@@PokeMaster22222 Go buy almost any morning star product or try any of the beyond meat offerings at fast food joints. If your fake meat products are tasting like crap then chances are it's cause no one is seasoning the fake meat products at any point... or much worse; they're not using msg (or a naturally occurring source of msg so they can claim no msg added 9.9). MSG makes the fake meat taste truly meaty.
I like how Atomic Shrimp spent days processing the carrots so carefully and diligently, then at the final step it was "Yeah, just chuck 'em on baguette". brilliant.
dude dude dude! Ok try this one, it's my go to and tastes like the real thing. sliced mushrooms. cracked black pepper, smoked paprika, salt, little cumin, little coriander seed, minced garlic, grill em or fry them. I only have a halogen oven so they're boshed in there, I'd love it if you tried that and let me know what you think! :)
Mushrooms would definitely work better as they have a natural umami flavor that will give that meatyness flavor. Carrots with msg added would be similar, but the texture of the mushrooms should give a better mouthfeel.
Mushrooms are the best meat substitute I've ever tried. Best vegan dish I ever ate was faux beef in black bean and the mushrooms had the texture, look and flavour of beef. Sadly, They're all secretive of how exactly they do it, Save for saying it's a process of de and re hydrating the mushrooms as well as dicing them to an almost pudding consistency, Which is how they are able to shape it. The only real give away that it's vegan is there is no I guess fat in the "meat" but I can't explain what I mean by that very well lol
I don't think you'd actually want to go this far, but I imagine you could grind up some carrots and avocados, put the appropriate spices in the mix and extrude it into some vegan sausage casings. Also, if the saltiness isn't quite right, you might want to try a bit of nitrate salt for preserving meat. It makes most things taste like pepperoni. -edit I've found that cooking vegetables before dehydrating them makes them a lot better at being reconstituted.
Yeah, I'd at least give them a quick blanch first. Especially when you're not going to cook them afterwards. The unmarinated carrot chips would go well in soup, too.
My kids make mini pizzas on tortilla wraps. Bake 350 for 10 minutes on a baking sheet or something similar that fits with parchment paper, and they are really good! I just usually do regular pepperoni and cheese and sauce
I absolutely love this channel. It’s been so long since I found a small(ish) independent channel with such quality content! You deserve way more viewers!
I love your videos! Seriously, your channel goes from tech stuff to "let's cook carrots" and I don't think there's any other channel like yours in UA-cam.
I may give this a shot. I like the concept - and I'm most definitely an omnivore. I haven't got a dehydrator, but I do have a smoker. Perhaps a bit of soaked hickory for a few hours would pep it up. Great presentation, thank you.
You can use your oven to dehydrate. I do it every year with extra vegetables from the garden, especially cherry tomatoes. Just spread out on a cookie sheet and set the oven on it’s very lowest setting.
@@maryannebrown2385 Good call. Having had my oven for two years, I finally thought to give it a closer inspection - it has a dehydrate button right on the front. I feel silly, but I still may use the smoker, just to see what happens.
@@PacketWrangler you could use the smoker to add flavour and start the drying process and if they aren't quite dry enough to you liking you could use the dehydrate setting on your oven to dry even further!
My 5 year old begged me to try making this, and they turned out wonderful. I boiled mine a bit with the spices, drained, then seasoned a bit more. Then into a dehydrator. I put the "pepperoni" directly on the pizza sauce with cheese on top so they rehydrate a bit.
I have officially finished the entire vegan series on Atomic Shrimp. And the thought of whether upon drying the carroty brine we can get a carrot salt is now killing me.
I would guess the second set of carrots would pick up the spices tastes better. If you think about, the carrots are like a sponge. Drying them up first would be akin to squeezing the sponge and getting rid of all the water before soaking it in something else. The first set of carrots wouldn't absorb as much because they're already full of water when you marinated them.
I enjoyed this better than the budget food series, but it’s something else how cheap your food is compared to your other expenses. Or compared to here. I just bought a cheap in store made loaf of Canadian grains bread for 2.99$ and was surprised how cheap it was.
i also like making a pizza on baguettes, used to get them frozen from morrisons so much that i desesitized myself to them and started doing my own, so good how you can change it up with mushrooms or bacon and is much better
Mr Shrimp - one of your old food experiments landed in my 'suggestion to view' box. Watching you make the pepperoni out of carrots & you commenting on the taste being almost there. I was wondering, with the addition of some spices & maybe something else that might be available that would complement - could you bring life to carrots, herbs & spices to the mighty Nduja? I know Calibrian's want my head on a plate and they run in their droves with pitch forks, shovels & torches lit with petrol soaked rags - burn the witch and more. I was hopeful you could see a further process to bring carrots a 2nd or 3rd life. I am in my new garden, 2 years without love & attention. Mobility rather limited. Could it be something you could re-look at? Sending Barrow-in-Furness respect & enjoyment of your vlogs. David.
Interesting experiment. I've heard of this being done but never wanted to try it myself - maybe I will now. I once went to a trendy craft ale bar that did vegan pizzas but instead of cheese, they used carrot. Carrot might be able to mimic meat in some situations, but it certainly can't mimic cheese. I've been vegan for 5 years and never seen that idea since, which is probably due to the fact that it was terrible. It completely ruined the pizza experience. It was like a weird warm salad on bread.
Good attempt Mr Shrimp....interesting experiment. I am a vegetarian...and i don't understand why food producers like Quorn try to make stuff that looks like Meat ??....the very thing you are trying to avoid ? ...any sensible thoughts on this would be appreciated ....peace.
That looks remarkably like pepperoni pizza I've gotten from gas stations. Or from school even. The 'meat' just looks like it's been dried out by being left under a heater for too long.
I never thought I'd hear "I never thought I'd hear "I never thought I would hear someone say "future shrimp" but here I am" but here I am" but here I am
I never thought i’d hear “I never thought I'd hear” "I never thought I'd hear "I never thought I would hear someone say "future shrimp" “but here I am" but here I am" “but here I am” but here i am
One time i accidentally left a bag of frozen carrots in the freezer for way too long, they got super freezer burnt. I melted them just to check them out and they were tough and chewy and really porous, in retrospect they might have made an interesting meat substitute after seasoning. Freezing the water out of them did quite strange things to the texture, might be worth experimenting with Getting them pretty pepperoni like should be doable, pepperoni gets almost none of its flavor from the meat, being so heavily spiced. Like I think vegan chorizo is kind of better than meat chorizo, they've got the exact same flavor anyway. Maybe try a more traditional pepperoni spice blend? I think the mustard seed and paprika are probably fairly important
Something interesting (because who doesn’t like learning new things?), pepperoni in many European languages refers to a type of chilli or bell pepper- what you’re making here would be called “salami”. This was wonderfully demonstrated when a colleague of mine visited Italy on a work trip. He’s the kind of “a meal isn’t a meal unless it has meat, vegetarians aren’t real people and deserve ridicule” kind of blokes. He ordered a pepperoni pizza and was mortified when it was just cheese and bell pepper!
I'm sorry that some nonvegans give you a hard time for these videos. As a vegan I'm genuinely grateful that one of my favourite content creators makes some vegan stuff, too. Keet it up!
The fact that you have to preemptively defend that you don't have an "agenda" for making a vegan meal option is sad to me. Dunno why so many people get so rabid against anything vegan, regardless of context. I recently went vegan and the amount of hate I've seen on perfectly pleasant vegan recipe vids is disheartening... That aside, it's a shame you couldn't get this experiment to fully work. I hope you try again and are able to get some better results! In the meantime at least you've got some carrot chips to snack on.
Thanks - I gave some of these things to a vegan colleague at work - apparently I did succeed in making something that's a decent bar snack. I have a few ideas about how to improve this so I will definitely try again.
I recently found out about your channel and I really like those budget meal vids. Next time I hope you can make all forage food in a day where you spend 0£ yet still make 3 meals from forage foods you get.
Mike, is liquid smoke available where you are at all? It's my go-to for meat-free cooking and does the same job as the paprika. I love it so much. Great stuff as usual!
Yeah, I had a bottle once. I found it a bit OTT on the smokiness. Smoked paprika is sometime like that for me too - so smoky it starts to taste like creosote (but not this tin of paprika)
Ok shrimp, I think you have a real winner here. A sort of Frankenstein kitchen show where you try all sorts of wacky good inventions that font even have to be that good. It needs a theme and since you scam baiting is the most popular content you have why not brand the show on that? For example, this episode could have been called Credible Pepperoni Offer. Another day you try to make some sort of alcohol mixed drink and call it "The John Warosa" or maybe some kind of movie time snack with Vienna sausages and potato wedges and call it the Genaro Fries. I don't know it might just be too much for you to do since I know you have a regular job too but I just enjoy your vids a lot lol
Would you consider doing a shopping trip video? Just buying your regular groceries? I love watching people walk through grocery stores in other countries and I think your channel would be perfect for it!
Could you try it again, but this time using the stalks, and discs cut from Horse or Portobello, or giant puffball (if you can find them) mushrooms? I'm sure you'd be able to fabricate a 'Mushroom punch' of a suitable diameter. Might be an interesting experiment - the meatiness of the mushrooms might give a more convincing 'mouth feel' than the fibrous root material of the carrots.
Great first attempt. Those carrots need to be sliced thinner. Cook a bit before dehydrating, then marinate. Also a few drops of liquid smoke and a bit of crushed fennel in the marinade will give you more of that pepperoni flavour.
Ah, that "No vegan agenda here!" spoiler, a bit sad how it needs to be there because you know how some people will react. That said, while I'm not a vegan myself, I had to give up cured meats (besides other things) because of digestion problems and yet I _don't_ understand the obsession with recreating foods you're not allowed to eat in vegan form. That's just feels like mourning meat-habits.
I'm not vegan just vegetarian, I fucking looooove the taste of meat. But that being said I've hunted and fished alot and also love animals, after a while I just started feeling bad having animals killed for my eating experience. Especially smaller animals, we're all sentient animals at the end of the day. So that's why I switched to a non meat diet. I'm not saying it's the same for everyone, but that's why I like meat substitutes.
Same. As a meat eater myself the whole meat alternative thing really annoys me. Like come on just do something similar instead of trying to replicate it, you won't make something as good anyways. If you don't want to eat meat don't eat stuff that's supposed to taste like it, that's kinda missing the point
@@DireChris I can understand gaining greater empathy towards animals once you understand the scope of their cognitive abilities. That's why most people balk at eating urban pets after all. Perhaps it was easier for me to mostly abandon foods I once loved, because my metabolism has changed. (Unfortunately that required forfeiting one of my once favourite vegetables -- the tomato.) If you must eat faux meat, ironically, try to stay away from the closer imitations of the burger sort -- research seems to indicate they are quite unhealthy.
@@GeorgeNoiseless yeah, alot of the meat alternatives are high in fats and heavily processed. Tasty but not great for you. I'll be honest they ain't as good as the real thing especially beef and pork alternatives but the faux chicken is pretty good, tasty and high in protein.
@@DireChris what I'm about to say maybe unpopular and seem cruel, but it can't be denied. Only humans (and a very limited group of mammals) are capable of complex thought/emotion through cognitive reasoning, we shouldn't humanise animals like they can fully grasp these concepts, because they simply cannot and work based on millions/billions of years of evolution to develop and define those precise animal instinct that makes them follow that direct function, to enable the most effective/efficient animal, and 99% of the time they can only act apon that. Don't get me wrong, i love animals, and 100% deserve repect, but its not healthy to humanise them in your mind to empathise, (though brutal and unsustainable) what we do is just us acting apon our own instincts within reason.
Try grilling, smoking, or otherwise cooking the carrots before and other process. You would have more of a pepperoni chewiness and add that smoky flavour (if either boiled with liquid smoke or smoked over hardwood). Also, my night job is at a restaurant in New York. We sell pizza. The pizza cook would go mad if I showed him this "pizza baguette" with vegan "cheese". I was thinking about sending it to him for a laugh, but I'm afraid he'd never be able to look me in the eye again.
Well, at least it's an interesting experiment. And if the results didn't quite mimic pepperoni, but still tasty - then it's not really a failure 🙂. You never know what you might get, til you try.
Okay, so rather than marinating, I would try: dried carrot chips, sauteed in oil and smoked paprika. You're not getting the gratuitous greasiness of pepperoni, otherwise...
Interesting. I wonder whether dehydrated sweet potatoes might work better for texture? The marinade recipe looks really good, might try that and make veggie chips with the carrots and maybe some parsnips.
@Atomic Shrimp- Hey my names Mike and I'm from Maryland over here in the United States. I was going to suggest you try an Maryland breakfast sometime and make a video on cooking it and your reaction to taste exc... Would really appericate it if you just think about it cause what I'm about to tell you is amazing :) lol. First you start off with 2 potatoes(wash dont peel) then you cut them up into small cube shapes. The smaller the better simply because they cook faster. Next you cook them half way done, at this point u toss in butter or oil( your preference) along with Freshly sliced up Onions, Green Bell Peppers, Red Peppers and mushrooms are optional. But in a pan with the potatoes an butter and all the other ingredients simply cook until they're brown and then strain out the butter and put the food into a bowl covered with a paper towel to absorb all the extra oil or butter. Seasons we use during this process are Seasoning Salt, Freshly ground pepper, pinch of basil and parsley, as well as a pinch of sea salt. For the eggs you must cook them so the yolks are still runny cause when eating everything the yolks are good for toast and the potatoes. And of course you need bacon as well to complete it as well as 2 prices of toast cut into 4 price with butter. Yes it's not a healthy breakfast lol but it's one you will not regret. So it's Potatoes( with onions, green an red peppers) eggs with the yolks runny, toast and bacon. So good and even if you dont record a video please try once you shall not be disappointed lol.
I went vegan a few months ago but I was raised vegetarian and these are just like something my family would make. So now I kinda want to find some decent vegan cheese & recreate it for the nostalgia
If you salted the carrots and left them out of the fridge, they might have fermented a bit. And now that I think about it, I don't think that would've been any improvement.
Guess it's a Central European thing; whenever we hear/read 'pepperoni' we automatically think of bell peppers. Call it 'salami', and we're on the same page, again^^. But it still looks and sounds tasty(actually, the smoked paprika sounds mouth-watering). Oh, and do use the carrot juice; it make a great stock/soup base. Just chop some other veggies up, fry them and deglaze with carrot juice instead of wine and you'll be bee's knees.
Iceland's newish Gino pizza range is pretty good, the ham and olive one is excellent, the meaty one is a bit greasy, but tasty. For £2.50 they're easily the best frozen pizzas, better even than Pizza express fresh ones. Carrots are best eaten raw, with or without dips.
To be honest, I think you were clutching at straws here but I think you did the best you could. Good experiment if your stuck in the bush with no Italians in sight, I think the fat plays a big part 🤔
Well it's better than my school doing a "vegan" hotdog. It was literally a boiled carrot in a bun. No dressing or anything. This was inspired
That sounds disgusting - like most vegan meat substitutes, honestly.
Man, what a way to deter people from vegan food, I've had some amazing vegan sausages, but even plain tofu would probably be better than just carrots
@@PokeMaster22222 Go buy almost any morning star product or try any of the beyond meat offerings at fast food joints.
If your fake meat products are tasting like crap then chances are it's cause no one is seasoning the fake meat products at any point... or much worse; they're not using msg (or a naturally occurring source of msg so they can claim no msg added 9.9).
MSG makes the fake meat taste truly meaty.
uggggg
Grilled carrot on a bun is pretty good though.
I like how Atomic Shrimp spent days processing the carrots so carefully and diligently, then at the final step it was "Yeah, just chuck 'em on baguette". brilliant.
"pizza" on a baguette works really well. The bread crust holds it together when you pick it up.
dude dude dude! Ok try this one, it's my go to and tastes like the real thing. sliced mushrooms. cracked black pepper, smoked paprika, salt, little cumin, little coriander seed, minced garlic, grill em or fry them. I only have a halogen oven so they're boshed in there, I'd love it if you tried that and let me know what you think! :)
oooh pls try it master shrimp
People always say mushrooms but as someone who doesn’t like mushrooms it’s very obvious when something is mushrooms
Mushrooms would definitely work better as they have a natural umami flavor that will give that meatyness flavor.
Carrots with msg added would be similar, but the texture of the mushrooms should give a better mouthfeel.
Really, that sounds brilliant. Thanks!
Mushrooms are the best meat substitute I've ever tried.
Best vegan dish I ever ate was faux beef in black bean and the mushrooms had the texture, look and flavour of beef.
Sadly, They're all secretive of how exactly they do it, Save for saying it's a process of de and re hydrating the mushrooms as well as dicing them to an almost pudding consistency, Which is how they are able to shape it.
The only real give away that it's vegan is there is no I guess fat in the "meat" but I can't explain what I mean by that very well lol
Am I vegan?
No.
Am I going to make this?
No.
Did I watch the full video?
Damn right I did
I don't think you'd actually want to go this far, but I imagine you could grind up some carrots and avocados, put the appropriate spices in the mix and extrude it into some vegan sausage casings. Also, if the saltiness isn't quite right, you might want to try a bit of nitrate salt for preserving meat. It makes most things taste like pepperoni.
-edit
I've found that cooking vegetables before dehydrating them makes them a lot better at being reconstituted.
Yeah, I'd at least give them a quick blanch first. Especially when you're not going to cook them afterwards. The unmarinated carrot chips would go well in soup, too.
Those baguette pizzas are actually a good idea for someone like me, who only has a toaster oven and very limited kitchen space. Cheers!
i use flatbreads and its SO GOOD.
My kids make mini pizzas on tortilla wraps. Bake 350 for 10 minutes on a baking sheet or something similar that fits with parchment paper, and they are really good! I just usually do regular pepperoni and cheese and sauce
I absolutely love this channel. It’s been so long since I found a small(ish) independent channel with such quality content! You deserve way more viewers!
I love your videos! Seriously, your channel goes from tech stuff to "let's cook carrots" and I don't think there's any other channel like yours in UA-cam.
5:19 "nono, not 'on these trays' , it's: uno, dos, tres!"
Obscure reference warning.
Fawlty Towers?
I wouldn't say it was that obscure, I got it :D Maybe 'old reference' nowadays.
The Bon Appétit test kitchen needs to hire you!
He is too good for peasants.
Southampton to New York is probably a little far to commute (!)
I lost it he he said ~sheese~
I may give this a shot. I like the concept - and I'm most definitely an omnivore. I haven't got a dehydrator, but I do have a smoker. Perhaps a bit of soaked hickory for a few hours would pep it up.
Great presentation, thank you.
You can use your oven to dehydrate. I do it every year with extra vegetables from the garden, especially cherry tomatoes. Just spread out on a cookie sheet and set the oven on it’s very lowest setting.
@@maryannebrown2385 Good call. Having had my oven for two years, I finally thought to give it a closer inspection - it has a dehydrate button right on the front. I feel silly, but I still may use the smoker, just to see what happens.
@@PacketWrangler you could use the smoker to add flavour and start the drying process and if they aren't quite dry enough to you liking you could use the dehydrate setting on your oven to dry even further!
My 5 year old begged me to try making this, and they turned out wonderful. I boiled mine a bit with the spices, drained, then seasoned a bit more. Then into a dehydrator. I put the "pepperoni" directly on the pizza sauce with cheese on top so they rehydrate a bit.
Might be late on the comment train, but I saw a tiktok video of a woman making crispy carrot bacon. Your video reminded me of that.
I have officially finished the entire vegan series on Atomic Shrimp. And the thought of whether upon drying the carroty brine we can get a carrot salt is now killing me.
I would guess the second set of carrots would pick up the spices tastes better. If you think about, the carrots are like a sponge. Drying them up first would be akin to squeezing the sponge and getting rid of all the water before soaking it in something else. The first set of carrots wouldn't absorb as much because they're already full of water when you marinated them.
Next week, Phoney Balogna on toast. (made from beetroot)
I enjoyed this better than the budget food series, but it’s something else how cheap your food is compared to your other expenses. Or compared to here. I just bought a cheap in store made loaf of Canadian grains bread for 2.99$ and was surprised how cheap it was.
did you end up doing that "carrot salt" experiment?
This dude lives like an actual Hobbit.
I would actually love to live in a Hobbit Hole. Rounded doors and ceilings are pretty impractical, but they look wonderful
I like that you're being honest
Mr Shrimp..... You are a Pioneer
What a brilliant idea.
It has always baffled me as to why vegans put in so much time and effort to make something resemble what they hate.
i also like making a pizza on baguettes, used to get them frozen from morrisons so much that i desesitized myself to them and started doing my own, so good how you can change it up with mushrooms or bacon and is much better
pepperoni is smoked dried , do the same with carrot slices with a smoker oven
Mr Shrimp - one of your old food experiments landed in my 'suggestion to view' box.
Watching you make the pepperoni out of carrots & you commenting on the taste being almost there.
I was wondering, with the addition of some spices & maybe something else that might be available that would complement - could you bring life to carrots, herbs & spices to the mighty Nduja?
I know Calibrian's want my head on a plate and they run in their droves with pitch forks, shovels & torches lit with petrol soaked rags - burn the witch and more.
I was hopeful you could see a further process to bring carrots a 2nd or 3rd life.
I am in my new garden, 2 years without love & attention.
Mobility rather limited.
Could it be something you could re-look at?
Sending Barrow-in-Furness respect & enjoyment of your vlogs.
David.
Yeah, I reckon fake Nduja might be possible using carrots and maybe something else. Of course some people will hate it on principle!
Interesting experiment. I've heard of this being done but never wanted to try it myself - maybe I will now. I once went to a trendy craft ale bar that did vegan pizzas but instead of cheese, they used carrot. Carrot might be able to mimic meat in some situations, but it certainly can't mimic cheese. I've been vegan for 5 years and never seen that idea since, which is probably due to the fact that it was terrible. It completely ruined the pizza experience. It was like a weird warm salad on bread.
U should make a soup out of he hydrated veggies :D
Rip I don't have a dehydrator but I really want to try it out and make it
Great experiment.
Geez, Eva scared the crap out of me...
Veggie jerky, snacks. Favored like pepperoni! Hummm..?
I wonder if radish wouldn't be better.
You are making me lust for a dehydrator! damn you!
But most assuredly thank you :)
Fyi vegan cheese is normally better used sparingly, as it can be a bit overpowering. In my experience anyway.
You are definitely missing some smoked paprika in this attempt.
You should blanch the carrots before dehydrating.
This is what vegans should put their energy in making
Check the channel "sauce stache"
when you said," the next thing to do is to dehydrate them" i knew you were going to pull out that one thing
You cut those way too thick to even try to pretend that they were pepperonis.
you can make "fake vegan" salami from animals and tell other ppl its a carrot
Damn those carrots lookin THICC
Wau :D i am never see someone try marinaed carrots :D
Carrot slices are the shape of pepperoni slices, so that's the place to start. lol... food science logic fail
Good attempt Mr Shrimp....interesting experiment. I am a vegetarian...and i don't understand why food producers like Quorn try to make stuff that looks like Meat ??....the very thing you are trying to avoid ? ...any sensible thoughts on this would be appreciated ....peace.
carrottoni
Missed a real opportunity to call this "pepperphony" there
I think that's trademarked
@@AtomicShrimp I think it is. I googled it
I think phony pepperoni actually rolls a bit better on the tongue.
That would be telling. Where is your sense of adventure?
I was gonna comment this omg
not gonna lie when he said "im gonna cheat a little" i was desperately hoping he'd pull out some pizza in a can :P
That looks remarkably like pepperoni pizza I've gotten from gas stations. Or from school even. The 'meat' just looks like it's been dried out by being left under a heater for too long.
I never thought I would hear someone say "Future Shrimp" but here I am
I never thought I'd hear "I never thought I would hear someone say "future shrimp" but here I am" but here I am
I never thought I'd hear "I never thought I'd hear "I never thought I would hear someone say "future shrimp" but here I am" but here I am" but here I am
I never thought i’d hear “I never thought I'd hear” "I never thought I'd hear "I never thought I would hear someone say "future shrimp" “but here I am" but here I am" “but here I am” but here i am
One time i accidentally left a bag of frozen carrots in the freezer for way too long, they got super freezer burnt. I melted them just to check them out and they were tough and chewy and really porous, in retrospect they might have made an interesting meat substitute after seasoning. Freezing the water out of them did quite strange things to the texture, might be worth experimenting with
Getting them pretty pepperoni like should be doable, pepperoni gets almost none of its flavor from the meat, being so heavily spiced. Like I think vegan chorizo is kind of better than meat chorizo, they've got the exact same flavor anyway. Maybe try a more traditional pepperoni spice blend? I think the mustard seed and paprika are probably fairly important
Instead of cutting the carrot classically, slice it at an angle, first hydrate them in a bath of water for 24 at room temp, then dehydrate them.
man, why am i always watching cooking/baking stuff, when i'm hungry?
Unfortunately no feet shots but overall i enjoyed the vid i throughouly enjoy your channel i hope you have a great day
Something interesting (because who doesn’t like learning new things?), pepperoni in many European languages refers to a type of chilli or bell pepper- what you’re making here would be called “salami”.
This was wonderfully demonstrated when a colleague of mine visited Italy on a work trip. He’s the kind of “a meal isn’t a meal unless it has meat, vegetarians aren’t real people and deserve ridicule” kind of blokes. He ordered a pepperoni pizza and was mortified when it was just cheese and bell pepper!
Interesting! Even though it wasn't a complete success this recipe seems nice. Thanks for the idea.
Been cooking and baking vegan meals for the last month, trying out new stuff is key, you never know what you can make :)
@James Parker damm, that sounds amazing, did you just try it out or did you use a recipe you could send me? :)
I love how you do the exact opposite of clickbait, yet it makes me want to click on the video more than actual clickbait
I'm sorry that some nonvegans give you a hard time for these videos. As a vegan I'm genuinely grateful that one of my favourite content creators makes some vegan stuff, too. Keet it up!
Thanks - I appreciate it!
The fact that you have to preemptively defend that you don't have an "agenda" for making a vegan meal option is sad to me. Dunno why so many people get so rabid against anything vegan, regardless of context. I recently went vegan and the amount of hate I've seen on perfectly pleasant vegan recipe vids is disheartening...
That aside, it's a shame you couldn't get this experiment to fully work. I hope you try again and are able to get some better results! In the meantime at least you've got some carrot chips to snack on.
Thanks - I gave some of these things to a vegan colleague at work - apparently I did succeed in making something that's a decent bar snack. I have a few ideas about how to improve this so I will definitely try again.
rly cool!! you're so creative and open-minded with your food, love it
I'd consider a quick blanch before dehydrating to improve the texture.
I recently found out about your channel and I really like those budget meal vids. Next time I hope you can make all forage food in a day where you spend 0£ yet still make 3 meals from forage foods you get.
Put these on a cauliflower pizza crust.
Mike, is liquid smoke available where you are at all? It's my go-to for meat-free cooking and does the same job as the paprika. I love it so much.
Great stuff as usual!
Yeah, I had a bottle once. I found it a bit OTT on the smokiness. Smoked paprika is sometime like that for me too - so smoky it starts to taste like creosote (but not this tin of paprika)
Ok shrimp, I think you have a real winner here. A sort of Frankenstein kitchen show where you try all sorts of wacky good inventions that font even have to be that good. It needs a theme and since you scam baiting is the most popular content you have why not brand the show on that?
For example, this episode could have been called Credible Pepperoni Offer. Another day you try to make some sort of alcohol mixed drink and call it "The John Warosa" or maybe some kind of movie time snack with Vienna sausages and potato wedges and call it the Genaro Fries.
I don't know it might just be too much for you to do since I know you have a regular job too but I just enjoy your vids a lot lol
Would you consider doing a shopping trip video? Just buying your regular groceries? I love watching people walk through grocery stores in other countries and I think your channel would be perfect for it!
Could you try it again, but this time using the stalks, and discs cut from Horse or Portobello, or giant puffball (if you can find them) mushrooms? I'm sure you'd be able to fabricate a 'Mushroom punch' of a suitable diameter. Might be an interesting experiment - the meatiness of the mushrooms might give a more convincing 'mouth feel' than the fibrous root material of the carrots.
Great first attempt. Those carrots need to be sliced thinner. Cook a bit before dehydrating, then marinate. Also a few drops of liquid smoke and a bit of crushed fennel in the marinade will give you more of that pepperoni flavour.
I see you do this, and what might be interesting is using beef jerky flavors to marinate the carrots, maybe cut the carrots in long chips
Not pepperoni, but interesting in themselves. Carrot snacks could be the next salty snack craze.
Ah, that "No vegan agenda here!" spoiler, a bit sad how it needs to be there because you know how some people will react.
That said, while I'm not a vegan myself, I had to give up cured meats (besides other things) because of digestion problems and yet I _don't_ understand the obsession with recreating foods you're not allowed to eat in vegan form. That's just feels like mourning meat-habits.
I'm not vegan just vegetarian, I fucking looooove the taste of meat. But that being said I've hunted and fished alot and also love animals, after a while I just started feeling bad having animals killed for my eating experience. Especially smaller animals, we're all sentient animals at the end of the day. So that's why I switched to a non meat diet. I'm not saying it's the same for everyone, but that's why I like meat substitutes.
Same. As a meat eater myself the whole meat alternative thing really annoys me. Like come on just do something similar instead of trying to replicate it, you won't make something as good anyways. If you don't want to eat meat don't eat stuff that's supposed to taste like it, that's kinda missing the point
@@DireChris I can understand gaining greater empathy towards animals once you understand the scope of their cognitive abilities. That's why most people balk at eating urban pets after all.
Perhaps it was easier for me to mostly abandon foods I once loved, because my metabolism has changed. (Unfortunately that required forfeiting one of my once favourite vegetables -- the tomato.)
If you must eat faux meat, ironically, try to stay away from the closer imitations of the burger sort -- research seems to indicate they are quite unhealthy.
@@GeorgeNoiseless yeah, alot of the meat alternatives are high in fats and heavily processed. Tasty but not great for you. I'll be honest they ain't as good as the real thing especially beef and pork alternatives but the faux chicken is pretty good, tasty and high in protein.
@@DireChris what I'm about to say maybe unpopular and seem cruel, but it can't be denied. Only humans (and a very limited group of mammals) are capable of complex thought/emotion through cognitive reasoning, we shouldn't humanise animals like they can fully grasp these concepts, because they simply cannot and work based on millions/billions of years of evolution to develop and define those precise animal instinct that makes them follow that direct function, to enable the most effective/efficient animal, and 99% of the time they can only act apon that. Don't get me wrong, i love animals, and 100% deserve repect, but its not healthy to humanise them in your mind to empathise, (though brutal and unsustainable) what we do is just us acting apon our own instincts within reason.
😍 when I saw the Lao Gan Ma lid in the corner of the screen!
Best channel on the internet
i was surprised when i went to italy and found out pepperoni just means pepper and the italian word for pepperoni is salami.
Try grilling, smoking, or otherwise cooking the carrots before and other process. You would have more of a pepperoni chewiness and add that smoky flavour (if either boiled with liquid smoke or smoked over hardwood). Also, my night job is at a restaurant in New York. We sell pizza. The pizza cook would go mad if I showed him this "pizza baguette" with vegan "cheese". I was thinking about sending it to him for a laugh, but I'm afraid he'd never be able to look me in the eye again.
Now make vegan hotdogs from carrots and see how they wobble.
I love his hotdog wobble thing lol
My hotdog wobbles often
Well, at least it's an interesting experiment. And if the results didn't quite mimic pepperoni, but still tasty - then it's not really a failure 🙂. You never know what you might get, til you try.
You have a nice tablecloth, was it home-made or purchased?
I'm about to sit down to pizza dinner. I must say, you have a penchant for making foods I wouldn't look twice at look and sound good. 8^P
Okay, so rather than marinating, I would try: dried carrot chips, sauteed in oil and smoked paprika. You're not getting the gratuitous greasiness of pepperoni, otherwise...
Interesting. I wonder whether dehydrated sweet potatoes might work better for texture? The marinade recipe looks really good, might try that and make veggie chips with the carrots and maybe some parsnips.
You may be able to emulate cheeae and pepperoni, but you cant emulate Atomic Shrimp! He is Boss!
You might like to try cultured cashew cheese. It's pretty popular and you learn quite a bit about how cheese culturing works :)
these videos get higher and higher quality every day
The "cheese" is much scarier :D
Hey I had to buy some beef jerky, then I wanted to make my own. I'd like to see you make some..
Your gastronomic experimentation is inspiring.
P.S. have you tried doing the same with mushrooms?
@Atomic Shrimp- Hey my names Mike and I'm from Maryland over here in the United States. I was going to suggest you try an Maryland breakfast sometime and make a video on cooking it and your reaction to taste exc... Would really appericate it if you just think about it cause what I'm about to tell you is amazing :) lol. First you start off with 2 potatoes(wash dont peel) then you cut them up into small cube shapes. The smaller the better simply because they cook faster. Next you cook them half way done, at this point u toss in butter or oil( your preference) along with Freshly sliced up Onions, Green Bell Peppers, Red Peppers and mushrooms are optional. But in a pan with the potatoes an butter and all the other ingredients simply cook until they're brown and then strain out the butter and put the food into a bowl covered with a paper towel to absorb all the extra oil or butter. Seasons we use during this process are Seasoning Salt, Freshly ground pepper, pinch of basil and parsley, as well as a pinch of sea salt. For the eggs you must cook them so the yolks are still runny cause when eating everything the yolks are good for toast and the potatoes. And of course you need bacon as well to complete it as well as 2 prices of toast cut into 4 price with butter. Yes it's not a healthy breakfast lol but it's one you will not regret. So it's Potatoes( with onions, green an red peppers) eggs with the yolks runny, toast and bacon. So good and even if you dont record a video please try once you shall not be disappointed lol.
I appreciate the spoilers in the title. Feels genuine
I went vegan a few months ago but I was raised vegetarian and these are just like something my family would make. So now I kinda want to find some decent vegan cheese & recreate it for the nostalgia
If you salted the carrots and left them out of the fridge, they might have fermented a bit. And now that I think about it, I don't think that would've been any improvement.
Guess it's a Central European thing; whenever we hear/read 'pepperoni' we automatically think of bell peppers. Call it 'salami', and we're on the same page, again^^. But it still looks and sounds tasty(actually, the smoked paprika sounds mouth-watering).
Oh, and do use the carrot juice; it make a great stock/soup base. Just chop some other veggies up, fry them and deglaze with carrot juice instead of wine and you'll be bee's knees.
Iceland's newish Gino pizza range is pretty good, the ham and olive one is excellent, the meaty one is a bit greasy, but tasty. For £2.50 they're easily the best frozen pizzas, better even than Pizza express fresh ones. Carrots are best eaten raw, with or without dips.
What about vegan friendly pizza made with 100% real cheese
a w yeah I just found this comment again cuz I got a notification from your reply and I don’t know what I was thinking
To be honest, I think you were clutching at straws here but I think you did the best you could. Good experiment if your stuck in the bush with no Italians in sight, I think the fat plays a big part 🤔
Shrimp, you should check Sauce Stash and recreate some of his recipes. I'd love to see your results and opinions!
I really enjoy your cooking insights
you could always try using beetroot? i have no idea what i am talking about, but it sounded like a good idea :)