TITUSS BURGESS: I'm Tituss Burgess,
and this is "Dishmantled!"
The bad-ass competition where we blast a dish to smithereens!
- (squishing) - Are they okay?
- TITUSS: To see if two blindfolded chefs can guess it...
- I have an idea.
- TITUSS: Then make it.
Whoever makes a dish closest to what exploded on them,
wins $5,000.
- Aah! - Wow.
- Y'all ready to watch me blow some shit up?
- (exploding) - (shattering)
(exploding)
- PRIYANKA NAIK: My name is Priyanka Naik.
I am competing because I have a great palette,
and a large ego.
- JOE NAIMOLI: My name is Joe Naimoli, - (splattering)
and I'm ready to get hit with a shotgun blast full of food.
- Once I hit this button,
you'll only have 30 minutes to taste and cook,
for Antoni, Dan, and myself.
All rise.
Let's get "Dishmantled!"
(groans)
- WOMAN'S VOICE: Four, three, two...
- ANTONI POROWSKI (whispers): Oh, my God.
(exploding)
- JOE: Ugh! - (shrieks)
(both laughing)
- What is that?
- PRIYANKA: Oh, my God. - Are they okay?
- PRIYANKA: Okay. - DAN: That looks like a crime scene.
- I'm at the wall.
I can't see shit.
I'm eating off myself, I'm eating off my shoes, my boots.
I'm going...
"What the hell is this?"
- I saw what I think was an egg yolk.
- I definitely know what this is.
I find a precisely cut wedge.
This is for sure pita.
- I wanna taste it.
- You do?
- They've been in there a long time. Hurry up! Time's tickin', kids!
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All right, they're off to the races.
- JOE: It's go time.
So, I have to go with what I'm absolutely sure
I know is in this dish. Which is...
(groans) Why am I here?
...nothing.
Why is this happening now?
Because everything I tasted
could be something else.
Onions? Maybe. Tomatoes? Question mark.
I have no idea.
But being that I'm Italian, you're getting a sauce.
I'm gonna make a rustic marinara with a little penne,
and hope for the best.
I gotta have onions, garlic, peeled tomatoes.
Know what? We're under the gun.
I add some basil, 'cause (bleep) parsley.
- You think you know what you're doing? - Ha ha.
- PRIYANKA: In the tube, I tasted something stringy,
which I think is zucchini.
There is something tangy, like a tomato-y marinara.
And there's something carby, which is a pita.
So I'm making a zoodle marinara,
with a side of toasted pita.
What I tasted had a lot of heat,
so I'm using red crushed pepper.
Yep. It's a little spicy.
- Dan, what do you think it is?
- DAN: I saw some tomatoes. The base is tomato.
- We know this. - Clearly.
- I saw what looked like a mozzarella slice.
I saw what I think is a pita.
To me, that is a dish I do not know.
(laughing)
- Didn't you say that you saw an egg yolk?
- Oh, yeah. I saw an egg yolk. - Oh, yeah. You did say that earlier.
- When you said egg yolk, I was thinking shakshuka.
Which is a Middle Eastern dish. - What did you think it was?
- I, well, I know what it is. - Okay. (laughs) Okay.
- That's the basis for the whole show.
Chefs, you've got 11 minutes left. - Okay.
- JOE: There was some type of cheese.
Yeah.
I know I tasted cheese in there. Who doesn't love cheese, anyway?
So it's going in the goddamn dish.
I'm gonna use ricotta.
How you doin' over there?
- Probably better than you. - (sighs)
- Dan, would you step into that tube, without a hazmat suit,
for $5,000?
- I am wearing a light beige knit. - (Antoni laughing)
- DAN: No, amount of money... - (Tituss and Antoni laughing)
could find me in there.
- TITUSS: Thirty seconds!
- ANTONI: I hope your pasta's ready.
- JOE: Oh, God, there's macaroni everywhere.
- TITUSS: Did you recreate what was dishmantled?
In five, four, three, two, one.
Your time is gone.
(sighs)
- (squishing sound) - Now, Joe,
what the hell is this?
I made a rustic marinara with a little penne
and a little dollop of ricotta.
- The sauce is very nice.
- Thank you. - I think this is delicious.
I don't know if this is what you're supposed to have made.
- Is this dish a reflection of your heritage,
or is it what you actually found?
- I tasted cheese up there. I tasted cheese off my shoe.
- (record scratching) - You what?
- Thank you, Joe.
Priyanka. Can I call you Pri-Pri?
- You can call me Queen P.
- Ooh. - Priyanka knows herself.
- She does.
- What in the (bleep) did you make? - (Joe and Priyanka laughing)
- So that is a
zoodle marinara with toasted pita.
- You both tasted the sauce, right?
- Yeah. - Yours was sweet.
Yours is spicy.
- That might be just a touch of red-crushed pepper.
- What about the zucchini? Did you for sure taste zucchini?
- That was the first thing that shot into my mouth.
- Sentence I never thought I'd hear anyone say,
but here we are. - You know.
- Did you not taste any dairy? - I didn't taste any dairy.
- One of you thinks that there's no dairy,
when the other thinks it's half made up of dairy.
- Yes. - That's right.
- Thank you, Queen P.
All right. Are you ready to find out
who's walking out of here $5,000 richer?
The dishmantled plate was...
Shakshuka!
- DAN: Wow. - Aah!
- Shakshuka. - ANTONI: Shakshuka!
(exploding)
TITUSS: The winner guessed an impressive seven correct ingredients.
And that contestant is...
Queen P.
Congratulations, Priyanka.
- DAN: Congrats! - Yay!
- ANTONI: Well done.
- TITUSS: Priyanka, your use of the pita bread and chili flakes
is what catapulted you to glory.
- I won. Of course.
For my Queen P. ego, that's all she needed.
- (exploding) - (shattering)