- This look like torture.
(dramatic note of music)
(Alandio laughs)
- If you find a Jamaican man,
who is saying he can't cook, him is not a Jamaican man.
(reggae music)
- Hi, I'm Adreyn
and today I'm tasting other Jamaican men's jerk chicken.
- There's only a certain way
you can actually cook jerk chicken.
- Either on coal or wood fire.
- It's not, it's not an oven thing,
has to be in a dry pan with fire coal.
- Kind of difficult to make jerk chicken here in London.
My jerk chicken was basically,
it was oven roasted, sadly. (Bradley chuckles)
- If it goes in the oven, that's baked chicken.
Come on. Let's be real. (Orain laughs)
- Just use natural, natural herbs like a pimento.
- Ginger.
- And garlic.
- A scallion.
Stab the top, and make sure it sink in
and marinade it for the night.
- It can not marinade for too long.
Soaked to the bone.
Sometime in Jamaica, we would just sprinkle it with-
- The Red Stripe beer,
and wet up the chicken when it enter the drum.
- This is this is why we call it jerk chicken.
You know, it's done the hard way.
(Alandio laughs)
- There is no other way.
- If you find a Jamaican man who are saying he can't cook,
him is not a Jamaican man.
- My jerk chicken, out of 10?
(ticking)
Well, I have to give that one a 10, still.
Swear down, honestly.
(calm reggae music)
- Maybe it might be better than what the other men
might cook, but I mean, yeah, so.
(whip sounds)
- Oh my days.
Oh.
- So I might be a little bit wrong,
but this look like it do it inna the oven.
Which is fine, some people can do it like that.
- This looks like torture.
(Alandio laughs)
Bro, look at that.
No, no, sir.
Poor thing.
And look, this side don't get no burn at all.
(crickets chirping)
- I mean, it is chicken, but
- Them definitely never use no Red Stripe beer.
Me Jamaican, I'm amused man.
(calm reggae music)
It is okay.
- It don't look so good,
but it tastes all right.
- It is nice.
- Jerk chicken have to have a kick.
Like it have a spicy.
I don't know.
It's all right.
Can eat.
Five. (bell dings)
- A five for effort. (bell dings)
- For the taste and flavoring,
Definitely was a six (bell dings)
(soothing reggae music)
For this time, I did mine overnight,
so I could get the bone marinaded nice.
So that will make a big difference.
I mean, you must taste everything in the bone.
(whip sounds)
(soothing reggae music)
- All right, all right.
- The presentation is good.
- First of all, big up for the sauce.
- Me never do that.
Good by you.
- Yeah, and it look like it was cooked through
'cause me not trying to get no salmonella.
- I wanna have this one right now.
- Looks good.
- Yeah, man. That's bad.
- It kind of bland. (record scratch)
It's very bland.
- I like it, it's nice.
It's soft and juicy.
And that's what you wanna have in jerk chicken.
You don't want it to be too dry or too burned,
or, you know what I mean?
Too trashy.
This one is soft and nice
- The chicken is moist though.
The chicken is very moist, which is good.
- You can taste the smokiness of the chicken as well.
He used a grill and ting, so yay.
- I like this one, so yeah.
- Mm-hm.
(plate slides)
- I'll give this one a seven. (bell dings)
- Me, I give it a five. (bell dings)
- Give it a 10, straight 10. (ta-da music)
Keep it up. This is bad.
(soothing reggae music)
- [Producer] Did you put anything special in it, or?
- Oh, that one is not for the camera.
Just saying.
(Orain laughs)
(whip sounds)
- Well, it does look good.
- Me like it.
It look very good.
- Okay, it looks like I lost this one here.
- A ketchup, that?
No, no, no, they put on it.
they put something on it.
- This look good.
And the sauce, look like some real jerk sauce on it.
Or a sweet and soy sauce.
- I still don't believes that none of them people
use the Red Stripe beer for wet up the chicken.
I don't believe it.
(soothing reggae music)
- This tastes zesty.
It take the sting.
- This is good.
- This thing is all right.
The chicken itself is done right.
Boy, gonna show me up.
(Bradley laughs)
My jerk chicken, never say like this one
This show me up to the one.
- Like I said, you soak the bone.
'Cause, you know, some people jerk chicken,
you can see blood in the bone,
it isn't jerk chicken.
- Season ain't spicy.
- And the pepper, it's under control.
I feel the pepper.
I'll give this an eight. (bell dings)
I'll give this a solid eight.
Or eight point five. (bell dings)
I'd rather give an eight point five.
- Now it look like this one might be mine.
So I'll give us one a
eight five.
- Mmm. This is (mumbled)
This is closer to what I expect from jerk chicken.
Than the other two when we eat.
This is good. I like it.
I mean, I give it a seven. (bell dings)
(soothing reggae music)
I grew up in a Jamaican family so everybody can cook.
It's all in the grill and the Heineken beer, yeah.
(Adreyn makes a fizzing sound)
(whip sounds)
- Oh
Jesus!
(Alandio laughs)
(Alandio slaps the table)
Should I taste this one? No.
Should I taste this one?
- Okay.
- This one looked like it get a bit burns.
There!
- This one have been to the fire.
Look at this one, now.
You can see this?
- It's a big rotted piece of chicken. Hey.
- I need to cut up a little piece of chicken, I'm afraid.
No, seriously, I need to cut it up.
If it's easy not a chewing piece,
cut you a chewing piece, and that's all right.
- It smells, it smells smoked.
The man blackened and puts it on some fire.
- I don't know where I'm gonna find a flavor
'cause I don't see what's going on.
Jesus.
(Alandio laughs)
- I can see a little pink in there, now, really.
Try a part that look like it cannot cook.
It goes.
All right. Um. Mmm.
This is actually-
- The meat is cooked, but it's bitter.
- It is nice. It's properly seasoned as well.
It tastes like jerk chicken.
This is definitely from the pan based on the damage
that's been done to the chicken on the outside, well, yeah.
- Too bitter.
It's too bitter.
- Sorry. I'm going to, yeah.
- I cannot taste a flavor.
I really can't taste the flavor in this.
- It normally to have the flavor, the jerk,
I'm not bashing you.
That is your style of jerk chicken
and continue doing what you're doing.
- It's nice jerk. It's properly jerk.
I mean, that sauce.
and this one could go out far away.
I don't see the smoke
and if anybody go at any jerk restaurant
and get this, they'll never go back.
They'll probably hand it back
and tell them to keep the money. They want nothing.
- I'm sorry, I give this a three, as I said.
(whomp whomp noises)
- I'd say a six point five for this one. (bell dings)
(whomp whomp noises)
- A two, seriously.
(triumphant notes)
- It's a good feeling. Honestly,
I brought a lot of effort into that, so
I did a lot of tastes
and I even got burned.
- I just came in with some oven roasted chicken, you know?
So, boy. Congrats to him, it's still the same way
it will be cooked and served.
- Oh boy. Well, okay, never win, but-
What's new? I try anyway.
- But really feel like some of them people
need buy a new tongue.
So my jerk chicken wasn't the best,
only need a new tongue. Me don't believe it.
(soothing reggae music)