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        <title><![CDATA[Tituss Burgess on ‘Dishmantled,’ his insane new Quibi cooking competition]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Splats off to the chef!</p><p><span >&#8220;Dishmantled,&#8221; the world&#8217;s wackiest new cooking competition, just premiered on <strong>Quibi</strong>, a new streaming platform that specializes in supershort TV shows.</span></p><p>Here&#8217;s how it works: Contestants are blindfolded, then get food thrown in their faces. They have to guess what dish it is and try to re-create it.</p><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s really satisfying,&#8221; host Tituss Burgess (&#8220;Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt&#8221;) tells The Post. &#8220;Cooking shows are usually so highbrow and the stakes are really high . . . [This feels more] like [&#8220;Slime Time Live&#8221;], that show on Nickelodeon where all the goo was dumped on people.&#8221;</p><p>The series was filmed in Harlem this summer, and each six-minute episode brings on two celebrity co-hosts. Episode 1 brings in &#8220;Queer Eye&#8221; food expert Antoni Porowski and &#8220;Schitt&#8217;s Creek&#8221; creator and star Dan Levy.</p><p>They watch as two chefs don outfits that look, presciently, like hazmat suits. They&#8217;re blasted with a mystery dish that looks like baby food, commencing a 30-minute race to identify the dish and cook it for the hosts. Victory is determined by how many ingredients match those in the real dish. The winner walks home with $5,000.</p><p>&#8220;Dishmantled&#8221; joins a roster of eyebrow-raising shows on Quibi (from $4.99 per month), from an adventure series with Zac Efron called &#8220;Killing Zac Efron&#8221; to a true crime/home improvement concept called &#8220;Murder House Flip.&#8221; But &#8220;Dishmantled&#8221; might just be the wackiest of the bunch.</p><p>In the first episode, after contestants Joe and Priyanka get blasted with food, Joe shares his thoughts with the camera: &#8220;Everything I tasted could be something else. Onions, maybe. Tomatoes, question mark. I have no idea. But being that I&#8217;m Italian, you&#8217;re getting a sauce.&#8221;</p><p>While Joe and Priyanka set about making their best-guess dishes, the guest hosts deliberate. Burgess is the only one who knows what it really is.</p><p>Eyeing the goop dripping on the wall, Levy says, &#8220;I saw tomatoes . . . pita . . . To me, that is a dish I do not know.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;Didn&#8217;t you see an egg yolk?&#8221; asks Poworski. &#8220;I was thinking shakshuka, which is a Middle Eastern dish.&#8221;</p><p>When the timer dings, Joe and Priyanka present their food to the hosts. They don&#8217;t get judged based on quality — rather, on how many ingredients match the dish that was blasted at them.</p><p>&#8220;I think this is delicious,&#8221; says Levy, as he tastes Joe&#8217;s creation. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know if this is what you&#8217;re . . . supposed to have made.&#8221;</p><p>When Porowski samples Priyanka&#8217;s zucchini-based creation, he asks if she tasted zucchini.</p><p>&#8220;That was the first thing that blasted into my mouth,&#8221; she says.</p><figure id="attachment_15436475"  class="wp-caption aligncenter"><strong><noscript><img data- data-src="/uploads/2020/04/dishmantled_still1.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" /><noscript><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/04/dishmantled_still1.jpg" /></noscript></noscript><img class="lazyload" src='data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20210%20140%22%3E%3C/svg%3E' data- data-src="/uploads/2020/04/dishmantled_still1.jpg" /></strong><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><span>Porowski, Burgess and Levy in &#8220;Dishmantled.&#8221;</span><span class="credit">Quibi</span></figcaption></figure><p>&#8220;A sentence I never thought I&#8217;d hear anyone say — but here we are,&#8221; he replies.</p><p>Burgess, who lives in New Jersey and says he&#8217;s been cooking a lot of soup during lockdown, says the absurdity is what made &#8220;Dishmantled&#8221; worth doing.</p><p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t set out to do a cooking show, I had no real aspirations to host anything,&#8221; he says. &#8220;But I loved how turned-on-its-head the cooking show format was when this idea was presented to me.</p><p>&#8220;The stakes are much lower than they are on, say, &#8216;Top Chef&#8217; or other shows where it could be career-changing for one of the winners,&#8221; he adds. &#8220;We&#8217;re not changing the world — I just want to give [the audience] seven to 10 minutes of mindless entertainment.&#8221;</p>]]></content:encoded>
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