TITUSS BURGESS: My name is Tituss Burgess.
This is "Dishmantled!"
The bad-ass competition where we blast a dish to smithereens...
- (laughing) - That was awesome!
TITUSS: ...to see if two blindfolded chefs can guess it...
- What the heck?
TITUSS: ...then make it.
Whoever makes a dish closest to what exploded on them
wins $5,000.
- Drink to that. - Okurr.
- Y'all ready to watch me blow some shit up?
(shattering)
DAN DUPRAW: My name is Dan DuPraw.
Some people call me the Nancy Drew of identifying ingredients.
TOVA STERLING: My name is Tova Sterling.
I am so excited because when else,
as a full-grown adult, are you gonna have food explode in your face?
- Once I hit this button, you'll have 30 minutes to taste and cook,
for Marcus, Michael, and myself.
All rise.
Let's get "Dishmantled!"
Oh, my God.
DAN: Ohh!
(laughing)
- That came at them with a vengeance.
- I've had those mornings.
- I am having none of this.
(thuds) - Ow!
- Oh! Tova's havin' a bad day. - Yeah.
MICHAEL CHE: So what are we seeing?
- You have the red is tomato, right?
MICHAEL: What are those-- What are those green things?
- Well, it's definitely a bunch of olives and celery, right?
TOVA: I taste something briny.
It's an olive. I feel something else. It's celery.
WTF?
- I can't tell what that is.
MARCUS SAMUELSSON: Is that pasta?
Like, what is that?
- I keep eating this bready thing. I don't know what it is.
TOVA: I taste something else.
DAN: Okay, I think there's meat, here.
- It has breading on it.
- I don't even know, but it's mushy.
TOVA: Maybe some sort of shrimp?
- Maybe chicken?
- Shrimp? - Chicken?
MARCUS: Now they're just having dinner.
- He ate so much.
Guys, come on. - Let's go. We got this.
- Okay, okay.
- Whoa!
- I'm gonna guess, like a gazpacho.
TITUSS: Oh! - Mm.
- Are you a good cook, Michael? - No!
(all laughing)
DAN: What is the bready, rubbery mush that was shot at me?
My best guess is, like, maybe waffles?
What do I put olives, tomato,
mushy meat, and waffles in?
(gasps)
I'm making chicken and waffles, Bloody Mary.
We are havin' a full brunch spread.
TOVA: In the tube, I tasted something soaked in tomato juice.
And I felt ridges.
There has to be waffles.
Tomato juice, olives, celery, waffles. It's brunch.
And I tasted something with breading on it.
I think it was shrimp.
So I'm making waffles, Bloody Mary, and shrimp?
I don't know.
- We have less than 15 minutes!
- Wow.
- Tova's making a shrimp concoction, which I'm very excited about.
- Chicken and waffle with a Bloody Mary? Yeah!
Now, shrimp and waffle? Hmm...
- A little baby shaker.
I think in this Bloody Mary,
there was celery or asparagus.
Also, blue cheese stuffed olives, tomato juice, hot sauce.
Can't forget the booze.
Fingers crossed I used all the right ingredients.
And also fingers crossed that Tova didn't.
TOVA: Brunch without booze is just people eating at 3:00
with no reason.
These are going to be whack low-budget Bloody Marys. (chuckles)
For the Bloody Mary ingredients,
I think I tasted celery, vegetable juice, vodka.
And then I just blank out
about the rest of the ingredients. Ooh.
It's in God's hands now.
(dramatic music playing)
- Five, four, three,
two, one... - Aah!
- Time's up!
- Whoo!
- What the hell is this, Dan?
(chuckling)
- This is the Dan's Chicken and Waffle Bloody Special.
- This Bloody Mary is delicious. - Is it?
- I'm not mad. - (laughing): Hey!
TITUSS: What made you choose chicken?
DAN: I realized it was fried chicken
when I felt bready, mushy meat.
- This is a very nice dish.
- Thank you, Dan.
What is this, darling?
- I have made you a Bloody Mary,
and some waffles and shrimp.
MICHAEL: I've never had a shrimp and waffle dish before.
And, um, like I would never wanna order that.
- It makes sense that it would have been chicken and waffles.
But I thought I tasted shrimp.
MARCUS: Your dish is pretty.
But this ain't a Bloody Mary.
You're missing the horseradish,
the Worcester sauce...
- It tastes like alcoholic vegetable juice.
(laughing)
- That's exactly what it is.
- Thank you, Tova.
Dan, Tova.
Only one of you can walk away with $5,000.
(dramatic music playing)
TITUSS: The dishmantled plate is...
...a chicken and waffle Bloody Mary.
And the winner is... Dan!
(laughing)
- Okurr.
TITUSS: Your ability to correctly identify the protein in the dish
is what earned you the title of Dishmantled champion.
Tova, thank you for introducing us to shrimp and waffles,
a new dish we'll never forget.
- I'm an idiot.
- Congratulations again, Dan.
Now go get your $5,000.
(Dan yelling)
(Tituss laughing)