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Gordon Ramsay traded his Michelin-star kitchen for an open flame in the Andes, and the result involved moth larvae.

Gordon Ramsay’s digital series “Scrambled” dropped a new installment this week timed to the July 21 premiere of his National Geographic series “Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted,” which launched with the episode “Peru’s Sacred Valley.” In the short, titled “Gordon Ramsay Makes Scrambled Eggs With Worms In Peru,” Ramsay takes his signature slow-cooked scrambled egg technique to a high-altitude Andean setting and adapts it with a distinctly local twist: tree moth larvae, foraged on-site and folded straight into the eggs.

• The “Scrambled” episode ties directly into the July 21, 2019 premiere of “Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted,” which opened with the “Peru’s Sacred Valley” installment on National Geographic.
• Ramsay forages for edible tree moth larvae in Peru’s high-altitude Andean region, then lightly roasts and crisps them before blending them into his classic buttery scrambled eggs.
• The segment frames the larvae as an indigenous high-altitude survival food, tying the recipe to regional Peruvian culinary custom rather than treating it as a novelty stunt.

The Setup: Uncharted Meets Scrambled

“Uncharted” sends Ramsay into remote regions to cook using whatever ingredients and techniques he can find on the ground, and the Peru premiere put him squarely in the Sacred Valley’s thin air and volatile weather. “Scrambled” functions as the companion digital series, distilling one specific cooking moment from each location into a short, shareable clip built around Ramsay’s go-to dish: eggs, done his way, wherever he happens to be standing.

In this installment, that location is a mountainous outdoor setting with nothing but an open flame for heat. Ramsay works through his usual slow-cook method, building the eggs gradually rather than blasting them over high heat, before introducing the ingredient that makes this version different from every other “Scrambled” clip he’s filmed.

Foraging the Larvae

The centerpiece of the episode is Ramsay physically harvesting tree moth larvae in the region, a practice tied to Andean communities who have long turned to insects as a protein source at elevations where farming options are limited. He roasts the larvae over the flame until they crisp up, then works them into the eggs alongside butter, treating the ingredient with the same technical seriousness he’d apply to any classic French preparation back in London.

Gordon Ramsay Makes Scrambled Eggs With Worms In Peru | Scrambled

That’s the title National Geographic put on the clip itself, and it’s a fair description of exactly what happens on screen — no gimmick dressing, just Ramsay’s technique applied to an ingredient most of his audience has never cooked with. The larvae aren’t a shock-value garnish tossed on at the end; they’re roasted, crisped, and blended directly into the eggs as the dish comes together.

The Significance of Key Ingredients

The larvae aren’t framed as a dare or a gross-out bit. They’re presented as a real regional ingredient, part of how communities living at extreme altitude in the Andes have historically supplemented their diets. Ramsay’s version doesn’t disguise the larvae or drown them in seasoning — the point of the segment is showing how the ingredient fits into a legitimate, long-standing food tradition rather than treating it as a stunt for cameras.

That approach lines up with what “Uncharted” set out to do from its first episode: put Ramsay in a place, hand him local ingredients and techniques, and let him build something recognizably his own out of them. It’s the same instinct that’s made his other envelope-pushing digital content — from the World’s Most Dangerous Escape Room to stunts like the World’s Largest Challenge — resonate with an audience that wants a genuine test, not a scripted gag.

“Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted” airs its episodes on National Geographic, with “Scrambled” clips like this one rolling out weekly to give fans a bite-sized look at whatever Ramsay’s cooking up in that week’s location — worms in the Andes this time, whatever’s next on the map after that.