- I'm Tituss Burgess
and this is an explosive episode of Dishmantled.
The bad-ass competition where we blast a dish to smithereens...
TITUSS: Oh!
...to see if two blind-folded chefs...
- Ugh. - TITUSS: ...can guess it...
- LINA: I'm pretty sure I know what this is, man. [chuckles]
- TITUSS: ...then make it.
- ALI: Let's do this!
- TITUSS: Whoever makes the dish closest to what exploded on them
wins $5,000.
- ALL: Whoa!
- You ready to watch me blow some shit up?
[dish breaks]
- My name is Ali Haji Hidari.
I'm bringing the Jersey boy to the Dishmantled kitchen.
- My name is Lina Zarcaro.
Is this gonna hurt?
- Once I hit this button, you'll only have 30 minutes to taste and cook for Rocco...
...Michael and myself.
All rise!
Lets... get... Dishmantled.
[slow-motion] Oh...
[normal speed] Oh!
- ALI: Oh!
Oh, my goodness!
- Eww!
- That looks like the worst thing at Burning Man ever.
- Ugh, what the [bleep] is this?
I don't know. [laughs]
- You gotta taste it!
- Ugh.
- I taste something that is definitely creamy.
I have absolutely no idea what type of diary product this is.
- All I can smell is cheese,
and I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing,
but I'm covered in it.
-TITUSS: What do you think it is?
- Nacho cheese? The gooey stadium nacho cheese.
- It's a cheese food, whatever it is. - Correct. That's right.
- It's not cheese, it's a cheese food.
Look at the ground, though. The brown looks like deer pellets.
- I definitely taste some type of protein in there.
The meat doesn't taste too fatty, so I think that it might be turkey meat.
- I'm a butcher, so I know how to identify meat.
It's definitely ground beef.
- TITUSS: Let's get cooking, chefs!
- MICHAEL: Come on, chefs, let's go!
- Come on! - Come on, chefs!
- In the tube, I tasted some cheese sauce,
there's lettuce, there's beans, there's ground beef.
The dish that exploded on my face was definitely a nacho salad.
You all right over there, Jersey?
- I'm doing all right, what about you? - Pretty good, man.
- When I was in the tube, I tasted turkey and I felt a chip of some sort.
It almost felt like a taco shell had been broken in half,
so I thought, "OK, this dish is got to be turkey tacos."
OK.
- Rocco Dispirito. - Oh, my--
[Tituss laughs]
- What would you make?
- I would be making a nachos grande
sort of situation... - TITUSS: Hmm...
- with that multiple layers and eight kinds of cheese.
- This really is like a-- kind of a dream dish for me.
- For my palate-- - Is it really?
- Oh, I--I have such low-end taste.
[chuckles]
Don't give me truffles, give me melted cheese.
- I had absolutely no idea what type of dairy product I tasted in the tube.
All right.
So, I'm gonna throw some sour cream on my tacos.
- OK, I see grated cheese going into a pan that I think has some cream in it.
- MICHAEL: Yeah, the cream. - So, that's the creamy
cheese sauce perhaps?
- In the tube, the first thing I noticed was cheese sauce.
Ali's tacos look good, but I don't see cheese sauce anywhere on his plate.
- Just under 30 seconds. - ROCCO: Thirty seconds! Ooh, child!
[upbeat rock music playing]
- MICHAEL: Five seconds! - Five...
- ALL: four, three, two, one!
- TITUSS: Time's up!
- Ooh, chilli!
- What the hell is this, Ali?
- So, I have made for you Freakin' Awesome Turkey Tacos.
- This is a very delicious taco.
Really curious why you chose turkey instead of beef or pork.
- I, initially, was like, "OK, I'm tasting some type of meat,
it's definitely is not a fatty meat."
- MICHAEL: How come you went with sour cream?
- I definitely tasted some type of dairy
and I knew that it was definitely like, maybe a sour cream.
- It didn't occur to you that it might just be carnival cheese?
Just like carnival cheese sauce. - [Tituss chuckles]
- It could've been. It could've been nacho cheese sauce. It could've been nachos!
- Thank you, Ali. - No problem, thank you.
- Now, onto Lina's dish. What the hell is this?
- For you, I have a nacho salad.
- Well, what's a nacho salad?
Does the lettuce make it the salad? - Yeah.
It was way too gooey. There had to have been
some sort of nacho cheese sauce in it.
You--you're not gonna put that on a taco.
- ROCCO: It's quite tasty. - It's really good.
- Ali thought it was ground turkey.
You thought it was ground beef. Why?
- It felt a little bit more meatier than turkey.
- This was delicious. Thank you, Lina.
- You're welcome. - Let's cut to the chase.
Only one of you is walking out of here with $5,000.
Are you ready to find out what exploded in your face?
- Yes. - LINA: Yes.
- Are you guys ready to find out?
- I'm ready. - I'm ready.
- All right, the Dishmantled plate was...
- ALL: Whoa!
- ALI: OK!
- TITUSS: Nachos!
You both correctly identified the tomatoes,
lettuce, and cilantro-- - [bell dinging]
but the winner also detected the cheese sauce and ground beef...
which means...
Lina, you're the winner!
[all cheering]
- Yes!
- Now get your little hienie up in that tube
and get your Benjamins, girl!
- It feels amazing to win Dishmantled.
Money, money, money!