(jazz bass) - Oh! Wild guess!
- Oh my God.
- I didn't realize that this was gonna get really deep,
here on Delish.
(thumping bass music)
- Welcome to Are You Smarter than a Pro Chef.
In this show, I'm gonna go head-to-head
with your favorite people on the internet.
We're gonna see who's wiser,
who knows more (bleep),
- Oh!
- Ooh! (bleep)
- And you know, in the end, nobody wins anything.
My inaugural guest today is Binging with Babish's Andrew.
- Hey, what's up guys? My name is Andrew Rea.
I make a show called Binging with Babish
and today I'm going to play
Are You Smarter than a Pro Chef,
where I'm gonna go head-to-head
against a Delish Test Kitchen chef,
10 questions that are going to get increasingly difficult.
- Oh my God, Julia. - Oh God.
(beep)
- Let's see who knows more than the other person.
- What's up, Andrew?
Nice to see you through the YouTubes.
- Nice to meet you.
Very adept, sorry, let's do that again. (beep)
- No second takes, this is it.
This is real TV, we're rolling.
- June, nice to meet you.
And are you ready to win? (he laughs)
(she sighs) - I'm also ready to lose.
I think that's a good rule of thumb to go by.
- That's how I like to live my life.
Like I'm ready to win, but I'm also very ready to lose.
But today I'm especially ready to lose.
Let's do it!
I have every color of the rainbow here.
What color ought I be?
- You can be all of them.
I'm gonna go with purple.
I don't know about you.
- Little purple.
- Did you pick purple too?
- Oh, okay, all right.
No, you picked the first. I'm sorry.
I will go...
- Out of all of these colors.
No, we're doing purple.
No take-backs.
That's it, Head-to-head.
Oh my God. (timer ticks)
(he whistles softly) - I know one at least.
I'm getting at least one point.
(she laughs)
(timer dings)
I can't see yours.
(bright chime rings)
There we go. Yeah, all right!
- That was so easy!
- Were we supposed to write out three? (bleep)
(they laugh) - His is harder!
Oh my God. (timer ticks)
Oh no. Why?
- This is according to the USDA, of course,
and the USDA wants to keep you safe, but at what cost?
(timer dings)
(bright chime rings) Oh!
I am wrong.
I thought the USDA (she gasps)
were real psychos about it.
I didn't realize you could do 145.
Okay. - I believe 165 is chicken,
my friend.
- That is chicken.
- I didn't get my Food Handlers Certificate
for nothing, eight years ago.
- Oh, she's certified.
I'm not certified.
This is rigged.
Go ahead. (he laughs)
(timer ticking)
- Whoa. Oh, okay.
- This is a guess, but I feel like
it's a very educated guess.
(timer dings) - Okay.
(bright chime sounds) - Yeah, all right!
We know what (she laughs)
my favorite meat is that hurts the planet the most.
- Guys, just eat beans.
Produce the farts yourself.
Don't let the cows do the dirty work for you.
- Listen, I love beans just as much as beef,
just like everybody else.
(timer ticks) - Whoa.
Man, I studied French and I don't even know this.
- Oh God, I know this.
(timer dings)
I was going to say pot potage.
(bright chime sounds)
Oh, wild guess!
Dang, I got a four in AP French and I don't know how.
- I took seven years of Spanish
and still have the conversational ability
of a very self-centered three-year-old.
(timer ticks)
- Oh my God, Julia! - Oh, God.
(bleep)
That's brutal. Okay.
- That is brutal.
- Does it have to be exact? (timer dings)
(they exclaim)
Tie.
Dead heats, all right! (she hisses)
- Maybe this is the moment we realized.
We're the same person.
- I was worried this was going to happen.
I've seen "Fight Club."
(thumping bass music)
(timer ticking) - Oh my gosh.
In 10 seconds, are you mad?
(mellow electronic music) This is rigged.
(she laughs) - I can't write that fast!
- Yeah, me either.
(timer dings) - Aww.
No, I just finished writing it.
(he sighs)
- I got the, I got the lyrics
to the song. - I got four.
- Scarborough Faire, parsley, sage, rosemary, thyme.
Yeah. - Jesus!
- Yeah, I know there's a lot of herbs.
- Dude - You can't write...
(they laugh)
That is 1 1/4 seconds to write
- I'm sorry.
- a word.
That's insane. - I'm not a machine, okay?
- [Both] Rigged.
(timer ticking)
- I've never heard this before.
- Sprinkle...
(timer dings)
(bright chime rings) I said sprinkle with parsley.
I think she gets, yeah, I think that's hers.
I think that belongs to June.
That is nice, nicely done.
- You know, I worked in the restaurant industry
for 4 1/2 years and I've never heard that phrase, ever, so.
- I worked in a restaurant one day
and cut my thumb so bad they fired me on the spot.
- Damn, usually they just tell you to suck it up
and keep bleeding into the food.
- Oh, they did, they did.
I finished the lunch rush, then they fired me.
(he laughs)
- That's the restaurant industry I know and love.
(timer ticking) - All right,
come on, Andrew, redemption round.
(timer dings)
I said no cocoa solids. (bright chime sounds)
Yo-oh, nice.
All right! Whew!
(timer ticking)
- Three materials that are considered reactive.
(she groans uncertainly) - Okay, okay.
We need more than 10 seconds.
(timer dings)
Okay. (bright chime sounds)
Ah, she got it.
And I did not, I said nonstick,
which I think I'd said in my mind is.
Isn't nonstick reactive, though?
- I mean, what is nonstick, though?
Because nonstick is just the bonding
that you put on top of your metal, right?
- Yeah, but you can't get like nonstick copper
or you can't get like nonstick...
I thought like hard anodized pans were reactive.
Hang on!
- Listen, Andrew, look, I've been cooking
on my Ikea pots that I bought for $14
about eight years ago when I was even more broke,
and that tells you how much I know about pots.
- Nonstick is non-reactive, I cede.
(timer ticking) Oh God.
- Uh-oh
No, no, no.
I, this I do not know.
I don't know, either.
So I'm making a joke.
(timer dings)
I just know that it's a random
bunch of letters.
I mean, comment down below if you know, what EFR stands for,
'cause I sure as hell don't, I just wrote it.
In the grand scheme of things, (phone rings)
if I'm not the same person as you, I still lost.
- What a kind and very mean thing to say about yourself.
I appreciate it, but... (he laughs)
- I just want the universe to become one.
Like I need the singularity to happen right now.
(spooky theremin note)
- I didn't realize
that this was going to get really deep, here on Delish.
But I agree, I think that we should merge
into the singularity.
I think 2021 is the year that we do it.
This has been Delish original programming.
- Andrew, thank you so much for taking time
out of your fantastic life and busy schedule
to join me in answering these silly questions.
I hope you all learned something.
I hope you all learned that Andrew is fantastic,
more than you thought he was.
Maybe next time we'll do a rematch
and we'll figure out that we're actually the same person,
'cause, you know,
(spooky theremin note) singularity.
- Thank you so much, Delish, for having me.
Thank you for throwing me a bunch of softballs
so I didn't look like a complete dingus.
If you want more Binging with Babish,
go check out my channel, Binging with Babish,
where I recreate foods from movies and television.
And my Babish cookware line is available now on Amazon.
Go check it out.
And thank you, June, for being awesome,
and for promoting the singularity,
which is something that people are just learning
that I'm a believer in.
- 2021, we're going to make it happen, guys.
(electronic music)