This is so much Not a lasagna!🤦♀️ Your version was so perfect in every point and most definitely not a lazy man way to do it, but The way to do it! But calling this this dish a lasagna is false advertising! Thanks James, you are the best!🤗
I would love to try your lasagna, but I'm allergic to tomatoes. Could you show us an easy and affordable NOmato sauce recipe? I'm sure many people would appreciate it.
But...but like... you can get the no cook noodles and just slap it together in quick layers.... it just goes in the oven and the pasta cooks within the sauce. Thats not even lasagna, that IS zitti... the face that he over cheesed it and didn't bake it is not what makes a lasagna. True lazy mans lazagna is pretty easy, you get a meat sauce, the no cook noodles and you add like a half cup of extra water or less on the size... the sheets will get soft in the sauce making them very flavorful and all you did really was assemble and bake...
Where is the seasoning? No onions, no garlic, no herbs, no pepper, salt anything! That is not cooking, that is smashing convenience food together and heat it up. And it looks disgusting.
Also, and I haven't gone back to the beginning to check, but did he actually say he's ITALIAN?!!! I mean, it's a pretty unforgiveable dish no matter what, but if someone with Italian heritage thinks that's good food, I've seen it all 😬.
@@ChefJamesMakinson Yes, I saw that video too Vincenzo's exact words were, "That is no lazy lasagna because there is just no such thing as lazy lasagna I can't watch this, no, I am sorry, you may be a good cook, but this no." He would not watch this one, James he saw the title and the ingredients and just blocked that from seeing it. He did see this one and refused to watch it.
Can you expound on that a bit? I used to watch him years ago when I knew nothing about cooking. I mean in early UA-cam days. After I saw this video pop up, I went to Jack's page to see how he's doing. Looks like he may have had another stroke or something. His speech is slurred. Bad cooking or not, I hope he's okay. But maybe you can tell me something different.
@@MarkM_ He's openly confessed to (more like _bragged_ about) physically abusing his son and kicking him out when he was a minor. You can google about it if you want, just keep in mind this is the stuff he's fine talking about.
@MarkM_ I feel like if I tried to write much about all the various controversies, UA-cam’s bad comment filtering AI would freak out and make the comment vanish. But his Wikitubia page seems to have a pretty good summary of all the terrible things he’s done and said. August the Duck also made a video named “Cooking with Jack is a terrible person” which covered most of it.
@@MarkM_ The big one is that he choked his son. A funny one is that he forced his son to get a job at a computer store and the people there introduced him to sativa. People don't seem to know that part of the culture of programmers is sativa, like vaping or hitting a bong while working on projects. It's sort of like how people are unaware of just how prevalent Adderall is in influencer culture. Like, it doesn't matter who your favorite influencer is or what they do, they're very likely using some kind of stimulate, probably Adderall, possibly cocaine if they're wealthy enough.
This is a great recipe. I've made it and I'm delighted: the roof of my garden house is finally sealed and the garage door no longer squeaks! As soon as it snows, I'm going to wax my ski with the cheese noodles. Great!
James, you spent so much time giving Jack credit for pouring over the sink you never questioned why he used two pots in the first place! Kinda defeats the idea of making clean up easier don’t ya think 😂
Jamie also did a not lasagna. He did use the sheets but just tore them up and mixed them in, so it had no layering and was functionally just a generic vegetarian pasta bake.
I sometimes wonder if Jack legitimately just doesn't understand that things like "lasagna" and "enchilada" are actual words that have actual meanings and not just some strange made-up foreigner sounds that can be applied to any food from a particular region of the world. Just call them "lazy man's pasta" or "lazy man's nachos" bro. Same dish, same theme, and you don't leave everyone confused as to how the thing you made is even remotely close what you called it.
Same for the word lazy. He makes a lot of recipes “lazy” that are already lazy. Lasagna is a perfect example. The average person is using mostly pre prepared ingredients. You just layer it, takes a few minutes at most. We have “I don’t wanna cook” meals and lasagna is on the rotation it’s so easy.
@@Carl_Brutananadilewski True that. There have been several times when he's made a "lazy man's recipe" that actually seems like more work than just making the original dish would be.
Dear god WHY WHY WHY!!!! My mom is Irish mixed with Czech, and she wouldn't even do this!!! Yeah she would use oven ready lasagna sheets, jar sauce, but i swear it would never look like this...Pink Noddles Soup Abomination!!!!! I'm gonna show my mom this and see how upset she gets 😂 and shes 70!!! LASAGNA is suppose to be a dish that brings you warmth and comfort...not ANGER.
Still amazing that he's been making cooking videos since the early early days of UA-cam and hasn't noticeably improved his skills at all in all those years.
I am just baffled that he has chosen cooking as his contribution to youtube! I don't get it. Most eight-year-olds could make the stuff he's churning out, and they certainly wouldn't brag about it 🙄
So let me get this right, he's been given plenty of notice to properly cook this dish, which is supposedly for a school event where authenticity would seem important. However, instead, he makes a ridiculous slop that is in no way, shape, or form resembles the actual dish.
Exactly. Jack prioritised his cooking show and fat man food hacks rather than cooking a traditional lasagna for the kids at school. He could have done one vegetarian and one meat lasagna and given the kids a real, true authentic Italian meal, but I guess his Italian heritage doesnt mean too much to him if he’s going to send out slop like that.
Hi Chef, Italian here! I live near Bologna so LOTS of fresh pasta (tagliatelle, ravioli, cappelletti,…) with the traditional ragù. Also piadina with prosciutto, mortadella, salamE and so on… a variation of piadina is “crescione” (cassone in some cities in Emilia Romagna) which is basically a piadina dough stuffed with whatever you like and cooked “closed”. PS: nothing wrong with Jack who seems like a nice guy but his Italian recipes are disturbing to say the least… As always great video and plenty of good knowledge. Ciaooo❤️
@@2Evil2Hopethat and, during a church service, the pastor said some horrible things about the Palestinians, and Jack was quick to show his support to it.
@@kingrama2727 I mean he said it himself, look up Sunday Evening Coffee episode 6, I forgot where in the video he says it but you can check the comments for a timestamp
I love Jack's enthusiasm. Honestly, I bet the cheesy tomato pasta bake (without the bake) would taste fine and a whole lot of kids would eat a decent portion. But a couple of extra ingredients and another step or two could make this quite delicious. Just please, Jack, don't use the word "lasagne" anywhere near this recipe.
Oh no, Jack did it again. "Hit the road Jack and don't you come back No more, no more, no more, no more Hit the road Jack and don't you come back no more"
If I would have known that you were uploading a Cooking with Jake video, I would have skipped eating Jollibee. Very few things make me physically sick, Jake's cooking is number 1. Why do you put yourself through this chef? 😂
@@thembill8246 He was on some kind of like Christian parenting podcast show if i recall. I don't know if that video is still up but I remember that his views on parenting and stuff were super awful.
8:14 sure thing! Around here we got Pizzoccheri, Polenta Taragna, Sciat (wow, it's all buckweat based). Then we have various Brasato and Stracotto, and the very typical Missoltino.
So, he made a pasta casserole with the cheapest ingredients possible, then served it to schoolchildren under the name "lasagna." How is this a treat for the kids? It's the same sort of slop they receive every other day in the cafeteria.
Gotta love a lasagna recipe that doesn’t have lasagna noodles in it… brb I’m gonna go make my famous chicken tortellini that uses spaghetti noodles and ground beef!
As an Italian myself, I can confirm what he said about the regional food. In my region (marche) we eat quite a lot of orrechiette, even if they do come from apulgia. We also do have our own version of pecorino, obviously pecorino romano is the most popular but pecorino marchigiano is also not that popular. I also have roots from the north, and polenta is quite possibly as popular as risotto because it is a fast dish to make, even if it doesn't have as many variations.
I am in the kitchen making the homemade sauce for lasagna which your video inspired me to make and to my surprise i get notified about a new video to you reacting to "Jack's lasagna " which looks horrifying. Great video and keep up the great work.😊
Dont disrespect Italian Americans who can actually cook... yes the cuisine is different from authentic Italian but the ones that cook well still make amazing food. Jack is just not one of them
Thank you for sharing this video! I'm almost certain that the kids had one look at that mess and said "Nope.. ain't gonna touch that!" I've found that if you can't find mozzarella di bufala, a good alternative is fior di latte. It is equally delicious!
When you get to 500k subscribers I think you should follow one of Jacks recipes that you have reviewed but not the pizza because that one actually looks edible.
To save from 'breaking' the fridge (assuming you mean glass shelves), a cooling rack on a tea towel works great as long as it's not straight off the stovetop hot. A tea towel over the top will trap the moisture and keep most from getting into the fridge (which has it's own problems), and not let it drip back into the food. The real problem will be in warming up the surrounding food.
Lazy man's lasagna... Using half and half industrial sauce and industrial cheese to make a super fatty bowl of tomato vomit with overboiled-looking pasta. The mind boggles as to how anyone, even Jack, could think this has anything to do with "lasagna". It's "spaghetti in a can", but worse. Edit: I suppose I should try to be constructive. Step one in a lasagna is having layers. Sauce, pasta, sauce, pasta. Step two is having an actual sauce. Melted cheese with a bit of industrial whatever is stretching the meaning of "sauce" pretty far. Just fry off some mince in a pot, then turn down the heat, remove the meat temporarily, sweat your soffritto, then dump in some tomato paste if you have it, then add meat back, add some red wine (or red wine vinegar), clear the bottom of sticky bits, then add a couple of cans of minced tomato and maybe som stock or maybe just water. Then let it simmer for an hour. You'll barely need to add herbs and stuff, but you can. There's your sauce. Step 3, don't be afraid of letting the sauce be a bit runny when you layer it. Some water boils off during baking, some is captured by starch from the pasta plates. That's why the lasagna is usually better if you let it rest for a while after baking. Step 4, don't burn the hell out of the top layer. Browning is good, blackening is not. My preference is foil-covered top and a bit of broiler at the end for highly controlled browning but to each their own. Unless they're into acute pyrolysis.
This is definitely not a lasagna, but it probably tastes fine, so that’s a point for Jack Something I find funny, he said he wasn’t putting meat in the sauce because of vegetarian students, but a couple years ago, Jack wrote a cookbook and he didn’t include the meat Also, do you think you might react to his Lazy Man’s Paella sometime?
I feel like this guy is an amalgamation of every weird guilty pleasure recipe everyone has and puts it into one channel. We all have them but it's probably best to keep it secret.
There definitely are vegetarian kids. I never cared for meat as a kid, and still gag with ground meat from the texture. I knew several even in rural Texas in the '90s, whose parents were meat eaters. Often the parents had a farm and raised their own meat. Kids are smarter than you're giving credit, and they're able to make choices. Forcing them to eat something they don't like or have moral objections to isn't good parenting, and acting like they can't possibly have formed their own opinions, or that they're somehow invalid just because you're the parent is a good way to spend your senior years wondering why they don't talk to you.
"Something tells me the vegetarian kids wouldn't really mind meat in the lasagna because it'd be a reason to not taste it" LOL. Truer words never been said
This is just Reaganomics poverty cooking. I grew up on it. It's how you make alot of food for the least amount. It's crazy that I'd work all day making restaurant quality food then come home and make something like this... And my chef roommates would come home and be happy with it. Those 5 years I almost never saw one of them cook their own menu for themselves. On the plus side because it was a small island all of the Chefs knew each other so if you went out to eat, you'd get hooked up good. But when we were home, yeah, we'd cook like this and the leftovers would transform into different things as the week went on. Reaganomics cooking is how I'd describe it..
@@darrellmarcks6304 I strive to be this delusional. This it not an excuse to make this food this awful. Even with limited ingredients you make an amazing meal. I don’t know how you came to this conclusion but many “poor” countries or developing country has amazing food 💀
@dontsleephungry716 No one ever said poor countries didn't have amazing food. I'm glad you recognize that. I'd stress if you had the desire to be delusional, might I suggest turning your focus on what's being talked about. How many studies have been done on the American Health Crisis and conclusions across the board keep showing impoverished areas having unhealthy eating standards based on food costs and food traditions... That... Maybe... I don't know.. might have come from eras or periods of time of limit or strife or economic decline.... So, thank you for being stunning and brave. Thank you for your input. Thankfully this sounds like it wasn't your lived experience. This unfortunately is and was other people's lived experience, for as delusional as we might have been and some continue to be. I'd further encourage you in your quest for unenlightenment to not understand where this kind of cooking or cooking attitude comes from and just mock it for what it is. People like this aren't real and certainly there aren't a portion of us that laugh at this because we lived that life before. May you forever be the voice of morality on the Internet.
I love cooking in big batches. I got a chest freezer and now, as well as packages of frozen meat straight from the store, I have many containers of cooked chicken, pork tenderrloin, stew meat, meatballs, of spaghetti sauce, of pea soup, chicken stock and soup, chili, sauteed onions with and without peppers, chicken curry, etc. I don't ever have to eat the same thing twice in a row if I don't want to, or eat something less than delicious because I'm just too tired or feeling sick or out of it somehow. Like you say, some things take a long time to cook, but if you get a half dozen or more meals out of it, the time per meal isn't all that much. And there are lots of things, like slow cooker meals, that take very little effort.
I'm from the province of Modena, where balsamic vinegar is from. The most famous dishes here are tortellini, tortelloni, lasagna, but also tigelle and gnocco fritto are an extremely common thing, you should look a little bit at all the dishes from my region (Emilia Romagna)! Parmigiano Reggiano also comes from my province
10:25 who reheats the entire thing over and over? I always just reheat the portion I'm going to have and leave the rest in the fridge. It's amazing how many food safety issues people create for themselves.
That wasn't even lasagna.. He could have at least layered the sauce, pasta, and cheese. Plus he could have made one with meat and the other without since he had two pans. What really gets me though.. is that he seems proud of his "cooking" 🤣🤣 Thanks for the video
2:34 At my supermarket, we carry mozzarella packaged in a bowl of water, which is my favorite. There's also an option in buffalo milk, but I find those have a funky taste that I don’t enjoy. I prefer the traditional version in water. Sometimes, I’ll even buy one and snack on it on my way home - it’s that good!
Guga once said that his theory on why Jack's cooking is so bad is that his oven just doesn't work right, and that Jack is just used to it. Another theory that people have is that Jack never preheats his oven.
Not from italy but some underrated dish I absolutely love is frico friulano! Cheesy, just a few ingredients and absolutely delicious. The single best thing I learned cooking through my travel in Italy!
Im from the UK, even we dont make lasagna these way, , we make it with past sheets and whites sauce, layered, meat sauce, pasta sheet, then white sauce and so on, the final touch at the end would be a cheese, i tens to use an english cheese, a cheddar, or a red leicester, gives nice tatse and a great colour and crisp top, with the darker orange to red colour
I'm italian. I live in Sardinia. We have a lot of different recipes but since i think you are reacting to a pasta dish, i'll tell you about "Maccarroses de busa", they're a pasta made for weddings and it consists of noodles made by rolling dough around a knitting needle, cooked al dente, mixed in a clay pot with a tomato meat sauce and then baked in the oven for a few minutes.
@ChefJamesMakinson the best time would be during autumn because there are tons of food festival, like chestnut, new wine, mushrooms... or you could come to the festival of saint francis of Lula and eat Filindeu
One pot baked ziti is probably more accurate but, I do like to still layer my baked ziti properly and add the layers of ricotta separate. It'll all mix together eventually but having those dollops of ricotta on top with breadcrumbs for a crispy top goes a long way and it's not much more of a step in prep
For all that is holy! That is being called Lasagna? I'm Irish, even I know better. Thank you, Chef James, keeping it together and watching you do commentary on this train reck and keeping us well grounded! I hope the kids that are receiving this culinary gift, know how to dial 911...
When I went to Italy with school we didnt get pasta once in the 2 week. Covered all of Sicily and a few day's in Rome and not once did they serve us anything my grandmother would make. We had a lot of fish, risoto etc..
Hi chef, North Italian from Lombardy here. Traditional food are Risotto, Polenta (made with corn flour), some stews (like Cassoeula), Pizzoccheri (sort of buckwheat tagliatelle with cheese, potatoes, etc) alongside the more national dishes. The regional dishes do not make up the day by day diet though, as those dishes are quite demanding to digest! I feel like most of those are not quite known abroad or even by some Italian compatriots.
When your talking about the sauce not being bathroom noise... and then you hear it again with Jacks " Ooooh".... absolute perfect timing for unintended humor. Also i have the mind of a 5year old....😅😅😅.
i kinda wish i knew more of my grandfathers italian heritage but i love learning about the northern regions of Italy myself also. i also love spending a lot of time making a large meal to have multiple days over the next couple days or weeks to save me time
Interesting bit with chilling the food. I'd always heard that anything with tomato sauce you want it to come down to room temperature before putting it in the fridge, otherwise it gets sour.
The lasagna I grew up with was my Italian grandmothers recipe, specially the lasanga from Naples! You have layers of pasta with just tomato sauce, ricotta cheese, little mini meatballs and finely diced hard boiled egg! Everyone looks at me like I'm crazy when I've talked about it, and only as an adult did I look it up and realize it was a very specific, regional lasagna. But it's all I ever knew, so it's the only lasagna for me. 😊
Chef James I would watch this right now but based on your thumbnail, look like I have to skip it until tomorrow since I just finished eating dinner 😂. ❤❤
Very interesting maccaroni with cheese/tomatosauce. We always layer lasagne using dry lasagna-noodle-sheets and alternating layers of bechamel sauce and a kind of tomato/ground-meat sauce (italians call it ragu i think), topping it with cheese (whatever we have in our fridge, might be mozzarella, might be a local cheese like emmenthal) on the last layer. Cheese is only on the top, not inside the lasagna. (Bechamel does not contain cheese in our recipe)
This is how I did it before too, but I have to say that getting fresh lasagna sheets (or how is it called) make a huge difference. I got a pasta maker (it is just two rolling pins with a hand crank and a cutter if you want long, thin noodles) and it is great thing! I don't know how much dry pasta costs where you live, but here lasagna specifically is surprisingly expansive. Like twice as much per weight than penne, farfalle, spaghetti or other shapes (why? No idea), so that little machine paid itself in 10 batches. And now kids help me make pasta at home. It is fun to make some noodles or ravioli or lasagna together.
I only understand "building" layering/prepping lasagna the way you did in your original video, so when I saw Mr. Jack's approach I was shook and befuddled! Mush on acid! 😭
I just sent this to an Italian friend of mine. She told me our friendship was on the line if I ever did something like that again. This dish is an abomination.
Grandma made awesome caprese, and these awesome fried zucchini flowers fried and stuffed with cheese . My cousin does most of the family get togethers . She has done lasagna, and she does the feast of the 7 fishes every Christmas. I have done chicken parm , pasta fagoli , potato zuppa, baked ziti , pesto for normal every day dinners .
In case you're using a glass baking tray (I don't know how common they are in the US but here in Italy and Germany that's 99% of what we use at home) don't cool it in the fridge after you bake it or the glass might break
Many years ago, we were visiting my brother in law and now ex sister in law. Between them, they had a lot of kids. It was a yours, mine and ours situation. Now my sister in law was not a very good cook and I remember all the children lined up at the table eating what she called " lasagna". It was nothing more than cooked macaroni with tomato sauce poured over the top of it. I often wonder how much time it took for those poor kids to realize that that glop was not lasagna.
About the multiple reheating - I know its not good for you but in Poland we believe the more times you reheat the bigos (hunter's stew) - the better it becomes :) never seen anyone getting sick after bigos but maybe its just the magic of bigos ;)
All Jack´meals are nightmare fuel... a guaranteed bad night, between bad dreams and rushing to the WC... this guy motivates me, as long as I don´t do what he does I´m a secret michelin star chef as far as I know!
Ah i sit down with my breakfast to watch Chef James react....and immediately am told "probably shouldnt eat before this video" 😂😂 it was a rough one but i got through!
The only man who can catfish you in the kitchen, his “lasagna” looks a lot like unbaked ziti and yet his take away from it was “dont put the plastic lid on top”
Be sure to see The WORST Enchiladas EVER after this! ua-cam.com/video/HvpsyZVE9ts/v-deo.html
I will😂 what is the worst dish you ever tasted, not in terms of execution but the dish itself? 🤓🤓
This is so much Not a lasagna!🤦♀️
Your version was so perfect in every point and most definitely not a lazy man way to do it, but The way to do it!
But calling this this dish a lasagna is false advertising!
Thanks James, you are the best!🤗
You should do a Collab with Chef Brian Taso on Cooking with Jack worst videos ever!
@@ChefJamesMakinson I still have nightmares about that video
I would love to try your lasagna, but I'm allergic to tomatoes. Could you show us an easy and affordable NOmato sauce recipe? I'm sure many people would appreciate it.
His 'lazy man lasagna' was so lazy that it turned into 'one pot pasta' because that's what it is. But he used two pots so hell if I know.
He always does nasty lazy one pot stuff.
I've seen so many really terrible versions of lasagna - don't know how many people screw it up.
3 pots
He has something in common with Jamie Oliver
But...but like... you can get the no cook noodles and just slap it together in quick layers.... it just goes in the oven and the pasta cooks within the sauce. Thats not even lasagna, that IS zitti... the face that he over cheesed it and didn't bake it is not what makes a lasagna. True lazy mans lazagna is pretty easy, you get a meat sauce, the no cook noodles and you add like a half cup of extra water or less on the size... the sheets will get soft in the sauce making them very flavorful and all you did really was assemble and bake...
Where is the seasoning? No onions, no garlic, no herbs, no pepper, salt anything! That is not cooking, that is smashing convenience food together and heat it up. And it looks disgusting.
Also, and I haven't gone back to the beginning to check, but did he actually say he's ITALIAN?!!! I mean, it's a pretty unforgiveable dish no matter what, but if someone with Italian heritage thinks that's good food, I've seen it all 😬.
Unbelievable!!!!
in the can haha
Big boi lunchables
I belive that garlic isn't in a Italian lassagna.
I found it funny how Vincenzo's Plate ended up blocking Jack after watching his "lasagna"
really??
@@ChefJamesMakinsonYup. He blocked him around close to the end of his reaction video, if I remembered correctly
I had no idea, that's funny. 😂🤣😂🤣
😂😂😂
@@ChefJamesMakinson Yes, I saw that video too Vincenzo's exact words were, "That is no lazy lasagna because there is just no such thing as lazy lasagna I can't watch this, no, I am sorry, you may be a good cook, but this no." He would not watch this one, James he saw the title and the ingredients and just blocked that from seeing it. He did see this one and refused to watch it.
I used to feel sorry for Jack, what with how many UA-camrs make fun of him. Then I found out he’s an abusive monster.
Can you expound on that a bit? I used to watch him years ago when I knew nothing about cooking. I mean in early UA-cam days. After I saw this video pop up, I went to Jack's page to see how he's doing. Looks like he may have had another stroke or something. His speech is slurred. Bad cooking or not, I hope he's okay. But maybe you can tell me something different.
@@MarkM_ He's openly confessed to (more like _bragged_ about) physically abusing his son and kicking him out when he was a minor. You can google about it if you want, just keep in mind this is the stuff he's fine talking about.
@MarkM_ I feel like if I tried to write much about all the various controversies, UA-cam’s bad comment filtering AI would freak out and make the comment vanish. But his Wikitubia page seems to have a pretty good summary of all the terrible things he’s done and said. August the Duck also made a video named “Cooking with Jack is a terrible person” which covered most of it.
@@MarkM_ kiwi farms has you covered
@@MarkM_ The big one is that he choked his son.
A funny one is that he forced his son to get a job at a computer store and the people there introduced him to sativa. People don't seem to know that part of the culture of programmers is sativa, like vaping or hitting a bong while working on projects.
It's sort of like how people are unaware of just how prevalent Adderall is in influencer culture. Like, it doesn't matter who your favorite influencer is or what they do, they're very likely using some kind of stimulate, probably Adderall, possibly cocaine if they're wealthy enough.
2 defining characteristics of lasagne… Layers. And lasagne sheets.
This is a MESS.
This is like making cheese tortellini with spaghetti and ground beef
Thank you! I was so confused, why doe they even call it lasagna?
This is a great recipe. I've made it and I'm delighted: the roof of my garden house is finally sealed and the garage door no longer squeaks!
As soon as it snows, I'm going to wax my ski with the cheese noodles.
Great!
This took me out
I don't get it. I think the lack of flavour is the big problem with it, not the greasiness from cheese.
Lmfao 😂😂
and it worked as wolf and bear repelemt too.
It's pretty safe to assume that if you hear the words "Lazy man's" next to each other in Jack's videos, they translate into English as "biohazard".
It doesn't matter what your heritage is, you can tell this this is not lasagne
James, you spent so much time giving Jack credit for pouring over the sink you never questioned why he used two pots in the first place! Kinda defeats the idea of making clean up easier don’t ya think 😂
Jack was to lazy to stirr I think. ;)
Lasagna... Without Lasagna...
I mean he just made a 4 tons of cheese with a little bit of tomato sauce and macaroni.
It's just macaroni bake, not lasagne. Ironically, I just had proper lasagne for my evening meal.
That's rigatoni, not macaroni, but yeah.
Like when Jamie Oliver made Ramen without Ramen
Jamie also did a not lasagna. He did use the sheets but just tore them up and mixed them in, so it had no layering and was functionally just a generic vegetarian pasta bake.
Those poor poor children Jack's son will be the first student to be expelled for this dish
I feel bad for them.
@@EatCarbs You should feel bad for his son too. Jack admitted he tried to choke him out on a podcast a few years ago.
@@Pakeee2 Different son, this was for Jack Jr’s class, the son he choked was Garrett
@@Nick_C1997 so he poisons one and chokes the other.
I mean, that's not the worst thing he's ever done to that son....
James, we all know that if Jack is associated with anything related to cooking, there's no need to preface it with "worst". That's a given. 😂
its for the search
the pizza he did okay
It's amazing, really. Jack can produce content that complies with UA-cam's community guidelines while simultaneously violating the Geneva Protocol.
@@BruceEverett Or like Jack calls it, the Geneva suggestions.
_"Welcome to Cooking with Jack. Today I'm going to show you, how to make, Lazy Man's War Crimes."_
@@Bailonus "Why slather a cut of meat with mustard when mustard gas circulates around it much easier?"
I sometimes wonder if Jack legitimately just doesn't understand that things like "lasagna" and "enchilada" are actual words that have actual meanings and not just some strange made-up foreigner sounds that can be applied to any food from a particular region of the world. Just call them "lazy man's pasta" or "lazy man's nachos" bro. Same dish, same theme, and you don't leave everyone confused as to how the thing you made is even remotely close what you called it.
He actually gets mad if you point this out. Dude has an ego the size of a mansion.
Same for the word lazy. He makes a lot of recipes “lazy” that are already lazy. Lasagna is a perfect example. The average person is using mostly pre prepared ingredients. You just layer it, takes a few minutes at most. We have “I don’t wanna cook” meals and lasagna is on the rotation it’s so easy.
@@Carl_Brutananadilewski True that. There have been several times when he's made a "lazy man's recipe" that actually seems like more work than just making the original dish would be.
Dear god WHY WHY WHY!!!! My mom is Irish mixed with Czech, and she wouldn't even do this!!! Yeah she would use oven ready lasagna sheets, jar sauce, but i swear it would never look like this...Pink Noddles Soup Abomination!!!!!
I'm gonna show my mom this and see how upset she gets 😂 and shes 70!!!
LASAGNA is suppose to be a dish that brings you warmth and comfort...not ANGER.
Jack is like "we have Guy Fieri at home," except home is hell.
Not even in Hell do we make lasagna like that...even for the tormented souls. The food is always good down here, to make the torment worse.
8:52 “dumping it” is definitely the phrase you wanna use when cooking…
Still amazing that he's been making cooking videos since the early early days of UA-cam and hasn't noticeably improved his skills at all in all those years.
That's because he's confident he already knows everything. Why try to improve what you believe to be perfection?
Sadly enough practicing something enough doesnt always lead to getting better. Especially when it's being done wrong all the time
His confidence and actual cooking skill don’t correlate.
Him being in the kitchen is like Eddie Hall being on broadway, singing in a dress.
Eddie Hall would succeed at Broadway in a dress. He's a true entertainer. Look at his tank he drives to the gym. 😂
I mean.... people would actually pay to see that though.... aint noone paying to see Jack
Dunning-Kruger effect in full swing here!
I am just baffled that he has chosen cooking as his contribution to youtube! I don't get it. Most eight-year-olds could make the stuff he's churning out, and they certainly wouldn't brag about it 🙄
He is like the cooking version of Eddie the eagle
So let me get this right, he's been given plenty of notice to properly cook this dish, which is supposedly for a school event where authenticity would seem important.
However, instead, he makes a ridiculous slop that is in no way, shape, or form resembles the actual dish.
Exactly. Jack prioritised his cooking show and fat man food hacks rather than cooking a traditional lasagna for the kids at school. He could have done one vegetarian and one meat lasagna and given the kids a real, true authentic Italian meal, but I guess his Italian heritage doesnt mean too much to him if he’s going to send out slop like that.
Hi Chef, Italian here! I live near Bologna so LOTS of fresh pasta (tagliatelle, ravioli, cappelletti,…) with the traditional ragù. Also piadina with prosciutto, mortadella, salamE and so on… a variation of piadina is “crescione” (cassone in some cities in Emilia Romagna) which is basically a piadina dough stuffed with whatever you like and cooked “closed”.
PS: nothing wrong with Jack who seems like a nice guy but his Italian recipes are disturbing to say the least…
As always great video and plenty of good knowledge. Ciaooo❤️
Actually, it's been revealed that Jack has been abusive towards his children in a video, so he is a bad guy.
@@2Evil2Hopethat and, during a church service, the pastor said some horrible things about the Palestinians, and Jack was quick to show his support to it.
Fresh ravioli 🤤
@@jmrs_i don’t believe this…
@@kingrama2727 I mean he said it himself, look up Sunday Evening Coffee episode 6, I forgot where in the video he says it but you can check the comments for a timestamp
I love Jack's enthusiasm. Honestly, I bet the cheesy tomato pasta bake (without the bake) would taste fine and a whole lot of kids would eat a decent portion. But a couple of extra ingredients and another step or two could make this quite delicious. Just please, Jack, don't use the word "lasagne" anywhere near this recipe.
Oh no, Jack did it again.
"Hit the road Jack and don't you come back
No more, no more, no more, no more
Hit the road Jack and don't you come back no more"
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If I would have known that you were uploading a Cooking with Jake video, I would have skipped eating Jollibee. Very few things make me physically sick, Jake's cooking is number 1. Why do you put yourself through this chef? 😂
sorry haha
"grind up the mozzarella"
Who on Earth "grinds" cheese? This guy...
I swear I thought it was going to cut to Jack loading his pepper mill with mozzarella...
That immediately got on my nerves. I was shouting "GRATE you idiot" in my head 😬
After seeing how Jack literally bragged about choking out his own kid.....I've no respect for him at all.
When was this?
It was on a podcast. He choked him, kicked him out, disowned him, and told his brother he died@thembill8246
@@thembill8246 several years back. He went on some type of talk show.
@@thembill8246 He was on some kind of like Christian parenting podcast show if i recall. I don't know if that video is still up but I remember that his views on parenting and stuff were super awful.
@xevysilverwind9494 Oh its up and on a channel not his own from the negative reaction it received
yo james these roasts were immaculate 😂😂😂 happy holidays! stay safe
same to you!
8:14 sure thing! Around here we got Pizzoccheri, Polenta Taragna, Sciat (wow, it's all buckweat based). Then we have various Brasato and Stracotto, and the very typical Missoltino.
So, he made a pasta casserole with the cheapest ingredients possible, then served it to schoolchildren under the name "lasagna."
How is this a treat for the kids? It's the same sort of slop they receive every other day in the cafeteria.
isn't cafeteria food universally better than the abominations that jack makes ?
Who said the food will be a threat for kids?
It saddens me to think that some poor kids would hate pasta for the rest of their lives shortly after.
Gotta love a lasagna recipe that doesn’t have lasagna noodles in it… brb I’m gonna go make my famous chicken tortellini that uses spaghetti noodles and ground beef!
Kate, Jack and KingCobrajfs the three horsemen of bad cooking. Rated "best" to worst.
Does James even know who Cobra is?
@@ninakilled3453 If he doesn't, he would be in for a surpise. If he thought Jack was bad.... hooo boy...
@@Vincisomething Fr
@@ninakilled3453 not sure but i would love to see his reaction😂 tmdwu
You forgot Masaokis
As an Italian myself, I can confirm what he said about the regional food.
In my region (marche) we eat quite a lot of orrechiette, even if they do come from apulgia. We also do have our own version of pecorino, obviously pecorino romano is the most popular but pecorino marchigiano is also not that popular.
I also have roots from the north, and polenta is quite possibly as popular as risotto because it is a fast dish to make, even if it doesn't have as many variations.
Jack's cooking reminds me of all those food waste video reels you see on Facebook
"The family thinks it's funny... good to know"...and now I'm laughing 😂
I am in the kitchen making the homemade sauce for lasagna which your video inspired me to make and to my surprise i get notified about a new video to you reacting to "Jack's lasagna " which looks horrifying. Great video and keep up the great work.😊
So for HERITAGE day, not only did he not actually make a real lasagna….he couldn’t even be bothered to make an authentic pasta….
Guys like this are the reason why Italians don't automatically go along with it when Italian Americans call themselves "Italian".
yeah they are just americans
Dont disrespect Italian Americans who can actually cook... yes the cuisine is different from authentic Italian but the ones that cook well still make amazing food. Jack is just not one of them
Italian American food can be great. This is fast food like you'd get at Sbarro.
Thank you for sharing this video! I'm almost certain that the kids had one look at that mess and said "Nope.. ain't gonna touch that!" I've found that if you can't find mozzarella di bufala, a good alternative is fior di latte. It is equally delicious!
Giving that lasagna to a classroom of children should be child abuse.
I’m not sure how much longer I have but want you to know how much your videos mean to me. They’ve been such an escape for me from being ill.
Weirdo
It's a bad one, but nothing can top the dishwasher lasagna from that crazy woman.
When you get to 500k subscribers I think you should follow one of Jacks recipes that you have reviewed but not the pizza because that one actually looks edible.
6:55 I think I remember where I heard that quote before... It sounded like Jamie Oliver's lasagna video, minus the "NO!" part XD
Same expression as me 8:21 loved the reaction xD
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Eh?!
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To save from 'breaking' the fridge (assuming you mean glass shelves), a cooling rack on a tea towel works great as long as it's not straight off the stovetop hot. A tea towel over the top will trap the moisture and keep most from getting into the fridge (which has it's own problems), and not let it drip back into the food. The real problem will be in warming up the surrounding food.
Lazy man's lasagna... Using half and half industrial sauce and industrial cheese to make a super fatty bowl of tomato vomit with overboiled-looking pasta. The mind boggles as to how anyone, even Jack, could think this has anything to do with "lasagna". It's "spaghetti in a can", but worse.
Edit: I suppose I should try to be constructive. Step one in a lasagna is having layers. Sauce, pasta, sauce, pasta.
Step two is having an actual sauce. Melted cheese with a bit of industrial whatever is stretching the meaning of "sauce" pretty far. Just fry off some mince in a pot, then turn down the heat, remove the meat temporarily, sweat your soffritto, then dump in some tomato paste if you have it, then add meat back, add some red wine (or red wine vinegar), clear the bottom of sticky bits, then add a couple of cans of minced tomato and maybe som stock or maybe just water. Then let it simmer for an hour. You'll barely need to add herbs and stuff, but you can. There's your sauce.
Step 3, don't be afraid of letting the sauce be a bit runny when you layer it. Some water boils off during baking, some is captured by starch from the pasta plates. That's why the lasagna is usually better if you let it rest for a while after baking.
Step 4, don't burn the hell out of the top layer. Browning is good, blackening is not. My preference is foil-covered top and a bit of broiler at the end for highly controlled browning but to each their own. Unless they're into acute pyrolysis.
Subbed bro thanks for the quality content binged like 9 of your videos back to back lmao
Thanks for the sub!
This is definitely not a lasagna, but it probably tastes fine, so that’s a point for Jack
Something I find funny, he said he wasn’t putting meat in the sauce because of vegetarian students, but a couple years ago, Jack wrote a cookbook and he didn’t include the meat
Also, do you think you might react to his Lazy Man’s Paella sometime?
Wait wait wait wait wait... this guy wrote a "cookbook"????
@ It’s a cheaply made pdf file, but yeah, technically he did
In my country, we call this a pasta bake.
@ Is that country England? Because we call it the same thing here
I feel like this guy is an amalgamation of every weird guilty pleasure recipe everyone has and puts it into one channel.
We all have them but it's probably best to keep it secret.
There is not such thing as vegetarian kids. There are kids who are being forced by their horrible parents to not eat meat.
There definitely are vegetarian kids. I never cared for meat as a kid, and still gag with ground meat from the texture. I knew several even in rural Texas in the '90s, whose parents were meat eaters. Often the parents had a farm and raised their own meat.
Kids are smarter than you're giving credit, and they're able to make choices. Forcing them to eat something they don't like or have moral objections to isn't good parenting, and acting like they can't possibly have formed their own opinions, or that they're somehow invalid just because you're the parent is a good way to spend your senior years wondering why they don't talk to you.
"Something tells me the vegetarian kids wouldn't really mind meat in the lasagna because it'd be a reason to not taste it"
LOL. Truer words never been said
This is just Reaganomics poverty cooking. I grew up on it. It's how you make alot of food for the least amount. It's crazy that I'd work all day making restaurant quality food then come home and make something like this... And my chef roommates would come home and be happy with it. Those 5 years I almost never saw one of them cook their own menu for themselves. On the plus side because it was a small island all of the Chefs knew each other so if you went out to eat, you'd get hooked up good. But when we were home, yeah, we'd cook like this and the leftovers would transform into different things as the week went on. Reaganomics cooking is how I'd describe it..
@@darrellmarcks6304 I strive to be this delusional. This it not an excuse to make this food this awful. Even with limited ingredients you make an amazing meal. I don’t know how you came to this conclusion but many “poor” countries or developing country has amazing food 💀
@dontsleephungry716 No one ever said poor countries didn't have amazing food. I'm glad you recognize that. I'd stress if you had the desire to be delusional, might I suggest turning your focus on what's being talked about. How many studies have been done on the American Health Crisis and conclusions across the board keep showing impoverished areas having unhealthy eating standards based on food costs and food traditions... That... Maybe... I don't know.. might have come from eras or periods of time of limit or strife or economic decline.... So, thank you for being stunning and brave. Thank you for your input. Thankfully this sounds like it wasn't your lived experience. This unfortunately is and was other people's lived experience, for as delusional as we might have been and some continue to be. I'd further encourage you in your quest for unenlightenment to not understand where this kind of cooking or cooking attitude comes from and just mock it for what it is. People like this aren't real and certainly there aren't a portion of us that laugh at this because we lived that life before. May you forever be the voice of morality on the Internet.
I was poor as hell during Clintonomics and Obamanomics and never ate slop like this. You just wanted to say White Man Bad.
@@Firevine that's wild.
I love cooking in big batches. I got a chest freezer and now, as well as packages of frozen meat straight from the store, I have many containers of cooked chicken, pork tenderrloin, stew meat, meatballs, of spaghetti sauce, of pea soup, chicken stock and soup, chili, sauteed onions with and without peppers, chicken curry, etc. I don't ever have to eat the same thing twice in a row if I don't want to, or eat something less than delicious because I'm just too tired or feeling sick or out of it somehow. Like you say, some things take a long time to cook, but if you get a half dozen or more meals out of it, the time per meal isn't all that much. And there are lots of things, like slow cooker meals, that take very little effort.
'Where's Vincenzo when you need him?"
Made me smile... :)
Haha 😄
I'm from the province of Modena, where balsamic vinegar is from.
The most famous dishes here are tortellini, tortelloni, lasagna, but also tigelle and gnocco fritto are an extremely common thing, you should look a little bit at all the dishes from my region (Emilia Romagna)!
Parmigiano Reggiano also comes from my province
10:25 who reheats the entire thing over and over? I always just reheat the portion I'm going to have and leave the rest in the fridge. It's amazing how many food safety issues people create for themselves.
That wasn't even lasagna.. He could have at least layered the sauce, pasta, and cheese. Plus he could have made one with meat and the other without since he had two pans. What really gets me though.. is that he seems proud of his "cooking" 🤣🤣
Thanks for the video
Another great episode keep it up me and my daughter love watching 🙌🙌👍
Thank you! Will do!
@@ChefJamesMakinsonmy daughter just seen your love Hart ❤️ made her day and week 🙈 genuinely love the episodes
2:34 At my supermarket, we carry mozzarella packaged in a bowl of water, which is my favorite. There's also an option in buffalo milk, but I find those have a funky taste that I don’t enjoy. I prefer the traditional version in water. Sometimes, I’ll even buy one and snack on it on my way home - it’s that good!
Guga once said that his theory on why Jack's cooking is so bad is that his oven just doesn't work right, and that Jack is just used to it.
Another theory that people have is that Jack never preheats his oven.
I saw the Title, my reaction was 0:15 because I knew, what was going to happen 🥲
Made your lasagna for my parents when they came to visit. They loved it and even took some home. Even my mom wanted the recipe.
Jack is the gift that just keeps on giving. Those poor children....
To this day, the funniest Jack video was when he tried to make pickles. A couple of years later, he did a re-do video.
I love that he's not pretentious about what he's doing
Not from italy but some underrated dish I absolutely love is frico friulano! Cheesy, just a few ingredients and absolutely delicious. The single best thing I learned cooking through my travel in Italy!
feel bad for the kid, imagine going to school with a tray of this and having to say this is a lasagna with a straight face
I lived in Sicily for a few years and the buffalo mozzarella and prosciutto panini’s from the gas stations were so incredible. I miss them.
Im from the UK, even we dont make lasagna these way, , we make it with past sheets and whites sauce, layered, meat sauce, pasta sheet, then white sauce and so on, the final touch at the end would be a cheese, i tens to use an english cheese, a cheddar, or a red leicester, gives nice tatse and a great colour and crisp top, with the darker orange to red colour
I'm italian. I live in Sardinia.
We have a lot of different recipes but since i think you are reacting to a pasta dish, i'll tell you about "Maccarroses de busa", they're a pasta made for weddings and it consists of noodles made by rolling dough around a knitting needle, cooked al dente, mixed in a clay pot with a tomato meat sauce and then baked in the oven for a few minutes.
Thank you for the explanation. I have always wanted to visit Sardinia!
@ChefJamesMakinson the best time would be during autumn because there are tons of food festival, like chestnut, new wine, mushrooms... or you could come to the festival of saint francis of Lula and eat Filindeu
One pot baked ziti is probably more accurate but, I do like to still layer my baked ziti properly and add the layers of ricotta separate. It'll all mix together eventually but having those dollops of ricotta on top with breadcrumbs for a crispy top goes a long way and it's not much more of a step in prep
I wonder if this is the same son that he proudly bragged about almost choking to death because the kid smoked a joint, would actually explain a lot.
I liked when you talked about the regional dishes in Italy, I could have listened to you talk about that in more detail
For all that is holy! That is being called Lasagna? I'm Irish, even I know better. Thank you, Chef James, keeping it together and watching you do commentary on this train reck and keeping us well grounded! I hope the kids that are receiving this culinary gift, know how to dial 911...
When I went to Italy with school we didnt get pasta once in the 2 week. Covered all of Sicily and a few day's in Rome and not once did they serve us anything my grandmother would make. We had a lot of fish, risoto etc..
Hi chef, North Italian from Lombardy here. Traditional food are Risotto, Polenta (made with corn flour), some stews (like Cassoeula), Pizzoccheri (sort of buckwheat tagliatelle with cheese, potatoes, etc) alongside the more national dishes. The regional dishes do not make up the day by day diet though, as those dishes are quite demanding to digest! I feel like most of those are not quite known abroad or even by some Italian compatriots.
Interesting!
When your talking about the sauce not being bathroom noise... and then you hear it again with Jacks " Ooooh".... absolute perfect timing for unintended humor. Also i have the mind of a 5year old....😅😅😅.
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i kinda wish i knew more of my grandfathers italian heritage but i love learning about the northern regions of Italy myself also. i also love spending a lot of time making a large meal to have multiple days over the next couple days or weeks to save me time
Interesting bit with chilling the food. I'd always heard that anything with tomato sauce you want it to come down to room temperature before putting it in the fridge, otherwise it gets sour.
The lasagna I grew up with was my Italian grandmothers recipe, specially the lasanga from Naples! You have layers of pasta with just tomato sauce, ricotta cheese, little mini meatballs and finely diced hard boiled egg! Everyone looks at me like I'm crazy when I've talked about it, and only as an adult did I look it up and realize it was a very specific, regional lasagna. But it's all I ever knew, so it's the only lasagna for me. 😊
When he said he's gonna send this dish to the school, my mind immediately went
"Yeap the kids about to suffer from diarrhea"
Jack didn't even put in the effort to use ground beef in his "Lasagna" because he has no clue what a Lasagna is to begin with..
Chef James I would watch this right now but based on your thumbnail, look like I have to skip it until tomorrow since I just finished eating dinner 😂. ❤❤
I understand
Very interesting maccaroni with cheese/tomatosauce.
We always layer lasagne using dry lasagna-noodle-sheets and alternating layers of bechamel sauce and a kind of tomato/ground-meat sauce (italians call it ragu i think), topping it with cheese (whatever we have in our fridge, might be mozzarella, might be a local cheese like emmenthal) on the last layer. Cheese is only on the top, not inside the lasagna. (Bechamel does not contain cheese in our recipe)
This is how I did it before too, but I have to say that getting fresh lasagna sheets (or how is it called) make a huge difference. I got a pasta maker (it is just two rolling pins with a hand crank and a cutter if you want long, thin noodles) and it is great thing! I don't know how much dry pasta costs where you live, but here lasagna specifically is surprisingly expansive. Like twice as much per weight than penne, farfalle, spaghetti or other shapes (why? No idea), so that little machine paid itself in 10 batches. And now kids help me make pasta at home. It is fun to make some noodles or ravioli or lasagna together.
With the last testing video and now this, I feel like you're just having fun making faces for the thumbnails 😂
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I only understand "building" layering/prepping lasagna the way you did in your original video, so when I saw Mr. Jack's approach I was shook and befuddled! Mush on acid! 😭
I just sent this to an Italian friend of mine. She told me our friendship was on the line if I ever did something like that again. This dish is an abomination.
I used to live near an Italian restaurant that championed a sand crab lasagne. 🦀 blue swimmer crab is the same
First the church members now the school children, I feel for Jacks community
Grandma made awesome caprese, and these awesome fried zucchini flowers fried and stuffed with cheese . My cousin does most of the family get togethers . She has done lasagna, and she does the feast of the 7 fishes every Christmas. I have done chicken parm , pasta fagoli , potato zuppa, baked ziti , pesto for normal every day dinners .
In case you're using a glass baking tray (I don't know how common they are in the US but here in Italy and Germany that's 99% of what we use at home) don't cool it in the fridge after you bake it or the glass might break
Many years ago, we were visiting my brother in law and now ex sister in law. Between them, they had a lot of kids. It was a yours, mine and ours situation. Now my sister in law was not a very good cook and I remember all the children lined up at the table eating what she called " lasagna". It was nothing more than cooked macaroni with tomato sauce poured over the top of it.
I often wonder how much time it took for those poor kids to realize that that glop was not lasagna.
About the multiple reheating - I know its not good for you but in Poland we believe the more times you reheat the bigos (hunter's stew) - the better it becomes :) never seen anyone getting sick after bigos but maybe its just the magic of bigos ;)
All Jack´meals are nightmare fuel... a guaranteed bad night, between bad dreams and rushing to the WC... this guy motivates me, as long as I don´t do what he does I´m a secret michelin star chef as far as I know!
Hey James, try "Pizzoccheri" from the north of Lombardy and the Valposchiavo.
Appreciate you sharing some food safety tips, many people are unaware on proper safe food handling. One of the reasons I won’t do potlucks. Cheers.
Thank you!
Ah i sit down with my breakfast to watch Chef James react....and immediately am told "probably shouldnt eat before this video" 😂😂 it was a rough one but i got through!
🤣 just don't let your cereal get soggy
The only man who can catfish you in the kitchen, his “lasagna” looks a lot like unbaked ziti and yet his take away from it was “dont put the plastic lid on top”