3 Chefs Try to Make Mac & Cheese with No Recipe | Epicurious

Mac and cheese—simple enough when you’re following directions. But what would you do if you weren’t given a recipe and had to make one up on the spot? Novice chef Joe, home cook Diane, and professional chef Saúl Montiel find out who has the kitchen experience and culinary creativity to pull it off. 3 chefs, no recipes—and lots and lots of mac and cheese.

Find Joe on social at @mrjoemiles
Keep up with chef Saúl on Instagram at @chefsaulmontiel and @CantinaRooftop

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Director of Photography: Francis Bernal
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[TheFierywaters]

Chef Saul might be a pro chef, but still faces dad chef challenges 😂😂

[trevorpacelli]

After all these years, Epicurious finally gave us what we wanted: the 3 chefs trying each other's meals.

[Bored]

3 different level chefs, access to all the same ingredients, AND the same time limit?! AND they all get to sample each other's dish?! This is what your audience has been waiting for! 😱🥳

[stevendezwaan]

Chef Saul is awesome. He brings so much fun to these videos. His reaction to Velveeta is fantastic as well.

[jankie]

I love how at the end they get to try each other's dish and compliment each other. It's so wholesome 🥰

[darvoid]

Chef Saul should be on television. He's a talented chef and he's fun too.

[lilempescrempa]

"I just kind of keep tasting things until it tastes like how my mouth wants it to be" Best way to cook

[sony]

Sauls comment about Joe being ready to be a father was so nice, perfect way to compliment the mac and cheese

[jaimesegura]

More of these please, so we can see what chefs can do with actual expensive ingredients too

[xanderscookingschool]

3:42 This is why everyone loves Saul. He's basically admitting to being a pathological liar, and I love it.

[froosh]

Would you consider an episode with 3 Pro chefs, Saul, Frank, and Esta? Maybe with this format or the recipe swapping format. It'd be interesting to see how they do things differently.

[thejonathanharris]

Love the format - the time limit is fun. I don’t think Frank could be a part of this bc it would take him two days to make Mac and cheese.

[PuffinPsychologist]

When Chef Saul imitated his daughter with the: “Is the food ready daddy? I don’t want no Oniyun-“ it took me out a lil more than it should have 😂 💀 ⚰️

[adriansolis]

What a great show! Diane has a genuine enthusiasm for her cooking that is infectious, Joe just cracks me up with his ultimate confidence, and we all love Chef Saul. I was smiling the entire way through

[DirMaverick]

Nice to see the three chefs interact and eat each other's food. I always wondered why they didn't in the previous episodes. I thought, if I tasted the food I cooked, I'll definitely say I'd outdone myself...lol

[CheBellaTelevisione]

Love this format, do more of these please!

[silvernickel]

I love Chef Saúl!!! He’s so nice and funny, and it’s so sweet to hear about his children and their deceiving yet wholesome relationship with onions.

[YuuKamijo]

We always watch when Chef Saul is there.

[zacharyduryea]

Love this so much! My dad was a professional chef, very rarely saw him use a recipe or measure things.
To me, this is how cooking really is
When I got my first job in a kitchen, the head chef would ask me to make things without recipe all the time. There was no measuring equipment in the kitchen so I learned how to “eye ball” everything.

[Dominicana]

Joe was everything in this video. I was cracking up the whole time