- Do apples rise?

- All of you!

Get in there!

- Oh my god!

(smoke alarm rings)

- Oh, let's ignore that.

(bell dings)

(exciting orchestral music)

(bell dings)

- [Narrator] The Try Guys are back in the kitchen

to try their hand at baking without a recipe once more.

This week, holiday pies!

Will they find it to be easy as pie?

- Today we are not in our own kitchens,

we are in the Good Mythical Morning kitchen,

where we're not supposed to post on social media,

and I already did!

That's an oops!

- [Narrator] Each of the guys will have

two hours to bake a pie of their choice,

and then present it to the panel of judges.

- Hi, my name is Mari Takahashi,

I play video games for a living,

I share a birthday with the Cookie Monster.

I love sweets, it's my sweet spot,

and that's why I'm qualified

to judge these boys on their pies.

- Hi, my name is Jessica Schupack,

I'm a marketing consultant for restaurants.

I basically judge with restaurants

if something should go on the menu or not.

- I'm Brianna Abrams, I'm the chief PieSmith

at Winston Pies here in Los Angeles.

We're really excited to have you here

and talk about holiday pies,

cause I love making pies and I love talking about pies.

It is unbelievably hard to make a pie,

especially if you're just doing it one time on a Saturday.

You spend hours making the dough and letting it rest,

hours making the filling,

then you're watching it bake, it comes out and maybe

it doesn't look so pretty but then it tastes amazing,

or it looks beautiful and it is not delicious.

Perfecting pie is a challenge.

- Pies.

- My baking experience is limited

to eating raw cookie dough,

and the last time we made one of these videos.

- Last time on Without a Recipe,

my bread looked amazing and tasted very plain.

So this time, I'm not gonna forget the flavor!

- I like to pride myself of the fact

that I'm good at making food for others.

I engineered this video series to be

a competition show that I could win,

and then I didn't win.

- Last time, I ended up winning.

I'm just gonna relax, see what comes to my brain,

and hopefully we have a similar outcome.

- Do I know how to make a pie?

No.

Am I confident?

You bet your sweet-as-pie ass I am.

I'm gonna try and be meticulous and methodical this time.

- I'm so proud of you!

- Get some dough, bro!

- Wanna get some dough, bro?

- Get some dough, bro!

- Bro dough?

- Get dat dough!

- Get dat dough.

- [Narrator] All right, bakers, 3, 2, 1!

Try to bake!

- Okay. - Oh, god.

- Woo!

Roll up the sleeves!

Today I'm making apple pie, it's a classic, classic pie.

I love pie, my family has a pie-making

contest every single year,

but I use a recipe.

- Pie's great, it recalls also a lot of memories

about things like the holidays, and bad sex jokes.

The pie I'm making today is

none other than the blueberry pie.

- [Ned] Are you drinking whiskey?

- They put it out there knowing I would grab it.

- Well fine.

You won last time!

- Happy holidays.

- Woo! - Woo!

- [Zach] Today, I am baking not just a pie,

but the best pie.

Pecan pie.

Do you guys say PEE-can or pe-CAHN?

Tapioca flour?

I can make a gluten-free pie.

- Don't do that.

- [Zach] Why not?

- It's just not a good idea.

I love pie so much that I had

pies instead of a wedding cake.

We just went for pies.

Today I am making my favorite pie, which is a pumpkin pie.

I think I know what I'm doing.

I want to win so bad.

- These things are pe-CAHNS, but the pie is a PEE-can pie.

I'm having a pe-CAHN pie!

Like, get your fancy ass outta here!

- [Narrator] To start, each Try Guy will have 30 minutes

to prepare the dough for their pie crust.

- I don't know the proportions on anything,

I just kinda think I know what's supposed to go in it.

- Dough includes flour, a little bit of sugar,

little bit of salt, butter, and some water.

- Baking soda...

Baking powder.

- I'll just do two tablespoons of salt.

It seems like a good amount.

The last thing I want is for something to be

under-seasoned.

- Vegetable shortening.

You said I can use this instead of butter?

- Yeah, I mean, you just need fat.

- Four?

Five.

Eight scoops of this.

- I feel like this is a mistake.

- Coconut?

- Fuck it!

Boom!

Sugar and an egg!

Let's get in there!

Done!

- I forgot that we're not good at this.

We are not good at baking.

- I don't like a very sweet dough,

so I just use a very little bit of sugar.

- Is that too much sugar?

- How bout to the 50?

- And then I'm gonna add cold butter.

- I've watched a lot of baking shows,

and all I know is that there's so much butter.

So I got some flour in there,

I'm gonna mix some flour, a little bit of sugar,

a little bit of salt, and then get the butter in,

get some water in, and I think, I think that's it?

I don't think there's egg?

You're making fat, sweet bread.

Be very careful about how fast

and how much water you put in.

- This is getting lukewarm water!

Oh, it sounds like you're doing it!

- Fake it 'til you make it, right?

- You're doin' it!

You're doin' it!

You know baking's kinda like sex?

It's like you know how it's supposed to look,

but you don't know where to start the first time,

so you just start sticking your hands in?

Sorry, I make things so gross.

- Holy shit, am I doing it?

Did I like way over-complicate this

last time we made a video?

This is like basically perfect.

- My dough is not solidifying,

so I'm just gonna dump the rest of the butter in here.

Maybe it was tablespoons!

Okay.

Four teaspoons...

- It's liquid, right?

It's liquid.

It needed more moisture!

Like everything else in life, just put bourbon in it.

- Mm-hmm.

Lotta flavor.

Maybe too much flavor.

- Oh.

Wow.

This tastes amazing.

- Should I try mine?

Hot (bleep), that's pretty good!

- [Narrator] Bakers, one minute!

That's one minute left.

- This is not how the holidays are supposed to be!

- [Eugene] Well this is Without a Recipe, bro!

- It's not Without Any Time!

- I think I did better than Keith.

Keith, do you wanna come try mine?

- No.

- My stupid robot didn't work,

now I'm just making dough by hand like an idiot!

- [Narrator] Five, four, three, two, one!

Bakers, hands up.

- Mmm.

- [Narrator] As the dough rests in the freezer,

each of the guys will have

30 minutes to make their fillings.

- What we're doing right now,

is we're putting in the secret ingredient, Eugene.

- Which is?

- Love.

- Drunkenness. - Okay.

- Okay? Mm-hmm.

- [Narrator] Earlier today, each of the guys had

an opportunity to taste a pie

similar to the one they want to make.

- I don't wanna destroy it, it's so beautiful!

- Smells like Christmas!

- Oh, Susan, how'd you get so lazy?

- Oh yeah, that's a dense (bleep) pie.

- Smells very pumpkin-y, cinnamon-y, nutmeg-y.

- All right, so what I can taste

immediately, obviously, is fruit.

This too many blueberries?

I don't know.

Woo! It'll fit in a pie.

- Definitely a lot of cinnamon.

It looks like the apples are sliced.

Woo!

Yeah!

I feel like I'm about to do a magic trick with these.

- I think that this has...

Pecans.

- Butter.

Maybe some kinda milk?

- No one's gonna eat the pie and be like,

oh no, chocolate!

That's not supposed to be in here!

- I think it confirms things I thought were in a pie.

I think I can insert a little Eugene in this pie.

Mmm?

- [Keith] Eww.

(laughter)

- I heard it as I said it.

- I'm a nonconventional baker.

I like to use things that inspire me.

- Pecan pie is a tricky pie to make.

It is fun to eat and work with but it is very sticky.

- Light corn syrup.

- Oh my god, Zach!

- Yeah.

It's sweet.

- [Brianna] It also has a couple of pitfalls

because it involves eggs.

- (laughs) Oh no!

- If you mix those sugars in with your egg yolks too soon

and you let it sit there, you're gonna burn your yolks.

- What do you do once you've over-salted a thing?

You're just--

You're (bleep)-ed.

There's no salt remover.

More high-fructose corn syrup, you got it!

- It will actually affect the way yolks cook.

- Pecan!

- Apple pie, you often will have it with cinnamon,

some people like nutmeg,

you