Challenging My Italian Wife to Cook AMERICAN FOOD | MaxterChef 2

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Recently, we challenged my MasterChef contestant dad, Max, to an Italian cooking competition. A lot of you remarked that next time he should be the judge and Eva should be in the hot seat… so that’s exactly what we’re up to today!

Can she handle Max’s American-themed cooking challenges? Tune in to find out!

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Recently we had my dad Max on the channel who’s in this video and we challenged him to a little cooking competition we called Max Chef in it Ava gave him a series of Italian cooking challenges but a lot of you guys wrote and said that we should flip the tables

And Ava should partake in Max Chef so that’s exactly what we’re doing today my dad came up with three American Cooking challenges for Ava to see if she’s finally learned anything about American food welcome back to Max Chef Ava how does it feel to be on the contestant

Side of things not good at all because I’m not in control on what there is here I I’m pretty scared also you should be because Max has chosen three pretty difficult challenges for you today the first one is that you have to make a classic American dish that I happen to

Know you’ve never had before well you’ve had the pre-made boxed version but that doesn’t really count because today you need to make homemade mac and cheese the only time that I had macaroni and cheese in my life was out of a box ner gave this box of craft did I like them no

They were very very bad yes the only requirement you can make this mac and cheese however you want using your imagination to try and imagine how this dish is supposed to be the only requirement is that you have to use elbow macaroni and cheddar cheese it’s like this is a past that you

Put in a soup millions of Americans make it work can you I start with a simple bamel I don’t know anything about homemade macaron and cheese because I never made but from my understanding or my let’s say idea is that at the end is a baked pasta dish

With cheese with no tomatoes so I should be good at This making cheese requires cheese now I’m going to use ched because okay but I’m going to use also Pano and pigino because they can do the past just better it’s more soft I tried cheddar before but I never cooked with Cheddar let’s have a look on this amazing pasta B this is pastina it’s not pasta it is pastina this is a pretty small pasta It’s what usually in Italy we use like in a bro now I will be able to bake this pasta we will see now here there is

Written cooking time of 5 minutes what I’m going to do is cook this pasta for two minutes chiao Ava Master Chef how’s it going today it seems until now pretty normal now what are you going to do with you’ve got your bashal sauce here see I’m see you’re thickening that yes and

While the past is cooking what are you going to do with it then then what I’m going to do is actually I’m going to do now I had the PE to the B I’m not sure that that would not really be a very American type of cheese to add to

Macaroni I know Max but this can make macaroni just better all right good luck gra Max So obviously Ava has somewhat of an advantage in this challenge because she’s cooked a lot of baked pasta dishes but she’s never even had a real homemade mac and cheese what do you think are some of the things that might trip up an overconfident Italian if she doesn’t get

The crust very Crispy Crunchy because if you don’t do that then you’ve just got like a box of craft macaroni and cheese which is not really the real thing The result I should say that I like the taste it should be good at the end is Pasta Bella and cheese Max this is my first Ma and cheese okay looks okay I think it’s maybe not um browned enough on top it’s normally what I would Do the taste is very good tastes like mac and cheese it’s very creamy I think it’s uh it’s uh actually quite good the way it is the one question I might have is um I’m missing the lobster but you see I like having lived in Maine we like

Lobster mac and cheese with my Mac and there’s no Lobster in this never okay I try it again I’ll pretend there’s Lobster M excellent I would say you pass now I have uh the idea that maybe I can switch sometimes from lasagna to mac and cheese because why not the second

Challenge that Max has chosen for you Ava is a skills test you need to demonstrate that you have this basic American Cooking skill now the plus side for you is that you don’t have to worry about picking the ingredients at all because everything’s chosen for you you

Just got to know how to put them all together your challenge is to make your challenge is to make a classic American cheeseburger I don’t think that this is too difficult come on I know how to make a lasagna I know how to make fresh pasta

I don’t know how to make a burger I had so many burgers cooked by you that I know how to make a burger okay we’ll see before Ava gets cooking good luck by the way thank you we’d like to give a very special thank you to a very special

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Bun here is the tricky moment because do I put some fat I don’t put put some fat I don’t No we should put this no uh it is looking a little stressed right now yeah you know a burger especially a Smash Burger it looks simple but it’s um it can be a little difficult mainly you have to have you know what the french would call the

You know the misone plus all your ingredients have to be ready to go cuz it happens very fast she doesn’t even open her cheese yet yeah she doesn’t open the cheese yet you got to get that on soon so I think maybe she’s falling a little bit

Behind like the burger maybe they are not so easy as they seem my confidence right now is pretty Zero I’m burned the burger it’s impossible to believe but I’m burning just a bowl of meat there is nothing there it’s just meat and I’m burning it how is possible Eva are you cooking for a crocodile or a person said it’s huge it’s kind of big it’s too big

I know I didn’t think until now that a burger can be difficult difficult so you’re trying to push all the juice out of it so it’s nice and dry cook it what about the cheese you’re going to when are you going to when are you going to put the cheese I was

Forgetting I was forgetting okay good luck thank you Max He will melt faster Maybe okay it doesn’t look bad it will taste good this actually I don’t really know my burger doesn’t look bad but if someone if I was watching someone making a burger like that I was not able to eat it so good to Max that

He’s going to eat it now Max yes here we have the Ava Burger good luck this is a new chain the Ava Burger chain there’s a what Burger now there’s an AA Burger okay I’m going to try it the simple food is what is most difficult because you can’t really cover

You can’t use a lot of trick this is what it is or you know how to do or you don’t know how to do and guess what maybe I discover that I don’t know how to make a burger I think it’s actually quite good oh it’s better than

McDonald’s okay it’s it’s it’s pretty good so I think it’s maybe a little bit dry it’s not really overcooked that’s a personal preference some people like more cooked Ben CTO but maybe pressing on it a lot is that releases a lot of the juice you need to press it initially

One time to make it flat Basta it’s a it’s a passable burger oh it’s my first Burger that’s not actually true you did try to make a burger once before see I made a meatball but you made a meatball I made a meatball so you’ve gone from meatball to

Passable Burger this real first Burger the first time I made a meatball I’m pretty happy more than for the than for the ma your third and final challenge AA is an invention test where you have to invent your own culinary creation using some ingredients that Max has selected

For you now the ingredients he’s chosen they have a theme and that theme is breakfast but not Italian breakfast American breakfast here you have eggs which we use in all sorts of breakfast food from omelets to just plain old scrambled eggs bacon cuz it’s not breakfast without bacon and potatoes

Which we use for foods like hash browns and home fries do you fried potatoes early in the morning yes I will never never in my life get how is possible as soon as you wake up to eat bacon eggs and potatoes it’s something that just to think about it

Makes me feel bad I’m Italian and to every Italian mind when you have a sort of pet and eggs the first idea that comes into your mind is carbon but then I have also the potatoes so right now I’m separating the egg whites from the yolk because I want to use just the

Yolk Right now what I need to do is put this in the fridge because I want it to be a little bit more Third so AA you’re making Yi see Max I’m Maki do you know how are you sure no actually no Max I forget do you want to help for me yeah do you need me to show you how to make ITX are you sure you used enough flour I’m an expert this don’t really

Look like AI they don’t look good to you not really so do you think that I need more flour well you know I the challenge is yours I don’t want to I don’t want to influence you with my distinct knowledge I’m going to let I’m going to just let

You try and maybe fail we’ll see what happens everything is possible Max everything is possible that’s right everything is Possible this time I’m going to do a very fan So i’ I’ll be honest I’ve never seen anything quite like this it seems like Ava is making a stuffed nooi yeah certainly I’ve seen stuffed nooki in Italy but um I think it’s a risky dish the consistency can they can fall apart when you boil them which

Would be a disaster in this case so we’ll have to see if she’s able to pull that off she’s putting it all on the line with this challenge yep if it works they will be very good if it doesn’t work it will be a disaster is bacon like one CH not really

But this is what we have this is what we use here important is to win the challenge This time I’m going to Salt the water not too much because the egg with the Pino with the Pano is pretty salty so just to give taste to our potatoes okay this is the moment of the truth we need to discover if it will be a

Huge tragedy of it actually it will be a good experiment we will see I’m scared they can disolve and if they dissolve I in trouble I don’t know what to think I’m pretty scared also to touch Them so this is a McDonald’s breakfast this is the this is the egg MC I believe this is egg M like maybe we should invent a dish like that hey but you you literally did you made noi out of McDonald’s maybe you know what we can offer this like in

Our new restaurant like the American breakfast wait and see if he likes it before you get ahead of yourself okay yeah you’re also right okay Max okay you taking too much time to Che no I like this delicious are you sure it certainly has the flavors of an American

Breakfast you have the bacon you have the eggs you have potatoes like you might have hash browns or something so you’ve created something very special compliment in my opinion you have passed you have won you can go to the balcona and you win you win the prize today which is every Italian’s favorite

American candy which is not available in Italy I give you the Reese’s Peanut buttero can I eat it okay I’ll have a little more of this you can have the Reese’s oh I feel pretty satisfied first of all because I ate my peanut butter cup the best cend in the world second

Because I also cook a burger come on dad the dad can you turn off the smoke alarm now where’s that one in a different room I don’t know thanks again to co-pilot for sponsoring today’s video visit the link in the description to start your free trial today