How good is our Doritos flavor memory? – Let’s talk about that. (wondrous folk music) – Good Mythical Morning. – And please welcome author of the new book, “Good Eats 4: The Final Years,” and co-host of “Iron Chef: Quest For an Iron Legend” on Netflix. It’s Alton Brown! – Woo, yeah! – Yeah, look at that. – Oh, look at that. We’re multitasking. – It’s finally happening, man. – I don’t mean to puppet your arm, but do you mind? – Could you puppet lower? – I like puppeted you into– – Maybe, maybe, nevermind. We’ll talk about puppeting later. – Yeah, yeah. We’ve been trying to make this happen for a long time. – A couple of years. – And it’s finally happening. – And it’s finally happening. – And I’ve been waiting to ask you this question. What is your relationship with Doritos? – My relationship with Doritos. I mean, I moved over to simply snorting them probably about 10 years ago. The problem is that when you use a razor blade, it chips the blade, so. – Okay, okay, okay. Today, we’re not only testing our Dorito identification abilities, but also– – ‘Cause there are a lot of them. – I know. – There are a lot. – Yeah, a lot more Doritos. – This is even more difficult because we’re gonna be testing our recall, our memory. – Yes. It’s time for! ♪ Memory flavor, memory flavor, memory flavor, flavor match ♪ Doritos with Alton Brown. That was me. – Nice. – That was good. – You could do this professionally if you set your mind to it. – That was good, Rhett. – Wagner. Controversial, but effective. – All types of Doritos from all over the world. Like I said, we have to identify the flavor, but we’re not gonna be getting points unless we can then remember where they are on this super flavor memory board. – [Alton] A flavor memory board. – The thing is shiny. – That’s a very shiny board. – [Rhett] You talking about chase? – He’s very shiny, yes. – Chase, you’re very shiny too. – Is that a rental? – I believe it’s actually Rhett’s. – Oh. But his name is not Chase. It is Chana Height. – And there also some decoy flavors amongst the real flavors. But to start, we’re gonna be given a brief peek at all the flavors behind those numbers. We can memorize those as well as we can. – Okay. – As well as their locations. And then the flavors go back to being hidden and the Dorito memory match will begin. – So if we correctly identify the Dorito, but then we can’t remember where it is, you don’t get a point. – Then I won’t get to wear the crown of tongues. – That’s right. – Yes, ’cause whoever wins gets to become the dashing and brainy Prince Rememberington. – Oh! Are you ready? – Those real tongues? – Donor tongues. – [Stevie] All right, gentlemen. Please direct your attention to the board. You’ll have 15 seconds. – We have 15 seconds? – [Stevie] To look at all of your potential flavor options and their locations. And remember, these are the spots for the entirety of the game, so pay close attention. Chana, please start revealing the flavors. – I don’t think people can remember 15 things. – Oh, three at a time. Oh gosh, oh no. – [Stevie] And your 15 seconds starts now. – And some of these aren’t even actual Doritos. – Uh-huh. – Octopus? – Mm-hmm. – Okay. – Okay. – Should I stop looking at octopus now and look at the other ones? – [Stevie] Your time’s up. Look away, please. – You look away. I’m not gonna look away. I’m a guest. I don’t have to look away. – I’m looking away, but I’m still looking at it. This is the way that I’m looking. – I think Octopus is down there. – God. – [Stevie] All right, it’s time to play. (intense orchestral music) – Okay, so we’ve got some green ones here. Would you call this green? – Yeah, I would. – Greenish, yeah. There’s a certain phlegminess. – Yeah, it’s not an appealing color. – No, it isn’t at all. Oh, we’re free to eat, okay. – Ew. – You don’t like that? – Isn’t that nasty? – I like it. There’s some cheese. There’s definitely a cheese flavor, but where’s the green coming from? – Do you like it? – No. – It’s nasty. – It’s… – Knowing what it is does help though, right? There’s something to that. – You know what this is? Do you know? – No. – No. – Knowing what it is would help. – If you did know what it was– – I’m definitely not tracking this to anything I just saw. – You might like it. Who has to guess first? – [Stevie] Rhett’s guessing first and we’re gonna go down the line. But yeah, I was trying to see how you’re gonna play this strategically ’cause none of you are really talking about what you’re tasting here. – Yeah, I don’t want to give anything away. – I’m tasting Dorito. – It’s sour. – And yet bitter. – Well, there was a garlic up there. And I’m just, maybe they, even though garlic isn’t green, when a lot of times people try to make things look like they would taste like garlic, they’ll make ’em green. But was there like a salsa verde up there? – Don’t ask questions. – We didn’t tell you anything. – Give a number, doofus. – Nine. – Glad you’re finally here. – I’m glad to finally. No, I’m not. I thought it was gonna be like… – I didn’t want you to come all this way and be angry. – I waited two years to lick a green Dorito with you guys? – Yeah, yeah. It’s as good as it gets, man. – Yeah, yeah. – I’m gonna go by what the color is telling me and not what the flavor is telling me because the flavor is telling me a strange bitter kind of umami thing. I’m going with number 11. – Do you know what that is? – Yes, I do. – No, he doesn’t. – I do, I do know what it is! – I think I know what it is and I think it’s a pretty good guess. – I know what number one is. – What I wanted is, were there pickles on there and I just missed pickles because it could have a pickle. – I didn’t see it. – I didn’t see pickles either. – I think this tastes like number 10. – I think it tastes like number two. – And what do you think number 10 is? – A one followed by zero. – All right, let’s go ahead and Chana, let’s see what everyone picked if you could go ahead and reveal. – Show me the Mountain Dew. – Mountain Dew. – Mountain Dew. – Just ’cause it doesn’t taste like anything that I can. – So that is what you intended to get? – [Alton] That is what I intended to guess because– – And is that what you intended? You said cheese. Were you lucky? – I did not intend to guess that. I did not. – It does taste cheesy though, but it’s a Dorito. – Sriracha. – [Link] I know I didn’t get it right. – [Stevie] Okay, so Rhett and Link, you did not choose the ones you wanted. Was there a flavor that you were looking to choose? – Nuh-uh. – [Rhett] There was nothing up there that I remembered that coincided with this. – [Stevie] These are avocado and cheese flavored Doritos from Japan hidden behind spot number two. – Which goes to show, they have no avocado in Japan because that is not what avocado tastes like. – [Rhett] Yeah, just cheese, and kind of a stinky cheese. – [Alton] Stinky. – Does that explain the umami? – Maybe. – And that’s a beautiful bag though. – But Dorito means umami in some language because every Dorito is umami. It just goes with the territory. – What? – Yes. – While you guys are talking, I’m trying to memorize these other three spots. – Oh. (intense orchestral music) Hmm. – Okay. – This looks more like a normal Dorito. Well, it’s not orange. It’s brown. – Super savory. – But also sweet and also something weird. – I was gonna say it had that fake bacony flavor. – It started off in like barbecue sauce territory. – [Stevie] Alton is up first this round. – Oh, I am? Number 10. I believe that this is the sriracha Dorito, which is number 10. – [Stevie] Link, you’re next. – Dude, this isn’t sriracha. – I’m just throwing crap out there because at least I could remember where it was. I’m not gonna win, so I’m at least gonna lose in style. I don’t know what this is. – See, now you’re copying my mentality. – I did some research. I read up, man. – We both can’t be the guys who say they don’t care so it’s okay that we lose. – I’ve been that guy for a long time. – Link, what are you thinking? – I’m gonna say, I think it’s a weird barbecue sauce, which I’m gonna say number three. I know octopus is behind number one. – Do you remember three being a weird barbecue sauce? I don’t remember seeing weird barbecue up there. – No. Whenever you guys were looking at like the stuff, I was like thinking about, oh, I was like, Alton’s here and Chase is there. – [Alton] Yeah. – I was just distracted. And I can’t figure out if I have a headache ’cause I’m trying to remember stuff or just because of his jacket. – First of all, sriracha is a solid guess, let me just say that. – It’s the one I can remember. – Because it does taste like a barbecue sauce. There’s only two sauces on there. There was sriracha and there was Tapatio, I believe. But there was a, I think a tomato and pepper. – Hmm. – This has got a little bit too much spice, I think, to be. I think it might be sriracha, but I’m gonna go with number six, which I believe is the tomato and pepper. – [Stevie] All right, Chana. Let’s see what we got. – [Link] We’re gonna start with the sriracha. – Sriracha. – [Link] And then what is number three? – Oh! – Oh! – That might be it, y’all! – That’s it. – That might be it. – That’s it. – It’s sweet, it’s spicy, it’s chili, it’s hot. – ‘Cause it’s sweet. Okay, it’s rude to like rub our noses in it. – Tomato and pepper. – Tomato and pepper? – There’s no. Well, there is pepper there. – Okay, so I thought, ’cause you said this has a little bit of that fake bacon taste, which I thought you were gonna land on the liquid smoke of it all because the actual flavor is late night oven roasted chicken from South Korea. – What? – What? – [Stevie] Which is spot number 15. There’s a meat thing, you know? – Late night. You know, you gotta let that chicken get tired. (intense orchestral music) – That’s a hardy chip. – So this one is made differently. It’s got like, that looks like it has chia seeds in it. Maybe this is a high fiber Dorito. – Is this a late night poppy seed? – Early morning. – Okay. – How’s your fiber intake? – I’m good, I’m good. – You gotta look at it to know. – Well, you have to watch it very, very closely. Nature’s brooms. – Nature’s brooms. – Yeah, nature’s brooms. – You’re like doing a chimney sweep. – Well, I mean, it depends on how you’re oriented in the fiber flow. – You see, you gotta sit down toilet or a lay down toilet. Have you seen the new lay down toilets? – How do you even do that? Man. This is good. – This is tasty. – I feel confident in my guess. – [Stevie] Link, you’re up first this round. – Oh gosh. It’s tangy. – Mm-hmm. – It’s not cheesy. – There’s some aggressive licking going on over there. – I think this tastes like number 13. – [Rhett] You remember what 13 is? You have to say your flavor guess. – I don’t know. I never looked down there at 13. – Again, I think the visual is throwing me off. – Hmm. – That’s not pepper. – No. – It’s like, it is a seed of some kind. ‘Cause I wanted to say it was tomato and pepper. – It’s not pepper. – I have to go with six. I have to go with tomato and pepper because I don’t have a better guess. – [Alton] Damn you! – You can also guess. – Damn you! – You can guess six. – No, I can’t. – Yeah, you can. – Oh, well I’m also guessing six. – There’s both of our faces up there. – I believe this to be tomato and pepper only because it’s the only thing that even faintly reminds me of it. – Yeah, yeah. – [Stevie] All right, let’s reveal those spots. – I do remember that from earlier. – [Rhett] You remember what 13 was? – Yeah, beef brisket taco. – Beef brisket taco. – That could be it though. – Could be it. – Because that could be like little burned bits of briskety stuff, even though there’s no brisket in this at all. – Nope. – But that could be it. I didn’t remember there was even a beef brisket taco up here. – [Link] That makes me feel better. – Tomato and pepper. – [Stevie] All right, guys. You just had tomato and pepper flavor from Turkey. – Okay, it was right there for the taking. – Well. But see, the Turkish people, that’s not pepper. They put poppy seeds. Is that not poppy seeds? Am I crazy? – You read the bag. That’s a shiny. That’s one of those mylar balloons. – You cannot read that. – You can’t read that. It’s not possible. – It’s also in Turkish. So like, when I finally got. – Oh, allow me. – When I finally got there, do you see any? – Foolish American, you are now about to die. – Chase, turn a few more over for me. – Yeah, if you can get the light right on it. Poppy seeds! Look, poppy seeds. – Poppy seeds. – Poppy seeds. – They’re trying to fool us Americans with their poppy seeds. – And now, we can’t even pass a drug test. (intense orchestral music) I thought I was gaining insight into the mind of the Dorito maker. – Yeah? – Based on the visual. And now, I’ve become uncertain. – Ooh. – [Link] That is a strong scent. – I think I might know this one. – What was your insight that you thought you had? Can you tell us? – I thought that the visual kind of had a kind of a grill kind of zigzag shape, so I was thinking about that brisket taco. But now, I’m not. – It’s not even there for this one. – Do I guess first again? – No. – [Stevie] Yep. – Why? He guessed first last time! – No, we went down. We went down the line. – I did. It was just not a memorable guess. – Okay. All right. This is the most confident I’ve been this entire game. I should make a long term financial decision right now, but instead, I’m going to choose number one, octopus. How can that not be octopus? – Oh my gosh. – It’s totally octopus. – Why didn’t you guys not like it when you ate it? – I love octopus. – I love octopus. I just don’t eat it. – Oh, that’s horrible as a chip. – Do I go now? – Yes. – I strongly agree with the number one play. I think that this is the octopus. – Link, think this might be the opportunity to get a point. – If an octopus were to crawl into a bag of Doritos and live there for say, a week. – Yeah. – And then left, and the sun, you know, dried them, then I think that this is what it would taste like, especially if the octopus had a little bit of Tabasco in its last meal before it squirted all over the inside of the bag. – That’s how bad it is. – It’s not good. – See? Okay. – And yet. – You keep going back ’cause it’s a Dorito. – [Stevie] Yeah, see, you’re saying that, but I really wanna try these now. Everything that you said. – It’s real fishy. It tastes fishy. – But I think they nailed the octopus profile a little bit. There’s a little– – Said no one ever. – There’s a little, they’ve got a little seaweed flavor in there definitely that they’re trying to be like, you know where the octopus comes from? The sea where the weeds are. Let’s put that in there. – See, this is my opportunity to go in another direction and catch up. – Right, right. – But I don’t recall anything else being oceanic. – It might be brisket tacos, Link. You never know. – That would’ve been my second guess. – So, I’m gonna have to say one as well, Chase. Vase, whatever your name is. – [Rhett] Chana, Chana. – [Stevie] Okay, so you all went with one, which, Chana, you can reveal is indeed octopus. – Octopus, yes, yes. – [Stevie] But what if I told you that you were all incorrect? – No! – [Stevie] Because the answer is garlic shrimp flavor. – [All] Oh, shrimp! – I knew it! – In spot number eight. – I never even saw shrimp. – Where is garlic shrimp? – Show it. – [Rhett] In the middle?! – I smelled the garlic. I was smelling it. – And it totally tastes like shrimp. – Yeah. They really nailed that shrimp flavor, is what I was trying to say. – Can I please have a bowl of the humiliation flavor Doritos, please? – Oh, god. (intense orchestral music) You’re frustrated. – I’m beside myself with frustration. – We’re not giving you a good experience. – No, it’s a totally good experience. No, it’s a fantastic experience. – This smells good. – I know what this is. One bite and I know what this is. – [Stevie] You’re up first this round, Alton. – This is number 13, taco, this is the brisket taco. – They’ve done a really good job with this one. You can taste the brisket. – Well, it has an unmistakable taco seasoning flavor. – You can taste the unmistakable taco seasoning flavor. – There’s some cumin in there. – Oh, everybody’s on it now. – So now, you’re thinking. – Everybody’s on it. – Rhett’s gonna go for 13. You think I’m gonna go for 13, but I learned my lesson. – You’re going for the octopus. – That I have to go with the octopus. I have to go somewhere else because I’m losing. I actually think I taste pork, not beef. – Oh, it’s the pork tacos. – So where were those pork? Where was the pork thing? – Where was that? – Yeah, you know, number seven, pork tacos. – I think it was number four. – [Alton] Is there seriously a pork taco up there? – No, there wasn’t. – Okay. – It’s a pork loin. – Really? – I think is what it was. Pork loin Dorito. – No, it’s taco. That is taco seasoning. – It has to be 13. That’s my guess. And we’re going on the same square again, but I think this time, we’re right. – [Stevie] All right, Chana. Let’s see what’s under square four first, shall we? – [Alton] She’s manipulating this game in a way that makes– – Oh. – Tapatio. – It is not that. – There’s no heat. – There’s no heat. – [Stevie] And of course, 13. – Beef brisket taco. – [Stevie] And the flavor was beef brisket taco from Australia, oddly enough. – I had to try! I mean, they pretty much nailed that one. This one works. – It works. I don’t think it’s very good, but I mean, I wouldn’t want to eat it. – It’s not great. I don’t know how… – Most of the brisket tacos I’ve had before did not have the taco seasoning, you know? – Where are they getting the meat flavor from? Does it say on there? Oh, they got maltodextrin, paprika, cumin, black pepper. – Food acids. – Yes. – Tomato powder, garlic powder. – It’s from the maltodextrin. So they’re getting the meat flavor from the maltodextrin, I think. – There you go. – Wait, what are you doing? You’re like, working the game? Are you rigging things? – I’m just stretching my neck. (intense orchestral music) – I think what would be interesting is that we have to guess without tasting or smelling them. – I think. – Which I am now prepared to do. – Well, I’m willing for you to do that. If I get it right, I get three points. – No, because you might guess the same thing. – I’m guessing first. – I think the fact that we’re making it– – Am I guessing first? – Yeah, but we’re also making it worth three points. – You’re guessing first. – Okay. – Okay, I changed my mind. – Yeah. – So this is worth three points for me. – It’s obvious. – It tastes like salsa to me. It’s not spicy enough to be Tapatio even though it looks like it could be. – Hmm. You don’t think it’s Tapatio then, huh? – Nu-huh. – Huh. – It’s definitely not Tapatio. – Interesting. – Which is number 14. – No, number four is Tapatio, but– – Ha, thank you! Number four is my answer. No, just kidding. Just kidding, it’s not. But if it was, I would’ve got you. – You would’ve. – You think this is Tapatio? – You can’t ask him that. – The real question is whether you think it’s Tapatio. – This is more of just like garden salsa and I know that’s a Sun Chip. Come at me. I’m going for– – I don’t think anyone’s upset. – I’m good. – I’m going for number 10. – Are you? And what is number 10? – That’s sriracha. – Sun Chips garden salsa. – No, number 10 is actually sriracha. So you thought that was sriracha, interesting. – [Rhett] This is not sriracha. – Oh, I forgot! Let me tell you my answer. – No! – Come on, there’s no way for me to win unless I change my answer. I’m also gonna guess number six, but just for the record, not for the competition. – If this is Tapatio, it’s not a great interpretation of Tapatio. I don’t usually have Tapatio though ’cause there’s a part of me that thinks that– – You can feel him trying to read you, can’t you? – It might be sweet chili. – Ooh. – It’s not that sweet, but it’s not spicy either. – But he’s right. – Maybe this is late night octopus. – Which really sucks. – Tapatio number four. – It’s cheesy. Did you taste it? – Mm-hmm. – Okay. – I’m going with tomato and black pepper. Number six please. – What? – Yeah. – We’ve already done that one. – Can I do it again? – [Link] Yeah, we can do it again. – All right, he’s playing mine games now. – [Stevie] Okay. Chana, please reveal all the squares. – All right. Sriracha. – Sriracha. – I didn’t mean to do that. – No, he didn’t. – Tapatio. – But I also don’t agree with that. And I just don’t, I don’t know why you did that. – I’m just making crap up ’cause it didn’t really taste like much of nothing to me. Although I’m thinking the sweet chili. – Sweet chili. – I just couldn’t remember which one was the sweet chili. – Number three. – Oh, number three. – Number seven. – Because I think there’s a lot of sweetness going on in there. – Stevie? – [Stevie] You guys just had Pizzerolas or pizza roll flavor from Mexico, which is spot number 12. – [Rhett] Okay. Never saw a pizza up there. – [Link] Pizzerolas? – [Alton] I want to see that. Can I see what that looks like just so I know what I? – Yeah, it says pizza twice. – Chase’s sleeve is caught. – Pizzerolas? – Guys, you’re missing– – Pizzerolas. – Pizzerolas, yeah, but you’re missing the big story here, which is Chase’s sleeve was caught on his jacket. And that was the best thing that happened in this episode, no offense. – If you had given me the sparkling jacket, then I could have gotten caught on something instead of just– – Pizzerolas. – Pizzerolas. I think these taste good. – Yeah. Well, now that I know I’m supposed to be tasting pizza, I’m like, oh yep, okay. – Well, what is on pizza? Tomatoes and black pepper. – Yep, right, mm-hmm. – I’m this so-called competition. – We gotta share this. We have to share the crown. – No, you got. Oh yeah. – No, come closer. I wanna, I wanna– – All right, I’ll give it to the guest. – No, I don’t deserve it! – I’m gonna give it to the guest. Just bob up and down. That’s good. – All right. Yeah, you can have the crown. And thanks, Alton, for being here. Make sure to pick up a copy of “Good Eats 4: The Final Years” and to check out “Iron Chef: Quest For an Iron Legend” streaming on Netflix right now! – Best name for a show, by the way. Thanks for subscribing and clicking that bell. – Now, you say, “You know what time it is.” – I know what time it is. 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