Deliciously Twisted Classics

America’s diverse mix of cultures is reflected in our food and in our love to mash it up to create new and delicious dishes. These creative fusions take our favorite foods and combine them with international flavors and ingredients. From diner favorites like cheeseburgers, meatloaf, and French toast to classic sweets like donuts and Black Forest cake, each dish gets remade from top to bottom with inspiration from around the globe, showing why our great American melting pot is the tastiest on Earth.

Chefs are taking inspiration from the islands to put fun twists on their favorite classic dishes. Fried calamari, mango sticky rice, loco moco, fried rice, and French toast all get reinvented to create unique tropical delights. Grab a beach chair, put on some sunscreen and get ready to indulge in these tropical sensations!

If you’re craving a creative sugar high, then look no further than these delectable desserts. Birthday cake, cheesecake, Thai iced tea, bananas foster, and s’mores all get reimagined as delicious takes on the classic. These twisted dishes are sure to satisfy any sweet tooth.

Deep fried food has always been a popular favorite, but now chefs around the country are bringing fresh inspiration to create crispy, crunchy and unexpected twists. They’ve transformed classic Italian pasta, mashed potatoes, BBQ ribs and even the famous Philly cheesesteak into deep fried fantasies that will delight and surprise you.

Talented chefs are revamping popular comfort foods and cranking them up to a new level of feel-good fun. A sweet grilled cheese sandwich for dessert, chicken pot pie, poutine and more all get an extra helping of imagination that elevates these classics to scrumptious new heights!

Breakfast may be the most important meal of the day, but that doesn’t mean we can’t reinvent it to create an amazing and even more delicious meal. In this episode, chefs show off their culinary skills with unexpected breakfast twists on cinnamon rolls, pancakes, eggs benedict and more, creating dishes you will want to experience at any time of the day.

In this episode, chefs across the nation show off their most expensive creations by elevating classic foods with over-the-top ingredients. From a 30-pound ostrich leg covered in gold leaf that costs almost a thousand dollars to the world’s most expensive milkshake and cannoli stuffed with caviar, these deliciously twisted classics might break the bank but are worth every penny.

A sandwich can be simple and satisfying, but also a perfect food to twist beyond your wildest imagination into something entirely new and exciting. In this episode, creative chefs go above and beyond with burgers, heroes, sloppy joes, ice cream sandwiches, and even Peking duck to push the limits beyond two pieces of bread.

There’s nothing quite like home cooking, but these aren’t your Mama’s dishes. Talented chefs are taking their favorite mom-made recipes and adding their own tasty twists and turns. Shepherd’s pie, buttermilk pancakes, shrimp and grits, and tacos, all get delicious makeovers that rival any mom’s masterpiece.

Classic dishes are twisted right off the plate and into your hand! These handheld bites are fun to eat, with no knives or forks required because they’re served on a stick! Innovative chefs take classics like corn dogs, s’mores, Italian grissini, and a full pancake breakfast, kick the flavors up a notch and turn them into handheld fun. From s’mores to a full pancake and sausage breakfast, it’s all on a stick! You will definitely want to stick around for these amazing snacks.

We hope you came hungry because this episode is full of oversized twists that’ll leave you stuffed. See how massive a bagel, pizza, burger, chocolate cake, and fortune cookie can get. After seeing these mega mouthfuls, your eyes will be as big as your stomach.

Chefs spoon up their favorite twists on scrumptious soups in these twisted takes on soup staples. From French Onion Soup stuffed in a Bavarian pretzel and Matzah Ball Soup with a Thai twist to a Pho-inspired French Dip Sandwich, a giant dumpling filled with soup, and a seafood stew covered with delicious New York pizza dough, these delicious twists will make you rethink your favorite soup classics.

Sound the fire alarm! These chefs have a penchant for peppers so they’re twisting classic foods and cranking the heat up on fried chicken, Mexican street corn, mac and cheese, shrimp scampi, and BBQ brisket. Grab a glass of milk because these deliciously twisted dishes will set your taste buds on fire.

Everyone has a childhood favorite food, including the top chefs in the country, but some chefs are adding unique twists to these classic dishes to make them into foods adults would love. Bacon cheeseburgers transformed into dumplings or lobsters inside a toaster pastry? Hot dogs, PB&J, fish sticks and more are transformed from the dish you remember into a dish you will never forget.

These dishes may look like one thing but are actually surprising taste bud twists that your eyes won’t believe. Chefs show off their culinary skills by creating visual twists on the classic Mexican street corn, strawberries and cream, carrot cake, Russian cabbage rolls, and the classic peanut butter & jelly sandwich. All these deliciously twisted classics are way more than meets the eye.