ZM's Bree & Clint - ZM’s Bree & Clint Podcast - The Gnocchi Saga

Episode Date: September 10, 2025

After a viral video of a woman making gnocchi on a plane, Clint thought "how hard can it be?" and then immediately delegated to Bree. Her challenge - make the gnocchi in the studio, with NO recipe... but then that was too hard so she got a recipe. This is what happened. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You tapped it, so we're playing it. It's ZM's Brian Clint, the podcast. There's a video that's getting a bit of attention today. The video is of a woman on a plane who states she hates airline food. Okay. She's like, yuck, I don't want to eat this crap. So instead, she decides to make pasta in her seat from scratch. What?

In the video, she mixes the egg and the flour together with her finger. holds it out on her tray table and she makes fresh knocky on a plane. Some people... How is she going to cook it? I know. Most people are calling it disgusting and saying airplanes are very unhygienic. That is foul.

And yeah, you're right. Let's not focus on how she will cook the raw knocky that she's created. But she did it and she made nocky. So today, Bree, I thought... I had my bum on this desk earlier. Yeah, you did. I kind of rubbed it around like I had, like I was a cat, and I had worms.

And I said you'd regret it. Can we wipe it town? Today, Bree Thomas L, you will attempt to make pasta from scratch in a radio studio. We have purchased ingredients for you. And you will draw on all of your Italian heritage this afternoon to produce fresh pasta for the Bree and Clint show. I know Clint behind the scenes you've been telling me to get back in the kids. kitchen, but you've taken it too far. Yesterday you were just

ranting and raving about people who make pasta using jar sauce, and you were like, it's disgusting. It must be made from scratch, so put your Italian money where your Italian mouth is and produce some pasta for us, Bree. Oh my gosh, Jesus. Eggs, oh, yeah. We've got you flour, salt, nutmeg.

Why do I need nutmeg? I don't know. Chat GPT said to get some nutmeg. Nutmeg. I got you some fresh ricotta. Do you have the nookie? thing that I rolled my nocky on? Nah. We got you a rolling pin though. Do we get the rolling pin?

You guys got... Is the rolling pin in here somewhere? Guys, is there the thing where I pushed the pasta through, like a pasta maker? Nah. I can't make pasta... She didn't have one of those on the plane either. I can't make pasta with a freaking rolling pin.

You... What? I need, like, one of those little pasta boards where you roll it. I did bring you in my wife's apron. if you'd like to wear that, or you make our pastor us up the name. Okay. Probably will get messy in here. The only challenge, well, this is the challenge in itself,

but we're not going to allow you to look at any kind of recipes. You've said that you've been raised by an Italian nunner who's taught you how to make pasta your whole life. So today we would like to see pasta made from scratch using only your memory. Oh, this is going to be a disaster. Ella's just bought in some kind of cheese knife. Will that help? That's not going to help.

You guys don't have any actual pasta-making utensils here. What do you mean? We've got you a rolling pin in a chopping board. My God, novices. Look at this. Look at this. That's a spatula. Oh, yeah, we found a spatula that should help you.

That's a special up. Yeah, you can push the nocky through that. Guys, who's going to eat this? I love how you've got parmesan. Yeah. But no sauce element at all. You've got parmesan and ricotta. I guess it's going to be a white sauce.

Yeah, yeah. Just get us to the raw bit and then we'll decide whether it's edible or not. Okay. All right. Best of luck. What's the baking paper for? I don't know. I just felt like it could be useful.

So I just think. I started listing things. Ella was going to the supermarket, so I just started naming things. This just seems like, you know, something that's going to be all of your benefit. Or actually, it's not going to be benefit. I didn't say I was going to eat it. No, if I make it, you will eat it. Because I'm not going to sit here and make it if no one's going to eat it.

Oh, how the tables have turned. And that actually sounds fair. Yeah. If I slave over this pasta that I'll make from scratch with my bare head. hands, then you will eat it. I'm going to, I'm going to make the pasta on the desk where I sat with my barebub. No, you use the tablecloth that I provided. You should see this. It looks like an Italian kitchen all of a sudden in here. The place has been transformed. Chao Bella. Chau Bella, indeed. Any messages of support? You can text them into

966. You can text in advice. Bre can use your text advice, but she will not be using a recipe this afternoon to create our pasta from scratch. Are you sure that I can't look, glance at a recipe. Like once. Do you need to? Well, I just don't remember the amount like pasta is like baking. If you don't get the exact measurements right. Are we going to get better pasta if we let you? Yeah. Okay. Okay. All right. At least give me a fighting chance for God's sake. You've given me a tablecloth, baking paper and eggs to make pasta. What if we let you talk to your mum? She's not even Italian. All right, watch this space. Play ZDN's Brie and Clint.

We're attempting a world first. We're trying to make the world's first homemade Nocky in a radio studio. It's not going well. It's not going well? It looks like it's going well. I've never made Nocky without potato. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. I don't know how to get the potato to you because you've got to cook the potato first. You've got to roast the potato. But I wanted you to be under the same conditions as the person who's going viral on the internet at the moment for making Nocky on a plane.

Mm-hmm. She couldn't cook a potato up there either. No. So she went for a potato-free nocky. Well, there you go. How's that looking? It doesn't have to be nocky. If you want to turn it into macaroni for us or something, you could.

Or spaghetti. Don't push it. You could do a cabanara. Don't push me. No? You get what you're given. Oh, no, no. I'm quite aware of that.

Yeah. I noticed you haven't used some of the ingredients I purchased. The nutmeg hasn't been... Yeah, well, you know, I just... I just didn't know if this dish was going to be all that nutmeg-y. Yeah, right. You know? Chat GPT said get nutmeg.

For what? I don't know. I'm not making eggnog. It said 250 grams of ricotta cheese. Okay. One cup of plain flour. Okay. One egg.

Half a cup of finely grated parmesan. Okay. Half a teaspoon of salt and a pinch of nutmeg, optional. That must be, then that's like a yokey. Yeah, that's what it says. Maybe I should start again. I'm going to start again. Okay.

I'm going to start. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's got to be perfect. You've got to be happy with that. I need to wash my hands. Bree's hands at the moment look like when Deadpool takes his suit off and all of his skins like peeling off his hands. It looks disgusting.

Okay, I'm going to go regroup. Okay, yeah, regroup and reset. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't be defeated by this. Yeah, no, I'm not defeated yet. Because once you achieve this, Once you achieve this, then we can have fresh pasta for lunch every day. I'm happy to pick up the ingredients if you want to make the pasta for us each day.

You know, if you want to... No more sushi for us. I'm so angry at you right now. Tips and tricks. Come on, guys. We're trying to make a potato-free nocky in the radio studio this afternoon. There must be someone listening who knows what they're doing. I definitely don't.

Any Italians listening to the Bree and Clint show? Yeah, help us out, please. Actually, can you come to the studio? Come to the studio now. And bring some pasta. We have turned a majorist corner here in the studio. Guys, I'm feeling good. I'm feeling good now.

We're attempting to make the world's first pasta from scratch in a radio studio. After someone made pasta from scratch on a plane, batch one abandoned. Batch two? Yep. Batch two looks pretty damn good. I'm not going to lie, but the key is you have to be able to roll it out and then it not stick to the cutting board. Because Nocky is the key.

Yeah. Bit of criticism of, and to be fair, my ingredients list. Someone said Clint Chetchip-T has given you a ravioli recipe. I don't, I think it'll work because the ricotta cheese is the substitute, I believe, for the fluffy potato. Yeah. Because the fluffy potato is what makes the Nyoki light and fluffy, and that's what you want it to be.

I keep talking about potato-free knocky and people are texting in saying potato-free knocky is just pasta. I mean, they make a good point. Yeah, right. I don't know this stuff, okay? And then lots of ratios, lots of advice, but I think we may be we might have got somewhere with this.

I think I'm going all right over here. It's looking good and then I'm just going to cut my pasta into quarters. Okay. And then I'm going to roll this piece out into a long snake and then I'll use it to cut it into bits. We did remember to get a roll

pin. Yes, thank you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Here we go. Oh no. Ella, can you flower my cutting board for me, please? This is where it can all go wrong. And where we're going to run into issues is the cooking of the Nocky.

Now, the appliances we have access to, we have an air friar, we have a kettle for boiling water. We have a microwave. Could we cook it in the kettle? We could try and cook it in a kettle. Yeah. Yep. We've also got an oven. Can you cook it in the oven?

No. We could cook it in the air fryer, but it would be not boiled nocky, which are... Yeah, yeah, yeah. It'd be more like a pan-fried yonokey. Anyway, we've come so far. We've come so far. So if anyone's got some bit more advice for us, we'd love to hear it. We did have other content to do this hour, but I'm kind of gripped by the nocky journey now.

I'm like invested in this. I'm going to see it through to the end. Okay, we'll stick with us. We're uploading this to our Instagram story as we go. so if you would like to see how Brie is going in The Great Knocky Journey at Brie and Clint on Instagram. Oh look at that, my first snake.

It's looking really good. It's not going too bad over here. Yeah. Dead end up Green Clint. If you're just joining us, we're attempting a world first, the world's first pastor made from scratch in a radio studio,

Nocky specifically. Guys, I thought I was going to be the handbrake on this. But I feel like I have achieved a very well-made, good-looking Nocky. You guys can't see this, you will. We'll get a video out. But there is a plate of what I'm looking at, perfect uncooked nocky at the moment.

It's light, it's fluffy. It's the right shape, it's the right texture, it's the right colour. Oh, drop one. We just need to figure out how we're going to cook it. Yeah, we do. We don't have a stove top. And we just realized before that where we are at ZM, there are no kettles.

We have those funny zip-tap things that don't trust us with a proper kettle. Because we thought we could boil it inside of a kettle. So what we've done is we have sent our producer Claudia undercover up to Mike Hosking's studio to try and steal a kettle. Claudia, come in.

Hello. Claudia, are you there? Hi, I'm here. Are you behind enemy lines at News Talk ZB? I'm currently lurking outside Heather Duplicey Allen's studio and I'm trying not to make eye contact with her. Don't look at her in the eye. Don't look at her in the eye.

I know the rules. Yeah, yeah. She will know. Claudia. Crawl on the floor is my best advice for you. Can you see any kind of jug-kittle boiling device in the News Talk ZBT rooms right now? I have got bad news for you guys. No!

Too modern up here they have. One of those hot cold caps. Of course they do. That's what Mike Hosking requested. God damn it. What Mike Hosking wants, Mike Hosking gets. Are we shit out of luck? Are we, have we reached the...

I'm so unwilling to accept defeat right now? Me too. There's got to be a way that we cook this knocky. We do have boiling water. We have zip taps. Someone suggested putting it in boiling water and putting a lid on it. That's not going to work, guys. It's not going to work.

The boiling water needs to be moving. Claudia, you're sure there's nothing there at News Talk ZB. I mean, they have a toaster. They have a toasted sandwich machine. They have everything. in the drawer. There's a dartboard with Jacinda's face on it. No kettle though.

God damn it. Okay, come on back down, Claude. What are we going to do, guys? Come on, we work in radio. This is where we work best. We think on our feet. We problem solve. Is anyone on the text machine got any ideas?

Is anyone near ZDM right now and can drop off some kind of boiling device? Yeah. Or do you have another solution for us to get this knocky cooked? It's the final piece of the puzzle, and we're hoping to have this done by 5 o'clock. That's what, that's the dream. I know, someone will come through on the text machine.

Boiling water in the microwave for two minutes, just like noodles. Could we test a couple? Not the whole batch. I'm willing to sacrifice a couple. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I am willing to sacrifice a couple to try. ZD.N's brain cleanse. We are preoccupied trying to make the world's first knocking.

from scratch in a radio studio, but we won't forget about Secret Town. Don't worry about that. We won't, which is why we're under the pump to try and get this Nocky cooked. I think, am I wife material? I just made that from scratch in a radio studio with the bare minimum. Yeah, if you can do that in a radio studio, you can do that anywhere. You can do that on a train. Should we book a flight?

Yeah. Should we book a flight and I will attempt to make this if this goes well? Well, that's where it comes from. There's a video of a lady making. knocky on a plane and it's gone everywhere. And then we can share it across the Air New Zealand flight. We have had a speed bump though because we don't know how to boil our knocky. There's so many different solutions from people coming through on the text machine. People saying put it on a toasty machine in a bowl of water won't get hot enough. Someone's saying take the grill out of the

bottom of the air fryer and fill that with water. But I feel like that fan would there'd be an issue with that. Yeah, there would be a lot of great suggestions. No one has suggested which what I I think we should do, which is I think we go find a little area outside, like just out here, and we start a fire. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And hear her out, hear her out. We start a little campfire, and then we put a pot on the canfire and we boil it just outside here, outside the studios. Yeah, okay.

And it is in the city, Auckland. Yeah. Yeah. Open fire. Do you reckon we're getting trouble for that? That's an idea. Okay. So it's not a no.

Alternatively, Claudia has just asked the pub across the road if they'll boil it for us. And what did they say, Claude? He's more than happy. I was like, does this go against all health and safety? And he's like, no, it's actually fine. Yeah, they're happy to. Amazing.

Can they put a sauce with it? Surely. I reckon they will. Okay. I reckon they would. I feel like they would. Yeah. Okay, okay.

Let's hand the studio made Nocky over to the pub across the road, brood hot, and we'll see if those guys can finish it off for us. You've got to lean on your friends in times like this, right? to lean on the community to get the meal done. We are going to owe them. Can you ask them, I mean, if they're not busy, if they want to throw a sauce together? Yep, just throw a sauce over it.

We've got the parmesan here. Do they let them taste a piece? Yeah, they can taste a piece, yeah. And get them to review it for us too. I might get them to sign a waiver before they eat it. Yeah, let them know where it was made. Okay, hey, we're getting there, guys. We're getting there.

My God, we're going to actually taste them. Okay. Dead Am's Brie and Clint. Anyone following the radio studio made Nocky, journey. It is in the pot boiling at the pub across the road. We are on guys. We're on. This could be

a real win for the Brie and Clint show. We're going to have fresh knocky in the studio in the next 10 minutes. I'm not going to lie. I didn't have high hopes, but my expectations are sitting quite high. The ZDM Podcast Network.

Breeze back from the pub, Nocky update. It's on. It's on the stove. He's just put it on the stove now. for me he's so sweet he was like i didn't want to i didn't want to mess it up at the last hurdle so if it's bad it's because of me okay we'll give it a bit of time then it's boiling yeah yeah it will be ready in like four or five minutes we've come this far let's not rush it no let's not rush it no we can't rush a good thing okay it's zm's brie and clint podcast the challenge was laid down just over an hour ago can brie thomasel our resident italian create knocky pastor from scratch in a

radio studio. Not an easy feat. Also, can I say before we get to the Nocki, we found a kettle outside in reception. That was our main issue. We managed to make the Nocky. We couldn't cook the Nocky. We thought we could do it in a kettle. We went everywhere looking for a kettle.

Anyway, the pub across the road, brood hot, has come through and they have boiled the yonokey for us. Look, there's no sauce. There's no sauce. thrown a bit of parmesan on it so if you can take that into account

when you are trying it that would be appreciated we didn't have an olive oil or anything I guess we didn't get you any olive oil did we? Hey

I'll stop talking I'll stop talking yeah okay Claudia come around come around come around

come around Ella here's a piece you want yeah if this is good like I said this could be our lunch from now on

guys who's got high hopes I actually do have quite high hopes for this I know how hard it is to make yockey So I don't.

Okay, are you ready? Bonapitito. It is not bad at all. It's pretty damn good. It's not bad at all. Considering you made that on that desk an hour ago. Like, I'll have definitely have another piece. It's got no sauce on it.

No. straight carbs and cheese Oh there's a bit of protein And then there's egg Ellis doesn't have any Parmesan so you don't like it Oh Alice having the vegan one It's pretty bloody good

I mean I'm happy with that I'm giving that a pass Yeah Soundkeeper Brooke You come in here We don't need her to rate it She ate it raw and thought it was good

Completed to the chef guys Delicious I'm pretty bloody happy with that Do we achieve something here today guys I feel really good about it Now you know No matter where you work No matter what you do

No matter where you are There's no excuse You too can have homemade Nocki in the workplace Tomorrow I'm going to make A tiramassou in the toilet A toilet A lasagna in the I-Heart lounge

Good guy I'm happy Okay If people want to see how the pasture turned out How the nocky turned out I'll jump on our Instagram right now. We're making a video of the whole process so you can see how to make it.

There's plenty of this in our Instagram story at the moment at Brian Clint. Claudia's going back for more and it's not even for radio purposes. She's in for thirds, yeah. Pretty damn good. I'm happy, guys. Could do with a touch of nutmeg, but otherwise pretty good.

Shut up. Do you want to know your birthday banger? Do you want to know the number one song the day that you celebrated your 16th birthday? Leave some for the rest of us, Claudey's eating more. It must be good. Play ZM's Brian Clint on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and live weekdays from three on ZM.