Engineers vs Thanksgiving Dinner

0:00 Today, my diamond play button, 3D printer,

0:02 and flamethrower are all being used in the completely wrong way.

0:06 Why do we need all this money here?

0:08 Because today my favorite CrunchLabs toy designers are about

0:10 to attempt to cook the greatest Thanksgiving dinner ever engineered.

0:13 Yeah, add the cream, add the cream!

0:15 And 12 special guests will get to join

0:17 us for what is hopefully a very tasty feast.

0:22 OK, here's the deal.

0:23 Since it's Thanksgiving season.

0:25 My thought was that you can all prepare a Thanksgiving meal.

0:28 Do any of you cook?

0:29 Yes.

0:29 I do.

0:30 You've called them MunchLabs, in case you don't remember.

0:33 Oh, true, roll the clip.

0:35 Oh man, uh, yeah, that's pumpkin guts.

0:39 At least 33% of you cook then.

0:41 What I've done is I've done all the shopping for you.

0:43 I've prepared all the recipes.

0:44 Pretty much I've done all the hard work here.

0:46 Sure.

0:47 All you guys have to do is make it into food, OK?

0:49 Yeah.

0:50 There is one catch.

0:51 You're not allowed to use any utensil from the kitchen.

0:54 So no pots, no knives, no measuring spoons.

0:57 OK.

0:58 Wow.

0:59 But here's the good news.

0:59 When I come back, whichever portion of the meal I like most,

1:02 whoever was responsible for that portion, they get a Hawaiian cruise.

1:06 Can you sign a contract?

1:07 Hawaiian cruise on a ship?

1:09 How much did this cruise cost you?

1:12 I get hooked up.

1:12 You know, there's promotion.

1:15 Oh, sponsored cruise.

1:16 Where's the trust here?

1:17 Roll the clips!

1:18 I got you A toy yoda.

1:21 That is a 24 carat gold necklace.

1:24 Of course.

1:25 There's no clips to roll.

1:26 Well, I've got to go Christmas shopping for my nieces and nephews.

1:28 That means you guys have 2 hours to prepare this amazing meal for our VIPs.

1:32 Got it?

1:32 Got it.

1:33 Go!

1:33 Go!

1:34 Go!

1:34 It's down there!

1:35 Go!

1:36 Make it tasty!

1:38 Woah.

1:38 Oh, they're named.

1:39 OK.

1:40 Recipes.

1:41 Do we have to do all of these?

1:42 Oh no, that's so many!

1:44 Did everyone else just know how to tie a knot behind their back, or...

1:47 Dude, you gotta lock in.

1:49 How are we gonna bake pies and how are we gonna bake this turkey?

1:52 Project manager.

1:53 Yes, Chef.

1:53 Yes, Chef.

1:53 Tell us what to do.

1:55 You could wear this maybe.

1:58 That's so official.

1:59 I think we should build an oven.

2:01 Is that feasible?

2:02 We got a flamethrower.

2:04 Oh yeah, we do.

2:05 All right, what are like our biggest challenges?

2:07 The turkey.

2:07 But look at the time it says almost 4 hours.

2:10 If it's a quarter turkey, then it'll take an hour.

2:12 We dice it up, we dice it.

2:14 Yeah, I think that's fast.

2:15 Do we need to hurry?

2:16 Let's do 5 minutes of scavenging.

2:18 Three, two, one.

2:19 Scavange!

2:20 With the clock ticking down, the product designers decided to split into teams.

2:23 Excuse me, chef, I got you.

2:25 Corner, corner, door.

2:26 With Bam and Lauren focusing on finding a heating source.

2:29 So we have some wood here.

2:30 Ooh, chess set.

2:31 Lock in, Bam.

2:32 We have to make a turkey in two hours.

2:34 Let's go.

2:35 And Jenny and Danny trying to find tools for chopping.

2:37 This is literally just tape.

2:38 Why do we find tape?

2:40 And lastly, Nicholas and Jack made sure to ask the important questions.

2:43 Is this real food?

2:44 That's real.

2:46 Before moving on to brainstorming ways to mix and mash the potatoes.

2:49 Look at this.

2:49 We're gonna mash with that?

2:51 Love whatever this is, guys.

2:52 This feels good.

2:53 Oh!

2:54 That didn't mash anything.

2:56 Aren't you supposed to cook mashed potatoes before you mash them?

2:58 While Nicholas was boldly inventing new ways to cook mashed potatoes,

3:01 Danny had a very important thought.

3:03 Did any of us wash our hands?

3:05 No?

3:05 OK, cool.

3:06 Since we now know that personal hygiene was not a priority.

3:09 It made perfect sense that Bam and Lauren

3:11 decided to build their oven out of cinder blocks.

3:13 Wait, wait, yo!

3:14 Wait, did we do it?

3:15 Doesn't that look like an oven?

3:17 Oh my, that is gonna be so charred.

3:20 What do we have to work with?

3:21 Hold up, guys, guys, guys, what's this?

3:24 We got a grill?!

3:25 Why are we building an oven when there's a grill?

3:27 This must have been left over from the Fourth of July party.

3:29 OK, there is opportunity here.

3:30 Wait, do we need to do this out here?

3:32 Uh...

3:33 They explode in there all the time.

3:38 New oven alert.

3:39 New oven just dropped.

3:40 With the product designers having raided the entire

3:42 CrunchLabs warehouse of anything even a little bit useful.

3:45 OK, I'm gonna steal all of these.

3:47 It was time to start chopping and prepping the ingredients.

3:50 I think we just gotta start mashing.

3:53 Yeah, but not your toes.

3:55 Luckily for the team, their newly elected leader Jack was not easily distracted.

3:59 Jenny's gonna start trying to hack up the turkey.

4:01 Do you guys wanna start on pie crust?

4:03 Chef, yes, chef.

4:03 Do we even have measuring cups?

4:05 No, it's vibes.

4:07 New plan, just vibe it.

4:08 It was clear the vibes were immaculate here in the CrunchLabs warehouse

4:11 as the toy designers showcased unreal

4:13 creativity by chopping veggies with paper cutters,

4:16 boiling water with Science Bobs bunsen burners

4:18 and mashing sweet potatoes with diamond plate- Hey, wait!

4:21 Put that back!

4:23 Amazing!

4:23 Look at that, it's so good!

4:25 Super fast mashing!

4:27 I like this.

4:28 Sorry diamond play button.

4:30 All right, official check-in time.

4:33 Hi Bob!

4:33 Give me a quick status.

4:35 We have an oven outside.

4:37 OK, and stuffing?

4:38 What is stuffing exactly?

4:40 You guys got a lot of work to do.

4:41 Should we like peel the sweet potatoes?

4:43 Nah, Mark can't taste.

4:45 I've heard that.

4:46 Guys, what do we need the carrots for?

4:48 Wait, yeah, time out.

4:49 No, it doesn't have it on the recipe card.

4:51 What have I been cutting this whole time?

4:53 Remember, kids, always read the instructions.

4:55 OK, so the sweet potatoes are mashed.

4:57 OK, we need water.

4:58 Hot.

4:58 Now.

4:59 I think that's all we got over there.

5:01 Why is this getting so yellow?

5:02 Is water supposed to be yellow when it's hot?

5:04 Actually, yes, it can, but in this case it's simply because the bottom

5:07 of the beaker became discolored by the flame, which can look pretty gross.

5:11 Ew.

5:12 We're only halfway there.

5:13 This is so inefficient.

5:15 We're cooked.

5:16 Nice.

5:17 We can also prop it up.

5:19 Oh sure, yeah, with cash.

5:20 Dude what?

5:21 It's closer now!

5:22 This just goes up.

5:23 Even more now because of the money.

5:25 Where did you find all this cash?

5:26 It was in Bob's drawer.

5:27 Bob, why do you have so much cash in your drawer?

5:29 My guess would be that Bob might have finally

5:31 sold that boat he won in lava versus lasers.

5:34 I don't want that boat.

5:35 OK, I need to soften the butter.

5:38 Guys, what if we used a 3D printer bed?

5:40 There's one over here.

5:41 There's one over here.

5:41 In order for a 3D printer to work well, the bed actually has to heat for that.

5:45 The print actually adheres to the bed because we're basically using that heating

5:48 element and we're cranking it up as high as we can go.

5:51 Is this heating up?

5:52 Feels it.

5:53 Oh yeah, that's warm.

5:54 That's warm.

5:54 The herb butter smells really good, so we're very confident.

5:58 Unfortunately, Bob felt differently.

5:59 From what I can see, they haven't started the gravy.

6:01 They barely started the pie.

6:02 That turkey's gonna take way longer than they think.

6:05 Guys, these goggles are not working.

6:06 I'm gonna start crying.

6:07 I'm a little worried.

6:08 With time ticking down and the orange juice mysteriously disappearing,

6:11 Bam knew she had to turn up the heat.

6:13 It's fire time.

6:15 Let's go!

6:19 Yeah, I think that's the intended effect.

6:22 So we just finished lighting up the oven.

6:24 Will it overheat?

6:25 Will it underheat?

6:25 I don't know, but it'll do a decent job, I think.

6:28 Are you guys almost done?

6:29 You have less than an hour and a half left.

6:31 I'm not stressed at all.

6:32 Do you want to make apple pie?

6:33 I've got science things to do.

6:35 As the abuse of my poor diamond play button continued.

6:38 Nicholas seemed to be off to a rough start with the pumpkin pie.

6:41 That looks like primordial soup.

6:43 I've never seen nicer pumpkin pie in my life.

6:45 With all the vegetables chopped and Jack having

6:47 finally figured out how to quickly melt butter.

6:49 This is a lot of butter.

6:50 It was time for the product designers to start cooking their dishes.

6:53 I have all my ingredients for the cranberry sauce, cranberries,

6:56 fresh orange juice, it was really delicious,

6:58 sugar, orange zest, vanilla extracts.

7:00 Oh my God, that looks delicious.

7:02 What is supposed to happen to this?

7:03 Like, honestly just like cook it.

7:04 Oh, until cranberries burst.

7:07 Do we need to like have a blast shield?

7:09 Bam, what are you making?

7:10 This is the apple pie filling,

7:12 and Nicholas is currently making the pumpkin pie filling.

7:15 Look at this!

7:15 Oh yeah!

7:16 I feel like I'm at my mom's house again.

7:19 What are you doing over here?

7:20 Is that a drawer?

7:22 You're so right, Danny.

7:23 That's such a better idea.

7:24 Oh my God, this food is gonna be delicious.

7:27 I'm about to go attempt to cook a turkey on the grill outside.

7:30 Oh, it's hot.

7:31 Time is of the essence.

7:32 It takes 4 hours to make them and we only had 2 hours to cook.

7:35 Oh dude, I think this is cooking.

7:37 Let's go.

7:38 We'll take it, we'll take it.

7:40 Wow, that's huge.

7:42 This is a wood-fired turkey.

7:43 Wood burning or turkey burning?

7:45 It actually smells good.

7:46 I'm not in charge of anything right now.

7:47 I think I'm making sure that nothing boils or catches on fire.

7:50 Do you have a job for me, Bam?

7:51 Um.

7:52 Oh, we're at 99.

7:53 OK, we're very close to boiling, guys.

7:55 It's potato time.

7:56 It's so mashed that we're gonna have to do one little nugget at a time.

8:00 We can't find a spoon so as engineers, I guess we're allowed to use bread.

8:05 That's a bad idea.

8:06 That was a bad idea.

8:06 Spoon.

8:07 Spoon.

8:08 I kind of feel like a dump truck.

8:09 Beep.

8:10 Beep.

8:11 Whoa.

8:11 Wait, this is like very legit pie crust.

8:13 It actually looks very nice.

8:14 With only an hour left to cook,

8:16 it was clear that product designers were feeling confident with their progress,

8:19 but little did they know that their bubble was about to burst.

8:22 Cranberries!

8:24 Does this count it exploding?

8:26 I think we need less liquid in there, fellas.

8:28 This looks like a tropical beverage.

8:29 It'll boil down and then it'll get nice and saucy.

8:31 Nicholas is right.

8:32 If we speed up the video of the cranberry sauce cooking,

8:34 we can clearly see the water from the orange juice evaporating,

8:37 which leaves behind all the sugar from the orange

8:39 juice and helps make it really sweet.

8:41 This is going great.

8:42 So status update, stuffing in progress.

8:44 Pie crust and filling are done, but we still need to make the pies.

8:47 Uh, mashed potatoes, Danny is on, we're like close.

8:50 So close.

8:51 Gravy?

8:51 I'm on that.

8:52 That looks like something.

8:54 It's always amazing to see the product

8:56 designers think like engineers during these challenges,

8:59 like when Danny realized- How are we gonna strain this?

9:02 And the team quickly came together to find a solution.

9:05 That's genius man.

9:06 Look, I'm almost there- oh it's clogged.

9:08 And didn't stop trying new things.

9:10 Oh, that's working.

9:11 This feels like alchemy.

9:12 And sometimes thinking like an engineer means finding any excuse.

9:15 The potatoes need to get mashed and this needs to go in the mashed potatoes.

9:17 So we should just use like the flamethrower, right?

9:19 To use the flamethrower to melt butter.

9:24 OK, OK, OK, OK, this is gonna be the hottest butter of all time.

9:27 Oh yeah, oh, there's some potato in there.

9:29 Moving on, it was finally time to check on the most important dish.

9:33 Oh, woah.

9:33 This causes me stress.

9:35 The turkey.

9:36 Yeah!

9:37 Let's go!

9:38 Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

9:39 This is juicy!

9:40 This is so juicy- Delicious.

9:43 Don't, don't look at that charred corner.

9:44 I'm so happy, we did it!

9:46 Is that a turkey?

9:47 Yeah!

9:47 Turkey!

9:48 It's a little...

9:49 No.

9:49 Wait, no, it looks good!

9:50 It looks good!

9:52 Make some room, make some room.

9:53 That actually looks really good.

9:55 How are we doing team?

9:56 That actually looks like an apple pie.

9:59 Thanks Bob.

9:59 What does this look like to you?

10:00 Please say mashed potatoes.

10:02 Old pizza dough?

10:04 Just heard from Mark.

10:05 He's just under a half hour away.

10:07 Oh, wow.

10:07 OK.

10:07 OK, mashed potatoes have to be done.

10:09 There's no time.

10:10 Alright, this pie is going in the oven.

10:12 Wow.

10:12 In you go.

10:13 This is like an oven.

10:14 Yeah.

10:15 Little ASMR moment.

10:17 Oh my gosh, you guys.

10:18 I'm adding more flour to have it get thickened much faster.

10:23 Snack time.

10:26 Blowtorch me.

10:28 Hold your tools, hold your tools.

10:29 Just got a word from Mark.

10:30 He's gonna be here in 15 minutes.

10:32 VIPs are arriving in 15 minutes.

10:34 We really need to impress these people.

10:37 I think they'll be plenty impressed by this.

10:39 I feel like you got a little bit of work to do.

10:41 14 minutes!

10:43 OK, but this is important.

10:44 Ooh, look at that.

10:47 I don't actually like marshmallows.

10:49 I need some sugar and some butter.

10:51 How much butter?

10:51 Measure with your heart, Nicholas.

10:54 Stuffing is done!

10:55 Let's celebrate the small win!

10:57 7 minutes left.

10:58 7 minutes?!

10:59 Can you stall him for us?

11:00 No!

11:01 We don't have time for slow.

11:02 Yeah!

11:02 Add the cream, add the cream!

11:05 Let's go.

11:06 Let's go!

11:07 Marshmallows.

11:08 Yeah, cook those marshmallows.

11:13 Alright, time's up.

11:16 What's that smell?

11:19 With the cooking done, all that was left to do is to set the table.

11:23 Wow.

11:23 Make a fire and find out which engineer gets their very own Hawaiian cruise.

11:28 Wow!

11:28 I'm actually gonna say this looks pretty good.

11:31 The question is how does it taste?

11:33 What is this?

11:34 What does it look like?

11:35 It looks like gravy or motor oil.

11:37 Could be both.

11:37 Taste it.

11:41 That's gravy.

11:42 Oh.

11:42 Mm...

11:43 might be motor oil.

11:44 The aftertaste is giving motor oil.

11:47 Is this cranberries?

11:48 Of course.

11:48 I'm a cranberry snob.

11:49 Oh great.

11:50 You're gonna love this.

11:51 Did these burst, don't you have to burst a cranberry?

11:53 Oh, they burst.

11:55 They're actually not bad.

11:56 Yeah.

11:57 There's pie?

11:58 It's warm.

11:59 Ooh, and flaky crust.

12:01 We made the dough ourselves.

12:03 Wow.

12:03 That is pretty good.

12:04 I'm not gonna lie.

12:05 What is this?

12:06 It looked like,- Oh!

12:08 Oh.

12:09 Why when I went to eat it the three of you say, 'oh'?

12:12 We're excited for you to love it.

12:14 How did you mash the potatoes with no kitchen utensils?

12:16 Roll the clip.

12:17 Amazing!

12:18 Yeah!

12:19 Look at that!

12:19 That's so good!

12:20 Why are we rolling a clip?

12:22 OK, most importantly, the turkey,

12:24 it's definitely cooked and the internal temperature is?

12:28 Enough.

12:29 The stuffing looks great, whatever that is,- Sweet potato casserole.

12:32 Oh, sweet potato casserole with marshmallows.

12:34 How did you cook the marshmallows?

12:36 By Flamethrower.

12:38 That checks out.

12:39 All right, well, I'm actually legitimately hungry.

12:41 I think it's time to eat, but first, bring in the VIPs.

12:48 Welcome!

12:48 Oh, hey guys.

12:49 I told you guys there was 12 VIPs and the VIPs, in fact, are all of you.

12:53 The CrunchLabs toy engineers.

12:55 So why don't we have a seat?

12:56 I just wanna say a few years ago I had

12:59 this idea of creating these toys that were super fun,

13:02 but that also taught engineering principles,

13:04 resilience, knowing failure is part of the process and it would not

13:08 exist were it not for these incredible toy engineers here at CrunchLabs.

13:12 There's gonna be one person who got

13:14 a Hawaiian cruise to truly show my appreciation,

13:17 everybody gets a Hawaiian cruise.

13:19 What?

13:20 You guys want it?

13:21 This doesn't look like a cruise.

13:23 It's your Hawaiian cruise.

13:28 This is Terry Crews in Hawaiian uniform.

13:34 Everybody gets one.

13:36 Take a Terry.

13:37 You're welcome.

13:38 Chopsticks, hit us with some Thanksgiving themed music.

13:41 By the way, out of curiosity,

13:42 how many of you washed your hands before making this?

13:47 I did.

13:48 Right, and this is why I prepared a backup plan.

13:52 All right, dig in.

13:54 And so from all of us here at CrunchLabs,

13:56 I'd just like to say to everyone watching

13:58 that I hope you have a very- Happy Thanksgiving.

14:01 Mark, next time get Hawaiian.