Joel McHale & Ravi Patel bring some fun to life in the third season clip of Crime Scene Kitchen

Crime scene kitchen is back tonight and ready to whip up another piece of mystery, chaos and delicious baked goods! As the Bakers roll the dice on some really tricky clues this year, the stakes are higher than ever as we approach the halfway point of season three. The viewers now know that If teams make a wrong guess from the smorgasbord of clues found in the mysterious kitchen, it could lead them deep into the Decay Zonethereby forfeiting their chance to win the $100,000 grand prize.

To assuage their fears (and provide them with some degree of positivity), the show welcomes Animal Control star and comedian, Ravi Pateltonight and Collider has your first look with an exclusive clip Accompanied our meeting with the star on set earlier this spring. As Patel and the Crime scene kitchen Host checks in Ronan And Katelyn During their mystery baking, we can see that the two are up to no good with shenanigans that provide plenty of laughs.

Crime Scene Kitchen Guest Judge Ravi Patel Loves Strong Opinions (and Bad Desserts)

Patel may not bring a Michelin star or culinary credentials to the table Crime scene kitchenBut What he lacks in baking expertise, the funny actor makes up for in strong opinions – and lots of humor, as he told us last April on the set of the Toronto-filmed show. “I have no credibility as a food judge except that I like to eat. I’ve been doing this almost my whole life,” admits Patel. This confidence, coupled with his family's gift for bold emotions, make him the perfect candidate for the mystery dessert competition. “I have the ability to form strong opinions despite ignorance, and my entire family has this gift. “It really is a gift,” he jokes, positioning himself as the no-nonsense, food-loving joker on the jury. He goes on to laugh and say that these “strong opinions” are usually “just uninformed.”

But despite his self-irony, he takes his duties as a judge seriously. “The taste is very important to me, the texture is important to me, the aesthetic is important to me, and I also learned a lot from talking about it with them and the judges [Yolanda Gampp and Curtis Stone]. So, I think I actually have a good sense of what to look for.“The actor's journey from casual eater to dessert detective is made even funnier by his talent for giving feedback – whether you ask for it or not.

But beyond the playful banter, Patel embraces his role as an avid eater alongside his friend Crime scene kitchen Host, McHale. Because the two share a love of food, their dynamic makes the hour-long baking competition even more fun. Both openly admit that they have no self-control when it comes to eatingespecially if something tastes reasonably good. “The other thing that I think qualifies me for this is that I'm a glutton,” Patel jokes, and McHale backs him up with his own food confession. “If it’s good, I’ll eat the whole thing. I literally see it as a competition: 'I win! I win!'”

Joel McHale has complicated feelings about lemon bars

When Patel ups the ante by telling stories about eating bad cookies at dinner with the Crime scene kitchen Crew because they were there, These two prove that food is more than just a necessity — It's a lifestyle. McHale takes his open relationship with food a step further. “I love lemon and I love sweets, but for some reason I don't like them together,” he says of his complicated feelings about lemon bars. “But then I had a lemon mousse and thought, 'Oh, that's actually pretty good.'”

While Patel reveals that he doesn't like “most Italian desserts” like tiramisu and crème brûlée with all their “creamy” textures, McHale admits that even desserts he doesn't initially like can grow on him. “Every time people in New York said, 'These are the best cannoli there is,' and then I thought, 'Okay.' Then I had one here and thought, 'Oh, this is what they're supposed to taste like.'” Whether they're eating bad cookies or being pleasantly surprised by stories of dessert redemption, both McHale and Patel bring an unfiltered love of food This keeps things just as unpredictable as the hidden recipes Crime scene kitchen.

Crime scene kitchen airs at 9pm EST on Fox and streams the next day on Hulu in the US

In a unique cooking competition, teams of bakers must piece together clues left behind in a kitchen to identify and recreate a mysterious dessert. Each episode presents contestants with a series of challenges in which they examine leftover ingredients and cooking utensils to deduce the recipe. The recreated desserts are then judged based on their similarity to the original. The show combines elements of detective work with baking expertise as teams are gradually eliminated until one remains the winner.

Release date

May 26, 2021

Seasons

3

Watch on Hulu