- I'm Tituss Burgess,
and this is Dishmantled!
The badass competition, where we blast a dish to smithereens...
- Aiyo! - ROY: Damn, they got to eat that?
- TITUSS: ...to see if two blindfolded chefs can guess it...
then make it. - SHAMEIK : Let's get it!
- TITUSS: Whoever makes a dish closest to what exploded on them
wins $5,000.
[all exclaiming]
Ready to watch me blow some shit up?
- My name is Jae Lee.
I have a master's in street cred and have a doctorate in finesse.
- I'm Ari Botsford
I'm coming in today with a positive mental attitude.
It's gonna be absolutely disgusting and I cannot wait.
- Once I hit this buzzon, you'll have 30 minutes to taste and cook
for Roy, Shameik, and myself.
Judges, all rise.
Let's get...
[vocalizing] Dishmantled!
- RECORDED FEMALE VOICE: Four, three, two...
-TITUSS: Eat, my children.
♪
Oh! Ew!
- ARI: Oh, my God!
[all exclaiming]
- Did that scare you?
[judges laughing]
- ARI: [in Spanish] I don't like it at all.
First texture that I find is soggy...
I think this might be oatmeal
and that's because I'm tasting a grain.
It's gross as hell.
- It tastes creamy, but also very tart.
- I taste some pomegranate.
- Bread. - Parsley.
- JAE: The pepperiness of arugula.
- I'm tasting components, but I'm not tasting a dish.
- Now, based on the color,
what do you think it is?
- I don't think it would have been raw eggs,
'cause I don't think you would've had 'em eat raw eggs.
That green, it's gotta be guacamole. - OK.
- Thought it was guacamole, yeah. - ROY: Yeah.
- It could be split peas, too. Why guacamole?
- Well, the green looks like avocado.
- [whispering] I know the dish, but these mother [bleep] don't.
[whispering] Bottoms up, bitches.
[all laughing]
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Oh, the chefs are out. The goggles go a-flying!
- SHAMEIK : Let's get it!
- JAE: In the Tube, I tasted
pomegranate seeds, parsley, arugula, and bread.
My mind is taking me to a salad.
Let's go with it.
I also tasted a dressing. It was creamy, but acidic,
and this creaminess can only be replicated by avocados.
So I'm making a summer salad with green goddess.
- TITUSS: Shameik. - Uh-huh?
- What would you be making in order to win this $5,000?
- I would probably be tryin' to make some guacamole.
- Guacamole is not a dish.
- To go with some nachos. - Yes.
- Did you see nachos out there? - No, there's no nachos.
- Did you see nachos?
- No, I didn't. - Then what the hell?
[Roy and Shameik chuckling]
- We got Dishmantled... [bleep]
- My head is racing. I don't know what the [bleep] they just shot at us,
but I know that there were grains involved,
and I know pomegranate and arugula were involved, so...
maybe a savory... porridge?
- ROY: They seem to be using the same ingredients.
- OK. - ROY: Pomegranates and bread...
but they're making two totally different things.
I don't know what she tasted.
Because I thought it was-- - I don't know what she tasted either.
- I thought it was nachos or something like that,
and now she's making, like, oats and bread...
- I don't know either.
- Ari, how you doin'? What're you makin'?
- Um, porridge. What're you makin'? - I'm makin' a salad.
- Jae's making a salad?
Honey, we did not get a salad shot at us.
He's certainly taking more creative license than I am.
Aww, so cute! He used the wrong bread.
- Oh, shit. I see what Ari's making.
This girl has no idea what she tasted.
I didn't taste any oatmeal in that.
She comes over to my station and starts talking shit about what I made,
like that's not it.
I'm thinkin', "Girl, you are out of your mind!"
You sure it was that? I don't think so.
It was not porridge.
Yo, I got this in the bag!
- Chefs, you have ten...
- JUDGES: Nine, eight, seven,
six, five, four,
three, two, one!
- What in the hell is this, Jae?
- So we have a summer salad of arugula,
parsley, crouton, with pomegranate seeds
and, uh, green goddess.
- The salad's good, man. The salad's good. - ROY: The salad's good.
- What do you think, Roy? - He made a good dish.
- He made a good dish? - Yeah, I don't know if it's the dish,
but, yeah, he made a good dish.
Why'd you put avocado in here?
- When I tasted the sauce-like component in the Tube,
I thought it had a creaminess that kind of resembled a pureed avocado.
- TITUSS: OK. - So I added avocado
into the green goddess.
- Thank you so much, Jae. - Thank you very much.
- TITUSS: Onto Ari's plate.
What am I lookin' at here?
- You are looking at pomegranate savory oat porridge.
- Were you trying to emulate the texture of--
- Yeah. There was a grain in there...
My hypothesis was that it's oats. I could be totally wrong,
but... I put my hypothesis in that bowl.
- Well, by the time it hit the glass, it did--it did look like that.
- Yeah! Yeah. - ROY: I don't know
if it started like that, but it did look like that.
- Thank you so much, Ari. You did a wonderful job.
But only one of you is walking out of here $5,000 richer.
Are you ready to find out what this mystery dish is?
- Yeah. - ARI: Hell, yeah.
♪
- TITUSS: Loaded avocado toast!
[all exclaiming]
In addition to correctly identifying the pomegranate seeds,
arugula, and parsley,
the winner was also able to detect the star ingredient--
avocado!
So that means, Jae, you are the winner!
- Thank you very much. - TITUSS: You are so welcome.
- Mazel tov! - It was a pleasure.
I feel amazing.
With this win under my belt,
I can walk around with a gold chain around my neck at 2 a.m. in my hood,
and I know I'm gonna be safe.