Does this get hotter?
Can this get hotter?
This is not right.
C'mon!
Oh my god, C'mon!
- What's wrong with you?
(upbeat music)
- Hey, what's up everybody
we are the cast of Gentefied,
Netflix's new series.
I am J.J. Soria.
- I'm Karrie Martin.
- And I'm Carlos Santos.
- We're worried about Chris. (in foreign language)
- Chris is going to be fine.
He can afford help
like therapy or Whole Foods. (yells)
- What did you say? Whole Foods? (in foreign language)
- And we're about to have a
Taco-off.
- Cook off.
- I don't know about how they're feeling,
but I feel like I'm gonna be fire at this.
- Wow.
- No problem. - You are gonna be fire,
'cause I'm winning. - We're all going to be fire,
okay.
- I'm gonna win.
- We're all gonna win - I don't know.
- All right everybody bring it in
- Especially me.
- Okay. - And,
you're gonna lose. - [Karrie And J.J.] Go!
- What are you doin'?
- You missed it!
- Wait don't take all of it! - We can share!
- Oh my god. - I'll share with you.
Okay.
- So far we see who's ahead.
- It's not a race,
is it? It's a race, yeah.
- Here's the can opener. (J.J. screams)
- What are you doin'?
- Why?
- Today,
we're gonna be preparing (muffled yell in background)
these low-carb tacos.
- Ah! This is not right
- The boys are having a lot of trouble right now.
I'm just calmly doing this. I really don't
know why they're wearing gloves.
- You know what? I give up on this.
- The key is preparation.
Clearly we have none.
- So I think I'm going for these refried beans.
I think we're gonna do that.
- Guys I'm not gonna talk, I gotta concentrate.
These guys are talkin' crazy
and I just need to concentrate on this
for a second.
- I think they're gonna be really good.
- See, this is extra grande taco.
- So, I think J.J. is going healthy on this.
Can I have a-- - No you can't have anything
off my table, all right? - Okay, thank you.
- I don't believe in sharing.
We're going to gracefully drizzle some cheese.
It's important that you put the cheese first,
so that it melts into the meat,
'cause it heats-- - Why are you still talking?
- Now, there's a proper way to chop.
It's in and down. You see that?
That's proper form, proper technique.
Everything comes down to technique.
(sizzling)
(scraping) - I may not be gourmet,
this may be a little basic,
but, you know, hey. Wow, he's like
doing some sort of wrist action.
I don't know how to do that.
- Ow!
(chopping) - I'm a professional.
We're gonna toss this right on here.
Boom!
- [J.J.] Carlos how's it going over there?
- I don't have all the things I need.
That's how its going, okay?
This guy's just putting stuff on lettuce
and we're supposed to pretend
like that's a good thing?
- It's about the distribution,
our frijole, meat, and cheese.
You want every bite to have a taste
of everything.
- This one's stressed, this one thinks
he's gourmet.
- Does this get hotter? Can this get hotter?
- Again, evenly distributed across the lettuce.
- Oh, excuse me. I'm gonna need this from you.
Wow, you were like really hoarding all
of the tools.
- I'm just working with what I got, okay?
Oh my god, c'mon!
- What's wrong with you?
- You know what,
we're gonna pour that our for the homies.
- How many judges we got?
- [Cameraman] You gotta make four.
- They're all just gonna have
to take a bite of this one.
This is how we do a J.J. taco.
You could almost smell it, right?
(sniffing)
So you could smell it, right?
- I'm Honduranian, for those of you
who don't know.
- Oh we know! - We make this thing
called baleadas,
where it's basically refried beans
and some crema,
and it's (tongue click).
But, we're making a taco,
so I'm gonna add some meat,
I think that's what that equals.
- Great, you guys sound like you think
you know what you're talking about.
Hate it when I have no idea.
- Let's go see how the competition is doing.
- You know I think I'd really hire you
to be my personal chef.
- I mean I think that would be your best idea
you've had today. (laughing)
- But, I mean I think
you're being a little boujee with those.
- Did you not learn anything?
- Hey, go do your lettuce...
- Culo-nary school. - Mira, go do your
lettuce wraps.
The California--
lettuce wraps. - I'm done, would you
like to taste? - No...
- It might give you some help.
- Oh my god.
- This is how it is all the time.
On set and off set, like I kid you not,
this is exactly how it is.
(slapping tortillas on pan)
- Oh my, c'mon!
- Wow! - I mean, I don't even know
what's happening. - Golly!
- And I'm just over here minding my own business.
- I don't have what I need. - Here, would you like
to borrow? - Yeah.
- I seriously wanna help you guys.
Just for kicks we're gonna go ahead and add
some citrus.
Acidity is always good to add to your taco.
- Ooh, now we're cookin'.
There's gonna be a little secret thing
that nobodies doin' and it's gonna be great.
- I mean...
It doesn't get much better than this, folks.
- All right now, we're gonna come in
with the chicken.
Okay.
This may look a little bit messy
but I promise y'all
it's gonna be so good.
(slapping can) - Oh my god, come on beans.
C'mon beans!
C'mon!
(J.J. laughing)
- Why are you so stressed out?
- Just calm down... - I don't know!
I don't know.
- If you noticed, I didn't even use the hot plate.
This is totally... - That means it's cold.
- C'mon, man.
(yells) C'mon!
(J.J. laughs) - It squirted in his eye.
- I went ahead and got some mild salsa,
just to appeal to all taste buds here.
Add a little bit of this.
(salsa music)
- Oh my god. (grunts)
Never get too close to limes,
I think that's the takeaway.
- Wa!
Boom!
It's energy. Good energy for you.
- I mean you could be a little bit more generous
with your salsa, but you know,
it's just for the sake of making it
look a little nicer.
Presentation matters people.
- A little mango in there. I don't know.
We don't know. We don't know what's happenin'.
- Ooh yes.
That's nice, this is a nice loaded taco
here y'all.
You know, I like to clean up after myself.
This is like a whole--
well, J.J.'s side looks really nice
but if you saw Carlos' side,
it's a mess.
You might wanna take a look.
- Now we're gonna make a baby one.
Child size. For kids.
We gotta feed the kids, right?
The baby, we're gonna save him from the salsa.
Baby, doesn't even need guac, that's good.
That's a good baby taco.
(pop)
(crunching)
- They don't even know.
They don't even know what's about
to happen here.
Hot Cheetos, baby.
Hot frickin' Cheetos!
- Are you ready?
- Pencils down!
You can't add any more!
- Pintos down.
- You were the one that took the longest,
now that you're done? - Yeah, 'cause I was planning.
You guys all started putting stuff on lettuce
and called it a taco.
- Okay, so now it's time to see
who actually had
the best taco.
- You know when the judges come,
they're gonna eat the tacos.
They're not gonna look at the table
and be like
minus points for display. (in foreign language)
Oh, it looks so good.
Mira, those lettuce wraps look like crap,
but the display is so pretty!
- Wow, contestant number one.
- We have today a meal for four.
As you can see, the child has their
baby taco as well.
We have gourmet chilled low-carb tacos
with asada, drizzled with cheese,
evenly distributed.
- I love the way you said you drizzled the cheese.
- Yes, and a touch of lime
for the acidity helps - Okay.
- The digestion system.
- This is a taco lite.
- Yeah, taco lite.
- Who want the extra? - Let's see this,
this is mine, this is me.
- [Carlos] Yeah just eat them. - It's chilled.
- Let's give it a shot.
- Wow, it is beautiful.
- The spices are hitting,
I can get the hint of lemon, which I like.
- This is a little spicy. - Yeah, I can't really--
- It's got a little kick. - It's spicy for sure.
- Yup. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- I like spicy. (in foreign language)
It's good.
- It's nice and chilled. - I like the chile.
- Welcome, over here.
So I'm Honduran, y'all.
So, you know we do refried beans.
So this is a taco take on
a Honduran baleada.
- I love the drizzle. - Yeah.
- Yeah, thank you.
- See I'm a big fan of having
flour tortillas for tacos. - Yes!
- [Judge] That's a big up for me.
- Yeah, that's super Honduran.
- I love it. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay cool, yes. And then lemme go ahead
and put one here for you as well.
- Oh thank you very much. - Yeah.
- Chef, would you like to add that you
cooked everything with no gloves?
- Well, okay. Let me tell you.
This is a home cooked meal. You do not have gloves
when you are cooking at home.
- The crema is new. (in foreign language)
I've never had it with cream before.
It adds a different element.
- It does, right? - The beans are smoother.
- Uh huh.
That's exactly how we do our carne asada.
We put it with refried beans
and carne asada. - Love it.
- Yeah. - Love it, great job.
- Thank you! Hear that?
- Okay.
- Looks like there was an explosion over here.
- It's an explosion of flavor.
I decided to go with a vibe like
at the end of the night--
Hey! When you were talkin'...
I was goin' for the vibe at the end of the night
when you've been drinking
and you have an appreciation
for the grease and the texture,
'cause you like to say that word a lot.
And I sauteed some vegetables
which they didn't do.
- Love it. - 'cause J.J. just put
some stuff on lettuce and called it a taco.
Let's go!
- You tried way too hard.
- What kind of meat is this?
- Oh it's al pastor, yeah, al pastor.
- So I know it's corn tortilla,
- Yeah. - but it's starting to feel
like it's becoming a tostada.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I wanted to change it up. - Which it helps.
- You know what, I wanted to add some texture.
- It was an accident.
- Karrie!
- And then you went with the Hot Cheetos
for a salt supplement, huh?
- Mhm.
Wow, this is really good.
This is a really good choice.
Now I put a little mango,
as you can tell,
as I'm finding out right now, myself,
'cause it's a little sweet to the salty.
- You know, I didn't think this was gonna be good.
- You didn't think it was good, again...
I didn't have a lot of time,
- But it is good. - So, it wasn't about the look
it was about the taste.
- The Hot Cheetos adding a crunch to it.
- Is it adding texture?
- Yeah, it's adding texture.
- Can we talk about your
work station a little bit? - Mhm, yeah.
- And like what happened on this side,
and what happened on that side.
- Magic happened on this side,
and so you can't really contain me.
I don't work well under pressure.
That's something that's my bad,
that's me as a person, I gotta grow from that.
You know what I mean?
So, don't mind this,
'cause you never look at the kitchen
when you get the plate.
If you looked at the kitchen,
half the time you'd be like "gross".
- I didn't think about that. - Yeah, that's true.
- It's so dirty.
- I think that's why I was not that enthusiastic,
but then the taste was actually really good.
- And I appreciate your honesty.
- Well this is a really difficult decision.
- Okay. - We really enjoyed the
creativity of all these tacos.
- Thank you. - The flavors were all
very different and surprisingly delicious.
- Oh, thank you.
- But there can only be one winner.
- I think we're gonna have to give it to...
The lettuce taco. (yelling)
- What? (J.J. yelling)
- You can not do that.
His head just got this big. (J.J. yelling)
- Oh, you know what?
Next time I compete I'll just put
something on a lettuce and-- (J.J. cheering loudly)
- It's because it's LA. (drowned out by J.J. yelling)
(clapping)
- You know the fact that he used gloves
was like a big component. - Wow, okay.
- I'd like to thank-- - Shut up!
- It's over. Thank you so much
for having us! - My mom and my grandma.
- I'm Karrie--
- Oh, I'd like to
thank lettuce-- - This is Carlos.
And I'm just gonna acknowledge the winner, J.J..
And we are the cast of Gentefied. Thank y'all
for having us. Don't miss it on Netflix.
- Catch it right now. - It's out now.
- Pero-like.
(salsa music)
- [Child] Pero-like.