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.
@@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.
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!
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.
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 😬.
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 😂
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.
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.
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 🙄
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.
@@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.
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.
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
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"
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.
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!
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.😊
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.
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.
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
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? 😂
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.
I honestly thought that it would be a baked ziti because I think he used the right pasta penne or rigatoni (or any tube shaped pasta to hold up in thick sauces) But that ricotta unfortunately is like dryeall plaster or play dough to dry for this dish I'd have a small bowl of it out of respect to the "lasagna" he made
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..
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
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
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 .
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.
A few notes from myself (I am not a cook or chef but I thought of a few things) 1. Jack probably could've made a third "lasagna" with the amount that he had sticking out of the pans and what was on his plate. 2. This reminds me of a dish that a guy who I used to work with would bring in that his mother made, it was an oven baked spaghetti that she made with hot dog slices and Coca Cola (yes really) in the sauce, it was pretty good from what I remember. 3. Whenever my family has made lasagna (which isn't that often anymore due to the price of groceries these days) we doubled the recipe but we made sure to measure everything so that there's not too much of one ingredient also we have never mixed the cheese with the meat because we worry it might burn while cooking the meat.
He's using Classico sauce. If you have to use store bought sauce, Classico is one of the better ones. I used to use similar ingredients (lasagna noodles, not mostaccioli!) before I learned how to make my own sauce and pasta from some Italian guy we both know. :) This slop looks like prison food!
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. 😊
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 ;)
Jack: I'm gonna do a double batch Me: Oh dear, he's gonna make two whole pots of this abomination Jack: *Proceeds to dump two whole containers of ricotta cheese into the pot*
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?
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
Requirements for lasagna: Tomato-based sauce, Bechamél sauce, cheese, actual pasta sheets. THIS DOES NOT QUALIFY! On so many levels. A "lazy man's lasagna" would be making 3 layers instead of 5 or taking shortcuts during the cooking process. Not substituting half the ingredients. This is basically Mac n Cheese in Tomatosauce
I love your note about the difference about Italian cuisine even Italy. When I went to Northern Italy you could feel the German influence and when I then visited Milan the French influence was equally undeniable.
to sum up the intro: make dish from own heritage, he makes lasagna so he´s from italian descent.... and this is the kind of lasagna he makes. did they kick his family out of italy for their cooking "abilities"?
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!
on the international days at school we did a simple cheat. we got polish sausage links, and sauerkraut in the jar with hotdog buns. being German linage but not being taught how to cook it that was what we did. my other family heritage would have been your typical fish and chips
Jack made a Baked Mac. Despite the name, in the Philippines, it's just macaroni with meat sauce and cheese. All made in one pot. Baking is an option in the Philippines because not many people have one.
My mum had a place in Ascoli and they were the only English people in the town and were known as the ones with a garden. Where is Simba and Pumba even they wouldn’t eat it. I helped judge an Italian cooking competition there
My mom substitues cottage cheese for ricotta sometimes ricotta is not my favorite cheese😅it still gives the same texture as the ricotta it just doesn't have that dry taste to it
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
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 mean, if jack had used that curly-frilly small "lasagna" noodle pieces that are like 2 inches by like 3 inches or so, that would have been better than penne for "Lazy lasagna".
Wait a minute! Italian heritage? No way. Sicilian here.. you know it James😅 we love our parmigiana, pasta dishes, street food, horse meat (yep, I am from Catania), and all the dessert/patisserie you can think including cannoli and cassata siciliana alla ricotta! I think bakeries, everywhere in Italy, have the best “rosticceria” food you wanna have!
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! 😭
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.
Hi Chef James. ah yes the full English (Scottish?) hope you enjoyed it. Lazy man's Lasagna is Ziti who would have guessed hehehe. It wasn't too bad, kind of car mechanic cooking. Be well, Jacques Mexico.
There is probably soffritto, herbs-aroma, and glutamates in the store-bought sauce so it has at least some taste. The presentation and texture is very similar to mac-and-cheese… It’s cheap, almost no effort, and it is better than the average school meal.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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. ;)
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.
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....
2 defining characteristics of lasagne… Layers. And lasagne sheets.
This is a MESS.
This is like making cheese tortellini with spaghetti and ground beef
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
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.
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
It's amazing, really. Jack can produce content that complies with UA-cam's community guidelines while simultaneously violating the Geneva Protocol.
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.
It doesn't matter what your heritage is, you can tell this this is not lasagne
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
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.
Jack's cooking reminds me of all those food waste video reels you see on Facebook
yo james these roasts were immaculate 😂😂😂 happy holidays! stay safe
same to you!
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
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
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"
😂
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.
"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 😬
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.
It saddens me to think that some poor kids would hate pasta for the rest of their lives shortly after.
"The family thinks it's funny... good to know"...and now I'm laughing 😂
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!
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.😊
"i'm making Lasagna" are you tho? are you?
5:01 my butwhole after seeing jacks cooking
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.
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.
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
Giving that lasagna to a classroom of children should be child abuse.
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
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.
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.
I honestly thought that it would be a baked ziti because I think he used the right pasta penne or rigatoni (or any tube shaped pasta to hold up in thick sauces)
But that ricotta unfortunately is like dryeall plaster or play dough to dry for this dish I'd have a small bowl of it out of respect to the "lasagna" he made
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..
Same expression as me 8:21 loved the reaction xD
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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
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
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
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 .
Keep up the good work James. Enjoy all the content, especially how not to cook, sometimes.
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.
Cheers James, love the content.
Thank you!
A few notes from myself (I am not a cook or chef but I thought of a few things) 1. Jack probably could've made a third "lasagna" with the amount that he had sticking out of the pans and what was on his plate. 2. This reminds me of a dish that a guy who I used to work with would bring in that his mother made, it was an oven baked spaghetti that she made with hot dog slices and Coca Cola (yes really) in the sauce, it was pretty good from what I remember. 3. Whenever my family has made lasagna (which isn't that often anymore due to the price of groceries these days) we doubled the recipe but we made sure to measure everything so that there's not too much of one ingredient also we have never mixed the cheese with the meat because we worry it might burn while cooking the meat.
He's using Classico sauce. If you have to use store bought sauce, Classico is one of the better ones. I used to use similar ingredients (lasagna noodles, not mostaccioli!) before I learned how to make my own sauce and pasta from some Italian guy we both know. :) This slop looks like prison food!
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. 😊
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 ;)
Jack: I'm gonna do a double batch
Me: Oh dear, he's gonna make two whole pots of this abomination
Jack: *Proceeds to dump two whole containers of ricotta cheese into the pot*
It's a bad one, but nothing can top the dishwasher lasagna from that crazy woman.
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
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 saw the Title, my reaction was 0:15 because I knew, what was going to happen 🥲
YEAHHHH 💥
😁 What an episode 🤗 Chef James ❤️
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
Requirements for lasagna: Tomato-based sauce, Bechamél sauce, cheese, actual pasta sheets.
THIS DOES NOT QUALIFY! On so many levels. A "lazy man's lasagna" would be making 3 layers instead of 5 or taking shortcuts during the cooking process.
Not substituting half the ingredients. This is basically Mac n Cheese in Tomatosauce
I love your note about the difference about Italian cuisine even Italy. When I went to Northern Italy you could feel the German influence and when I then visited Milan the French influence was equally undeniable.
Thank you! yes it varies a lot
Wait....why heat the sauce up in one pan....only to pour it into another....that's just a waste of time and more clean up....
to sum up the intro: make dish from own heritage, he makes lasagna so he´s from italian descent.... and this is the kind of lasagna he makes. did they kick his family out of italy for their cooking "abilities"?
That is NOT a lasagne here in the UK we would call that a Pasta Bake which is completely different to a lasagne.
'Where's Vincenzo when you need him?"
Made me smile... :)
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ahh yes, "Lasagna". proceeds to use a different type of pasta
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".
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!
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!
How does that equal Lasagna ?
on the international days at school we did a simple cheat. we got polish sausage links, and sauerkraut in the jar with hotdog buns. being German linage but not being taught how to cook it that was what we did. my other family heritage would have been your typical fish and chips
Jack made a Baked Mac. Despite the name, in the Philippines, it's just macaroni with meat sauce and cheese. All made in one pot.
Baking is an option in the Philippines because not many people have one.
My mum had a place in Ascoli and they were the only English people in the town and were known as the ones with a garden. Where is Simba and Pumba even they wouldn’t eat it. I helped judge an Italian cooking competition there
My mom substitues cottage cheese for ricotta sometimes ricotta is not my favorite cheese😅it still gives the same texture as the ricotta it just doesn't have that dry taste to it
Aw snap, a new Jack video from James? Christmas came early.
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Oh no! Salmonella king strikes again.
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.
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
I mean, if jack had used that curly-frilly small "lasagna" noodle pieces that are like 2 inches by like 3 inches or so, that would have been better than penne for "Lazy lasagna".
Watching Jack always makes me feel better about my cooking . . .
Those jars of sauce are Classico brand. It's not just that he's using jarred sauce, he's using third rate jarred sauce.
As a Norwegian cyclist and pedestrian, I would classify this dish as a overcooked frankenmonster of mac&cheese with tomatoes.
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When he said he's gonna send this dish to the school, my mind immediately went
"Yeap the kids about to suffer from diarrhea"
Wait a minute! Italian heritage? No way.
Sicilian here.. you know it James😅 we love our parmigiana, pasta dishes, street food, horse meat (yep, I am from Catania), and all the dessert/patisserie you can think including cannoli and cassata siciliana alla ricotta! I think bakeries, everywhere in Italy, have the best “rosticceria” food you wanna have!
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! 😭
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
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..
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.
Not even the children were spared.
Hi Chef James. ah yes the full English (Scottish?) hope you enjoyed it. Lazy man's Lasagna is Ziti who would have guessed hehehe. It wasn't too bad, kind of car mechanic cooking. Be well, Jacques Mexico.
There is probably soffritto, herbs-aroma, and glutamates in the store-bought sauce so it has at least some taste. The presentation and texture is very similar to mac-and-cheese…
It’s cheap, almost no effort, and it is better than the average school meal.
I make lasanga from scratch and it's not hard. love to use ground bison and Italian sausage.
Jack is like "we have Guy Fieri at home," except home is hell.
The whole video I’m hearing Bill Engvall saying, “Here’s your sign” or Jeff Foxworthy saying, “If you think penne noodles equals lasagna….” 😂
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You are looking great James!
Thank you!
That's an unsettling colour.
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”
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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