Chef Mario Carbone wasn’t exactly into Drew Barrymore‘s antics on this morning’s episode of The Drew Barrymore Show.
The New York-based culinary icon (and one of the figures behind the starry restaurant Carbone), stopped by to teach Barrymore how to make a creamy spicy lobster pasta, which, according to him, “sounds fancier than it is.”
The duo kicked things off by preparing their garnish — long hot peppers and parsley.
“Long hots! You got some long hots!” Barrymore interrupted. “Sorry, this is the way my brain works, Mario. This is what I hear in my head.”
Ignoring her, Carbone went onto his next step, explaining, “I like to fry the parsley early,” before Barrymore again chimed in, “Fry the parsley!”
Things got a little more awkward as Carbone walked the talk show host through the lobster portion of the recipe. After turning the “dangerous job” of getting the meat out of the lobster into a rather simple task, Carbone moved onto the claw, telling Barrymore, “The easiest way to go about it is kind of take a bit of your aggression out here.”
He then covered the claw in a cloth and instructed Barrymore to beat it with a mallet.
“I don’t know what that lobster did to you,” he joked after she aggressively whacked the claw numerous times.
As Carbone tried to push the segment on, Barrymore said, “Look at me, I’m just hanging out with my hammer,” to which he quickly replied, “Please put the hammer down.”
Despite Barrymore’s clear lack of kitchen expertise, she had nothing but praise for the end result of their pasta dish.
“Oh my god, it’s so good,” she said. “It’s so good.”
This is hardly the first time Barrymore has aired a cringey cooking segment. During an October 2022 episode of The Drew Barrymore Show, the actress attempted to make a chocolate cake with guest Camila Cabello. However, she was seemingly called out by her producer via her earpiece after she failed to follow the instructions correctly.
“You know what sucks?” Barrymore asked. “[The Great British Baking Show is], like, all I watch and I clearly haven’t learned a thing.”
The Drew Barrymore Show airs on weekdays on CBS. You can check the website for local airtimes.