4 Levels of Meatballs: Amateur to Food Scientist | Epicurious
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- Опубліковано 17 лис 2020
- We challenged chefs of three different skill levels - amateur Emily, home cook Daniel, and professional chef Yuji Haraguchi - to make us their best meatballs. Once each level of chef had finished and tasted their final product, we asked food scientist Rose to explain their choices from an expert's perspective. Which meatballs are you rolling with?
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i love how Level 3 makes sure he catches his fish as sustainable as possible and doesn't waste any part of the tuna
A true Asian, his parents raised him well 😂
@@sly2175 Under the counter there’s a plastic grocery bag containing 100 other plastic grocery bags.
Sanji.
Just Asian things
Japanese cuisine is very adament about zero waste and using every part of the ingredient
Emily talking about how she could cook better “but just doesnt want to” is such a mood
facts
I was literally thinking this and heading to the comments to make this exact comment. Thank you!
lol sometime you just wanna eat
She needs her own channel
@@stevbri7655 she does have a channel! I rmb having watched that few times but I forgot the name haha
Emily may be a level 1 Chef, but she's a level 3 Presenter.
She definitely has great camera presence. And she's fun & upbeat.
She's actually a stand up comedian (or at least hosts/hosted stand up shows going by her Instagram), so this is pretty much natural for her except that she has to be in front of a camera cooking rather than a live audience performing.
@@zrobeast she's also a novelist.
I think this show has really been good for her. Back during the french toast episode she uh .. she seemed a little sad
I really hope to see her as a Level 2 chef someday.
I like Yuji’s approach to cooking. You can tell every ingredient he used was so thought out. Everything he did was intentional. I’m the total opposite and I will definitely try to be more thoughtful with my approach in the future because his dish seems like it would be amazing.
He was so earnest and informative - very endearing and educational.
Welcome to Asian cooking. Respect for the ingredients.
@@sephiraskye9606 Respect for the ingrediant? He used tuna to make a meatball. Thats like shitting on your sushi at a fancy resturant.
@@nullakjg767 You're really angry about this tuna meatball thing, you're replying to like every comment
@@sephiraskye9606 yeah, the high respect for the 73 million sharks each year, often finned alive and released back into the water unable to swim and left to suffocate, for basically just the Asian market really shows that. I agree that using the whole animal is the way to go and shows some much needed respect for the animal in question, but that's not really a "welcome to Asian cooking" moment tbh.
edit: btw don't get me started on all the skinned and eaten alive animals on Asian fish market or the dolphins who got killed as by-catch for this very tuna we are talking about.
Humans are cruel when it comes to the consumption of animals (I have to shamefully admit that I am no exception aka not vegetarian) and Asian cooking culture neither is an exception, so please do not portray it that way.
For me, Daniel will always be the "hot guy who puts berries in his grilled cheese"
omg i remembered that episode,goddddd traumatic and traumatized :"
same
@John Syzlack ok and?
He comes across as so arrogant
@@Joe-hl2ts Does he come across as arrogant or is he just good looking and you assume that he´s arrogant? Asking for a friend
"little meat hats for all my ball friends"
-Emily
funny how she said that while I was reading your comment lol
DID NOT know meatballs could have so many levels?? Y'all are constantly raising the bar
@@firelord9000 nice
I knew you watched 3 levels after your flawless fermented fry execution !
Its all in the care you put into the preparation and ingredients. Also there's technique and flavor to consider here. All of them are wonderful options though!
Idk they seem to have mis labeled the lvl 0 meatball as level 3. I didnt know japanese people can also do such a bad job culturally appropiating italian culture.
@@nullakjg767 well they never specified what type of meatball. Thats what he thinks of when he thinks meatballs. Yea ita true that meatballs are tradianally made with a tomato sauce, there's nothing wrong with what he made. It actually sounds really good
Emily’s just that one person that doesn’t mind taking one for the team, and although they aren’t considered the best because of their sacrifices, everyone loves them
She's Canadian
@@me4901 So? I don't really get your point.
Love it lol
She mentionens they're swedish style (which they absolutely are). The thing is, fish-balls served in a soup is absolutely a dish found in the scandinavian kitchen. So why not compare those instead
@@sandsoftime1259 Canadian people have a stereotype about how they are very VERY polite and nice
Fun fact: Every level three chef is actually Frank from an alternate universe
how do I like this comment multiple times?🤔
“Frank” is an omnipotent entity from the fifth dimension. These other Lvl. 3 Chefs are the disguises for Frank, and are merely his interpretations of our daily human lives.
Then my top are Frank and Saul Frank 😅🤣😂
Broo 😂😂😂
F
im looking forward to see emily in 10 years still doing her thing, ignoring cosmic laws and representing level 1s. emily you're good youtube, never change
One day we'll see Emily under the "Professional Chef" category and it'll be the glow-up of the century.
This is not gonna happen. she looked very satisfied as a level 1 chef
lol shes already better then the idiot level 3 chef who made fish balls instead of a meatball.
@@nullakjg767 It's still meat tho
@@nullakjg767 chill why are you so pissed off by some japanese guy making fish meatballs
@@alienpotato1834 Because boiled fish balls is a seperate asian dish. its cultural erasure. That or they should just change the name of the series to "comparing completely different dishes"
When level three pulled out that giant.. carcass(?) at the start, I was really fascinated.
That's when I knew it was Game Over
shokugeki no soma WHO
Thats when I knew he wasnt make meatballs lol. Stop clickbait means stopping videos like this.
@@nullakjg767 he made meatballs tho.. fish meatballs..
@@Myhalamanz Fish balls is a separate asian dish. You would never use fish balls when you need meatballs and youd never use meatballs when you need fishballs.
Yuji is so precious haha. When he started laughing at his own jokes
I loved that Yuji's version of meatballs was not conventional! Would not have thought of Tuna to be meatball as the standard is the well known Italian version. It'd be great to see his take on different dishes sometime in the future. :]
Nah, it's just normal asian fish meatball. Even Yuji state it is a common dish.
I agree!
That's some harsh editing on Emily, haha.
Emily: Should I use a spoon for this?
-cuts to Yuji using a spoon-
Emily: I'm sure that there are more sanitary ways to do this...
-cuts to Daniel using gloves-
That was some hilarious editing.
That's a read on Emily
To be fair I prefer Emily not wasting a pair of gloves every time she cooks
🤣🤣🤣
just saying you should use ** instead of -- cause that crosses out the words
I did not expect a Japanese chef for this episode. I like that the Japanese chef adds a very unique spin to regular meatballs.
Edit: Thank you guys all for so many likes. Please make sure you like all the other amazing comments in this comment section.
Edit #2: People may seem to be confused about this comment. I know that there are many different types of meatballs in the world, I am just telling this view on what the other commenters may think, and it is not really expected to have this type of meatball in this episode.
@@itsgoingtobeok-justbreathe4808 I know that. It’s just that the first thing that comes to people’s mind in terms of Meatballs is ground beef/pork in tomato sauce rather than say, a meatball made of fish and fish broth.
Every country has a version of meatballs!!
@@tigerz8174 Yep, but compared to the other 2 meatballs which are more traditional meatballs that comes to people’s mind, the professional chef’s meatball stood out because it was a bit more unique in this specific episode.
@@itsgoingtobeok-justbreathe4808 Nah fish meat balls are definitely a different category. It's like someone would make wild boar meatballs and you'd be like "yea no its the same"
@@BurningSearcher if you're saying about how the level 1 and 2 brown the meatball while level 3 cooks it with broth i think it's just asian thing because i'm asian and we cook meatballs that way
If Emily EVER becomes a level 2 chef there should be an episode dedicated to her and attempting to present her favorite dish in the 3 levels
I’m not sure there are 3 levels of ketchup
Toaster Toast?
@@Foo007 I'm sure Emily could make that a thing
@JNike why not?
@JNike bruh if someone gets a promotion from 1 level to another there should be a celebration. It's an achievement. Why does it bother u sm?
The way he says "its just fermented for HALF YEAR"😂😂😂
That "just" threw me off. 🤣🤣🤣
Casually at that😂
Timestamp?
Ikr I heard half and I thought the next bit was going to be hour but then I heard year and I was like oh...
@@milfcommander428 7:46
6:52 I love it when Yuji, who maintains a serious face throughout most of the video, laughs all of a sudden... he seems like a really great guy
Daniel's redemption arc is very satisfying, yeah he's still being redeemed for that grilled cheese, until I forget, he's on a redemption arc.
Also the Japanese chef did an awesome twist on the meatballs, love it
If you were Spanish, and you watched this, not so much. Those meatballs were supposed to be albondigas.
@@oaklandcookie I thought he said Almondegas, though? And if that's the portuguese version then, pretty much not far off. Our meatballs are not eaten as a soup, but rather with spaghetti, and consistency is like he did.
@@oaklandcookie im from southamerica and the way he prepared his albóndigas style meatballs was on point with the consistency, and with the sauce bcuz we eat them with spaghetti like the Italians
His grilled cheese looked good, not the kind I would have with tomato soup on a cold day but I would eat it at brunch with mimosas
@@oaklandcookie not necessarily I’m Hispanic and the albondigas look similar to what my mom and tias make. We’ll eat that with whatever though.
More Yuji! After watching Uncle Roger's expose on how british chefs don't understand asian foods, we got to get some experts in here.
i remember a video of gordon ramsey cooking pad thai in thailand and the chefs were like "this isn't pad thai" gordon ramsey's an amazing chef of course but locals will always know their food the best
Haiyaaa
@@cg1953 funny thing about that clip is how disgusted the Thai chef' face looked. Like he tasted something unacceptable and he wasn't afraid to show it to Gordon's face.
@@cg1953 still he can't make pasta
Looks like the reverse is true that asian chefs dont understand western cooking. fish balls? really?
That level 3 chef looks like he talked more in this video than he did in his whole life. Seems like such a quiet guy lol.
All the chefs we've learnt to love (Emily, Jon, Daniel, Gabrielle, Beth, Lorenzo, Frank, Penny, Saul & the others) are simply amazing. And Rose always delivers the magic behind bromathology just effortlessly 😊
5:42 "Little meat hats for all my ball friends." Someone needs to write an actual song for that! Go Emily!
13:01 lvl 3 is my favorite bc he doesnt make weird noises, he just enjoys 🙂
I love this pro chef. He explains a different language as he cooks and the respect he shows and informs how to reduce food waste
Beautiful way to make sure every bit of that tuna is used.
Ikr, chefs are fascinating
Emily: It's so much easier when no one is judging you.
Me judging Emily: Emily you're one of my favorites but please don't use a metal whisk on a non-stick pan.
Had the same thought as I watched her scratch it up.
Yuji got my heart swollen, i love how he loves his culture's food.🥺💓
Emily's plot development as a level 1 chef is wonderful
Up until she used a metal whisk on a teflon pan...
Which is a sin beyond sins of cooking
i love Yuji, respects his food and makes sure nothing is wasted
I love that Yuji never wastes anything
7:46 “you just ferment it for half a year”
yes. i have the time and patience to wait half a year to make my meatballs.
The level 2 chef looks like the Disney version of a modern prince. Sooo beautiful!
I love how the level 3 is using all parts of the fish! Respect! It’s how it should be done
Can confirm Emily did pretty legit Swedish meatballs. Props.
Swedish meatballs are actually based on a recipe King Charles XII brought home from Turkey in the early 18th century . www.google.ca/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/blogs-trending-43960739
At least she tried something out of the box for a level one
I would say the level 2 chef did the most swedish meatballs,
@@ozgedogan sorry no that's been debunked many times. Swedish meatballs existed in recipes in Sweden long before Charles XII existed.
@@Argentavisen yes what really happened is Mr. IKEA travelled back in time and invented it.
Daniel looks like the panic at the disco guy
I was reading this while I was watching him talk.........
@@yayiezabella7408 me too
U mean Brendon Urie.
i'Ts BrEnDoN
He looks nothing like brendon urie. He does look like a Disney prince. What's with this channel and finding beautiful cooks???
I love this series, but for the longest I wondered why it was called "4 levels" when there's only ever 3.
Until this episode, where it finally dawned on me that the science and analysis at the end of the video is there so you can take your cooking to the next level!
Well played Epicurious.
Based on your comment, for every past episodes, you must've stop watching after the tasting stage..
@@rowie4585 Nope, I always watched.
I love the explanations of why we do or don't do, what we do in cooking.
I just never considered that the last level was metaphorical, when the first three were tangible meals.
When I first started watching these, I'd always think, "This is great, but where's the last one!?"
Can I just say how happy I am to see the chef including sustainability in his cooking and also how healthy those meatballs look like :oo im impressed
I went to high school with Daniel (the level 2 chef) in New York. He’s actually a really good rapper/singer too. Look him up on Spotify, it’s Daniel Victor.
“Nothing bad can happen on medium.”
-Emily, 2020
I just realized, Daniel’s hair is grey now O.O
°●°
Level 0 chef : first get your car keys/get an uber and drive to ikea
No. Order them frozen from Ikea. www.ikea.com/us/en/p/huvudroll-meatballs-frozen-80489497/
@RaymondHng tomato, tomateo name the diffrence
@@rylnn5452 Not everyone lives within driving distance to an Ikea store.
@@RaymondHng you don’t come to ikea, ikea comes to you
✨little meat hats for all my ball friends✨
When you get that perfect Maillard browning going on **chef’s kiss**
Emily been improving every time she's in a "4 Levels Of" episode! 😅😀😅😀😅
Yeah, she's like level 1.5 by now
Yes! 😅😅😅
In today’s episode of two actors and a chef
i’m so happy chef yuji is back !!
He actually brought the whole tuna bone wow 😮
frank is still inventing cows and butchery to create his meatballs
He is handcrafting the DNA of the cow he will butcher
I've never been here this early. I don't know what to do or say.
Lorenzo is still trying to come up with cheesy jokes to laugh about. He has his priorities straight
I love how the level 3 chef really shows how to use a fish.
Yuji is adorable
Emily is the absolute best! I love that she's actually Level 1 and owns it! Plus she's hilarious.
Bravo Yuji, thoroughly impressed every moment he was on screen. Thank you. Also shout out to Rose who is basically MVP of this series. Always consistent.
9:50 so proud of Emily, she outdid a lvl 2
No shade to Daniel, but I was so sad not to see Beth for this one!
Emily: I'm sure there's a way to do this with spoons 🤔
Yuji: expertly makes meatballs with spoons
Emily: or at least a more sanitary way...
Daniel: GLOVES!? *snap*
Ya'll are so mean to Emily 😆
Emily wins this one. Swedish meatballs? Hell yeah! Just need some proper 'tatoes and she'll be an honourary Swede.
Emily: Hi, I'm Emily and I'm a level 1 chef
Daniel: Hi, I'm Daniel and I'm a level 2 chef
Pharturthanux: HELLO MORTAL, I AM PHARTURTHANUX, AND I'VE BEEN A PROFESSIONAL CHEF FOR OVER 10000 YEARS
O_0 how are you alive? Are you immortal?
Dafaq are you saying
I thought the Lv 3 chef was Nostradamus.
Omg another lame joke
@@thingswhatilike fr, like was this supposed to be funny?
Level 4: Italian grandmas
Don't you mean swedish grandmas
Swedish not Italian
Non of them created meatballs. Persians did
Japanese guys? Japanese kitchen is awesome
@@Barry_TopG he def meant Italian you uncultured swine
It bothers me how the level one chef STILL hasn't become a level two chef after all these years.
Emily is that character in an anime that can go and be strongest character but turns it down for a simple life
Frank: Here is my friend god. He will create the earth so that I can grow my own tomatoes.
but first, here is how to make a god.
Lame
Lmao i am wheezing. Good one. Once i got it i couldn't stop laughing 😂😂😂
Yanno, we haven't seen Frank in forever....
Dont worry, hes just creating a new universe where food has different properties or tastes we cant get in this universe for his next meal
He has his own channel nowadays, its called protocooks
I was taking a drink when i read this it snorted out of my mouth.
@@AlexHaans holy hell didn't know it. Thanks!!
He's actually crating Italy from scratch in order to make Italian meatballs
I identify with everything Emily does and says. I'm sorry other chefs, but I watch the 4 levels for the level 1's.
level 1’s are the most entertaining!
@@QueenMarshae the level 2a are more useful
What about the Level 1 from the Enchiladas episode?
The pro chef be the only one that ain't smilin, shows u how ded serious his career is.
i love the chillness of this level 3 chef
I really like Yuji's cooking and teaching!
I love how all 3 of these cooks are making comebacks to each episode and aren't just fillers
Also: Franck is still growing the grass to feed the cattle that will eventually become the meatballs
Frank was absent, because he had to check on the cows and pigs he raises for his level 1000 meatballs
emily is making a roux, she's far from level 1 at this point
1.5
@@omardiagne9185 😂😂
Emily! Your Swedish meatballs look so good! I grew up eating Swedish meatballs because my mom's family is Swedish. My great-grandfather, apparently, had some secret ingredient he took to his grave, and my mom misses them. And my grandfather says in Sweden, they use a combo of reindeer sausage and pork, which, according to him, makes all the difference!
I had never seen Yuji before ( maybe I don't tune in often enough) Masterful art of production of food. This is my way of cooking . Making the course out of the remnant of meat from the bones ,true world cooking . Not just taking the most expensive ingredients and calling it gourmet. This was awesome and informative.
yuji is awesome! I'd love to see him again
This is the first time I really felt the Level 3 was so way out of the park different than the others. It isn't even something I could possibly do if I wanted to.
Right!? This was the most legit level 3 ever. I would pay to eat his dish and would never try to make it on my own. I was genuinely fascinated by everything he used and did.
I love the editing on this show. Not just this episode, the whole series.
Loved the reason meats are red and white in colour. I love you Rose!!!
Um... Where’s Frank and Lorenzo? I haven’t seen them in a minute.
Too busy growing their next recipes
If you want some frank he does have his own youtube channel.
I think we need a new level 1 chef
@@ShockwaveITB What's his channel name?
@@ShockwaveITB had no idea.
It would be cool to see Yuji do a recipe swap with a home cook
Please never stop this series
Yuji had that “I’ve been to hell and back” face before even seeing the other meatballs. Mans is clearly a culinary crusader
I have SUCH a cruch on Daniel. My goodness he is so handsome. lol
Petition to bump Emily up to level 2 because those meatballs were on point
My Swedish great, great grandmother would have fainted at the "Swedish meatballs" recipe she used. I barely remember her, but she was ALWAYS in the kitchen cooking away!🤣
Lorenzo does not know if he can make better meatballs. But he is 100% certain that his meatballs would make you happier.
So Emily evolved from putting Ketchup on her food to Jam?
Nah the ketchup thing was weird, she was putting it on food that all logic and sanity would insist it should not go on. Lingonberry jam specifically is actually very traditional for Swedish meatballs, she did her homework on that one.
Somebody needs to go to IKEA because that is how they are served there
Frank is still making a ranch somewhere in this earth to raise his own cow.
Yuji is back!!! So excited 😄 His ramen episode was so cool!
I Love how much they are trying to stretch this serie.
Emily : "It's so much easier when there's no one around to judge you."
Wrong, Emily... I'm judging you 😏
That's what she means. It's easier when she does it at home, not in front of a camera. So she was not wrong at all.
@@quarkraven Ohhhhhh, my mistake 😶
When he said “albóndigas” I thought he was going to add rice to them but no sadly 😔
And no mint (hierba buena) or tomatillo🙁
Yeah, and him saying abondigas are small was weird.
@@ericaflores7121 I grew up in a Mexican influences town and now im in college. I miss caldo and pasole so much.
@@itsgoingtobeok-justbreathe4808 yeah I was watching this and thinking this is italian meatballs. Also have you ever had albondigas without soup?
It's just a diferent way of making them. That's how we cook albóndigas in Spain!
Really enjoy Yuji’s take on things. I would never have thought of a Tuna meatball but now I’ve got to make some.
The professional in this video was so much more down to earth than some of the others I've seen. ❤
Frank would have been here but he was trying to breed his own new species of meat for the meatballs
Hmmmm
Still he has his own channel were he cooks everything
@@chriswolf1089 whats the name of his channel?
@@MsSuperMaio protocooks
Emily is everyone watching these videos
I love Emily. She is level 1 mood and I am here for it, now and forever
The Japanese chef looks like a well disciplined school child giving his introduction to the teacher.
I love it
All of these are good recipes, but that Japanese tuna was *really* intriguing
The moment i see Haraguchi-san scraping tuna meat out of that giant bone, i just know his meatballs are going to be HEAVENLY GOOD. God the meat at that part is MMMM!!! Soft and juicy when they're poached! You bite into it and the flavor just BUST out! Aaaaaaaaaaaaa~
Little meat hats for all my ball friends now lives in my head rent free. Thanks Emily.
Till watching this video I didn't know tuna meatballs were a thing. Watching them be made makes me want to try that particular soup dish!