- Oh God, this is a
Thanksgiving nightmare.
- [Andy] Okay, air rack,
put this somewhere.
- Ooh! [laughs]
- Might get ugly.
- We don't have time to screw around.
- What do we do?
- [Christina] I will not be
the last thing on that table.
- [Molly] We're sizzlin' over here.
- [Andy] Best one yet.
- [Brad] For sure.
[Molly screams]
[laughs]
- You guys, this is why we plan!
[group laughs]
- Ooh, yeah baby!
- [Chris] It's like falling
out of a flavor tree
and hitting every branch on the way down.
- [Brad] Like this? Yeah.
- I like yours better.
- Boom!
[upbeat music]
- [Brad] Oh my God.
It is so juicy,
- [Andy] Best one yet?
- It's the best yet, for sure.
[upbeat music]
You're like a kid in
Christmas, grinnin' over there.
[upbeat music]
Did it pop?
- Why didn't we just pulse
it in the food processor?
- [Molly] I made potato skins.
- [Carla] They look terrible.
[laughs]
- Disagree.
- Ooh!
- Good?
- That tastes good.
You're doing a great job, Molly.
- [Molly] We're sizzlin' over here.
- Mash, with a slight amount of cheese.
Do I get a free lunch or...
- Cheers, salute.
- Whoa
- [Rick] This how you win Thanksgiving.
- Pow, pow, pow.
- Give me another one.
[mimics drums]
[Chris whistles]
- [Chris] I'm really
excited to see what happens
when we take it one or two clicks further.
- [Christina] It's 5:40 on
day two, and we're [beep].
- What do we do?
- What? What! What is going on?
- [Claire] I mean it's true,
it's like how hard is a salad?
- [Christina] Don't be extra, Claire.
- [Claire] I just did
what I told you not to do.
How hard could it be?
- [Brad] I swear we're only
going because people feel bad,
'cause in the comments of
YouTube, people are like,
"How come Claire never travels?"
- Oh my God.
- Oh God.
Yeah, it's pumpkin pie, bro.
You ever been to Thanksgiving?
- Our flight is in five hours,
and we haven't gotten
the pies in the oven.
- Aah!
- You better temp it.
- Yup, ooh, comin' a little fast around.
Oh, it's Brad.
We're gonna be in a hot kitchen cooking
on a beautiful summer day.
[group cheers]
Ooh, Christina--
- [Christina] We gotta get going!
- [Claire] Do we have to do stuff?
- [Christina] Yeah, we gotta do stuff.
[group cheers]
- This is a Thanksgiving nightmare.
[Molly yells]
- [Claire] I'm hungry.
[playful music]
There's no meal I love
more than Thanksgiving.
I love it so much,
it's my favorite holiday.
- It's one of my-
Yeah, it's one of my favorite
holidays, it's just--
- It's the food holiday.
- A lot of food and--
- Never gets old.
- The one and only point of a holiday
is to eat as much as you possibly can.
- [Andy] And then you
eat again the next day
- Until you get into a food coma
- And it's all the things
- and then pass out.
that you've been waiting all year to eat.
Like the things that you
would never ever have
except for that one day.
- But to me Thanksgiving is like,
it's as much about like us being
here in the middle of summer,
like how fitting that it's like
80 degrees today, you know?
And it's about like
developing menus every year
and like being with you guys
and like cooking through the
heat of the summer, you know.
- The real fam!
- And we get two Thanksgivings, you know
- Oh, more.
- Right
- We have like 10!
- I mean, the downside of that is if like
by the time actual Thanksgiving comes
how many turkeys have you
actually eaten? Like seven?
- Right
- So many turkeys.
- In 2019, the goal is
to really forget what you
thought was ultimate before and
reconceive like ultimate, perfect versions
of all of those dishes but
we also have to think about
our reader and I think
our readers are like
turkey, mashed potatoes, we
need stuffing, we need...
Like people get very mad
- [Rick] Yeah like if we go rouge-
if those things aren't there.
- Like my family.
- Like trying to eliminate
stuffing or something
will people will cut you down.
- So the fact that these
recipes are going to live
in the magazine and on the website,
a lot of people are going to be making it,
a lot more than I think, pizza.
- That's a lot of pressure.
- Years past like we kind of danced
around perfection, right?
Cause once you label
something perfect you know
like what do you do the
following year, right?
- [Christina] This is the most recent one.
This is the one we did last year.
- This is 2015.
- This is 2016.
- 2017.
- I love this cover, I have to say.
That platter.
- [Molly] The burnt like herb de provence
that's on there.
- Check out this like
- [Andy] '94.
bizarre burnt orange turkey.
- [Carla] Wait, that one
looks like it's encassed
in like plastic sheet.
- But you guys have to look through this
like look at the props.
This is 1984.
- [Rick] Wow.
- [Brad] '84?
- It really brings me back. Yeah.
- I'd be born in one year.
- I love that ice bucket!
- I know! I want the ice bucket.
- [Molly] I want it!
- Also look at the little
confetti on the surface.
- The theme running
through every Thanksgiving
is Andy Baraghani.
[laughs] Oh god!
[group laughs]
I forgot about that.
- [Brad] And we're going to be cooking the
perfect Thanksgiving meal
and I think we should
keep it into you know,
not everyone has an awesome
test kitchen with 35 ovens.
Something that people can do.
I like the idea of one oven kind of deal
but I also really like the
idea of bringing some element,
if you can, outside.
Maybe smoke or fry a turkey or something
I think that's pretty neat.
- An outside job is the
best job the entire night.
- [Rick] Completely.
- [Carla] Oh yeah, it definitely is.
- Oh you'll find me out there.
I'll be drinking-
- Right? Drinking ice cold air.
- Right, so the Thanksgiving
meal is a symphony
and like has to be in harmony
- [Andy] It's a menu
- and working together and
- So like my concern is that
everyone taking their own dish
worried in some ways
that people will innovate
too much and then also maybe not enough.
And like how are we
going to make sure it all
comes together really well.
- I think we'll be fine, because-
- Okay, Brad. [laughs]
- [Carla] You want to be
able to go up to that buffet
and take some of everything
and not have it be
like a train wreck.
- At least it'll be like
good division of labor
but I think it's going to be kind of
a free-for-all competition for like
resources in the kitchen,
knives, cutting boards.
- This is like year 9 of this?
Like it's gonna go great.
- Oh yeah.
- Look at all these beautiful
magazines that we've made
- I have no concerns about the food
- year after year.
- It's going to look like this.
[playful music]
- [Andy] All right, we're in New Jersey
and we're gonna go to Brad's house.
- I've got these lobster claws.
- [Andy] Oh my god, you're a savage.
- [Brad] Heatwave!
Best looking color.
Oh boy.
Ta-da! Perfect cranberry sauce.
- It is so good!
[upbeat music]
