- Can two amateur home cooks.
- Beat one professional chef in a cooking competition?
(intense music)
What's up, everybody?
I'm Nick from MasterChef Season 10.
I've been cooking since I was about eight or nine years old,
watching my grandmother and my great-grandmother,
and I always just loved it.
- Hey guys, I'm Spencer, I work at BuzzFeed.
I'm a home cook, and I won the very first
Amateur versus Professional Chef cooking competition.
- Hi, I'm Kayla, I work at BuzzFeed.
I am a sometimes cook, and I won the second
Amateur versus Professional Chef cooking competition.
And today, we are taking on a professional chef together.
We're teaming up.
We're gonna take him down.
- We're gonna try to.
- How's it going? - Hi!
- Nick, nice to meet you. - Kayla.
- Kayla, nice to meet you. - Hey, Spencer.
Nice to meet you. - Spencer, how's it going?
- We're ready to beat you, so,
just a heads up, we're gonna win.
- Wow, we're gonna start off like that.
- Spencer's feisty today! - Yeah,
I don't know what this challenge is.
All I know is we're cooking together
against you, a professional chef.
- Yeah.
- Tell us what the challenge is.
♪ Are are you ready ♪
♪ Ready ♪
♪ Are are you ready ♪
- [Spencer] Okay.
- Are you feeling good about that?
- I'm feeling great about that.
You look nervous.
- While I just always look nervous.
- I eat takeout all the time, so I feel like I'm gonna be
really good at this. - There we go.
The two of us together, - Yeah.
this is just like our challenge.
- I don't eat takeout.
- He's one of those guys.
- I'd wish you good luck but I don't want you to win, so.
- Great, best of luck, really. - Good luck, kind of.
- Pleased to meet you, I'll say.
- Yes, see you on the playing field.
- You're going down, bye. - See you later.
All right.
So, walking over, I see my two options,
it's fast food or it's poke bowl.
And right away, I'm thinking poke bowl.
I love fresh fish and I love rice,
so I think I can make something pretty wacky out of this.
There's a lot of weird assorted stuff in the fridge,
from white chocolate and dark chocolate chips,
all the way to eggs and different cheese,
so there's a lot of different things I could work with here.
I'm gonna get some oil, to fry.
I think that's good.
I think I'm gonna try to make a sushi burger.
I'm gonna break these down into their different parts,
so I'll have the rice and all the fish.
I'm gonna try out all these sauces
'cause it's good to give them a try
just to see what they are,
see if they could add
any different dimensions to the dish.
Because this is a competition
where we have to think outside the box,
I want to make something that's gonna leave them
questioning what they're looking at
but also, hopefully, give them something
that tastes delicious.
I think I may try to take that rice
and see if I can work with it,
on maybe frying it off to make a bun.
I'm not sure how that's gonna work,
so we'll see what happens.
- [Kayla] Oh, buddy.
- Okay, what are you thinking?
We walk over to the table
and I see a burger and fries and a shake.
And I have no idea what to make.
That's already a meal in itself.
How do we elevate that?
What do we do to that?
I thought my anxiety was at a 10 beforehand,
and now it's at a 15.
It's just through the roof.
Part of me wants to go dessert route
because it's unexpected
and then we can use the shake.
- I love a ground beef dessert.
- I hate you.
Let's see what else we have.
- Oh.
I opened up the fridge and I see bacon,
tomatoes, chocolate chips, cheese, butter,
basic fridge stuff I suppose.
Still, I had no idea what to do with any of that.
Check the cabinet, Spencer.
- Oh, condensed milk.
Then I see this can of condensed milk,
and I'm still thinking about the vanilla milkshake
and all the chocolate chips that are in the fridge,
and Rachael Ray has this awesome five minute fudge recipe
that I remembered from my childhood
because my mom and I used to make it together.
It's so simple.
It's literally just chocolate chips and condensed milk.
And I know you love bacon
and you used bacon in your meal last time.
So we could use some of that.
And I was thinking, okay,
well we have to use the french fries,
that'll be like the salty component with the bacon
and the vanilla shake can be like vanilla extract.
- Chocolate and bacon vibe together.
- They definitely do, like the salty-sweet combination.
- I was here for it.
- Okay.
- Sounds like a sweet route.
- I hate you so much.
(intense music)
- I have to be a little bit wary of the fact
that they both separately
won their competitions before in this.
So, they're both winners and they're teaming up here.
I have some competition to face.
- [Producer] Are you guys ready?
- Oh, yeah.
- Yeah, we're.
- No.
- [Spencer] And then what do we do?
- [Kayla] What am I saying?
- [Producer] Two, one, go!
- [Nick] All right, let's go.
- [Spencer] Okay, let's do this.
- Good luck, guys.
So the clock counts down, three, two, one,
and the first thing that happens isn't actually food.
The trash talking already starts.
So, it seems like it's gonna be
more of a trash talking, back and forth
than an actual cooking showdown.
- [Kayla] Making the bacon.
I bet Nick has never made bacon in his life.
- [Nick] I've made a lot of bacon.
- Yeah, that sounds fake.
He's a professional chef and I don't want to lose.
- Gotta get him off his game.
- So I think we have to
throw some shade at him, we have to trash talk him,
we have to be a little mean.
- Can't be nice in a competition.
Hey, Nick, do you need oil for bacon,
just out of curiosity.
- No, bacon has a lot of fat in it,
so, no, you don't.
You guys can ask one more question.
I'm not helping you after that.
I gave them one last question that I would answer
to help them through the competition,
and their question was
- [Spencer] How is it gonna feel
to lose to two amateur chefs?
- Is that your question?
They wasted it and that's totally fine.
I'm just gonna toast my sesame seeds over here
and mind my own business, you know.
- Okay, well, good luck with your little sesame seeds.
- I'm really good at cooking bacon.
Let's just test it.
(pan sizzles) Do you hear that?
- [Spencer] Love that sizzle.
- Oh, so good.
- They're cooking their bacon,
doesn't look like the pan's hot enough, either.
Not good.
- Should I turn it up? - No, don't listen to him.
Don't let him psych you out.
You've won with this bacon, so.
- I did pick up bacon with tongs in the last challenge.
- So don't even worry about what he's doing.
- Those were really good days.
- I definitely wouldn't turn up the heat on the bacon.
I'm tossing all these different tips at them
about their pan, and the heat of it for cooking their bacon,
and I think I'm getting in their heads a little bit.
How's your bacon looking over there?
- It's, like, so good.
- [Nick] Is it?
- This is probably the best bacon I've ever cooked, ever.
- You want me to teach you a trick over here?
- Yeah.
- One hand egg crack.
You do that ever?
- Oh, yeah, all the time.
Like in my spare time, before I go to bed.
- [Nick] Just go like that and then.
- I'm Nick, I'm cracking eggs with one hand.
- I think it's too hot.
- It's too hot?
- [Spencer] No, I've never made bacon before.
- You haven't made bacon before?
- I don't eat bacon.
- Is it too late to switch teams?
- Kayla wanted to switch teams, all of a sudden,
after she trash talked me a bunch,
so it was too late for that.
How are you gonna taste your food?
- I mean, I can eat it.
- Have you guys just only touched the bacon so far?
- We only have one thing, - Yeah we have.
- but also the fudge,
we need the bacon to be done to incorporate.
- It looks good. - I was just gonna see,
if I could get one chocolate chip in Nick's pan from here.
- Kayla was trying to throw chocolate chips
into my frying oil, which would have probably ruined it.
I'm just letting them do their thing,
and they can get distracted all they want.
- And if it gets in, you have to keep it there.
I hope you get it in.
- [Kayla] Aw, dang it!
- And you missed.
- Wait, my bacon is burning!
The bacon was burning while we were doing that,
so really, it was a distraction on ourselves
and we owned ourselves.
- A self-sabotage. - Yeah.
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He was flouring over there.
He was like, pat, pat, flour, flour.
I was like.
- I'm actually a little worried about the rice
holding together with my buns for my sushi burger,
but I love trying new things and kinda just going for it,
so if this doesn't work, I'll figure it out.
- Rachael Ray's recipe calls for a mixture
of regular, semisweet--
- [Nick] Why are you guys following
Rachael Ray's recipe, though?
- 'Cause Rachael Ray is the queen of 30 minute meals!
I don't need this trash talking,
my favorite Food Network star is over here.
- The whole point is to make your own dish.
The key to winning this
is gonna be sort of figuring out
your own thing to do with this
and they're over there
focusing on Rachael Ray, her recipes,
so I don't know what's gonna happen with that.
- And we're adding bacon and French fries to it.
- Rachael Ray did this.
- I'm, you know what, a great chef steals from other people.
- That's not true.
(Kayla laughing)
- We're getting owned.
- [Spencer] We won't do the whole thing in this.
Should I coat the fries in the leftover bacon grease?
- [Kayla] Oh, yeah, dip 'em.
- Frying their fries in the bacon fat a little bit.
That's clever, that's professional chef stuff.
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My buns are in,
but I don't know what's gonna happen
when they come out, so.
- That's what she said. - They're gonna burn.
- [Nick] It's a big waiting game.
- [Kayla] What are we doing?
- Oh, you're coming over here?
- [Kayla] Yeah, I just wanted to see.
- Kayla ran over to my station
and was trying to mess me up a little bit.
These are my buns over there,
inside there, that are being fried.
And I'm just chopping up this,
why are you laughing?
- Don't look when you're chopping!
You're gonna chop your fingers off!
Oh, god, nevermind.
Oh my gosh!
- [Spencer] Not that bad, right?
- [Kayla] No!
- What if we just made the best dessert in the world?
- Honestly, I would take full credit.
- I did the can in plastic wrap,
just because then we can take it off
and it will easily slide off.
Thank you.
- Here's one little crumb.
- It was laying on the table.
- I threw it on the floor.
- You're like, it's not cooked.
- No, it's good, actually.
I like it.
- Nick comes over, leaves his station unattended,
and I'm like,
now's my time to give the ultimate distraction.
Oh, I have a game, while we wait.
You guys just stay over there
and I'm gonna try to get 'em in your mouths.
Let's take this back to elementary school
and see if I can toss chocolate chips in your mouth.
Killed at least two and a half minutes.
Who knows what was happening to his food.
Your patties are gonna burn.
- That was great sabotaging
and I think that he burned his stuff, so.
- I don't think I'm gonna take it easy on these two
just 'cause they're so confident
in their abilities right now,
and I have to really just drive it home.
I'm gonna give it all I've got.
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- [Spencer] It looks really nice.
- [Kayla] Those are really pretty.
- You guys are so nice all of a sudden.
- But really, I think we need to get the judges in here
'cause that's the way we'll really find out who won.
Us, but. - They have the final word.
- Let's do it, let's go.
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- Oh, it's warm.
- I'm seeing some seeds here at the top.
I'm gonna go ahead and dive right in.
(cheerful music)
- So good!
- That is banger, that's on the money!
- It does look like a lot of cooking techniques
and hard work was put into this
but I am not a fan.
- I would definitely eat like, three of these.
I don't know if I'm allowed to eat all these, but.
- If I'm gonna be totally honest,
this kind of looks a little bit like a poo platter.
- Not looking too great.
- Okay, here we go.
- Somehow this is worse.
- I see what they were going for.
- Very sweet!
But I'm not mad about it, I'm really not mad about this.
- Sweet and salty is definitely a popular combo.
The French fries and bacon, a little off-putting,
but hey, we do what we can.
- I would have to say dish number one is my favorite.
- I'll definitely have to go with this option.
- I'm definitely gonna go for the first dish I tried.
- I thought the buns were really innovative,
I love rice, rice is my life.
- All the ingredients compliment each other well.
- The seeds that he put on top
added a little bit of extra crunch
on top of the already crisp
that you get from the rice patty.
I can't say enough about this thing.
Clear winner right here.
- [Producer] In this competition,
Amateur Chefs versus Professional Chef
Takeout Challenge,
the winner is, can I have a drum roll, please?
(table thuds)
- What?
- Oh, oh!
- No. - It's obviously him.
It's very clear that you are a master chef
and we are the amateurs.
Two heads are not better than one, we couldn't do it.
But that's great for you.
Well done.
- Thank you.
- I'm just gonna go cry a little.
- [Nick] We'll have to fight, we'll have to battle again.
- [Spencer] Yeah, no, we'll do this again
and we won't have to cook using fast food next time.
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