I'm Tituss Burgess,
and this is "Dishmantled!"
The bad-ass competition where blast a dish to smithereens!
Are they okay?
To see if two blindfolded chefs can guess it...
I have an idea.
Then make it.
Whoever makes a dish closest to what exploded on them,
wins $5,000.
- Aah! - Wow.
Y'all ready to watch me blow some shit up?
My name is Priyanka Naik.
I am competing because I have a great palette,
and a large ego.
My name is Joe Naimoli,
and I'm ready to get hit with a shotgun blast full of food.
Once I hit this button,
you'll only have 30 minutes to taste and cook,
for Antoni, Dan, and myself.
All rise.
Let's get "Dishmantled!"
Four, three, two...
Oh, my God.
Ugh!
What is that?
- Oh, my God. - Are they okay?
- Okay. - That looks like a crime scene.
I'm at the wall.
I can't see shit.
I'm eating off myself, I'm eating off my shoes, my boots.
I'm going...
"What the hell is this?"
I saw what I think was an egg yolk.
I definitely know what this is.
I find a precisely cut wedge.
This is for sure pita.
I wanna taste it.
You do?
They've been in there a long time. Hurry up! Time's tickin', kids!
All right, they're off to the races.
It's go time.
So, I have to go with what I'm absolutely sure
I know is in this dish. Which is...
Why am I here?
...nothing.
Why is this happening now?
Because everything I tasted
could be something else.
Onions? Maybe. Tomatoes? Question mark.
I have no idea.
But being that I'm Italian, you're getting a sauce.
I'm gonna make a rustic marinara with a little penne,
and hope for the best.
I gotta have onions, garlic, peeled tomatoes.
Know what? We're under the gun.
I add some basil, 'cause (bleep) parsley.
- You think you know what you're doing? - Ha ha.
In the tube, I tasted something stringy,
which I think is zucchini.
There is something tangy, like a tomato-y marinara.
And there's something carby, which is a pita.
So I'm making a zoodle marinara,
with a side of toasted pita.
What I tasted had a lot of heat,
so I'm using red crushed pepper.
Yep. It's a little spicy.
Dan, what do you think it is?
I saw some tomatoes. The base is tomato.
- We know this. - Clearly.
I saw what looked like a mozzarella slice.
I saw what I think is a pita.
To me, that is a dish I do not know.
Didn't you say that you saw an egg yolk?
- Oh, yeah. I saw an egg yolk. - Oh, yeah. You did say that earlier.
When you said egg yolk, I was thinking shakshuka.
Which is a Middle Eastern dish. - What did you think it was?
- I, well, I know what it is. - Okay. Okay.
That's the basis for the whole show.
Chefs, you've got 11 minutes left. - Okay.
There was some type of cheese.
Yeah.
I know I tasted cheese in there. Who doesn't love cheese, anyway?
So it's going in the goddamn dish.
I'm gonna use ricotta.
How you doin' over there?
Probably better than you.
Dan, would you step into that tube, without a hazmat suit,
for $5,000?
I am wearing a light beige knit.
No, amount of money...
could find me in there.
Thirty seconds!
I hope your pasta's ready.
Oh, God, there's macaroni everywhere.
Did you recreate what was dishmantled?
In five, four, three, two, one.
Your time is gone.
Now, Joe,
what the hell is this?
I made a rustic marinara with a little penne
and a little dollop of ricotta.
The sauce is very nice.
- Thank you. - I think this is delicious.
I don't know if this is what you're supposed to have made.
Is this dish a reflection of your heritage,
or is it what you actually found?
I tasted cheese up there. I tasted cheese off my shoe.
You what?
Thank you, Joe.
Priyanka. Can I call you Pri-Pri?
You can call me Queen P.
- Ooh. - Priyanka knows herself.
She does.
What in the (bleep) did you make?
So that is a
zoodle marinara with toasted pita.
You both tasted the sauce, right?
- Yeah. - Yours was sweet.
Yours is spicy.
That might be just a touch of red-crushed pepper.
What about the zucchini? Did you for sure taste zucchini?
That was the first thing that shot into my mouth.
Sentence I never thought I'd hear anyone say,
but here we are. - You know.
- Did you not taste any dairy? - I didn't taste any dairy.
One of you thinks that there's no dairy,
when the other thinks it's half made up of dairy.
- Yes. - That's right.
Thank you, Queen P.
All right. Are you ready to find out
who's walking out of here $5,000 richer?
The dishmantled plate was...
Shakshuka!
- Shakshuka. - Shakshuka!
The winner guessed an impressive seven correct ingredients.
And that contestant is...
Queen P.
Congratulations, Priyanka.
- Congrats! - Yay!
Well done.
Priyanka, your use of the pita bread and chili flakes
is what catapulted you to glory.
I won. Of course.
For my Queen P. ego, that's all she needed.