Nick DiGiovanni - I Cooked Against Shaq!

Episode Date: October 28, 2025

Watch to find out who won! Shaq is great on the basketball court…but how is he in the kitchen?

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The conditions apply. Today, I'm challenging Shaq, one of the greatest basketball players of all time, to a burger cookoff. And I do cook a mean burger. We'll have 15 minutes on the clock, and our time starts now. Today I'll be making my specialty smash burger.

I've got Martin's potato rolls as the buns. Then for my smash patties, I am going to be using Shaq's burgers to make them, but I'm going to do something special. I want to make two patties out of one, so I'm going to slice right down the center of this thing. Do you like this or no? Like what?

What I'm doing? I'm concentrating on what I'm doing over here. Then I'm gonna be topping those with some simple, classic American cheese. So a little burger sauce and a few sliced onions. What do you put it on your burger? What ingredients do you have in front of you? I can't tell you my ingredients. Just to say they're shacklicious.

I'll start off our sliced these tomatoes. Ah! Thought I cut myself, didn't ya? That's enough tomatoes, that's all we leaves. Now I'm gonna lay up my lettuce. I don't like that piece right there. I don't like that piece either. I'm with this lettuce.

This is the meat diffix shack paddy burger. No need to thaw. 100% Angus beef. Cook direct from the freezer. Just count to five. I want to show you something. One, two, three, four, five. This is what I call I am Kazam. You know what this is? I don't even know what that is. I'm already finished. You haven't even done anything.

I'm waiting on you. You didn't chop your lettuce. You haven't salted your tomatoes. Salt, my tomatoes? Yeah. What does that mean? Put salt on the tomatoes to bring out all the flavor. Oh man, that's not how you eat a Shack Burger. We don't use salt. Work smarter, not harder. You have no salt on there. Don't worry about what I have on there.

on mine, okay? But just look at it. It just, it looks good. It looks good. I'm gonna scrape my paddy off and flip it over. Then right away we have to go on with some of that American cheese. Once this next paddy is cooked on the first side, I'll go ahead and flip it again. And then immediately hit it with a little more American cheese.

Jack, you cook? I magically cook. I could just wake up and say, hey, cook me, egg salad, sandwich, and it'll magically appear somehow. It's magic. I'm m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m- I'm assembling the perfect burger. Perfect burger. With some of the lettuce on the top,

you'll let the lettuce hang off on the side, put some tomato on that bang right there like that. And then you have your perfect burger. There'll be that burger that's good. That's disgusting. You gotta have someone eat that after. Oh, I'm gonna eat it, don't you worry. No, it's for the judge.

I am the judge. One of us is gonna win. I'm gonna win. I am starting to work on my sauce here. And the first thing is making that relish. I like to chop up the pickles myself. You know what I'm doing right now? No, I have no idea.

I'm using all the 15 minutes to make this as nice as I possibly can. Okay, can I explain something to you? Yeah. Us, regular, hardworking people? Yeah. We don't have time to wait for that. Can I teach you something? No.

Come on. No. I'm 50 years old. I want to teach you how to dice an onion. Oh, no, I can't. Why not? I'm just gonna make my breastache. You're not gonna eat it.

You don't have to eat it. I'm a ladies, man, Nick. Trust me. Alright, you want to be honest? Yeah. I'm a vampire. If you want to perfectly dice an onion, instead of cutting it like this,

we're gonna start by cutting it in half. I'm gonna go next to you. Pick it up like this on its side, like that. You're gonna cut straight through there. Watch your fingers. Oh, I worry about my finger. Okay. Oh, now take one side, chop off the butt.

Never chopped onion . Chop the butt on the other side. Oh, two butts. Then start peeling back the layers. We're looking for something like this. You wanna leave the top part intact, but you're gonna go ahead and slice all the way down just like this, and then once we have it sort of looking

like a claw, face down on the cutting board, and then you just can chop like this. Yeah, you can also go. And you've diced your onion. Help me make the burger sauce. Oh my, the burger sauce. Ketchup. Then we go mayo, a little bit of yellow mustard.

Killing me right now, Nate. These chopped pickles that I already did. Doesn't that look pretty good? Yes, it does. Do you know how to say this? Worcester sauce. You were close. Worcestershire.

No, I got four degrees of shire. A little bit of smoked paprika. Smell that. Tell me what it smells like. It actually smells like Charles Barker. We forgot one thing. Lemon juice. Cut the butt.

You cut the other butt. And then you put that print. I'm kinda like that. First, down with my potato bun. Going on to my potato bomb with my burger patties. On with a tiny bit of my sauce. Just a few of those onions that you helped me chop. You're part of this burger.

I appreciate it. And to finish on with that top little bun. And my burger is complete. Today I use the classic shack paddy burger. I made it very simple. No fancy schmancy stuff that people do. And today I made my signature smash burger. And I'm pretty confident about winning this one today.

It's time now to bring in our judge. I'll start with this, man. Yeah. No, no. Don't do that. Try this one, my friend. Keep it going, keep it going. I think Chuck him.

Chuck him. Yes, we win. Thank you. What? We are the champion. You didn't even try the burgers. Yeah, you don't need to try it. Nick and there's one more thing.

Yeah. Mani, you're fired. What? Get out. Get out of here.