Oh.
I'm the chef that loves a challenge.
Oh, no!
This is a toy.
A marshmallow explosion.
Oh, this is smoking.
I smell something burning.
Standby.
(happy music)
Welcome back to Chef Out of Water.
I'm Alexis, a chef who's always up for a challenge.
That's why I've taken to the internet
for you to decide what I should cook with next.
At the end, there'll be a surprise guest
who will have to guess what I used
to make the meal.
I don't know who I'm cooking for
and they don't know what appliance I'm using,
so let's get to it.
An Easy Bake Oven?
(popping)
Um, this is crazy.
There's like not even a full inch of space.
My hand is bigger than this tray.
This is a joke.
As a kid, I dreamt about having an Easy Bake Oven,
and no my dream is my nightmare.
- [Producer] I have something else to add for you,
by the way.
Oh, no.
- [Producer] You need to make three after-school snacks.
Okay.
It's gonna be fine.
I think I have a plan.
We'll see if it works.
(pleasant music)
For the first course, I'm going to make a personal pizza.
To make it really delicious, I'm gonna start off
making my own dough, so I've got my warm water,
gonna sprinkle some yeast over it and let it bloom.
Meantime, I'm gonna whisk my sugar, salt,
and olive oil.
This is gonna be a really simple, quick pizza dough.
You can tell when the yeast is blooming
because it'll start to bubble a little.
Yeast looks foamy and good, gonna add that to the oil
and add in the flour.
I just had the thought that pizza usually
cooks at really, really high temperatures.
The internet told me this only gets to 350
so pizza dough might be a bad idea.
Maybe if I rolled the dough out super thin?
Gonna let this rise in this oiled bowl.
While my pizza dough rises,
I'm gonna get started on my next course
because it's gonna take a long time.
(splashing)
For my next course, I'm going to do nachos.
I had this idea that I could make my own tortilla chips
by just cutting the tortillas, brushing them
with oil, and hopefully they'll crisp up
in the Easy Bake Oven.
Let's see how this goes.
Gonna add some spices to my ground beef,
some salt, garlic powder, onion powder,
chili powder, paprika, cayenne,
and I guess I'll just mix it.
Ground beef needs to cook to 160 degrees,
so it should be able to work in here,
I just don't know how long it'll take and again,
I don't think it's gonna get that browning.
I have a feeling it might be kind of gray.
I'm gonna check on these chips.
Okay, it's not quite there, but it's actually
kind of working.
Like there's some crispiness here.
Okay, but here's the thing.
It's gonna take me like three hours
just to make chips.
Is there any way that I can have some help?
- [Producer] I have a lifeline for you.
Meet your sous chef.
Oh, hi.
(laughter)
Uh, my sous chef turns out to be my best friend.
Yeah, and I got one too.
Okay, so the first step, we have to preheat it.
Okay.
So,
Oh, whoa. Oh.
I know this is crazy, but we have to do it
like two chips at a time.
Okay.
I think while I work on chips, I'll have you
work on ground beef.
Okay, I really wanna use this.
- [Alexis] That's how you push in.
Got it, okay.
(awkward music)
I heard that.
I mean how crispy do you need chips to be, really?
You know what?
(bell chimes)
I think we can pivot to mini tacos.
That's cool.
I think it's time to check.
Okay.
Oh, ooh!
It's like--
(Alexis gasps)
oh wait, and I can do this. Oh my god.
(gasps)
Okay.
Wow, okay, this is,
this is kind of cooked.
I know.
Holy, I'm shocked.
(laughs)
Okay, we have a long way to go.
But I think if you keep doing the beef,
Yeah.
We'll be good. Okay.
I'm gonna cut out some mini
tortillas from the big one,
because this doesn't fit in the slot,
but this does.
So we wait.
Yeah.
(funny piano music)
(laughter)
I did it! Yes!
Okay wait, this is actually, this is like a chip.
Why is that so much better?
I don't know.
Okay, I'm gonna stick with nachos.
This one goes back?
Yep.
You're getting so good at this.
It's a beautifully (clanks) machine.
Chip!
I have two chips.
That looks great, look at our beef, wow.
We've done, we've done one thing.
(laughs)
So we've got two in here, one in here.
So we're actually almost at 10.
Yeah, cool.
It should only take 25 more minutes.
For the personal pizza.
One sausage.
Okay, if you can remove the casing and crumble it up,
we're gonna do it the same way that the ground beef.
Okay.
I was thinking of sausage, pepper, onion pizza
feels a little ambitious now but I think
the pepper and onion can just be,
we'll kind of roast.
(gasps) wait, oh, this is smoking, uh oh.
Oh (beeps).
One very crispy chip.
You know, it's fine, it's fine,
it'll be on the bottom of the pile.
Some people, that'd be their favorite chip.
Yeah.
(gasps)
What do you think?
Yours are beautiful, ooh!
Sorry.
Two chips, love it.
All right. All right.
I'm gonna do nine chips, that feels sufficient.
Ooh, wow, this dough is--
Wow, it's feisty.
- [Producer] How do you think she's doing so far?
I think she's doing well.
I think we're coming to the part I'm nervous about.
Okay, if you can get that cookie cutter
and stamp out two.
- [Ryan] Circles.
Circles, okay.
Can you check the sausage?
I bet it's done.
I'm gonna check the peppers and we'll see where we're at.
All right.
Ooh, look at the peppers!
Do you think the sausage is ready?
- [Ryan] Whoa, yeah!
Amazing. Oh my god.
Amazing.
Okay.
Do you wanna do it?
The honors.
It's like a real pizza.
- [Ryan] Here, I'll check this side.
My confidence level about the pizza
is a seven.
Cool.
Oh, you seem--
(laughs)
No, I'm happy for you.
(laughs)
Yikes.
Can you check the pizza?
Gladly.
I just took these onions out,
we have, it actually looks, it looks really good.
It smells good too, it smells like very doughy.
Right?
Yeah.
Ooh, okay.
Okay, these look, these look amazing.
I mean this is, yeah!
Wow, cool.
Oh my god, the bottom has some brown,
they're, I mean the smells,
it smells amazing.
It's kind of more like focaccia than pizza but--
- [Ryan] That's great.
That's fine, I think I have it from here.
All right.
Thank you so much.
I can't wait to see it.
(laughs)
Bye-bye.
Bye.
Ryan was the biggest help I could've ever asked for,
it's time to start plating.
This is pre-made sauce, got some mozzarella,
and some of my toppings.
I'm so excited for this person to guess what I used.
Like they're gonna have no idea.
This is actually really fun.
(laughs)
I made a mini pizza with real pizza dough
in an Easy Bake Oven.
Making food with a kid's toy is so out of my element
but I feel elated.
There was a cheese pull, did you see it?
One of my favorite afterschool snacks
was cookies, every single day, so this definitely
needs a sweet element, so I'm gonna make
a crispy rice snack.
I'm just gonna cut some marshmallows, some butter.
Got my marshmallows on, gonna pop them in.
I'm gonna layer the nachos with obviously chips,
cheese, my ground beef, got some black beans,
tomatoes, and avocado.
Oh boy.
(dramatic music)
Uh oh.
Seems to be a bit of a marshmallow explosion, whoo!
Shoot, okay, okay.
Okay, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine!
Pressure is on.
This I feel better about this, this looks good.
Gonna add chocolate chips.
I'm gonna go find a cookie cutter
and like put this into a cute shape.
Oh my god, this is so cute.
(sighs)
Okay.
I've been told that the taste tester is here
and they're ready to try
and I can't wait to see if they can guess
what I've used.
My name is Yonas and I'm nine years old.
The first time Alexis cooked for me was
on I Draw, You Cook, robot episodes.
We heard you really like robots.
Beep boop bop bop, boop, beep.
Let's eat.
- [Alexis] I actually love it, I think it looks
so weird and cool.
The cookie dish.
That's mine.
That was amazing!
(laughs)
Today Alexis made three snacks for me
and I have to guess what she used to make it.
I'm so proud of everything I made
and I can't wait to see what this taste tester thinks.
Let's bring him out. Bring 'em out!
(laughs)
I'm back!
(laughs)
Hi!
High five.
Let me get you something, wow.
It's so good to see you again.
You too.
How's it going? Good.
For your first after-school snack,
you have nachos.
It's good!
Tastes like nachos.
Ooh, great.
On a scale of one to 10, what would you give these nachos?
An eight.
Great.
I'll take it.
You've got mini pizzas with sausage, pepper, and onion.
It's good!
(laughs)
Does it taste like pizza?
Um, yeah.
Yeah?
Maybe the crust would be a little harder.
I think that's a fair assessment.
On a scale of one to 10, what would you give this pizza?
A six.
Fair.
Are you ready for your last afterschool snack?
It's good! Yay!
A 10. A 10?
Okay, so we've got an eight, a six, and a 10.
I think that's pretty good.
I don't like that you put tomato.
Oh, you don't like tomato?
I remember. Yeah.
Tomato.
And this was kind of hard to eat it,
like to bite it off.
As you can see.
Okay, so now that you've tried
all three snacks, what do you think I used
to make them?
A pan.
Valiant choice.
Oh, I know, a rolling pin for the dough.
I definitely used a rolling pin.
What do you think I used to cook it though?
A stove?
Stove.
Oh wait no, an oven.
Okay, well I've got some news for you.
I basically used a kid's toy to make all three of these.
No you didn't.
I did!
You used a kid's toy?
Yeah!
This is what I used to make this.
I am so impressed with this dish.
Thanks, Yonas!
- [Yonas] Bye-bye!
I did make a fatal mistake of not actually
trying the chips, so.
(crunches)
They're really hard.
I still made chips in an Easy Bake Oven.
Okay, the chips are fairly inedible,
but overall I think this day was such a success.
I feel so proud and excited and I just had
absolutely no idea that any of this was possible,
and you know, I know I said Easy Bake Ovens
were a nightmare, but I think I just fulfilled
a childhood fantasy.
Comment below and let me know what you make
in your Easy Bake Ovens.
(big band music)