The Cottage Cheese Dip That Broke the Blender | A Last Minute Holiday Appetizer

Michael Symon gets voluntold into another Fan Fridge Challenge, this time raiding Jenna G’s Staten Island fridge packed with feta, mortadella, olives, chili crunch, and an obscene amount of cottage cheese—his personal kryptonite. Forced to face it, he builds a cottage-cheese–based dip while the blender fights back, Clinton gives play-by-play, and Carla heckles him about lemon seeds.

As the dip slowly comes together, Michael fries potatoes, shaves carrots, toasts pita over the burner, and turns mortadella into shockingly good “meat chips.” Fan questions roll in mid-chaos, covering flat cookies, dishwasher rules, and why mortadella isn’t just fancy bologna.

Against all odds, the dip works—and it’s delicious. The Caraway giveaway winner is announced, and Michael plates a full holiday appetizer board pulled entirely from a Fan’s Fridge. Total chaos. Total Chewed Up.

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 — Cottage cheese enters the chat (terror ensues)

01:00 — Jenna G’s Staten Island Fan Fridge revealed

02:00 — Mortadella, feta, dairy chaos… and cottage-cheese denial

03:30 — Michael reluctantly commits to a cottage-cheese dip

05:00 — The blender fight begins

07:00 — Clinton meets a man doing live street commentary

09:00 — Carla “my body is a microphone” Hall

10:00 — Blender Meltdown #2

12:00 — The cottage cheese finally moves

14:00 — Michael starts frying potatoes

17:00 — Music ignorance + friendship chaos

20:00 — Fan Mail lightning round

23:00 — Mortadella chip magic

25:00 — Mortadella vs. bologna explained

27:00 — Assembling the final holiday appetizer board

29:00 — Caraway cookware giveaway announcement

31:00 — Final dip reveal + tasting

34:00 — Carla plugs Next Level Baker

35:00 — Wrap-up

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Three lifestyle icons reunite with zero filter, strong opinions, and even stronger flavors. Clinton Kelly, Carla Hall, and Michael Symon are back in the kitchen with comedy, comfort food, and unfiltered conversation — served loud.

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