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Tonight is all about the greatest flavors

Known to man -- fast food.

Bring out my dish.

This is a celebration of guilty pleasure eats

And late night cravings.

Oh!

Three award winning chefs...

- Jeremy, what are you making? - I'm just doing me.

How do you do it?

...Will compete for the love of some hungry, hungry celebrities.

- Hell, yeah. - Who are we clapping for?

Let's go.

...By recreating...

We have to nail it perfectly.

Hold on. That is mcdonald's.

...Then remixing their favorite fast-food dishes.

That's really ducking good.

Come for the food...

Why are these so good?

I could eat 1,000 of those.

...Stay for the crazy.

Why is there there a spider in there?

That's gonna make good tv.

This is "fast foodies."

You did a really good job.

Thank you.

It's fine.

Alright, guys, our guest tonight

Is a two-time nba all star.

He is a los angeles legend.

He played for my favorite team, which is the charlotte hornets,

Because of the color of the starter jacket.

He is a fast food connoisseur.

Baron davis.

- Wow. - What?

The one, the only.

Yes, sir. What's up, big dawg?

How are you?

Thanks for being here.

I want a hug. I want a big bear hug.

Welcome to "fast foodies."

We're about to eat a lot of junk food.

I'm with it.

When you went to ucla,

What were your favorite hot spots for fast food,

Or just guilty pleasures in general?

Man, that one's easy.

You had subway, you had in-n-out,

You know, for dinner or date night --

In-n-out burger.

But taco bell was, like, you know, the prime stop.

I knew how to work the dollar menu.

We want to know what you brought for us today.

Off the dollar menu.

Bring out my dish. Where is my dish?

When it's all covered up like that,

It's never a real good sign.

Why is there a spider in there?

There is a tarantula in our nachos.

We don't know if this thing is real or not.

- That's real. - No, it's not.

Is this a part of the show?

Hey, brother, don't touch that shit.

It is real.

Nope. Nope.

Is this "fear factor"?

Jeremy, you grab one side, I'll grab one side.

Hey.

Ooh.

Hey, why?

Here we go.

I'm gonna keep my eye on that tarantula while I tell you.

Tonight, I brought the nachos del grande

From taco bell.

This is what nachos should taste like.

You know, the combination of the cheese, beans, meat,

And then, the sour cream on the top,

That's just a little accent.

This is all the ingredients that you can get at taco bell

In one dish.

And that thing has to go.

I remember, in seventh grade,

Always, like, having to save a $1.07

So you can get a meal.

So, I needed, you know, as much food as I can get.

And that's when I went with the nachos del grande.

But also, I got some cinnamon twists -- a winning combination.

This is perfect.

It doesn't have a lot of extra stuff.

It has what it needs. It has the fat from the beans.

It has the crunch for the chips.

It's got that jammy meat, and then, the nacho cheese,

Which is like that velvety butter

That just links everything back together.

What makes it your favorite?

It's, like, a snack, but it's also a meal.

Taco bell did nail their sauce game.

I don't think there's any other chain that has the variety.

I usually make a combination.

I take mild and fire.

Yeah, taco bell, they a champion with the sauce.

Tell us about the cinnamon twists.

Like a little half-chip, half-french fry.

I think that's the biggest thing, is,

"what the hell is it?"

So, our first task is, we're gonna take

Your nachos del grande and cinnamon twists,

We're going to try to copycat it exactly --

Delicious mess that it is.

You're gonna choose your favorite.

After that, we are gonna take everything that you love

About this nachos del grande,

We're gonna use our chef brains,

And try and turn it into something completely different.

So, the winner tonight actually gets crowned

With this chompionship trophy.

Oh, wow.

But then, there's a nasty consequence

At the end for the two losers.

Oh!

What do you got?

"what an icehole."

"what an icehole," we don't know what that means,

But we definitely don't want it.

We're ready to cook, so, let's get in the kitchen.

Dunk this.

Alright. Nacho time.

This is so cool.

Baron, have you ever attempted to make these before?

Baron: Absolutely not.

I felt like the most delicious part

Of that meal, for me, was the meat.

Going into the copycat round,

Our beef is the main star for me,

So I'm gonna go right into getting my beef made,

Which is gonna take some time.

The taco bell seasoning is known for its seven spices.

I'm gonna caramelize those while it's cooking,

Because when you have spices, you need to get them hot

With oil to actually release their fragrance.

If you look in here, there's a lot of oil separated, now.

But that oil is all the flavor,

So I'm just gonna emulsify the fat back into the meat.

Y'all really be going at it like this, huh?

Oh, yeah. We got to.

So, for the nachos del grande,

I've got to get the spice down for this meat.

I'm gonna break it up really fine.

I'm actually gonna add some flour

That's gonna create a roux to kind of get that jamminess

That taco bell meat has.

Then, it's all about the cheese sauce.

I'm going to use kind of a mixture

Of velveeta and american cheese to get it nice and melty.

Oh, yeah, you know that's my specialty -- velveeta.

Right?

Can I make my own nacho cheese sauce?

Yes. Am I going to for this?

No.

I'm gonna just take this, and I'm gonna --

I'm gonna thin it out a little bit.

I'm gonna season it a little nicer.

But ultimately, that's what it is, right?

That's that good stuff, right there.

That's that guap, that --

guap.

Alright, so, baron, we have two kinds of chips.

We have the store-bought ones,

And then, we also have corn tortillas.

So, neither of them are exactly like taco bell.

So, I figured I'll make some homemade tortilla chips,

And then, I'll use some store-bought tortilla chips,

Mix it together, hoping that, coming together,

They will find the middle ground of taco bell.

I'm gonna use just your giant muscles,

To, just, like, smash it.

And that's how we're gonna make that ground meat into,

Basically, a meat jam. - Okay.

Which sounds delicious, doesn't it?

Can you bottle that, and sell that in stores?

Of course we can.

Baron's meat jam.

It's a slam dunk.

Not available in stores.

In the copycat round today, we have to make

The nachos del grande from taco bell.

This is a whole new level of crunch.

So, from my version of the copycat cinnamon twists,

I'm actually taking the churro route.

Crack that egg, and we're gonna go right into this mixer.

So, inside of here, I've made, like, a little dough.

Oh, this is gonna be fun.

Like you cutting a blunt.

Grip right there.

We'll do, like, 6-inch... Let's hold there.

It looks like a churro so far.

I know.

I'm so excited.

That looks good.

My uncle, all his fingers look like that.

They all the same size.

I'm gonna call these "uncle fingers."

So, I'm gonna do my cinnamon twists

Just a little bit different.

I'm just gonna go for texture.

I'm going for styrofoam. - Okay. Ooh, I like that.

So, I'm just gonna basically take these.

It's basically rice.

And when you throw them in the fryer, they pop out.

But then, how do you twist that,

And then, put all the air inside?

So, I'm not even gonna try to twist it.

I know I'm not gonna really nail that iconic spiral shape,

But I think I could get close to,

Like, that styrofoam-y, like, bubbly texture.

Baron likes to mix the medium with the fire,

So, what I'm gonna do is make him his perfect sauce.

I'm gonna take some whole canned tomatoes,

Puree those up,

And then, add all of those taco bell spices.

Tell me that that is not taco bell sauce.

I made the sauce.

Fire.

Alright, baron, you want to go grab your seat over there.

We're gonna plate up, and eat some food.

Alright, baron, that was our copycat round.

So, the next order of business is for you to eat.

Let's do it.

I think we're gonna start with kristen's.

For the nachos, we had the store-bought chips,

And we also had fresh tortillas.

The meat, focused on the jammines, and nacho cheese.

So, for my cinnamon twists, I took rice paper sheets,

Deep-fried them, they pop up.

And sprinkled it with a little cinnamon and sugar.

- This look delicious. - So, dig into the nachos.

So, that one's the homemade chip,

And then, there's a store-bought chip.

That's really, really good.

The homemade chip actually, like, makes everything hit

A little bit more closer to taco bell.

Wow.

I mean, this is very, very consistent to, like,

The look, the feel.

It feels cheap, but it's not.

I opened that jar of nacho cheese,

And thinned it out with a little bit of water.

It was great. Alright.

Well, you can try the weird cinnamon thing.

Oh, these are fire.

It tastes like it, though.

All you have to do is twist them.

It's the same damn thing.

Yeah.

So glad you liked it, but you have more food.

So, justin, do you want to go next?

Alright, baron.

I thought some of the most important parts of this

Were getting that jamminess of the meat.

I added a little flour to the pan,

And kind of created a really light roux

That was gonna bind it together, and make it jammy.

So, on the cinnamon twists, there,

I decided to go the churro route.

I tried to cook them a little bit longer

Than you normally would, so they wouldn't be

As doughy inside -- a little more crunch.

And then, just hit them with the cinnamon and sugar.

And the icing on the cake --

I decided to go a little above and beyond

And make you some taco bell fire sauce to go on top.

Oh, man. I feel special.

Yeah, so, dig in.

Let me know.

This is fire.

Like, the sauce just brings everything to life.

The meat has, like, the taco bell, like...

Almost like the seven spice flavor.

You know what I mean? - Yeah.

This is so fire. This sauce is bomb.

That tastes fresh out the pack.

What do you think about the cinnamon twists?

Oh, that's it. They're perfect.

We have more nachos to eat.

Jeremy.

Let's do it.

Put a lot of emphasis on the meat --

Lots of seasoning -- lots of seasonings.

So, obviously, this is a little bit different

Than taco bell's cinnamon twists,

But this is my own little twist to the twist.

Ooh. So good.

Take a moment.

Like, the meat is so good.

It has so much flavor that it -- it dominates.

Awesome.

Here's my little cinnamon twists.

Cheers.

Oh, this is fire, too.

Did you put salt in that?

It's incredible, dude.

I mean, the salt that, like, brings that extra sweetness,

And the cinnamon.

Oh, that's fire.

Alright, baron, who came the closest?

This is a hard decision.

Your sauce was amazing.

Like, it was spot-on to, like, what taco bell sauce is.

The churros -- like, I hate to say it,

But, like, that is, like, too delicious.

Jeremy, the meat was just so good that it was just, like,

"okay, dude, this is definitely not taco bell."

My homeboys would be like, "how much I got to pay for this?"

You know what I mean?

And kristen, I thought the cinnamon twist

Was right on point.

And I thought, overall, like,

Yours was actually, like, more on point with taco bell.

So, with that...

...I am going to pick...

Kristen.

Thank you so much for that win.

I will gladly take it.

But that means, going into our remix round,

I get to give these two boys a disadvantage.

What's going on next is the remix round.

So, we're gonna take probably nothing

That you see in front of you,

And reinterpret it in our own way.

- I'm excited. - You're excited.

Well, we're excited to cook for you.

Let's get it.

So, we're finally in the remix round.

We have to bring out the essence

Of the original nachos del grande

Done completely different.

There's a lot that could happen during this round,

And I'm gonna give it everything.

Remix time.

Welcome to the remix, dude.

What's happening?

Alright. I need to grab corn.

Corn and limes.

Think about what we're doing.

I need...

I don't know.

She's pacing.

Do you know what you're doing?

- I don't know what I'm doing. - I love when this happens.

Don't worry. Everything is fine.

kish, get your shit together.

You have no idea.

Mom and dad are watching.

I'm sorry, dad.

And there's literally nothing in...

Oh, wow. Hello.

Oh, I know.

Look at that.

Wagyu. - Nice.

- Man. - Do you like steak?

I do.

Do you like really good steak?

Because that's what you're about to have.

So, for the remix round, I chose this gorgeous,

Gorgeous wagyu beef

That is like god's gift to earth.

So, taco bell, to me, was about the meat, right?

So, I decided to really play up the beef.

It's gonna be like meat butter.

What does this only have to be one time?

We can do this every weekend.

I got a couple friends I brought.

So, basically, I'm gonna work with

A little bit of lobster today,

Poach it with some of those flavors

From the taco seasoning.

You eat the nachos del grande,

I get a lot of corn flavor in there,

So I'm gonna work on a fresh corn polenta.

So, grate them fresh on a box grater,

And cook them very lightly, just for that polenta feel.

You'll get, like, a tortilla, and you'll kind of dip into,

Like, lobster and corn.

Damn.

I'm gonna keep it south of the border for you,

And I'm gonna turn that whole dish into a pozole,

Like a very traditional mexican soup.

I'm gonna use all of those flavors and seasonings

That he loves from that taco bell sauce,

And make the most beautiful broth you've ever seen.

One of the quickest ways to get a lot of body in stock

If you're making soups -- chicken feet.

I've never seen no chicken feet.

We had tarantulas today.

We had chicken feet.

Yeah, I'm about to be eating some chicken feet today.

Mama.

Oh, look at them chicken feet.

Chicken feet.

Do you ever cook lobster at home?

Unh-unh. I actually got bit by a lobster,

So I don't mind throwing them in the pot.

I was surfing, and a lobster just jumped out the water,

And bit my ankle.

I love it.

Telling me I was in the wrong hood.

We're gonna start here, on the tail.

Kind of straighten it out a little bit.

And then, just turn it clockwise.

And then, pull it up.

Here. Come here, sucker.

Red lobster, hire your boy.

Come on, dawg.

I'm gonna make some homemade tortilla chips

For the nachos del grande.

We've got our tortilla press, here.

And I'm gonna be cutting these out with a ring mold.

If you want to throw another dough ball on there.

Right there, right there.

Pressing tortillas.

Perfect.

That's so beautiful.

That is a -- that's a steak.

It is what you pay, like, hundreds of dollars for,

For, like, a tiny little piece.

I really want to bring out that meaty,

That richness through the beef.

So, the higher the grade, the more marbling

And what is the highest grade?

Eight is the highest you'd see in america.

That is some high quality [bleep.

I'm glad you got it.

Let's see those disadvantages going.

Disadvantage-- presented by...

Msg.

It's not bad for you.

It's in 95% of the things you already eat.

A great athlete needs ice and heat

In order to recover their muscles.

So, you can choose hot -- three very hot chicken wings --

Or icy, where you have to stand in a bucket of ice water.

I mean, I'll stand in the ice while eating wings.

Oh, get a double dose.

I think, "is, I'll do both."

I'm gonna stand in this ice. I'm gonna eat these wings.

I'm gonna end this as fast as possible.

Ice-cold water with nuclear hot habanero wings.

I'm just eating the wings. I'm not doing the ice thing.

These look hot. They're real red.

Alright. Go for it, guys.

How hot are the wings?

- Hot. - They're hot.

- How's your feet feeling? - cold.

But I think it balances it out.

Every foot fetish fan of you is gonna have a heyday

With this one.

Nice job. Nice job.

We nailed it.

Oh, beers. Cheers. - Cheers.

Look at these guys, now.

Cleaning them up, getting them ready for the prom.

Take that walk.

Hey, hey, hey, hey.

for the mushrooms that I braised.

So, I'm just gonna dip them in,

So they get nice and crunchy,

And somehow bring in taco bell.

Make it. There you go.

That's so pretty.

Man, it's gonna be so hard to choose.

What kind of show is this, man?

This is torture.

Alright, baron, that was our remix round,

Where we took everything that you loved

About the nachos del grande from taco bell,

Did our own thing,

Hopefully tying everything back to that dish that you love.

You get to pick the winner.

Kristen kish, you should go first.

Alright, baron.

This is the remix I made for you --

A gorgeous wagyu beef, simply seared,

Taco bell spiced maitake mushrooms

With calabrian chili,

All the spices in the form of fresh herbs.

The potato has the sour cream.

So, we got the spice, we got the meat,

We got sour cream, we got the mushroom,

We got the crunchy, we got all of it.

But hopefully, it eats as one cohesive dish.

So, the sauce, just a little drizzle.

That's really good. These are potatoes?

Those are potatoes with the sour cream.

And then, if you want to have your taco spiced mushrooms,

So there's a little bit of heat for you.

Good job.

Yeah, you broke something off in this.

Does this take you back to the nachos del grande?

Definitely.

This has, like, a nacho-inspired flavor,

With the crunchiness.

Like, all the ingredients hit

Just like the nachos del grade, right?

It makes me want to take another bite --

So I will take another bite.

Who wants to go next?

I'll do it. Justin, why don't you take it?

Baron, this is my remix.

Oh.

Baron, this is my remix.

Oh.

I wanted to stay south of the border.

Pozole, hominy, some black bean in there

To kind of mimic the refried beans

That were on your nachos from taco bell.

Chicken that I confited in pork and duck fat,

And then, turned into a nice salsa-like paste.

We have housemade tortilla chips.

And then, just chile de arbol sour cream over here

To dip your chips in.

And you can take your broth, kind of pour for yourself.

Nice, thick pozole broth that we thickened

With those chicken feet. I got the toe jam.

Damn.

Damn.

Get yourself a little tortilla chip, with some sour cream.

It's like a little dorito.

Oh, there are fire.

Is any of this kind of bringing you back

To that nacho del grade?

One, the chips with the sour cream --

That gives you, like, that nacho cheese flavor.

Replacing the beef with chicken is actually making it hit.

So, I was trying to get that mix of mild and fire that you like.

Did I hit the heat for you?

Yeah. You seem me crying?

Tears of joy, though.

Alright, baron, thank you for enjoying my remix.

I am a believer in chicken feet.

I thought that they were for, like, voodoo rituals.

But no.

You got me hooked.

Jeremy time.

Baron, this is my remix.

Oh, that's fire.

This tortilla is meant to be smashed with a spoon,

So it'll kind of create little nachos, again, for you.

There's a fresh corn polenta cooked with some onions,

Garlic, and taco bell seasoning,

Lobster poached in kombu liquid.

I really want to take you back to the taco bell nachos,

But with lobster.

So, take your spoon, smack that tortilla, and go at it.

There it is.

Bam.

There's your nachos. Those are my nachos.

Let me do a nice scoop.

Oh, I like the scoop.

Oh, that's really good. Oh, baby.

right?

Hello.

Definitely all the spices. Definitely all the flavors.

Taco bell seasoning is the first initial hit,

And then, everything else you start to discover after,

Like, "oh, there's corn. Oh, there's a corn chip."

And then, the lobster just becomes this

Enjoyable chew at the end.

So, you're gonna have to pick one winner.

We're all vying for that chompionship trophy.

Everything was jamming, dude.

But my way of deciding was, if I walk in a restaurant,

And it's like, okay, this is the taco bell cuisine remix menu,

Whose do I go for?

It was hard.

I, like, switched, like, five times.

But...

Our winner is chef jeremy.

Yes.

Yeah.

Love you, man.

With the the lobster nachos.

Thank you. Goodnight.

I'm back.

The flavor of taco bell is still in my mouth from those nachos.

Huge honor. Thank you.

I have a gift for you, as well.

There you go.

I had my uncle steal this

From one of the taco bell drive-thrus.

Tell him I said "thank you."

So, baron, we had a blast.

Today was great.

We ate some of our favorite fast food.

But today, your consequence is, "what an icehole."

This is "what an icehole."

Can we touch it?

Hell, yeah. I got to.

Let me get some of that ice.

You're gonna basically take,

Blend it into a blender,

And then, you have to drink it from the icehole.

I'm okay with that.

Oh, my god, there's a hole.

Alright. I'm gonna go first.

Alright. Feed me.

You got to really want it.

Where is it? Oh, no, the poop.

Ew!

Oh.

I am not messing with them dookie.

I'm glad I didn't have to suck anything out of that icehole.

I say we grab the old chompionship trophy,

We head on the hell out of here, yeah?

That was good. That was a good one.