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Okay. Time to step things up.

Over the last three years...

[all exclaiming]

[exclaiming]

Oh, my goodness.

...I've made over 80 dishes.

With over 40 amazing chefs in my home kitchen.

-Whoo! -[woman shrieks]

What happened?

Own it! You don't own it now.

-Own it! -I'm trying!

-Aah! -This culinary crash course hasn't been easy.

-Leonard, we did it. -There it is.

[Selena] But it has been so rewarding.

Now I think I'm ready to take it to the next level.

Raquelle, hurry up!

So I'm heading out

to some of the hottest restaurants in Los Angeles...

-Mmm. -This is really good.

...to cook with the chefs on their home turfs...

That's how the real chefs do it.

...and on their terms.

-Because I said so. -[laughing]

[Selena] The goal is to create my own dish.

Amazing.

And I'm aiming high.

Would this be able to make the menu?

Seriously I want to make something good enough

to actually go on their menu.

No pressure.

-♪ Watch her go♪ -♪ Mm-mm-mm, mm-mm-mm, mm-mm♪

♪ Look at her now, Watch her go♪

♪ Mm-mm-mm, mm-mm-mm, mm-mm♪

♪ Wow, look at her now♪

[Selena] Oh, my God. We're here, we're here. Oh, my God.

-We're here. -[Raquelle] Wolfgang Puck, here we come.

[Selena laughing]

[Selena] Thank you. Yeah.

Hi, guys.

-Are you ready? -[Raquelle] We're ready.

-All right. -[Raquelle] Here we go. This...

-Oh, this way. -[Selena] Yeah.

[Selena and Raquelle laughing]

-Okay. This is too much. -[Raquelle laughing]

Look how pretty.

-[Raquelle] Gorgeous. -Is that chef?

-Hello. -Hi, chef.

[Wolfgang] Wow. It's so good to see you.

Are you gonna come and cook with me or what?

I'm gonna do my best.

Raquelle and I are very game

to visit CUT, Beverly Hills.

The Michelin-starred steakhouse

by celebrity chef, Wolfgang Puck.

He is probably

the most famous chef in the country.

I'm really nervous and excited

to eat, cook and learn alongside this culinary icon.

[Wolfgang] Ladies. I've prepared

for you some of CUTs most popular dishes.

Oh, my gosh.

-It looks amazing. Ha. -Wow, wow, wow.

[Selena] This is crazy.

-[Wolfgang] Should we taste it? Okay. -[Raquelle] Taste it.

I am ready.

-[Raquelle] Yummy. -[Selena] Yeah.

-[Wolfgang] I wanna put you to a test later. -[Selena] Oh.

-Because they told me you wanna be a chef. -[Selena] I mean,

I am hoping to get a dish on your menu.

[Wolfgang] Oh, hell yes.

Forget about acting, singing and all that stuff.

Yeah. I mean, who cares?

It's about time you get a real job.

[Selena and Raquelle laughing]

Enjoy. Bon Appetit.

[Raquelle] Thank you, chef.

[Selena] Oh, wow.

[Raquelle] I'm going in on this mac and cheese.

Wonderful.

[Selena] That's like butter.

[Wolfgang] You know, this is so popular,

I tried to take it off the menu.

People will get upset.

[Selena] Mmm.

[Wolfgang] I make a cheese sauce. We start with the bechamel.

Add cheddar cheese,

parmesan cheese

and mozzarella cheese.

Truly phenomenal.

[Wolfgang] And then...

here we have a porterhouse steak.

-[Raquelle] Oh. -[Selena] Mmm.

-Incredible. -Unbelievable.

[Wolfgang] And this is one of my favorite.

When I don't eat red meat, I eat chicken.

[Raquelle] Yum.

[Wolfgang] It's fancier.

We add some shallots, some mushroom,

a little cognac and port wine,

a little stock and cream,

and that's it. So simple.

[kisses] Chef's kiss.

I heard you're such a good cook. So...

we gonna make a little test for you.

Oh, yeah. Well...

I'm nerv-- I'm actually nervous.

I'm not good at tests.

The most important part if you're in a steakhouse,

that the steak is cooked perfectly.

If you can cook a steak right,

you can be a chef.

[Selena] Wow.

[Wolfgang] For the kitchen initiation,

I want one medium,

and one rare.

The New York steak, rare.

Filet mignon.

Okay. Okay.

All right. So now, it's all up to you.

Bye.

-[Raquelle laughs] -Okay.

-You got this, Selsu. -[Wolfgang] You got it.

Okay. Okay.

-Just do that. -[Raquelle] How are you feeling?

[Selena] I don't know. Here we go.

[sizzling]

-[Raquelle] Very smooth. Very smooth. Yeah. -[Selena] Thanks, babe.

[Raquelle] They're looking great.

This is big. So remember, rare...

medium.

No, babe. I thought

he said rare, medium.

-No. I think he said [chuckles] rare, medium. -You promise?

[chuckles]

I can't promise but I'm, like, 90% sure

that this is like the pivotal moment.

Why did I do this?

Hey, chef?

-[Wolfgang] What? -Chef?

I'm sorry.

[Wolfgang] Already?

No, no. I'm... I...

We just needed a clarification.

Okay. What is the clarification?

The large one you said...

medium rare?

And then these are well done?

-No. I know. -No.

[Wolfgang] New York, rare

-and the filet mignon. -[Raquelle] Medium.

Should I write it down for you?

-No. -We only have two steaks.

I know.

-[Wolfgang] Don't mess it up, okay? -[Selena] Okay.

[sizzling]

[Raquelle] Oh, wow.

-Look at that. -[Wolfgang] All right. I...

-Thanks, chef. -[Wolfgang] Okay.

-[laughing] -[Selena] Okay.

That one...

[Raquelle] That one's looking toasty.

-I would just do two minutes on the big one. -[Selena] Wait.

This one's gonna be medium. Those two...

Oh, no, no, no. This one's rare, those two, medium.

We're... we're acting not smart.

But we're in a good flow.

We're gonna bring this home. It's gonna be great.

We're doing 30 more seconds on the big one.

And then we're gonna do one more

one and a half minutes on the small one.

[Raquelle chuckling]

Everything prepared us for this moment.

-Okay. -[Raquelle] Everything.

All right. Let's bring her up.

You think?

[Raquelle] Yeah. I'm serious. Yeah.

Nice.

-[Selena] Are you sure? -Yeah.

That's looking really good to me.

But I think take the other two off now too.

No. No. He said those were well done.

[Raquelle] No. There was never well done. It was rare

and it was medium.

I have no idea.

-Should we call him? -Yeah.

Chef?

[Wolfgang] Yes? You need me now?

[Selena] Yeah, I need you.

[Wolfgang] Okay. So this one gonna be the medium...

Yes.

...and this one the rare.

Hopefully.

[Wolfgang] Is that your final answer?

Medium and rare.

I believe...

I believe I did it.

-[Wolfgang] Okay. -[Raquelle laughing]

Are we ready?

[Selena] Okay, chef.

[Raquelle laughing]

[Wolfgang] Well, Selena, we'll see...

if you're gonna be our next cul chef here.

Okay.

-[Raquelle] Moment of truth. -[Wolfgang] Okay. The moment of truth.

In the middle,

don't cut the fingers too.

All right.

Can we get a close-up here?

[Selena] Oh. I'm so nervous.

[Raquelle] Moment of truth.

[Wolfgang] Okay, the moment of truth.

All right. Can we get a close-up here?

All right. Let's see them both together.

-Well, they look the same! -Okay.

[Raquelle laughing]

But I love it. You didn't overcook them.

-[Selena] So would you consider this... -[Wolfgang] Rare.

-Yeah. -[bell dings]

Okay. I did something.

[Wolfgang] Yeah. You did, uh, one out of two perfect. See?

Okay. Oh, my gosh.

-[Wolfgang] All right. [laughing] -[Raquelle] Yay!

[Wolfgang] This is a little bit too rare for... as you can see.

-[buzzer buzzing] -Medium takes a little longer than rare.

So medium, you might have

left it another...

minute and a half on each side

and it would've been medium.

-Okay. Now what's next? -Okay.

You didn't quite pass the cooking test.

-[Selena] Okay. -There you go.

That's okay. We learned it.

-Okay. -You learned it for now and you know it.

Okay. What are we doing?

[Wolfgang] Before I can let you make your own dish,

I want to see if you can make one of mine.

My favorite dish, it's at Spago

and we open with the roasted salmon

with ginger, black pepper,

mashed potatoes and a red wine sauce.

-[Raquelle] I knew it. -You are testing me, chef.

[Wolfgang] So the first thing is mashed potatoes.

Here's the peeler.

-Here are a couple of potatoes. -Okay.

["Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2" playing]

-[Raquelle laughing] -Okay.

[Wolfgang] Look like you're come from Austria.

-We have a lot of potatoes there. -[laughing]

-[Selena] Don't make me laugh. -[Wolfgang] Okay.

I'm nervous!

[Wolfgang] Cut the potato in six.

You don't wanna cut the potatoes small

because it will absorb too much water.

All right. In the water.

And then put four garlic cloves in there.

[Selena] Four?

On the stove.

On the stove we go.

-Which one 'cause you have a thousand. -[Wolfgang] Right over here.

So the next thing is, we gonna make the sauce.

-[Selena] Okay. -[Wolfgang] For the salmon.

-Oh. Okay. -[Wolfgang] The red wine sauce, okay?

Cut the onion in half and chop it up.

Then we gonna use

a few cloves of garlic.

Go ahead.

-[sizzling] -[Selena] Yum.

[Wolfgang] We need a little red wine.

All right. Put a ladle of this in here.

-[Selena] And this is chicken stock. -[Wolfgang] Yeah.

Let it cook down.

[Selena] Okay.

-I'll just stay here. -And...

-No, no, no. Don't stay there. -Oh, okay.

We have work to do.

All right. Where am I going?

Okay.

We have the fish here. Take it out.

[Selena gasps]

Wow. This looks beautiful.

[Wolfgang] Now how many portions do we need? Five?

Five? Isn't it just us?

Five.

-Oh, it's five. -[Wolfgang] Yeah. Uh...

I'm having two of my most talented chefs come by

to taste this dish and the one you make.

[Raquelle] Oh. Great.

-[Selena] Okay. -[Wolfgang] Yeah.

-So cut it... -All right. So cut it into five.

Good.

Okay. You have a big piece. Cut it.

Okay.

Or maybe we invite one more.

Okay. We invite one more.

-Oh. -[Raquelle chuckling]

Now we gonna season that with pepper.

Chop a little ginger.

Very fine if you can.

We gonna sprinkle the ginger

-on the salmon. -[Selena] Okay.

-Oh, good. It's enough. -Chef, is that enough? More?

'Cause we wanna eat salmon not ginger.

All right. The potatoes are done.

And now we gonna make the mashed potatoes here.

[Selena] Wait, wait, wait. I wanna do it.

[Wolfgang] Okay. I drain the potatoes.

[Selena] Oh, wow.

[Wolfgang] All right. So now...

It's a little big. I know you don't have that at home.

But we at a restaurant.

-Okay. -I have never seen that.

'Kay.

Okay. So now you turn that.

-[Selena] Okay. Hold this. -[Wolfgang] Yeah.

[Selena] Which way? This way?

[Wolfgang] Any way you want.

I think the other way is better.

-[Selena] Okay. -[Wolfgang] Okay.

Oh. Shoot.

-Will you hold this down on both sides? -[Raquelle] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

-[Wolfgang] All right. -[Selena] No, look. This.

Babe. Babe.

-Hold this. Yeah. -Oh.

-Oh, God. -[Selena] Are you stronger than that? I got you.

-Ah! -[Raquelle] This is intense.

[Wolfgang] All right.

All right. Do it, do it.

[Raquelle] This is a real masher.

[Wolfgang] Oh, it's good. The muscle.

-[Selena] There's no muscle. -[Raquelle] This is how

the real chefs do it.

[Selena] I do want this at home.

[Raquelle laughing]

-[Wolfgang] All right. -[Raquelle] Right?

-Excellent. -Is that my gent?

-He said excellent. Chef said excellent. -Did I do it?

-[Raquelle] Okay, lift it up. -[Wolfgang] Yeah.

All right. We're gonna put the potatoes in here.

[Raquelle] Wow.

-[Wolfgang] A little butter. -[Selena] Okay.

[Wolfgang] Okay. And we're gonna add some cream.

Oh, my gosh.

[Wolfgang] So I'm gonna spice it up. I know you like it spicy.

-Right. -So we're gonna add a little fresh-grated horse radish.

[Selena] Oh. Really?

I hate horse radish.

-[Wolfgang] You hate it? Why? -[Selena] Yeah.

I don't know. It's not that good.

But you go ahead and put it in there.

That's a lot.

Ah.

We grew up on horse radish in Austria.

All right. So we have the mashed potatoes.

And now at the last moment, we cook the fish.

Okay.

[Wolfgang] So this is a machine which is amazing.

-Two thousand degrees underneath. -No!

-[Raquelle] Two thousand degrees. -[Wolfgang] Yeah.

[Selena] This is so wild.

-This is so... -This is crazy.

That's terrifying.

Okay. Just put it like that.

You don't have to take it off.

A little farther in the back.

[Selena] Okay.

Then I close it?

-[Wolfgang] Close it. -[Selena] So...

-how much time... -[Wolfgang] Does it take?

-Yeah. -So the first thing is...

it depends how thick the meat or the fish is.

-Okay. -But you will see how fast that goes.

Okay.

-It's really fast. -Two thousand degrees I imagine it goes

-pretty quick. -[Wolfgang] I know.

Salmon's cooked already.

Oh, my gosh!

-[Selena] Wow. -[Wolfgang] All right.

Bring the potatoes over there.

Potatoes in the center.

All right. The fish.

I'm very impressed.

[Wolfgang] Now, the sauce.

[Raquelle] This is beautiful.

[Wolfgang] You put a little bit of the greenery on top

to make it look good.

-[Raquelle] Oh, wow. -[Wolfgang] Great job.

[Selena] Did I do it?

-[Wolfgang] You got the job. -[Selena] Yay!

Thank you so much.

So now that I've passed your tests,

I'd like to try to create a dish of my own.

-[Wolfgang] Yeah? -Yeah.

I like ceviche.

-[Wolfgang] Yeah. -So I think I'm gonna try to make

-the perfect ceviche. -Yeah.

So ceviche is important that the fish is really fresh.

Because it's self-grown, maybe it's cooked

with a little lime juice or something like that.

So it has to be really fresh.

[Selena] Do you think that we would...

try a bunch of different fishes

or could I put maybe, like, shrimp in it or no?

See, let me go look what I have.

-Okay? -[Selena] Okay. Thank you.

-Thank you. Thank you. -Thank you.

Whoo!

Ceviche, here we come.

Okay. That was so nerve-racking.

[Raquelle] I know, but you did it.

You did it, you did it.

All right.

[Wolfgang] Here we have some really beautiful radishes. I love them.

They are nice and crispy and crunchy.

Wait, what's this?

-Come on. -[Raquelle] Tomato.

-No. Oh. -[Wolfgang] Taste it.

It's tomato.

-Yeah. -[Wolfgang] You made two steps forwards,

now you're making one back.

-[Raquelle laughing] -You don't recognize tomatoes?

-Sorry, chef. I just... -You know what?

-They were so tiny. -[Wolfgang] Okay. All right.

[Selena] I thought it would be called,

-like, a "Italian roselette tomato." -[laughing]

[Wolfgang] Uh, Sele-- Selena.

You know what are this?

-Avocado. -[Wolfgang] This?

Lemon.

Lime.

Hopefully jalapenos.

Your fav.

My favorite.

[Wolfgang] And here comes

-our main ingredient. -Oh.

[Wolfgang] Smoked tuna belly,

fresh tuna, Hamachi.

-And you said you want shrimps? -Yeah.

[Wolfgang] I gave you shrimp.

Thank you.

Well...

Why you looking at me?

-Okay. -You start.

Okay. How-- All right.

I can do this.

I'll be right here if you need me.

What do you mean? You can help.

-We have two cutting boards. -[laughing]

So let's start with...

-maybe cutting the peppers for you? -Yup.

[Raquelle] Thanks, chef.

[Selena] And...

All right. Radish is good.

-Okay. I think so. -[Wolfgang] What is Raquelle doing there?

-[Raquelle laughing] -[Selena] She is...

-[Raquelle] I'm cutting the jalapenos. -...cutting peppers.

-[Raquelle] You think... -No, they have to be way smaller.

-[Raquelle] Oh. -[Wolfgang] Okay.

The chef said way smaller.

[Raquelle] Are they? They're-- Okay if chef said.

-Chef said. -Well, taste them. Maybe they're not spicy.

Oh, sh...

Oh, my God. They're spicy.

[exclaims]

-[Selena] I can't... -Chef, do we have water in here?

Oh, my God. It's so spicy.

I can't believe you did that.

-I was just... -Oh, my God. I've...

[chuckles]

[Wolfgang] We lost one already.

It's okay, chef. I'm gonna keep going.

One second. I'm coming. I'm just chugging some water.

♪ Whoa♪

[Wolfgang] Okay. I chop them so that we be move ahead, ha?

[Selena] Thank you so much. Okay.

Wait, guys. I actually need to eat something.

My mouth's on fire.

[Wolfgang laughing]

-[Selena] Now, tomatoes. -[Wolfgang] Tomatoes, yeah.

[Selena] All right.

That one's a little juicy.

We're just gonna go with it.

[Wolfgang] We're chopping just like the last.

Raquelle!

Where the heck is she?

[laughing] I'm crying.

Maybe some milk. Yeah.

[coughing, laughing]

This is tuna.

[Wolfgang] Are you meditating?

Okay. Don't look at me.

What are you doing?

Are you serious?

[laughing] Ah, yes. Yeah, yes.

[Selena] Leave me alone!

Let me do my process.

Now, Hamachi.

-[Wolfgang] Raquelle is back. -Oh, you're back.

[Raquelle] Yes. I had milk.

-We're good. I'm back. -[Wolfgang] Okay. Good.

Al right. Continue then.

[Selena] So now, lime and lemon.

[Raquelle] Look at that squeeze.

Good!

The amount of faces I make on this show.

I know. You're like...

-The memes people are gonna get. -[Raquelle laughing]

[Wolfgang] Okay. You're gonna mix your ceviche.

[Selena] Uh, chef?

-Yes, ma'am. -Could you tell me

a little bit about the charity we'll be donating to?

My wife is from Ethiopia.

And we have

an orphanage in Ethiopia,

with 800 children.

So we support that.

Also, it's a vocational school now we have.

Well, thanks for introducing it to us.

[Wolfgang] Well, thank you for helping out. Yeah.

[Selena] We'll be donating $10,000

to Dream For Future Africa.

A foundation that provides opportunity and equity

to Africans who are most in need of the skills and resources

to ensure long-term financial independence.

Okay. How does that look, chef?

[Wolfgang] Okay. Looks very good.

-Yeah. -How would I garnish this to make it pretty?

-Okay. So presentation is very important. -Yes.

So, use a few radishes.

You can slice a few tomatoes also

-if you want. -[Selena] Okay.

[Wolfgang] And here we have some beautiful fresh herbs to decorate.

-You know, we have to. Like... -Oh.

...this is a baby cucumber flower.

And they're all edible.

So we gonna put some of the ceviche

-on top here. -[Selena] Okay.

[Wolfgang] And then now you garnish it.

A few leaves.

So you wanna create,

like, a garden. A beautiful garden.

There's the tomatoes, the radishes.

Wow. That's so beautiful.

-[Wolfgang] All right. -[Raquelle] You did it.

-Let's get this on our table. -Whoo-hoo!

♪ Look so good, Yeah, look so... ♪

[Selena] Okay! Oh, wait.

I'm going to have real chefs taste the food?

-[all laughing] -Okay.

[Wolfgang] Well, uh, we are lucky.

We have some good company here,

you know, but they are very difficult.

So we'll see if they gonna like our food.

This is Andrew.

-Andrew Hunter. -Hi, there. Hi.

And this guy with the beard...

is my son, Byron.

-He is also working with me. -Very nice to meet you.

And, uh, he said he gonna take over one day. So...

[Selena] Well, this is the dish I came up with today.

I came up with today.

And I'm sorry if it tastes bad.

-[Byron] No, it's a pleasure. -Thank you for cooking for us.

[Selena] This is the nervous part now.

I would be...

extremely happy with this as an appetizer.

Oh.

-Byron's approval. -[Byron] This is phenomenal.

Really light, really refreshing.

Something that's, like, perfect to start off your meal with.

-Yes. Whoo! -[Raquelle] Wow.

I think this is a beautiful dish.

It's got a really great balance

of lime and chili pepper.

[Selena] I love lime.

It's really delicious.

Realistically...

do you think that this would actually be on the menu?

He's the ultimate decision-maker.

[Wolfgang] Yup.

We're gonna put it there at the bar here at CUT.

-You just got a dish out. Hot. -I'm so excited.

-Oh, my God. -And we gonna call it "Selena Ceviche."

-Yay! -Selena Ceviche.

Thank you for having us

and I have to say

you guys made it really fun.

-Thank you. -[Byron] Pleasure is ours. Thank you.

So, would you guys hire Selena?

[all laughing]

I don't know if we can afford here.

[all laughing]