- Do you like when dad cooks?
(baby wailing)
(Daniel's voice drowned out by baby)
- Hi, I'm Daniel Dudley, and I'm a dad of two kids.
And today we're gonna decide if Super dad
or Supermarket has the best lasagna.
I spend a lot of time in the kitchen.
I am always cooking the things that have
not too many steps.
So it's burgers, it's steaks.
- [Daniel] You wanna help dad get groceries?
- Yeah.
- [Daniel] Let's go, come on.
You coming Maj?
First, got the ingredients out of the car,
kids helped me out.
They ran in, came in, ran in, got them.
(bags rustling)
Major, come here,
Maj.
Maj, are you gonna help us today?
(piano keys banging)
Guess not.
First thing that shocked me though,
and this has nothing to do with cooking,
was that
my daughters vocabulary has like, grown a lot.
So like, she's like, "cheese, basil."
I'm like, how do you know these words?
- Peppers, and, do you need cherries?
- [Daniel] Yeah, guess what we're gonna make?
We're gonna make lasagna
- Lasagna.
Mommy come here.
- [Daniel] No, mommy's not gonna make it this time,
it's gonna be me.
- Me?
- [Daniel] I'm me.
- Oh.
- [Daniel] Me, I'm gonna make it, dad is.
Are you nervous?
- No.
- [Daniel] Okay, cool.
And what are you doing?
I saw all the ingredients
and was very overwhelmed,
and there was so much cheese,
and so many different kinds of cheese.
I didn't know all this went into lasagna.
Thoughts?
- [Saoirse] Don't open
(Baby noises)
- [Daniel] Childproof.
I'm kind of nervous about the lasagna experience
because
I don't really pay attention to detail
too much.
Like I'll see a recipe and I'm like,
all right, I got this. And it's kind of the same way
when I'm building furniture too.
I'm like, ah, I got this.
Then I end up with a bunch of stuff
that I should've used and the thing falls apart.
That's what I'm afraid of,
when it comes to lasagna.
So the recipe that I
thought I was gonna use
was too many steps.
My wife's recipe,
too many steps.
So I Googled,
"easiest possible recipe for lasagna",
And I used that one.
The easiest part of the process
was the thing that like I know how to do,
like, I know how to brown meat.
Should I just break it up?
- [Wife] Are you asking me? - [Both] Yeah. Yeah.
- [Daniel] Look, I don't know.
- [Wife] Just cook it.
- [Daniel] This is not my lane.
It was debatable if I burned the meat,
I'm not sure.
I don't think I burned it,
but listen,
I'm not Bobby Flay.
I'm not Gordon Ramsey.
I'm me.
So it was like the meat, put the sauce in
that was super easy to do.
And I enjoyed that part
cause I knew what I was doing.
Saoirse.
We're gonna use the cheese in a couple minutes.
The next step was
mixing the egg
and cheese
and some other stuff.
When it came to the recipe,
Saoirse strengths in the kitchen,
she's very good at cracking eggs.
She's probably better than me
at cracking eggs.
Good work.
I want one of my kids to be on master chef junior
or like chopped junior or something like that.
So having them in the kitchen
was cool, but also somewhat frustrating,
because when it came to mixing
Saoirse doesn't want to stop mixing.
Can we do it together?
So my wife ended up helping me with some steps
until she didn't help me with any steps.
- [Wife] You're building it like a casserole,
like you've eaten lasagna.
- I don't make casseroles.
- [Wife] Yeah, but you've eaten it.
You've eaten it.
It's a thing that people do in the world.
They eat it.
- No, that's not true.
Her way of helping me was like,
I wanna make sure you don't kill us
with this lasagna.
(Baby crying)
Also I got two kids running around
trying to mess up my lasagna.
Or maybe they're not trying to mess up the lasagna
or maybe they were,
I don't know. I feel like there are a lot of things
rooting against me
the Pan,
my wife,
my kids. And then it was just me against the world,
You know?
- It's mine.
- I understand that it's yours,
but we gotta put the cheese on.
- No, no
oopsy
- [Daniel] It's okay.
It's okay.
No wait.
Okay. Now you can do that.
All right.
Put another one on.
All right.
Okay. Put another one on,
in the middle. Perfect.
Major, what are you doing?
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Boom.
Now we gotta put it in the oven. (screams)
All right.
That was an adventure.
Now it's time to get to lasagna that we're
actually going to eat tonight.
Frozen lasagna.
Lasagna you just pick up at the store.
That's my kind of lasagna.
Cause you just throw the frozen lasagna
right in there.
Just pulled them out of the oven,
and I think I burnt both of them.
Just letting you know how good of a cook I am
when it comes to this Casserole thing.
Dad's lasagna.
- [Saoirse] Yay.
- [Daniel] Right here.
Yeah. Lasagna that's right.
The container didn't look like it was something
that was supposed to go in the oven.
But thankfully,
I did it the right way.
All right, Saoirse here we go.
All right.
Two different lasagnas.
Got to eat one
and tell me which one you like better.
Okay.
- Ooh
- [Daniel] Saoirse,
(Baby crying in background)
do you like this one?
- No.
- [Daniel] Do you like this one?
- No, I eat it.
- [Daniel] Which one do you like?
Do you like this one or that one?
- [Wife] You okay?
You need a drink?
- [Daniel] Listen, I've watched so many
cooking shows.
I'm ready with the plating.
Did they say I didn't have good plating?
- The ingredients are there.
- [Daniel] It's legit.
- It's just,
Execution and plating,
maybe.
- They say I didn't have good plating?
I think my plating was great.
- [Daniel] So which one do you like better?
- The Stouffer's is tasty.
- [Daniel] Should I make lasagna again?
- No, probably not.
- [Daniel] This one is the one we made
and this one is from the grocery store.
- Oh
- You like the grocery store?
- Yes, I like the grocery store.
- Okay bear.
- [Daniel] You don't think at three years old
your kids can like just
crush your ego.
But man,
that hurt.
That's my baby.
It's my first born.
- [Daniel] Major, you like dad's lasagna, right?
(Baby noises)
Yeah. Dad's lasagna.
Major.
That's my guy, but he will eat anything.
He doesn't have all his teeth yet.
So, maybe my lasagna just felt good on his teeth.
Listen, you don't go to the Lakers game
to see me playing.
You go to see LeBron.
Alright. You don't go to the supermarket
to get my lasagna.
You go there to get their frozen lasagna.
That they've been making for years.
My takeaway from this experience is
that I really have to get my kids
to trust my cooking again.
Well, this time around
supermarket won,
but I'm still Super dad,
but I'll get you next time Supermarket.