- Disgusting.
- You don't feed this to people.
- What?
- Unacceptable.
- This brother can't cook.
- This is not jollof rice.
- You need to be able to cook the jollof rice properly,
if you wanna find a wife.
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- Hello, I'm Jason,
and I'm trying other Nigerian men jollof rice.
- It's the rice that goes platinum with no features.
- You can eat it as its main dish.
It's not side dish, as a rice like Nandos rice.
- Jollof rice is one of that dish,
that when you say Nigeria, you hear jollof rice.
- You know, you can't go wrong with it.
Actually no, I'm lying.
People actually go wrong with it.
- But you could eat it in the morning.
You can eat it in the evening.
You could have it for lunch.
- If you mess it up,
people will crucify you for years.
- Chicken on the side,
plantain on the side, coleslaw on the other side,
it's like you mix it all together.
You make a dream.
- It's a mean dish.
Yeah, jollof, it has my heart.
- Add some ketchup in there and then boom,
they're like, "Wow, I didn't know there was ketchup
in this you know, this tastes really good."
Yeah, there's ketchup in there.
A whole bottle.
Okay, not a whole bottle, let me behave.
- What kind of rice do you use for your jollof rice?
- I know people are going get at me.
You lot, basmati rice, that's what I use.
- I'm honestly indifferent about the rice.
I don't know, just as long as the flavors are there.
I do not like long grain rice.
- Long grain, you can actually eat it and you'll get full.
Basmati, you'll eat a whole plate,
and it feels like you just ate half.
- It's about the hand that makes it.
If your cooking is rubbish,
your jollof rice will be rubbish.
- It's a special recipe, man.
It's a special one, generation to generation.
I'm sure the first place is just waiting for me right now.
I've got my recipes, I've got my secret, so
- I'm ready.
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Mine has the flavor, the spice, the coloring
and the little ingredients that nobody knows about.
That's the reason why my rice is the best.
- Boy.
- Well for aesthetics it's looking great.
I don't know who made this, but I'm hap I'm happy with you.
- First of all, this guy knows what he is doing.
Why did you put chicken?
Because I didn't put chicken in mine.
You know what you're doing?
- So, do you know what I like the color of this rice.
- The color you nailed it.
The sauce rice ratio was good.
- It's got maggi, serious maggi in this one.
- There is like an overpowering smell of like maggi.
- It does smell, it does have that party rice smell.
When you go to a party
they make that massive pot and it's just fine.
You know, the aunties all put their arm in
to really mix that one.
Yeah. Let me try this one.
- This is new.
- It's okay.
- It's good but,
slight over seasoning.
Yeah it's a new flavor that I haven't really come across.
- Like I wouldn't be mad
if I went to someone's house and they gave me this.
- I'm tasting more of a seasoning
than I would to taste of just the jollof flavor.
- It's okay.
- Yeah, quite solid.
You know, I've tasted worse so,
I'm impressed.
I want to attack this chicken but obviously,
while I'm big, big,
- [Camera Person] Go for it, no-ones stopping you.
- Save it for after, do it after.
- This meat, let us tuck in.
The chicken's not that flavor somehow.
I'm surprised.
Cause the jollof is packed.
- It doesn't particularly taste of anything.
- The jollof flavors is too high chicken flavors too low.
You need to get control.
They get no control in this house.
- That's okay.
It's okay.
I give this one, it's okay.
They tried.
- [Camera Person] What would you rate this?
- Eight, yeah strong eight.
- A six point five.
- A six.
- The texture, the color, the richness, the flavor,
I probably nailed it.
- This is party jollof, ooh!
Getting to it!
(sound of crickets)
- Getting to it!
Ooh!
- This is a set up, this is a set up.
- So,
- You know how Mufasa and Scar,
Mufasa is the orange
and Scar comes in boom the darkness.
It makes a beautiful match.
This is amazing.
Actually let me, let me, let me calm down
before it actually doesn't taste amazing.
- Mushy rice.
As you can see here, a big piece.
- The person has burnt it from the bottom, but turn it over.
You can see the more orangey side here.
That is unacceptable.
- What I will say is that it does smell really good.
- Smell wise, very oily.
This is the rice that'll give you spots tomorrow.
- You know the ones where you just hear,
(makes chewing sounds)
No why am I hearing that man?
(drum roll)
- Oh!
- This brother can't cook.
I'm sorry.
- Well, if you enjoy in your house,
you enjoy it in your house.
- That's gonna upset your belly.
- I can't believe that this brother cannot cook!
- Oh please, arrest whoever made this thing.
- Let me taste it again
so I can actually tell you what's going on.
Yeah.
So one, it feels like the spice was not mixed properly
and the spice has just been thrown in
after it's been cooked.
That's what it tastes like.
Two, it feels like, you know mushy peas that's nasty.
- This is like rice pudding jollof.
Rice pudding, you know how the rice is in yogurt.
This is what it is like.
Ah!
- Yeah. I'm, I'm not really on board with this one.
- And then you'll go be out trying to find wife.
Like you need to be able to cook
your jollof rice properly if you wanna find a wife,
you don't do this to people.
- How will you provide for family with this food?
- And I really hate to do this,
I'm gonna have to give it a two,
in fact, a one actually
- I give it a one because it almost looks orange.
- I'm so sorry, you're getting a two.
- Please, I don't even wanna see this thing with my eyes,
by the time I open my eyes I want this food off this table!
(he laughs)
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- My mommas recipe, the jollof I've grown up on.
I'm already the next level.
I'm telling you, there's certain levels of XP.
I'm here, these people are just gathering here.
- Okay.
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He's fighting for his life to get separated, hold on.
- It doesn't look fresh.
- Yeah, it looks alright as well.
Looks alright as well.
- Okay, it's looking good actually,
I like it.
- Smells like walkers barbecue crisps.
- You have to like dive in to see the moisture
but is looking good.
Yeah, I think I'm gonna need
a telescope to see that moisture.
Hold on, where you at?
- All right, go.
Let me see the taste as well as it looks.
(he laughs)
- What?
- Sorry.
- This is not jollof rice.
(he laughs)
- Definitely not that spicy, definitely not that spicy.
So, kind of threw my taste buds a bit off.
- You don't feed this to people.
- It's orange.
Ah.
- Good effort, like I said.
- It tastes like instant noodles, that's what it is.
That nasty noodles, that's what it tastes like.
- That's enough.
- Yeah this isn't jollof rice.
This is not, this is not jollof rice!
- A little bit of like, mm, does taste nice,
then it hits you again, no I'm good.
- I don't, this is rice with red food coloring.
'Cause I haven't tasted tomato and barbecue flavoring.
- I'll probably give this like I'd say,
a strong, strong, strong seven.
- I'm gonna give this one a three.
- Because you wanted to come here and be funny
and feed me noodles covered as jollof rice,
I'm gonna give you a three.
Serve it to the man again.
- You know what,
I feel like my jollof rice could be a winner here.
I may have this jollof rice in the bag.
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- [Camera Person] How does this look to you?
- It looks dry.
- I know yeah my jollof is usually
more orange when I eat it.
- There's like little shines
on like two grains of rice here.
But yeah, the rest of it looks dry.
- The process of cooking.
He didn't, the ratio of
the sauce to the rice wasn't balanced
'cause I can definitely see some white bits.
So the rice wasn't fully immersed in the sauce
and you know, with jollof rice,
it's proper orange, you know, like proper reddish orange.
So this is slightly on the orange side.
- And then usually jollof that looks like this
doesn't taste necessarily packed with flavor.
- It looks like he cooked it on the day, it was good,
a few days later you wanna just grab it from the container
the ice cream container in the fridge and it's dry.
Yeah that's how it feels like.
Yeah.
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- Extremely mushy rice.
- Not bad.
- I'm sorry I'm just trying to get the flavor.
- The person has the right idea.
It looks like jollof, I guess.
And I know I'm just kind of feeling like it's white rice
with a pinch of tomato on it.
- You have to give, when you make jollof rice,
you have to make it with love.
And the thing is, I don't feel you made it with love.
I feel like you rushed this,
'cause it's dry.
- You nailed the spices in it.
And my only reservation is,
the ratio of the sauce to the rice
- But you know what?
God loves you so that's good.
You can feed it to God.
He will probably say it's amazing, but not me.
- Quite good, quite good.
- That's just nothing special to me.
I'm just like, ah.
- Out of 10,
lets say five, five out of 10.
- An eight.
- Out of 10 this is getting a five.
Sorry to that, man.
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My jollof rice is the best thing,
I knew it was gonna win anyway please.
The other people, they can go cry.
- You, people are rigged.
- This show has to be rigged because,
this show is rigged.
- People don't know good things.
That's all it is.
- Take it, take it, well congratulations.
- Man can throw down in the kitchen,
you people that don't know,
man threw down in the kitchen and man won.
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