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00:00Tonight on Cutthroat Kitchen, one chef whacks a mole.
00:05I have $100,000 of cold, hard cash.
00:09Four chefs get $25,000 each.
00:12If they want to leave this kitchen with any of the cash,
00:15they have to survive three culinary challenges.
00:18Get out the way!
00:19And each other.
00:21I've got $10,000.
00:22It's a game we like to call.
00:23It's alive!
00:25Cutthroat Kitchen.
00:30I hate to tell you guys, you guys are all going home.
00:32Huh?
00:33I'm lost.
00:33Ciao, Bella.
00:34Ciao, bello.
00:36Hello, chefs.
00:37Welcome to a very special Cutthroat Kitchen chocolate edition.
00:43Looking forward to this.
00:44I hope nobody's diabetic, because this is going to be a very sweet day indeed.
00:49Now, you probably know how the game works.
00:50I have here, in this case, $100,000 cold, hard cash.
00:54Each of you will receive $25,000 of these dollars.
00:57The person who wins only walks out with the money they have remaining, right?
01:00Good.
01:01Chef.
01:01Take your money.
01:02Two bundles a piece.
01:04I'm Chef Jessica, and I'm an executive pastry chef from Westwood, New Jersey.
01:08I'm going to win Cutthroat Kitchen, because I am THE pastry queen of New Jersey.
01:12I feel so good and dirty and ripe.
01:15Two for you, chef.
01:17I'm Damian.
01:18Yep.
01:19I just know what to do with it.
01:20I am here to win Cutthroat Kitchen today, because I really, really want to give all the
01:24money to my mom to join me and my brother over here in America.
01:28Two bundles, sir.
01:29Thank you, sir.
01:30I'm Chef Jay, and I'm a wedding cake designer from Nashville, Tennessee.
01:34Southern people get a bad rap, because they think you're all sweet and innocent.
01:38Really, in the South, this is what we say.
01:40If you can't say nothing nice, come sit by me.
01:43And the final two are for you, ma'am.
01:46Take that.
01:47I'm Chef Tarina from Los Angeles, California.
01:50Oh.
01:50Is this my competition?
01:51Come on.
01:52I'm a D1 basketball player.
01:54This kitchen is my court.
01:56My pastry cream is so tight.
01:58Swish.
01:59All right, pastry chefs.
02:01I'm gonna give you half an hour to make chocolate chip cookie dessert.
02:06That is a dessert based on chocolate chip cookies.
02:09You just can't serve up a plate of chocolate chip cookies where you can, but you'll be going
02:13home rather quickly.
02:14The bigger question is, can you shop it in 60 seconds?
02:17Let's find out.
02:18Go.
02:19Welcome to the pantry, kids.
02:22Lord have mercy, this is like a shoe sale.
02:24My plan is to make a chocolate chip skillet cookie with a cream cheese filling.
02:29I know I need to get chocolate chips, brown sugar, flour, butter, eggs, vanilla.
02:34Those are the essentials.
02:3630 seconds.
02:37At this point, I would just be grabbing stuff.
02:39Excuse me, excuse me.
02:39I'm planning to make a chocolate crumble cookie with vanilla custard gelato over the top.
02:45So I'm just grabbing every single thing that I can possibly use.
02:49And if I get sabotaged, I know that I have a bucket.
02:52Three, two, one.
02:57Well, it does my heart good to see that most of you actually at least know how to make chocolate
03:01chip cookies.
03:02Ooh, I forgot eggs.
03:05That is bad.
03:06We're going to move into our auction now where I have some sabotages that I think you're going to be
03:11really interested in.
03:13A stand mixer.
03:15You'll notice, chefs, there's only one in the kitchen.
03:18Win this auction.
03:19And you will actually be the one using that mixer.
03:22And all three of your opponents will be mixing their dishes using some different types of mixers.
03:29A stationary mixer.
03:32Nothing moves.
03:33An electric hand mixer.
03:35Oh, and I'm sorry, it doesn't have any power.
03:39And I've got another stand mixer, but you know what?
03:41I lost the bowl.
03:43Hey, who wants to give me $500 to mix things up a little bit?
03:47$500.
03:48Jeff Tarina's in for five grand, just like that.
03:50Five large.
03:50Boom.
03:51$5,100.
03:52$5,200.
03:52$5,300.
03:53No matter what, I am not losing my mixer.
03:56$5,400.
03:56$5,500, absolutely.
03:57$5,600.
03:58I can't have a mixer that you can't use a bowl with.
04:02$5,700.
04:03$5,800.
04:03No, no, no.
04:04This one is not slipping away from me.
04:06$5,800 once.
04:07$5,800 twice.
04:09Sold.
04:09Chef Jessica, $5,800.
04:11Whatever.
04:11I need to save some cash for the next challenge.
04:15Now, examine your opponents in issue one to each.
04:19And please, ma'am, enjoy it.
04:21I will, absolutely.
04:22A handheld mixer without any power.
04:24That's easy.
04:25Thank you so much.
04:27Chef Trina is the least of my concerns.
04:29Not the worst thing in the world.
04:31I could have the stationary torture device.
04:33All right.
04:34This one, I think it's going to J.
04:38Gee, thanks.
04:39You're welcome.
04:40Thank you, Jess, for giving me the one I can work with.
04:43And I would like to eliminate the terrible accent in the room.
04:47This stand mixer without any ball is definitely the most dangerous.
04:52Chef Damiano.
04:53Very nice.
04:53At least you know how to say my name, right?
04:54Ah, grazie, grazie.
04:56I don't care.
04:57Take away my tools.
04:58But if I have ingredients, I'll make it happen.
05:01I've still got a mixer.
05:02So, chefs, let's have a look at our second item, shall we?
05:08Casino chips.
05:10I bet this one is going to be a whole lot of fun.
05:14Bob's.
05:16What the heck is this?
05:19We're in Vegas now.
05:21You win this auction, you can force one chef to swap their ingredients for whatever they
05:25can win on my roulette wheel.
05:28No, no.
05:29They hit a number, they get an ingredient.
05:32In this case, it would be number three.
05:34That means you'd be winning the nutmeg.
05:37It's going to take quite a while to gather enough ingredients to actually cook anything.
05:42And, oh, by the way, you'll notice there's a minus 500.
05:45You don't want to hit that because then you're going to give me 500 of your dollars.
05:48So, you know what I like best about this sabotage?
05:51The house always wins.
05:53$500.
05:54$3,000.
05:55$34.
05:55$36.
05:56$36 to Chef Jade.
05:57I'm very proud of my ingredients that I have in my basket.
05:59I do not want to lose them.
06:01$45.
06:02$46.
06:02$5,000.
06:03$5,000.
06:03$51, $51.
06:05I'm not bidding because I don't have any eggs.
06:07And I see some eggs right there.
06:10I want this sabotage.
06:11Going once at five, twice at five.
06:13I'm not afraid to lose my basket because I got a mixer.
06:17Sold.
06:17$5,000 for Chef Damiano to bring me the money, sir.
06:20There you go.
06:20I'm going to make your change.
06:21Go over, take a look at your opponents and their baskets.
06:23Decide who is going to suffer this horrible fate and then bring their basket back to me.
06:27Let's see.
06:27Let's see.
06:28You gave me that thing.
06:29It wasn't good.
06:30It wasn't cool.
06:30I'm still mad, but I might just forgive you.
06:34No, sir.
06:35He is not going to give it to me.
06:39Cross my fingers.
06:41You got too many ingredients, my friend.
06:43I'm sorry.
06:44This sucks.
06:46No hard feeling.
06:48What the heck?
06:49You better hope he laughs.
06:51Well, Chefs, I'm looking for a chocolate chip cookie dessert.
06:53You got half an hour to make it.
06:55And that time starts, well, let's just say now.
07:01All right.
07:02Let's go.
07:03Let's get this.
07:0517, 17.
07:06Oh, I'll take sugar.
07:07I can make a really good chocolate chip cookie.
07:09But thanks to Chef Damiano.
07:11Is it simple to find ingredients in there?
07:13Don't talk right now.
07:14Trust me.
07:15Chocolate.
07:15I can work with that.
07:16I have to win back at least the essential ingredients to get a chocolate chip cookie dessert to the table.
07:2330.
07:2330.
07:24Yeah, there you go.
07:24Heavy cream is good.
07:25Come on.
07:26Come on.
07:26I am praying to the gods that I get some eggs and some brown sugar and some flour, bacon soda.
07:3227.
07:33Good job.
07:34I'll take butter any day.
07:35Hell, I could spend there all day long.
07:37But you know what?
07:37I ain't got all day long.
07:38Coming around.
07:39Up, up, up.
07:40$500.
07:41I'm sorry, sir.
07:42That's a heavy loss, but you'll have to cover it.
07:43This guy's got no credit, though.
07:4516.
07:4621.
07:46Let's go.
07:46Let's go.
07:4716.
07:4721.
07:4816.
07:49Oh, another $500.
07:52Lady, look, it's not on your side.
07:53Is it your lucky day or not?
07:55Karma's a .
07:55We will see about that later.
07:57Chef Jay say, ciao, ciao.
08:00So now I have to make a chocolate chip cookie crumbled with a vanilla custard gelato.
08:07But in order to combine everything together, I got to use this mixer that I do not like to use,
08:11thanks to you, my friend.
08:12That's right.
08:13For my chocolate chip cookie, I'm putting Italian flour, butter, granulated sugar, a little bit
08:20of egg yolks combined together with my hand.
08:23I'm kind of trying to hold it together.
08:25What is worse than this?
08:27It's not even grabbing anything.
08:28So I put it on the table, and I kind of, like, knead my dough together with my hand.
08:32This is not cool.
08:33Then I chop my chocolate, and I kind of combine my chocolate chip inside of it.
08:38Jessica, how are you doing, my friend?
08:39Oh, I am loving the humming sound of my mixer right now.
08:44Zzzz.
08:44Oh, high speed.
08:45Whoa, whoa.
08:46Chef Jessica sabotaged me with this hand mixer that has no power.
08:51I am making a chocolate chip cookie with a sweet ganache.
08:57So first, I cream my butter and my sugars together.
09:01I kind of grated the butter up so it's already broken down a little bit.
09:04And I just mix it all together with my flour and a little bit of nuts and a little bit
09:09of chocolate on it.
09:11But I don't have eggs, so I need to make it for that texture that the egg gives the cookie.
09:15I have some marshalpone.
09:16I have some sour cream.
09:17Sour cream is going to make it a little bit softer.
09:19Marshalpone is going to make it a little bit sweeter taste.
09:21Hopefully that'll work.
09:22Jeff, did I mention thank you for this?
09:24My pleasure, you guys.
09:25Jeff, you've got 18 minutes.
09:27I have no sabotages and I am making just a staple chocolate chip cookie and zhuzh it up with a
09:34little bit of white chocolate gelato.
09:36Right now, I am creaming my brown sugar and I'm sifting my flour so it's nice and aerated.
09:41I add a little baking soda and a little bit of salt and then I'm slowly adding it to my
09:46cream mixture.
09:47Add the chocolate chips and voila, I got a cookie dough.
09:52Come on.
09:5416.
09:55One.
09:56Vanilla.
09:57I need it.
09:57I need it.
09:58Wow.
09:58Let's do it again.
09:59Let's do it again.
09:59We're on a roll.
10:00I'm trying to help for your gambling problem.
10:0221.
10:0221.
10:03I'll take my brown sugar.
10:04God, yes!
10:04I think I've got everything that I need to make my chocolate chip cookie skillet dessert.
10:11And I start figuring out how I'm going to cream butter, sugar, eggs, and vanilla with this damn whisk attached
10:18to this contraption that looks like it was made in Cooter's garage.
10:22I'm not dead in the water yet.
10:23But I'm a little nervous about how I'm going to get my dessert baked in time.
10:29Chefs, this is not a chocolate chip dessert.
10:32It's a chocolate chip desert.
10:34When this auction and you can force one chef to stop doing everything they're doing until they find the one
10:42chocolate chip buried here in my desert.
10:46Oh, hail to the no.
10:48Go give me $500.
10:49$1,500.
10:50$1,500.
10:50I have to beat on this thing.
10:52Jay, of course, needs revenge.
10:54I'm not going home.
10:56$5,000.
10:56$5,000.
10:57I ain't got 12 minutes.
10:58I'm not losing this one.
11:24I'm not losing this one.
11:28$5,000.
11:30$5,000.
11:30Oh, my gosh.
11:30Way too pricey for me.
11:32$52.
11:33$5,500.
11:34$56.
11:34$6,000.
11:35$6,000 to Chef Jay.
11:37Chef Jay is going to get Damiano back.
11:39Please.
11:41Stop betting.
11:42$7,000.
11:43$71.
11:43$71 to Chef Jay.
11:44Now the high bet at $71.
11:45Looking for $72.
11:45Going once at $71.
11:47Twice at $71.
11:48Sold.
11:48$7,100.
11:50Who's going to go find me a chocolate chip?
11:52Damiano.
11:53Yeah.
11:53Get to the sand.
11:54Come on.
11:54I have no time for this.
11:56I have to make my gelato base.
11:57I got to put it inside.
11:58Oh.
11:59Good luck.
12:01Chocolate chip.
12:02Just one of them?
12:02There's only one in there.
12:03Are you kidding me?
12:04How's it feel, Damiano, to look for ingredients?
12:07Damiano looks like a little kitten digging through his litter box.
12:10Yeah.
12:11It's very, very bad.
12:12Yes.
12:13Chef Jay has lost a fair amount of time to his gambling problem.
12:17The roulette.
12:19But something he's done that's very, very smart.
12:20He's put some small cast iron skillets in the oven to preheat.
12:24Obviously, he is going to do his cooking directly in those vessels.
12:26And they need time to get hot.
12:28Keep searching.
12:29Keep searching.
12:32You're enjoying it.
12:33I am making a chocolate chip skillet cookie.
12:36And Chef Jessica gave me the stationery.
12:39I don't even know what to call this thing.
12:41It's a whisk on a metal arm.
12:44But I still have a delicious chocolate chip cookie dough.
12:47The strategy behind putting it in the skillet, even if I run out of time and it's sitting,
12:53the skillet gets hot enough that the dish is going to continue to cook a little bit.
12:57For the rest of my dessert, because I'm limited with such crazy ingredients, I'm going to do just a sweet
13:02pecan topping using some sweetened condensed milk and some chopped pecans.
13:07It sucks, man.
13:08Ten minutes.
13:10Found it.
13:11There.
13:11Yeah, you did.
13:12Thanks, Jay.
13:13Nice try.
13:15Ah, Chef Damiano.
13:17How many sabotages do you have on you right now?
13:19Uh, absolutely zero, sir.
13:21None.
13:21Now, do you think that's happened simply because none of these chefs are afraid of you?
13:25I think I just have a pretty pace and I'm very likable.
13:27I am making a chocolate chip cookie dessert with white chocolate ice cream and chocolate ganache.
13:32My cookies are in the oven.
13:34They're halfway baked.
13:35So to make my ganache, I take the leftover semi-sweet chocolate chips, melt them down with a little bit
13:41of butter and a little bit of milk.
13:42And my gelato base is white chocolate chips, eggs, a little bit of heavy cream, and I put it in
13:49the ice cream maker.
13:50I see Chef Damiano behind me.
13:52Well, you're almost done because I'm going to need a real quick.
13:53No, it's not done yet.
13:54To make my gelato, I'm incorporating milk, cream, sugar, vanilla bean, egg yolks, and I bring it to 85 Celsius.
14:04So my base is ready and I'm trying to go in the gelato machine.
14:07Listen to it.
14:08I know.
14:09I am listening to it.
14:10Come on, Jessica.
14:10Your gelato is ready.
14:11Let's go.
14:12Get it out of there.
14:13I need it.
14:13I have so much stuff to do.
14:15I don't know if I'm going to make it.
14:16What?
14:17What?
14:17What?
14:19Time.
14:20Five minutes.
14:21Five minutes, chefs.
14:22Chef Jessica sabotaged me with this broken hand mixer.
14:25But you know what?
14:26It's no big deal.
14:27I got this.
14:28I'm making chocolate chip cookies and milk dessert with a chocolate ganache.
14:32To make my ganache, I got my milk, add a little butter, add a little bit of walnuts, put my
14:38chocolate on it, and I just mix it all together.
14:41And since I forgot eggs, the big challenge for me is to nail this cookie texture.
14:44And it's a little softer than I would like it, but we got to go with it.
14:48One minute.
14:50Jess, how are your cookies?
14:51Oh, they're a little raw.
14:52You had no sabotage, baby.
14:54Oh.
14:55Oh, no.
14:57I'm just going to have to come up with some kind of creative BS story to sell this.
15:01Chefs, whatever you're going to do, you got to do in five, four, three, two, one.
15:08Time is up.
15:08The challenge is over.
15:09Put that stuff down.
15:10Thank you very much.
15:11Hey, Simon.
15:11Hey, Elton.
15:12How are you?
15:13Something smells good.
15:14It's your lucky day, because this is my special Cutthroat Kitchen chocolate edition.
15:18Excellent.
15:18Good to be back.
15:19Chefs, this is your judge for the day, Mr. Simon Majumdar, noted food expert and author.
15:24How do you feel about chocolate chip cookie desserts?
15:27Well, I love chocolate, but you can have too much of a good thing, so I hope the chefs use
15:31the right chocolate in the right way.
15:33Simon here's been in a soundproof chamber.
15:35He knows nothing about what you may have dosed out or endured.
15:39He only cares about three things.
15:40Does it look great?
15:41Does it taste great?
15:42And does it remind me of something that's been inspired by a chocolate chip cookie?
15:46Let's find out.
15:50Chef Jessica, why don't you go ahead and describe your dish?
15:52Absolutely.
15:53I made for you a slightly doughy chocolate chip cookie with a chocolate ganache and white chocolate ice cream.
16:03I do, like you, love chocolate chip cookie dough.
16:06I love the fact that you've got lots of chocolate sauce through there.
16:09You've obviously got plenty of chocolate chips.
16:11One thing I will say about it all, it is very, very sweet.
16:14I think it needed another aspect in there, something to give it some acidity.
16:18All I'm getting is sugar.
16:20Thank you, Chef. Moving on.
16:21I made it way too sweet.
16:22With no sabotages.
16:25Chef, tell your tale.
16:26Today I made for you a chocolate chip cookie crumbled with a vanilla castor gelatin top.
16:33And it will come like this, you know, and you're going to get some part of crunch and some fresh
16:37gelatin.
16:37It actually looks like a great dessert.
16:46The texture of the ice cream, the crunch of the cookies all work very, very well.
16:50I would actually like just a tiny bit more chocolate in there.
16:53I think it really needs to come through a tiny bit more.
16:56Yeah.
16:56But it's actually a delicious dessert.
16:58Okay.
16:59Thank you, Chef.
16:59Thanks to you.
17:00Thank you, sir.
17:01Let's move on down the line.
17:02Sure.
17:03I'm good.
17:04Chef Jay, what you got?
17:05Today I made for you a chocolate chip skillet cookie with a pecan and brown sugar glaze.
17:13Chef, I think the proportion of nuts to chocolate is a little bit out of kilter here.
17:18You've got far too many nuts, not enough chocolate.
17:21From a presentation point of view, it's missing a little bit something on the side.
17:25Whether that was some ice cream, even just some whipped cream.
17:27Sure.
17:27Having said that, the flavor of your cake is actually really, really good.
17:30Not too sweet.
17:31A little crunch on the outside, gooey on the inside.
17:34Thank you, sir.
17:35Moving on down the line.
17:36That's all right.
17:36That's all right.
17:37Because I think Jess is going to go home.
17:40Those cookies were not up to par.
17:42Chef Tarina, what do you got?
17:43I have a classic cookies and milk.
17:45And I've also made a ganache to go with it.
17:49I love cookies and milk.
17:51It's a really pretty plate.
17:53But your cookies, they are a little bit undercooked.
17:58But actually the flavors are there.
18:00I'm not getting a lot of chocolate chip in there.
18:03But what I am getting is the chocolate on the top.
18:05So I think a few more chocolate chips in there would have worked.
18:07I think it's a great idea.
18:09Just a bit undercooked on the cookie.
18:10Simon, let's talk.
18:13Dang it.
18:13All right, Simon.
18:14Who's free for lunch?
18:17Chefs.
18:17I actually enjoyed all of your dishes.
18:19But I do have to eliminate one of you.
18:22And that's going to be Chef.
18:44Tarina.
18:44Chef, I really like the idea of milk and cookies.
18:48Unfortunately, those cookies were just raw.
18:50Chef Tarina, sorry ma'am.
18:51That means I'm going to need that money back in this case.
18:55Sorry ma'am.
18:56It's all right.
18:59I can't believe I'm going home because of a chocolate chip cookie.
19:02Remember your eggs.
19:03Come on, Tarina.
19:10Well, Chefs, congratulations on surviving to the second round here in Cutthroat Kitchen.
19:13For you, the action continues immediately.
19:16We're going to do a derivation on the theme here.
19:19Chocolate, of course, being the theme.
19:20But instead of sweet, I want you to make something savory.
19:24I want you to make a mole.
19:26Ugh, mole?
19:27Oh, no bueno.
19:29We're talking about a savory dish featuring Mexican chocolate.
19:32What about this face looks like it could make a mole?
19:36Your 60 seconds starts now.
19:39Welcome back.
19:4160 seconds is not enough time.
19:43That's like one second per ingredient mole.
19:45Look at you scrabbling them like little rabbit dogs.
19:48My plan is to make a traditional mole with peppers, all the spices, and of course chocolate.
19:54I'm grabbing every chocolate I can get my hands on.
19:5630 seconds.
19:57I am not a savory cook.
20:00I'm a cake guy.
20:01Mole has chocolate in it.
20:02I know that much.
20:03And that's sweet.
20:05So, I got to pray that I've got something to make a mole.
20:09Four, three, two, one.
20:16So, we're going to move now into the auction phase.
20:19Let's have a look.
20:21You are making mole.
20:23And this pan has got a mole.
20:25And this pan has got a hole.
20:26Get it?
20:28Win this auction.
20:29You'll get to enjoy watching one chef cooking their entire dish on this hole pan, while the
20:35other chef cooks on the hole itself.
20:38We'll give you $500 for the pan combo.
20:41A holy pan?
20:42How am I going to cook with that?
20:44$1,000.
20:45$1,100.
20:45$2,000.
20:46$24.
20:47$3,000.
20:48$45.
20:48If you get the holy pan, it's going to take forever to do a mole.
20:53$46.
20:53Anybody want to go to $4,600?
20:55$46.
20:56$48.
20:56You're shaking your head a second.
20:57I know.
20:57$48.
20:58Chef Jessica now the high bid at $48.
20:59$49.
21:00I'm not getting a pan with the hole with it.
21:02$6,000.
21:03$61.
21:04$65.
21:04$66.
21:05$66 once, twice.
21:06Sold.
21:07Chef Jay for $6,600.
21:09Bring me some money, sir.
21:10Take this dreadful device and this equally dreadful device.
21:14Decide who gets bad and who gets...
21:16Oh, my God!
21:18Bad.
21:18Right.
21:18I'm praying Jay do not give the holy pen to me.
21:24I think Domin...
21:26...Yano...
21:27...is my biggest threat.
21:32Amazing.
21:34Jessica.
21:35Good luck.
21:35Thank you very much.
21:37You're very welcome.
21:39Let's see what our next item is, shall we?
21:43Oh!
21:44It's my mallet.
21:45When I was a kid, I was the champion.
21:47Playing...
21:48Whack-a-mole!
21:50Bring it in, Bob!
21:51What the?
21:52God.
21:52Check this out.
21:54If you win this auction, you can force one opponent...
21:57...to give up all of their ingredients and just use whatever they can...
22:00Oh!
22:00Graham!
22:01It's a lot of fun to watch, but actually, it's not so much fun to play.
22:05I don't care.
22:05Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
22:13Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
22:17Ha!
22:17Win this auction, and you can force one opponent to give up all their ingredients
22:21and use only what they can grab from this game, and it moves very, very quickly.
22:28Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
22:29Who gave me $500 to not play whack-a-mole?
22:32$1,000. $2,000.
22:33No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
22:35My plan needs to follow my ingredients.
22:38$2,000, Chef Damiano. Do I hear $21,000?
22:40I don't want the sabotage.
22:42But I can't afford to spend any more money on it.
22:44$2,500.
22:45Five grand.
22:46Holy moly!
22:48Do I hear $5,000, $5,000, $5,000, $5,000?
22:50Going once, twice, sold. $5,000.
22:52Chef Damiano, bring me some money, sir.
22:55This is bad.
22:56So be strategic, sir.
22:59Okay, I might be just a teensy bit scared.
23:04I'm stuck with the pen with the hole.
23:07Thanks to you, my friend.
23:09Chef J, your ingredients say ciao.
23:13There's your chain, Chef. Well played.
23:15Haven't I done this before? Take away all your stuff?
23:17You have.
23:18Me and Damiano are no longer friends.
23:21Chefs, I'm looking for a mole of some type.
23:24You've got half an hour. Go!
23:35Hey, how are you doing, man?
23:37This is not giving me a lot to work with, I'll be honest.
23:39And it's going so fast. No, good.
23:44Thanks to Chef Damiano, I've lost all my ingredients again.
23:48I need garlic and I need protein.
23:50So now, I have to make this mole, playing this whack-a-mole game to collect as many ingredients
23:58as I can before they disappear.
24:03I'm seeing chicken, I'm seeing peppers, I'm seeing nuts.
24:07I need chocolate, dude. I need chocolate.
24:10I'm seeing this head.
24:14All these things popping up faster than you can even focus on.
24:18This is crazy.
24:19Chef Jay is a completely mess.
24:21I need onion.
24:23Good luck to him, he's going to need it.
24:25And now, thanks to Chef Jay, I have to make my mole with this pan without the bottom.
24:32My strategy is first to roast my dried chili and put it right away in hot water to simmer.
24:38Then I'm going to toss everything else that goes with it.
24:40I want to make mole poblano over a sliced tenderloin.
24:45Mole poblano means I have no idea.
24:47Thank you very much.
24:48So, how are you doing over there, Dom, with the other part of my pan?
24:52You see this?
24:52Yeah. Oh, wah, wah, wah.
24:55Everything folds down, so I'm going to need to make everything smaller here.
24:59Jessica, you've got a pan, pretty much.
25:01It's a flat surface, but I mean, it's doable.
25:04I am toasting up some peanuts because peanut is a classical flavor profile in mole.
25:09Mole.
25:10I'm making a traditional chocolate mole over a pork tenderloin.
25:14To make my mole sauce, I caramelize onions.
25:17This freaking thing gets so hot.
25:19On this stupid pan, I add that to my food processor, and then I start building my layers
25:26of flavor.
25:27I have Mexican chocolate in here.
25:29I have some habanero, onions, garlic, toasted peanuts, do a little chicken stock, and say
25:38a prayer.
25:40Okay.
25:41Chefs, you've got 18 minutes.
25:4218 minutes.
25:43Jay, how much chocolate you got over there?
25:44I need Mexican chocolate really bad.
25:47Got my protein.
25:50No, no, no, no, no.
25:51I need chocolate.
25:53Got it.
25:54You have enough?
25:55Yes.
25:56I'm just complaining for you, buddy.
25:57I make the decision to use the pork tenderloin that I snatched out of the mole's hands, and
26:03I throw it in a pot of boiling water, so that's gonna save me a little bit of time.
26:06I've never seen that done before.
26:08There's a reason for it.
26:09It's a bad idea.
26:11That is a piece of meat that really needs to be cooked with a dry heat method.
26:14The great irony here is he could use any pan he wants in the kitchen.
26:17He could slice that and saute it.
26:18He gave the sabotage pan to the other two chefs, but he's sabotaged himself by not using
26:24a pan.
26:25Oh, the irony of Cutthroat Kitchen.
26:27Jay, look at this.
26:28Amazing, huh?
26:29That's real talent.
26:30I'm joking.
26:31You can seal all your tomatoes, you can seal all your chilies, you can seal everything
26:35on it.
26:36The only thing that I'm afraid of is that you cannot put a sauce in it, so I'm gonna need
26:40to use my boiling water so they can continue to simmer in it.
26:45Then, I'm adding my clove, my cinnamon, my sliced almonds.
26:49Now that I spiced everything up, I'm gonna blend everything together.
26:53And thanks to the boiling water, I will melt my chocolate in it.
26:58The Mexican chocolate is super, super sweet.
27:00Now, I do not want to make a super sweet mole, so I'm adding some dark, bittersweet chocolate
27:06to it to give consistency and color.
27:08See this thing?
27:10I see raw meat with seven minutes left.
27:14So I'm making a traditional mole.
27:16I start chopping tomatoes and onions and garlic and jalapeno peppers, and I throw it
27:23in a hot skillet with some sunflower seeds and some pumpkin seeds, and then I add some
27:28of the chicken broth to it.
27:29I let that go for a few minutes, and then I take the emulsion blender and I start emulsifying
27:34with Mexican chocolate.
27:36So I'll do shredded pork with a mole sauce on a flour tortilla.
27:41Boiled tenderloin?
27:43Oh!
27:45That's really spicy.
27:46This is a firebomb.
27:48I got smoke coming out of my ears.
27:50So, how is it you got too much heat right off the bat?
27:53Because I didn't deseed one of the habaneros, and just one baby habanero packs a mean punch.
27:59Well, you know, maybe Simon Majumdar likes it spicy.
28:02Maybe.
28:02Some like it hot.
28:04We'll find out.
28:0530 seconds, chefs.
28:07I'm gonna make a tagliata.
28:08Yeah, tagliata, like sliced thinly.
28:10Inside the beautiful, amazing pan that my friend over here gives to me.
28:1410 seconds.
28:15Oh my God, I'm shaking.
28:17Tom.
28:18Hurry.
28:195, 4, 3, 2, 1.
28:24Time is up.
28:24The challenge is over.
28:25Back away from all that lovely food.
28:27Thank you very much.
28:28Hi, Simon.
28:29How do you feel about mole?
28:30I have eaten some fantastic moles all over Mexico, and I want to see chocolate in there
28:35as well as lots of other layers of flavor.
28:37They better have chocolate in them.
28:39Let's go.
28:41Well, hello again, Chef Jessica.
28:43Please tell Simon about your dish.
28:45Today, I made a some like it hot foley mole pork tenderloin mole.
28:51Whoa.
28:52Okay, now, moles are supposed to be powerful, but I'm just getting a huge amount of heat initially.
28:57So what that's going to do is cover up all the other flavors.
29:00But the tenderloin is actually beautifully cooked, and I think you've got the ingredients
29:04that I'm looking for in a really great mole, but all I'm getting on top is heat.
29:08Okay, absolutely.
29:09Simon is going to be drinking from a fire hose.
29:12Ah, Chef Damiano.
29:13Hello, how are you?
29:15I made a pork tenderloin tagliata, sliced thinly with extra virgin olive oil,
29:20and then I put a mole poblano on top of it.
29:24I think you have overcooked your pork just a tiny bit.
29:27It's a little bit chewy.
29:29Okay.
29:29That's a shame because the mole on its own is actually sensational.
29:33There's a little bit of sweetness through there.
29:34You've got the heat.
29:35You can taste those different chilies, and they all deliver their flavors at a different time in a mole,
29:40and I think you've really got that there.
29:43Thank you, Chef.
29:43Let's move on down the line.
29:45Gracias.
29:46Hello, Chef Jay.
29:47Hello.
29:47Tell us, Simon, what you got.
29:49So today I made you pork tenderloin with a traditional mole on a soft tortilla.
29:58The chocolate is definitely in there.
30:00It's very present.
30:01It's not sweet, and it works very, very well with the heat.
30:04But I think it is covering up the meat because it has become a bit mystery meat-like.
30:09I boiled pork tenderloin to cook it a little quicker.
30:12Chef, I don't think boiling meat is ever a good idea.
30:15The meat's just tightened up into a real solid little ball.
30:18Okay.
30:19Thank you, Chef.
30:20In the heat of the moment, pardon the pun, I felt like I made the best decision.
30:25But in retrospect, I would have probably pan fried it.
30:28All right, Simon.
30:28Only two of these chefs are going to be able to move into the final round of my special chocolate
30:33edition,
30:34Cutler Kitchen.
30:34So somebody's got to go.
30:36Chefs, mole sauce in 30 minutes.
30:39That's a real tough challenge.
30:41But one of you managed to deliver a sauce that really gave me that chocolate taste,
30:45but all those layers of flavor I was looking for.
30:48And that was you, Chef Damiano.
30:49Chef Jessica, Chef Jay, I do have to eliminate one of you.
30:54And it's going to be Chef.
31:08I do have to eliminate one of you.
31:11And it's going to be Chef.
31:16Jay.
31:18That pork, it was just too overcooked.
31:21Chef Jay, I'm sorry, sir.
31:21That means I'm going to need that cash back in this case.
31:25Nice to meet you.
31:26Pleasure.
31:26I'm very proud of myself.
31:28I've never made mole.
31:29It's not what I do.
31:30I really did think I would be in the next round.
31:33But, you know, I'm the Susan Lucci of reality competition.
31:36I'm never going to win, but I get nominated a lot.
31:43Well, Chefs, congratulations on surviving to this final round of Cutthroat Kitchen,
31:47the special chocolate edition.
31:50I need to win this so I can help my mom, you know?
31:53So, final round.
31:54I'm going to give you 30 minutes to make your very best chocolate marble cake.
32:00I've never made a marble cake.
32:02Who makes marble cakes anymore?
32:04I'm talking about a cake where, you know, you've got light batter and dark batter swirl together,
32:07and I'm sure you know how to make it.
32:09The question is, can you shop it in 60 seconds?
32:12I don't know.
32:13Let's find out.
32:14Go.
32:16One last trip, kids.
32:17Enjoy it.
32:18Making a cake, let alone a marble cake in 30 minutes, is almost impossible to do.
32:23I have to get flour, sugar, eggs, baking powder, salt.
32:28Oh, yeah.
32:29I would fill that.
32:30And, of course, I can't forget more chocolate.
32:3330 seconds.
32:34Chocolate marble cake, it's something that I've been eating since I'm a little kid.
32:38So, I'm going to make exactly what I've been growing up with.
32:42I grab every kind of chocolate, every kind of sugar, everything possibly amazing on the planet.
32:49I got it.
32:50Three, two, one.
32:52And your half hour cooking time begins right now.
32:56What do you plan on doing there, chef?
32:58Do you think you can make a classic American dessert?
33:01100% American here.
33:03With a little Italian flair, obviously, always.
33:06I do not think you can win this.
33:07I know that something bad is coming, so I'm trying to start cooking right away.
33:12Hey, chefs!
33:14Check out my giant marble maze.
33:17Sorry?
33:18I was obsessed with these things when I was a kid, so I built this one special for you.
33:24What?
33:25Here's the deal.
33:26When you win this auction, you can force your opponent to only use the ingredients they can get out of
33:31the maze.
33:31The ingredient will go in the balls, and then the chef will have to get it all the way through
33:37the maze.
33:37Oh!
33:39In order to use it.
33:40No.
33:41No, no, no, no, no.
33:42No.
33:42If you get some of an ingredient through the maze, I will give you all that you need.
33:46For instance, if you get one egg through, I'll give you all of your eggs.
33:51It's probably going to take a lot of time, but it really is an amazing sabotage maze.
33:56Who gave me $500?
33:57$800.
33:58$900.
33:58My recipe is very precise.
34:00I'm scared to death that I'm going to get it, and I'm not going to be able to finish in
34:04time.
34:04$1,500.
34:05$3,000.
34:06$3,000.
34:06$3,200.
34:07$3,200.
34:08$4,000.
34:09$4,000.
34:10I have more money than Chef Damiano, and I know this is going to take a lot of time, and
34:14I can't afford to lose any time.
34:16Yeah, $7,000.
34:17He'll give me $7,000.
34:18$9,000.
34:18$9,000.
34:19$9,1.
34:19$9,8.
34:20You'll give me $9,8.
34:21Will you go $9,9?
34:22Yeah, sure.
34:22$9,9 I got $9,9 looking for $10,000.
34:24$10,000.
34:25I'm going $10,000 once.
34:26Give it to her.
34:27So, Chef Jessica, for $10,000.
34:30You are ruined, my friend.
34:32There's no way he could put this together, messing around with that maze.
34:36Oh, thank you very much.
34:38You're welcome very much.
34:42Playing with a big soccer ball, huh?
34:44I know there's more sabotages coming my way, so I need to get that cake in the oven.
34:48My plan is to make a chocolate marble Bundt cake because Bundt cakes cook more quickly.
34:53In my mixer, I've got sugar and butter.
34:56Next, I know I have to sift my flour, baking powder, and salt together.
35:01To make the swirl on a marble cake, you just reserve some of the cake batter and you add chocolate
35:06ganache.
35:07And layer it and swirl it in.
35:08Get these guys in the oven.
35:11Go Damiano, go Damiano.
35:13Go Mesa.
35:14The first ingredient that I grab, it's my softened butter with sugar combined together.
35:21I've got to be very careful, so I'm kind of like talking to the ball.
35:24Come on butter, come on butter.
35:26Yeah, come on, come on, die, die, die, die, die, die.
35:29Don't go, don't go inside.
35:31I am dead.
35:33Come on, not again.
35:34Come on, man.
35:36Miano, don't panic.
35:37Miano starts again.
35:42There.
35:43Come on butter, do not let me down.
35:46Looks like you're having a ball over there.
35:47Come on butter, let's go butter.
35:50This is crazy, let's go butter, let's go, let's go.
35:54Now, my butter and my sugar needs to whip up until it generates like fluffiness.
36:00Now I'm gonna get eggs and milk.
36:02I'm just gonna pop it inside.
36:04So right away I go back on the mace, but now it's easy.
36:08In my bag I got cocoa, eggs, sugar, milk, cream, and I forgot the flour.
36:15Go, chocolate, go, go.
36:19Go.
36:21Merci beaucoup, thank you.
36:23Is your cake in the oven yet?
36:24Yes, I do not have time for you, my love, right now.
36:27Hey chefs, don't I look marvellous?
36:30Get it, marvellous?
36:32Huh?
36:33Listen up, guys.
36:34Win this auction and you can make your opponent wear this marvellous marble outfit for the remainder of the challenge.
36:41It's not so easy to get around it or do anything like cutting or, you know, tossing or anything like
36:47that.
36:47It's pretty much impossible.
36:48But you look like this.
36:50So who's gonna give me $500 for my marble suit?
36:53What do you say, chef?
36:54500.
36:54I got 500 for the lady.
36:55600.
36:56I got $600 from this guy.
36:571,000.
36:58I got $1,000 from her.
36:59What do you give me, chef?
36:592,000.
37:002,500.
37:015,000 to get out of my face.
37:025,000 to get out of my face.
37:04She already spent 10 grand for the mace.
37:07This time it's my turn to get you.
37:0955.
37:1057.
37:1158.
37:116,000.
37:12All right, he's gonna be 6,000.
37:13You're not willing to get that up, are you?
37:14Once, twice, sold.
37:16It's kinda cushy in here, chef, I gotta tell you.
37:18Not good.
37:19Here.
37:19Arms through.
37:20Arms through.
37:21Arms through the holes.
37:23There you go.
37:24Have fun.
37:25Oh, that's too good.
37:27This is not marvellous.
37:29Are you having a good time there, Jessica?
37:31It's a little lack of airflow, but, uh...
37:34I'm just...
37:38Last ingredient I need, vanilla and cake flour.
37:42Weep it up, and then I'm done.
37:44My cake is ready.
37:45Finally.
37:47Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
37:48Last two ingredients, and this nightmare is over.
37:52It became like driving a car or a bicycle.
37:55It's simple.
37:56I grab my last ingredients, and I'm done.
37:57Out of the nightmare, back again on cooking.
38:00Seven minutes, chefs.
38:01I have seven minutes left, and my dough, it's just finished,
38:05and I got nothing in the oven.
38:07There is only one thing left to do.
38:09Microwave.
38:09Chef Damiano has decided to go into the microwave
38:12with his little cakes.
38:13Good tool, uh, for baking, actually,
38:15as long as you have formulated your recipe for that.
38:18Otherwise, you'll end up with marble pucks,
38:20which would be a different thing altogether.
38:22Machines.
38:23No.
38:23The next thing I do is start working
38:25on a chocolate cream cheese frosting.
38:27I take cream cheese, I add a little of the chocolate
38:30ganache to that, a little bit of sugar, some butter,
38:33and a little bit of heavy cream so it fluffs up.
38:37Now I have two minutes left, so I decide to make a mousse.
38:40I grab the whipping cream.
38:42I put a scrape of vanilla bean inside.
38:44I whip the egg yolks.
38:46I combine with sugar.
38:47I make it nice and fluffy.
38:48I throw it inside, and I make an egg-like custard.
38:52I run to the microwave.
38:53I grab my cake.
38:5430 seconds.
38:57Get out, get out, get out.
38:58It's not as marbled as I want in it, but it's a cake,
39:01there's elements, and I think the texture's right there.
39:04Andiamo!
39:05I don't feel like stellar.
39:08A three-minute marble cake baked in the microwave?
39:11I don't know.
39:11I mean, at this point, everything can happen, you know?
39:15Five, four, three, two, one.
39:19Challenge is over.
39:20Time is up.
39:20Hands off the gato, if you please.
39:23Oh!
39:34Well, Simon, since it is a special chocolate edition of Cutthroat Kitchen,
39:38I thought that I would ask these chefs to make something
39:39that we haven't actually had here before,
39:41and that would be chocolate marble cake.
39:43It had better be marbled, and it had better be a cake.
39:46Heck yeah, it better be.
39:47All I'm asking.
39:47Chefs, please bring your offerings forward.
39:49My cake, it's not perfect, but hey, three minutes,
39:53I made a cake and a mousse, so I did my best.
39:58Chef Damiano's cake looks like an actual marble.
40:01My plate's so much better.
40:02My cake looks light and airy.
40:04All the elements are there.
40:06I'm gonna win this.
40:07Typically, we go ladies first,
40:09so Chef Jessica, please describe your dish.
40:11Absolutely.
40:12Today, I made a classic marble cake
40:14with a chocolate cream cheese frosting on the bottom
40:17and a chocolate-covered strawberry.
40:21The cake itself is terrific.
40:23The cake has got a really nice crumble to it.
40:26Consistency is perfect.
40:28When I look at it, though, it's a terrific cake.
40:31I'm not 100% sure it's a terrific marble cake.
40:34Yes, sir.
40:35I just didn't get the marbling right.
40:37But it's gotta be better than Chef Damiano's microwave cake.
40:42Chef Damiano, describe your dish, please.
40:44Well, I made a traditional Italian style, I guess,
40:47chocolate and vanilla marble with vanilla and egg mousse.
40:55It looks like a chocolate marble cake.
40:58Well done.
40:58It is a little bit dense.
41:00That texture isn't quite right.
41:03Mm-hmm.
41:03But I'm definitely getting the two different flavors
41:05I'm looking for in a marble cake.
41:07I'm getting the vanilla and I'm getting the chocolate.
41:09Overall, I think it does really represent a chocolate marble cake,
41:12but that cake itself is very dense.
41:14Thanks to you.
41:15Thank you very much for your offering, Chef.
41:17So, Simon, who's gonna walk out with money
41:19and who's just gonna have a bittersweet afternoon?
41:22I really want to win.
41:24I'm praying and I'm like,
41:26ti prego, ti prego, do it for me.
41:29Well, Chef Jessica, you made me a great cake,
41:32but it wasn't a marble cake.
41:34Chef Damiano, you made me a marble cake,
41:37but there were some problems with texture.
41:39I have to choose one of you.
41:41And the winner of the Cutthroat Kitchen chocolate edition is Chef...
41:49Damiano.
41:50In the end, you made me a marble cake.
41:53Andiamo!
41:54Congratulations, Chef.
41:55You just won yourself $9,000.
41:57I can give this money to my mom.
41:59She might just cry.
42:02Hungry for more Cutthroat Kitchen?
42:03Go to foodnetwork.com slash cutthroat.
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