- Hi, my name is Yonas.
I'm eight years old
and today I have two chefs competing
to make my dream dish.
(robotic noises)
(intense music)
- Hey Yonas. - Hello.
- I'm Alexis. - Nice to meet you.
- And I'm Betsy.
- Nice to meet you.
- We heard you really like robots.
- Yeah, I love robots.
- And that you like to build robots.
And so, what do you think your robot would eat?
- Bolts, nuts, and oil.
- I've done this several times before and at this point,
I don't really take what they say they want,
as what they actually want.
It seems like you know a lot about tools.
- [Yonas] Yeah, I know a lot.
- [Alexis] I have a feeling you know a lot more than me.
- I think so.
Yeah, that's probably true.
- [Alexis] Yonas built a robot and he's eight
and I don't know anything about robots so.
- Yonas has definitely accomplished
more things in life than I have yet.
Okay, so besides nuts and bolts and motor oil,
what else would a robot need?
- [Yonas] Wires to get the electricity.
- [Alexis] So the nuts and bolts seemed pretty simple,
but when he started drawing the wires, I was like,
"This is starting to veer off a little bit."
I might have maybe missed it, but what is this thing?
- [Yonas] That's the bowl.
This is the bolt.
- Oh, it's a bolt.
Amazing.
- Okay.
- That's super helpful.
- [Yonas] And he has to solder them together
to get electrocuted.
- Solder's a pretty big word for eight.
When I was eight, I think I was playing outside
and playing with my dolls.
- Would he eat something like this with a spoon?
- He would use his bare hands and be like
- Oh, good to know.
What types of foods do you like to eat?
- I love eating a burrito and I love eating Mexican food.
- Do you like sweet food?
- I love candy.
I love cake.
I love anything sweet.
- [Alexis] How high are your expectations?
- Not that high. - Okay.
- It's pretty high, probably.
- Pretty high, cool.
- This is gonna be a lot harder than I thought.
(robotic noises)
- Can we high five?
(laughs)
(intense music)
Here's my plan.
For the bowl, I'm gonna create a tortilla bowl,
so it's actually going to be edible.
Then, I'm gonna add in some ground beef,
some rice, and some refried beans.
Then, I'm going to add some avocado,
some cilantro, and a little bit of lime.
For the nuts, I'm actually going to create
a nut shape out of a tomato slice.
For the bolts, I'm going to use a one inch round of corn
and poke it with a skewer.
For the wires, I'm going to spiralize a cucumber
to create a wire-like effect.
And for the motor oil, I'm going to create a basic queso,
which he can pour over the entire dish.
There was a lot.
There was a lot going on in my dish, yeah.
- So, here's my plan.
For the motor oil, I'm going to make a hard caramel
and dye it black, so it'll go all over the plate.
For the nuts and bolts,
I'm gonna make a really simple cookie,
maybe put some Jolly Ranchers in it,
so it can get the smeared look.
For the wires, I'm gonna have red and blue Jolly Ranchers
melted that I can stick in the caramel
and then I'll also do some caramel threads,
so it'll be like a pile of wires.
(upbeat music)
Oh, I did print out a wrench.
- That wasn't in his drawing though.
- Yeah, but I just wanna take it there.
Maybe it'll be just be
nuts and bolts. - Go the extra mile.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - I understand.
I understand.
I definitely consider myself as a kid at heart.
- Betsy's maybe one of the loveliest people I've ever met
and she's really good with kids.
I think in a way that is
much more developed than what I know.
- I'm gonna make a tortilla bowl,
similar to his drawing here.
I'm going to use a mixing bowl, flip it over,
and place the tortilla on top.
Then, I'm going to top the tortilla
with the same size mixing bowl.
We're gonna put that in the oven
at 400 degrees for 15 minutes.
- Have you made a burrito bowl before?
- Nope. - [Alexis] Cool.
- Nope.
(laughs)
I appear to be very confident, but on the inside,
I'm definitely very nervous.
I am literally already sweating so much.
- [Alexis] Oh my god.
- Anyone who knows me,
knows that I can get a little competitive.
You know, I'm here to win.
Now I'm gonna make the filling.
I'm going to sauté some onions and garlic first
until the onions become translucent
and the garlic becomes fragrant.
Then, I'm gonna add in a pound of ground beef
and some taco seasoning.
- Betsy's playing into Yonas' love of Mexican food,
which I think is really smart.
But, I think it'd be pretty rare for a kid
to choose something savory over sweet.
So, for my cookies, I've got soften butter and some sugar
and I'm just going to combine those
and just get it into a really smooth consistency.
Next, I'm going to add the egg.
Again, combine it.
And then, I'm just gonna sift in a few cups of flour.
Sifting the flour is gonna help eliminate any lumps
and get a really smooth batter.
I'm gonna pop this in the refrigerator.
- Today, I'm gonna make a robot out of a piece of paper.
I think I'm gonna name him Bob.
(upbeat jazz music)
This is Bob, but he's made out of paper.
That's why his name is Paper Bob.
(robotic noises)
Did you hear that?
(robotic noises)
- I'm gonna move onto the bolts now.
I'm going to season a few ears of corn.
I'm gonna cut these into one inch rounds
as the head of the bolt.
- Yeah!
- I have a ridged cast iron to kind of give some
of that grilled charred effect on the corn.
I'm gonna brush each round with some herbed butter,
just some butter, garlic, salt, pepper,
and some chopped cilantro.
- So, I'm gonna separate these Jolly Ranchers
into blue and red because he was talking
about the blue and the red wires.
I'm gonna melt the Jolly Ranchers
and then whisk them into, you know, threads.
Strings.
Fire.
What did he want?
This, this is what I'm doing.
Now that it's melted I can just drizzle it back and forth
over a greased parchment paper sheet
and they're gonna harden really fast
and I can peel them right off.
Stick it in the caramel.
- Oh wow, it looks cool.
- [Alexis] It's like a little weird, but-
- [Betsy] It smells weird, but it looks really cool.
(laughs)
- [Alexis] It smells really weird too.
I have a few of these round cookie cutters
and I think I can just make them into hexagons
to represent the nuts.
- [Betsy] How many sides is a hexagon?
- Six.
(clock ticking)
Wait, this is not right.
One, two,
oh yes! - That's an octagon.
That's an octagon, so be careful.
- Okay, so, one, two-
- And then three, four, five, six.
I do want to beat Alexis,
but I also love Alexis and want to help her.
So, it's not a stop sign.
- Not a stop sign.
So clearly, trying to cut out the shape just by memory
is not going well, but I think I have an idea.
I'm gonna draw it out and make myself a stencil.
Yeah! - That's great.
That looks good.
- [Alexis] Making the stencil, total game changer.
Look at this cute little wrench.
It's so cute.
Do you want some of this dough?
- Oh yes, absolutely.
Does it have egg in it?
- Yes.
- Great.
- I have eaten raw dough my whole life
and nothing has happened to me.
- Same.
- Let's hope I don't jinx it. - Don't do this at home.
So now that my cookie shapes are finished,
I'm gonna place a Jolly Rancher in the middle of the nuts,
so that when it melts,
it looks like this cool stained glass kind of thing.
I'm gonna bake them at 350 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes.
Betsy, check these out.
- Oh, they look great.
- Thanks!
Isn't that cool?
- I love it.
I love it.
Brown or white?
What are you thinking?
- I think white.
- [Betsy] I'm just gonna take a cup of rice
and a cup of water, mix those together real quick
and throw it in the microwave for six minutes.
It's the easy way out.
Another part of the filling is the refried beans.
I'm making those super simple, just taking some from a can.
We're gonna heat that up in a sauce pan
and then maybe add a teaspoon of water
to ensure that the beans don't dry out.
Going into this I really thought that
I was gonna lean more towards the sweet side.
I tend to be a lot more confident
when it comes to making desserts.
- That's so funny.
I feel much more confident with savory foods
and sweet food I'm like, "eh."
- Now for my favorite part, the motor oil, which is queso.
Wow I have a lot of things going on.
It's going to be a very basic queso,
three ingredients: American cheese, milk,
about a half a cup, and just for some added flavor,
I'm gonna add in a little bit of taco seasoning.
I gotta make sure it's good.
(upbeat music)
That's good.
- Moving onto my motor oil,
I'm going to add sugar and water to a pan
and bring it to a boil over high heat.
- Caramel is hard.
And I put a little bit of corn syrup in here too.
Corn syrup is an inverted sugar, so it doesn't crystallize.
Now that my motor oil, or caramel, is at a dark amber color,
I'm just gonna add a few drops
of food coloring to make it black.
I've never dyed caramel.
Oh my god.
This is black.
- But that's what you want.
- I know.
It just looks so crazy.
- For my wires, I'm using a spiralizer.
- [Alexis] Amazing.
- I want them to be thinner, but I can't move this.
All right, I'm just gonna own it.
- [Alexis] Own it. - Okay.
They're more like ribbons than wires.
- Like a pile of wires.
- It makes me kind of wanna like-
He's gonna be like,
"What is that?"
If this is the reason why I don't win,
then I'm gonna be so upset.
- [Alexis] Can I just pour it straight on here?
- [Betsy] Wow, that looks cool!
- Oh no, oh no, my caramel is melting
into the other caramel.
Bad idea.
Abort, abort mission, abort.
Okay, this is not the plan.
The Jolly Ranchers are melting into the caramel.
I should've waited a few more minutes,
but then maybe it would've hardened.
I kind of wanted to do caramel threads with this.
So this is really hard caramel
that's going to harden really fast,
but if I take a fork and pull up some of the caramel,
I can actually pull it into a thread.
I'm just gonna keep doing this
so I get this kind of pile of wires,
or caramel threads, on top of the cookies.
- [Betsy] I'm going to now slice a tomato
using a serrated knife into a hexagon shape.
To hollow out the center of each nut,
I'm going to use a piping tip.
- I hope they don't put tomato in there,
'cause I don't like tomato.
It's slimy like a slug.
He doesn't like tomato.
Even if I made him a paper tomato, he won't like it.
- Oh no. - Oh no, what?
- The queso is so hard.
Oh no, ew.
No, no, no, no.
Now my confidence is starting to plummet.
- The joy is that we're both having issues.
This cookie has melted into the caramel also.
I'm making so many mistakes!
I feel like season one was my season.
Season two, what's happening?
- [Betsy] Oh, it's coming back to life guys.
Not all is lost.
- I think I should just stop while I'm ahead.
- [Betsy] We both have very different.
- [Alexis] Are these the most different dishes we've had
in the history of I Draw, You Cook?
- I'm really excited to see Yonas' reaction.
- Me too.
Let's bring them to him and see what he thinks.
- All right.
(upbeat music)
I really surprised myself.
I am really proud with the dish
that I am about to deliver to Yonas.
So my dish might not look exactly like the drawing,
but it has all the elements.
I even have cheese motor oil and what's better than that?
At the end of the day, I think I did a pretty good job.
- This isn't exactly how I envisioned
this dish in my head to begin with, but I actually love it.
I think it looks so weird and cool.
The motor oil looks great.
The wires are so cool and he's got all the tools there.
The stained glass cookies look amazing.
I wanna eat them myself.
It totally matches the drawing.
Please like it.
(dramatic music)
- Let's eat.
I think this is Mexican food.
I don't know what this is.
This is just dough.
It looks cool I don't care.
It's going very slowly.
Goop.
- [Betsy] I was getting a little nervous
when he finally discovered the queso.
It obviously doesn't look exactly like motor oil,
but it seemed like he was really having fun
interacting with the dish.
- It's good.
- [Producer] What's it taste like?
- Corn.
This tastes like a lime.
A little bit worse than a lemon.
I love it.
It's the best thing ever.
- [Producer] There's something in that bowl
I noticed you haven't tried yet.
- Tomato.
- [Betsy] Wait, did he just spit something out?
Oh my god.
It's the tomatoes.
Honestly, when I was eight, I didn't like tomatoes either.
- I like the corn.
I like the meat.
I like the thing.
I like everything.
- [Betsy] Yonas may not have liked the tomatoes,
but I'm still feeling pretty confident.
If that's the only thing he really didn't like,
I can't really see the tomatoes being a deal-breaker.
- This is amazing!
This is probably the motor oil.
I think these are the bolts and the nuts, like here.
It's so detailed.
- [Alexis] I feel like Yonas' enthusiasm is
boding very well for me.
- Is this a noodle?
Like a raw noodle?
Is this a T?
- [Alexis] Apparently I need to step my bolt cookie game up.
- This is amazing!
This is one of the goodest cookies
I've ever tasted in my life.
This is cool.
It's like a raspberry, blue raspberry heaven.
I think this is just sugar.
Is that my tooth?
Oh, no that's fine.
This is too hard for me to get out.
- [Alexis] It is edible.
My confidence is going up.
He keeps saying how much he likes it.
He's saying it's amazing.
It's delicious.
Let's see.
(upbeat music)
- [Betsy] Hey Yonas. - Hello.
- [Alexis] Hey Yonas.
- Are you stuffed?
- Yes.
- Which was your favorite?
- The Mexican dish or the cookie dish?
- The cookie dish.
(gasps)
- That's mine.
- That was amazing!
(laughs)
Chef Alexis, here is my drawing.
- Oh my god Yonas, thank you so much!
Ah, here we are again.
Honestly, it's good to be back.
- I'm really disappointed.
Obviously, I'm so happy for Alexis.
As a famous robot once said,
"I'll be back."
(robotic noises)
(upbeat jazz music)