- Can an NFL player-
- beat a kid chef?
Probably not.
(hip hop music)
Hi, I'm Donovan,
and I was on season five of Masterchef Junior.
- Do you think you've got what it takes
to become America's next Masterchef Junior?
- Totally.
I've been cooking for six years,
and I think I can beat whoever I'm against tonight.
- I'm Dean Marlowe, I play for the Buffalo Bills.
(tackling)
(whistle blowing)
I'm no professional chef.
I like to cook at home.
I appreciate the culinary art aspect.
- Are you ready to get cooking?
- Yeah.
- Ready to go?
I'm a little nervous going up against you.
- You should be.
(hip hop music)
- I think breakfast foods are easy.
It's one of the first foods I learned how to make.
(laughing)
- Put breakfast cereal in your dish.
That's difficult.
- Cereal, I don't have a lot of ideas on how I can use it.
- I don't know what to do.
(laughing)
But I'm going to do something.
Good luck.
- Good luck.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, you better be ready.
- The first thing I see when I open the doors
is three avocados.
The first thing that goes into my mind is avocado toast.
I need some cilantro because I'm going to make
a little salad with the
tomatoes and onion, and some olive oil.
The avocados, since it's avocado toast,
they need to be on the bread
and an egg to go on top.
And bread for the toast.
So when I looked at the cereals,
I was trying to find something that
didn't have a lot of flavor.
I can make it into the avocado toast more sneakily.
Let's do this.
- Let's check out what's in this fridge.
When I opened up the refrigerator, I seen
bread, avocado, onions, eggs, spinach.
If I can mash up some avocado,
boil some eggs, mash them together,
make an avocado egg toast.
Sprinkle some cereal on the top,
some Apple Jacks 'cause the color,
so it might look nice.
With this avocado egg toast that I'm going to make,
I think it'll be pretty good.
It'll be a weird concnction that people will try.
So we'll see how it's going to taste.
- I saw Dean had basically the same ingredients as me.
- He's making the same thing I'm making and he's
just going to make it look bad.
(rock music)
- All right.
- I think the key to winning
is focusing on what I'm doing, because
I don't want to get pressured
if I see him
making something that looks better.
(knife chopping)
- I heard his knife and board like sounds of a chef.
When I hear that, I'm like,
he's doing some work over there.
(slow music)
- At one point, I looked over and he was cutting the onions.
It was a bit different than mine.
- Donovan was in his sanctuary.
He was not worried about me.
He was focused on his prize,
and I was more worried about him than I was
worried about making my own dish.
(laughing)
(upbeat music)
- [Donovan] Do you want the half of the lemon?
- Oh yeah, that would be great. That would be great.
- He seemed that he was struggling a decent bit.
I gave him half of my lemon.
- As much as we were against each other,
he was also looking out for me.
- Would you give me any advice about this certain dish?
- I don't really want to because then you might win.
(laughing)
- He was serious, but joking at the same time.
- What kind of music do you listen to?
- Rap.
- Rap?
Who is your favorite artist?
- I like Boogie Wit Da Hoodie.
- Hey, Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, who else?
- Lil Skies.
- Lil Sky?
- Yep.
- Who's that?
Who's Lil Sky?
Man, I know a lot of Lils,
but I don't know who Lil Sky is.
(upbeat music)
- What kind of egg do you call that?
- A poached egg.
- I've heard of poached eggs,
but I've never actually seen someone cook the poached egg.
- I poached the egg because my favorite part
about a good avocado toast is the runny yolk.
I just think it pulls the dish together.
- I'm making boiled and mashing it.
Mashing it in the avocado.
- [Donovan] Oh, that's actually a good idea.
- [Dean] Is it?
- I think the hard boiled was a better idea
since he mashed it.
You don't want the runny yolk and stuff
when you're mashing the egg.
And he put it in the avocado,
which I thought was unique.
- So this is something easy for you.
The way you even hold it on the knife.
He got in my head.
- I'm starting to plate now.
He doesn't seem like he's
incredibly far in his dish.
He was still mashing his eggs and avocados.
- I think I'll be done in ten minutes.
I've gotta step my game up.
(rock music)
- So I looked over at Dean's station
and he was picking the green Apple Jacks
out of the box,
which was kind of weird I guess.
- Mine looks like a toddler made this.
- His food, visually,
doesn't look that appetizing.
Everything on his plate was green.
That kind of looked weird.
- His looked like a 37 year old,
15 year Pro Chef
just made that.
So we're going to ask the judges to come down
and see whose tastes better, not looks better,
because we know whose looks better.
(upbeat music)
- It tastes really good.
- A nice poached egg.
- That's good seasoning.
I kind of want like a little more salt,
just because it's so fatty with the egg
and the avocado, but it's really good.
- I like the layers of flavors and the colors
that they have going on.
Pretty sold.
- This one looks like St Patrick's Day.
- It's actually not bad.
- It's actually kind of interesting.
- It's kind of perplexing, to be honest.
I don't know what I'm eating.
I'm confused.
- Cinnamon is a nice sort of touch
to put to something that is normally savory.
- This is kind of those dishes that
you've got to do a little bit of thinking about.
I think I would like Apple Jacks
served normally as well.
- Out of the two dishes, the first one
was definitely the best.
It looked like something I could pay for
in a restaurant and I was pleased to eat it.
- As much as I love the first one,
and it is something that I would normally go for,
the second one, I have to give it points for creativity.
So my winner would be
the green circle Cheerio avocado toast.
- After a wild adventure of avocados,
bread and mysterious green objects,
number one was just solid all around.
Got color, got taste, has texture.
Number one is my favorite.
(dramatic music)
- [Camera Person] In this food competition,
NFL player versus Kid Chef,
the winner goes to..
(drum roll)
(rock music)
(applause)
- I want to taste it.
- It's not bad.
I just don't like the Apple Jacks.
- [Dean] This is good.
This is something like on a Bart's menu.
(rock music intesifies)