Tonight, it's the finale
of the first home tournament in Triple G history.
[contestants clamoring]
All-star chefs have joined forces with their family
and faced off in fierce culinary competitions.
That's right. Each week, another winning team
has earned a spot in this ultimate showdown.
We won! [screams]
We won. We won. We won.
Yeah.
The three top families will take on
the most feared, dreaded, scariest delivery boxes in the food world.
Oh, my goodness. This is getting bad.
Whoa.
For a shot at up to $20,000 more.
- [contestants hooting] - It's the finale of the all-star family face-off...
Right now, on Triple G Delivery.
[truck honks]
Let's meet the winning teams. Now, first up,
we have acclaimed chef, The Mayhem himself,
chef Aaron May and his awesome sister, Corri,
who scored an upset victory in week one
with an outside-of-the-box spaghetti and jelly creation.
- That's one of the highest scores... - Dude, that's a major score.
...that we've seen in Triple G Delivery.
Great job.
[both] We made it to the finale!
[Aaron] We've been reading each other's minds since we were kids.
You might say we have ESPN.
We're coming for you.
- Uh, smile, Aaron May. - [Corri laughs]
I got my game face on, baby.
Next, our fierce mother-daughter duo,
chef Antonia Lofaso and her awesome daughter, Xea,
who scored big with their cod and bison surf and turf,
which is the new definition, by the way, of surf and turf.
- And look, they're matching again. - Yes.
We're the mother-daughter duo to beat.
[Xea] Competing in the last episode, my mom and I crushed it.
We win! [screams]
And we plan on doing the same in this episode.
And finally, the resident spice queen of flavor town,
Aarti Sequeira and her secret weapon,
her husband, Brendan McNamara.
We won! We won, we won, we won!
Last time, we won with an absolutely gorgeous romantic dinner.
He comes up with great dish ideas,
I figure out how to execute it. It's a winning combination.
- Look at that tie-dye. - Look at that.
- [Aarti laughs] - If that was a onesie, Aaron May would be rocking it.
- Oh, he totally would. - A hundred percent, I'm in.
[Aarti laughs]
Families, welcome back to the culmination
of our first ever home tournament.
What I love is that you each represent a different family dynamic.
Let's see, we have brother-sister,
we have mother-daughter, and husband and wife.
And I'll tell you what, you all have something in common.
- You know what that is? - What?
You also won 10,000 bucks
- in the first game that you played. - [contestants cheering]
Tonight, the team with the highest combined score after both of the rounds
will win up to $20,000.
[Guy Fieri] Remember, the judges are gonna be scoring you on
gameplay, creativity, plating,
and your description of your taste of your dish.
Okay, okay, okay.
For the first challenge, I want you to make
a sure-fire family favorite.
- Mmm. - Family noodle dish.
- Ooh, yes, love noodle dishes. - Family noodle dish.
Okay, family noodles, I've got a couple of things.
To help you, we have packed your game one box
with a wide array of noodles from flavor town market.
I don't like where this is going.
Uh, let's go ahead, open your box, let's go.
- Come on. - Okay, let's go.
- [Corri] Whoa. - Noodles, noodles, and more noodles.
- Is that spaghetti? - Pappardelle.
Bucatini.
Some ramen noodles.
Oh, my goodness. This is getting bad.
Hold on, what's this, Hunter?
What do you plan on doing with these?
I had a little idea that since this is a family game,
we should really kind of bring 'em together, more bonding, right?
I figured, for them to, you know, help cook in unison,
use the handcuffs.
- I get it now. - Yeah, right?
- What? - Hunter, that's using your noodle.
Let's just go, chef's dominant hand
to the family member's non-dominant hand. How about that?
This really fits snug.
All right. Got it.
Ah, this makes me feel so claustrophobic.
So, what do we do with this?
[Guy] This is called Triple G spinners.
So, chefs, you're gonna take this,
you're gonna spin this,
and this is gonna tell you how many ingredients
you get to get out of your own pantry
to make your family favorite pasta dish.
Get out of here.
[Guy] Lay it down flat. What?
No, it's a good idea. I was just saying it's a good idea.
- I like it. - [Aarti laughs]
- Aarti, go ahead. - [Aarti] Okay.
Aarti gets five.
[Guy] Antonia?
- [Antonia exhales] - [Guy] Five.
- Mayhem. - [Aaron] Go ahead.
- [Aaron] Seven. - Seven. You get seven ingredients.
You can use as much of the pasta that we fortified you with.
I'm looking for your family favorite pasta dish. Thirty minutes, okay?
- Yep. - Yes, sir.
Three families, ladies and gentlemen.
With two teammates handcuffed to each other,
going after one fantastic family noodle dish.
It's gonna go for 20,000 bucks.
[contestants clamoring]
- They're so tuned in. - They're so-- They're so on it now.
Okay, hold on. So, we're gonna...
This is the family tournament finale.
- We're gonna crush the whole entire competition. - [howls]
[Xea] We have to make a family noodle dish,
and we get five pantry ingredients.
- Grab this. - What is this?
- These are the little neck clams. - Okay.
- Ow. - I'm sorry, baby.
Family favorite that we cook at Christmas and really anytime we're celebrating.
My mind immediately goes to linguine and clams.
I have bucatini. That's fine. So, we're gonna do bucatini and clams.
So, I have garlic, parsley, lemon,
- white wine, and... - [Xea] Clams.
This is perfect. This is all the ingredients you need for linguini and clams.
- Family favorite? I think ramen. Right? - Yeah.
If we win today, we win the entire championship.
Let's flick this away.
The ramen we love is called tonkotsu.
It's cooked with pork bones, um, overnight.
- Forty eight hours sometimes. - Yeah.
We're gonna do it in 30 minutes.
Okay, one.
- Okay, you wanna do the pork fat? - Oh, gosh, yes.
[Aarti] We are running out of ingredients.
- Have to have an egg in ramen. - Yeah.
[in unison] Four.
- What were you saying that we needed? - An emulsifier.
[Aarti] Dijon.
So, one, two, three, four, five.
- Okay. - Five ingredients is not enough, Guy.
Okay, let's not worry about the numbers. We can't change it.
[Aaron] Okay, let's make a plan.
So, we've got egg noodles. We've got seven ingredients.
I know the perfect dish for us, Corri. We're gonna make
- beef stroganoff. - Stroganoff.
- Your favorite. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Family noodle dish? It's beef stroganoff time!
- So, we need mushrooms. - Yeah, fillet.
- What is this? - It's some
- beautiful fillet. - Perfect, let's take it.
- Uh, grab some sour cream. - Sour cream.
- [Aaron] Is that a shallot? - Yup.
[Aaron] Grab the shallot.
I've gotta build the layers and build 'em well.
The mushrooms, the fillet, wine, stock, thyme.
We only have seven ingredients. Each one needs to shine.
- [Xea] What am I doing? - [laughs]
- [Xea] You need to speak before you move. - Okay.
[Antonia] So, because Xea and I are handcuffed together,
we are sharing the prep table,
so that she can clean the clams, while I am chopping all of the ingredients.
[Xea] I'm like a deejay in my own kitchen.
- [record scrubbing] - All right, America,
- are you listening? - [both laugh]
All right, clams, let's get this party started.
- [Antonia] Stop it. - Sorry.
[Antonia] I am chopping the garlic and getting all the ingredients ready.
This is not how I would normally chop garlic, but it just seems safer.
Now, this is everything we need to make this.
Ready? You're gonna have to just follow me.
I'm just gonna follow. Okay. [laughs]
[Antonia] Okay, grab this pasta.
- [Xea] Pasta done. I lost a noodle. - Okay. Hold on.
[Antonia] I start the sauce with butter and olive oil.
It starts to bloom a little bit of that garlic in there.
And I need to get all of those clams open and they do take some time.
So, we need every single second that we can get.
You want to flavor the parsley for some linguini and clams.
Just-- Let's just use that. Shove that on the floor. Don't put that away.
We have to make a family noodle dish.
And we're handcuffed together.
- That's a lot. - That's a lot.
Oh, my gosh. This is gonna kill me.
Why? What do you mean? All we're doing is cooking.
'Cause we're cooking at the same time. [laughs]
So, the first thing that we have to do is build our broth
for our tonkotsu ramen.
- So, let us start with some pork fat... - Yeah.
Just to give it that foam.
And try to get a nice brown on those mushrooms.
This is gonna get some color on them.
Is there anything I can be doing while you're doing that?
I can't think of anything right now.
- Okay, I'll just hang out with you. - [laughs]
I don't have onions, I don't have ginger, I don't have aromatics.
But I do need umami,
because umami comes from something that's cooked for a long time.
So, once the chicken stock has taken on
some of the flavor of the pork fat, and the shiitake mushrooms,
we throw it into the blender...
- Yeah. - ...and let it rip.
[blender droning]
[Brendan] This is, like, literally how I felt coming into this competition,
- that I was your straight-up culinary ball and chain. - [laughs]
And now, I'm literally your ball and chain.
[Aaron] Come here. Come with me.
[Corri] [chuckles] I can't go anywhere else.
I was really looking forward to spending quality time with my brother,
just not quite so close quality.
You know the good news.
Corri couldn't strangle me with one of her hands handcuffed to mine.
We don't have time to make, like, a real beef stroganoff.
I just wanna get it brown, and take it out,
and keep building those layers of flavor.
To me, the most important thing about beef stroganoff
is that mushroom-beef marriage.
Feeling really big and strong. I really love what we're making.
[Corri] Thing is gonna look great once we get the noodles in there
and it all comes together.
We're in handcuffs, but we're in sync. It's gonna be all good.
I'm looking forward to winner, winner, beef stroganoff dinner.
[Corri] There we go.
Our all-star family teams are in the middle
- of a noodle dinner showdown. - [contestants conversing indistinctly]
But noodless to say, they're a little tied up right now.
- [laughs] - We'll be right back.
[truck honks]
[Brendan] Uh, reaching.
[Guy] Twenty minutes, 20 to cook.
All right. Welcome back. Our final three all-star family teams
are cooking up a noodle storm.
Here to critique our family's noodles,
are some experts who competed in the past-a.
Get it? Past, uh, pasta?
- Oh, past... I get it now. - There we go.
Six times James Beard Award winning restauranteur,
the one and only smooth criminal himself,
Marcus Samuelsson,
and his fantastic wife who's way out of his league,
and an awesome humanitarian, Maya.
- Thank you for that. [laughs] - What's up, guys?
This is... How come we didn't get the handcuffs? What's up with that?
Marcus, we both know very well that you have.
[both laugh]
Next up, we have award-winning food writer, Troy Johnson,
and his fantastic wife, Claire, down in San Diego.
Wonderful to have you.
Troy, have you been to zoom class this morning?
What's going on? You're looking fit.
It's the bath he takes everyday.
He takes a two-hour bath every morning
and he feels like it really helps refresh his skin,
- I'm not supposed to tell you that. - [electric guitar riff]
Oh. Thank you.
Thank you for Claire.
Why? Don't feed the bear.
Next, the Food Network star,
the author of Southern Girl Meets Vegetarian Boy,
the one and only Damaris Phillips,
and that vegetarian boy himself, Darrick.
- What's up, buddy? - What up?
- [Darrick] Hey. Good to see you. - [Damaris] Hello.
- Well, we tried to... - We've been practicing.
...cuff ourselves.
- Um, okay. - Why do you have those?
[Troy and Claire laughing]
Judges, it's so wonderful to have you here
for our family noodle dish competition.
Okay, testing this out, this would--
- Yeah. - This would be really hard to do.
[Troy] I love the mother-daughter dynamic during this.
It's like when you have your child on a harness at an amusement park.
[Xea] Ew, ew, ew. Disgusting.
[Guy] Fifteen minutes, 15 to go.
Hang on a second, are they still handcuffed?
Yes.
Oh, hey, listen.
That was just a joke.
You were supposed to take those off when you started cooking.
We can take these off?
Oh, ha, ha, ha.
[laughing] Oh, God.
[Guy] I apologize.
Oh, my gosh. [laughs]
- I kinda liked them. - [laughs]
You really are the giver, Guy.
That's what they say. Giver of a hard time.
Aaron, what are you making us?
I know it's one of your favorites. Beef stroganoff.
An oldie but a goodie.
[laughs]
So, I've got the trimmed fillet mignon with beef stock, red wine.
I'm gonna drain it right now into this shallot
for a beautiful stroganoff sauce.
We only have seven ingredients.
So, that shallot is doing the work of the garlic and the onions.
[snaps fingers] Boom.
Traditionally, beef stroganoff is served with a wide egg noodle.
This egg pappardelle is the perfect pasta for this dish.
Then we're gonna combine the red wine beef stock shallot sauce
with the mushrooms, thyme, and fillet
and bring all these flavors together into one delicious dish.
[Corri] That's so good.
- It's, like, perfect right now. - It is perfect.
Cooking with your sibling is the best because even if you're like,
"Oh, my god, I hate you so much, you ruined it,"
I mean, my sister trying to boss me around, tell me what to do.
[Darrick] Even if it goes badly, you've got a story for later.
Yeah, it's fine at the end.
[Aaron] This is the bomb!
- Okay. This is looking beautiful though. Look. - [Brendan] Okay.
[Aarti] Okay, so, we'll use the rest of that water to cook the ramen noodles.
Aarti and Brendan, how're you guys doing?
[Aarti] Yes, hello.
We're making a quick at-home tonkotsu ramen.
Ooh.
[Aarti] We can see the pork fat and the chicken stock in our broth
separating before our very eyes.
[Aarti] Look, the fat's going at the top.
- Yeah. Okay. - Yeah.
[Aarti] We've gotta make them come together.
So, we grab Dijon mustard, it's an emulsifier,
throw that in there, wise it up,
and it brings those two enemies together in a beautiful broth.
[Aarti] Look. It looks like tonkotsu.
What we're looking for is a really thick, creamy broth.
- It's an umami bomb. It's gonna be salty, umami... - Nice.
[Aarti] Time to work on the maitake mushrooms,
giving those maitake mushrooms a good, hard sear.
These are gonna be a crispy element on our ramen
just to break up the texture.
- [Aarti] Yeah? - [Brendan] Well, now, what do I do?
- [Aarti] I don't know, baby. I don't know. I don't know. - Okay.
- [Aarti] Um... Okay, let's do the eggs. - Okay.
A ramen is typically adorned with a nice, jammy hard-boiled egg.
...jammy hard-boiled egg.
[Aarti] Put them in. I think the ramen egg is a six-minute egg.
When you steam the eggs, they peel so much easier.
[Brendan] Perfectly.
Babe, that's beautiful! You did it!
Antonia, what are you making us? You got five ingredients.
We have clams, we've got white wine, we've got lemon,
we've got garlic, and we have parsley.
- [Hunter] Nice. - Okay. I like it.
What pasta are you using, chef?
[Xea] We're using the bucatini.
I would've obviously liked a linguine,
but the bucatini will be really, really nice with it.
[Antonia] The pasta is about three-quarter cooked.
Uh, we strain it.
Normally, I would do linguine and clams,
but the bucatini has the beautiful,
thicker-cut spaghetti noodle with, like,
this gorgeous hole down the center, so all of that
beautiful clam juice is gonna go down the center of the pasta
and be delicious.
The bucatini is probably even an upgrade in many ways.
[Guy] Bucatini. It gives you that chance to
twirl it up on your fork
- and get that bite. - Oh. Nice.
We're gonna take half of the meat
and actually toss it in with the pasta.
Then the other ones are gonna be plated in the shell.
I want you to taste it and tell me if it needs something.
[Xea gasps]
Who taught you how to eat?
Mm. That was really good, though.
[Antonia laughs]
Two minutes to go, chefs!
[Corri] Oh, the noodles are ready to plate.
First, the egg noodles go down on the plate.
Then I'm spooning this delicious beef stroganoff right over the top.
Let's put just like a dollop of sour cream right on top.
[Corri] Coming in with the creamy sour cream
and the fresh thyme.
I think Aaron and Corri's doing awesome. That's, like, the team.
[Aarti] Time to plate.
Thing we do is, we make a nest of the ramen noodles
in the middle of the bowl.
Now pour the stock. Pour the stock around the noodles.
- There's some nice height to the dish. - Yeah.
It looks really-- The way they're plating is very nice.
[Aarti] Then we perch some of those maitake mushrooms.
[Brendan] Then we put those perfectly jammy eggs on the side of the bowl.
It looks awesome. I want some of that. I want in.
All right. Forty-five seconds, chefs!
Xea, how is your dish coming along?
Smells so good. [chuckles]
[Antonia] So the first thing you do to plate, I go
noodle one plate, noodle the other plate
so that it's an even distribution
of noodles, clams, garlic, and sauce.
Get all this in there.
And Xea just starts placing the perfect
in-the-shell clams.
[Guy] Five, four, three,
two, one.
That's it, folks.
[all cheering]
There we go!
- Cheers. - [Guy whooping]
Well, it's time to find out what the judges say. Right this way.
All right, judges. Here we are, the first round
of the big finale of our All-Star Family Face-off.
Now, our families had to make a family noodle dish.
We gave them the noodles,
but they had to spin for the amount of other ingredients.
And the fact that Hunter sent them handcuffs,
- things got weird real fast. - [all laughing]
Up first, Aaron and Corri. What do you got for us?
[Corri] We made a beef stroganoff.
You know, growing up, this was one of my favorite dishes.
[Aaron] You can see the fillet is cooked perfectly.
We've got this great sauce.
- Mmm. It's so good. - Killer.
The sour cream gives it that nice tang.
- Then this fillet is just dynamite. - [Corri] It's delicious.
- Yeah, that looks good. - [Aaron] The pappardelle is definitely the star.
It's absorbing all those flavors. It's texturally great.
I'm, like, in fourth grade again, picking on my little sister.
Can we refill this? [chuckles]
Corri and Aaron, your teamwork, first of all, is absolutely amazing.
- Just really fun to watch. - Thank you.
Pretty creative that you used a pappardelle
instead of the little ribbon egg noodles that we normally use.
So, well done, you guys.
- Clever. That's, like, the Aaron May twist there. - Yeah.
Beef stroganoff's a great call
with seven ingredients. An absolute classic.
The only thing I would say, honestly,
I do want it tossed just so the noodles get caked in it all.
They really can absorb it all. I don't like the different flavors in that.
I like to see it all creamy together.
Fair enough.
Next up, Xea and Antonia.
[Antonia] We had five ingredients to use.
We have clams, parsley, garlic, lemon, white wine.
Everything that you need for the bucatini and clams.
This is a family favorite.
Let me tell you,
I feel bad for all of you out there who can't eat this.
[judges laughing]
[Xea] Because it tastes like
your mom's a world-renowned chef who made really good pasta,
and it's now in your mouth. It's buttery. It's garlicky.
It's crunchy. It's crispy.
- It's-- - Lemony.
- It's lemony. - Sold.
Sold, yeah.
- [Antonia] Mmm. Mm-hmm. - [Xea] Mm-hmm.
Xea should sell all the dishes.
[Xea chuckles]
It looks amazing. It's creamy and garlicky, which I love.
We love the fact that you took bucatini
instead of linguine. Great job, guys.
This looks just like a perfectly simple but elegant family dish.
And you guys could probably cook this whole dish handcuffed together.
You're missing absolutely nothing on that plate.
And I love the fact that it wasn't just "bring your daughter to work day"
where she sits in the corner and just kinda plays a video game.
She actually cooked the clams.
Nice work.
- And I got an education today. I would just like to say that. - [laughs]
[both laughing]
Choosing five ingredients,
you chose ones that were very, very bold
and also ones that I could taste as you're explaining it.
All of those are flavor bombs, so, well done.
You did a smart job,
but if I'm being honest, I think you also are a little bit safe.
We all were a little bit underwhelmed by the creativity.
It's a little safe.
And Aarti and Bren,
I'm telling you, you already won the competition in my heart
because of the shirt, but tell the judges what you made.
The only thing that makes us all say "Yay!"
Is when we all say "Ramen?"
So what we made for you is almost like an instant Tonkotsu.
[Aarti] So it's silky. It's fatty. It sort of sticks to your ribs.
The noodles are perfectly cooked.
They have a tiny little bit of a bite to them.
You've got that nice crunch of these maitake on top here,
along with that jammy ramen egg.
- Bomb. - Yeah.
[chuckles softly]
I don't even know if I'm allowed to say this,
but send nudes. That looks so good.
So funky and dirty. This sounds like my perfect dish, you guys.
[laughing]
Now, the only thing is, I'm wondering how salty that thing is.
Because if there's one thing I like
almost to the brink of oversalted, it's ramen. Did you put enough in there?
- Yeah. Umami bomb. - It's very salty.
It is an umami bomb.
Very impressive with all the different flavor combination.
Adding that mustard into the pork fat, super smart.
That's really, really nice and creative.
Thanks, guys.
When I saw you using ramen noodles,
I thought, "Oh, ramen noodles in ramen. Boo."
However, the broth itself has this, like, thick, nice creaminess.
But, for me, the egg is a little over.
I would like it a little bit more saucy
so that I could get some of that rich yolk into my sauce.
- Fair. - Mm-hmm.
All right. Thank you, chefs. The time has come
for the judges to score your dishes.
And the family with the highest score will receive the what, Hunter?
The envelope of opportunity.
And the team that hit the lowest score?
[Hunter] Ooh. The package of pain.
- [Guy] Everybody loves not to get that. - Yeah.
Chefs, please leave the feed
so the judges can make their decisions.
Now, judges, your score is very important. It's the big finale.
Remember, 15 points in gameplay, 15 in creativity.
10 in plating, 10 in taste, Hunter, for a total of?
- Fifty points. - [Guy] Exactly.
You'll send those scores over to Hunter.
He'll average 'em. We'll get 'em on the board,
and we will find out who wins round one.
All right. Welcome back, families. You have proved to the judges
that when it comes to noodles,
the pastabilities are endless.
[all laughing]
All right, let's go to the scoreboard.
From the leader at 45
to "The package of pain" 42, a three-point spread.
Let's start off with Aaron and Corri, the brother-sister duo.
We expected a little bit better.
- What? - I'm sorry.
- [chuckling] He said, "What?" - There you go. You did do a little bit better.
Aaron and Corri with a 43.
- They're in the middle. - Lucky number 43.
It is a lucky number.
There you go. So that leaves us
with Aarti and Bren and Antonia and Xea.
Let's go to the bottom seed first.
The bottom seed will go to...
- Oh, jeez. - We won.
Oh, no, that's not right.
There we go.
- Oh, my gosh! We won! - Hey.
- [Guy] Aarti and Bren, congratulations. - [Hunter] Wow.
How did we lose?
We lost in creativity 'cause everyone thought
that our linguine clams was too, like, simple.
Let's go to that envelope of opportunity.
I'm just so excited. Thank you guys so much.
All right. Aarti, what have you got for us?
A $2,000 prize
and a $2,000 donation to restaurant of our choice.
Fantastic. Who would you like to make that donation to?
To a restaurant called Sunny Blue in Los Angeles.
It's a family favorite, and it makes all of us so happy.
Awesome job. I know they need the help.
- You're good people for doing that. - Very nice.
Fantastic.
Now to Xea and Xea Senior. You are in
- "The package of pain" category. - Ahh! The package of pain!
"Puzzle of pain.
Time to pick up the pieces and put together the family puzzle
inside the envelope before you can start cooking."
[laughing]
Oh, my God. We have to do a puzzle.
- [Xea] Those are my teeth. - Probably a puzzle of us.
- Oh. - Yeah.
All right, families, the second and deciding round
of the finale of All-Star Family Face-Off starts...
- Right now. - Let's go.
Well, families, for your final challenge,
we want you to make a first-place feast.
First-place feast.
Okay.
This is the second and deciding round
of the big finale of the All-Star Family Face-Off.
Luckily...
your second box contains everything you will need.
Ah, I don't know.
- I do not believe this. Okay, let's see. - Yeah.
[Guy] Let's go ahead and open these boxes up.
- [woman] High, low! - This is a party.
- [Guy] So, let's go high end first. - [Hunter] Lamb loin?
- [Guy] Yeah. - [Hunter] Wagyu New York Strip?
- Lucky, King Salmon. - Like, these are all wonderful, and then these.
[Guy] And the low end.
Herring in wine sauce and pickled eggs.
- [Hunter] Nacho cheese sauce. - [Guy] Nacho cheese sauce!
Vienna sausage. Marmite.
No. They made us try this in elementary school.
It's delicious.
And some sour gummy worms.
- Okay. - You know what this reminds me of?
It reminds me when we all used to hang out in Flavortown market together.
What was that one game we played?
What's it called? Damaris, help me. It's called the...
- [high pitch] High. - [low pitch] Low.
- That's right, ladies and gentlemen. - That better make the show.
It's time to bring back the old High/Low Wheel!
- Come on, Hunter, bring it in. - Yeah, I love this one!
We went down to Flavortown Market,
and we picked up the High/Low Wheel.
Hey, things are getting "wheel" right now.
- Very "wheel." - Oh, my gosh.
I'm "wheely" sorry. You better be really scared.
We'll first spin the high one.
King salmon, wagyu strip, rack of lamb. Here we go.
What's it gonna be? Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh.
- [Guy] King Salmon. - Yes.
Beautiful king salmon.
Now, so many amazing choices that you get here on the low end.
Vienna sausage, brewer's yeast,
pickled eggs, sour gummy worms,
nacho cheese or the herring.
- [sighs] - Nacho sauce!
Pickled eggs.
Here we go.
[cheering] Herring! Herring!
Not the gummies.
[Guy] Pickled egg.
We have 30 minutes to make a first-place feast
featuring the king salmon and the pickled eggs.
Antonia and Xea, you must do your puzzle.
And then you can start cooking in three, two, one, go.
Okay, let's go. That's it. That's it. That's it.
You have cream cheese. You have tomato. You have red onion.
Three, two, one, go. We got a jar for everything.
- Dude, what are you doing? - My side job.
[Guy] You're putting a puzzle together of yourselves.
You guys don't know each other that well?
My face is done. My face is done.
My mom sucks at puzzles.
I don't know how we used to do puzzles when I was a kid.
Guys, I'm really good at cooking.
Come on, Mama.
- They've already lost a minute to the puzzle. - My part was hard.
No, it really wasn't.
All right, Antonia, you're good to go.
You could start cooking.
We need to use king salmon and pickled eggs in our first-place feast.
Pickled eggs and king salmon work really well together,
'cause the egg is this beautiful neutral fat,
so it's highly vinegared.
For our first-place feast,
we are making a roasted king salmon with a beautiful salad
on top of a pickled egg herbed creme fraiche.
I'm grating the pickled egg.
We're gonna make, like, herbed sour cream
for this little salad that we're gonna put on the side.
We wanna take this home. There's cash on the line,
so it's an obvious must-win.
[Xea] Is this good on mint or you want more?
[Antonia] That's plenty.
- This is the hardest round we've done so far. - All right.
We have to make a first-place feast
out of pickled eggs and king salmon.
We're gonna make a salmon that's, like, pan roasted
with a little seed crust.
Then we're gonna do a potato salad.
Then we need something green, and I think we'll be good.
- How much on? Just, like, a thin coating? - Yeah.
We're gonna use Dijon mustard as a glue to hold the fennel seeds
and the black mustard seeds as a crust.
So, see how it's cooking and you can see the color changing?
- Yeah. - We're gonna turn it over.
- Look at the skin. - Beautiful.
Oh, yeah, forgot about the pickled eggs! What the what?
I'm thinking we can use the eggs with potatoes.
The pickled egg potato salad.
Let's get these potatoes in the water.
Boil some fingerling potatoes in salted water.
Then I build the dressing.
That vinegar is actually kind of nice.
I am using the pickled eggs for that creamy texture.
So good. Wow!
We're a family, we're part of the Triple G family,
and we're gonna win.
- I am trusting you 100%. - Oh, boy.
- This is all you. - Oh, great.
Salmon and eggs to me says Sunday brunch.
We're gonna make, like, a feast.
It's got to be a first-place feast.
We're gonna make a brunch feast.
Kippered salmon, pickled deviled eggs,
and all the accoutrements.
It's gonna be delicious and super... feasty.
Brunch all the way.
All right, what am I getting out?
- Bagels. - Dad actually made these.
[Aaron] Perfect. Let's get some eggs.
Salmon's so versatile. It's a great high-end ingredient.
Kippered salmon is usually hot smoked salmon.
Clearly we're not smoking here,
but you take some liberties when you're cooking in competition.
Salmon in the oven.
Okay, take the pickled eggs.
[Aaron] Here's what I want you to do.
So we're gonna make like deviled eggs.
I don't know anybody who doesn't like deviled eggs.
They're rich, creamy, scrumptious.
What could be better?
[Corri] I need to get the yolks out of the eggs,
mix them with some mayo, mustard and breadcrumbs,
pass the mixture through a strainer to get it nice and smooth.
[Aaron] If we win, the money is going towards
little niece Dina's college fund.
Aw.
I don't want her to end up a cook.
[Corri laughs]
God wants a feast.
We're giving it to him.
[Guy] Twenty minutes left. May the egg be with you.
[Antonia] Family feast. Alright, let's do some potatoes.
Welcome back. Our All Star families going head to head
in a final challenge of the tournament.
-At stake is the championship -At salmon steak.
Oh right, at salmon steak, is the championship
and up to $20,000 in cash.
Let's see how they're doing.
[Antonia] We're coming into the second round in last place,
so we really need to make sure
that this first place feast gets us there.
[Xea] What kind of salmon?
[Antonia] I'm just gonna do a pan-roasted salmon,
we'll do some mashed potatoes with it.
Once the potatoes are boiled, we're gonna do like a coconut potato, sweetie.
For this coconut cream, I'm gonna have Xea just
peel some potatoes, put them on the stove
and start them in some water and salt.
It's really about the coconut cream, so it's mostly coconut.
The potatoes are just a thickening agent.
- The whole can? - Yeah, the whole can.
So as soon as potatoes are a little bit tender, I throw them into the blender
with the coconut cream and just pulse.
The last thing I need to get going
is to saute the mushrooms because I'm gonna make a ragu with baby potatoes
that's gonna go underneath my salmon.
And the grab the small little potatoes out of the fridge.
Xea, you can throw them right into the fryer.
I don't like being in last place.
- We don't like it. We're not happy. - Mmm-mmm.
No, I'm ready to claim that place as the winner that I know we are.
If there's anybody you do not want to tick off
or give extra motivation to, it's Antonia. Three points is nothing.
Yes.
Aarti and Bren, what are you guys making?
We're making like an international salmon dinner.
A little warm potato salad.
[Aarti] And then I got some broccolini with ginger
and fennel seed. Bren's doing his own corn.
Like a miso, ghee sort of improvised for a classic corn.
It's like taking Bill America and launching it in the multi verse around the world.
Wow.
We need something bright and green on this plate.
I get some ginger match sticks,
some hot oil,
and then I drizzle that warm, seasoned, sizzling oil over the broccolini.
- [Brendan] We're in the lead. - [Aarti] And that's one step closer
to the $20,000!
We are playing for our family
because we are homeowners, people.
Whatever we win today,
will go towards making our house a home.
I'm going to pull the salmon.
[Aarti] It looks gorgeous.
Very, very happy with that.
Check on your corn.
[Brendan] With the corn, we're going to Japan.
[Aarti] Doing miso, right?
[Brendan] Doing miso, like an instant furikake.
It's gonna be a lot of food on the plate.
How much time?
Six minutes.
[Aaron] I'm gonna get our Southwest scramble on the stove.
I want jalapenos, onions, bell pepper and cherry tomatoes.
You know, I think the scramble is going to be a nice complement to the salmon.
It's going to bring some heat.
How can you have a feast without something sweet?
[Aaron] We're making dessert.
Blueberry, blackberry French toast.
It's a nice sweet component to finish the feast.
A minute and 45, folks.
In the next minute and a half, we're going to have a winner
of the first Triple G Family Delivery tournament.
[Antonia] I get the salmon from the oven and it is perfect.
The first thing I put on the plate is this beautiful coconut puree.
Next I do the ragu of mushrooms and crispy potatoes
and then topped with the perfectly roasted salmon.
So then I do a little dollop of that pickled egg creme fresh.
Ooh.
[Antonia] And then I add the beautiful salad to the top of the creme fresh.
And I'm gonna grate some of that pickled egg
just right over the top, and then Xea and I together
are just picking and tearing herbs that kind of go all over the plate.
All right, 45 second, chefs.
[Aarti] Time to plate.
[Brendan] So I start with the corn.
I start laying broccolini.
[Aarti] Then I take some of that potato salad
and place it down the middle of the plate
and perch that perfectly cooked salmon right down the center.
- [Aaron] Salmon, perfect right now. - [Corri] Okay.
[Aaron] When I pulled the salmon out of the oven,
it looks dynomite.
I just need the bagels
and I need them now. Perfect.
[Tory] The bagels are coming down on Aaron Station and a kippered salmon.
That's going to be great.
It looks like a real bounty.
[Aaron] We've got the bacon.
We've got the scramble.
And don't forget about those delicious siracha deviled, pickled eggs.
Five. Four. Three. Two. One.
- [Guy] That's it. - Yeah!
- Well done, everybody. - [all cheering]
Nicely done. You've made an impressive feast.
It's time to find out which one is a first place feast.
Let's take it to the judges.
All right, judges. This the final game
of Triple G Delivery The All Star Family Face Off.
A spin of the high wheel dictated they would use the king salmon.
And low wheel determined that they had to use pickled eggs.
First up, Antonia and Xea.
This is our first class family feast.
A roasted king salmon seared skin side down on top of a coconut puree
with a roasted mushroom and crispy potato rag...
Then with those pickled eggs, I made a pickled egg creme fresh
that goes with salad. Mmm. Really good.
This is so good.
That plate is a throne fit for a king and you guys nailed it.
The salmon looks so beautiful and juicy.
I really enjoyed watching you guys cook the coconut, the flavor.
Absolutely amazing.
I love the freshness, the plating looks beautiful.
[Damaris] Grating those pickled yolks across the top,
that was a nice usage.
[Darrick] But we have one question.
Does it feel like a feast?
Next up, Aarti and Bren.
Hey, guys.
[Aarti] For our feast, we've got a salmon crusted
with toasted black mustard seeds,
fennel seeds with a little bit of Dijon mustard.
It's beautifully pink in the middle,
sitting on top of, you know,
your very traditional pickled egg and potato salad.
[Brendan] I took over on the Japanese corn on the cob
with a miso butter on it,
and then just a, literally a hand smashed furikake.
Problem that I thought I was gonna have was with that corn.
But when you said it's got miso,
oh, miso's gonna bring depth of flavor to that corn.
[Claire] That is so cool.
I've never seen corn on the cob done like that.
[Marcus] Amazing teamwork.
The mustard and the fennel on top of the salmon
and also bringing in the green.
Really well done.
There's a lot of things on that plate,
and it doesn't necessarily say, "I am a dish."
You nailed feast, but it didn't scream cohesive dish.
And last but not least, Aaron May and super sister Corri.
Judges, when we were tasked with a first place feast,
to me, a feast is lots of different flavors,
so we made a kippered salmon
with bagels, cream cheese, capers, tomato.
Look at that juicy, moist, medium cooked salmon,
a southwestern scramble, siracha pickled deviled eggs.
The vinegar in the pickled eggs make this alive.
- It's... It's delicious. - [Aaron] Look at that.
And don't forget, French toast with berry sauce.
I love you guys and wish you were here to feast with us.
Cheers.
You nailed feast.
[Damaris] I think taking the pickled egg and putting that as a deviled eggs,
I thought that was really, really nice game play.
The only thing that we would omit is that scramble.
It just looks a little like, "Meh."
But I would eat that French toast all day.
[laughs]
This reminds me when you go out for the brunch on Saturday morning,
and one person orders one thing and another person
and you all split, and it's like French tapas. It looks so bomb.
I just don't understand why there's not a carving station.
Kippers hot smoked salmon,
that's very creative.
But this is the family finale,
so we want to see a little bit more flair
and just a little bit more elegance.
All right. Thank you, families.
The judges are going to deliberate about your first place feast
and the chef, again with the highest combined score at the end of this round,
well, you know what would be the first ever champion
of Triple G Delivery tournament.
So please leave the feed once more,
so the judges can make their decisions.
All right, judges go ahead and text your scores over to Hunter.
He'll average them out and we'll find out
who will get a shot at that wheel of money.
Well families, thank you very much.
You gave us some incredible first place feast.
Unfortunately, there can only be one first place winner
for the first-ever Triple G Delivery At Home tournament
family face off.
[Guy] From the first round, we had Aaron and Corri, 43.
Aarti and Brendan at 45
and Antonia and Xea, 42, a three point spread.
This is anybody's game.
Let's take a look here.
For the first place feast, go to Aaron and Corri.
I don't like going first.
- Fourteen, 14. - [both exclaims]
Seven, eight, 43 points.
[Guy] For a score of 86.
Congratulations. Let's go to Aarti and Brendan.
Oh, boy.
- [Guy] Fourteen, 13. - Ouch.
Seven, eight, 42. But still enough points
to take out Aaron May with an 87.
We love you, Aaron.
[Brendan] We love you, Corri.
So that leaves Antonia and Xea with 42, 13.
Thirteen, nine, nine. Total of 44.
Congratulations, Aarti and Brendan.
[all cheering and applauding]
Thanks to all our families, the judges for being
a part of our home tournament and you meet
our Triple G Delivery All Star Family face up winners,
Aarti and Brenan.
- [all cheering] - Go, Aarti!
- Judges, nice work. - Woo-hoo!
This is the only judging competition where you won't gain weight.
Aarti and Bren, it's time to go to extra special
wheel-y cool wheel of money.
- Right this way. - Wow.
Here we are, Aarti and Bren,
our money wheel, but it has...
- [Hunter] Weh-weh. - ...no money.
Oh.
[Guy] Now try to thank that it only has two possibilities,
and both of them in your favor are money makers.
If you land on quiz, we have five food questions
worth up to $20,000.
That's pretty good.
[Guy] And if you land on hunt, well, you'll have to search your kitchen
for five items worth up to $20,000.
So let's see what the spin says.
I hope they land on hunt.
[Guy] And it goes to the hunt, ladies and gentlemen.
Oh, okay.
Yeah!
Five items,
Forty seconds on the clock.
- [Guy] Are you ready? - Yeah.
And the first item is tongs.
[Aarti] Tongs. The money is gonna go straight into our house.
Great. Something spicy?
- [Aarti] Oh. - Come on, get it.
[Aarti] Cayenne. Go, go, go. Cayenne.
Noodles.
[Aarti] Oh, do you know where they are?
Oh, yay! Good job, Brendan.
Yeah! Good job, Bren!
An item that begins with C.
- [Aarti] C? Cashews? - [Brendan] Cilantro.
- [Aarti] What? - [Brendan] Cilantro.
[Aarti] Oh, cilantro.
[Guy] A food item that sits in the palm of your hand.
[Aarti] Oh, mushroom?
There it is.
Ladies and gentlemen, there you go, $20,000!
Congratulations, Aarti and Bren.
There you have it.
[all cheering]
Well done, guys.
Ten thousand dollars.
A $2,000 win.
I can't even add up how much money you won.
We have a total of $34,000 on Triple G Delivery.
I love this game.
- Let's go again. Let's go again now! - No, no.
More importantly, you are the All Star Family Face Off champs.
- Thank you. - Thank you, guys.
Yes!
See you next time on Triple G Delivery.
Adios! Well done.