
In a bowl, with an electric mixer.
- (FBE) Step eight, add one egg to the large bowl.
- That I did.
- I did do that.
- I got that done, the word (speaks Hindi) got me.
- I added four, but I still added the egg.
- (FBE) So you did not get the point on that one. (laughs)
Step nine was add a teaspoon of vanilla, I saw you do that.
- Yes sir, yes you did!
- That I did.
- I also did that.
- (FBE) Step 10, beat egg and vanilla until the mixture is smooth.
- Did that, but obviously, the mixture was a mess.
- I did that, but it did not become smooth.
- (FBE) You actually did that. - I did do that.
Huh, I'm surprized. (laughs)
- (FBE) Step 11 was to stir in flour mixture, just until blended,
dough will be stiff.
- Okay, so I clearly... (laughs)
I mean, I mixed the liquid into the flour,
not the other way around, right?
- Okay, so I had already put everything together at that point.
- (FBE) You'd already put everything together.
- Oh my God, okay. So that screwed me up too.
- (FBE) Step 12 was to stir in chocolate chips, which you did.
- I did, yeah. I dumped them in, yeah.
- Yeah, mm-hmm. - I did that.
- Yes sir, we got that done.
- (FBE) Step 13, onto an ungreased cookie sheet, drop dough
by rounded tablespoons two inches apart.
- I didn't do the rounded tablespoon thing.
- But I didn't have a dough at all, I just had a kind of cookie soup.
- So we did the first two, like two inches apart,
and then I ran out of time.
- (FBE) Step 14 was bake 8 to 12 minutes
or until light brown, centers will be soft.
- Okay, this one said 8 to 10 minutes. (laughs)
- Uh yeah, so I got the 8 to 10 minutes.
- (FBE) Final step was cool two minutes,
remove from cookie sheet to a cooling rack.
- That one definitely did make sense, I mean that's what I would do anyway.
- Yeah, I got that one, I got that one.
- (FBE) You got that one too.
- Yeah, I didn't get the cooling rack part at all,
but I did get like the idea, like, yeah, basically set it out to cool.
- (FBE) Okay, the results of our Instagram poll are back.
You're the winner of best presentation.
- No way! (laughs)
Are you guys sure?
It's not the prettiest. Like, it tastes good,
but like, it's not that pretty, so like, I'm very shocked.
Pleasantly surprised, so thank you.
- (FBE) With a combined score of 14, you are actually today's winner
of the overall challenge, how do you feel?
(bell rings) - I feel good!
No way, that's crazy!
- (FBE) How do you think Google Translate did today?
- I think, honestly, I think it did pretty good.
I was able to make something.
A lot of it probably came down to you know, me being inept
on how to bake, and just the time limit,
but the instructions themself were pretty good.
- The wording all around was definitely very, very clunky.
Almost like somebody who was just learning French.
- Like I've never seen some of those words in my life.
I didn't even know they were words.
- It was still fun in the sense that it was kind of challenging my Arabic
and seeing if I could actually translate things.
- This made my absolute year, considering the fact I can't bake.
Thank you, I'll send you guys a cookie in the mail.
Don't worry about it.
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- (speaks Tamil)
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