You know, Hunter, Flavortown Market
has seen all kinds of team competitions.
But the wildest, toughest team competitions
have by far been our GGG relay games.
That's exactly right.
We've had superstar teams and moms and dads.
GGG winners and all-star judges.
Yet two teams beat the odds and delivered winning dishes.
And tonight, the two winning teams
will go head-to-head in a battle
that will determine the ultimate relay team champions.
You guys look a little scared over there.
-Oh, yeah. I'm so scared. -Who are you talking to?
A little scared over there.
You won't be working in the kitchen
at the same time as you know.
Stephanie, go mom!
I'm nervous for them.
I can't comprehend what's going on.
There's a bunch of nonsense on this cooking table.
-What does that mean? -Uh-oh.
"What does that mean?"
I hope I'm doing everything right, guys.
Super, super delicious. I haven't stopped eating it.
-It is super craveable. -[laughs]
[Guy] It's GGG Relay, the ultimate face off
right now on Guy's Grocery Games.
We tag team that.
-Sure do. -Nice.
[upbeat music playing]
So let's meet our returning relay team.
First up, the winners of our moms versus dads relays,
the Momsketeers Team.
Winner of Tournament Champion II
and proud mother of Shagun and Karma,
Chef Maneet Chauhan.
James Beard Award-winning restaurateur and Ernie's mom,
Iron Chef Stephanie Izard.
And Southern Top Chef Winner and Monroe and June's mama,
Chef Kelsey Barnard Clark.
We are the Momsketeers.
First challenge, we went up against the dads,
and I'm just gonna say,
we absolutely smoke them.
We're so in sync without even talking to each other.
Here they come.
-Yes. Always. -Here we go.
-Here we go. Here we go. -[Maneet] Always.
But now ladies, you are going up against the team
of GGG winners who took down a trio
of all-star GGG judges.
First, we've got two time GGG winner,
Minnesota chef, Josh Hedquist.
Next, New England Champ, Michele Ragussis.
And one of GGG's biggest winners,
Kentucky's spiceologist,
the one and only, Chef Christian Gill.
I love Michele and Josh.
We wanna get some bad all stars.
We won 10,000 Gs. Awesome.
People slept on us. We are the underdogs.
We're the formidable opponent.
You guys can try.
[Guy] All right. Welcome.
You've already won a tag-team style GGG competition.
I get some very tough opponents.
Kudos to both of you.
Time to find out now who is the ultimate champion
of Relay Tag-team cooking?
As before, your team will have 30 minutes
to create a specific dish,
but you won't be working in the kitchen
at the same time as you know.
Instead, you'll each choose a 10-minute shift
to be the shopper prepper,
the middle chef, with a final chef.
Ultimately, the teams whose dish wins and wows the judges
gets to shop Flavortown Market for up to another $15,000.
So first, you need to decide who is taking what shift.
Okay. Let's go ahead and talk about that.
I think what worked for us last time.
-Yeah. Worked great last time. -Right?
I think we just keep it the same as last time.
Oh, chefs. Excuse me one second. I apologize.
I know you're right in the middle of things.
You have to take a different shift than you took last time.
-Oh. -[Guy] Oh, that's my bad. My bad.
-I'll be the closer. -I knew it.
-Okay. -You're closing?
-You're middle. -I'm middle.
-I'm shopper. -All right.
I don't wanna shop.
I can't make up my mind fast enough to be the shopper.
-I'll shop. -Who's shopping for your team?
-Me. -Really? KBC is up.
-Who's shopping for your team? -Me.
There you go, Michele. All right.
Who is going to be the middle chef?
Stephanie and Christian? Fantastic.
So let me guess, Josh and Maneet,
you're going to be the final and the presenter.
You guys look a little scared over there.
-Oh, yeah, I'm so scared. -Who are you talking to?
[Josh] Scared over there.
[Guy] All right. You know the drill.
The four of you will exit
and we will call you back once it's your shift.
-Best of luck. -You know there's no... I will basically...
Let's go. Let's go.
-Let's go. -Let's do it.
See you later, alligator.
Shop well.
Whoo.
[Guy] All right. Shoppers.
Boy, did you pick the one to shop for today.
Oh, yeah. What's happening?
-You are winners, okay? -We're gonna come out and garnish it.
-Thank you, chef. -Even if you lose, you're a winner, okay?
-Good luck. -Let's go. That's some more mom stuff
right there, I think.
Chefs, it is a championship, right?
-Yup. Let's go. -Let's make a Spicy Champion's Dinner.
Before we go shopping,
I have something to help you out.
-Hunter, help me out with that, buddy. -Oh no.
-This is good. This is really good. -Oh, God.
-You're gonna love it. -Hunter, you're always the bearer of bad news.
No, I brought great things for you.
-He's not a bearer. -[Michele] Yeah. Stop.
All right. We wanted to come up with a grocery list.
-Helped us save time when you're shopping. -So we...
-Exactly. Exactly. -Right.
For mandatory ingredients,
you have to get something green,
something in a can.
A starch that begins with the letter B
and a frozen protein.
So here's a great thing. You have 10 minutes,
but five of those minutes are designated for shopping.
And we're making a dinner.
-You're making a Spicy Champion Dinner. -[Michelle] Spicy dinner.
Just one course.
You can do as many things as you want on there.
You can do four.
Three I would think would be the main thing.
You do two, you could be the one that goes home.
I don't know. That would be your choice, okay?
-Only one shot too. That's it. -[Guy] One shot.
[exhales heavily]
I don't know why I am the shopper. What the heck?
-[Kelsey] Frozen protein. -And the thing I wanna remind you
is every second matters when it comes to shopping.
It really does. Especially with five minutes. Like that's--
[Guy] You don't seem nervous the way you're just burning time
-over there. -Is that... Oh.
-Oh, my God. -[screeching]
[tense music playing]
I thought they were just overly confident
with the time they had available.
-They just sit there. -They were just cruisin'.
I'd love to sit here and chitchat with you for a bit.
For this challenge, I am the shopper.
Stephanie said that she did not wanna be the shopper.
And obviously Maneet can't be the shopper.
So, it is me.
I'm very good at shopping specifically
when I know what I need.
Ooh, this is a tough one.
Something green, something that canned,
starch with a B, frozen protein.
I have five minutes to shop
and five minutes to prep and set them up.
Seafood is a frozen protein
that's definitely gonna hit the champion wow factor.
So I'm definitely get tons of different seafood.
Scallops, lobster, mussels, shrimp, squid.
And then, my brain went straight to paella.
This big spicy dish bowl of seafood
-and looks like money. -[cash register clinks]
The easiest thing in this challenge
is the spice factor.
So dried chilies, fresh chilies,
hot sauce in different forms
and then every spicy spice.
So cayenne, hot paprika, everything.
I have no idea where this is going.
Great places only.
Now a starch that starts with B,
check off canned beans,
which is a B letter starch.
Bean, bean.
Pea, pea.
I also have some canned green peas,
which is very traditional to fold into paella.
And that checked off my canned goods.
Excuse me, excuse me.
Something green.
[Kelsey] For my something green,
My team all loves to use herbs,
so I'm also gonna pull every herb I can see.
Knocking her list off her shopping list is no big deal.
She is grabbing it all though.
This can be confusing for the team
when you grab so many things.
[Kelsey] I'm an over shopper always when it comes to competing,
so that if something goes wrong, I have backup.
[Guy] Two and a half minutes!
[Michele] I am the shopper.
Why? They just looked at me and went shopper.
-I'm shopper. -All right.
And I was like, "All right.
Well, you gotta take it for the team." Take one for the team.
I don't wanna let the team down.
We're going against the powerhouse chefs.
I have to make sense for these guys.
Frozen protein.
So we have to make a spicy champion's dinner.
For me, it's seafood.
Some crawfish,
get a little lobster in there.
It's elegant, it's delicious,
and we are in a time constraint
so it cooks quick.
And that's enough frozen protein, right I think.
All right.
And I'm thinking about Christian,
he's all about creole cooking.
I want some nduja.
If I could show him
that I was going for a stew with his flavors,
he would know what to do.
This champion's dinner, it's a spicy dish, right?
So I grab Calabrian chili and I get scotch bonnet
and some bird's eye chilies.
I really wanted them to be able
to build different flavors of spice.
Oh, some green pepper.
Something green,
I'm getting bell peppers because that's creole.
Whoo.
Trying to cook for my boys here.
Cans, where the heck is cans?
I ran by and saw okra.
Again, it's going that creole rout.
Hell, yeah.
I think the challenging thing in this,
you only have a little bit of time making sure
that you get everything in your cart
and that it makes sense to your teammate.
Twenty seconds, chefs! Twenty seconds!
[Kelsey] It definitely feels a lot of pressure to me
because I do feel like these are people
that have won in Flavortown.
They definitely know their way
around this grocery store.
So this is gonna be hard.
The green canned item.
-You got your stuff? -I think so. Did I get my B?
I almost forget my starch with the B.
Chefs, to you station. Ten seconds.
Oh, 10 seconds.
Done.
-[Guy] Nine, eight... -Collard greens...
I grabbed beans...
and they're great in stew.
[Guy] ...five, four,
three, two, one.
You're in your stations. Five minutes to prep.
Super spicy.
So let's meet our all-star chefs
who will be judging our spicy championship dinners.
First we have James Beard award winner
and chef owner of an acclaimed Chicago area restaurant,
the one and only, Jonathon Sawyer.
Winner of Tournament Of Champions 3
and Boston Restaurant Empire,
the one and only, Chef Tiffani Faison.
Whoop!
And James Beard Award winner
and internationally acclaimed restaurateur,
the one and only, Iron Chef Jose Garces.
All of these items have to make it through.
They have to be in the plated dish.
So how you set it up on your station
matters deeply.
When I shop, I mean it.
So I have five minutes
to try to set my team up for success.
You have to somehow clearly communicate
all of these very random things
that don't really fit together.
Spicy.
I'm trying to just organize or compartmentalize
the four items they have to use.
Okay. Y'all gotta get the picture here ladies.
If you're gonna try to cook seafood fast,
throw it in boiling water.
Ideally flavored boiling water.
I'm gonna get a good spicy broth going for them.
And then I throw in some crab boil base
that is heat and its flavor right there.
And then some dried peppers.
We've got bowls and plates. A bowl to go on a plate.
On the station to let them know like complete meal here.
Two minutes left, chefs.
God, that's it?
The key to success is to set my boys up proper.
So I'm gonna start with just a bunch
of vegetables, peppers, sausages
and try and get them going for these guys.
Last time we killed it.
I went third and they set me up so well.
So now I wanna get as much prep as I can for these guys.
-What's your game plan over here? -My game plan
is like a fish and sausage stew,
because my boy... My teammate is Cajun
and he likes those flavors.
-Feel good. Do you feel good? -I feel great.
All right. So something canned, I see.
-Something green, I see. -[Michelle] Yup.
-[Guy] Frozen protein, I see. -[Michelle] Yup.
-I grabbed some beans for the beef. -[Guy] Got it.
How are you gonna identify these things
that they need to put in there?
So I'm gonna put all my ingredients
on the board.
Hopefully, they know that this has to go in.
-You've got one minute. -[Michelle] Thank you.
I put one potato on the grill.
That was for me trying to let them know it's in the water.
I put it close to the pot.
-Every movement matters... -Wrap it up.
for the first person.
This is where all of the, like, breadcrumbs
-need to be left. -[Jonathon] Sure.
-[Guy] Twenty seconds, KCB. -Got it.
With the next chef,
are they gonna understand the theme?
Are they gonna understand the champion side
and it needs to be spicy.
I have a starch that starts with B,
a frozen protein, canned goods, and green.
-Oh, my gosh. It's the last couple seconds. -[Jose] Wow.
Five, four,
three, two, one.
Chefs. That's it. You're out.
-[Tiffani] Hands out. -That's it. You out.
Woo.
My heart is like pounding. Is your heart pounding?
-Yeah. Yeah. -[laughs]
-Let's go! -[whistle blows]
Stephanie, go mom!
Oh, man. He's so much faster.
[Jose] Wow.
Oh, my hammy.
Wow.
-Look at their faces. -Yeah.
What is... Okay.
-What does that mean? -[laughs]
Every movement matters.
Steph fully expected something
-to be under that pot on the grill. -[Jonathon] Yeah.
I'm nervous for them.
[Guy] Nine minutes. Nine minutes to go.
[Tiffani] Ten minutes.
-Nothing. -Trying to figure out what the dish is,
make any headway
and, like, be a meaningful member of your team
for the next person is zero time.
Oh, what she's doing? What the heck is that?
[Kelsey] Let's see Steph.
[Stephanie] On Guy's Grocery Games, there's always gonna be
required ingredients,
but looking at the plating area,
there's gotta be at least 50 ingredients on the counter.
So, I don't know what's going on.
[Kelsey] So the challenge is a Spicy Champion's Dinner.
She has to do a frozen protein,
so I got scallops, lobster,
mussels, shrimp, and squid.
We have to have green.
So I did an entire pile of green.
We have to have a canned good
and we've got canned peas
and a starch that starts with B.
We've got beans.
It's a lot of things to try to put into one dish
without knowing. [laughs]
Two different bowls.
So we have to make two different dishes
of seafood dishes.
What the world is this? There's like a pink liquid.
There is a reddish broth started by Kelsey.
She's about to figure this out now, I think.
Spicy. We have to make something spicy.
Happy. Yes!
They're supposed to be spicy
'cause there is peppers, chilies, hot sauce,
anything that you could possibly find
in this entire grocery store on the counter.
And there's more seafood than you have in a bouillabaisse.
Spicy seafood?
She's got it. She's got it.
[Stephanie] I see lots of green things, lots of red things.
The pile of plates, it's gonna need a super hint.
Must be two plates.
Colors. One's supposed to be green
and one's supposed to be red.
What is happening?
I just saw that everything's color coded.
You got green leeks.
In my attempt to make a green dish,
I take some green leeks,
green bell pepper,
green-lipped mussels,
green peas,
and I'm starting to make
sort of a green seafood dish of sorts.
If we win today, I'm gonna use this money
for my sauce and spice life.
The company's just growing and so we're just putting
a lot of investment in it right now.
[Kelsey] She's done frozen protein
and something green.
Okay. I'm really liking this.
Oh, my God.
[Christian] What is--
Uh-oh. He's looking, like, "I don't know."
Come on, Christian.
There's a bunch of nonsense on this cooking table.
Okay. I see a couple peppers.
I see okra.
Okay. Fish.
I'm looking around on this cutting board.
I know there's some whammies here.
Okay. Fish.
Something with frozen seafood.
So the crawfish goes into the pot.
Is that potatoes?
I see something that's spicy,
so we're gonna throw this in there,
just a little bit.
[Michele] Yeah, use it. Make some spice.
I feel like I'm picking up what Michele is putting down.
I see cans.
So I see a can of beans,
dump the beans in,
and I see a can of okra.
Oh, snap. It's also a can challenge.
[Michele] We had to have can items,
so I just went okra
and I think we're golden.
And then the potatoes, I mean...
Michele left a potato on the grill
beside like the stock pot,
and so my assumption was the potatoes are in there,
they need to go on the grill.
If you take a potato out of a pot
and put it on a grill,
how do you not interpret that
-as a message? -Yeah.
[Michele] Oh, what's he doing with those potatoes?
He's gonna fry 'em.
[Christian] Whoa.
All right.
Spicy Champion's Dinner.
I literally just went to a stew
and I grabbed frozen protein.
Every seafood I could think of.
Something canned, okra.
For the B item, I make stews with beans all the time.
And for green, I got a lot of green peppers,
zucchini, green herbs.
I left it all out in front of the cutting board.
I'm hoping that they understand
that all of this needs to be utilized.
What do you think, buddy? What do you think you got here?
[Christian] I think I've got grilled potatoes and like a stew.
-That's what I feel like. -Right.
[Christian] It feels like a canned game.
Grabbed a lot of creole profiled things.
I'm scared to see Guy's face right now.
Great spice in that broth.
She set everything up and it translates to me
as like a chowder,
-something grilled, something canned. -Why did you say grilled?
Uh, because she put the potato on the grill.
[Guy] Put a little hint right there. Got you.
[Michele] For those potatoes on the grill,
I threw one on the stove so they can, like,
check where the others are in the water already.
The potatoes to me, it's a stew.
He can do anything he wants with them.
[Christian] Last time I was the shopper
and this time I am second person to go.
I have to put in all the legwork,
all the heavy lifting,
head down, knives up, let's go.
When I win this time,
I want to take this money and go to Belize.
I haven't had a real vacation in a long time.
I really just need to chill.
No seafood in there yet though.
[Guy] Five minutes left. Five to work.
Maybe one is supposed to be grilled,
that's why she had something in the grill.
Shoot.
Kelsey left a lid right in the middle of the grill.
What does that mean?
So I think, "Why would this be on the grill?"
Except for it to tell me
that this must be a grilled dish.
So I'm thinking, I've gotta use the grill.
I've gotta have two different dishes.
Lot of seafood and then it looks like it's gotta be spicy.
[Kelsey] Sure. Okay. Quickest thing to do
is definitely the grill.
[Stephanie] Next, I'm going with this red dish.
I take some calamari just to hot sauce
and put it on as a quick marinade.
Throw it on the grill.
This red dish.
I start a second pan with chorizo,
then I add some shrimp,
a little bit of Kelsey's broth.
Little seafood stew action.
So I've got two separate pans going
with different flavor profiles.
One very green
and one kind of red, kind of purple.
Chef number two really needs
to frame this dish.
Chef three is really coming to finish
and maybe do some à la minute cooking.
But it has to be really clear
what the dish is gonna be at this point.
Maneet can make anything taste good.
Being the middle person in the team,
you feel so much pressure
to not let down Kelsey, the shopper.
You don't wanna let Maneet down
who is gonna walk into a tornado,
and have to bring it home.
[Hunter] Chef, how we doing?
Um, I mean, I'm like setting myself out,
trying to figure out what's going on, I think.
[Hunter] How you gonna set up your next chef?
Three and a half... Three and a half minutes!
I have three minutes to figure that out.
-Okay. All right. -Um, yeah.
There's not enough time to wait for the seafood to thaw
and then cook it.
If I've had the scallops on the grill,
I can just get it going.
It's so much harder than I thought
to be the second person.
-Chef Christian. -Yes.
-Chef Izard. -Yeah.
I am gonna give you two bonus minutes.
-Ooh. -Take those minutes.
You can elect to keep these bonus minutes
and add them onto your time
or you cannot use the bonus minute
and you can pass them on to the final cook.
-What do you want? -Pass 'em on the final cook.
I'm feeling confident.
I can get all of this banged out
and set Josh up for success.
Okay. Chef Izard?
-Yes, I'll take the two extra minutes. Sorry. -Okay.
Guy gives us two extra bonus minutes
and I decide to keep them for myself
because I don't feel like I've set up Maneet
for any sort of success yet.
I wanna make sure that when I leave the kitchen
there's not a bunch of things on the grill
that are just burning.
Yes, she doesn't leave with all that seafood on the grill.
-[Jonathon] Hell no. -No way.
So Christian passes it off
and Josh will be coming out in two minutes.
Chef Izard will be cooking for another four minutes.
Are those two minutes from my 10 minutes?
No? Okay. Okay.
Yes!
Bonus points.
Christian, you have 90 seconds.
Heard. Thank you.
I have to get a lot of these vegetables prepped.
I'm gonna slice them thin enough to make sure
that they can just go in at the very end.
So I feel like if Josh comes out
and finishes with seafood and okra,
Josh can bring it home for the win.
I've got all of his seafood opened.
It's all breathing.
Christian, 30 seconds!
[Christian] Josh, he literally only has
to dump, spice, and run.
Five, four,
three, two, one.
-Christian, you're out! -[whistle blows]
Stephanie Izard, two minutes!
Hey, why is Stephanie still cooking
and Christian's leaving?
Yo, what's going on?
-Let's go! Run, Josh! -[whistle blows]
Ah.
All right. All right. All right.
What do we got here? What do we got here?
Oh, that's amazing. That looks amazing.
Bang, bang.
You're literally walking in to a Rubik's cube
of hot boiling stuff
trying to figure out
which way you're gonna have to figure it.
This has gotta be the hardest thing I've ever done on GGG.
I'm not even thinking right now, you know.
What do we got here? I got... All right.
So I get to my station, I see a sauce cooking.
I see some frozen seafood. I see some lobster tails.
I see some peppers.
Like, bam, bam, bam. It's just not enough time.
It's crazy.
You have 11 minutes and 41 seconds.
We gave you an extra two minutes.
[Josh] Thank you, sir.
-Oh, my God. Did you get it? -[Christian] What?
Oh, my God. What I was trying to leave you,
it's a Spicy Champion's Dinner,
four ingredients, frozen protein,
starch with a B, something canned, green.
Why is Stephanie still up?
So she opted for two extra minutes.
We could either take two extra minutes
while we were out there or give 'em to the next person,
-so I gave 'em to Josh. -Nice call.
Bring it home to Mama and Daddy. Come on.
[Josh] So I started adding a little scallop,
a little shrimp.
Stephanie's still going
and the other team already switched.
I'm hoping that's an advantage and it's a good thing.
-Two bonus minutes? -Two bonus minutes.
Yes. She doesn't leave with all that seafood on the grill.
-[Jonathon] Hell no. -[Tiffani] No way.
-She takes 'em. -Makes sense.
So I've got two separate pans going
with different flavor profiles.
One very green and one kind of red, kind of purple,
and a whole bunch of seafood going all at the same time.
What do you have in here?
[Stephanie] A broth that she started.
Being a middle person
is not as fun as being the last person, I feel like.
Oh, really?
[Stephanie] I kinda like being the last person.
You like being last person, but why did you take the extra two minutes?
[Stephanie] Because I wanted to leave her in a better spot
-than I felt like I was already. -Okay.
The spirit of making things spicy.
I decide to grill chilies
so I can throw them in the blender
with some herbs and get a sauce going.
I wanna leave at least one gift for Maneet,
so she can bring it on home.
Pepper's coming off the grill.
I've got some cilantro,
a little bit of red wine vinegar, olive oil,
and I find this awesome lobster paste,
which seems like it'll go with everything.
[Tiffani] She hasn't touched the starch that starts with B.
I did the canned beans.
I'm a little behind on where the moms have canned items.
-[Jose] Okay. Yes. -They have tons of frozen seafood.
They have green. I haven't seen their starch that begins with a B yet.
-I haven't seen it. -Starch B... Yeah.
No, I haven't seen anything with it, no.
[Stephanie] To tell Maneet that it's two different dishes,
one green and one red, I'm leaving one red pepper
on a plate and some green herbs on a bowl.
Hopefully, she'll then see the green dish.
I've got going in one pot
and the red dish I've got going in another.
[Guy] Chef Izard, 15 seconds.
Being the middle person,
I wanna make sure that when I leave the kitchen,
there's not a bunch of seafood wrappers everywhere
and a bunch of things on the grill that are just burning.
Hopefully, she can take the different elements
and just be able to bring them together.
Izard, three, two, one.
-[whistle blows] -[Guy] You are done!
As soon as you're back, she gets to come in.
-Maneet! -[whistle blows]
[Tiffani] Steph is out. She had twelve minutes.
Maneet comes in for 10.
Chef Josh, 10 minutes.
-Okay. -[Tiffani] So now we're both
-at third chef for both teams. -Got it.
Okay. All of these spices right over here.
Smart to be looking in all the different spots.
Good.
I run into the station and they have two plates.
There is something grilling, there is something boiling.
There is something in the blender.
It... I can't comprehend what's going on.
So...
-Yeah. -it's a lot of things.
The theme is a Spicy Champion's Dinner.
There was two different bowls. I thought it was two different dishes.
So I put like green on one and red on the other.
I totally, totally misread it.
So I totally set her up terribly.
[Kelsey] Well, or I totally set it up wrong.
Oh, man. Maneet's gonna be so mad at me.
Chef, there are four mandatory ingredients.
It must be incorporated in your dish.
Four mandatory ingredients.
[Josh] I'm trying to make sure I use all the four ingredients.
One of the game plans we had was if we need it in the dish,
it's gotta be on the countertop.
It was on my cutting board.
I guess it's gotta go in there.
All this is gonna go into the drink.
I think my teammates left me in a good place.
They left me some good hints and clues.
[Hunter] Right. Okay. All right.
So what are those hints and clues they're telling you?
-What are you feeling? -Well, I saw seafood.
It was all kind of put together.
This is gotta be one of them.
I see lobster tail,
maybe that's gotta be one of the secret ingredients.
Bunch of frozen seafood.
I'm like, "This has gotta be like a seafood something."
One maybe winter, winter seafood dinner.
It's a Spicy Champion's Dinner.
[Josh] Oh, I love this stuff right here.
Little Calabrian chilies.
I grabbed spicy peppers.
-Okay. -The Calabrians.
I see the Calabrian chili peppers
and I see the habanero, and I'm thinking,
"These might be ingredients that we have to use."
They took a lot of time and effort to do something.
These potatoes, they blanch 'em in water,
they grilled 'em.
I was, like, "This has gotta be one of the secret ingredients.
Otherwise they wouldn't have took all the time to do that, right?"
I hope I'm doing everything right, guys.
Oh, my God.
I did put the one potato on the grill to kinda say,
"They're in the boiling water."
-Got you. -In case someone didn't cook,
but the potatoes don't matter.
I got some peppers, zucchini.
Something green.
-[Christian] Beans. -[Michele] Starch with a B is beans.
[Christian] Beans were in the Calabrian chilies and--
[Michele] Something canned.
-Okra. -[Christian] Okra.
[Jonathon] There's no more room in that pot, chef.
That thing is full.
What's going on over there?
Don't put it in the pot. Don't you dare do that.
I think they're dead in the water with that pot.
I'm just saying that is a lot of stuff in there.
Let's talk about the moms.
Maneet has actually judged me before,
so did Stephanie.
It needed some... A little binder.
It's a little dry on the inside, I think.
So this might be my sweet revenge
because I don't think they voted me to win.
[Guy] Seven minutes left.
[Maneet] I am so confused.
I have no idea what the four ingredients are.
Frozen protein, seafood.
We still didn't have a starch that starts with B,
which is beans.
Canned item, green items.
[Stephanie] Green, got it for green.
This was hard.
This is really hard, yeah. This is hard.
You need one canned item. Use one canned item.
[Maneet] There is a lot going on, on the station.
I am assuming that all the ingredients that I need
to put in the dish are kept on the plating area.
Uh, there is chili, there is herbs,
sweet peas, and cannellini beans.
Because I see all the cans of peas and cannellini beans
at the plating station,
I'm assuming that it's one of the mandatory ingredients.
Seafood. Okay. So we are going to do something seafood.
I look at all the seafood and I'm like, "Okay.
There is going to be a seafood component."
I see a ton of chilies and I think spicy is the way
to go with this dish. No idea.
Four ingredients.
Peppers are spicy, so something has to be spicy.
-You got it, Maneet. -I am feeling very helpless
that I've got to finish this because somebody's already
done the shopping and the prep,
and I just need to take those pieces
and put it together and present a cohesive dish.
I mean, moms, we are playing for our family, for our kids.
We are ready for some college tuition.
That'll go a long way.
Looks like something. I don't know what that is. But it looks like something.
I look behind me in the sink, there's like some green stuff
in a strainer. I'm like,
it looks like okra and maybe some greens.
I'm like, I guess it's got to go in there.
I don't know. That looks like okra.
So I'm just gonna put a little bit in to make sure
I got all the ingredients I'm supposed to have, right?
Canned item.
-He's got the okra in there. -Awesome.
[Josh] You got to cook. You got to cook.
[Michele] He needs a bigger pot.
What I'm going to do is I'm going to put this entire dish
into a nice medley of seafood,
mussels, which have been
both poached and grilled.
But I think it's overcooked,
so I don't want to serve that.
[Kelsey] Those are burnt to crap.
-Were we supposed to grill? -No.
You put the lid on the grill.
I thought meant it had to be grilled.
I put a lid on the grill?
[Stephanie] There was a lid on the grill.
[Maneet] I go ahead and taste the green sauce.
It's got a punch to it.
It's nice and spicy.
I add some green peas to it
to just fortify the peas in the dish.
-Good, good, good. -So...
[Maneet] Next I go ahead and take some cannellini beans,
drain it, and deep fry it to add the crunch factor.
-Oh. Oh, did you see that? -Uh-oh.
-[Tiffani] Crispy beans for the win. -[laughs]
[Jonathon] When in doubt, deep fry it.
That's so dope.
All right, Maneet. What do you think this challenge is?
I think seafood, spicy.
I definitely get that.
I think it's going to be duo of dishes.
There's going to be cannellini beans and pea puree.
Okay.
What do you... What do you gonna call this
wide variety of seafood here?
I Want My Mommy dish.
[dramatic music playing]
[tense music playing]
[Guy] Five minute, chefs.
Five to go.
Is there anything else happening
on Josh's station, save for that one pot?
Gotta make sure I cook this seafood right
and I probably gotta get some dang plates, huh?
We got everything.
It looks like a very sumptuous stew.
-I'd wanna eat that stew. -[Christian] Yeah.
Ooh.
We got a lot going on here.
It is delicious...
and spicy.
A little spicy there.
I was like, "Oh, it's too spicy."
I don't know if it's supposed to be spicy or not.
I want it to taste good and a good way
to combat really spicy food is to add some butter to it.
A little bit of butter...
and a little acid.
That's got to be it.
[Guy] Chefs, you need to get plating.
You got three minutes, bud.
That's got to be it. That's got to be good.
[Christian] So Josh got the frozen protein in,
so we're good there. He got something green in.
I got the Calabrian chili and canned item okra.
The beans count as a starch, that starts with B.
-We did gameplay. Perfect. -Yeah.
[Josh] It's time to plate so I put it in the bowl.
That looks unbelievable.
-How's that look, brother? -You're looking great, pal. Looking great.
I don't know what the mandatory ingredients are,
so I had to make sure that all the ingredients
in this big pot, every bowl has a little bit of it
because if one of those don't have the secret ingredient,
you know, that might be it.
[dramatic music playing]
[Christian] Making sure he gets all the elements.
I think that's what he is doing.
Well, I hope you want spicy. Both are bringing spicy,
but, uh, well we'll see
if they've got champion written on it.
One minute and 30 seconds left.
[Maneet] I've got to figure out plating.
I am not sure why they are two plates.
I'm assuming that goes on two plates.
-[Kelsey] Just one. -[Stephanie] Just the bowl.
Just the bowl. Just one thing.
[Maneet] I am going to go with just the bowls
because it works better for all the seafood.
-That's okay. -Good, good, good, good.
[Kelsey] Okay. Okay.
[Stephanie] There's frozen protein.
A starch that starts with B, which is beans.
-[Maneet] Mussels. -[Stephanie] A canned item
-and something green. -[Kelsey] Yes.
Good luck talking to her. She's laser focus right now.
This is intense.
[Guy] Thirty seconds to plate.
Thirty.
If she puts a green stuff in the broth with the seafood...
-That's what I thought you were doing. -it will be good.
Put the green stuff in the broth of seafood.
[Maneet] I am going to take some of that spicy
delicious sauce and put it right on top.
-Yes. -That's green.
[Maneet] There's going to be a nice sprinkling
of the fried cannellini beans.
[Stephanie] Okay, good. Beans.
Little spice in that. Whoa.
This is the cannellini beans. Deep fried.
Go, go, go, go, go. Broth, broth, broth, broth, broth.
Five, four, three, two, one...
Chefs, you're done.
-Whoo. -[Guy] Great job on the relays.
Whoo!
-[Jose] Good job guys. -[Jonathon] Wow.
[Jose] Tough battle. That's a tough battle.
I am sure that my two teammate
had a reason as to what everything was.
I just was having a tough time comprehending it.
[laughter]
[Christian] We were clearly the underdogs
in the last one. We've taken down the judges before.
-We can do it again. -We can do it.
-Finish what we started. -Yeah.
I got to tell you,
you relay returnees are doing a good job.
Let's see who cooked your team to victory.
Take it to the judges.
Judges, the Momsketeers and the GGG winners
have completed their team dishes.
The question is how close is the finished plate
to the dish I originally asked for?
We're about to find out.
Josh, you were the guy
that was finishing up for the team.
Explain to us what you believe
the dish was intended to be.
I believed it was a spicy seafood stew.
Let's go ahead and bring out the rest of the GGG killers.
Whoo.
-[Guy] Okay. -Making me look good out here.
-[Michele] You did good. -[Guy] Now, Michele,
what was the challenge?
The challenge was to make a Spicy Champion Dinner.
[Guy] And what were the four items you had to use?
[Michele] Four items were something green,
something in a can,
a starch that started with B,
-frozen protein. -[Guy] You did get all four.
Not bad. Chef Garces, what do you think?
Chefs, this is one of the toughest challenges
I've ever seen.
Picking up on clues, I think you guys did a really nice job
just bringing that together.
I was concerned about everything going into one pot
and cooking all at the same time.
-I was, too. Yeah. -[Jose] Yeah.
-[laughs] -[Josh] Yeah, I was too.
The cook on the seafood, very nicely done.
It's easy to mess up frozen seafood,
but potatoes are a little bit under.
-[Michele] Thank you. -Thank you, Chef.
Team GGG winners.
It actually eats pretty elegantly, which is nice,
but the spice is like church dinner spice.
I could definitely take more heat.
The use of beans for the starch that starts with B.
Really smart. Really smart.
I don't love the green bell peppers in here.
I think they're kind of extraneous.
I want something crusty.
I want bread, which is also the starch that begins with B.
So I want something to sop this up.
-Yup. -Chefs, congrats.
You have all four requisite ingredients in your plate.
That's like half of the battle.
I like how there's different levels of that spice
from the Creole, sort of, backbone to it
and the freshness of the habanero.
Really enjoy the red beans. However,
it is not celebratory or championship to me.
I want, like, 10 times the butter
and a little bit of bread to round this whole thing out.
And I recognize the difficulty
of the challenge that's in front of you.
However, I can't ignore some of those mistakes.
-Chef Maneet. -[sighs]
First, explain to us what you believe the challenge was.
I think the challenge was...
[dramatic music playing]
Up next, we have our team moms.
Let's bring in Chef Maneet.
-Okay. Chef Maneet. -[sighs]
First, explain to us what you believe the challenge was.
I think the challenge was to create a seafood bonanza.
Let's bring out the rest of your team.
All right, right over here.
[Guy] While the judges are enjoying this.
KBC, tell us what was the plan
and what were the four ingredients
that had to be included?
Okay. It had to be spicy,
starch that starts with the letter B,
green, frozen protein, and canned goods.
And I believe that you achieved all of them.
Okay, champ. What do you think?
It's spicy. It's real spicy.
So check, like, um, which is really good.
There's really sharp flavors in here.
The chilies and the green sauce,
I think that's also maybe in the peas somewhere.
They're pea puree,
super, super delicious.
As far as the champion center goes, I get this entirely,
but I would like a little bit more like fresh herb work on the top,
especially with greens being a thing.
But I haven't stopped eating it.
It is super craveable.
[Guy] Chef, Jonathon.
Wow, what a gift,
the sauce and the spice really truly are.
I want a whole bowl of that sauce
because it is just totally craveable.
We were really worried
that everything wasn't gonna get to the plate.
It wasn't until Maneet started to fry those beans
that every single ingredient was checked off.
So kudos to making everything happen.
I think that the Valentina marinated calamari
and the scallops are absolute stars.
However, that purple pink,
poached shrimp situation is very forgettable.
Chefs, some of the seafood may be a bit over,
you know, and I... And I get it,
it's tough to cook frozen seafood.
The squid in particular for me is a little dry,
a little overcooked.
[Guy] All right, judges. Thank you.
Teams, it's a battle.
I thought y'all did a great job. I really did.
I'm interested to see the deliberation with the judges.
We're gonna send you back to the kitchens.
We'll call you when we have a decision.
-[Michele] Thanks you, guys. -[Guy] Thank you. Thank you, chefs.
All right, judges. Which team's Spicy Champion Dinner
will make them the relay champs?
Did they both bring spicy?
-[Tiffani] One more than the other. -[Guy] Okay.
Did they both bring champion?
-One more than the other. -Equally.
-No, disagree. -No.
-Equal, how? How? -Disagree.
I think there was an elegance
to the abundance of the team mom plate
that was missing from the blip blop bloop
family meal plate.
But it didn't say elegant,
it said champion.
Well, when I'm a champion I like to be elegant.
Well, I am a champion and I ate what I want.
-Wow. -[laughter]
Mic drop!
[laughter]
If I could maybe break the tie here.
Please.
[Jose] GGG winners was more combined,
whereas the moms, they executed well.
A lot of different techniques.
Very tight. Super tight.
Well, well, well, well, well, well, well,
I got good news. I got bad news.
Good news is we have a winner.
Bad news is it's not unanimous.
The winner of the ultimate relay game face off
will go to...
the Momsketeers.
-[cheering] -[Guy] Congratulations.
-Congrats, you guys. -Congrats.
-Thank you. -[Michele] I still love you.
Chefs, theirs was just a little more spicy
and a little bit more championship.
So, GGG all-star winners, we'll see you later.
-[Michele] Thank you. -[Guy] Thank you.
-Thanks, you guys. -Thank you.
You know what? [exhales]
Can't win them all.
Even though our dish didn't win,
I think we played it really well.
[Josh] Such a great experience.
No matter if I win or lose,
I got new friends
and they'll be around forever.
Ladies and gentlemen,
meet the relay game champs,
the Spicy Momsketeer.
[cheers and applause]
[Guy] Yes! Great job.
We won again. Yes!
I don't know what Maneet brought together,
but there's something that worked and it's because
each of us brought a little bit to the table, or to the plate.
It feels great to win twice.
[chuckles] It feels great to win once,
it feels even better to win again.
Really great job. You... It's...
I'm gonna tell you,
I'm a fan of all three of you.
And you guys kind of walk
through these games at this point
until we put you into this relay.
And then it's kind of like asking you to juggle
with one arm behind your back,
but you figured out how to do it.
You've just won twice.
-You are the champs. -In different positions.
And, chefs, it's time to go shopping.
Come over and say hi to the judges. Great shopping.
Congratulations.
[Guy] You have a chance to make $15,000 for your team.
I have three clues on this card
that will lead to ingredients in the market.
For each item, it is worth $5,000.
Now, you'll have to shop for them
in order in which you participated in the cook.
-So who's first? -[indistinct chatter]
-You are going first. -You're going first.
Yeah, I'm first.
Who's going second?
And you're going third.
[chuckles]
You know how this works.
Three clue cards,
it's 90 seconds.
Each correct item is $5,000.
You have to go get the item, bring it back,
give the cart, and do this three times.
You have to arrive back with the cart on that third time
to get that money to win all 15,000 bucks.
Here we go. Often called Italian chicory,
this reddish leafy vegetable was believed to be a blood...
-Radicchio. -purifier by the Romans.
-Radicchio. -And she's off!
[Stephanie] Go, go, go, go, go!
-Let's go, KBC! -Go, KBC!
[Kelsey] We have been under renovation
in my downtown historic restaurant for years.
So if I won some money,
I would be able to tick off
a few things that we really desperately need done
to this kitchen.
Ten seconds down.
She got it. She's coming back.
Native to Africa and India,
this tiny oil-rich seed is used to make Halvah.
-Sesame seed. -Yeah. Here we go. Here we go.
[Stephanie] Sesame seeds.
Is this where the spices are?
[rock music playing]
[Tiffani] That's $5,000.
Forty-five seconds.
Go, go, go, go, go.
All right.
This squeaky Mediterranean cheese
is a high melting point
-that makes it perfect for grilling or frying. -[both] Halloumi.
Go, Maneet!
Thirteen seconds.
Halloumi, Halloumi, Halloumi, where are you? Uh...
-There's a lot of cheeses over there. -[Guy] Eight, seven...
Come on, come on, come on.
I am looking everywhere for the Halloumi.
Three, two, one...
-[buzzer buzzes] -There's a lot of cheeses.
We won $10,000 this week.
I loved cooking with Maneet and Stephanie.
[Maneet] There is that special empathy that palms have.
There is this kinship.
Join us next time. There is no I in team,
but there is a lot of dollar signs at Guy's Grocery Game.
-[Tiffani] We did it! -See you next week, adios!
[Stephanie] Lord.