Rico Bosco vs. Dana Beers, Cooking Competition episode 1

Chef Donny plugged it Monday afternoon with a 2:30 CT start time, and the box grater was already sitting on the counter in the trailer.

Chef Donny

@chefdonnyy

Today at 2:30 cst: @Return_Of_RB versus @danabeers Link below

Here's how it works. Chef Donny runs the kitchen, 2 Barstool coworkers go head to head, and Pepsi pays the bills. On YouTube the episode is titled 'The Cooking Competition Returns! Rico Bosco VS Dana Beers', so this is the series coming back after a run where Donny took on coworkers at their own signature dishes, including a meatloaf cook-off against WSD. The trailer audio is rough, but it sounds like the winner moves on to another round next week. Take that loosely until the bracket is actually posted.

Rico was clearly enjoying himself. About 30 minutes after the start time, he stopped live tweeting so he wouldn't spoil it for anyone, but not before giving his verdict 14 minutes in.

Rico Bo$co

@Return_Of_RB

No more live tweeting even so people can watch but I’m 14 mins in and it’s fucking unreal …

Then came the cheese. The recipe needed a hard cheese grated, and Dana decided the grater was optional. He kept eating off the wedge while the people around him told him to stop, until they eventually told him to just take it home. By Tuesday morning the main account had put it to a vote: fair or foul?

Barstool Chicago

@barstoolchicago

You can’t put cheese in front of Dana and not expect this result @pepsi #PepsiPartner

Dana wasn't the only problem in that kitchen. In a second clip, someone off camera keeps fixing their technique: grating the rind, using the wrong side of the grater, putting 3 eggs in. Donny is a real chef, and watching 2 podcasters cook in front of him looked like agony.

Viva La Stool

@VivaLaStool

Chef Donny was in hell watching these boys cook

The clips that have gone out so far don't say who won, so go watch the full episode on YouTube instead of trusting a recap. If the trailer is right, the winner is back next week. And for the record: biting the wedge is foul in a cooking competition and completely fair anywhere else. Leaving a block of cheese next to Dana and expecting it to make it into the dish was the real mistake.