The 20 Craziest Shenanigans from the 2018 Williams Sonoma Culinary Stage at BottleRock

At Napa Valley's 2018 BottleRock music festival, the Williams Sonoma Culinary Stage was like a live Food Network show meets Blue Man Group. Spectators were served up three days of in-your-face gastro-tainment with perfectly paired chef-and-celebrity shenanigans just begging to be Instagrammed.
Gold medalist snowboarder Shaun White and cake ace Duff Goldman showered the crowd with cotton candy snowballs. Top Chef Michael Voltaggio ignited a giant flamethrower just a few feet from the front row (Luckily, he only blackened Jamaican jerk chicken and not audience members). Singer Michael Franti waded into a sea of people with shareables to spread the good food vibes. Nearly every act cannonballed T-shirts at fans with a high-powered air gun.
Sure, there were legit recipe recs and cooking tips (Giada De Laurentiis gave solid knife advice to pop singer Halsey, "You control the knife; it doesn't control you!") But this year, the festival really amped up the antics. Picture your favorite food wizards (the stage often took on a magical cauldron vibe with nearly constant clouds of liquid nitrogen emanating from some frozen potion to beat the Napa heat) and their famous friends enjoying a kick-*ss kitchen party... in front of thousands of people. If you missed the fest this year or want to relive the best moments, see all the spontaneous snaps of BottleRock's gourmet guest list!

Jill Techel, the intrepid Mayor of Napa, goes upside down instead of Sideways (wine country's favorite movie) during her first-ever keg stand. We "salud" you, mayor, for kicking off the culinary stage antics.

Souvla chef Tony Cervone blended in to the backstage decor wearing head-to-toe "Williams Sonoma at BottleRock" camo. The cocktails were bold backstage, but his fashion choices were even bolder.

There are perks for standing front row of the culinary stage, including scoring free samples of the food demoed. Aaron Meneghelli, executive chef of The Carneros Inn candied carrots as a froyo topper. Who knew crispy, sweet carrots would rock so hard on a dessert?!

Olympian Shaun White made an appearance on the stage, laying down some fresh "pow" aka twirling cotton candy the size of giant snowballs (more on this later).

It wasn't long before Duff Goldman lobbed the sweetest snowball in history at the crowd. This resulted in a full-fledge food fight between the crowd and celeb guests.

Shaun White felt gold medal-level joy during his epic cotton candy snowball war.

Chef Michael Voltaggio crashed Duff Goldman and Shaun White's segment with an arsenal of liquid nitrogen, which he used to instantly freeze a bottle of Rosé into frosé.

Chef Aarón Sánchez's giant crawfish boil, featuring the largest All Clad pot we've EVER seen, was BAYOU-tiful.

Musician Michael Franti and former pro NFL player Ronnie Lott made the cut with world-renowned chef Charlie Palmer, who taught them all about beef.

Michael Franti spread the food love with the crowd by passing out the beef tacos himself.

Party starters Tiffani Thiessen and Missi Pyle made a surprise Robert Mondavi dance sandwich.

This complex T-shirt gun featured a Robert Mondavi wine bottle for the trigger, because #antics.

Dear Michael Voltaggio: despite Snoop's advice, please don't "drop it like it's hot" while handling a flamethrower.

Michael Voltaggio made hip-hop history — and jerk chicken — with Snoop Dogg and Warren G. Fun fact: It took Voltaggio "like 12 hours" to cook that dish for the rap legends. Snoop even took his plate off the stage to nosh on it later.

Snoop Dogg and Michael Voltaggio added the final, super-sized flourishes to their Guinness Book of World Record-winning gin & juice. No seriously, an official rep awarded it the title during the cooking demo.

Michelin-starred chef Dominique Crenn pour a big-*ss bottle of Rosé into the mouth of The Avett Brothers musician Joe Kwon. We wonder if that liquid courage made it easier to say, "I and love and you."

Before cooking up a pasta dinner, Food Network star Giada De Laurentiis and Halsey bonded over their Italian heritage and matching manicures.

De Laurentiis politely doctored Halsey's pasta dish with more shredded parmigiano.

In a Houdini-like disappearing act, molecular gastronomist Richard Blais POOFed in a cloud of liquid nitrogen "smoke" onstage.

Trisha Yearwood went "platinum" on the culinary front for her best-selling "Summer in a Cup" cocktail mixes at Williams Sonoma.