TODAY’s Al Roker has smacked a blender during a live TV cooking segment while Dylan Dreyer tried to salvage the moment.
Cookbook author Laura Vitale joined the Today Show to show off some new dishes to improve your summer spreads.
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Today’s Al Roker ended up smacking a blender after it didn’t work on live TVCredit: ABC
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Al and the Today hosts were trying to help with making a summer dishCredit: ABC
She demonstrated how to make caprese pasta salad with grilled chicken and shrimp fajitas.
Al Roker, Dylan Dreyer, and Sheinelle Jones worked with Laura to help make the dishes she suggested whipping up.
When it came time to use a blender to emulsify ingredients needed for one of the dishes, it made a buzzing sound.
A frustrated Al kept trying to use it, but it didn’t want to work.
He ended up smacking the blender to try and jumpstart it.
“What is it with blenders? They never work!”
After Al smacked it, it finally started working.
“Now it wants to work!” Laura joked.
After the blender issue was resolved, the team was able to prep the recipes Laura came on to the show to demonstrate.
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Meanwhile, Al shaded two of his co-hosts in a funny off-camera moment.
The meteorologist hosted an Instagram Live on Tuesday just before filming started for Today.
In the video, Al, 68, filled his social media followers in on secrets from behind the scenes of the daytime TV show.
He filmed the crew as they busily moved around the New York set, moving furniture, filling glasses, and adjusting cameras.
Al spoke to a stage manager, and pointed out that the lottery was coming up soon.
Confirming that the next draw was on Wednesday, Al called out his co-hosts Dylan Dreyer, 41, and Craig Melvin, 44, in one fell swoop.
He said: “We’ve got to hit Dylan up. Dylan, of course, will not have the money. Dylan – while we all know that Craig’s cheap – Dylan is the secret cheapster.”
After Dylan arrived on set just one minute before filming started, Al softened the blow by complimenting her yellow dress, exclaiming: “Bringing the sunshine!”
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Al’s joke about Dylan was a callback to his mocking of Craig in February.
In one episode, the stars welcomed Brian Chung, the show’s business and data reporter, to present to viewers at home.
The hosts ran through a “by the numbers” segment and let them know how much they would be spending on average for the Super Bowl weekend, whether at the game or for a party at home.
Craig kicked off the segment, and Brian shared how much game tickets cost and how much people tended to spend on food at the game.
Brian said that last year, the average price of a hot dog and beer was $18, which shocked the stars.
“That’s shameful! $18 for a hot dog and a beer? That is shameful,” Craig said.
“They should throw in the hot dog!”
When Brian finished up the first slide, Al mocked his co-host and said: “I can see [Craig’s son] Dell now at the stadium. ‘Daddy, can we have a hot dog?’
‘No! I brought this bag of popcorn in here. You eat that and be happy.'”
Dylan and co-host Sheinelle Jones, 45, cracked up and Craig pointed to Al with a smile on his face.
“You know me well,” Craig told his co-host.
Al laughed as Craig added: “Eat before you go.”
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But when it came time to use the blender, it didn’t work at all and Al made a buzzing noise to pretendCredit: ABC
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Dylan asked “what is up with these blenders?” when it didn’t workCredit: ABC
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It eventually started to work but not after frustrating AlCredit: ABC
