Hunter, tonight, superstar moms
are teaming up and taking on all-star dads.
Yeah, Dad.
They'll be bringing the chaos of the family kitchen
to the Flavortown Market.
I'm scared of moms, personally.
-[Kelsey] You should be. -[laughter]
[Guy] Because this isn't your normal competition,
it's more like a...
It's like a tag team competition.
-[intense music playing] -[cheers]
Since you'll have to divvy up the shopping...
-[Maneet] Okay. -[Guy] You sure and check it.
Once you go to your station, you're done.
Cooking.
All I know for sure is I am frying chicken.
[Guy] And plating duties, no one will exactly know
what their partners are cooking up.
[Christian] I don't know what any of these means.
-Dude... -[Nate] I'm sorry.
[Christian] don't apologize to me.
[Guy] It's Triple G Relay, all-star moms versus dads.
And it starts right now on Guy's Grocery Games.
Let's meet out all-star moms and dads.
Now, first up, the moms.
She's the winner of Tournament of Champions 2
and mother of two.
The one and only, Chef Maneet Chauhan.
Yehey.
Mom's in the house.
[Guy] The Spice Queen herself. No apron, huh?
Next, James Beard award winning restaurateur
and Ernie's mom,
Iron Chef, Stephanie Izard.
-I thought... -[Stephanie] Hi there.
big E would be showing up for this.
[Guy] And then there's Top Chef winner,
cookbook author, and Southern mother of two,
KBC, Chef Kelsey Barnard Clark.
-[cheering] -[Guy] I hear boots.
I'm back.
-Nice to have you, chef. -Boots made...
-Go get them. -for walking and winning.
Look at this team.
[Guy] All right, Moms.
Ready to see what dads you're going up against?
Here they are.
Acclaimed executive chef and father of five,
the one and only, Beau Mac.
Chef Beau MacMillan.
No one needs you.
-[Guy laughs] -You...
Thank goodness she didn't say it to me.
-Get away from me. -[Guy laughs]
[Guy] Next, Italian chef extraordinaire,
proud papa of two young kids,
the one and only Hambino, Chef Christian Petroni.
Yeah.
Nice hat.
-That's good, you know. -Good luck.
Love it.
And finally, James Beard award winner
and father of two,
the one and only, Nate Appleman.
-[woman] [indistinct] -Let's go daddy, yo.
[Guy] You're looking good.
Let's go.
Well, chefs, not only are you all-star chefs,
but you're also devoted moms and dads.
So we thought,
"Why don't we have a little mom versus dad
or dad versus mom
family friendly meal cook off?"
The girls look way more ready than you boys do.
I gotta be honest with you.
I'm scared of moms personally.
-[Kelsey] You should be. -[laughter]
[Guy] Here's the load out on the showdown tonight.
Each team is gonna have 30 minutes
to create a specific dish,
but this isn't your typical team competition, okay?
This is more like a tag team competition.
Your teammates will never cook with you
in the kitchen at the same time.
Really?
You are gonna be working one at a time
in a 10-minute shift.
-Okay. -Oh, wow.
First will be the shopper/prepper.
Ten minutes.
Then we will have the middle chef, 10 minutes.
And then the final chef will also cook and serve the dish.
Okay.
But here's the catch,
only the starting shopper/prepper
will know what the dish is.
-[Stephanie laughs] -[Guy] The rest of you
will have to pick up on the culinary clues
that your teammates leave behind.
Ultimately, the team whose dish
receives the highest score based on taste,
gameplay, and plating
will get a chance to shop Flavortown Market
for up to 15,000 bucks.
All right. We need to make a decision.
[Beau] Oh, cool.
[Guy] Who's gonna be the shopper/prepper, who's gonna be the...
-[indistinct chatter] -[Guy] middle chef,
and who's gonna be the finishing cook presenter.
[Guy] Who's gonna be the shopper/prepper?
[Beau] I feel like they're gonna shop the [indistinct]
Okay.
-Nate's got speed. -[Beau] Do you wanna run?
-I'll run around. -Nate got speed on his side.
[Beau] Wanna handle the middle?
It's what... You want to take the middle and I'll wrap it up?
[Beau] You're on finish. Wrap it up.
-[Christian] Okay. -[Beau] All right.
We got a plan.
[Guy] All right.
Who is gonna be the shopper/prepper?
[tense music playing]
[Guy] Maneet, the shopper/prepper.
Uh, Nate, diggity dog, you are gonna be the shopper/prepper.
Who is going to be the middle chef?
Beau Mac and KBC, you're the middle chef.
So that is gonna leave the Iron Chef, Izard the Goat,
is gonna be the final chef and the Hambino.
-Hambino. -Oh, this is good.
So, you are going to now depart
through the sliding doors
and we call you when it's your 10 minutes.
-Thanks. -You got this.
-We got this. -[Nate] Yeah.
-Love you, babe. -We got you.
You four, this way.
-[cheers] -Good.
[Guy] All right, shoppers.
You need to shop to make an elevated kids favorite.
-We literally... -[indistinct]
have no idea what we're about to go do.
[Guy] The dish that kids love,
but with the cohesiveness
and the depth and the flavor the judges appreciate.
But before you start shopping,
why don't we play a little game?
-Hunter. -Hi.
Oh. They're in lunch boxes.
-[Hunter] Yes. -[Guy] Okay.
We're gonna play lunch box pick.
Now, we're going to give you lady's choice,
would you like to have the yellow one or the blue one?
Yellow.
[Guy] Nate, which one do you want?
-[Nate] I'll take the blue. -[Guy] Blue? Okay.
-[Nate] Yeah. -[Guy] Good. Good pick.
That's all we have left.
Go ahead. You'll need to pop it open.
Take a look at what's inside.
The inside the lunch box are kids lunch staples
that you must incorporate into your dish.
What do you got over there, Nate?
[Nate] Yogurt, cheese, and some oranges.
[Guy] Okay. Maneet, what do you have?
-Apple? -Apple, chocolate milk...
-[Guy] Oh. -and some cheese.
[Guy] And some cheese? Okay.
So you have 30 minutes to make an elevated kids favorite
incorporating those fantastic lunch box ingredients.
You have five minutes to shop.
Five minutes to prep.
It is a one shop only.
When the five minutes is up,
if you forgot something, too bad.
Your teammates are gonna have to figure out
what three ingredients need to be on your plate
without you talking about it.
-What are your kids' names? -[Nate] Oliver and Poppy.
[Guy] And Maneet?
Karma is eight and Shagun is 12.
Wow.
And sixteen and two.
Sixteen and two?
There's a three-year split between...
-Jules and I. -No, two-year split.
And the only one that's really far out there,
-you gotta go figure is... -[Bell ding]
[Maneet] [indistinct]
[Guy] There was no getting Nate on that.
He was too dialed in.
[Maneet] It's team moms versus team dads.
I am going to be the shopper/prepper.
I have competed in this grocery store
a couple of times
so I know where a lot of things are.
The dish that we have to make is a child's favorite
elevated using apple, chocolate milk,
and some cheese.
I do a lot of cooking for the kids,
so as soon as I think of kids' favorite,
I think of chicken tenders.
I am getting cereal because cereal is such an incredible crunch
that you can put on the exterior of the chicken.
Buttermilk. Buttermilk.
My strategy always is gameplay, gameplay, gameplay.
[tense music playing]
[Maneet] The apples are going to be probably
the easiest thing to incorporate
by making a slaw or a salad on the side.
The mini Swiss cheese, I think that can be melted,
maybe a cheese sauce.
I think chocolate milk is going to be a little bit of a tougher ingredient.
Chocolate milk is so sweet,
maybe it will take in the buttermilk soak
for the chicken.
I also start thinking of what goes along with chicken tenders.
I know that my kids love rice
and rice is a great way for us to sneak vegetables in.
Shh, don't tell the kids.
It is very frustrating shopping for ingredients
for a meal that I know I'm not going to cook.
So my strategy is to get what I need for the dish
that I have in mind, but also leave enough back up
plans so my teammates will know what to do.
[Guy] You gotta get some staples, you gotta get some...
What I would call culinary duct tape, bacon.
All of your vegetables.
But if you give them too much,
then it could become confusing,
they don't know what to work with.
Let's get these carrots.
Two minutes left to shop, chefs.
Two minutes.
[Nate] I'm the speediest one of the bunch,
so I'm designated as the shopper.
I have to make an elevated kids favorite
and incorporate strawberry yogurt,
tangerines, and cheddar cheese.
At home, my kids do love pizza and so do I.
My strategy, I want to take pizza
and elevate it by doing broccoli cheddar.
That way I can incorporate
the cheddar from the lunch box.
So I'm gonna grab the shredded cheddar as well.
I got ricotta cheese.
I got bacon.
I even grabbed pepperoni.
And on the side, I'm gonna do a fruit salad
with the strawberry yogurt and the tangerine.
It's the only way I can think
to combine these two things together.
Cool dads are going up against even cooler moms.
We're gonna be bringing it heavy today.
I'm grabbing as many things as I can.
And I see the cooked fried chicken
and I think kids, broccoli, cheddar,
friend chicken, that all is gonna go together.
Ranch.
I'm hoping my abundance of ingredients
doesn't throw Chef Beau off,
and I hope he just has a plethora of things to choose from.
One minute.
Tomato paste. Tomato paste.
When you are cooking as a team,
if all three of us win, it's a victory for all of us.
But if we lose, then I am responsible
for the loss of Kelsey and Stephanie.
The pressure is so high.
Citrus.
I think Citrus is always good,
some kind of acid, always having that available.
Got 25 seconds left.
-[suspenseful music playing] -Chicken, flavorings.
[Guy] Once you go to your station, you're done.
[Nate] I'm confident in my choices,
but at the same time,
I'm really hoping Beau catches on to this dish plan.
I'm a little flustered here in Flavortown.
[Guy] Five, four, three, two, one.
That's it, you're done.
That's good.
So let's meet the all-star chefs
who will be judging our elevated kids favorites.
First off, we have James Beard award winner,
Boston restaurateur, and mother to Rogue,
the one and only, Chef Karen Akunowicz.
-Hi, chef. -[Guy] Looking fantastic.
Thank you so much.
The Seattle restaurateur who's been rocking up
praise and recognition, and also a proud father,
the one and only,
Shota Nakajima.
Hi.
And the New York culinary icon
who has taught his two kids to seize him with authority,
the one and only chef, Marc Murphy.
[Marc chuckles]
What's more difficult,
raising kids or doing this competition?
What's more enjoyable or harder?
-[Karen laughs] -Kids.
Kids. I don't know.
You've gotta see the pressure cooker
these people are in right now.
You think that you have this wavelength
with your teammates, you know, like,
you know what things are gonna happen,
but there's so many options.
I think the most important thing is obviously
that I'm sitting here and not out there.
I'm very happy about that.
Yeah. You're doing good. You made a good decision.
Five minutes. Five to go.
This is such a hard game.
[Nate] Get some of this.
Get some of that.
She's already strategizing over here.
She's always placing things in order.
All right, dancing spice queen,
I don't see you dancing... Oh, there's the little dance.
-Got a good game plan? -I think so.
My kids love chicken tenders, fried chicken,
so we do almost like a katsu.
-Okay. -I hope that we do that.
I got all the ingredients.
I have arranged it in such a way
-that it's boom, boom, boom. -[Guy] Okay.
Fried rice is something that kids always love
and we can sneak vegetables in it.
-Fried rice? -Yes.
-Okay. -So, got some premade rice.
I'm going to make a buttermilk soak for the chicken.
Okay.
And I'm going to use a little bit
of the chocolate milk in the...
-[Guy] Got it. Got it. -buttermilk. Yeah.
I do take a little bit of the chocolate milk
and put it in the buttermilk soak for the chicken.
Not only does it have the creaminess,
it also has the little bit of sweetness.
I'm sorry, team dad.
You know that it is the moms who are going to win.
Two minutes left.
Okay.
My strategy is organizing by dish.
Knowing that Beau's gonna look and think,
"That has to go together."
I want the pizza here with the cheddar cheese
and the fruit salad completely separate
with the strawberry yogurt and the tangerine.
I have very limited time to get our dish started,
so immediately, I started on the pizza dough.
That way, when Beau comes in,
he sees that I already started the pizza
and he can just finish it.
-Kids like pizza. -[Guy] Pizza is a good call.
Got a little fruit salad. Why not?
-You know. -Yes.
Nice. Nice little move over here with the fruit salad.
One minute.
[Maneet] As soon as Kelsey comes in,
I hope that she looks at the chicken and the buttermilk
along with the panko and the cornflakes,
she'll know that it is fried chicken.
[Karen] The chefs that are behind the doors,
they don't know about three mystery ingredients.
[Marc] No.
Whatever they decide right now,
they better keep it simple.
Right.
[Maneet] I'm hoping that if I leave the mandatory ingredients
at the plating area,
Kelsey and Stephanie will realize that that's mandatory.
I think I have set them up for success
and when moms set out to achieve something,
the goal is always achieved.
Thirty seconds, chefs.
[Nate] I poured the broccoli out.
There's not enough time.
I leave it right on the cutting board
so he knows it has to go on the pizza.
Fifteen seconds.
Because the cheddar cheese was a mandatory ingredient
that I know Beau has to use,
I cut it open,
I get it right, front, and center
on the cutting board.
I take a pan.
I throw in bacon for the pizza.
I'm not concerned. Beau is also a no stranger.
He knows there's whammies.
He knows there's ingredients that I've laid out here
that he has to use.
So here we go, Team Dads.
Five, four, three, two, one.
That's it. You're done. You're out.
[whistle blows]
-[Beau clapping] -My Beau, you got this.
[Guy] Go.
-[Stephanie] Team Moms. -[Guy] KBC.
-Beau Mac. -[applause]
Show them your power, dad of the dads.
What in the...
[Beau] What is going on here?
Grapes. Broccoli. Cheese.
Oh, my God.
There is no clues.
There are no clear whammies.
I got to figure this stuff out quick.
I'm looking at what's going on here.
I am like, "Bro, really?
What is going on?"
I'm a little nervous for this one.
I am too.
Oh, mercy.
Bacon's got to be for the sauce.
[Guy] Nine minutes.
Remember, the chefs, not only do they not know the dish,
but they don't know anything about the mystery ingredients.
Man, that's a hard game.
[Karen] This is a hard game.
Because someone could forget to put the cheese in
or someone could forget to put the apple in.
[Kelsey] Okay. We got chocolate milk.
We have cheese.
Why do we have cheese balls?
And apples?
[Maneet] I did put all the whammies in one spot
so I'm hoping she gets that.
I already use the chocolate milk
in the buttermilk soak for the chicken.
[Kelsey] Second 10 minutes is like all about the cooking,
the first thing I wanna do is find the protein
and the only protein she has here is chicken breast.
Going for it.
I realized that I'm gonna have to pound this out
because I want my protein to be mostly cooked
by the time Stephanie walks in,
so the thinner it is, the safer we are.
[Maneet] Deep fried chicken and chicken tenders
is definitely a kid's favorite.
I made a buttermilk soak
because when you think of deep fried chicken,
buttermilk goes with that.
The cereals and the panko
so that can be crusted and egg,
so it's, like, right next to each other.
[Kelsey] I see cornflakes, I see panko, I'm like,
"Okay. Great.
We can do a breading really quickly."
All I know for sure is I'm frying chicken.
And then having a snack with cereal
and chocolate milk, what do I do with this?
It's so funny for everybody watching at home right now.
You know exactly what she was intending to do.
You heard the whole thing.
And then you listed to KBC kind of go through it.
Interesting.
Well, Guy, you're enjoying this too much.
All right. Here we go.
Winning Moms versus Dads is important.
Our dear friend, Lee Anne Wong,
her restaurant has been burnt to the ground
as well as a majority of Maui.
So I think all of us hopefully can get together today
and give all our winnings to her to hopefully rebuild.
I'm gonna use cereal and also panko for breading
because I want this chicken to be super crunchy.
Why not add a little bit more nostalgia with some cereal.
The chicken is gonna go in the marinade
and then I'm doing dredge.
I noticed the smart thing
that Maneet did was made sure
that she put the chocolate milk
into the batter already,
so no matter what, it's getting used.
[Karen] She took that off Kelsey's plate.
-[Shota] Yeah. -Which was really smart.
[Kelsey] Stephanie, I know she's coming right behind me.
I'm gonna make sure this chicken
drops at about 350
which is gonna get a good crust on the outside
and then I'm turning that fryer down,
so that's basically just cooking internally
until she gets there.
Great. Thank you.
You got it.
[Guy] It looks like he's got a little piece of action
working right here.
When I get to the station,
my turn to jump in for Team Dad,
I'm a middle man,
and so now I got to figure out what Nate's doing
and then I got to make sure
I do enough to help Christian.
And yeah, 10 minutes is not enough time to figure it out.
Is this yogurt?
I think just do a quick fruit salad,
because that's the way I'm gonna incorporate
the whammy ingredient,
that yogurt and the tangerines.
[Guy] What's going on here Beau?
[Beau] It looks like broccoli, cheddar,
so kids got to have something healthy
to eat possibly here.
I want to make pizza, broccoli and cheddar pizza.
The whammy really led me in that direction of like,
"Okay. Well, I got this cheese, I got to use it, how am I gonna do?
Broccoli cheddar."
Minds going a million miles an hour.
[Beau] There's a pizza element here,
let me get this pizza going.
Got to get it in the oven.
And I see broccoli and I also see cheddar,
what if these ingredients you absolutely have to use?
So I'm thinking that maybe there's a little element of a twist,
like you got to get your kids
to eat vegetables like broccoli.
[Nate] He sees the broccoli, he sees the cheddar, right?
I hope that's leading him in the right direction.
I have ricotta.
I take some ricotta, little olive oil,
micro-planting some parm,
mix that up, get it smeared on the pizza.
Next, a little salami, broccolis got to go on there.
This is exactly what I was thinking right here.
So Beau's got it.
[Beau] I put some cheddar down,
thinking cheddar might be one of the ingredients you have to have.
I need that cheddar from the lunchbox.
Grab those little pieces, buddy.
And then I get those pies in the oven.
[Nate] What happens when cheese doesn't get in?
I set this up, this is all my fault.
He did use the wrong cheese.
Too many options is maybe a little too confusing.
[Beau] Today, it's all about pride, man, the Dads.
Dude, you don't want to let your guys down, man.
It's not gonna be easy
because we got some stiff competition.
I can win on my terms and lose on mine,
but when you got people relying on you,
that's when the game kind of steps up to another level.
I'm frying and I'm putting some vegetables going.
So Maneet left lots of vegetables
and some instant rice.
So I'm thinking chicken cutlet with fried rice.
[Maneet] Rice.
Yes. Okay.
[Kelsey] It takes about three minutes to microwave.
And then the idea is that you let it
sit in the bag and it steams and deflates
which takes a few minutes.
KBC, what are you into now?
[Kelsey] I am warming up rice.
I'm gonna do some sautéed frozen vegetables.
[Maneet] I think Kelsey is very close
to the plan that I left for her.
[Guy] Where's the apple going?
I'm sautéing this apple with these vegetables, so.
Okay.
[Kelsey] There's apples everywhere
so I know I have to use that somewhere.
My brain is just thinking about kids,
so we always wanna incorporate protein, vegetables,
starches, fruits, so we got all this covered.
And add that into the instant rice.
Got it.
She has used two of the mandatory ingredients.
We just need to figure out the cheese.
[Kelsey] How you doing over there?
I'm living the dream over here.
Lies.
What's going here, Beau?
It's looks like he was rocking some little form of pizza.
It looks like he was trying to come up
of some type of like a fruit component.
-But I'm gonna try to get some stuff down. -[Guy] Okay.
While the pizza is in the oven,
I'm gonna work on this kind of like fruit salad idea.
He looks like he was trying to pull out
some type of a little fruit salad in here with the yogurt.
My kids eat these all the time.
Maybe I got to use this ingredient,
the yogurts open, I get it in a bowl,
and I prepped out some of this fruit.
Look how sexy these are.
[Nate] We got the yogurt and the tangerines,
and the fruit salad.
Let's go buddy.
You know, I love Christian, man,
he's gonna have to come in
and kind of get this thing figured out and I hope he can.
Chefs, I'm not gonna tell you what they are
or how many there are but there are mandatory ingredients
that you need to be using in this dish.
[Beau] There's multiple mystery ingredients.
Thinking about it,
there was two types of cheddars,
so that kind of threw me.
Oh, oh, boy.
That cheddar cheese.
I already had shredded cheddar,
then the minute Guy kind of said that, I'm kind of like,
"Okay. So I'm supposed to use this somehow."
[Guy] What do you got there?
[Beau] I got my pizzas.
I'm using the mandatory cheddar.
I actually went back and put some of that
block cheddar on the pizza.
He got it.
Thankfully, he saw that cheese on the board
and he threw it on that pizza.
[Guy] Ninety seconds, Beau Mac.
Are you leaving good clues?
I hope so.
[Nate] We're using the yogurt and the tangerines,
and the fruit salad, so we're good.
[Guy] What do you got there?
There are definitely some secret ingredients,
I feel pretty confident what those are.
Chocolate milk, apples, and cheese.
I wanna make sure that stays in the pile
and it's crystal clear, like, this is what we're working with here.
I've got chocolate milk and apples checked off our list.
We just need to figure out the cheese.
I am hoping that Stephanie will be able to do that.
[Kelsey] So Stephanie walks into that,
she was literally cooking.
It's the first thing she's gonna address.
She's gonna immediately address the fryer
that is bubbling over because it's cooking.
If anyone's gonna close you out,
it needs to be Stephanie.
One minute, chefs.
That was too quick, I got to tell you that.
Christian, I got pizzas fully loaded.
I got my fruit salad ready.
[Nate] Christian has the hardest position.
He's got to put the dish together.
Unfortunately, the burden's got to kind of fall
on the last guy standing.
Here we go, here we go.
Let's go, Christian.
[Guy] Thirty seconds.
Basically my job is to get the bulk of the cooking done
and then the other part is,
leave the breadcrumbs Maneet already started
and then leave my own for Stephanie like,
"Chickens in the fryer, rice is in the microwave."
And I don't have time to like do the whole process,
so I'm gonna press the door open before the time runs up.
So hopefully she realizes like,
"Oh, why is that door ajar right there?"
Fingers crossed.
[Guy] Five, four, three, two, one,
you're out of the kitchen, let's go!
[Beau] That was not exciting.
I don't know what to... I didn't do anything.
[Shota] We're gonna have Stephanie and Christian come in,
with big question marks over their heads
when they run into this place.
Let's go!
[whistle blown]
[laughter]
[indistinct]
Cereal.
-What the... Dude. -[Guy] First impression, what are you seeing?
This... I don't know what any of this means.
I take a step back and assessed the situation
in what the hell is going on here.
Hopefully Christian will look in the oven.
He's just looking everywhere.
What?
Hey, Guido. How are you doing?
-How are you doing, buddy? -Hey, bubba.
Go get them. You got nine and a half minutes.
Our first two cooks are done and the finisher cooks are in.
I'm excited to see how they're gonna finish off the dishes.
It's weird.
Guys, I'm looking around.
There's this giant bowl of yogurt and fruit.
Pre-cooked chicken fingers?
There's a pot of water that looked like
it had a vegetable blanching.
I've got a lot of questions. I'm really stressed out, man.
What?
-[Beau] Bro. -I'm sorry, man.
-I'm sorry. -[Beau] Dude, don't apologize to me.
I was just... I was trying to do whatever I could.
What is this?
Guy said do an elevated kids,
-like, classic, right? -Mmm-hmm.
[Nate] And immediately I thought pizza.
[Beau] Yeah.
After you guys left, they gave us a lunchbox.
The lunchbox has whammy ingredients that we had to use.
-Tangerines. -[Beau] Okay. Yeah. All right.
-[Nate] Yogurt packets. -[Beau] I... That's what...
-Okay, so I use that too. -[Nate] And the cheese...
-In the package. -[Beau] Yeah.
I was so worried about the cheese.
-Yeah. -[Beau] Ugh.
But I was just like, I had used the shredded stuff.
Luckily there was a few pieces left on the board.
[Beau] Dude, I'm glad I got that right.
I don't think Christian's looked in the oven yet
and he's already working though.
Oh, I don't know if I would look in the oven.
What?
-Open the oven. Open... -Please open the oven, Christian.
And then I look in the oven, I almost didn't.
But then I look in the oven...
-Broccoli, cheddar. -Oh, oh, you don't...
-Oh, Christian [indistinct] oh, my gosh. -Oh, he did it.
-Yeah, he did it. -Kid-friendly food.
Oh. I feel better.
There's a broccoli and cheddar pizza in the works.
Now this is good. I feel good.
You know, I love pizza.
Got it.
I know it's not gonna cook in the next 10 minutes
and get the color that I need
and especially get that bottom cooked properly.
So I take one out, I put it under the broiler,
I cook the top.
Come on, Christian.
Pull this thing out, baby, you got this.
This looks good.
Let me check on this fried chicken.
-You are like so on track. -Nice.
[Maneet] So basically, what the challenge was,
a kid's favorite elevated.
-[Kelsey] Okay. Okay. -[Maneet] You know, fried chicken
-which is a kid's favorite, right? -[Kelsey] Yes.
-Like rice which is a kid's favorite, right? -Yes.
So my first mission is,
"Let's get this chicken out of the fryer."
I have no idea how long it's been in the fryer.
It looks golden brown and delicious.
Do you think this is chicken?
We got lunchboxes and in the lunchboxes
were three ingredients which were mandatory.
-[Kelsey] For sure, chocolate milk, cheese. -[Maneet] Yes. Yes.
[Kelsey] And apples.
-All in which we're using. -And chocolate milk
-I put in the buttermilk. -In the buttermilk...
-[Maneet] Yes. -[Kelsey] brine.
So we have the vegetables and apples cooking.
The only thing I have not used yet is the cheese.
-But I left a pile. -[Maneet] I saw that.
-[Kelsey] If she can figure it out. -[Maneet] Yeah.
Tomatoes, chop masala...
[indistinct] cook, I had in the microwave opened,
so she needs to grab it, I'm hoping she sees the microwave.
[Maneet] I hope so too.
[Kelsey] Please see the microwave.
You're welcome for that one.
Oh, my God.
-Rice! Rice! -Yes.
We got rice.
Ernie loves rice.
There's some vegetables and apples
that are being sautéed.
There is some rice in the microwave.
I'm gonna throw that into the vegetables
with the apples to make a vegetable rice
like you would make for kids.
Put the chili crunch in there.
I love a little heat in a kid's dish.
It's just gonna get their palate to grow.
And that's what I wanted her to do.
It's like we're reading each other's minds.
[Maneet] I know.
Definitely a kid's favorite.
It's a nice, elevated version.
So I feel like Stephanie's actually
gotten closer to Maneet's...
-[Shoto] Yeah. -[Karen] original idea
with the fried rice and the chicken katsu.
Team Mom has communication as our strength for sure.
Team Mom is better, hands down.
Chefs, I do wanna let you know
that there are three mandatory must-use
ingredients on your counter.
Six and a half minutes.
[Beau] We're good. We got the yogurt and the tangerines
and the fruit salad.
We got the pizza going, cheese is on there.
Nice.
[Christian] I hear that there's three mandatory ingredients
that needs to be used.
So I look around and my mind is kind of spinning
because there's so many random different ingredients.
I got cheddar steaks, I got shredded cheddar, so...
Something standing out to me about this
like whole cheddar situation.
There's cheddar ready on the pie.
Chicken fingers.
This chicken situation is absolutely out of control.
This is super... Dude, this is like ambrosia.
The side fruit salad with yogurt,
absolutely throwing me off.
I don't know if it's a mandatory ingredient.
[Marc] I think the dads are gonna come out
with more questions by the end than answers.
Yeah. [laughs]
What's your game plan here, uh, Iron Chef?
I'm just trying to figure out
what the mandatory ingredients are.
Then I looked to the left of the stove
and I see chocolate milk,
Babybel cheese, and apples.
[Maneet] I did put all the whammies in one spot.
I knew exactly what things need to be used.
I love how Maneet set things up in a way to make sure
they know that they have to use those three ingredients.
You know, it's funny when you observe the difference.
It seems like the moms, they are, you know,
very careful about lining all the ingredients out.
The guys seems, "Just go at it, grab stuff, let's..."
-[Karen] Right. -"figure something out."
[laughs]
[Stephanie] Three mandatory ingredients?
My thought is that chocolate milk,
Babybel cheese, and apples,
it's something that you might put into your kids' lunch.
So perhaps those are something we're supposed to put into this dish.
I feel like this cheese is here on purpose,
and then chocolate milk is here on purpose.
I see that the apples are already being sautéed
with the vegetables.
I'm not sure if the chocolate milk
or the cheese has been used in some other way,
but because I can't see it,
I'm just gonna use it again.
I immediately think to myself,
"Let's make a sauce."
[Guy] Okay. For the...
-For the fried chicken. -Okay.
[Maneet] So I've used the chocolate milk...
-I put in the butter... -[Kelsey] In the buttermilk...
-[Maneet] Yes. -[Kelsey] brine.
Yeah, but she wouldn't know, right?
-She doesn't know. -She didn't know?
I'm really interested in that sauce.
What is that gonna taste like?
[Guy] Five minutes.
What's your game plan here, uh, Iron Chef?
I'm just trying to make a sauce
with the chocolate milk and the cheese.
[Maneet] Cheese chocolate sauce?
-Okay. -I love that!
[Karen] The dads team and the mom team has used
all three ingredients now.
[Stephanie] I don't know if this cheese is going to melt whatsoever.
We need a delicious sauce and, you know,
tiny little cheese it doesn't melt all that well it seems.
So, I put in the blender,
throw in some butter,
and then I see my favorite Japanese mayo on the table.
Thank you, Maneet, for that gift.
Just throwing that in there.
[Marc] Oh, my God, what is that?
Is that the chocolate milk and now Kewpie mayonnaise?
I see you guys judging.
[blender whirring]
[Stephanie] I love the idea of using chocolate
and the cheese together in a sauce.
These little cheeses that are salty,
super rich and creamy, it's a little bit sweet
and earthy from the chocolate
and it really meshes well together.
[Kelsey] Well done, Stephanie.
-It's well done. -[chuckles] So good.
[Guy] The boys built a pizza, so that's nice.
Hopefully, Christian takes his home right now.
-Yeah. -What's he doing?
[Beau] I don't know.
[Christian] I'm just gonna assume that everything
is a mandatory ingredient, okay?
If you think I'm taking any chances?
I'm not going out because I left off
an ingredient that needed to be used.
I still got chicken fingers.
I need to crisp it up.
[Nate] We don't need the chicken.
I tried to do too much, I screwed this up.
[Christian] Something inside of me didn't wanna just throw
all the chicken on top of an already cooked pizza.
I don't wanna hear anybody say, "Hey, you just threw it on there."
So they end up in the fruit salad.
This is so weird.
[Beau] He threw chicken fingers in the yogurt.
Okay. All right. Well...
[Christian] We're adding protein in the food
so our kids eat it because, you know, kids...
It's like they're not gonna eat a lot of this stuff, so you got to hide it.
I think we have two very different dishes...
-Very, yeah. -coming our way today.
-You... What... -[laughing]
-[Marc] What's giving you that idea? -[Karen] We'll see.
[Beau] Knowing what I know now,
I probably would've took a lot things away
and just focus on, like, making the simplest most
recognizable dish and then leaving that alone.
Okay. Here we go.
Three minutes.
God, are you kidding me, bro?
I don't know what's the mandatory ingredient.
I wanted just to make sure at the very least
that I cook this pizza the right way.
The thing is, it's very easy to cook
the top of a pizza to be pretty.
It's harder to, um, make sure
-the bottom is crispy and nice. -Right.
[Christian] So, I take some of my rendered bacon fat,
put it on the sheet pan.
I put the pizza back on it
and I put that pan on the grill.
So that bacon fat was gonna fry the bottom of that pizza.
-[Beau] Yes. -[Nate] Yes. Yes.
[Beau] Look at that.
He's gonna fry the pizza in bacon fat.
Yeah, he's an animal.
[Guy] Two minutes.
Petroni, get your plates!
[Shota] I'm actually worried for the dads team
if they're gonna be able to finish the dish
at this point to be completely honest.
[Hunter] You're good. You got this.
--Is he gonna make it? -I hope so.
[Christian] I've cook here a lot
and never in my career of Guy's Grocery Games history
have I felt this disjointed when plating a dish.
[plates clanging]
I'm gonna work on bringing this plate together.
These veggies taste delicious.
I'm gonna put rice down on milk to plate a nice big heap.
Apples are there.
Next, some delicious fried chicken.
And a chocolate cheese gravy to go on top.
Chocolate milk cheese gravy is not bad.
Chocolate milk cheese gravy?
-[Stephanie] Yeah. -[Guy] Over a veggie rice?
[Stephanie] Veggie rice.
There it goes. Okay. There goes the sauce.
-Ooh. -This is perfect.
-Look at the... -[claps]
[Maneet] the gravy.
With the cheese and the chocolate milk.
[Kelsey] Genius.
Ahh, I love ths.
Chefs, you have one minute left.
One minute.
Is there crispy chicken in the yogurt?
[Christian] There is now, babe.
-[Beau] What's that now? -[Nate] Oh, that's our salad.
-Something salad. -[Beau] [indistinct]
[Nate] With yogurt and the tangerines.
He put chicken in the fruit salad.
This is what dads do.
Dads get it done in the last minute.
This is what we do.
Thirty seconds!
Phew, just in time.
I'm cutting up my pizza.
The bottom is just perfectly crisp up.
I'm dolloping my ricotta parmigiano-reggiano
over the top like this.
I still wanna eat the pizza.
-All right, Chris, let's get them on the plate. -He's right.
Let's get that on there. You got 15 seconds, chef.
Roger that.
Oh, my God.
But as the closer, I feel the weight of the world.
[Guy] Five, four, three, two, one.
That's it, chefs, stop working.
[clapping]
I mean, a big applause
for playing this game.
[Karen] Huge applause for playing this game.
-Ahh. -[giggles]
[Nate] I think I'm tried to do too much.
-Um, we learned. -[laughs]
[Kelsey] This looks good.
[Maneet] Yes, it looks fantastic.
[Kelsey] Mmm-hmm. Yeah.
-I think I chipped my nail. -I know.
-That was the hardest part of that. -I swear.
[Guy] I got to tell you, moms versus dads,
that was a really good relay.
Let's see how close you got it to the final plate.
Let's take it to the judges, right this way.
Judges, our Mom and Dad relay teams
have completed their dishes.
The question is, how close to the dish
I originally asked for.
That's the question. We're about to find out.
Now we're gonna be starting off with the moms.
Let's bring out the rest of your team members,
Kelsey B., Maneet Chauhan, come on out.
[giggles] Can't wait to talk to them.
[Guy] Chef Izard, do you have any idea
what the three mandatory ingredients were?
I do have an idea.
I saw some things on the station
that would be some of my favorite things
in my lunch box growing up.
One being this delicious cheese that...
-Yeah. -was always in our refrigerator growing up.
Then there was chocolate milk and apples.
So, there's always an apple in Ernie's lunch box.
So what we have in front of you is a weeknight dinner
that represents all three of us on a plate.
So, Maneet serves vegetarian dishes a lot in her home
with rice and a lot of veggies on the inside,
so we've got apple in there as well.
On top, we have fried chicken
which I can imagine eating at Kelsey's house...
-Thank you. Thank you. -all the time.
And then a sauce that's definitely my style in top.
Taking that chocolate milk, the cheese,
a little bit of Japanese mayo,
and some butter and making a gravy
to go with the chicken.
Maneet, would you like to tell what the competition was?
It was a kid's favorite elevated...
-Okay. -for the judges.
-[Kelsey] Perfect. -I'm extremely impressed.
I mean, this was really difficult.
Good job on frying the chicken
and you ran out and left it in there.
You were really lucky she went and looked in there.
We were worried about that. That sauce works.
It's a well-balanced sauce.
The apple, although it's worked in the dish,
I would've love to seeing that apple maybe used
in a slaw or something with a little of, uh, texture
and could use a little bit more of a pop.
I do feel like it's like an elevated sort of dish.
-You know, this is successful. -[laughs]
If it's not a chicken finger, my nieces don't want it.
And we've taken it and you're making it a little grown up.
But for an elevated dish,
I wish that you would pounded it out
a little bit thinner.
If there's anyone that can put chocolate
and cheese together, it's Stephanie Izard.
I really like the usage of the chocolate milk.
I was very surprised in how much you put into that sauce,
but the way it tastes at the very end is delightful.
I wish it had a little bit more chili oil
because I really like the balance of chili oil
and that cheese sauce.
And everything on the dish is delicious.
[Guy] All right. Thank you very much.
Up next, the dad team.
Come on in, guys.
[laughs] What's up, bros?
What's up, Dads? See, this is what dads do.
-They... -What's up, Dads?
pretend they're all macho and not nervous.
Chef Petroni, you had three mandatory ingredients to use.
Any idea what those might have been?
-Broccoli... -[buzzer buzzes]
-Cheddar... -[bell dings]
-And chicken... -[buzzer buzzes]
[Guy] You got one of the three correct.
One of them was the cheddar.
-Yogurt. -[bell dings]
[Guy] Yogurt was one of them.
You didn't get a real good, uh, clue left for you,
but it was the orange.
-All right. So Christian... -[laughs]
-[Guy] tell us what you made. -What I prepared today
was a pizzette pizza.
I crisped up the bottom so beautifully
with some of that rendered bacon that was on my station.
Atop, you're gonna find some charred broccolini,
a little bit of cheddar cheese,
and on top of this pizza
is a mixture of fresh ricotta,
parmigiano reggiano.
Off to the side, you got your kid's cup, right?
You want the kids to get their vitamins
and minerals that's so important, right?
There was a chicken fingers on my station,
so I snuck in even a little bit of protein as well.
[Marc] Wait a minute. We have a fruit salad...
-There's chicken here? -with yogurt and chicken fingers?
-Yeah. -I don't get
what's so confusing about that.
-[laughter] -[Guy] Chef Nate Appleman,
why don't you go ahead
and tell your team what the dish was to be?
[Nate] It was an elevated kids favorite.
-Great. -There's no kid
that doesn't love pizza
and yes, that bottom is super crispy, no flop.
You know, I love sneaking vegetables
-into that pizza for the kids. -See?
Uh, you know, the chicken and the cheese
on the fruit salad, it's a new combination,
so we haven't seen anything like that before.
A kid-friendly dish,
I don't know that it's elevated enough.
I really like it crispy on the bottom of the pizza.
Thank you, chef.
Um, I think I was a little bit confused
with kind of just this in general
because the first piece I grabbed was the chicken
thinking it was fruit.
I do like that you put it in separately.
When I was growing up, I really like my food separated.
You know, it was a difficult challenge,
let me start by saying that.
I mean, you got all the ingredients in here, that's tough.
I felt so bad for you, Christian.
You came out and you looked at that station
and was like, "Oh, my God." It was wild. It was wild.
-[Marc] "Where do we go?" -Yeah.
Um, but I think we all know here,
nobody really has to taste it.
This...
It's not very good, guys.
[laughter]
[Marc] What am I supposed to say?
I'm sure you guys would do better next time.
-Yeah. -Next time, huh?
We love you, Marc. Thank you.
-Thank you. -All right.
Thank you very much, judges.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Christian] Oh, boy.
He never gets up like that.
[laughter]
Chefs, judges.
Typically at this juncture,
I would be sending the teams back to the kitchen
so the judges could deliberate.
But at this point, I would just like
to ask the judges for their answer.
Is it the mom team or the dad team
that will go on the shopping spree?
It's the mom team.
It's moms all the way, come on.
The moms got it.
There you are. Congratulations, Moms.
-You win. -[applause]
-Yes. -It's not your dish. [laughs]
[Guy] So, here, gentleman, I just wanna say this.
The relay cook is the most imperfect
competition that there is.
But, when it gets to that point,
when fried chicken strips have hit the fruit salad...
-[laughter] -[Guy] At that point,
we're gonna pretty much say,
"Goodnight, gentlemen.
It was a pleasure having you."
[Beau] Thank you. Thank you.
All right. All right.
This whole fruit salad fiasco debacle...
I wish I put it on the pizza.
I could have made something out of that.
-So not... -[indistinct]
[Nate] This was one of the more challenging things
I've... Not only participated in, but had to witness,
here at Flavortown.
Thank you.
Forgive us.
If I'm gonna lose to anybody,
it's gonna be the people I respect and love,
and the moms of this world
showed us why they are number one.
It was a clear cut winner, the moms.
Congratulations.
-Well done. -[clapping]
Now, are you ready to shop for some money?
-Yes. -All the way.
-Yup. -All the way.
Chef Izard, Kelsey B.,
and the Spice Queen, let's go shopping.
All right, chefs. Here's what we got for you.
There are three clues on this card
that lead to ingredients in the market, okay?
Now each correct item is worth [tongue clicks] $5,000.
You'll have to shop for them relay style, okay?
With one of you running into market,
finding the item, bring back the right ingredient,
and then the next member of your team
will take off looking for the next ingredient.
You'll be shopping in the order in which you cooked.
-Okay. -Okay.
I have three clues.
I will read you the clue.
You will take off running for it.
You guys can collaborate.
You can scream all you want as that person goes,
but as soon as that chef takes off, that time starts.
-One minute... -Okay.
three items.
-[Maneet] What? -$5,000 an item.
-First up will be... -Yes.
Chef Maneet Chauhan.
Your first clue...
You can run when you're ready.
-[Kelsey] Kid's top? -[Guy] Hang on.
-Kid's top? -It's a vegetable.
Rutabaga.
-Rutabaga. -[Kelsey] Rutabaga?
-[Stephanie] Rutabaga? -Rutabaga.
[Kelsey] Is that a top? Rutabaga.
-Go, go, go, go! -[cheering]
She's off! She's off!
-[Kelsey] Maneet! -[Stephanie] All right.
Come on, come on, come on, come on.
Yes. All right. All right. Are you ready, Kelsey?
Okay. I'm ready. I'm ready. I'm ready.
Let's see the rutabaga.
-Arborio. -Go, get Arborio.
-Go! -Where's rice?
-Gonna go get it. -[cheering]
Arborio. Arborio.
Oh, my God, first one.
[Karen] She's got it. That quick, girl.
[Maneet] Yes.
-Avocado. -Avocado oil.
What aisle? What aisle?
Fifteen seconds.
Avocado oil, where is it, where is it?
-You got this, Stephanie. -Got it.
-Run, run, run. -She's coming.
[Guy] Five, four, three, two, one.
-[cheering] -Put it up. Put it up.
To the momsketeers, avocado oil and $15,000.
-[cheering] -[Guy] And there you have it.
Join us next time when we see what other surprises
we have up at aisles at Guy's Grocery Games.
-See you there. Adios! -[cheering]