- Ah! (steam blowing)
What am I doing? What am I doing?
Corn, corn, corn.
Hey guys, it's Katie.
And I'm here at my husband, Chris.
- Hi.
- And today I am going to try to make
the Chili's Baby Back Rib Platter faster than delivery.
My delivery man/boy's gonna be Chris.
- I'm the delivery man/boy.
- The rib platter consists of baby back ribs, fries,
and roasted street corn.
- Mm, that sounds really good.
- That's a lot to do in I think probably about an hour.
(Chris laughing)
- That's crazy.
You're gonna do great.
(abrupt classical music) You ready to order?
You ready to put that order in?
- No, but okay.
- Let's do it, let's do it, let's put the order in.
- View cart, view cart, click view cart.
- My name is--
- Chris. - Chris.
Placing the order and,
it's still loading because my phone is slow.
- Ah go, go, go go! - Whoa, ah ah!
(Chris laughing) - Get outta here, leave.
- [Chris] I've never been so scared in my life.
- Don't forget to turn off your mic.
(abrupt classical music)
So, the first thing I need to do is prep
a dry rub for the ribs.
So, I'm gonna do some coarse salt, pepper,
chili powder, cayenne, gonna little spicy.
Garlic powder, onion powder, a little bit of sugar,
a little bit of white pepper.
Mix that right up.
So, now I have my baby back ribs.
(upbeat classical music)
Nice.
And I'm gonna cut them in half.
So, I'm just taking the dry rub
and sprinkling it all over the top.
I don't have enough time, I don't have time,
I don't have time, I don't have time.
Okay, I think that looks good.
Let me go wash my hands and I'll be right back.
♪ I want my baby back, baby back, baby back ribs. ♪
- So, I don't have enough time to make these ribs
in the oven or on a grill.
So, what I'm gonna do is use my Instant Pot.
I am so lucky that I have it.
(clicking lid)
(Instant Pot beeping melody)
Song.
Take this rack out that I have.
I'm gonna add some water, liquid smoke,
apple cider vinegar.
This is actually gonna help tenderize the meat
as it cooks in here.
We're gonna add our rack back,
and then we're just gonna place our ribs inside.
Gotta wash my hands.
(water running)
We'll place the top on.
(clicking of lid)
Seal the vent.
Pressure cook this for 25 minutes.
- Hitting a red light, that's good for Katie.
(upbeat guitar music)
- I'm already out of breath, it's terrifying.
I'll take our corn and we'll put it in a cast iron skillet.
And then I'm gonna just drizzle it with
a little bit of olive oil.
We'll add some salt for seasoning.
Make sure you get the seasoning on all the sides.
I'm gonna go place this uncovered in the oven
for about 15 to 20 minutes.
(upbeat music)
While that's in the oven,
I'm gonna make the mayo sauce that we'll brush on it
at the very end,
just so it's out of the way.
So, I've got some sour cream.
I'm gonna add a little bit of mayonnaise to that
and squeeze some fresh lime juice,
season with a little bit of salt
and mix this together.
I'm gonna set it off to the side
and we're going to start on the fries.
Let's do it.
Oh my God, I forgot.
I forgot chili powder in this.
Okay, so that's the mixture.
So glad we remembered that.
Let's move on to the fries for real.
- I'm about a mile away, almost there.
(upbeat music)
- Okay, I've got everything I need for the fries.
Just an update,
the Instant Pot is finally at pressure
and we've got 24 minutes on it.
I haven't heard from Chris yet,
so that's good, right?
- I am here. The Chili's sign is right there.
Oh my God, I'm parked.
- I thought it's only fair
that I make these fries from scratch.
First thing I gotta do, peel a potato.
My peeler isn't that sharp.
- Thank you so much. You have a good one.
(phone ringing)
- No, no, no, no.
Hello?
- Hey. So I-
- No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
- It is happening.
I have you on speaker phone here in the car
so the ribs can hear you.
- Just drive slow.
Drive slow.
I don't wanna even tell you where I'm at.
- I'm gonna be there soon though.
- Okay, I have to go.
- I love you.
- I love you too. I'm so scared.
Okay, bye.
Ah, okay.
I've got to peel this potato a lot faster.
Oh my God.
Maybe this was never doable.
How could I have thought this was doable?
Okay. Wow.
All right.
Let me cut this potato up here.
I'm going to cut a little bit off the bottom
and then I'm gonna cut him into slices.
Stack them.
Here you go.
Okay, what do I need? What do I need?
I need thongs.
(cutlery clashing)
For this special occasion,
Tasty got me a thermometer gun
so I can quickly take the temperature of something.
So we need it to be at 300, and I'm at 295.
I'm at almost 300.
So, we're just gonna go in.
Woo!
I'm trying to do a shallow fry
so that our oil didn't take too long to heat up
and is a little crowded, that's all right.
And I'm just gonna let these go for about four minutes.
While the first batch of fries is going,
I'm gonna make our barbecue sauce
that we're gonna brush on top of the baby back ribs.
I'm gonna hack a barbecue sauce
because I don't have time to make it from scratch.
So, I've got a brown sugar barbecue sauce
Chipotle in Adobo Sauce and chili powder.
And the last thing I'll add is a splash of orange juice.
And that'll just give it a nice tang.
I'm gonna set it off to the side
and we'll get our batch of fries out of here.
- Turning on the freeway.
- Oh yep, they feel tender
and they've got a slight color to them.
So, I'm going to take them out.
Let's see if I can speed this up with a fork.
Oh, they're coming apart.
Don't do that.
Maybe it just, nope.
I need something else.
Yeah.
I'm not moving fast enough.
Now I've got to get the heat up to 375.
I'm gonna season our potatoes with some salt.
Something's happening in the oven, I'll be right back.
(drawer screeching)
I think our corn may be close to done.
Just gonna give it a couple more minutes.
Let's check the time on temp on this.
Let's get these bad boys back in.
Woo!
Careful, gently.
Get this out of here.
What am I doing? What am I doing?
Corn, corn, corn.
I just got the corn out
and I put my oven to broil
because we're gonna have to broil those
as soon as they come out.
Ah! Ooh!
(pan sizzling)
I'm gonna brush this with our Mayo thing right now.
Chris is probably just having a great time.
♪ If I could eat my ribs ♪
Thongs!
♪ If I could eat them now ♪
Fries, fry faster.
I'm going to brush him with a little bit more Mayo,
sprinkle a little Cotija
and then my favorite, cilantro.
Let me put him here.
(gasping)
The Instant Pot is done.
The Instant Pot is ready.
Ah! (steam blowing)
Our fries look almost done.
I'm gonna start to take them out.
And now they're crispy enough that I can use my thongs.
Last thing we'll do is season them with some more salt.
And then I have some freshly ground pepper here.
Fries are done, fries are done.
- We're within four exits our apartment.
So, Katie is running out of time.
She's got about, by my calculation,
five minutes until I'm there.
- Ah!
Okay.
(lid clicking)
Ribs coming out, coming out.
Ooh!
Looks good.
Where's the barbecue sauce?
There's a barbecue sauce.
Oh my God, I might be able to do this.
He's not here yet.
Oh my gosh. Okay.
All right. Woo!
I'm gonna go put them in the oven to broil
and hopefully it's gonna give them a nice crispy top.
Okay. Thank you.
(metal clashing)
Everything's okay.
- Almost home.
- No.
- I just gotta park.
- Is that his car?
Is that his car?
(fast classical music)
(beeping) Ah!
- [Chris] Hello?
- No. I am...
Yeah. Okay.
- [Chris] I'm here.
- I know you're here.
Chris is here.
It's fine.
Guess what just came out?
Ah, it's hot.
- [Chris] Hello?
- Wait, let me plate it.
No, no, no.
(Chris singing)
I cannot believe the beep just went off
as soon as you opened the door.
- This looks fabulous.
You did an amazing job.
- Oh my God.
Okay.
- Oh my God!
- I cannot believe it was like a tie.
I mean, yeah.
Okay. - It was a tie.
- Let's see who wins with taste?
Let's put these plates side by side.
(upbeat music)
- I think they look amazing.
- Their corn obviously gets more char
mine did not get as much color,
but my fries I think look
a little bit more crispy than theirs.
- That's the thing,
I think your fries do look like they have
a little more crisp on them, so I like them.
Let's try Chili's first.
It's sweet, savory.
Let's try yours.
(upbeat music)
Mm.
Yours are tender and crispy.
Really good.
- Let's try their fries.
(upbeat music)
Mm.
- Nice.
- So, let's try mine.
I like how crispy mine are.
- I would give your fries the edge.
- All right, lastly, we have to try the corn.
Nice flavor.
Packs a cilantro punch.
Okay, let's try mine.
- Yours is really, really good
but theirs, the char I think takes it over the top.
They win on the corn.
- So, I win on the ribs and I win on the fries,
but Chili was on the corn.
- That's right.
- You can't win them all.
- But you can win two out of three.
- Woo!
- Katie, this was awesome.
- Yay, this was so fun.
- I love ribs and I love you.
(upbeat music)
Oh yes!
(upbeat music)