[screaming playfully]
- I'm Tituss Burgess,
and this is Dishmantled!
[screams excitedly]
The badass competition where we blast a dish to smithereens...
- What is that?
[laughing]
- TITUSS: ...to see if two blindfolded chefs can guess it...
- Did you clean the floor before?
- What's our second rule?
...then make it.
Whoever makes a dish closest to what exploded on them
wins $5,000.
- Show me the money.
- Y'all ready to watch me blow some shit up?
- My name is Dave MonDore.
This feels a little wacky, but right up my alley.
- My name is Lo Wood.
And I'm wondering, do I have a safe word?
And if so, what is it?
- Once I hit this button, you'll only have 30 minutes to taste and cook
for Wolfgang, Action, and myself.
All rise.
Let's... get... dishmantled!
[Tituss screaming]
Oh, my God!
Oh, my goodness.
- I see a mob hit. I see Goodfellas.
- I hope my kids don't watch it
because they're gonna try to do it at home.
[laughing]
- First bite, wet noodles. - LO: This is a pile of spaghetti.
- Gonna drink this whole bottle, me and you.
- WOLFGANG: Yeah. - [chuckles]
- LO: I'm tasting all cheese.
- It's very grainy. It's salty.
- Parmesan-y type vibes. - All right.
- Do you smell anything like tomatoes? - Yeah.
It's a very tomatoey acidic.
- Mmm.
I'm feeling beef. This has got meatball...
- LO: It's also pretty finely broken up.
- You can smell a little herb.
- There's definitely some herb.
[judges laughing]
- LO: I get one little bit of peppery green flavor
that I associate with parsley, almost grassy.
- DAVE: Maybe some dried oregano.
- What takes so long to taste the food over there?
- I'm ready to party. - Let's go.
- Oh, and they're off to the races.
- Holy shit. Wolfgang Puck is watching me cook.
- I would say that's a dream come true, but maybe it's a nightmare.
When I was in the Tube, I know that there was a lot of cheese.
I'm thinking Parmesan,
and there was a pile of spaghetti.
I also think I tasted ground beef and some tomatoes.
I'm pretty sure that the dishmantled dish is spaghetti bolognese.
- What do you think they're making?
- This is the beginnings of a beautiful tomato sauce I would imagine.
- TITUSS: All right. - I don't know exactly what it is,
but it could be noodles.
- From here, from the side that I have, it looked more of a round noodle.
- DAVE: In the Tube, I got spaghetti, tomato. I tasted Parmesan, ground beef.
And I'm thinking, ah, spaghetti bolognese.
I see Lo is making the same dish as me. Now I'm gonna have to out-execute her.
This sounds wrong, "execute her."
- Chefs, you have 15 minutes left.
- You have to build flavor, you have to salt every single level.
- Listen to this man, coming with it.
- All right, don't overcook the pasta over there.
- Throw it against the walls, if it sticks, it's good.
- Now I'm trying to nail down exactly which herbs were in there.
Definitely basil. Definitely parsley, probably oregano.
- LO: I'm chopping parsley because it's what I tasted in the Tube.
I also really wanna add some basil and oregano,
but I just don't want to take a chance on something
that I'm just not sure I tasted.
- It's clearly a battle of the bolognese.
If that is the dish, it's gonna come down to the ingredients.
Who do you think is closest?
- I kind of think to go with Dave
because he add some dried oregano and fresh basil.
- Getting hungry over here.
Five, four, three,
two, and [in sing-song] put your plates down.
So, Dave, what in the hell is this?
- I've made for you guys spaghetti bolognese.
When I was in the Tube, I got the ground beef
and I thought it could be spaghetti meatballs,
but it was smaller pieces.
- I think the meatballs, you would have felt them probably.
- Yeah. Probably anyway. Not felt so nice.
- Lots of oregano, it tastes Greek.
- Oh.
- WOLFGANG: Did you put basil in that too?
- I put some fresh basil, um, towards the end.
- You put parsley too, huh? - DAVE: Yeah.
- Thank you, chef.
- Thank you. - Thank you.
- What the hell is this, Lo?
- LO: I also made a spaghetti bolognese.
- Well, what I'm tasting is just a beautiful bowl of spaghetti.
Just like a mama style. - TITUSS: Yeah?
- You know, that little parsley at the end really gives it a little kick.
- All in all, it's really a good dish.
- Thank you, chef.
- And so, Lo, you... What were your herbs? What did you choose?
- I just went straight for parsley. I didn't want to fill in the blanks.
- I see.
You both cooked spaghetti bolognese for Wolfgang Puck.
But only one of you will walk away with all of those Benjamins.
So, what is the mystery dish?
It is...
spaghetti bolognese!
You both correctly identified the dish,
including the ground beef, tomatoes, and Parmesan.
But the winner also detected the dried oregano and basil,
which means, Dave, you are the winner!
- Yes! - TITUSS: Congratulations.
- Dude, you're awesome. - Good job. Good job.
- Yes!
- Chef Dave, get up there and claim your prize, brother.
- That's what I'm talking about.