MasterChef star Gordon Ramsay recently taught singer Lil Nas X how to make the perfect panini. Lil Nas X, who has currently topped the charts with his hit song "Old Town Road" for a record-breaking 16 weeks in a row, teamed up with celebrity chef Ramsay to learn how to cook.
Ramsay is one of the celebrity chef hosts of MasterChef, a reality cooking competition on FOX based on a UK series of the same name, where amateur chefs compete in challenges for a prize of $250,000 and the title of MasterChef. Lil Nas X, meanwhile, comes from a completely different industry, having risen to international fame this year after releasing a hit country song "Old Town Road," followed shortly after by an even more successful remix featuring country legend Billy Ray Cyrus. Now, Ramsay and Lil Nas X's worlds are colliding in a new video on Ramsay's YouTube channel.
Ramsay taught Lil Nas X how to make a "Panini Don't Be a F*cking Meanie," named after another of the singer's hits based on a Cartoon Network show, at the chef's Japanese-inspired Lucky Cat restaurant in London. Ramsay and Lil Nas X's original panini creation consisted of a soft bao bun, mustard, pastrami, cheese, cabbage, and spicy kimchi. Once their paninis were pressed, the two men both chose unnecessarily large cutting tools - Lil Nas X technically had an ax and Ramsay used what looked like a small sword - to slice them in half. Despite it being slightly terrifying, they pulled it off. Watch the video below.
Also, on Ramsay's YouTube channel, fans can see the chef traveling the world and making eggs with worms and alpacas in Peru and meditating with monks in Thailand. Meanwhile, Lil Nas X has been busy trying to get another celeb on the "Old Town Road" remix bandwagon. So far, Dolly Parton and Mariah Carey seem interested. Recently, Ramsay has just launched his new show, Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted, which has already had backlash as it's been compared to Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations.
Viewers will have to wait and see if Ramsay's panini was so good that it inspired another single from Lil Nas X. Then again, maybe it'll inspire him to launch his own country western-inspired cooking and singing competition show. The combinations are limitless now that Ramsay and Lil Nas X were in the kitchen together. Who knows what will come next?
Source: Gordon Ramsay