- Wow. These are very similar.
Imma get drunk trying to figure this (bleep) out.
What's up y'all?
My name is Kwame Onwauchi
and today we're playing expensive taste tests with Cosmo.
So the game is pretty simple.
They're gonna put two items in front of me
and I have to guess which one is more expensive.
You already know I got expensive taste,
so this is gonna be easy.
The thing that I spend my most money on is my crib.
I have to live well.
I spend a lot of time here,
so I have to make sure it's nice and loosh.
Oosh (crew laughing)
(Upbeat jazzy music)
All right, so it looks like we got some Acai bowls here.
I mean, right off the bat,
this is definitely more expensive than this.
This looks like it was prepackaged.
These oats have been sitting on top of this.
It's frozen.
This one, there's a spoon in there,
so I know that this was probably made fresh today.
These oats just flow.
I don't gotta taste this.
This one is more expensive.
(bell dinging)
All right.
(Upbeat jazzy music)
All right, so we got some truffle chips
and I love truffle chips.
Let me give it the smell.
Oh, wait, wait.
Oh, man.
This chip looks more expensive
because it still has some of the skin on the outside.
So it's like rustic
and people like to pay more for rustic (beep),
but this one it's got more of a yellow tinge to it,
so I gotta taste it to see.
Okay. Okay, okay.
(crunching)
I'm gonna go with these.
(bell dinging)
All right.
Yeah, you can really taste the truffle in these, for sure.
This doesn't taste like truffles at all,
but they look like fancy chips.
(upbeat, jazzy music)
I think this is gonna be tough to see
which one is more expensive.
Cause expensive with hot sauce doesn't mean good.
I like my Louisiana style hot sauce, which is very cheap.
Oh wow.
All right.
So, this smells a little bit more aromatic.
Oh, that's good.
This one has a lot of aromatics,
like alliums, onions things, things that
when you put it in the pan you can smell it afterwards.
I can even see some herbs in here as well.
Oh, this one is thicker though.
This one is nice and thick and viscous,
but it does have a truffle undertone.
So I know this is the truff hot sauce
and this is definitely more expensive.
(Bell dinging)
All right, we got knives here.
Now this is a hard test because
cheap knives are actually very, very sharp.
It's not really the knife, you know, it's the chef.
You have to just sharpen your knives.
I feel a lot of pressure here right now.
I'll be honest with you.
I can't even identify these.
I'm gonna go with this knife because of the wooden handle.
(buzzer)
Oh, all right. I'm wrong.
I still like this knife though.
Wow. Sorry Ginzy, you've been chopped.
(Upbeat jazzy music)
Caviar. This is an easy one to tell.
You can tell by the beads in here
that this one is more expensive
and this is probably osetra caviar.
The caviar's just handled more delicately
but it actually comes from sturgeon.
Whether it's farm raised or I mean, wild is pretty illegal
but whether it's farm raised or wild,
the beads are intact, they're nice and robust.
This is probably some paddle roe American stuff
that does not really taste very good.
You can see these are really small and they're pasty.
There's like liquid all at the bottom of it.
You don't want to eat this.
I want to save this for later
when I have some creme fraiche and some bellinis,
but this is absolutely more expensive.
(bell dinging)
(Upbeat, jazzy music)
Simple water.
Give the water a smell.
Is one of these tap water?
Hmm. Let me try again.
(digital computer noises)
This is giving tap, for sure.
This is the good water.
(bell dinging)
All right.
(upbeat, jazzy music)
Chicken sandwich, Cosmopolitan edition.
This is definitely more expensive.
This bread was not made in house at all.
This is a very well put together sandwich.
This is not bad.
This isn't bad, but it's a little pedestrian.
This is definitely something
that was made with care and love.
So I think this is more expensive.
(bell dinging)
(Upbeat, jazzy music)
Damn, this is gonna be hard.
So I'm guessing there's mint inside of this, let me see.
It's got a nice alien green inside.
It was a little suspect.
Let me see this.
Oh, that was nice.
I think this is more expensive.
The quality of the chocolate is better.
I also like milk chocolate.
So this could be dark chocolate that's more expensive,
but I like milk chocolate.
Chocolate ganache is on the inside.
So I think that's a higher level of execution.
And the outside of the chocolate has no bloom on it.
This one is bloomed which means
there was water around this a lot.
Tell me if I'm wrong.
(buzzer)
Oh, god. - That(mumbles)more expensive.
All right.
I don't care, this is still my favorite.
So I'm buying this every single time.
(Upbeat, Jazzy music)
Oh man, I'm gonna do the swirl first
and see what lines come down.
Is there any legs in these wines?
So the legs are, you know,
when you slosh the wine around the glass
you can see the wine coming down
and the more body the wine has,
the more legs it will have
coming down on the side of the glass.
That doesn't necessarily mean more expensive
but I just wanted to see the difference
between the two and this one had more.
There's more viscosity to it.
(swishing sounds)
Wow, this is how you know the wine industry
is (bleep) outta their minds.
- [Woman] What are you tasting in them?
- I'm tasting notes of wine.
- [Woman] Some grapes, perhaps.
- Some grapes, dark fruit, chocolate, truffle chips.
I'm tasting for alcohol content, really.
Wow, these are very similar.
Imma get drunk, trying to figure this (bleep) out.
Man. They're both pretty oaky.
(sighing)
Damn, I really wanna say this,
but I'm gonna say this, this one.
(buzzer ringing)
It's this one, damn it, damn it.
I don't know, they taste pretty the same, honestly.
I wanted to go with this 'cause it had
more of a viscosity to it, more oak.
This one was not as oaky and it wasn't as hot
like in terms of alcohol content.
But yeah, I should have went with my gut.
Cause my gut did say this, but I failed.
But it's okay, 'cause I'm drunk.
How did I do?
I mean, I got three wrong outta nine.
Not terribly horrible, but also not great.
I don't drink a lot of chocolate.
I don't eat a lot of wine.
I'm drunk, okay?
Get my cookbook, My America.
It's gonna have all of your classic dishes
like oxtail and curry goat.
This is the version of what I grew up eating in America.
And I want you to have it too.
Let's get outta here.
(laughing)