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First off, a myth that puts the hot back into hot rod.

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We never eat together.

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What's all this?

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We're not going to eat together.

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We are going to cook together.

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How so?

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Well, we've gathered a bunch of stories over the years that

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involve cooking edible food in things never intended for cooking.

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Well, if we're going to do it, we better get it right.

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I agree.

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In fact, I think we might be able to use a little help.

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And come to think of it, I might have just the thing downstairs.

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Awesome!

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You've got the cooking help we need on the wall?

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Somewhere here.

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Now there it is. A-B.

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Hey guys, what's cooking?

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Adam, I assume that you did not bring me here simply to cater lunch.

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No, we actually have a pretty interesting weird cooking challenge.

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Do tell.

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Americans love driving.

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The time of year they drive the most is often around the holidays.

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And we know that people have claimed you can cook things in your engine compartment.

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So bringing those two things together, we are wondering,

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could you set up a meal in your car so that when you drove to a holiday dinner,

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you arrived with the dinner fully cooked?

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I'm thinking Thanksgiving.

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It's going to depend a lot on the vehicle.

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We're going to need big.

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We need like V8 to 12, an older vehicle because new is too plastic-y

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and not enough space.

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On that front, I think we've got it locked. Check this out.

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A quarry in the auto is left to Jamie and this is exactly what the chef ordered.

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But the moment they pop the hood, Alton sees problems as well as potential.

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It's not as quite as much space as I expected.

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We've got some space over here.

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Yeah, over the exhaust manifold.

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Is it covered with a shield?

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It is. We're going to have to pull that.

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With usable oven space, surprisingly scarce, Alton looks for some alternate hotspots.

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Yeah, there's some space under here.

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Maybe we can also get to the catalytic converter as far as the heart is concerned.

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Man, we need to be greaser, that's for sure.

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Cooking a Thanksgiving dinner on this engine block presents a few problems right off the bat.

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One, even though we got a beautiful big old American boat of a car,

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there's not as much room as we were hoping around this engine.

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Secondly, because space is at a premium, we're going to need to find where it's hottest.

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This thing right here is a thermocouple or a temperature sensor

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and we're going to put a bunch of these all over inside the engine compartment

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to see where our best source is a heat car.

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The plug-ins of all those thermocouples we'll meet here at this computer interface

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where from inside the car we'll be able to monitor all of those temperatures simultaneously.

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That cool?

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The results should be especially enlightening for Alton to help plan the meal.

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Just now, he's wishing he never left the kitchen.

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Come out to the coast, we'll have some fun.

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But good times are just around the corner.

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Let's do it.

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If this behemoth is a boat, then these two black and whites must be the Coast Guard.

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We actually need these guys if we're filming on the highway, but still...

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It's hard to believe with these cops that we haven't actually done anything wrong.

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Yeah, there's a good escort and there's a bad escort.

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This is no mere spin around the block.

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To collect the kind of data they need means taking a nice long drive out of town and into the countryside.

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We're trying to determine what's happening inside that engine while we drive,

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where it's hot, where it's not, and how the way we drive affects both of those things

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because we need to figure out where we're going to place each type of food in the engine

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because those places need to be ideal to cook the types of food that we're cooking.

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90 minutes out, it's time to turn this coop cooktop around,

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but not before a hands-on inspection of the hot plates.

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It's feeling really good and hot right in here.

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What's our contact on the air cleaner?

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We're getting 125 direct contact in the inference, reading 136.8.

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I think if we can just work out our spacial relationships

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and make sure we get containers that fit the volume, we're going to be in good shape.

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The catalytic converter is the orange, the exhaust manifold cover is the blue.

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Those were both in the 4 and 500 degree range.

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Then we've got the transmission oil pan and the regular oil pan.

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That's the brown and the green.

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Both of those hovered right around 200 degrees.

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But here's something interesting.

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This here, the wavy part, front and back, that's city driving to and from the shop.

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When we were stopped, we often got these temperature spikes up to 200 degrees.

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Well, it makes sense because there's less air moving through the engine compartment when you're still.

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I guess you're right.

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The readouts confirm their conjecture that some engine components get way hotter than others.

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This is actually a good thing because not all food wants to be treated the same way.

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We might want to have something that's fairly easy to cook like some vegetables down in these lower zones.

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And we might want to have something that really needs to roast like the turkey up high.

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Now we're done with the theory.

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It's high time for some hustle.

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Jamie and Adam need to either modify.

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Just a little more and I'll have a nice tight food container.

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Or hand build some food flasks.

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Meanwhile, Alton's got two whole birds to bribe.

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And before he starts prepping the rest of the food, there's that little conundrum of what to put where.

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There and there.

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So that's a turkey leg and a turkey leg.

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We're going to call a fee in those big ones.

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That's Jamie's idea.

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See how it goes.

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It's already enough of a head scratcher without this added challenge.

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Baking a batch of mini pumpkin pies, he's never even tested in a real oven.

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Remember, Kitch, when you grow up, you can lick the ball all you want.

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While Adam helps in the kitchen, Jamie soups up the V8 cooktop.

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Basically what I'm doing here is using the car's exhaust manifold as a heating element.

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And I'm insulating all the way around it just like an oven, leaving only that exposed.

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Our canisters of food will sit right on top of that.

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And then the whole thing will get covered with more insulation.

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All right, this is an entire buffet of potential doom for me.

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But here we go.

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We've broken the turkey into three pieces.

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We've got the breastlobes and the rib cage here, exhaust manifold.

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Legs, a call fee style and olive oil and thyme in this canister and this canister next to the exhaust manifold up top.

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We've got the thighs sitting upon beds of herbs.

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This is going in your special catalytic converter box on top of the catalytic converter.

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Dressing underneath the transmission, more sweet potatoes and maple that are going to go in this sweet device underneath the catalytic converter.

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Here we have our pies.

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Nice job on this.

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This is going to go over the air cleaner, which we will tent to make sure that we don't get anything into it.

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I've got some sweet potatoes.

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I'm just going to kind of shove in nooks and crannies.

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I'm going to do the same thing with the lemon that's going to go with the asparagus.

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Hopefully this gravy is going to be delicious on top of the turkey.

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And we've also got Brussels sprouts and blue cheese and cream corn with rosemary.

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I'm also hiding one turkey leg someplace just for me in case everything else goes to hell in a basket.

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And we'd have to admit it wouldn't be the first time.

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We've done a lot of things on this show that, well, you're not exactly practical.

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You'd like to slide under here from the front bumper of the car.

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And this is one of those things.

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You're better off with an oven, but the attempt is interesting.

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I mean, we've mapped out the temperatures of this entire car to find where we can cook these things.

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So if it's possible, we're going to do it.

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That's it, guys. We're good under here.

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With the turkey, sides and desserts securely stowed, it's time this movable feast hit the highway.

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All right, we've got a car full of food and four hours to cook Thanksgiving dinner.

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Let's go.

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Hit it.

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It's a bus-to-sroad trip.

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Starting this melody thing.

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It's nice. Sightseeing, cooking.

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Sage.

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Gapel's sage.

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A little sweet potato.

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And definitely sweet potato.

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Every time we pause even for a second, we're enveloped in a cloud of sagey, yammy sweet potato goodness.

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I'm going to start sticking sweet potatoes in my car just on a daily basis. It's so nice.

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There was never a doubt that the food would heat up, but one of the keys to cooking is controlling the temperature.

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With an eye on the gauge and a nose to the wind, they decide to pull out,

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jack up and test those sweet potatoes.

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Here are some sweet potatoes.

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There's pop them right there.

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When it comes to cooking with your car, the catalytic converter is the rock star of the heat sources,

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and it's already cooked our sweet potatoes.

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I proclaim these sweet potatoes to be done.

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Now we will simply keep them warm.

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So we're just putting them on the top of the engine until everything else is caught up.

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There we go.

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And they are catching up.

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Back on the road, every dish sends a different temperature profile back to the cockpit.

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The confit is climbing faster.

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It is now, yeah.

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Once we started up into the hills.

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Yeah, yeah.

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This is where Alton comes into his own.

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He calls for a pit stop, but not for the confit.

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It's the turkey breast he's worried about.

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Let's get out and check everything.

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All right.

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What are you thinking?

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I want to just taste it at the end of the probe.

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Yeah?

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Yeah, 174.

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We need to get it down, buddy.

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All right.

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I will start dismantling it.

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And here's where Adam gets to do his thing.

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I feel like I'm like diffusing a bomb at the end of an action movie.

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Cut the green wire with the yellow stripe.

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Not the yellow wire with the green stripe.

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And then I'll just guess and it'll be right.

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So that's two of the turkeys are out and we're going to leave them under the hood too warm.

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The colfee is sitting about 147 degrees.

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I'd sure like to see him hit 165 before we pull him.

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Maybe he'll have time.

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Maybe not.

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All right.

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Time now is of the essence because just down the road is the place they picked out to break bread.

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Pop the hood.

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It's like ringing the dinner bell.

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Now we could have just made this a roadside picnic, but that's no way to eat Thanksgiving dinner.

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Oh, nice.

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The venue is Marin Headland Center for the Arts and they're barely unpacked before Alton insists they try out the turkey.

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If the birds only so so or worse, it's agreed that the whole meals a bust.

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Go ahead.

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How is it?

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Considered a cook and an engineer.

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It's delicious.

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It's tasty and it's tender.

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It is.

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I'm not ashamed of that at all.

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That's pretty high praise from a critical cook.

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The turkey, of course, gets Thanksgiving top billing.

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Now let's see how the co-stars have fared.

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There is one surprise casualty.

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Adaptation is incredibly important in culinary experimentation.

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Case in point, we have a gravy.

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It's delicious, but it's way too thin.

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So you know what?

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It just became our opening soup course.

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It's like a planet.

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It's a great safe and the birth of a brand new soup.

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Almost everything else is surprisingly good and well cooked, including that turkey confit.

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I think Henry VIII would be proud.

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I think those are going to be even better.

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The very last things on the menu are those experimental pumpkin pies and they're praying this dinner doesn't end in disappointment.

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This is good.

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Good.

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That's good.

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Totally worth it.

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Thank you.

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See, he's giving thanks.

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The threshold for our expectations of this was quite low.

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We've all suffered through some pretty bad Thanksgiving meals, but I have to admit that everything on this plate is genuinely delicious.

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I've had many worse Thanksgiving meals.

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I've paid for worse Thanksgiving meals.

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Final verdict.

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Can you cook a full Thanksgiving meal on your engine block?

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If you want to.

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Or if you gotta.

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I totally agree.

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Jamie, drive this up and hoe.

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It still smells like...

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Oh.

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Ha ha.

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Did you pop the clutch?

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Go, go, go.

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Alton, I bet you're kind of a badass when it comes to cooking popcorn.

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I'd like to think I've got skills.

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So have you investigated the very fastest method for cooking popcorn?

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I've tried about 40 different methods.

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I think I've got it.

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Pretty quick.

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Okay, in this box, reports to be the very fastest ever method for cooking popcorn.

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Check this out.

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Reveal it.

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You've got to be kidding me.

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I heard of these things, but I didn't think they really existed.

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But before they unleash the beast to see if it really is the world's fastest, they need a time to beat.

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Do me a favor, mission me out to have a cup of those guys.

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This is what charted number one on Alton's Top 40.

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You pull out a piece of foil that'll be big enough to pour over that whole bowl there.

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Three tablespoons of oil and dump that in.

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Wrap and crimp the bowl, please, if you would, sir.

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Are we ready?

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We are.

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Begin the sequence.

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Time risk going.

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Go full flame.

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Make a little shake action.

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This is about as fast a method as I've got.

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That was quick to the first pop.

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What's time?

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How much time?

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One open.

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Come on, baby.

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Pop.

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I like watching them kind of jump up into the underside of the foil.

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And when it sounds like the popping is just about done, they've set a time that even beats the pants off most microwave brands.

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Now to see if this mysterious oriental ordinance can top it.

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It's essentially a pressure vessel that really is meant to just pop popcorn.

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It's made in China, and after carefully translating the instructions, it's decided that discretion is the better part of deliciousness.

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This is supposedly the fastest popcorn cooker in the West, either that or it's a bomb.

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The instructions, which we translated from the man Durand called for two to three whopping cups of popcorn, we're going with the maximum.

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On Adam's say so, I like the flame, and when this reaches one megapascal, which is one on the dial.

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At which point the water inside the popcorn should have vaporized and be starch liquefied, but it will not pop until we relieve the pressure.

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At that point, Jamie will turn off the flame, I will place this whole thing upright, pop that lever, which either will make us all dead or give us all some popcorn to enjoy.

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Cooking in a bomb suit only on this show.

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If you just find pieces, can I have your watch?

285
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Absolutely.

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It's not the simplest way to make popcorn.

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Jamie lights the gas, and Adam rotates the pressure vessel like a cast iron pig on a spit.

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Hence the bomb suit.

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Alton's method took one minute forty five seconds.

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About three and a half minutes in, and I haven't seen the pressure rise at all yet.

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We need the pressure for this to work.

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But the pressure does slowly build, in more ways than one.

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This actually makes me kind of nervous.

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It reminds me of water heaters about to explode.

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I remember that.

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We are at about seven minutes when it's only supposed to run from three to five, but the pressure is coming up consistently now.

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I never thought that four or five minutes from cold made any sense. There's just too much mass there.

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Yeah.

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Finally, they get to the point where a sudden release should pop the corn.

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It's not something you do with the flick of a switch.

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Are you ready?

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Yeah.

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You want the lever in there or you just want to hit that?

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I'm just going to hit that.

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Go for it.

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Three, two, one.

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If there's ever been a time to say, don't try this at home, it's now.

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Notice that the way that it exploded creates a shape that's more like puffed rice than it actually is popcorn.

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Because of the speed of the kind of plasma form of the starch bursting out.

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I think that if we took the pressure down or just didn't do it as long, it would probably be really good.

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It could still argue it's lightning quick as the corn actually pops in a fraction of a second as soon as the pressure is released.

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But if you're aiming to fix a quick snack inside the commercial break, forget it.

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Well, at nine minutes, 31 seconds, I wouldn't call it speedy. That's a heck of a show.

314
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Totally. That is the most fun I have ever had making popcorn.

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And the most mass.

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Absolutely.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Surreal gourmet. What have we got?

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All right. This one is really popular on the message boards. In fact, it's been around forever.

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It's that turkey makes you tired.

322
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Because of the tryptophan, right?

323
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Exactly. Turkey contains tryptophan. Tryptophan can make you tired. In fact, it's sold as a sleep aid.

324
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So next time you feel sleepy after a Thanksgiving meal, you can play on the bird.

325
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Since this myth is all about tiredness, I think reaction time is how we should test it.

326
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Right.

327
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Why don't we come up with a control test that tests our reaction time, and then we'll have multiple tests where we try different amounts of turkey and even try tryptophan.

328
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And since I don't eat turkey, that makes you two the guinea pigs.

329
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Sounds great to me. Let the feasting begin.

330
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You know when you're tired, your reaction time is slow.

331
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Q-arcade lighting.

332
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This is a whack-a-myth buster. They're going to bounce for 45 seconds. They get a point for every time.

333
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They hit one of their coworkers.

334
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First up is a fit and wide-leg toy.

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On the count of three, two, one.

336
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It seems he's in pretty good form.

337
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Take that, Karen.

338
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Great vision.

339
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Kind of weird to whack yourself.

340
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Fast reactions.

341
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And just the right balance of homicidal intent.

342
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All right, so in 45 seconds, I was able to rack up 61 points. That is my control.

343
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All Grant needs to do is set his own reaction time baseline.

344
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But it's hard to resist going one up on Tori.

345
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66. Not bad.

346
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Next, before munching the meal of the myth, they need to confirm that tryptophan does actually make you tired.

347
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What is tryptophan?

348
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Well, it's an amino acid that's in turkey.

349
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And that's the thing that people say causes you to become sleepy.

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We're going to be taking it in its pure capsule form, in an amount that's been approved by both our nutritionist and our safety officer.

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The dose is much more than an eddy turkey dinner.

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And after 45 minutes, it's clear the guys aren't at their perky peaks.

353
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I feel tripped to fantastic.

354
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I feel tripped out.

355
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All right, ready to do this test on tryptophan.

356
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Here we go.

357
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Whack-a-myth buster.

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Of course, this all comes down to the numbers.

359
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But you'd have to say tired out Tori looks about as sharp as a bowling ball.

360
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After 45 undeniably sluggish seconds.

361
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49 from a 61 to a 49.

362
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Now to see if a groggy gramp fares any better.

363
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Nothing I know about gramps.

364
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It's like cranking me, he's tired.

365
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All right, well, it's definitely affected your anger, but it looks like it's affecting your score.

366
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You got a 60.

367
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Last time you got a 66.

368
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Yeah, I feel like I just, they were coming so fast.

369
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The results are conclusive.

370
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Tryptophan does dim the light in your lamp.

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But a little white pill is not your typical holiday feast.

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And behind me is Dr. Applegate.

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She's a nutrition professor at UC Davis.

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And she's going to help me with the planning of my Thanksgiving meal.

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Well, what I designed was a series of three meals.

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Let's give them a big hefty Thanksgiving meal complete with turkey, stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes the whole bit.

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And that way we can see how a big meal with a lot of tryptophan in it settles with them with reaction time.

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And then give them a second meal that is all the same, same number of calories,

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but instead hold the turkey out and give them another protein source that has no tryptophan.

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The first offering is that once a year feast that has us all frothing with fervor.

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We have all the basics here, the sweet potato casserole, apple pie, turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, green beans.

382
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Now I'm going to plate up the food based on their height and weight.

383
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Their caloric intake will be Tori, 2,420 calories.

384
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And Grant, 2,200 calories.

385
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I'm feeling tired already just thinking about this.

386
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Oh my God, that looks amazing.

387
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This is like man versus food.

388
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Do you guys just need to feel the mood? Do you want some awkward Thanksgiving conversation?

389
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Yes, please.

390
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So Tori, when are you going to marry that girl and give me some grandkids?

391
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Don't ruin my dining experience, please.

392
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Grant, you've been a bachelor for a long time. Are you ever going to settle down?

393
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Well, I can need this from you.

394
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Let's fast forward from awkward to downright unpleasant.

395
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No offense to Carrie's cooking, but just when they figure this ordeal is almost over, they discover it's not.

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You don't want to forget dessert.

397
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Oh, you're kidding me. Where's the ice cream?

398
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Who made this calorie count?

399
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Scientists.

400
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I'm having trouble hearing.

401
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I'm having trouble breathing.

402
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This is interesting.

403
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All right, bring on the pie.

404
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When the pies polished off,

405
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our two hearty heroes can finally loosen their pants.

406
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Done!

407
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Yay! You guys did it!

408
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Now it's time for sweatpants the couch and Myth Busters marathon. It is Thanksgiving, right?

409
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Right.

410
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Nope, it's time for testing. Come on!

411
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The boys could at least be thankful that the tests are short and sweet.

412
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I'm having a little exercise after a heavy meal.

413
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Then they can take a nap.

414
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The numbers are in, and it looks as though the classic turkey dinner actually had an effect on the trip to fan.

415
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The boys were tired, the reaction times were slow, but the question is, was it the turkey in that big dinner that actually did this to them?

416
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Today's meal is just as massive, but the turkey has been traded for a protein powder that carries mixed in with the mashed potatoes.

417
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Dinner!

418
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What do we have for us?

419
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Lots and lots of delicious dinner.

420
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Sal's turkey.

421
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Oh my God, so this is the same amount of calorie counts, but there's no turkey.

422
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Dig in.

423
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Oh wait, there's more.

424
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You don't want to forget the gravy.

425
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That looks like snot.

426
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After looking at this meal, particularly the consistency of what I'm trying to eat here, I think that this is going to block up my entire system, and I predict that I will be very, very tired.

427
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It's been said we eat first with our eyes.

428
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If that's true, it's a miracle this stuff ever gets to the mouth.

429
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I have noticed that the boys seem a little more tired, sleepy, lethargic since they started this experiment, about the equivalent amount of sleepiness that I saw with the turkey dinner.

430
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Just a little more disgust.

431
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This is going to ruin Thanksgiving forever.

432
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It's clear that the guys aren't exactly grazing with gusto, but after 90 minutes of munching, they're done.

433
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Do we even need to do the tests?

434
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Now certified turkey, tryptophan free, Tori.

435
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48, not bad.

436
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It's not good.

437
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And Brent, do their level best to recapture the form of their first control test.

438
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Looks like that affected your ability to hit the little heads.

439
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But to settle this once and for all.

440
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Thanksgiving again?

441
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Again.

442
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It's on to the more modest Thanksgiving meal that does include turkey.

443
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If there's anything to this myth, we should see some adverse reactions, even from a sensible serving.

444
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It's now lunchtime on day three.

445
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So we've actually gotten the food to a smaller proportions, kept the turkey the same size, and we're going to see if it is in fact the turkey that's making us drowsy.

446
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But right now, I don't feel very drowsy.

447
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Meantime, Grant looks like he hasn't eaten since August.

448
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This is good.

449
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I'm going to make a good test.

450
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I'm done.

451
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Good crust, by the way.

452
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All right, let's go do the test.

453
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You guys don't seem too tired.

454
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All right.

455
00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:18,000
Grant's first up to bat.

456
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Oh my God, the focus.

457
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I don't think the turkey's making you tired.

458
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Wow, 67.

459
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That's even better than your control.

460
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Thank you.

461
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Thank you very much.

462
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Now, can Tori back up that astounding achievement?

463
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63.

464
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I beat my control test.

465
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This one's looking busted.

466
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Yep, it's rare to get proof this positive, but it's clear that the turkey's a foul call.

467
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For this culinary coma, you can't blame the bird.

468
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So I guess turkey did not make you tired.

469
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Turkey did not make you tired.

470
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This is busted.

471
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It's totally busted.

472
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It's not the turkey that makes you tired.

473
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It's the amount of food that you eat.

474
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It's like gluttony.

475
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The calories or what gets you.

476
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:12,000
Okay, so the next one up for us is, does any unusual meat taste like chicken?

477
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Oh, that is a classic, and I've always wanted to test it.

478
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It's when somebody tries to convince you to eat some weird meat like turtle or crocodile,

479
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and they tell you it tastes like chicken.

480
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But is that because the meat actually tastes like chicken,

481
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or it's just a nice, easy, familiar way to describe it?

482
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Okay, so given that I'm not going to do any of the eating,

483
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how would I go to an exotic butcher,

484
00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,000
find the weirdest meats I can,

485
00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:34,000
and then I'll do a blind taste test,

486
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:36,000
where I'll feed you the weird meats, as well as chicken,

487
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:39,000
and you just have to tell me if it's chicken or not chicken.

488
00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:42,000
I'm going to start pretending like I'm a vegetarian from now on.

489
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,000
So the special menu is all down to Carrie.

490
00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:47,000
In a way, she's just returning a favor.

491
00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:51,000
Now the last time Tori and Grant had to organize a meal for me,

492
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:55,000
they went to a very exotic place to buy food.

493
00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,000
To cold feet.

494
00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:58,000
And warm bugs.

495
00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:01,000
And got all sorts of interesting choices.

496
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:02,000
Chicken feet.

497
00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:03,000
Scorpions.

498
00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:04,000
Intrails.

499
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:09,000
I have a feeling revenge is going to taste like chicken.

500
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:13,000
Where do you keep your exotic meats?

501
00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:15,000
Right here in front of you.

502
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:17,000
Ooh.

503
00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:19,000
Oh yeah, this is the perfect spot.

504
00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:21,000
What's that with the head right there?

505
00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:24,000
That is called squab.

506
00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,000
Oh yeah, definitely going to need one of those.

507
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:27,000
Alright.

508
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:28,000
Some snake.

509
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:29,000
This is a diamond back.

510
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:30,000
That is real.

511
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:33,000
That is really real.

512
00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:37,000
I'll take the turtle, alligator, the ostrich.

513
00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:38,000
I'll take all of that.

514
00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:39,000
All righty.

515
00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:40,000
Wrap it up.

516
00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:44,000
At some time, all these meats have been said to taste like chicken.

517
00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:48,000
Peacock goat, turtle, snake, frog, bone appetite, sucka.

518
00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:52,000
David Lawrence is executive chef at a well-known restaurant here in San Francisco.

519
00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:56,000
And one of his signature dishes is fried chicken.

520
00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:01,000
Alright chef, so it's important for this myth that we prepare everything in the same way.

521
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:02,000
What's the plan here?

522
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:06,000
The plan here is we're going to do it very much how we do fried chicken here at 1300.

523
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:07,000
We're very famous for that.

524
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:10,000
So I have marinated it all the same way, just how we do it with our fried chicken.

525
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:13,000
And I've prepared a batter for it and we're going to just bread it in the batter.

526
00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:15,000
And I'm going to start with a peacock.

527
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:18,000
And as you can see, it looks like chicken.

528
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:21,000
And I have some snake for you.

529
00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:23,000
Whoa, weird.

530
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:26,000
As you can see, they've all been marinated the same.

531
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:28,000
The same batter.

532
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:30,000
And now we're ready to fry them.

533
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:32,000
Okay.

534
00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:33,000
Start the magic.

535
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:34,000
Okay.

536
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:35,000
Resolve.

537
00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:41,000
All up, they're cooking nine different kinds of exotic meat at 11 servings of chicken.

538
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:45,000
And after a foul fry up, it's time for the dinner bell.

539
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:46,000
Let the fun begin.

540
00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:47,000
Absolutely.

541
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:48,000
All right.

542
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:49,000
Nice place.

543
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,000
This is what I'm talking about.

544
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:54,000
I hear the squirrel is awesome here.

545
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:55,000
Okay.

546
00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:56,000
So here's the experiment.

547
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,000
We have 20 different meats.

548
00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:01,000
You will be blindfolded.

549
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:04,000
I'm going to cut a bite and feed it to you.

550
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:07,000
And you just have to say chicken or not chicken.

551
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:12,000
But so that you don't influence each other, they will not be from the same plate.

552
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,000
Wait, you're going to feed us?

553
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:15,000
Yup.

554
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:22,000
A blindfold banquet of peacock and ostrich and diamondback rattler with a chicken chaser.

555
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,000
Open grand.

556
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:28,000
That's not chicken.

557
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,000
Not chicken.

558
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,000
Although delicious.

559
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:35,000
Definitely chicken.

560
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,000
Oh, that's delicious.

561
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,000
Boys, flavorful.

562
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:41,000
That was chicken.

563
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:44,000
I'm pretty sure that was not chicken.

564
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:47,000
Ori.

565
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:52,000
Oh, that is chicken.

566
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:53,000
Definitely not chicken.

567
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,000
I don't know what that is, but it's not chicken.

568
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:56,000
Here, go as a train.

569
00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:58,000
It's going into the tunnel.

570
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:02,000
That is one tough train.

571
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:06,000
Chicken or not chicken?

572
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:12,000
Maybe it was like overcooked chicken, but I'm going to say no on chicken.

573
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,000
How about yours?

574
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:18,000
Not chicken.

575
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:24,000
Tori, you got 17 out of 20 correct, and Grant, you did a little better than guessing.

576
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,000
You got 11 out of 20.

577
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:29,000
I can't believe you got 17 out of 20.

578
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:31,000
Wow.

579
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:34,000
I can't believe you have no idea what you're putting in your mouth.

580
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:35,000
Yeah.

581
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:38,000
Clearly it's way too soon to call for the check.

582
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:43,000
Either result could push the case for chicken confusion in either direction.

583
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:47,000
But Tori's hit on a point that might have skewed the last taste test,

584
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,000
and he's found a solution.

585
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:54,000
Now, we tried 20 different samples, and I was able to pick 17 out of the 20.

586
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:56,000
Not any chicken.

587
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:59,000
But I'll tell you what, the texture was a dead giveaway.

588
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:02,000
As soon as I felt some kind of different texture, I knew it wasn't chicken,

589
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:05,000
and then the taste was a little off from the chicken.

590
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:07,000
Well, it's not.

591
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,000
It's definitely not chicken.

592
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:12,000
So I think what we need to do is get rid of texture altogether.

593
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:16,000
We need to like grind this meat up and just focus on the taste.

594
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:18,000
It all sounds pretty straightforward.

595
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:21,000
So, anyone for a minced rattlesnake?

596
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:24,000
Apparently not Carrie.

597
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:29,000
Yeah, I'm good.

598
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:38,000
With no expert chef and no marinade, some of these exotic edibles might prove hard to swallow.

599
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:39,000
Tori?

600
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:46,000
You know, I find being blindfolded enhances the flavor of the meat.

601
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:48,000
Is it better when it's all breaded and fried?

602
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:52,000
Yeah, totally. The way he prepared it, you can really taste the difference in the meat.

603
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:55,000
It masks the flavor. Right now, we're tasting just the meat,

604
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:58,000
and it's pretty easy to distinguish between chicken and what's not.

605
00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:00,000
Spit bucket.

606
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:04,000
Today, just eight of the 20 dishes are actually chicken.

607
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:06,000
Ah, not chicken.

608
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:07,000
This ain't chicken.

609
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:08,000
Choo choo train.

610
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:10,000
Choo choo train.

611
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:12,000
Cool.

612
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,000
That was definitely not chicken.

613
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,000
Peacock. I think that was peacock.

614
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:26,000
I want to cook that one a little longer.

615
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,000
Okay, blindfold off.

616
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,000
Wow, that was an experience.

617
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,000
Look at all the different colors.

618
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:39,000
It's my first barbecue with the spit buckets for sure. Are you ready for the results?

619
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:40,000
Yeah.

620
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:43,000
Okay, Tori, you got 18 out of 20, and Grant, you got 19 out of 20,

621
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:45,000
which makes the Smith busted.

622
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:46,000
Totally busted.

623
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:48,000
I mean, with this test, without all that seasoning,

624
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:51,000
it was so easy to tell the difference between chicken and what wasn't chicken.

625
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:53,000
Yeah, I mean, it was really, really clear.

626
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:57,000
There are some things that immediately, I was like, nope, not chicken.

627
00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:58,000
You're the funniest part of it.

628
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:02,000
I threw an extra one in there that I've never heard as taste like chicken,

629
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:04,000
and it's the one that both of you identified as chicken.

630
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:05,000
Four.

631
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:06,000
No way.

632
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:07,000
Crazy, right?

633
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:08,000
Yeah.

634
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,000
All right, well, this myth is busted.

635
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:11,000
Totally busted.