You'd better believe it! Bäst i Test is back, with the same old recipe,
which is that we're going to put people to the test
- people who, usually, are as as competent as the next man -
using tasks that are, more or less, abnormal.
And the ones that make up the witch's brew this season are:
The haywire hayseed, Marcus Berggren!
The creamy caramel sauce, Sussie Eriksson!
The strong salsa-guy, Anis Don Demina!
And the simmered specialty, Sofia Dalén!
And if you're wondering why I'm sprinkling around all these food terms today,
our guest is a bona fide chef, namely:
the human sampling menu, Tareq Taylor!
And tonight you will, among other things, get to see this:
"Cover the lower part of your body."
I have no plan!
You can't leave me like this!
Swoosh, swish!
Quiet!
This is also a way to end your career.
Lovely, lovely, lovely.
And really fun to have you all back here.
And a special welcome to you, Tareq,
who's our guest here tonight.
What's been your secret recipe,
if you'll pardon the pun, for success in these tasks?
No, I don't- This is gonna crash and burn.
I don't have a secret recipe or any recipe at all.
No idea. Kind of a blackout.
You know when you're going to sleep at night,
and you've got that fly in your room - a tiny, annoying fly
that just keeps coming back?
And, apropos of nothing, I have, as usual
my bow-tie wearing sweet-tooth here, David Sundin!
Thank you, thank you!
Wow.
Lovely words.
Great segue, Babben, to me. Lovely.
And where are we kicking off, to begin with?
Let's mosey on down to the Wild West.
Yee-haw!
Oh!
Howdy, cowboy.
What a weather!
Thank you for the weather today.
Ah, this is nuts!
"Catch David with the lasso and pull him over the line."
"You may never pass the marked line."
"The one who pulls David over the line fastest wins."
"Every missed throw, you have to say, "That was really close!","
"hype yourself up, and convince yourself that your next throw's going to be it."
"You have 10 minutes. Your time starts now."
Oh, there's a pre-tied one, at least.
Gosh, huh!
Gosh!
Ah, we're having so much fun!
Right. So, the goal was to catch me via lasso,
and pull me towards yourself, over this line,
which I was allowed to pass, but not the contestants.
And after every throw, you were to hype yourself up and say that was really close.
Who's going to ensnare you first?
That'll be Marcus and Sofia, of course.
Ah, maybe I've got to have some more rope.
Ah, that was close...
Berggren!
We've done this before,
when we've been out... chasing otters.
No.
Very close, very close.
Ah, that was really close.
Ver- ooh!
Oh, it caressed your cheek.
You weren't allowed to pass the line, right? - No.
Ah, that was really close!
Full cowboy. Think cowboy.
Ooh!
Close!
That was pretty close, actually, for real.
Okay, can I move something?
Well, I'm standing over here, so to speak.
And I'm standing over here...
...of course. Come on, now!
And that's that.
Ooh, that was really close!
Come on, come on!
Ah, I forgot to let go of the rope. - Yeah, that's right.
Ah, but that was really close.
Come on, now!
Come on, now, Berggren!
You were so close to getting the little rascal last time!
I got that sound, like in the movies!
Swish!
Wow!
He got loose!
20 seconds left, then.
Hey, hey! Hey, hey! Hey, hey!
Next time, you'll get it.
That was really close. You'll get it next time.
Come on. Come on.
Don't be so unruly, now.
Let's go on down to the slaughterhouse.
Yup, yup, yup, yup, yup!
I've got him!
Yee-haw!
Right, David... Off the top of my head,
I feel like you're actually not as fast as Marcus.
No. No, I wasn't.
I've also got on the record here that when the task started, here,
I heard Marcus say, "I remember this. I was really good at this".
Yeah, but I was pretty good, right?
And nothing went wrong.
Yeah, I missed 800 times first, but...
But wasn't there also, like we usually say, overstepping the mark?
Yeah, but if the overstep goes around the entire way,
you're back at the starting point.
But you did get it in the end.
And I also have to apologise for saying I was going to slaughter you.
It was just a joke.
Good work! And which lasso-swinger is stepping up next?
Now, it's time for the cowboys Anis and Sussie to saddle up.
Do you have to throw the lasso?
Or is it just catching you in this ring? - Catching with a lasso.
I'll start like this, before I test different...
Before you test things, you'll test a bit.
Before you test. - Exactly.
Thrown a lot of lassos before?
No. - I can tell.
Take it easy.
Like, can you just...
I don't need to, like...
That's the quick solution, of course.
It's just a throw away.
It's throwing away time.
Oh, that was so close!
But next time, Sussie, you'll make it!
So this time?
Yeah, this time.
You're gonna make it, now!
No!
Uh-huh? Right... - Ah, here we go.
That was really close, Sussie,
but you're probably going to find another solution that's much better.
Swish! Swoosh!
Now, damnit...
Fastest wins.
You're really close now, Sussie.
That was really close.
Come on, Anis, you'll get it on the next throw.
No! That was really close.
Come on! Yeah!
Good, Sussie!
There we have him.
Oh, oh, oh...!
You're caught, now.
Thanks.
Yee-haw.
Yee-haw!
And over the line.
Ah, that feels good.
How'd it go, with the...?
Oh, fine and dandy.
You've got one of those...
...bull necks.
Anis, you might've seen something now
that you didn't quite think of then.
In hindsight, I realise that I'm not quite done with this task yet.
Are we going to finish this now?
You'll have to pull me over the line later.
I love how you just walked away.
So proud!
"Yep, got you."
How are the results so far?
Anis - terrific guy, really - but also very disqualified.
Marcus, with his difficulties staying behind the line, will also be disqualified.
But Sussie managed this excellently, with 2 minutes and 57 seconds.
Sofia also solved the task,
but needed 9 minutes and 59 seconds.
Just one second away from the time limit.
We've got one cattle-rustler left, don't we?
Do we ever!
The time has come for Tareq Taylor to step into action.
I've never done this.
How...?
Wait, so...
Ah, what the h-
No, what is this?
No, let go.
Start over again.
Right, there it is.
That was really close!
Come on, Tareq. You can do this.
You hit the hat, after all.
Imagine, you could've gotten the hand there.
That could've been enough.
But, what the h-
If I can't go over, can I go next to?
Can I go to the side of the carpet?
Well, then...
I can't go over the line, but can I go under the line?
"You may never pass the marked line."
Can I bring the carpet with me? I wouldn't have passed the line, then.
I don't see why you couldn't do that.
I could do this, and then I haven't passed the line.
I've brought it with me here,
and then I can just do this,
a nice little ring around you.
Good work. - Thanks.
Tareq Taylor, ladies and gentlemen!
You got the gist, this is thinking outside the box.
5 crystal clear points to Tareq Taylo-
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah...
I actually think there's a tiny detail here
regarding Tareq that you probably have to see.
Check this out. - No. What'd I do?
Do you feel ready now, Tareq?
Yeah, I do! Come on. You've got this.
That's overstepping the mark.
That was a good throw!
I'm sorry, Tareq.
If you'd had David's munchkin feet, you would've been fine,
but now, you're going to have to get tossed
out to the curb with the rest of them.
Yeah, I'll get out to the curb. Thanks.
So, can we distribute what feeble points remain here?
So, it'll be 0 points for Tareq, and for Anis, and for Marcus,
because of flagrant disregard of the rules, of course, but...
4 points for Sofia, despite using basically
all of the time you had at your disposal,
and 5 well-deserved points for Sussie Eriksson!
Could you introduce the next task, please?
Delighted to, delighted to.
Because now, it's finally time to wrap ourselves up in some plastic wrap.
Kinky.
Tareq.
Good day, good day.
Oh...
A variety of plastics and tape.
Love the enthusiasm.
"Cover the lower part of your body"
"with plastic wrap..."
"...and/or duct tape..."
"...so that nothing beneath your waist"
"isn't covered with plastic wrap and/or duct tape."
So, the lower part of my body.
I cover it up, but it's not supposed to be covered?
You cover it up, so that nothing is not covered.
Ah! Okay, so you want it to be entirely...
from the waist down, I'm supposed to be covered.
Sorry, right.
Last sentence there, yes: "Your time starts now."
Right. The goal here was to cover the lower part of your body,
so nothing's not covered. Thus: Covered.
At your disposal, you had a bunch of transparent plastics,
and the best friend of all Bäst i Test-ers: duct tape.
Who's getting wrapped up first?
That would be the gangster wrappers,
Anis, Marcus, Sofia and Tareq.
It's supposed to be covered? Entirely covered?
And it's timed?
It actually always is, you can keep in mind...
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Should I think through things now, for once?
What the h-
Do the shoes count?
Shoes count as lower body, yes.
Did you think they counted as upper body?
No, I thought the shoes didn't count as body. More like shoes.
More like furniture.
Or, what's it called? Clothing.
Ow!
Not totally covered, but a good start.
I'll keep fighting.
And it's different, here. To start from the top or from the bottom.
Two different schools of thought, one might say.
You don't say?
This is a really... shoddy... remake of The Little Mermaid.
This is where it gets problematic.
It's like a little- There, yeah, exactly.
You've got a little gap right above the knee, there.
It's just- I can't stop the timer, otherwise.
And it is timed.
You brought it up yourself, that it's timed.
Around there, yes.
And, after that, it's actually just the underside...
There, that's covered, which just raises the question of where your actual waist is?
There it is.
Absolutely over the waist, and over all expectations.
Really great to see.
There!
Good work.
Nice. - No, no, no. No...
No, what now?
"Recreate Den lille Havfrue." [The Little Mermaid - statue in Denmark]
"Fastest one to get onto the dock and pose like Den lille Havfrue wins."
"From now on, you're free to speik Danish."
"Your time begyns nue."
That was Norwegian, but...
You'll do your best.
Right. So, this was what the task actually revolved around:
Getting to the dock as fast as possible
and doing an impression of Den lille Havfrue.
We'll take a peek at her here, as a reference.
It's nice to keep that with you, on the retinas,
for when we see the results later.
But shouldn't Sussie wrap herself up?
Was she sick that day?
No, we're going to take a look at Sussie.
I just want to prepare you for one thing here, Babben,
before we take a look at this. Namely...
...that spontaneously,
some time into the show,
and some time into the season,
Sussie got the idea
that you could sort of decide for yourself
if you wanted to do a task or not.
What?
What now?
"Cover the lower part of your body,"
"so that nothing under your waist"
"isn't covered with plastic wrap and/or duct tape."
Ah, I hate sentences like that.
"So that nothing's not..."
Another way to phrase it is:
"So that everything under your waist is covered"
"with either plastic wrap or duct tape."
Yeah, but, you know, when there's double negatives,
like this, they cancel each other out.
Does this mean that I'm supposed to cover my upper body with plastic wrap?
Hang on a moment, now.
Quiet!
"Cover the lower part of your body with plastic wrap"
"so that nothing, nothing, below your waist"
"...isn't covered..."
I hate-
For real, I hate things like this.
"Take two oranges and go with them to the food store. Add seven..."
It's not the same thing. - Could you be quiet?
"Nothing below..."
Yeah, nothing below...
Yeah, but my interpretation is that I'm supposed to...
What's your interpretation?
When I was over there,
I decided that
"Of course the girl's supposed to be wrapped in plastic from the waist down."
But then I got over here, and I started second-guessing myself again.
So I'm deciding to say...
that I'm not wrapping myself up.
Or do I need to wrap my upper body, then?
What's going on?!
You can stop the timer.
I've made a decision.
3 minutes and 56 seconds.
You can read it one last time. - No, I can't be bothered!
"Cover the lower part of your body with plastic wrap and/or duct tape"
"so that nothing under your waist isn't cov-"
No, I should've wrapped myself up.
That's what I should've done.
Should we do that, then?
Well, we can do it for fun.
Yeah, it's just for fun now.
And she's off.
But what a journey it was to get here, to the starting point.
Look! It's like one of those...
Yeah, when you're carrying special luggage.
They say you're a bit of a special luggage, aren't you, Sussie?
Just got your feet to go, Sussie.
We're having so much fun, though, David. - We are, we are.
And this is being broadcast, too.
I've heard it's got a pretty good timeslot, too.
There!
Now there's nothing below that's not covered, right?
No, I don't follow.
Nothing below your waist, right now, isn't covered?
Yeah, it is covered.
Sussie, what's going on in your head...?
Like, I- I always think there's something fishy.
But the first thing I told you was,
"You can picture it as just covering up everything",
and you go: "Quiet! Quiet, now!"
Are we going to try to shuffle across the finish line of this task, now?
Now, everyone's finally wrapped in plastic,
and we're finally going to get to see them make their way to the dock
and, as is apt, do an impression of Den lille Havefrue,
while speeking Danish as a plessant bönus.
You're familiar with Den lille Havefrue?
Yeäh! Yeäh.
It's a lövely mermäid.
She's got her feit, theer...
And theer's a hånd, and a hånd.
Wow, good Danish!
But did it say that I needed to do it wrapped in plastic?
No.
I didn't need to? - No.
Is that the dock...
Is that the dock we see down here?
Dävid... I'm on my way to the dock!
And there's a...
hånd, hånd, hånd...
Hånd...
A little mermäid,
goin' down... to the döck...
Now, you're gonna get to see pröper...
Where am I? - I think you landed in the foliage.
Like a bowling pin... - It went mäny... mäny fäst.
Hånd, hånd...
Mermaid...
And can't let it dröp...
No-no-no-no-no-no-no...
My god, I'm getting dizzy.
1:45 has passed.
No, the döck it is,
and the döck it shall becöme!
There we have it, Anis.
Good work. Thanks for today.
Left my dignity at home.
Ah, it's so similar!
Den lille Havfrue.
I äm... the little... fish-lädy.
Den lille Havefrue,
behölding... the wåter.
Yeäh.
Thanks.
You can't leave me like this!
You certainly can.
Strong images, I have to say.
And Marcus, I've noticed you have a tendency to tangle yourself up.
My life's a tangled mess of cables, you might say,
but you're in a hurry, you want to get out of there.
I was just happy the task was done when we got there,
I thought David was going to push me in, and I'd have to swim up...
And you jumped out of your trousers,
simple as that, to make it a bit faster.
I read in a Danish history book that that's how it was, in real life.
She was wearing boxers.
Okay. So, some points have to be assigned to this.
Of course.
Sussie spent 3 minutes and 20 seconds getting down to the dock,
disregarding the oceans of time
she spent on wrapping herself up, or not.
So 1 point for Sussie.
Sofia solved this in 1 minute and 31 seconds, for 2 points.
Anis, going trouserless, clocked in 59 seconds, for 3 points.
Tareq reached the dock in 50 seconds. 4 points.
Marcus went as the crow flies. 38 seconds and 5 points!
Would you look at that.
Going trouserless wasn't enough against Marcus, man of bounce.
So, we've now reached the middle of the show,
and the little moustachioed gentleman here next to me has, as usual,
nagged his way into "getting to know" tonight's guest.
I have the dubious pleasure of introducing
Sweden's possibly worst interviewer, David Sundin.
Thank you, thank you. Thank you, thank you.
Tareq Taylor, you're a lot of things.
You've just hosted Christmas shows,
and you're a chef, of course,
but your name is "dressmaker".
No...
That's t-a-i-l-o-r. I'm T-a-y-l-o-r.
Which of these three should I check?
Would you say that you're mostly chef?
What?
Not tailor, at least.
No. My mom was a seamstress, granted.
Is that where the name comes from?
No.
See, Babben? It's really interesting. We get to find out a lot of-
Why don't you do research beforehand?
But it's fun, this. You doing your food and stuff.
Thanks.
But when you're a chef you've got to shop for a bunch of food,
and when you shop for food, Tareq,
there's something you're not supposed to do.
And what is that? What am I thinking of?
When you get to the register, and you put all the stuff up,
there's something you're not supposed to do, which everyone knows.
Which is...?
Exactly.
You're not supposed to stack up your groceries, they say.
There's little signs and that.
And it's funny that you say that,
as the first thing that pops into your head,
because it's now time for us to play
Stack Your Groceries!
Right. We've got some goods up here, and...
Tareq, you've got a letter under the cushion you're sitting on,
which you can coax out and read.
He's going to laugh out loud, now, as he starts reading.
These letters are so fun, after all.
Okay, are you ready?
Laugh first.
Ah, this got weird.
Okay, "Stack groceries."
"When it's your turn, pick up an item,"
"loudly call out the name of another item that's in your basket of groceries,"
"then add the item to your grocery stack,"
"and call out the name of the contestant"
"whom you would like to build next."
"If your grocery stack collapses, you're eliminated."
"If you don't do the things in the right order, you're eliminated."
"The participant whose grocery stack is last to remain standing wins."
"Your time starts when Babben calls out a contestant's name."
Right, so, you're going to build a grocery stack or pile,
if you're so inclined, with the groceries in these baskets.
When it's your turn, you're supposed to pick up an item,
call out the name of another item,
and then the name of another person,
from those sitting here,
and then you build your stack.
You do this in this exact order.
If the stack falls, you're eliminated.
And the last stack standing belongs to the winner.
And when do we start?
When you call out the name of one of these contestants.
Sofia!
Milk!
Marcus!
Baba ganoush!
Sussie!
Leek! Tareq!
Ah, what the h-
Banana! Anis!
Bread!
Tareq!
Milk! Sussie!
Pineapple!
Sofia!
Banana!
Sussie!
Bread!
Marcus!
Baba ganoush!
Tareq!
Cheese!
Sofia!
Leek!
Anis!
Baba ganoush!
Anis!
...is my name.
Our sincere thanks to Anis.
Did I get eliminated now? Really?
The name of another item, and the name of another person.
I'm not a narcissist, I promise.
Sofia was before him.
Sussie!
Banana!
Sofia!
Pineapple!
Tareq!
Cheese! Marcus!
Baba ganoush!
Sussie!
Leek!
Tareq!
Coffee!
Sofia!
Oooh...
Coffee!
Marcus!
Baba ganoush!
Tareq!
Is saying "baba ganoush" every time allowed?
That's fine, yeah.
Hang on now, Tareq.
Take it real easy... - I'm calmly waiting, here.
Ooh...
No one move...
If anyone in the audience farts now, I'm screwed.
Pineapple.
Sofia. - You didn't shout that, Tareq.
Then that's...
Wasn't that a shout?
"Sofia" - No...
I think I mustered up my...
I've made it so clear for you, Tareq.
Not loud enough.
Sussie... calls out a new name.
Sofia! - No, no...
Baba ganoush!
No!
She shouted my tower to pieces!
She shouted "baba ganoush" into my tower, and it fell over!
Marcus' tower fell over, so we've only got two left.
Here comes Sofia.
Sussie!
[Audience] No...
Don't say "no" amongst yourselves, audience.
Pineapple!
Sofia!
Good.
Pineapple! Sussie!
Empty basket!
Sofia!
Sussie's out of groceries in her basket.
Which means the game's over,
and we'll count up the tallest tower,
which belongs to Sussie!
And that's how we play Stack Your Groceries.
Right, then. I'm slightly curious about how the standings look, now...
Well, with the points from these towers,
which wound up being 5 points for Sussie
4 for Sofia, 3 for Marcus, 2 for Tareq,
and 1 for Anis, eliminated very early.
And if we assemble all of this,
it's pretty cool to see that
we've got Sussie Eriksson in the lead!
She's scooped up 13 points,
then we've got Marcus with 12 points,
and then we've got Tareq and Sofia in a shared third place,
and Anis, just 7 points.
And do you know what we're competing for tonight?
A stack of groceries,
valued at 1,454 krona! [£116]
Not a bad prize.
Right. Let's give this gang some new nuts to crack.
Right. And here's a task that involves a lovely bunch.
Hi, David! - Hello.
Now, I'll ask you if you'd like to put on
protective gloves and a protective visor
before you read the letter?
It's up to you, you can choose if you want to have it before you read the letter...
No.
Feels cooler to do it without, huh. - You're doing it without.
"Drink a tablespoon of coconut water."
"You may only use the tools that are on the table right now"
"to help you extract the coconut water."
"If you touch a tool that another contestant has touched"
"you get 60 seconds of time added, per touched tool."
"Fastest wins. Your time starts now."
Right. The goal here was to open a coconut
with one, or a few, of the tools in front of you.
And if you touched any of these tools,
you got 60 seconds of added time - so an entire minute.
So the fewer tools you touch, the better.
Who do you want to start with, Babben?
Hasn't there been a whole lot of Tareq on the big screen here lately?
Certainly. My god, we've had to see so much Tareq. Ugh.
Then I think we should go for all the other coconuts, except Tareq.
So what would no-one else use?
Oh, oh...
Let's see, then.
Can- no, this is never going to work.
This looks good.
This feels... 60 seconds?
How the hell did they do this on Survivor?
Wow, that was easy.
Thanks.
You touched all of those now, too. - No- No, that's right.
You're using the saw.
This was... terrible.
Yeah, I'll try.
What a solid hammer.
Thanks.
Damnit, they're tough as-
Oh, oh, oh! Look at that, David!
No, this isn't a...
You'd actually need to tilt the entire table.
No, I'm touching stuff now, damnit.
No, I touched that, now.
Did you see that? You saw...
You've touched that? - Yeah, but what am I supposed to do?
Look, look!
Now I'm, like... yeah, damnit, now we're off.
It's kicking into gear, now. Hear that?
Yeah, the carbon dioxide.
Is that what it is?
I don't know why I keep nailing it down.
Yeah, it's going further and further...
2.5 minutes have passed.
What?
Here it comes.
Yeah, keep going.
Do I have to drink it?
It's dirty as hell.
This takes some time.
♫ I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts... ♫
A little bit more.
Ugh, it's not tasty.
Half a tablespoon...
...and here comes the other half.
Cheers!
That was a tablespoon, I'd say.
You haven't touched some things...
...but you touched the rest of them.
Good work. - Thank you very much.
Good work. You did get the coconut open,
but there was a whole lot of touching going on.
But it was kind of a buffet.
Got tempted to feel the stuff out, check things out, and such.
But, you know, the cameras see all on Bäst i Test.
And Anis, good attack there,
but where, then, does the water land?
On the table.
Very strange table, gathering liquids.
What type of table was it? - One of those old autopsy tables...
Examining humans, and maybe animals... - In that case, I think
we should discuss something nicer.
I think we should move on with Tareq.
Of course. Can't get enough of him,
the good Tareq Taylor.
Here he is, the coco-connoisseur, Tareq.
"Your time starts now."
What technique is that?
Where did you learn that? - Have you been on Survivor?
...the hell happened?
I opened the coconut.
Is it wrong?
Did I do something wrong?
Oh, sorry.
Did I do something silly, now? - No.
Good work. Incredible.
I'll just put that there, then.
Boy howdy, you're back in the game.
And David, no "ah-ah-ah" this time?
No, no, no. Everything was above board.
Among the craziest things I've ever seen, I'll tell you that.
And what times did the panel get here,
with added time for touching?
A whole lot of touching and that.
Anis touched the saw, the nails, the hammer, the measuring cup, and the glass,
and gets 6 minutes and 44 seconds.
Sussie touched five different things,
impressive on its own, of course,
but with added time, puts you at 7 minutes and 38 seconds.
Sofia got her fingers on basically everything,
getting 8 minutes and 32 seconds...
Marcus, just three things:
drill, saw, hammer. 4 minutes and 14 seconds.
Tareq got a tablespoon of coconut water in 17 seconds,
and only used two accessories:
He used the clamp - which no-one else used, so that slides on by -
and the measuring cup, which adds one minute,
so 1 minute and 17 seconds.
Ah, what a display!
So, that's 5 devastating points for Tareq
and then 4 points for Marcus, 3 for Anis,
2 for Sussie, and 1 point for Sofia.
And that's very well-deserved.
Thanks, Babben.
I think we should soothe our nerves a bit with a task.
And do you know what I really, really like?
I mean, apart from you, Babben.
You like something other than me?
Yeah...
Waffles. A really scrumptious waffle.
We're off.
It's off. - It's off.
Wow! Yummy.
A little bit of everything.
"Make a waffle and give it to David."
"You must use the waffle iron that's within the marked area."
That one, I'm assuming.
"You may not move the waffle iron."
"You may not move or enter the marked area."
"Best waffle wins."
"You have 15 minutes. Your time starts now."
Okay.
A long-distance waffle.
Yes, a "long-distance waffle", to coin a phrase, Sussie.
A simple task, at first glance.
You're just supposed to make a waffle, and give it to me.
The slight complicating factors are that the waffle iron may not be moved,
and is placed within a very large square,
which you can't move either,
nor set foot within the square.
Could one imagine that Tareq has a pretty
substantial advantage here, with his food expertise?
He certainly might.
As a matter of fact, let's start with Tareq and Anis.
"Milk... flour... egg... baking powder."
Why are there potatoes here?
Could be good.
Want it to be good, too. You like waffles,
so let's get some vanilla in there.
That's good.
Should've had some melted butter in here as well, actually.
That would've been great.
Do you make a lot of waffles at home? - Yeah. Or, eat.
Let it stand here and swell up a bit,
and I'll run off and get some stuff.
So what causes it to swell up?
Ah, that's the liquid being sucked into the flour.
I'm going to do this-
I'm going to open the waffle iron.
'Cause I can't do this with the batter in the frying pan.
We can go for that one.
There. - Are you going to pour the batter into the pipe?
Time for the next challenge, then. - Yeah.
Oh, that's so good. Oh!
Ah, look.
This is what separates a pro from an amateur.
Such a damn smooth operator!
And if you just put the waffle batter in the pipe,
and it's important to be fast...
It's on its way down now, right?
This is long-distance cooking.
And I'd say the baking's in full swing, there.
You want your waffle medium-rare, right?
Medium-rare.
What do you think can be nice with a waffle, otherwise?
Jam's good, but salty things are nice as well.
Could use some whitefish roe,
but that's a little touch of luxury.
Otherwise, chanterells.
Butter-fried chanterells on a waffle, with some shredded cheese, and...
Imagination's the only limit.
Ah, this is a waffle, this.
Let's see, now.
No, not quite yet.
It feels pretty pale, if I'm gonna be honest.
This is what you're famous for,
so this is how you're going to be remembered, too.
This is also a way to end your career.
This is how things ended for Tareq. Kind of a shame, maybe.
"Goddamnit, he can't even make a waffle", people might...
those might be the headlines.
"Thank you for these years."
I'm going to try to get it now. - Oh, oh, oh...
Oh...
You don't want dirt or grass.
If I drop this now...
Ah, what the h-
You mentioned something about dirt and grass, earlier.
You with me?
I'm with you.
Bon appetit!
And here it comes.
Go for that bit, now. The one that's all crispy and nice.
It might be crispy on one side, at least.
Tastes like a waffle.
Slightly underdone...
...but still, it's certainly a waffle.
I think you're going to be... impressed by yourself.
Today's a historic moment.
I didn't know I could make waffles.
I think that if I served this to a family,
and the kids wanted waffles,
I think they would've happily eaten it.
Because they don't have much critical-thinking ability.
Exactly.
Thanks.
Well, impressive, both of you, I thought.
Tareq, you found a batter-hose.
Yeah, I thought it turned out nice.
But what do you have against baking powder in waffles?
No, like, I forgot about that. It turned out kind of flat.
Could've had some baking powder, some good stuff.
And I could've run into the house, put it on a plate,
made it look nice. But that's hindsight stuff.
But, David, the question is how they tasted,
which is what the task actually revolved around.
I don't think I would've actually been able to guess that
these waffles were cooked in the wild, and long-distance,
since they tasted like regular indoors,
close-distance waffles, I'd say.
But if we leave it to David, which one was the tastiest?
I don't think it'll shock anyone when I say that
the tastiest waffle was made...
...by Anis, actually.
He did Google the recipe, which was clever,
but it should be on the record that both were very tasty.
Still kind of cool that the beginner can beat the pro.
And what this means for your brand, Tareq,
I can't even foresee, but it is what it is.
Now, it'll be fun to see if the others also
manufactured long-distance waffles at this level.
We shall, and I can tell you this much already:
No, they didn't.
Okay, I'm going to... waffle... a waffle.
But I can't go in here? -No.
But that can't come out? - No.
I have to start making a batter, first.
"Best waffle."
Supposed to be tasty, then? - Golden-brown.
Are all the eggs here because they're necessary? Yeah.
We'll go for all the eggs. - All of the eggs.
And then you pick out the shell with your finger...
Think some vanilla sugar could taste nice. - Mmm, a vanilla waffle.
Then 4 decilitres of milk...
to get this "egg sauce", as it's called.
Maybe baking powder.
But how am I supposed to get the batter in?
How am I supposed to... get the batter into...?
Eh...
Ehhh...
I have no plan!
Would you believe me if I said you had six minutes left?
Including that four-minute baking time you wanted...
We'll do a quick bake. Sort of...
...al dente, you might say.
Ah, I taped myself down!
No... - Heave-ho. Heave-ho.
We've got something steady, now, with a tiny, tiny...
Hand.
No, no, that's not going to work.
Heave...
ho!
You little... yes!
And we're off.
No.
Did any of it get inside?
I would've been really shocked if it worked. And impressed!
How long is it supposed to bake, do you think?
I think it's supposed to bake for...
...for maybe...
...well...
...just for some minutes.
And that's all the batter we've got, Sussie.
Now, David...
...let's go.
Look!
Yeah!
I thought it was a perfect square.
This is almost too easy, check this out. Ooh...
There we have it.
Afterwards, it's customary to close the lid.
Come on, little hand. Come on.
Right, then.
The baking has commenced.
3 minutes left to get it golden-brown.
All this gabbing about golden-brown.
I want it a bit more doughy and pale.
Like me.
Just got to be careful.
That's right, that's right...
Could the angle of the pan be the deciding factor?
Now you actually just have to scrape out...
The little hand!
Ah, that's nice, Sussie.
Freshly-baked, if I may say so.
I dropped a really tasty piece!
Mini-waffle. Bon appetit!
30 seconds left!
20 seconds.
10...
5... 4... 3...
2... 1... 0.
A small appetiser.
Is that a note of vanilla I taste?
Possibly.
It's slightly grassy,
but it's a waffle,
I got it in time.
Good work. - Thanks.
Good work.
Ah, good lord.
Stressy and messy.
Marcus, using a few slapshots, you got it out of the square.
Is it possible that you broke one or two rules in your haste?
Going into these tasks, you always have a clear plan,
and it always ends in golf.
The pipes were very slippery, in my defence.
Which was my fault, since I'd poured batter over the whole thing.
So I slipped around a bit,
but I still think the waffle turned out pretty good.
The waffle was great, so if it had been included in the competition...
Why isn't it in the contest?
Because you were in the square.
Did you go all the way around?
2 points for Sofia's tiny, tiny appetiser waffle.
3 points for Sussie. 4 for Tareq.
And 5 to the Waffle King, Anis.
Marcus, unfortunately, no points.
Not over, Marcus.
I really want to win the groceries,
because I promised my wife I'd go shopping on the way home,
so it'd be so good if I could just...
But Marcus, I can console you with the notion that
anything can happen and everything can change,
because now it's time for the finale.
It's exciting, now.
This is the decisive moment.
We've got a split first place with 18 points.
We've got a split second place with 17 points.
And we've got Marcus Berggren, so this is going to be exciting.
Marcus, go ahead and read the letter.
"From left to right, choose your weapon."
"Then, from right to left, choose your snack."
Snack? - Snack.
"Afterwards, one-by-one, each contestant will split their snack in half"
"with their chosen weapon."
"You have 10 seconds to halve your snack."
"Most perfectly halved snack wins."
"Marcus starts with 5 bonus points and a gold star."
So, you're supposed to choose your weapon.
So Marcus goes first, then Sussie, and so on.
Then, you're going to get to choose the object to be halved.
So first Sofia, then Anis, and so on.
Then you're supposed to split the object as close to the middle as possible,
so the two halves are as equal as possible.
Have you understood?
Yes, for once.
We'll start with Marcus selecting his weapon,
and the choices are here.
We've got a clamp, a sword, a chopstick,
a plastic spoon, and a ping-pong paddle.
Marcus, what'll it be? - Ah, it'll be the sword.
Sussie, go ahead.
Ping-pong paddle.
Tareq, go ahead.
Not all that easy, actually.
What would you have grabbed?
[Audience] The clamp!
You were great with the clamp.
Let's go for the clamp, then.
Anis, go ahead.
Then the question is,
a chopstick...
...or a plastic spoon?
When you eat oatmeal, in various forms, you use a spoon.
Thanks, Anis, for that.
Go ahead, there's a chopstick with your name on it.
Sofia goes for... a chopstick.
Then it's time to select what's going to be split.
That is, your snack.
So, we've got... a cucumber,
a sausage, a cauliflower...
...a princess cake, and a huge carrot.
Thank you, thank you.
Go ahead and choose, what are you going to split with your chopstick?
♫ I'm going to split, split, split ♫
♫ the princess cake, I think ♫
You put your snack on the pedestal,
and then you split it, and then we weigh it.
Your 10 seconds start... - 10 seconds?
5... 4... 3...
2... 1...
Back off.
One piece weighs...
395 grams.
The other piece... weighs...
410 grams. - Ooh!
Then it's Anis' turn to select your snack,
to be divided with what was it, a plastic spoon, right?
That's right.
I think I'll go for the sausage.
You're welcome to apply it to the pedestal.
You have 10 seconds, from...
5... 4... 3... 2... 1...
The sausage is split.
The spoon split up, too.
One piece weighs... 52 grams.
The other piece weighs... 47 grams.
Good. - Very good, huh?
Then it's Tareq's turn to select a snack.
Make the right choice, now, Tareq.
Cucumber, cauliflower, or carrot, to be divided with a clamp.
I'll- yeah, I'll go for the cucumber.
You have 10 seconds, which start...
Okay.
That got slightly stressful.
One piece weighs... 53 grams.
The other piece weighs... 44 grams.
Gosh, we're good!
Then it's Sussie's turn to select a snack.
Cauliflower it is.
Going for it immediately.
To be divided with a ping-pong paddle.
Your time starts in...
Good, Sussie!
I'll interpret this as a half, then?
And then I'll interpret...
The rest is... a half.
And then there's that cruft, too.
The question is whether you're helping or harming, now, Sussie.
One piece... weighs 607 grams...
...and the other piece weighs... 563 grams.
But still!
Then we'll welcome up Marcus Berggren and his sword.
What snack will you select?
Well, there's just one to go. Terrible snacks, too.
Remind me never to come over for snacks at your place, David.
Bear in mind, now, Marcus, that it's slightly broader here, and slightly thinner...
Watch out, now, David.
You have 10 seconds,
which start...
Almost saw it coming, I'd say.
Didn't need to be too...
...clairvoyant.
Then I'm just going to locate...
...part two of this carrot.
if anyone saw...
Look at Marcus.
He looks so guilty.
And I'm back.
In that case,
we've got the one piece:
55 grams.
The other piece:
230 grams.
Come back down to the couch, and we'll add this up.
Now, finally, we're going to get to find out who wins tonight.
This is going to be very, very exciting, of course.
Has it ever been this exciting before?
Maybe. - Yeah.
Marcus, well...
it speaks for itself. You also broke stuff.
1 point it is, and you end with 13 points.
2 points for Sussie,
who goes from 18 points to 20 points.
Sofia gets 3 points, also to 20,
so right now, you could say it's a shared first place for you two.
The closest one here was Anis, who gets 5 points.
Tareq, 4 points.
Anis had 17 points. Tareq had 18 points.
So both of them get 22 points,
meaning this is resolved through a tiebreak!
Hullo! - Hello, hello.
"C"?
Do you "C"?
I "C" you. - I "C" you, yes.
"Sing the note C."
"Closest to a pure C wins."
"You have 30 seconds. Your time starts now."
♪ C... ♪ No.
♪ C... D, E... ♪
♪ This is a C! ♪
♪ C. ♪
If I just take every note...
♪ Do, re, mi, fa, so, la, si... ♪
I'm a tone-deaf artist.
But I got fifth place in Melodifestivalen, so that's good.
♪ C- C... ♪
♪ C... ♪
♪ Do, re, mi, fa, so, la, si... ♪
♪ C... ♪
I didn't get closer than that.
It could've been...
...completely wrong.
Both of them did several notes slightly all over the place.
Anis, you had the time to run through a whole lot of notes.
None of them...
...was a C,
except the very, very last note,
just before the time ran out, was a C.
Tareq, of all your notes,
there was no C for you.
Anis gets the point! 23 points, and gets groceries
with a value of over 1,000 cronas!
It's leeks, it's baba ganoush, it's bread, it's pineapples...
And what have we learned tonight?
That two negatives actually cancel each other out.
A clamp can crack open a coconut,
and a waffle is just as good, even if it's baked long-distance.
See you Friday next week, 20:00. Bye-bye.
Original Swedish subtitles: Linda Eriksson (Iyuno-SDI Group för SVT)
English translation: u/DangBream
This version edited by: u/taskmastermaster