- I'm Tituss Burgess.
This is Dishmantled.
The badass competition...
where we blast a dish to smithereens.
- ROY: Oh, damn, they got to eat that?
- TITUSS: To see if two blindfolded chefs can guess it...
Is it good? - Yeah, it's pretty good.
- TITUSS: ...then make it.
- Damn!
- TITUSS: Whoever makes the dish closest to what exploded on them
wins $5,000.
Viola!
You ready to watch me blow some shit up?
- My name is Tayla Harper Johnson.
Hell, yeah, I'm tough. A little bit of mess does not freak me out.
- My name is Dan Fleming.
When it comes to flavors, I'll smell 'em out like a Basset Hound.
- Once I hit this button, you'll only have 30 minutes to taste and cook
for Roy...
Shameik and myself.
All rise.
Let's get...
Dishmantled!
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Shit!
- Yeah.
- TAYLA: My Gosh!
I've been shot.
- It got me in my nether region.
- Oh, God.
-TAYLA: Am I bleeding? I don't know.
Am I alive?
Why did I do this?
- Cheers, my man. - Cheers.
- DAN: Wow. Flavorful.
- What's up my nose? Why does it burn?
- I smell a spicy tingle in my nose.
- I don't know the origin of the dish because my nostrils are on fire.
- This is either curry powder or cayenne pepper.
I feel like Ratatouille.
Only the fat one.
- So, based on the colors, et cetera, what do you propose it is?
- The color's very orange. - Are those red peppers?
- I crunch down and I know it's a vegetable 'cause it's not sweet.
- DAN: I feel peppers and onions.
I got an inkling.
- I stumble upon something crunchy.
- DAN: I'm feeling these pebbles.
- TAYLA: I know it's rice based on the granules.
- Talk about what you smell?
- I definitely smell some sort of curry.
- Looks like seafood or steak.
- TITUSS: Is there shrimp in there?
- DAN: I grab this piece of meat.
- It doesn't taste like a land animal.
- They are off to the races!
- Now, I have to buckle down and figure out what I'm making.
- Here you go.
In the Tube, I tasted rice, peppers and onions.
There was also something a little spicy.
That could've been curry, but I'm more confident it was cayenne--
So I'll be making jambalaya.
- Is anyone using curry powder? - No.
Could be like a jambalaya maybe.
- What's in a jambalaya, talk us through that.
- There's always bell peppers, onions, there's rice.
There's sausages, or chicken and shrimp.
- TITUSS: Is it kind of a free for all? - I think it has room for interpretation.
- TAYLA: In the Tube, I know I tasted something with heat.
And I'm 98% sure I tasted shellfish, which tasted sweet.
This is shrimp.
Yes!
I know there's shrimp, rice, peppers and onions.
So what has all those ingredients? Shrimp étoufée.
Shrimp étoufée is a savory and slow-cooked sauce.
It's a staple in New Orleans.
Now I'm just focused on doing what I do, baby. Just doing what I do.
- It's smelling good up in here!
- DAN: Now that I've decided that it was jambalaya,
what protein am I gonna use?
I don't think it's of a seafood.
Tasted meaty, so I'm gonna trust my palate and go with sausage.
- She's making shrimp étoufée.
- TITUSS: Is he making a jambalaya? - He's making a jambalaya, yeah.
- Who do you think is right? Dan has sausage, Tayla has shrimp.
- I think the dish is jambalaya.
- So you think he's on the right track? - Which is orange-- Yeah.
The color is very similar to what I saw on the wall.
So I think he's right.
- I think I've hit most of the ingredients
and I'm feeling pretty confident at this point.
- This is high stress, but I feel like I'm damn close.
- JUDGES: Three, two, one!
- Bring me your dishes.
What the hell is this, Tayla?
- It's my take on a shrimp étoufée.
- TITUSS: OK.
And what was your experience of the Tube, darlin'?
- Different.
- To say the least. - SHAMEIK: You know what?
That smell, it smells good.
It smells like what I was smelling. - It's really delicious.
- Thank you. - And I love the dish.
The shrimp is cooked perfectly.
- Can you describe the moment that you knew it was a shrimp?
- It didn't pull apart like chicken. It didn't pull apart like a meat.
And then when I bit down, I felt the crunch of the tail.
So that's how I knew. - Thank you, Tayla.
- Thank you. - Now, what the hell is this, Dan?
- What I went with was sausage jambalaya.
- I don't know if you hit the dish right, but the flavor is really good.
- This is coming from a professional.
- Sauce is amazing. You hit it on point. Color and flavor.
- Why did you choose sausage?
- DAN: When I was eating the protein,
it was long and wasn't curled like a shrimp.
I definitely tasted some kind of pork element in there.
- Thank you, chef. - Thank you.
- You were totally fine,
but looking like fools in front of the whole world, and for what?
$5,000.
So, what is the mystery dish?
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Coconut curry.
Though neither of you identified the dish as curry,
you both accurately detected the onion, bell pepper, and rice.
The winning chef also used the correct protein, shrimp--
which means, the winner is Tayla!
Congratulations, Tayla!
- Yes!
- Get your ass up there and get your monty, hunty.
- TAYLA: I won!
I'm a winner.