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- Published on Jan 16, 2026
- Keith, Jared, Joyce, and Marissa try to make Bao Without A Recipe to find out who goes on to the finale and who has to battle it out in the losers bracket semi-finals.
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it's not without a recipe unless someone is putting eggs in something that shouldn't have eggs
At this point I feel like Rachel's research for the seasons starts with "Dishes without eggs"
i love that jared fully didn't know what a bao was, so he ended up just reinventing the most popular bao type
tbf American BBQ pork and Chinese BBQ pork are wildly different. I think he got snubbed on creativity and home culture points
@cloudglideri have 100% had bao with american bbq pork
@cloudglider In theory maybe. But because of the way that Jared didn't actually smoke it over hours to create that pulled pork texture, diced it just like a cha siu bao, and Chinese BBQ pork is very sweet like American BBQ sauce.
He knew, though, he ate bao before.
true 😂 the irony
Marissa holding a grudge against Jonny for his ear lobe comments kills me.
How does Jonny know what earlobe tasts like lol
@ChrissaTodd Let's be real, nobody is surprised.
@ChrissaToddthe funny thing is he didn’t even say it tasted like earlobe. He said it felt like an earlobe.
@ChrissaTodd have you never nibbled on an earlobe? if not, i highly recommend. or have someone nibble yours, even better.
@shromnomnom2382 Exactly! He was trying to say the *consistency* was like an earlobe 😂😂😂
jared being so excited about his creative bao idea just for it to be one of the most common bao fillings got me
I wanna see an episode where Jared has a recipe and no one else does
Everyone will just look at Jared and copy him.
@YuniX2 they'll never have to know 👀
@OfficialWheliedudeoooh like an ear piece! They have them from phoning it in
A mole season when chef secretly has the recipe would be hilarious
Me “oh good Jared seems to have learned and won’t add any eggs”
Jared “I’m gonna add egg” 😂
ikr 😂😂😅🤦♀️
A EGG!
Obsessed with the professional referring to the dough as “yucky” while explaining what not to do
he's bringing his vocabulary down to their level 😂
Rachel probably prompted him with the word.
And him saying the 'what u did today was incredibly dumb' 😂😂😂
As a chef, we say dumb stuff like that all the time😂
when he said it was “giving” i freakin died
Making Jared MAKE his barbecue sauce was diabolical
ESPECIALLY while Joyce got to bring a homemade one
But the joy when he made his own bbq sauce was worth it.
It must be nice to have people give a shit even after you came after someone else and have people treat you like a princess and not like garbage.. weird (I speak the truth)
Keith immediently saying it’s ketchup 😅
@AnlStarDestroyerkeyword: homemade
I honestly want to see an episode where it's the judges (or just good chefs) have to make something without a recipe for our normal contestants
Omg yes I love this concept!!
And I expected people to change but no no no (people are bad) and judging by this and other comments proves it… I regret posting
I was about to comment the same thing. But making something they are not known for. Johnny cakes and rosanna pansino making a traditional east African meal or something.
@thatgirl9532 girl why are you trauma dumping under 12 different comments
I always want to see the professional make the good version of the winning dish(or which they think is the most creative) after the episode is over
As a Chinese, I fully embodied an Italian watching pasta break. It feels the opposite of being seen
Agreed. Even the professional's bao looked terrible. They couldn't find a Chinese person to make bao? 😭
@dopeyful finally see someone talking about it! I feel like it's not that hard to find a decent bao 😭 I looked at the bao & was like wtf is that 😂
@dopeyful they kept showing close up shots of it too 😭 like get that ugly thing away from my eyes. I'm assuming that man does not actually make any of the food in the kitchen. He didn't even look like he knew how to form them
@stiffanychiaeven frozen bao's look better 😭😭😭
agreed, this was extremely disappointing
8:44 the way every single one of them used rice flour instead of AP flour 😂
Jared was led astray by Keith! He was going to use AP flour!!! Jared needs to learn to go with his instincts instead of copying everyone 😂
Ironically would've been really good for mochi
@KS-di4bn Mochi is made w sweet glutinous rice flour (sticky rice) so a bit different but at least closer haha
@cait3196 Yes, it's a mixture of regular rice flour and glutinous rice flour, I'm just saying that their flour strategies of mixing rice flour with other flours and powders would've worked better for the mochi
It's an Asian dish, and suddenly they're all going for the rice flour
Coincidence? I think NOT!
10:19 new show idea: recipe impostor, one had the recipe three don’t.
Maybe mix this with the request to have the chefs/judge panel do the cooking. 3 chefs without a recipe doing something outside their wheelhouse, one losers bracket contestant who gets a couple hours to research/prepare and an index card to write out a recipe. The intro is just Jared's statement and a compilation of all the experts wincing/grimacing saying "I wouldn't recommend trying this without a recipe".
Jared would still lose. 😂😂😂
At first I was excited when I heard there would be a Bao episode because they are one of my favorite foods of all time.... but then I was terrified. 🙃
I always love you as a judge in these videos. You bring a great energy!
Also love bao, and I love ya Ro!
I understand your fear for anything on this show 🤣
Rosanna you're absolutely incredible. 🖤
You are a brave soul!
16:55 jared realizing he needed to make barbecue sauce from scratch lmaoo
his lil 'whut' kills me everytime
“It was just an out right failure of trying to execute a classic” ☠️😂
Jared just sitting there while everyone is just dying around him SENT ME! Poor Jared but that moment took me out
30:56 😂😂😂
Marissa and Joyce being paired together is the best thing that could’ve happened i love the dynamics
yeah the 2 most obnoxious guests together so we can just skip those parts how thoughtful
@Wzkz_YTSuper happy for you!! I hope you never have to hear women talk to you!
Yes! They seem to have the same wavelength, their back and forth is so fun
@Wzkz_YTI feel the exact same
When I saw Jude, I was immediately: “He’s back after the FISH STAPLES?!?!” 😂😂😂
If Ro can, Jude definitely can too!
What was that one?
It was a phoning it in episode, with Josh from Mythical Kitchen and Zach making a fish meal and Zach stapled the fish together @dothedo3667
@dothedo3667phoning it in josh vs diego with zach and keith
The 2nd try team must be great to work with, considering how many chefs return even after having to eat the WAR food!
a lot of people seem to not understand that if you have a ton of elements in your dish you can bring in something you prepared beforehand if you just ask, but if the bulk of your dish is just "pork and bbq sauce" you're gonna have to be a little more hands-on with your 2 ingredients lmao
Also, you have to ask. They gave Ash the premade curry he requested in the pot pie episode. Between this and the coffee in the cereal episode, it sounds like Jared never thinks to ask.
@absurdspoonful they also provided him with coffee to be fair, he fully just forgot that part of his dish until Zach reminded him.
@absurdspoonfulyup. Even way back in bagels, Zack brought his own water because he insisted New York water was better
@absurdspoonfulmaybe he's just introverted and shy to ask😂 like my dumbass would be so embarrassed to ask for shit I'd just make everything from scratch and fail
The extended bracket Without A Recipes are so fun. This is genuinely the challenge that I think I have feared for Jared's life the most because he straight up *conceptually* didn't know what a Bao was HAHA. This I think is also the first or the most WAR episode where everyone's energy towards the challenge was sheer confusion and just jabbing in the dark HAHA
I don't know why I still expected at least one of their baos to look like actual bao and not a round dough ball
As a Chinese girl, this episode hurt me a lot, seeing them use rice flour to not using yeast to the final product looking like a ball of playdoh with fingerprints wow 😭
This episode was chaotic, I'm so scared for mochi now
Seconded, seeing everyone heck up so bad is so painful in this one in particular XD
I feel you
The mochi preview physically hurt me. Partly because it looked like they were all doing mochi ice cream, yet the episode is just titled "mochi". Like... I don't think y'all know what mochi is, if you think it has to have ice cream.
hell jared kept the yeast in his pocket for no reason the ENTIRE time even when it was pointed out to him
@victorialam9044 as a Viet girl, I feel your pain
A mochi episode with Ryan and Jared? Fellas it's gonna be a gold episode next week.
"You dont wanna use any of the AP flour? It's smarter than rice." Got me already.
I’m so sorry the momofuku baos they used as examples look HORRID
They don't actually serve that. I looked at their menu and they have pork belly buns, but those are buns steamed without a filling and then used as a sandwich around pork.
I guess someone made that on short notice. I frankly would have recommended going out to somewhere in San Gabriel Valley and getting a real Cantonese style steamed barbecue pork bun.
It’s not bao.
Is Jared a parent 🤣 bc the way he went for that sticker in Keith's mouth implies that he has a toddler at home 🤣🤣
or a dog 🤣
No kids, but he does spend a lot of time with Keith and Becky.. So he's probably a very hands on uncle to Henry. 😂
44:59 I've known Rie ever since she used to work in Tasty, and I've never seen that type of face expression from her... Boy do I look forward to Mochi WAR
Who's Rie?
@ivyarianrhodone of the judges of the Mochi episode. She's well-known from the Tasty YT channel
I never understood why people think that Asian cuisine doesn’t use wheat. If that was the case, GF food would be much tastier.
Right? My GF Go To is still usually Asian takeout (despite lots of soy sauces having wheat) but I’d have a lot more delicious options if so 😋 maybe the texture differences between baked and boiled/steamed wheat products throws people off?
Pasta literally comes from Chinese noodles😂
probably an assumption that wheat isn't an 'asian' thing
because they're idiots XP
Just starting the episode and WDYMMM GF? If its similar to bread it has gluten for sure 😭
@emmahennessy7024the textures is a good point. I think also the use of egg in baked goods too
41:38 the fact that I can barely tell whose is whose and they all look terrible is hilarious
I'm a culinary instructor and I watch this show with friends, and they're always like "no way are people actually this chaotic and clueless when it comes to cooking" and I'm sitting here like listen, most of these people know the difference between flour and sugar, they are ahead of the curve.
"Most." 😂
@ can’t be too generous
Worst cooks in America is getting a 28th season next year, I still can’t believe how they are still finding people 😮
They're california RUclipsrs. Honestly I'm surprised *any* of them know how to cook at all.
Saying Bao Bun is just like saying Chai Tea or PIN Number.
Like going to the ATM machine and using your PIN number.
and naan bread, and spaghetti noodles
Prav from spiderverse be like
Gotta have the translation for the foreigners I guess.
THANK YOU!!
10:04 WAR but one of the chefs secretly does have a recipe 😂
War but each chef has a 1/4 of the recipe
And it’s Jared
They did this in the Pavlova episode! They had a recipe. 😂
I love that none of them got the memo that bao, despite being Chinese, do in fact have wheat flour not rice flour. We love rice but not thatttt much
I think the predominance of wheat based food like dumplings and noodles and bao are mostly from Northern China too, which has a colder climate (and therefore no rice, which requires warmer weather and the flooding of rice paddy fields to grow).
Southern China and even Japan and Korea are much closer to the equator, and much like a lot of South East Asia, rely on rice instead of wheat as their main carbohydrate source/staple starch.
So yeah rice rocks, but also Asia is massive! Lots of Southern Chinese emigrated which is why many Western cultures might think it would use rice flour, but it uses wheat because it's the same yeast leavened stuff that Northern mantou, etc are made of.
Cantonese dim sum style (which had my own Canto heart) is a relatively recent development iirc!
Having Keith and Rachel with Jared is a safety precaution
the way theyre talking about baos is so confusing, its hilarious. its literally a steam bread bun with filling
Really wish they had gotten a local Chinese or dim sum chef as the professional … I don’t think of Momofuku as experts in baos at all, and their example bao looked really weird …
I looked at the menu of Momofuku Las Vegas and saw something that might be called pork belly/shrimp/caviar buns (and called "bao" if translated to Chinese). Certainly made with dough of the kind used to make steamed buns with fillings. Theirs' were the kind that sort of folds over with a cut down the center, and serves to sandwich a filling.
Might not correlate completely.
Yesss. When he made that bao. I was like, i dont think thats bao 😂. And it looks so weird
Very true! Some Bao are also open and not fully sealed.. so I was confused when he said that. At least me growing up as Chinese my bao had the bbq pork peeking out and then I had the brown version where it is fully sealed.
Momofuku is David Chang’s brand… who is a trademark bully and tried to stop small businesses from using the word “chili crunch”. Disappointed to see the brand promoted on the show ngl
@MichelleYumekah
They were never granted a trademark registration and abandoned their application for "Chili Crunch". They have had a registered trademark for "Chile Crunch" which I understand they bought from another company that had registered that phrase, but only after that company previously sent a cease and desist letter to them.
But the current status of the "Chile Crunch" registration is that it's being cancelled - apparently at the request of Momofuku.
Hilarious that Keith didn't want to have to make mochi, but everyone using rice flour means they all wrapped their bao in mochi.
Honey, mochi uses GLUTINOUS rice flour. Regular rice flour WONT work
But why did the professional chefs bao so sad looking in the beginning 😂😂
I think Keith deserves like a special prize bc he's BEEN helping everyone in every episode
I hate to be this person, but i just know Eugene would crush this episode.
He would still somehow manage to mess up by making it too Asian inspired resulting in something unedible bc it has way too much seasoning
@q.q4027probably better than what they ended up with. This was a big mess
You don’t hate to be this person you liar. You miss Eugene loudly and proudly don’t you?
I just know he’d make some spicy alcoholic texas bbq baos lol
@q.q4027 too much spice, maybe some sochu or maekju 😂
Also don’t forget the weird protein
😂
Eugene isn’t technically gone and so I’m praying he returns for phoning it in since he’s only appeared once .. and I hope he’s paired with Roy Choi or Rie (since she made him a fancy pop tart dessert) which looked 💋 ugh
OMG Jared is such an animated character. I love him so much. His whole personality and expressions are some animated character turned into a real life person
I love how each kitchen has one person who is significantly taller than the other 🤣
I didn't even notice that. I just noticed it was the boys vs. the girls 😂
I cannot believe you got Jude to come back after the fish staples....
Just like Ro, maybe he likes the punishment of trying these foods. 😂😂😂
Joyce and Jared in the same episode is amazing. I love them 🔥👏🏻😂💜
i wished they cooked together
Saaaame!
For everyone confused as to why bao are made with wheat, but still white, it is because they are steamed. Steam doesn't toast dough, so the color stays white. There are baked bao that are brown, because they are baked in an oven lol.
I'm still a little perturbed with the terminology used in this vid, since the word "bao" means that it's a filling that's wrapped in dough. And as you noted they can be baked. However, I've heard of some people turning steamed buns somewhat yellow or brown with certain additions, like corn meal or brown sugar.
And Keith mentioned dumplings where the context was clearly Shanghai style soup dumplings, which are also called "bao".
@ypw510 So, "bao" literally translates to "bun" in Chinese (which is why it's funny when they say bao buns in the video, it's like saying bun buns). I've only ever made bao the traditional way with flour and yeast, but yes adding corn meal or brown sugar would mostly give the bao a yellow or brown tinge to it if there's enough of it. For pineapple pork bao, the color is yellow because of the topping they put on it that has egg yolks.
Soup dumplings in Chinese are called "xiao long bao," which literally translates to "little basket bun" in English. So it's a small bun in a steamed basket. Soup dumplings are categorized as dumplings because of their dough. There's no leavening just like other dumplings, but they're shaped like little bao, hence the name.
I make bao at home regularly using all purpose unbleached wheat flour. They're steamed. And they come out an off white color. The flour used in the very white bag is BLEACHED wheat flour. Very, very bleached. This contributes also to the incredibly fluffy texture, as the bleaching process hinders some gluten formation. Even in the US, you can get specific bao/pao flour mix in most large Asian grocery stores.
Or you can skip the mix and have a delicious bao with a slightly chewier, lightly off-white skin.
@ypw510I've made light orange bao skins by replacing some of the liquid in the dough with pumpkin puree, and a lavender bar with mashed purple sweet potatoes. Yum!
I don't know why so many (non Asian) people think bao is not wheat. I had a whole conversation with my coworker about it because she also assumed it was rice flour, and I was like, what? I would think at least Keith would know the texture of a rice flour item and how very different it is from bao which has a very normal wheat bread texture.
Yes. You'd think they hadnt eaten bread before. Its obviously bread.
I just don’t think they know where the bread-yeast flavor comes from. Hint: it comes from yeast which needs gluten lol
It's cuz you steam it and it doesn't brown. That's why they think rice over wheat,,. They think wheat is brown.
i think the steaming takes away a lot of the yeast smell. A lot of people associate wheat breads and dough with yeast
Maybe it's the assumption that birthplace of bao didn't have wheat? Which is silly but plausible
“I’m pretty sure it’s not a ‘wheat’ thing.”
“You’re always going to see at least some portion or entirely wheat based flour.”
8:39
Right not Jared actually thinking the correct ingredient and being told he's wrong 😭
Can we talk about how genius the music choices are?
They talk about the resting doughs: background music is SLEEPING BEAUTY
They talk about cooking chicken: SWAN LAKE.
I don’t care if it was on purpose or not. I sat here giggling, feeling like I was in on an inside joke 😂
I didn't realize that! Cool observation
I noticed that as well! I went "huh Sleeping Beauty" and then "oh Four Cygnets from Swan Lake"! But the relation to what they were doing I did not catch!
can i just say as someone who grew up watching ro and still does, i love how silly she's been getting lately. it feels like she's gotten so comfy with being a little weird with it and i love her so much for it
Jared WTF?!? Not the “eggs were my downfall last time”, and then just adding it anyways. U HAD ONE JOB!! 😢😢
That part killed me too. 😅🤦♀️
For a moment I was SO happy because I thought he'd finally learned something, but then he was like "so it can't be wrong this time!" NOOO YOU WERE SO CLOSE
Its WAR, it wouldnt be complete without someone adding egg when they arent supposed to be, doesnt matter if its an old competitor like zach or keith or 1 of the new trys 😭😭😭
Jared looking for his barbecue, then looking at the camera with a blank expression as they told him to make it… that’s peak cinema right there
I know Jared likely would have had a similar result on his own, but Keith really brought him down this episode with his confidence on factually wrong things like the rice flour 😂😭
watching this episode as a chinese person was a combination of pure delight and devastation, i was yelling "NO" at the screen every other minute 😭
7:25 Marissa is all of us when we realised the Try Guys cast are now majority Caribbean 😂 I love it!
Without a Recipe has been adding an extra magic to my Decembers, thanks yall. It's my favorite project from you guys.
Marissa really needed some Keith energy in there to THROW THAT SH*T OUT and start over. She was playing with kinetic sand and still left it to proof T-T
edit: though, I CAN'T believe that dough worked (comparatively)
HOW ARE YOU ONE OF THE ONLY PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT THIS SHOCKING RESULT?!?!
@31:22 Jared's delivery of "it's a bao bun" in the exact same tone of "they fly now" from star wars is perfect
me yelling at Jared to go with his gut and use AP flour like he can hear me😭😭
As entertaining as usual, but it is a little disappointing that even the chef that they invited did not make very decent bao
How does Jared keep walking into WAR thinking they’re just going to provide him premade things 😂 OF COURSE you have to make your own sauce dude
or that if he wanted something before, he needed to request it! I bet you anything he didn't ask for barbecue sauce, so that's why Rachel told him to make it himself. 😂😂😂
I'm nine minutes in and THEY'RE ALL USING RICE FLOUR?????
Dear god my ancestors are crying. Not all Chinese cuisine is rice-based! There's a lot of good wheat-based dishes, especially in northern China
to be fair i think it’s mostly the colour that trips people up, i’ve never looked into bao recipes before and honestly i might have just made the guess that rice = white and bread = brown, so maybe it’s rice flour 😭 obviously not correct and it’s just cooked a different way, but i can see the logic at least
northern china is too cold, they barely grow rice anyways, its literally like dominated w bao zi and wheat noodles... i dont know why people think china doesnt have wheat???
@bebannnn there are baked bao at chinese bakeries too.. which are brown.
What I've learned from without a recipe: NO EGGS!
Join us next week when we make egg mochi -at least it's chewy?
UND KEINE EIER!!
Depends on what you're making! 😅
Next week : Without a Recipe - Meringues with Custard
I like that there is one tall and one short person with each duo
Keith so confidently wrong in this 😂 bao are literally steamed bread. Its got all the texture of white bread, I don't know how he got to his logic.
When Keith yells, especially when he says “I’m gonna have to cut the duck off the bone!!” He’s giving Schmidt from New Girl and I love it
I was the most worried for Marissa's dough!!!!! Everyone used wild ingredients but the tapioca, omg 😭 Congrats on having the most edible bao wrapper Marissa!!
huge fan of jared not even bothering to google bao before recording
I wanna see Jared with a recipe vs Johnny without a recipe
First of all, Bao is not a Cantonese cuisine thing! It's not even a southern China thing, it's way more prominent in the north. Second, you guys seriously couldn't find a Chinese pastry chef as the pro?
That’s how i feel too. Side eyeing the momofuku choice too… couldn’t even find an actual Chinese bakery?
As a celiac i deeply appreciate the team making gluten free baos. They didnt have to do that lmao and it fucks up their dough but its a gift for me
I'm just STARING at those lonely looking food processors while everyone on here is cooking full filet/steaks of pork T_T
Stay strong jared belivers!!! This is the intended course. Now we get one more episode of jared before he makes his way to the final!
The cuts between the competitors and the actual chef making the thing are always so perfect, I'm 9 minutes in and cackling evilly!!
I think this was actually the hardest challenge for them. making the dough looks easy but it's not. very tricky challenge! congratulations to all of them
I just love that Jared NEVER knows what the hell is going on yet his in the winners 😭😭
19:21 every time I made lunch for uni my friends were always amazed at how delicious it smelled and tasted when in reality I just seasoned the meats with straight up adobo. Nada más ni nada menos 😌
HOW did Marissa go from a gummy goop that wouldn't even form a shape to WINNING?
I DON’T KNOW
The fact Jude keeps being willing to come back 😂😂😂
Putting Joyce and Marissa together was A GREAT IDEA.
28:38 the shot of them all nodding really got me
I love the tall/small parallel
Oh wow it just clicked, Rosanna Pansino reminds me of a perfect 50/50 between Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel 😅?
Not my Chinese father saying wth are those when the "professional" chef presented his baos. Guys, u couldn't find a Chinese chef to make the baos? Really?
Disappointing, really. Would habe been really nice to listen to someone who has been making and eating Baos since they were a kid. The krimping especially would have been extraordinary!
44:22 Lmaoooo I love joyce😂😂
The fact that this video begins with keith going “i don’t like bao as much as i like dumplings” is insane. Bao are dumplings. Xiaolongbao are tangbao and tangbao are baozi. That’s… baozi include dumplings. They don’t include jiaozi. But THEY ARE DUMPLINGS. I feel like i’m loosing it. Why does no one in this episode understand what what bao are?
i wish they did a lot more research before making this video- this video was so bad it hurt to watch.
they couldn’t get a chinese chef or at least a chef who actually knows how to make baos?? bro didn’t let his dough rise long enough and sealed it wrongly. how did this video get past the editing and vetting stage.. i’m gonna kms omg
Marissa is just a joy. Love her
Joyce is so iconic
4:24 Giving very much: "If my grandmother had wheels..." 😂
She would be a bicycle
Love how Keith has clearly gotten so much better at plating... i mean look at the pickled twirlies!
I was born by the river 🎶😂
3:46 bao is actually a dish from northern china 😅
The plot twist of Marissa not being able to stand the taste of her dough, but it somehow turning out to be the best dough-wise! Shook
SHOOK
8:14
I love how every time someone says "don't put that in" they intentionally leave it in, lol
if you do this elimination style again, I think the winner should get an advantage in the next round. like they get to ask the chef one question or something like that.
One Key Ingredient is provided to them. Not told how to USE said ingredient, just provide the ingredient.
I wouldn’t mind if they got a sound chef for being in the winner’s bracket. Seeing them try to instruct someone else while they don’t have a recipe seems like a more chaotic version of Phoning it In.
I love the without a recipe series but felt like this episode fell a bit short - bao buns are a staple in many Chinese peoples' diets and this could have been a great opportunity to have a Chinese chef come and demonstrate how to make them properly. Traditional bao buns have almost equal parts corn starch to AP flour, which is what gives them their bright white colour and almost powdery texture.
This set of judges is giving Simon/Paula/Randy and I’m obsessed!!!
Missed opportunity for island gyal bao
marissa having the most problematic dough only to end up with the most bao-coded bao compared to the other 3 is giving early eugene WAR energy
😊 an honor!
Falling in love with Marissa more and more each time I see her. I am so proud to see her in commercials now too!
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Marissa if im correct has been in commercials if i remeber from her visit to the you can sit with us pod cast 😊 i did see her on a commercial and was pretty hyped !
My mom saw me watching this vid and she asked when would be the day they’d invite Gordon Ramsey in to judge and internally I’m thinking how that would be a whole…. Calamity cooking 🤣😭
Jared’s instantly grew rings around his eyes when they said he had to make in own bbq and he seemed so done by the time he finally had it 😂❤️