Even celebrity chefs like Rachael Ray can experience all-too-relatable mishaps in the kitchen.
Ray, 56, uploaded a cooking video for her TikTok followers on Thursday, January 2, in which she put a handful of ingredients in a food processor.
“Once you put the cheese into this mixture, it tends to make it white and cloudy and hard to navigate,” Ray said, fiddling with the device lid. “You know what else is hard to navigate? Turning on a new food processor.”
Ray then called for her husband, John Cusimano, to assist.
“John flying in from the director’s chair!” she quipped. “Mic’d or not, can you just fix the food processor, please? Make it go. ‘Make it go,’ that’s my broken English way of saying, ‘Please make it work.’ Let’s see how long it takes John to figure it out.”
The video then sped up as Cusimano, 57, fiddled with the food processor and the accompanying cord. Ray tried to help, pointing out different ways to fix the situation to no avail.
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“This is turning into a party joke: How many people does it take to make the Cuisinart work?” she added. “Did we even check that it was plugged in?”
While Cusimano was certain that the processor was indeed plugged in, Ray continued to double-check two more times, just “to be sure.”
“No reason for that not to be working,” she said with a laugh after Cusimano plugged the processor back into an outlet. “Can you believe I have a cooking show?”
Once Cusimano finally got the processor to work, Ray corrected the buttons he pressed.
“No, pulse, pulse, pulse, pulse,” Ray said. “Now, John, take the lid off and add a cup of this.”
Cusimano, however, jokingly lamented potentially removing the lid when “it took [him] all episode” to successfully secure it on the processor.
Ray has been married to Cusimano, who helps run her vast lifestyle empire, since 2005.
“One of the things that, I think, has been essential to my life and my success over the years has been the partner that I chose,” Ray gushed on a November 2024 episode of her “I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead” podcast. “I love my husband, John, and [he] works with me and has built our business and our brand together.”
She added at the time, “My husband and I didn’t get married until very late in life [at] 37 and 38 years old, but it was very important to me that I marry him because I thought this person could be a true partner in what I believe in and helping people.”
Cusimano mostly stays behind the scenes during filming, but occasionally helps Ray in the kitchen. She told Us Weekly last month how Cusimano “contributes a ton” to holiday meals.
“I always task him with making the eggnog from scratch,” Ray exclusively told Us in December 2024. “He has a killer recipe where he froths skim milk and then shakes in cardamom, cinnamon, rum and an egg. It’s lighter than a store-bought eggnog but just as delicious.”
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