- Do I have to wear a blindfold (laughs)?
I feel like you guys are gonna bring out snakes
or something.
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- Hi, I'm Elaine Hill
and I brought a vegan mac and cheese dish today.
- My name is Kiohona Brown
and I bought vegan mac and cheese.
- My name is Jazzy Harvey
and today I brought my vegan crack mac.
- I was vegan once like for a year
and then I gave it all up for a Dairy Queen hot dog,
of all things to give up being vegan for.
It wasn't even that bomb, I was mad.
- People who say vegan meals lack flavor,
clearly have not tried my food.
- It doesn't matter what you eat
as long as the person cooking it knows how to cook
and knows how to work with flavor.
You can make anything taste bomb.com.
- You can flavor it with anything
and still have it come up tasting like regular meat
if that's your intent.
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I know I'm going to win today
because I perfected this recipe
many times before I even got here.
So I'm gonna win.
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- Okay.
(coughs)
(laughs)
- It smell funky.
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I was so excited, but now I'm scared.
I'm doing it, I'm going in.
- I already know I don't like this.
- Uh uh.
(laughs)
- It's got some onion in there, I'm not a fan of onion
although I do use onions.
- Where is the salt?
(laughs)
I know I'm loud, but I don't want them to hear me saying it.
It's about their mac and cheese.
- I'm not sure that this is mac and cheese.
- So, I know it's vegan, but I tasted a milk product.
It smelled like old or something like that.
- What's that?
Is there
some type of--
(laughs)
- Interesting take on mac and cheese.
I haven't had a mac and cheese that tastes like this before.
- I wouldn't serve this,
it just feels like it's put together really fast
and maybe the person really didn't know how to make
a good, sustainable vegan mac and cheese.
- I just don't know what this is,
this is not mac and cheese.
This does not tastes like mac and cheese at all.
- I don't think I would take any pointers
from this one here.
- Smell like five.
Yeah, that smells good.
- That smell is a one, that smell is a one.
What's the second category?
- Though it doesn't smell necessarily like mac and cheese,
it does like smell good.
So, I'll give like a four on the smell.
- Texture, I give it a three
because I think it was a little overcooked.
- Okay, texture, you good, baby.
You got a four on the texture.
- I'm going to have to give a two,
I'm texture sensitive.
- Taste?
Like a two,
and that's being very generous.
- Taste, I'm gonna have to give it a one.
- Taste and the texture think tie.
- It's...
Is this mine?
- [Man] Yeah.
- Oh my God. (man laughs)
That's the one that's oniony.
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- One of the girls I saw in the lobby she's vegan
and she like is a chef and cook for people this dish,
like mac and cheese all the time.
So I'm like, you know, she might got me.
But you never know, the underdog always comes on top.
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- I'ma smell it first.
- Now, this one smells really good.
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- Somebody likes a lot of salt.
- Definitely enjoying this one (laughs)
a lot more than the other one.
- This is good,
this is good.
- It's very salty.
(laughs)
I've had enough of this.
- Well, there's definitely some like paprika in here,
some garlic.
Like I'm gonna take another bite
'cause this one was actually pretty good
if I could get something on here.
- I didn't taste that much cheese,
which is a good thing, but it's probably, you know,
mixed in elsewhere.
- This one is a little bit drier.
And like that's like the kind of one
that my nana would make this.
- This is like a homemade cheese on it,
just like how the texture is feeling.
- When you use vegan mac and cheese
and regular mac and cheese, you get kind of this,
like it's a little bit of an aftertaste,
but this is so well seasoned
that it could pass.
- This one definitely has flavor.
- I couldn't really tell if it's vegan or not,
so that's a good thing.
- I'll give the smell of this one like a five.
- Bought and ate the whole thing,
I can't even smell it no more.
(laughs)
- Smell?
Four.
- It smells really good.
I'm gonna have to give this one a five.
- The texture for me will put this one like a three,
just 'cause it's not as like incorporated,
as I personally would like.
- Texture, five.
- I'm gonna have to give it a four just because
it could have a little bit more sauce.
- The overall taste I think it would be a four
'cause even though it's salty, it really...
You know, I would buy it.
- The flavor is also really good.
I would give that like a three,
there's not too much of like a cheesy taste
to this,
not much, and I think that's where I would like (mumbles).
- Five.
If I could give it a 10, I would, it tastes so good.
I ate the whole thing.
Was that mine.
It was so good.
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- I think the other contestants are going to like it.
I think it has the texture that mac and cheese needs.
I don't know if there's like a close sound cam,
but it has that (mumbles) that the good mac needs.
So, I mean, I hope they like it.
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- Oh.
- New on?
- This smell good.
Is it there?
On there?
(laughs)
The spoon was upside down.
- Mmmh.
- I know who made this one,
and that would be me.
- This one is good, I'm eating more.
- Whoever it is she's gonna win.
I'm gonna come in second,
but this person they did so good.
- The flavor
is there.
There's like a cheesy taste to it,
which I like not overwhelmingly cheesy.
- I can definitely tell it's vegan just because...
If you've ever been vegan or tried anything vegan,
a lot of the foods that they try to replicate come very,
very close, but cheese is not one of them.
- I can taste creamy, I can taste this cheese mixture.
- There's vegan cheese, does it?
And it has like a different type of meltability.
But I feel like if this was hot, it would be better.
- For some reason, all vegan cheeses to me,
they have like this like cardboardy tastes to it,
like it doesn't taste like cheese.
So if you did try this, you would be like,
"Yeah, it's vegan, but it's good."
- It tastes like vegan.
It taste vegan because I know the cheeses.
Mmmh, okay.
- Whatever type of seasoning
and spices this person put in here,
compliments that cheesy taste as well.
And it marries together to make it like this,
like a smokier flavor, I wanna say,
and I'm not mad at this.
- It smells edible and tasty.
I'll give it a four.
- It smelled amazing, it smelled really good.
It smelled like home.
- A five, definitely.
I just wanna eat it all up right now
'cause I didn't have breakfast that much today.
(laughs)
- I'ma give this a four,
I'ma give this a 4.5.
I'ma give this a...
No, I'ma give it a four,
I'm gonna give it a four.
- I'll give this texture a five big time, hands down.
- Texture, I'm gonna have to give this another...
I'm gonna have to give it a 4.5,
I'm gonna have to give it a 4.5 just because it's creamy.
- For texture,
I give myself like a four
and I wish it was like a little bit hotter,
so it'd be like more melty.
- The taste is magnifique,
I'm rating it a five.
- The taste, I'm gonna give it a five
because I don't think someone
who is non vegan, thought this was vegan.
- The overall taste
is good.
It's good.
I'ma have to go, I'ma give her another four.
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- If you guys wanna try that vegan mac and cheese,
I mean, look me up on Instagram.
'cause it is that fly.
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