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Season 1

  • S01E01 Can Sohla Make A Meal Out Of Oreos?

    • April 16, 2021

    ohla El-Waylly is here for a new series we’re tentatively calling Club Sohla. We’ve given her one mystery ingredient and one hour to make dinner and a dessert for herself and her husband, Ham. Today’s secret ingredient is… Oreos! What will Sohla transform them into? Stay tuned to find out.

  • S01E02 Can Sohla Make a Meal Out of String Cheese?

    • April 23, 2021

    Sohla El-Waylly is back for a second round of Club Sohla. Here’s a refresher on how it works: We give her one mystery ingredient and one hour to make dinner and a dessert for herself and her husband, Ham. Delicious chaos ensues. Today, the secret ingredient is … string cheese! What will Sohla create? Watch now to find out.

  • S01E03 Can Sohla Make An Entire Meal Out of Potatoes?

    • April 30, 2021

    Club Sohla is back for round three! We gave Sohla El-Waylly one mystery ingredient and one hour to make a meal for herself and her husband, Ham. The secret ingredients so far have been Oreos and string cheese. This time? Potatoes. Stick around to find out how she turns them into dinner and a dessert. (Her mind …)

  • S01E04 A Meal Out of Coffee Beans?

    • August 27, 2021

    Sohla El-Waylly is back for another mystery ingredient challenge! We give her one hour to turn a surprise ingredient into dinner and dessert. But this time is a little different, because she’s in the studio kitchen and she’s joined by her husband, Ham. Today’s secret ingredient is … coffee beans! What will Sohla and Ham transform them into? Stay tuned to find out.

  • S01E05 2 Chefs Try to Make A Meal Out of Bananas

    • September 3, 2021

    Get the recipe for Sohla's Banana Cream Pie: https://nyti.ms/3DLAHtt Sohla and Ham are back for another Mystery Menu challenge! We gave them one hour to turn one surprise ingredient into dinner and a dessert. Today’s secret ingredient is… bananas! And they have to use the peel, too. What will Sohla and Ham make? Stay tuned to find out.

  • S01E06 Can 2 Chefs Make Dinner And Dessert With A Pickle?

    • September 10, 2021

    It’s another episode of Mystery Menu, folks: We gave Sohla and Ham one hour to turn one surprise ingredient into dinner and a dessert. Today’s secret ingredient is … pickles! What will Sohla and Ham make? What even is a pickle dessert? Stay tuned to find out.

  • S01E07 2 Chefs Try To Make A Meal Out Of Jell-O

    • September 17, 2021

    It’s Sohla! It’s Ham! It’s another episode of Mystery Menu! We gave Sohla and Ham one hour to turn one surprise ingredient into dinner and a dessert. Today’s secret ingredient is … Jell-O! Specifically, lime Jell-O. What will Sohla and Ham make? Will it jiggle? Stay tuned to find out.

  • S01E08 2 Chefs Try To Make A Meal Out Of Peanut Butter

    • September 24, 2021

    Mystery Menu is back! You know the drill: Sohla and Ham get one hour to turn one surprise ingredient into dinner and a dessert. Today’s secret ingredient is … peanut butter! What will Sohla and Ham make? Stay tuned to find out.

Season 2

  • S02E01 2 Chefs Try to Make A Meal Out of Hot Dogs

    • July 22, 2022

    Your favorite culinary power couple is back! In Mystery Menu with Sohla and Ham, we give them one hour to turn one surprise ingredient into dinner and a dessert. Today’s secret ingredient is … hot dogs! A classic summer staple. What will Sohla and Ham make? How do you make a dessert out of hot dogs? Stay tuned to find out.

  • S02E02 Can Sohla and Ham Make A Meal Out of Corn Flakes?

    • August 12, 2022

    Another episode of Mystery Menu is here! We give Sohla and Ham a surprise ingredient and one hour to turn it into dinner and a dessert. Today’s secret ingredient is … corn flakes! What will they come up with? Watch to find out.

  • S02E03 Sohla and Ham Turn Hot Pockets Into A 3-Course Meal

    • September 23, 2022

    OK, one thing about Sohla and Ham is that if you give them a mystery ingredient and one hour, they’re gonna come up with some mind-blowingly cool ways to use it. That’s simply how this show works, y’all! Today’s secret ingredient is … Hot Pockets! What will they come up with? Watch to find out.

  • S02E04 Sohla and Ham Turn Halloween Candy Into Dinner

    • October 27, 2022

    Sohla and Ham are back in the kitchen studio for another round of Mystery Menu. You know the drill: They get one mystery ingredient and one hour to make dinner and a dessert. Today’s secret ingredient is … Halloween candy! Festive. What will they come up with? Watch to find out.

  • S02E05 Sohla and Ham Turn Canned Cranberry Sauce Into Thanksgiving Dinner

    • November 21, 2022

    It’s Thanksgiving in the NYT Cooking studio kitchen, and that can only mean one thing: Sohla and Ham are back for another round of your favorite series, Mystery Menu! The way it works is they get one hour to make dinner and a dessert out of one mystery ingredient. Today’s secret ingredient is … cranberry sauce. Timely! What will they come up with? Watch to find out. Want to read about how cranberry sauce is made? Click here: https://nyti.ms/3i6WCoC

Season 3

  • S03E01 2 Chefs Try to Make a 4-Course Meal Out of Bacon

    • May 12, 2023

    Sohla and Ham are back! That’s right, it’s a brand new episode of Mystery Menu. Here’s how it works: We give them one hour and one surprise ingredient. They turn it into dinner and a dessert. Today’s secret ingredient is … bacon! What will they come up with? What does a bacon dessert look like? Watch to find out.

  • S03E02 The World’s Smelliest Fruit? Sohla and Ham Try Cooking With Durian

    • June 23, 2023

    Sohla and Ham are back for another installment of Mystery Menu. They have one hour, one surprise ingredient, and one challenge: make dinner and a dessert. Today’s secret ingredient, which was a fan request, is … durian! How will they use it? Watch to find out.

  • S03E03 Tajín Challenge: 2 Chefs Make Dinner and Dessert With Tajín

    • July 14, 2023

    Did someone say “more Mystery Menu”? Yup, we did. It’s here, and it’s a good one. In this installment, Sohla and Ham are challenged to make dinner and dessert in under an hour using Tajín. Can they do it? (Duh.) Will it be amazing? (Double duh.) Watch to find out.

  • S03E04 Vegan Challenge! 2 Chefs Make a Meal Out of Mushrooms

    • September 1, 2023

    It’s a vegan challenge! In this installment of Mystery Menu, we give Sohla and Ham one surprise ingredient and one hour to turn it into dinner and a dessert — with one caveat: It has to be vegan. Today’s secret ingredient is … mushrooms! What will they come up with? What kind of dessert can you make out of mushrooms? Have they seen “The Last of Us”? Watch to find out.