- Welcome to the Try Wheel.
- [Ned] That's very cold on my hands.
- [Zach] Hey!
- [Ned] Yeah!
- [Keith] Sometimes, food is cooked with love.
Ours is always cooked with frustration.
- [Ned] Let's do this!
- And spin the frame!
(trills)
(upbeat music)
- Oh, hi. Welcome to the Try Kitchen.
We got a brand new show for you today.
It's called "The Try Wheel".
- [Zach] We have three wheels:
Ingredients, presentation, and an impediment.
Today, will all spin the wheel to decide
what mystery dish we're cooking.
- Thanks to Kroger for sponsoring today's video.
Let's get spinnin'.
- Today, I will be cooking...
- Spin that wheel, Zach. - Spin that wheel.
- [Keith] So we got an impediment.
- Half the time. - Oh, no.
- I will be making a soup with tomato!
- [Ned] Okay. All right.
- Chicken thighs.
- [Keith] Chicken. Come on, strawberries.
Strawberries, yeah!
- That's a plot twist.
- So with half the time, I will be making a soup
with tomatoes, chicken thighs, and strawberries.
- Let's do this.
One hand. We're gonna be doing something fried.
Strawberries.
- Strawberries are a real treat this season.
- Hanger steak.
- And corn! - Corn!
Corn!
- Okay, steak, corn, and fried strawberries. Perfect meal.
- It just stopped so quickly.
A burrito.
- A great burrito using only spoons! (laughs)
- Guys. (laughs)
All right, we're gonna spin this two more times.
While this is spinning, we want to let you guys know
that Kroger is the sponsor for today's video.
They're always highlighting what's seasonal, what's fresh.
It makes it easy for me to plan my meals,
unlike today, where a wheel is planning my meals.
What did I get? Eggplant. - Eggplant.
- Oh, boy.
- Kroger is fresh, seasonal.
Everything that they do, they put a lot of care into it.
And it really shows.
- I'm making a great eggplant and steak burrito
with only spoons.
- You know what Kroger believes. Zero hunger, zero waste.
And we're gonna try and do zero waste again today.
- Ned, I know that you don't get to use one of your hands.
So which one are you getting rid of?
- Oh, left hand please.
I'll put it in my pocket.
- Keep the logo nice. Keep the logo nice.
- Yeah, keep the logo nice.
Get these few aprons available at tryguys.com.
- Wow, they're as fresh as Kroger's produce.
- Tape not included.
- I can't wait to watch you shuck that corn.
Now, my impediment, of course, spoons.
This one is hopefully gonna be able to cut meat.
- And for my impediment, I only have half the time.
So I'll see you in 30 minutes. (groans)
- [Keith] Wow, he's frozen.
- [Ned] Oh, he's gonna be frozen this whole time.
- Let's get 60 minutes on the clock
to make our mystery Try Wheel meals.
In three, two, one...
Go! - Go.
Okay, all right.
First things first, we gotta shuck this corn.
Fried food makes me think of carnivals.
Wait, okay, I think I got an idea.
It's like you're at a carnival, right?
You're on the boardwalk.
You get a little fried hush puppy and then some
strawberry ice cream in an ice cream cone
the day at the fair.
(knife banging)
- I really just now reached for a knife.
I picked up this one and I went, "Oh, I'll take that knife.
No, I won't."
- My one hand- - All right. Get outta here!
- Is using a knife.
- I like that we have "No knives!" as an option
because "Only spoons!" is "No knives!" just worse.
Maybe I'll cook down the eggplant with grapes,
throw in some tomatoes and onions
and make like a salsa or something.
At which point, we'll try to roll it up with spoons
and put a nice sear on it with spoons.
♪ Spoon man ♪
♪ Make the food with just one hand ♪
♪ Make the food as best you can ♪
♪ Spoon man ♪
- I'm hoping that they also judge on difficulty today
because I feel like all of us
do have difficult hurdles to get over.
Sometimes food is cooked with love.
Ours is always cooked with frustration.
I really need to marinate this meat to help it break down
since I can't cut it with a knife.
Nothing's happening here.
This is a spoon, right?
- [Ned] No!
- It's spoon.
Oh, my God.
- Oh, my God. We have buttermilk.
Now, that's country.
With that, that's my new catchphrase.
- That's country? - Now, that's country.
Salt. Oh, God.
It's like I'm playing a salt violin.
Where is the salt that's just in the thing that I can grab.
- This is straight up called Mexican Seasoning.
Perfect. We're making burritos here.
Salt.
- [Ned] Where's the salt?
- Right here.
- Oh. This is so easy for you.
When he's not looking, I'll try and just grab
some of the seasoning directly out of his meat dish.
- Out of my meat bowl?
(Ned whistling)
Notch it all in the bottom.
Now, we do it again on this side.
- [Producer] There's salt right here in the middle bin.
- Huh.
Oh, I see it!
Yes, pourable salt.
Now, that's an innovation.
- All right. Our grapes are hot. (chuckles)
We don't really know what we're doing with them yet.
- (groans) This is so hard to open.
Ah, I did it. Ha!
- [Keith] Oh, look at that, Ned!
- I'm basically turning this beautiful flank steak
into hamburger meat.
- (grunts) Come on.
This is strong enough for bell peppers
so that's good.
We're gonna make a onion and pepper and eggplant
sort of saute like fajita vegetables.
Oh, my God. What?
- Huh? - Let's try the big boy.
- Are you not able to cut into it at all?
- No, it's like rubber.
- What about... yeah.
Give it a good hack.
(spoon banging)
- What is an eggplant?
(Keith groans)
Yeah.
What?
What is it?
- Come on, now.
How do I open this?
(Ned spits)
Oh, I know!
I'll use my knife. (snickers)
Disregard the raw steak that's on it.
We're just flying by the seat of our pants.
All right, so I'm going for like a fried chicken batter.
Should feel a little country.
Everyone, watch the fuck out.
- Ned, that is amazing. Look at you.
Holing out this eggplant.
Becoming the opposite of a phallic object.
- All right, the corn, I really don't think I need to cook.
Wow, there you go, Keith.
Here's my...
My steak.
We're just gonna put that into the mixer here.
With a little bit of steak grease never hurt nobody.
- Okay. Plenty of eggplant.
- Waboosh. - Schwaboosh.
- Wabam! - Schwabam.
- Keith, I feel like you would really like my dish.
- I love hush puppies. I love corn.
I don't know how the strawberries
are really gonna go with it all.
- I'm gonna present you with two things.
Just give you those sense memories
of like carnivals, boardwalks.
- Did you ever get a kiss at the top of the Ferris wheel?
- Oh.
You know... - I did.
- No, I didn't. - I did.
Okay, so we're gonna let this saute together.
We got our wooden spoon.
No cheating here.
So we're gonna put some garlic and onions into the grapes
and we're gonna add some tomatoes
and just let them stew into a salsa.
- Let's have a taste.
- Yeah?
Tastes like a hush puppy?
- Tastes like a hush puppy.
- I love a good hush puppy.
Oceanside seafood restaurant. They got hush puppies out.
My God.
- [Ned] Let's try a few.
Yeah, I feel like these are a little too small.
Do we have an ice cream scooper?
- If we did, I'd have it out.
(Ned chuckles)
- Oh.
Okay.
You know, I thought mine was the hardest,
but maybe the gift of fried food is just that.
A gift.
- A gift.
(Keith laughs)
You got this, bro.
Aw.
I guess that was better way to do it,
but it wasn't a funnier way to do it.
- A little undercooked.
Tastes good. I mean, tastes like fried cornbread.
- And Zach will unfreeze
in three, two, one.
(Zach groans)
- Whoa. I'm back. - Welcome back.
- Oh, what did I miss?
- Oh, you missed a lot, bro.
- [Ned] You missed everything.
- 30 minutes left? I gotta get moving.
Even though I have half the time
and I am the least experienced chef,
I think I have the easiest of the guys.
You know, tomato soup, that's a thick.
With chicken? Mwah.
I got one little weird ingredient, strawberries.
No biggie.
But I think I'm gonna challenge myself
just a little bit today.
I'm gonna make a gazpacho.
I only have half the time, so I'm gonna do
as little actual cooking today as possible.
- [Producer] Are you gonna be looking up a recipe today?
- I'm not gonna look up a recipe
'cause I don't believe in it.
- So it says gazpacho is more of a drink than a soup.
(all laugh)
How much tomato do I need?
That look- 'cause I was gonna do eight tomatoes
and there's now way I can fit eight tomatoes in here.
- I do like tomatoes.
They're good. (Zach chuckles)
I'm gonna throw a little taco sauce into this salsa.
You know, taco salsa has raisins in it.
This has grapes in it. It should work out well.
Looks like salsa. Smells like ketchup.
- [Ned] I'ma put the skewers in a potato. Nope.
Uh-oh.
Ned's Steak and Corn Hush Puppies.
- Wow, are you done?
- I'm done with part one. - Wow, look at that.
Did you take the onion?
- I took an onion, but I got some left.
- I need a white onion.
- How much?
- (beep) one of 'em. That's what I've... (beep)
- When you said "Oh, there's plenty of onions,"
you didn't say "But don't use the white onion, Keith."
- Yeah, you said you were using the red one.
- You guys are arguing about onions?
- All right, I guess I'm gonna do half white half red
and hope for the best.
Now, every recipe always calls for like one garlic clove
but the more the better.
- That's right.
(indistinct chatters)
- One trick that I wrote about in our "Date Night Cookbook"
available at datenightcookbook.com,
is soaking strawberries in sugar and it'll make
like a little strawberry sauce.
And I'm gonna try and see if it can get a little
strawberry sauce infused through the ice cream.
- I have two peppers.
I assume this one would be spicier
because its color is scarier.
- [Keith] Oh, yeah. That's a scary little pepper.
- All right, time to blend my ingredients. Here we go!
Oh.
- Oh, no.
- Oh, wee.
- [Keith] You got this, Zach.
- It says it's on. How does this thing work?
The light's on. How the (beep) does this blender work?
- Is it plugged in?
(blender grinding)
- [Zach] Hey!
- [Ned] Yeah!
- [Keith] Wow, whoa!
(blender grinding)
(ice cream banging)
- What fun we're having here in the Try Kitchen.
- I don't know how to get the ice cream out
with only one hand.
(cheerful piano music)
(steak sizzling)
- [Keith] I think this dish could use some more butter.
- I don't really know how to use this.
Chop it up, I guess,
and then mash some strawberries in there.
Oh, that's cold!
That's very cold on my hands.
How did you do this in "Without A Recipe", Keith?
- I used two hands.
- Mm.
Ah,
oh.
- Oh, it's so slippery over-
- It's very slippery over there.
- Oh, my God.
- [Ned] It's all the oil.
- Oh, my God.
- [Keith] How's that?
- [Zach] I don't know yet. Let's see.
- [Keith] Are you putting strawberries in it?
- Not yet.
Whatever. I'm not the one eating it.
This chicken is not cooked all the way through. Uh-oh.
- [Zach And Keith] 10 minutes?!
- [Keith] Are you (beep) with me?
- We're getting close.
- Raw chicken. (groans)
- Make sure everybody's got some of this stuff.
(Zach groans)
- Oh, God. It's so slippery.
This is hazardous.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- How much time?
- How much? - Seven minutes.
- Seven?
- It's like I was given half the time to do this recipe.
- This steak is actually done in wonderful place.
It's like a nice medium.
I am worried that the way that I have to shred it
is the way that will be harder to chew.
- [Ned] Okay, all right, okay.
- [Zach] Okay, all right.
- [Producer] You got five minutes.
- Five minutes.
I'm putting my soups in the freezer
to give them that nice chill.
- I'm taking my ice cream out of the freezer.
- Shit. Come on.
- [Ned] Easy, easy, easy.
- [Keith] Oh, God. It's too wet.
I'm gonna double wrap 'em.
- My chicken is raw. My strawberries are uncut.
- [Ned] Come on!
My ice cream has melted. I need more freezer time.
- Oh, yeah. That's hard to chew.
30 seconds left.
- Okay.
- [Keith] What? It won't sear.
Cook!
- Come on!
- You stupid hot plate. - Just cook.
(beep) you. You wanna be raw?
You've been cooking for 20 minutes, you dumb bird.
- It looks like it's done.
- This is pink?
- Yeah, because it's dark pink.
- Ah, shit. - It's cooked.
- All right.
- [Ned] Ah!
Drizzle, drizzle, drizzle!
- [Producer] Three, two, one.
Hands up! - Oh!
Only got one hand.
(Keith laughs)
- I'm Nick, Try Guys' producer
and also magazine food critic.
- I'm Alexandria, Try Guys' associate producer
and food baby.
- Hi, I'm Rashawn Nadine Scott.
I'm fan favorite and alarm of the channel.
(all laugh)
- Hello, judges.
I had to make fried corn steak strawberries.
And I only had one hand to do it.
Judges, I want to take you back
to that perfect summer day.
Maybe you went to the boardwalk.
Maybe you went to a carnival.
I have given to you a steak and corn hush puppy
served with strawberry ice cream.
- Sorry, Ned, what?
(all laugh)
- Oh, just snap that off.
- I didn't get any steak yet, but I like it.
- I'm craving a dip.
- I thought about the dip,
which is why I invite you to move on
to the dipiest dip of all, delicious ice cream cone
where I made a sweet strawberry mixture
and then I mashed up a bunch of vanilla ice cream
and just kinda smushed it all together.
- It's very strawberry heavy but I like it.
- Maybe on the other way.
- Mhmm.
- The strawberries, I want to be
a little bit more blended in there.
It's kind of like little blocks
of strawberry ice more than the ice cream.
I'm going back to one of these.
I like the fresh kernels of corn in there.
- Personally, I don't care for big kernels of corn.
- Okay. The steak gets a little lost.
- This is about the size of steak that I've gotten.
- You did create maybe two separate courses
and not one cohesive meal.
- I was thinking the same thing,
but if I'm going to the fair, I'm not getting hush puppies
and then also corn dog or something.
I'm getting hush puppies and a dessert.
So this kind of works for me.
- Good job.
- Thank you, judges. - [Nick] Yes.
- Now, judges, I was tasked with taking grapes,
eggplant, and steak and making a burrito,
but I could only use spoons as my utensils.
I don't know if you've ever made a burrito,
spoons are rarely involved.
- Oh, wow. It looks pretty good inside.
- [Keith] It's a burrito.
- Mm.
- Mm...
- Mm?
(all laugh)
- I get a lot of steak and a lot of vegetable,
but it's like two different flavor combinations going on.
This is my first bite. I'm still chewing the meat.
- Oh, yeah. That's hard to chew.
- Okay, it's very flavorful. I'll give you that.
- Love it.
- The vegetables taste fresh.
Honestly, I can't tell what is the eggplant
and what is the meat.
- Success.
(all laugh)
- [Rashawn] I don't know.
- Everything's mushy except for the steak,
but then there's the great flavor.
So it's not like the craziest thing,
but like my brain's having trouble.
- Sounds like all the things you're confused about
are what the wheel gave you.
(all laugh)
So,
not on me.
- The vegetables are cut really well.
And I think even for the steak,
I wouldn't have guessed that you were using a spoon.
I just would've guessed you didn't cook it very well.
But it's my guess.
(all laugh)
- Why don't I take a bite?
- I feel like I'm still chewing it
as I see him chewing.
- Just needs more salt.
(all laugh)
- That's it.
- What to do, judges?
For today's challenge, your boy had half the time
to make a soup out of tomatoes, strawberries, and chicken.
So I decided to make a gazpacho.
I finished it off with some chicken
and balsamic strawberries.
- The garlic is really coming through.
- Hell, yeah. That's what you want.
- So is it raw garlic or cooked down garlic?
- [Zach] Garlic, baby.
(Ned laughs)
Alex's face is telling the story.
- What do you think?
- All right, this got a chunk of strawberry
and it's already teetering on like, "Is it a soup?"
And then the strawberry with it, it's just like...
I don't know.
- We're gonna go ahead and blame that one on the wheel.
(all laugh)
- My man!
- And it's not too bad.
This would be like an amuse-bouche.
- Probably best as a shooter, TBH.
- I also think if this was a shooter,
I would not be able to keep it down.
(Nick laughs)
- I think that this would almost work better for me
warmed up and as a sauce on top of chicken.
- Huh.
- I don't know.
The strawberries still need to be separated out.
- And while, perhaps, all ingredients did not work together,
let's keep in mind that I did put them all together.
- You really put them all together.
(Keith claps) - [Nick] You did it, Zach.
You did it. (laughs)
(all applaud)
- Third place.
We appreciated the constraint this person had.
However, we don't think that it necessarily excuses
some of the textures and flavors that happened in this dish.
So I am sorry to say,
Zach, you are in third place.
- Disagree.
(judges clap)
- I'm as surprised as you.
- I was gonna give more of a response,
but I'm cool to not.
(all laugh)
I had half the time and I have half the things to say.
(all laugh)
- The following two dishes, we feel they were classics.
So they were executed in the best way possible.
But overall, this person who's won
did the most with their time.
Technically, the winner is Ned.
- Yeah!
(all laugh)
Finally!
Oh, thank you, judges. Thank you.
Ah! - We would
definitely order your hush puppies
and your ice cream again.
Well done. - Aw, thanks.
- I'm so sorry that we have bad judges today.
But we did have excellent ingredients.
- Slander! Lies!
Lies!
(upbeat music)
- We did agree, Keith, that you take top
in scariest person to face off with.
- Thank you so much. That's great.