Wow. This is the content I’ve been looking for. No hate to Joshua Weismann but his but better series always felt like a slam dunk. Of course, he’d be able to make a better version of a fast food item with unlimited time and budget. But this is realistic, minimal and perfect for a home cook. More of this please
True. It's an actual skill to know how to navigate through your kitchen, but also it shows the real picture of preparing a meal and all different challenges of it. Which are most likely to prevent you from making it after watching the easy-looking video.
I’ve noticed a lot in the comments how many people appreciate seeing these unbroken, single take videos - often mainly because just seeing you work efficiently and tidily is good information for less confident home cooks. Love the format and the not-dunking on fast food, just showing it can be done at home-approach, thank you ❤
I'm enjoying these videos as someone who is trying to do more cooking myself. It helps to see proper technique and the whole process, so I can add these ideas to my cooking knowledge while also seeing good recipe ideas I can make later on. Sometimes I'll skip around in the videos because they can be a bit long, but I appreciate them.
I love seeing this uncut video, as someone who didn't cook much growing up, I can never understand how y'all cook so fast. I usually take about 2-3 hours to cook dinner and clean up, so seeing how you can cook a legit meal and clean up in less than an hour (assuming this was made for multiple people), really helps me to internalize the process and workflow.
A cook would know to have all his items ready to cook at that time. He didn't have out a tortilla. He didn't have out a corn tortilla. I could make that meal in 15 minutes
@@MichellepersonalcaregiverYou don’t leave all your food items lying around right? You put them in cabinets, just like he does. Taking them out and preparing counts as time spent
I like that you guys don't just absolutely hate on the fast food versions. Sometimes you just want that nostalgia but it does feel more satisfying to eat something fresh.
Taco Bell really is terrible. Probably the worst fast food place IMO. I get mad at myself every time I eat there. It all tastes like "gloop" and they took away the grilled stuft burrito. I would really like to see this guy take on Wendy's chicken sandwiches. That would be a legit challenge.
@@keyboardwarrior6296 Taco Bell’s taste varies widely depending on the particular location, the best Taco Bell I’ve been to was off highway 8 in Arizona, the worst was in San Francisco. Make sure to research the Taco Bell’s near you to see which one is the best!
I love how closely this actually captures the feeling of cooking a meal from scratch, rather than following the recipe to a T. The lack of cuts makes it a very fun style!
@@jailhousejoker3953 Yes I definitely want to make this at home. I ordered 1 of these at TC awhile back, it was flat as a pancake & I was extremely disappointed. And I never went back. But wow this is so easy to make. And I will definitely do so!👍🏼❤️ Can't wait!!! 😋
Ethan, I must say, one of my favorite aspects of your channel is your realistic attitude. Most other cooking YTs would have spat out that taco bell and chastised fast food for being pure garbage. Seeing you admit fast food is still good gives credence to your food being great. You and Kenji are the best cooks on this platform, keep it up bro!
+1 to Ethan and Kenji being the foodtuber GOATs. The realistic grounded feeling that makes the food feel possible makes a huge difference compared to videos that use food as entertainment.
Exactly, that's why I hate Joshua Weissman channel, dude thinks he's Gordon Ramsey and God combined. He acts like those dumb people in those bad tv ad info commercials in order to make the competition look incompetent when in reality it just shows how unconfident of a chef he is. Ethan though, Ethan is cool lol
I’m in Scotland, never had a Taco Bell. I usually buy a “taco kit” box at vast expense and had been yearning for a homemade and more flavourful alternative - this was amazing! My son (9) helped me and we made four of them for the family - absolutely delicious. We added black beans to the mince and guacamole too - perfect! Thank you. 👍🏻
Recipe aside, I LOVE this live format of watching the entire process from prepping to finished product as I feel it adds an extra dimension of "realness" to the video and makes it more user friendly for the up and coming beginner level home cook. Not to mention it saves time on your end as you dont need to spend as much time editing the video, so it's a simultaneous win-win for you and us!
A note to add to his review at the end, how he was saying that it’s easier to make it at home, it’s also even more easier now that Taco Bell has their own line of stuff out like their sauces are in the stores, their beef seasoning are in stores, they even have their taco kits in store. So definitely more worth it to make it home and given how you can make more for later and it’s literally half the cost and half the time in total. Great video!
I like it that you’re very honest and open about linking fast food and acknowledging in what situations it’s actually a great option. The whole “fast food is disgusting” take when comparing it to freshly-made counter parts gets old very quickly.
i agree. Josh Weissman is all about trashing fast food and its like bro... you know it tastes good and we know yours is going to better but dont say its bad. it really is getting old
@@Descendv2 That's why I stopped following his videos. There was just this sense of smugness from his videos that just old and grating really fast. That he also trashed pre-made ingredients like broths and whatnot also was annoying.
Yeah I love me some good fast food but more recently I’m making an effort to find small local hole in the wall places to support on my road trips! Have really found some incredible gems over the last few years Sometimes will even make a slight detour here and there if there’s something absolutely worth getting a bit off the main roads
Wow... I love the crunch wraps and this is great to see how they're made. Our Taco Bell isn't always open... like it has closed 3x since I moved here, and sometimes the TB line is 20 minutes or more! We don't have a Mexican grocer. However, there's no pickled onion on our crunch wraps, so that was a lot of time taken up unnecessarily. This would have normally taken less time without fooling around with the onions. I am learning to make tortillas at home myself, but with organic masa. Can't wake to make my own fresh crunch wrap! Thanks.
I am absolutely loving this series. It makes cooking SOOO accessible! I made some crunchwraps myself! Had a great time, learned some new things, and they were delicious!
So I made this tonight from the recipe on your website. It took me about 45 minutes to make 4 of them for my family and everyone really enjoyed them. Thanks very much for this, I think I will be making this on a semi-regular basis. It was pretty straightforward, scaled up easily and was very tasty. So much better than fast food, ESPECIALLY Taco Bell. Thanks again for these types of episodes.
What I like is that some of this can be pre-prepped and used in other recipes! Maybe not the tomatoes, but definitely the lettuce- turn around and use it for salad, wraps, etc. Pickled onions can be made the day before while you're cooking a roast or whatever. So there's ways you could cut down the time if you don't want to take 45 minutes All in all, though, 45 minutes for a delicious crunch wrap from scratch, getting fresh ingredients of your own choosing, nothing beats that! 😊
Did you also wash your hands clean with plain water after touching the meat and spread the meat germs to the drying cloth and then contaminate the salt with meat germs? 😜
I actually clicked because I wanna learn how to make my own crunchwrap supreme. Because this looks realistic, like something anyone can do. Please make it a series!
I am the type to always order the exact same thing from places, but recently ordered the Crunchwrap supreme and it was delicious and satisfying- I really thought This had shown up in recommend bc of googles AI always listening in, and cookies from search’s ,’like searching a Taco Bell menu,’or saying out loud at the drive through window “Crunchwrap supreme” and then getting all the ads or UA-cam videos based on your doings or outings or conversations ect. However in this case, I see this is a recent made video,’as opposed to say when things get tossed in, even if they were made years or several months back -
@@zhongxina1615 you can make basically any fast food item at home, some would take a tone more time to make though, and maybe take some kitchen science
I lvoe these kind of videos ^^ It is kinda a reality check that fast food is often easily made yourself at home, for cheaper and often not much more time it takes to go get it, or order it per uber, but the main reason when I get fast food, or in my cases ordering all kinda of food per uber, is not because of the "fast", but because I don't have the energy to stand in the kitchen to make myself dinner, and/or I have to buy some groceries
For a wrap of any kind, I actually wet my hand and rub down the tortilla with the excess water. When it hits the pan, there's just enough water to make it steam very slightly and evenly, getting the tortilla warm without it getting crispy. It will still develop brown spots and maillard flavors, but it is not going to get hard unless you really overcook it.
This video is more of a testament to how important it is to have a well organized kitchen and stocked pantry. Big props on including cleaning and washing up - most other videos using a similar topic just ignore the time it takes to wash all the dishes used to cook.
Yeah and that's the problem most home cooks struggle with, including me. My kitchen is about less than half the size of Ethan's kitchen and I do not have a pantry. I have a small cabinet for "pantry stuff" - 1 type of pasta, rice and some seasoning. That's about all that can fit in there. My fridge is like 1/3 the size of his and is usually half empty, 'cause why would a poor student from an eastern European country have anything in the fridge, eh? Unfortunately, I cannot change any of my "kitchen predispositions", since any flat modifications are forbidden by the landlord and even if they were allowed, there's just no space. I hate how easy his kitchen makes everything look.
@@Sn1per9CZE Shit i learned from living the exact same way you do: young (because you dont need to peel them) potatoes, onions, canned corn, pasteurized dairy, dried herbs, chili, citrus fruits, shit bread (read, toast), tortillas and pasta can easily be stored in the cuboard next to your kitchen (which, i assume, has two plates for a pot and a pan, and nothing else, because thats what i have) for quite some time. just seperate tomatoes and potatoes from the rest, because they both produce an enzyme which ruins most fruit and vegs 1. Always use one pan for "dry" stuff like toasting bread and tortillas or for giving pasta a last short "fry" before eating it, minimizes cleaning effort 2. using the very limited space in your freezer is key - put stuff in there you like in most dishes, but thats portionable. for me, thats sfrozen seafood. gives me some protein, is not as expensive as you think, is available in most supermarkets, and if you throw some into your noodles, you got a real dish instead of "spaghetti with barilla pesto" 3. kitchen gadgets take away valuable space. try using just one knife to cook, and buy accordingly. at my parents place, i had a thingy to grate cheese - here, i either chop parmesan finely, or buy the shitty pre choppe done 4. OLIVE OIL IS BETTER THAN BUTTER BECAUSE IT DOESNT SPOIL 5. Fuck Eggs, i never use them up before they go bad, aka i have to eaat one disgusting 8 egg omelette cooked in a small pan 6. Store bought gnocci or boiled rice can be thrown into any pan with any combination of ingredients and will be edible And if you want a "pantry staple", so a dish thats basically ready in 20 minutes whenever you cook it, look up "Norwegian Butter Sauce Recipe" by Food Wishes. yeet heavy cream, butter and some citrus into a pan, let that simmer down, while it simmers, in another pan put your thin cut potatoes with olive oil, let roast a bit, after like 10 mins throw in your salmon, mput everything together, put some dill, congratulations, you just cooked a meal any adult would think is real food.
Exactly nobodys house looks like this or has the money to keep a well stocked fridge. This video was very out of touch with 90 percent of households in the us
I would love to see more of this, I appreciate that you didn't have the mise en place before the video, you prepped everything in the time given. It's why J Kenji's videos are so awesome because there are few if any cuts, and he mostly just shows up the whole recipe from literal start to literal finish, including detours
This was awesome. I liked the drama of the "race." I hope you keep making these. Also, one thing you consider adding is a timer in the corner of the screen for the entire duration of the challenge. Another fun addition could be including a progress meter in another corner (or near the timer) showing here the person going to get the food is at that current time; I imagine it could be something like the Dominos Pizza tracker showing the various stages of going to get fast food (e.g. driving to, parking, ordering, waiting, driving back) - just a small but potentially fun way to show the status of the race. I was rooting for you and glad you won! Thanks for your wonderful videos and looking forward to more.
It's so interesting to see how you move around the kitchen - the chaotic sudden movements and the thought processes while finding the ingredients is just so human and natural and so relatable - exactly how I am when I need to make dinner in a flash. This is such a great series, please make more of these!
I really appreciate this video! Being disabled, it is difficult to do a lot of cooking. This looks like something I can do. Not only does it take less than 30 minutes, a lot of the prep can be done sitting down. Thank you!
The crunch wrap has a special story to me. Around 5 years ago i met my step dads best friend. I thought he was pretty cool he looked like a skinny 6ft 4 viking and his name was joe. He worked as a manager at taco bell. Over the years i nagged him for a Crunchwrap because my parents wouldn’t let me eat there. So i kept asking every month or so. Well in march 2023 he gave me it and it was amazing. But that year in august 3 weeks before his 63rd birthday, he passed away from a aortic aneurism. I will never forget him. He got me my crunchwrap. And he was my best friend as well
love the style of these videos. It's nice watching someone cook in real time rather than it being all edited. You get a much better understanding of what the cook is doing and why he is doing it.
I think this is a really great idea. Just started watching the video, but the fact that you're already including prep time is very important and rarely ever seen! Gordon Ramsay has some videos of showing how fast it is to cook something but that doesn't include any of the prep work or clean up which are both essential to the decision making process of cooking vs eating out. Hopefully you do consider the clean up time at the end, but I'm still in the middle of watching, so I'll see!
Jamie Oliver had a good show back in the day where he had a timer and would make meals in 10-15 minutes. It was a good show but he was always pushing a low fat thing, which was very much a sign of the times back then.
I like how you dont just take one bite but eat your whole creation on camera. Most of these food channels never really eat their food, so I enjoyed that. Also your bro seems pretty cool, was nice to see him talk so well about his bros food. Keep it up you two.
Current favorite food channel, hands down. Used to cook at home all the time, but into some bad eating habits over the last few years. A combo of you, Kenji, and rediscovering Chef John are making me excited to be cooking at home and fixing my diet again. Especially when I watch you and Kenji, it feels like a lot of things you guys cook are more like food frameworks instead of recipes. They feel like they just lend themselves to experimenting with ingredients that you might have on hand instead of needing to go shopping for every new dish. Thanks for the consistent great content!
I really enjoyed the structure of this video. I like how it was “live” and we got to see your process while cooking. I feel like I learned more techniques, etc. watching you cook “raw” rather than edited. I try to cook as quickly as I can and usually without any prep either, so this helped show how someone cooks in a realistic way. Great video!
Seeing your kitchen, you grabbing the items from your fridge and preparing it in front of us the way you do make’s it very digestible and obtainable. Like every other comment for a home cook this is a great video. Thanks man
For me, ordering fast food is less about things being fast or tasting good, but more about just not having the mental or physical energy to actually make something (especially since I rarely do have the right ingredients for what I want lol). That being said, I love this series, it's always fun to watch while I'm getting things done!
if its something laborious like this I plan these things to do on a day where i have plenty time and as a reward. its really tyring to do something like this spontanously (especially this one cuz it has so many steps and you have to wash up so much afterwards haha)
Mexican here married to my very own red head. Your cooking show is a pleasure to watch! A tip for you Ethan...warm up any tortilla (flour or corn) that you plan to fold, roll, etc before toasting, or frying to prevent tears and crumbling. Put it onto a comal so the edges get warmed up instead of the edges skirting around the edge of a pan.
This is great because it demonstrates an aspect that is rarely discussed: workflow. Just seeing how you gather your toppings on to a try and move around your kitchen is insightful. Great stuff here.
I used to work at TB making food. We never put onions on a Crunchwrap Supreme, but it makes for a nice touch. Also, we don't use any kind of spray on the tortillas to get the browning, we have a sort of press with two grills on the top and bottom that sandwich the Crunchwrap to sear it on both sides. And you put a whole hunking pile of beef in it. We would only do one scoop, same as how much beef goes in a soft taco.
You know at TB its about portion ratios and overall weight, standard meat and even double meat would never cause the tortilla to tear if he preheated it properly
Is extra beef really just a single extra scoop? I've started to order the value burrito (the one with fiesta strips) with extra beef and it makes such a massive difference, I'm starting to think they're hooking me up bc I'm a regular lmao
i really like the unedited/live videos i dont know how to explain but theyre so educational and not only because you get a way better sense of time more please! good job
My man out here cooking like it's a friday night at the restaurant 🤣Wiping stuff on the floor, ingredients flying everywhere, flipping trays in the walk in. It's great.
What is unique about Ethan's recording and style of cooking is that it is very realistic: the clean up, the washing hands, wiping the space down -- great content!
When you are folding over, add some cheese right under the folds and put it cheese side down on the pan to brown. It will seal it quite nicely, and wont come apart while you eat it.
I watched KimmyKreations make a paste with water and flour. Also looked like a great alternative, and has the added bonus of being able to form it ahead.
My first time making my own crunchwrap i bought one and literally studied it. In taco bell they have the double sided press that heats both sides. Definitely an important step but also be careful while flipping the wrap, the folds can and will come undone easily lmao
if you preheat the tortilla properly, which he did not, you do not need to do anything other than grill both sides for about 20 sec each to achieve the structural hold for the crunchwrap
@@davindamico1759 I've made a few hundred of these. Of the ones I ate, the part I enjoyed most was the crunchy cheesy wrap seal. As long as the sides aren't tearing, you preheated long enough. You can do things like add extra ingredients for an oversized crunchwrap, Even if the folds don't quite meet, the cheese seal will insure the wraps integrity, regardless of tortilla preheating.
I really love this video! Not only is it a really solid overview of making a solid crunchwrap, but it's a real view into how even an experienced home chef operates. Everyone makes mistakes, and things tend to veer off course sometimes. It's just nice to see a recipe turn out well even with little oversights here and there.
dude i think i like this style video even more than your usual ones (which is saying a lot). It was totally engaging the entire time and really brought me into the kitchen and the cooking experience. Definitely made me want to cook the next time I feel like getting Taco Bell. Also made me wonder what you typically have in your kitchen at any given time and how you have it organized. You should do a tutorial for stocking the kitchen, with tips for what ingredients you keep on hand, your basic suggestions for equipment (i noticed you have a mortar and pestle -- which items do you say are must haves?) and how you keep track of expiration dates on your various perishables. I'd watch the heck outta that
I like that you included cleaning and putting things away in the video. That’s always a challenge and people don’t account for the time it takes for this
I'd love to see a cost breakdown. Like the cruchwrap costs $X, and the cost of the ingredients was $Y (this would take a lot of estimating, since it's hard to price like one ounce of lettuce).
Joshua Weissman does it and IMO it's pretty ridiculous how he prices things like teaspoons of sugar or tablespoons of flour or grams of whatever spice, but hey, maybe it's what you're looking for.
@@itsdonuttime7729 I'm Indian, and I don't think it would really work. Papad is a little too salty and spicy to make sense in this context, I think. I recommend enjoying some with a nice rice-dal, instead :)
@@akashpisharody I am indian too and I just randomly got this idea in my head so I trolled through the comments trying to find my fellow countrymen lmao. The papad also might be too thin, maybe papdi would work better.
Hey Ethan, I used to deliver tortillas for a living. Taco bell uses mission foods tortillas (a special version), and you used their competitor's. This could affect the flavor, or is at least a variable. Also, the 12" tortillas are the burrito size, sometimes also called wraps, and should be in every grocery store.
i think the purpose of the video was if you can make a crunchwrap yourself at home (with the ingredients you have at hand) faster than driving to taco bell and ordering a crunchwrap. not necessarily making a perfect crunchwrap clone.
The way cooking is done and everything feels so homemade, Love the video and it's so relaxing and beautiful to see how everything really works instead of fancy edits
We must be watching a different video then. His body language says it all. In high school, he was probably voted _Most likely to follow someone home after being cut off_ or _Most likely to be served with a restraining order._
I like that you actually do things like go to the fridge, get your spices out from the cabinet, put things back, etc. The text tips are also a great add-in.
I actually prefer this film style to your more curated videos. Would love more of these as it feels like we are right there in the kitchen, I’ve learned so much!
This is the first video in a long time that has made me go out to the supermarket, buy ingredients, and then immediately cook the recipe. We had a few variations owing to us being in New Zealand, but boy was it a banging dinner! Thank you for a great video. For any NZ'ers who might stumble across this, I used: - A heap of Mrs Rogers' "Mexican Seasoning" - Extra cumin - A mix of edam and cheddar cheese - Tostitos lime tortilla chips - Leftover (maybe half a tin) La Morena chipotle sauce that I had in the fridge.
Man, this really shows how fast cooking can be. I grew up in a household with a lot of bickering, so any kind of cooking that wasn't super simple would take like... an entire hour. It's why I don't cook for myself more often, I always saw it as a huge time sink. Maybe now that I have my own space I should give it a shot more often. Thanks for the insight, this was super interesting.
Gabe’s brutal honesty is so endearing and relatable. How many times have you gone out for fast food and by the time you have your first bite you think “I immediately regret this decision.” It’s a feeling you only know when you’ve experienced it.
I love this video buttttttt. While I've made my own Crunchwrap before; and it does taste good / better there are a couple factors that really do limit this option that I'm surprised wasn't brought up that immediately stood out to me: 1.) Ingredients. You have to have the ingredients ready or not missing anything. It's not usually likely I have all the ingredients, let alone FRESH and ready to go, or the amount needed. You suggest going to a hispanic market, which is fine if that's where you always do your shopping, but for the tortillas, that would be a possible extra trip to get. You can add them on the next trip to the market but that leads int leads into 2.) Cost. If you're missing any ingredients, then that cost factor adds up quick. If I have to pick up sour cream, tortillas, beef, and say one or two other items here (especially if it's a spice) you're running up the $$$ 3.) Portion. I live alone, so this may not be everyone's experience at all, but now I have all these tortillas which I won't go through because I don't want to eat tortillas that often. Most of the other things are multipurpose, so I won't hassle ya on that. But I'll be reusing that beef (or whatever xyz for limited meal options before it goes bad and yes, I'm aware of freezing - but I have limited freezer space, and of the time its full of other ingredients of things ha) 4.) Time and cleanup. It definitely didn't take me 20 mins to make mine, and I think I had less overall things I did than you (my recipe was a little more simple). That, in part, comes down to skill. But also I don't have an induction burner. Cleanup is a pain too. When I come back from work, I'm already exhausted. If I order, tit's usually while I put away work clothes or decompress for a second / take care of laundry or some other random chore. Energy levels start to get low. 5.) Mistakes. You burn something, drop a pan on the floor, miss an ingredient etc. and it's over. Comes down to skill, but stuff happens. I love the content and the point of this video. Definitely better and people should learn to make it so that they can make it for me. But those other factors exist as to why it might not be the best option for someone, or why they may do the fast food.
I agree with a lot of these, and I think the time part is a little skewed in the video because he goes in line instead of the drive thru which imo would've been faster
The Crunch wraps actually used to use two scoops (their long, taco length spoon-like tools) of beef, but over the last 10 years or so, they changed it to one. And I think a scoop is ~1.5 oz.
@@laurisjones No, a friend of mine worked there years ago when we were in high school. It was two scoops then. You can find videos on TikTok now of the workers making the items and they only use one now.
@@IAmNeomic sad shit, i love the doritos tacos with 2 scoops of meat, the bottom being soggy was kinda the best part since it didnt shatter like a chip
You should compare cost as well, and see how many of the item you can comfortably produce to get to an average home made price average. Great videos, thank you!
I think summary: expensive as a one-off meal. Far cheaper if eaten frequently. Sometimes i try a recipe and buy lots of stuff i never use again. So it gets expensive. But if you make the same food or similar often it’s far cheaper. I live alone and that makes cooking pretty expensive. It’s hard to buy things in small quantities sometimes (in Nigeria there’s a poor man version/portion of everything LOL. Here… for instance the least amount of toilet paper you can buy is 6 rolls. I couldn’t finish a whole pack of tortillas EVER. So i invite friends over often so i can get rid of food.
@@marusnak1113 no. If you put everything away as soon as you use it, like he did, and wash the utensils as you use them, knives, potato masher etc, wipe off the chopping board each time it’s used and wipe down the bench between there’s very little cleaning up to be done at the end of any meal prep or cooking. And then anything left can be washed while the food is cooking Something my Grandmother taught me a billion years ago when I was first learning to cook. It saves time and leaves you with an uncluttered cooking space, and a clean kitchen to serve up a meal in.
ground beef is around 5 dollars a pound nacho cheese is around 3 dollars tostadas are 3 dollars sour cream is 2 dollars 20 count tortilla is around 5 dollars taco seasoning is 1 dollar 1 lime is around 44 cents hot sauce is around 3 dollars usually you might save yourself a little money if your grow the veggies compared to buying them at the store but the Crunchwrap supreme by itself is 4.50. The ground beef alone is going to cost more than the crunchwrap. Granted, you're going to get a lot more servings.
@@panspermiapancakes you could theoretically scale down the recipe to a portion by portion cost. If this uses 3-4 ozs of beef, cost is offset proportionately
To make the beef the same texture as Taco Bell you have to add the ground beef to the pan. Then add cold water. Mix so it’s the texture of pink goo. Then start cooking. I came across this recipe and I do it for tacos and sloppy joes. Anything that you want your ground beef to have that texture.
I use an immersion blender. I very quickly immerse it in the meat, like for a second before moving on to another area. I’m going to try your method. Then I don’t have to wash the blender!
Love this series! I like the low-edit feel, it's almost like watching a stream and it's refreshing. My thoughts during the video were mostly about how it was missing nacho cheese so I was glad to see that mentioned in the comparison. It's what makes taco Bell imo
This is an excellent video to illustrate that cooking food at home may sometimes be a better alternative than driving to pick up fast food during rush hours. I think it is important to mention a few caveats and conditions for this to work. First, he has a full on professional kitchen, large fridge, and plenty of cabinet and countertop space to hold his tools like potato masher and box grater. Second, his cooking skills are above the average person which contributes to the speed. So if one was living in a small studio apartment kitchen with limited countertop/storage space, with basic cooking gadgets like just a knife and spoon, with average cook skills, going out to buy fast food would be faster and less painful.
It can also be cheaper per meal in some circumstances. If there's 3 of you, you have to buy ingredients for 4. Can't really use the scraps as that would only feed one the next day.
As someone without all the fancy stuff (cheap tiny studio apartment with no pantry and tiny fridge) I can still do all this, except the grinder cuz I just never got around to it. But you can cut a lot of this work out with store bought taco seasoning and taco bell sells their own too.
yeah, hardest conditions for everyone who is not a professional : one, a full pantry of fresh stuff plus the spices, and two, the equipment. And maybe three, the cleaning afterwards.
Simon, you initially make valid points, yet individuals on their own at some point must INVEST in more than a knife and spoon, so folks, please do so as soon as you can afford. For example: that $8-$15 "cheap fast- food meal" could've bought you at the Dollar Tree store ( in the USA, 2023; btw, now $1.25) : ....sharp knife/knives; ...cutting board; ... measuring cups/spoons; ... spices (individual like oregano, or cumin, OR a mixed seasoning). ...canned beans/veggies or boxed pasta/rice/gnocchi, etc, etc.....
I’ve been cooking for 4 decades since a young kid and I love your approach. This is what young people like my University age sons need to see. I try teaching them and they are receptive but you know how it goes as I am not cool. Door Dash and Uber Eats are leading to many people losing motivation to cook and spending way too much. Plus making stuff is fun. You have great practical useful information and skills in a realistic format.
I am “single” when it comes to food because my wife is vegan. When we dine together, 80% of the time it’s something that is vegan, and the other times I cook separate but easy-to-prep meals that usually just means adding meat to my dish (adding chicken to a big garden salad) or using meat for my serving of pasta and a vegan meat substitute with hers. When I am alone, I actually enjoy cooking for myself, but sometimes I just go out for stuff like French toast, a burger, or taco because I hate buying ingredients that may go to waste because I can’t use them before they go bad, or I throw out leftovers because I couldn’t go through them fast enough before getting tired of them.
I see two problems. One is that simple recipes are also simply boring. Now, give me something interesting to cook and that can be fun but ask me to make something as basic as a crunchwrap and you might as well ask me to make some scrambled eggs, exceedingly boring and feels like a waste of my time. Second is that I feel like this video is misleading. I could easily WALK to my local Taco Bell and still get the food back home in under ten minutes. I have no idea what took them so long (short of just burning time for the sake of the video) but the only time I've ever seen fast food take that long is when some big event was happening in town. I'm not saying you're wrong. It's a good thing to know how to cook for yourself. But between a lot of foods just being so simple as to be boring to prepare and fast food being...well...a lot faster than is portrayed here I think there's an argument to be made for it given that it's within the budget and isn't your only source of food.
I'm not gonna lie this is the first video I've seen from you and I absolutely love the idea of a race with minimal editing too show exactly what you are doing while cooking it's the type of cooking content that I enjoy keep up the good work
I love the lack of cuts, it really shows off your workflow in the kitchen. Sometimes it just seems you're doing random things to occupy yourself, which is completely fine. I'm glad you left those parts in.
I appreciate the fact that you didn't slam Taco Bell in this video. Yes, of course your crunchwrap was better, but there are times (or instances) where TB is just fine. Also, another thing to consider is the fact that someone making this at home may not have all the ingredients and would have to go to the grocery to pick them up which would add to the time. All that said, I almost never eat out anymore because 95% of the time, what I make at home is better, fresher, and super hot (I like food right off the fire). Great content. Thank you!
I love this episode, because it's very raw unedited, undramatic version of what happens in the kitchen. But let's not forget, it's not just the cooking time. Planning and prepping is a big part of home cooking. A well stocked pantry and kitchen is half the job done to cook well and quick. But as the sole runner of my kitchen I can tell you this, it takes almost 30 mins of my time everyday to keep my kitchen, fridge and pantry stocked. This is when I am in Bangalore, everything is delivered to my door. An hour every couple of days is for ordering, remember to stock up and putting the shopping away.
Also, adding clean-up time to the home cooking as well as the time it takes to shop for the ingredients (especially if you can't get them from your normal grocery store) and factoring in that many people just get fast-food on the way home so the only extra time really is the wait time for the food.
As a paramedic, i really can imagine how good this self made food works for me, if i prepare the sauce, vegetables etc. the day before and only have to make the rest. Time is very limited, but this is very timesaving and extremely tasty. Ty sir for your dish. Greetings from germany.
Day before is key, I always bring breakfast and lunch to work and do it the night before so it's ready to go. Also, since you are on the road fke work I really reccomend a heated lunch box that plugs into either the car cigarette/adapter plug or into a typical wall socket. You can put your food in the metal container and plug it in an hour before you plan tk eat and then its hot and reafy to eat :)
Not to mention you get more food at a cheaper price. When you buy fast food you are paying for more than just ingredients, but labor, the establishment costs and meeting significant profit margins as well.
I really love the casual live format of this, reminds me a bit of Kenji. Unrelated, but have you ever considered making a video just about grocery shopping? I really love your content because it is very relatable and I usually can find applications of a lot of your techniques. A video of similar format to your "What I eat in a day" of your thought process for groceries and what you buy in any particular week could be really insightful.
The cleaning tip that shows up is the best advice my first head Chef ever gave me. Clean whenever you get any spare time. It makes EVERYONES life easier.
I appreciate that the comparison was based on observable facts, and was not 100 percent biased in favor of the chef. Your call out about how Taco Bell uses nacho cheese in their crunch wrap, and it being something that yours was missing helped make this video a genuinely positive experience to watch. Thank you for putting this video together.
I was eating my Crunchwrap (totally my guilty pleasure) and remembered that I queued up this video to watch. Amazing job! I need to start making my Crunchwrap’s at home. You have inspired me. Regarding the time it takes to make it at home vs going out to get fast food, I completely agree. Several years ago I realized that it took me 30 minutes to get fast food for my family. And it also took me 30 minutes to make dinner at home. Who wants to leave the house when it takes the same amount of time! getting fast food is a hassle.
I'm disappointed that Gabe's bites weren't anywhere near as fun to watch as Ethan's. I was so turned off by Ethan's bites the first time I ever watched him, and now it's like an ASMR experience for me.
now this is a man on a mission. I subscribed and liked. he was cleaning up every chance he got. perfect execution minus the nacho cheese. it's my first time here and I enjoyed your thoroughness!
8:30 it’s my understanding that the meat they use is actually like, meat paste that comes in a vacuum sealed bag that gets stuck in a giant immersion circulator. Mystery meat aside though, I LOVE the idea of this series. Most people don’t eat fast food because they think it’s better than home cooking, they do it because it seems faster and easier. Being able to make fast food items with better ingredients in a similar amount of time to ordering them out will be a game changer for a lot of people.
The oats are in the seasoning mix and they are there for texture. Ground beef has a hard pebbly texture when it has been sitting for too long because the meat dries out. Because the meat mixture is held at temperature the oats keep the sauce from breaking and have a softer overall texture. That’s also why meatloaf made with oats is always better than meatloaf with bread or cracker crumbs.
@@TepidBat Yep, and this is why nothing at Taco Bell is gluten free. I'm sure the oats mixed into the ground beef also keep their overall costs down... after all, oats are cheaper than 100% beef.
I love how you are doing all of the things in “human” speed. I saw lots of similar series but the problem is that people who are cooking are professionals and they are doing things with extreme speed, so its not hard for them to be fast. Here it’s more realistic
Imo he went slow as hell, stopped for a few seconds multiple times, forgot everything and moved everything around too much. And if he warm the tortillas in the oven and cut the vegetables while cooking the beef he could have got this done in 10 minutes. He also had to do extra steps most people wouldn’t like cleaning and grating Cheese. I know I could make those in like 9 minutes. Specially since I know I’d have everything ready that needs to be ready like the pickled onions.
@@Leavemealone670 Having everything perfectly on hand and making no mistakes is not human speed. The mistakes, the faffing, the "oh wait" *is* honest human speed. If you have everything perfectly lined up and ready to go, you're kinda defeating the purpose of this whole exercise.
@intellectual gladiator This is a video of a guy with fast prepping skills doin' it live. The guy getting mad about him not doing it fast enough is complaining that he didn't have everything pre-prepped and made mistakes. He's not describing "human" speed. He's describing, at best, "professional kitchen with everything lined up and on hand" speeds.
This looks amazing but I will note, the thing that stops me from cooking when I’m feeling lazy isn’t the cooking, it’s the cleanup. I LOVE cooking and making meals, but the messy counters, floors and sink full of dish is enough to give me full blown panic attack some days.
I lived with my mom for her last 6 years. She was OPPOSITE! She said, "I'll do the cleaning if I just have somebody who will cook!" I LOVED that, and i have a video of my 99 year old mother cleaning up while i was cooking! Before going off on me for making a 99 year old ITALIAN lady clean, she enjoyed this, and anything she's capable of, you don't take away from her, or she loses overall range of motion. It was her kitchen skills that kept her going!
I love this idea. Until I moved from the states to Europe, I always thought cooking was so much harder than going through a drive thru until I was forced to cook every day. It's so much faster, cheaper and healthier. And it made me lose 45lbs last year lol
@@EthanChlebowski Yeah I mean for me my favorite fast food is Chipotle and no way I can make that at home faster than I can go get it. Even if I have all the ingredients on hand and thawed, I'd have to cook brown rice, make the black beans, marinate and cook the steak, make pico de gallo, make hot sauce, make corn and roasted poblano salsa. You could save time in the long run by making big batches of all of this and heating it up but making it all from scratch in the first place would take a long time, hours for me probably since I'm not that organized in the kitchen.
@@markusschafer9572 but also price. If what I've seen from North Americans on UA-cam and Reddit is anything to go by, fast food compared to fresh ingredients seems to be less of a price difference than in many EU countries.
This felt like the start of something special Ethan. If the comments (and my own) response are anything to go by, you've stumbled across and tapped into something special and mesmerising. Very entertaining, interesting and inspiring, thanks mate!
this inspired me to make this with impossible beef instead of ordering food today! thanks for showing just how doable this is in a short period of time. you've changed a life today
@@rockyrocker23 But then you have ingredients to make all those crunchwrap supremes, much cheaper than them. :P You'd definitely have to use less beef than he did here, though.
Hand grated cheese isn’t really something you can just substitute, it’s covered in some kind of starch to prevent it from clumping up which makes it not melt nearly as easily as hand grated cheese. Still would work but doing it by hand makes a lot of sense.
@@DeepfriedBeans4492 Starch ain't the big issue, but rather cellulose (aka "wood pulp", though all plant matter uses cellulose for its non-digestable fiber content); it's also used to replace some or all of the fat content, as well. It's where all the memes about pre-shredded cheese being bags of sawdust and the like come from. While I don't mind dietary fiber in the least, it has no place in cheese, at all, and I will forever buy a block or wheel of cheese and grate it myself, dammit.
The pure Chlebowski Power radiating off even the thumbnail, wonderful. Once again, taking an idea a few food channels have tried and reimagining it as something people could actually cook from (I'm not spending 8 weeks cave-aging cheddar for cheese fries, Weissman!). This is the channel I cook from by far the most despite being largely vegetarian. Looking forward to the rest of the series.
@@shelf-regulatingsystem1323 apologies for assuming you were in north America. In a market with so many bad "meat substitutes" soy chorizo generally stands out as a really great alternative.
@@ericconrad8854 As a meat-eater I've noticed soysage does tend to be better than other meat substitutes. Some guy on YT made pepperoni that was vegan and it honestly looks like something I'd like to make just to try.
I love the raw authenticity. Seeing mistakes and trying to fix it is so cool, I usually just find recipes and follow the video step by step, whereas this just looks like a friend cooking. I don’t usually try cooking random things like this, but now I’m motivated. Also I never had Taco Bell but this does look fun to cook. The worst part of cooking is the cleaning afterwards but this made me realize it could actually be so easy, and less hectic
Great video ! Really liked the fact that the whole cooking process is one single take where we can see everyting happening in real time. Much more realistic when it comes to learning the "flow" of cooking ! Please keep this concept and do as many more as you please.
I love seeing you cook in real-time. I first saw the format with Kenji's channel, and it makes the content WAY more relatable. Please do more of this!! (and hopefully it takes less editing work?)
Wow. This is the content I’ve been looking for. No hate to Joshua Weismann but his but better series always felt like a slam dunk. Of course, he’d be able to make a better version of a fast food item with unlimited time and budget. But this is realistic, minimal and perfect for a home cook. More of this please
Weismann is a cornball
right??
@@spoj3922 their just youtubers calm down
Entertainment vs education, they serve two different purposes and I love them both
@@spoj3922 Cornballs are delicious. You don't have to eat them if you don't want to.
Actually please make this an entire series Ethan, this sounds really interesting.
I can definitely continue this!
True. It's an actual skill to know how to navigate through your kitchen, but also it shows the real picture of preparing a meal and all different challenges of it. Which are most likely to prevent you from making it after watching the easy-looking video.
@@EthanChlebowski yes ...
Takedown all the big chains baker boy
@@EthanChlebowski please
@@EthanChlebowski please do! very entertaining! Even if you can't beat the clock on some or have to pre-prep a bit, I want more!
I’ve noticed a lot in the comments how many people appreciate seeing these unbroken, single take videos - often mainly because just seeing you work efficiently and tidily is good information for less confident home cooks. Love the format and the not-dunking on fast food, just showing it can be done at home-approach, thank you ❤
I'm enjoying these videos as someone who is trying to do more cooking myself. It helps to see proper technique and the whole process, so I can add these ideas to my cooking knowledge while also seeing good recipe ideas I can make later on. Sometimes I'll skip around in the videos because they can be a bit long, but I appreciate them.
❤😊
I love seeing this uncut video, as someone who didn't cook much growing up, I can never understand how y'all cook so fast. I usually take about 2-3 hours to cook dinner and clean up, so seeing how you can cook a legit meal and clean up in less than an hour (assuming this was made for multiple people), really helps me to internalize the process and workflow.
He took too much time to make everything
A cook would know to have all his items ready to cook at that time. He didn't have out a tortilla. He didn't have out a corn tortilla. I could make that meal in 15 minutes
@@MichellepersonalcaregiverYou don’t leave all your food items lying around right? You put them in cabinets, just like he does. Taking them out and preparing counts as time spent
😅 @@Michellepersonalcaregiver
@@Michellepersonalcaregiver you're so amazing. Go work at taco bell
I like that you guys don't just absolutely hate on the fast food versions. Sometimes you just want that nostalgia but it does feel more satisfying to eat something fresh.
Yoo words
Taco Bell really is terrible. Probably the worst fast food place IMO. I get mad at myself every time I eat there. It all tastes like "gloop" and they took away the grilled stuft burrito. I would really like to see this guy take on Wendy's chicken sandwiches. That would be a legit challenge.
@@keyboardwarrior6296 Its really not that bad.
@@keyboardwarrior6296 Taco Bell’s taste varies widely depending on the particular location, the best Taco Bell I’ve been to was off highway 8 in Arizona, the worst was in San Francisco. Make sure to research the Taco Bell’s near you to see which one is the best!
@@RyanSmith-mz1rpthis, it really does depend on the location
I love how closely this actually captures the feeling of cooking a meal from scratch, rather than following the recipe to a T. The lack of cuts makes it a very fun style!
Strong agreement. Reminded me of Emeril Lagasse back in the day but mixed with the unprepared nature of real everyday cooking.
Wdym by lack of cuts
@@maazuponvelocity Lack of cuts just means there’s very little cut out of the video. Nearly all of the cooking process is in real time.
Actually angry that there wasn't more. I was craving Taco Bell, but now I wanna make it at home!
@@jailhousejoker3953 Yes I definitely want to make this at home. I ordered 1 of these at TC awhile back, it was flat as a pancake & I was extremely disappointed. And I never went back. But wow this is so easy to make. And I will definitely do so!👍🏼❤️ Can't wait!!! 😋
Ethan, I must say, one of my favorite aspects of your channel is your realistic attitude. Most other cooking YTs would have spat out that taco bell and chastised fast food for being pure garbage. Seeing you admit fast food is still good gives credence to your food being great.
You and Kenji are the best cooks on this platform, keep it up bro!
Him saying fast food is good just makes him so much more relatable
Ive watched cooking channels on yutube where the people do that and it makes me feel bad abou t eating fast food and enjoying it lol
+1 to Ethan and Kenji being the foodtuber GOATs. The realistic grounded feeling that makes the food feel possible makes a huge difference compared to videos that use food as entertainment.
Exactly, that's why I hate Joshua Weissman channel, dude thinks he's Gordon Ramsey and God combined. He acts like those dumb people in those bad tv ad info commercials in order to make the competition look incompetent when in reality it just shows how unconfident of a chef he is. Ethan though, Ethan is cool lol
@@chrisramirez7357 His work has an audience that finds it appealing, we shouldn't tear down one person's work to elevate another's.
I’m in Scotland, never had a Taco Bell. I usually buy a “taco kit” box at vast expense and had been yearning for a homemade and more flavourful alternative - this was amazing! My son (9) helped me and we made four of them for the family - absolutely delicious. We added black beans to the mince and guacamole too - perfect! Thank you. 👍🏻
Recipe aside, I LOVE this live format of watching the entire process from prepping to finished product as I feel it adds an extra dimension of "realness" to the video and makes it more user friendly for the up and coming beginner level home cook.
Not to mention it saves time on your end as you dont need to spend as much time editing the video, so it's a simultaneous win-win for you and us!
A note to add to his review at the end, how he was saying that it’s easier to make it at home, it’s also even more easier now that Taco Bell has their own line of stuff out like their sauces are in the stores, their beef seasoning are in stores, they even have their taco kits in store. So definitely more worth it to make it home and given how you can make more for later and it’s literally half the cost and half the time in total. Great video!
I was grocery shopping two days ago and I saw a crunchwrap kit that would make four wraps for $7.
Ezpz
Your reasoning is going to be Taco Bell's reasoning for increasing their prices at their restaurant due to this video on YT !
It's easier to buy it. No cooking or doing dishes. Which I hate. 🥱🥱
Fun video. Give us more!
I like it that you’re very honest and open about linking fast food and acknowledging in what situations it’s actually a great option. The whole “fast food is disgusting” take when comparing it to freshly-made counter parts gets old very quickly.
i agree. Josh Weissman is all about trashing fast food and its like bro... you know it tastes good and we know yours is going to better but dont say its bad. it really is getting old
@@Descendv2 That's why I stopped following his videos. There was just this sense of smugness from his videos that just old and grating really fast. That he also trashed pre-made ingredients like broths and whatnot also was annoying.
his sense of humor is annoying too when you just wanna see a dude cook
@@Descendv2 Joshua Weissman is by far, and it's not even close, the most unlikeable person in the cooking youtuber genre
Yeah I love me some good fast food but more recently I’m making an effort to find small local hole in the wall places to support on my road trips! Have really found some incredible gems over the last few years
Sometimes will even make a slight detour here and there if there’s something absolutely worth getting a bit off the main roads
Wow... I love the crunch wraps and this is great to see how they're made. Our Taco Bell isn't always open... like it has closed 3x since I moved here, and sometimes the TB line is 20 minutes or more! We don't have a Mexican grocer.
However, there's no pickled onion on our crunch wraps, so that was a lot of time taken up unnecessarily. This would have normally taken less time without fooling around with the onions.
I am learning to make tortillas at home myself, but with organic masa. Can't wake to make my own fresh crunch wrap! Thanks.
You can order online. Pick up option often gets made before you ask. Drive thru always waits until I tell them I'm there before they start making it.
I am absolutely loving this series.
It makes cooking SOOO accessible!
I made some crunchwraps myself! Had a great time, learned some new things, and they were delicious!
This man paid 10 bucks
@@nobodysbodyand smell like mahogany
Paid $10 and can't even get a reply
So I made this tonight from the recipe on your website. It took me about 45 minutes to make 4 of them for my family and everyone really enjoyed them. Thanks very much for this, I think I will be making this on a semi-regular basis. It was pretty straightforward, scaled up easily and was very tasty. So much better than fast food, ESPECIALLY Taco Bell. Thanks again for these types of episodes.
What I like is that some of this can be pre-prepped and used in other recipes! Maybe not the tomatoes, but definitely the lettuce- turn around and use it for salad, wraps, etc. Pickled onions can be made the day before while you're cooking a roast or whatever. So there's ways you could cut down the time if you don't want to take 45 minutes
All in all, though, 45 minutes for a delicious crunch wrap from scratch, getting fresh ingredients of your own choosing, nothing beats that! 😊
Did you also wash your hands clean with plain water after touching the meat and spread the meat germs to the drying cloth and then contaminate the salt with meat germs? 😜
@@Frumbler. I’m a microbiologist. Made me cringe.
BLOODY LOVE YOUR RESPONSE @@Frumbler
@@Frumbler OSHA food safety has entered the chat 💀😂🤣
I actually clicked because I wanna learn how to make my own crunchwrap supreme. Because this looks realistic, like something anyone can do. Please make it a series!
Actual tacobell ingredients- 12in tortilla , tostada, beef, nacho cheese, sour cream, lettuce, and tomatoes. Then it’s put on a grill press
It's really easy. I work at taco bell n it's pretty easy to make most of the food items at home
I only eat fast food, when the food item is something I can't make at home
I am the type to always order the exact same thing from places, but recently ordered the Crunchwrap supreme and it was delicious and satisfying- I really thought This had shown up in recommend bc of googles AI always listening in, and cookies from search’s ,’like searching a Taco Bell menu,’or saying out loud at the drive through window “Crunchwrap supreme” and then getting all the ads or UA-cam videos based on your doings or outings or conversations ect. However in this case, I see this is a recent made video,’as opposed to say when things get tossed in, even if they were made years or several months back -
@@zhongxina1615 you can make basically any fast food item at home, some would take a tone more time to make though, and maybe take some kitchen science
I lvoe these kind of videos ^^ It is kinda a reality check that fast food is often easily made yourself at home, for cheaper and often not much more time it takes to go get it, or order it per uber, but the main reason when I get fast food, or in my cases ordering all kinda of food per uber, is not because of the "fast", but because I don't have the energy to stand in the kitchen to make myself dinner, and/or I have to buy some groceries
For a wrap of any kind, I actually wet my hand and rub down the tortilla with the excess water. When it hits the pan, there's just enough water to make it steam very slightly and evenly, getting the tortilla warm without it getting crispy. It will still develop brown spots and maillard flavors, but it is not going to get hard unless you really overcook it.
this is pretty useful actually! thank you!
@Zahdorfi all i think of maillard is brown = good
Interesting
@@Willis-no9ym that's cuz brown is good
be douchier
This video is more of a testament to how important it is to have a well organized kitchen and stocked pantry. Big props on including cleaning and washing up - most other videos using a similar topic just ignore the time it takes to wash all the dishes used to cook.
Agree. The prepping and cleanup is a huge factor/barrier to cooking at home.
Yeah and that's the problem most home cooks struggle with, including me.
My kitchen is about less than half the size of Ethan's kitchen and I do not have a pantry. I have a small cabinet for "pantry stuff" - 1 type of pasta, rice and some seasoning. That's about all that can fit in there. My fridge is like 1/3 the size of his and is usually half empty, 'cause why would a poor student from an eastern European country have anything in the fridge, eh?
Unfortunately, I cannot change any of my "kitchen predispositions", since any flat modifications are forbidden by the landlord and even if they were allowed, there's just no space.
I hate how easy his kitchen makes everything look.
@@Sn1per9CZE Shit i learned from living the exact same way you do:
young (because you dont need to peel them) potatoes, onions, canned corn, pasteurized dairy, dried herbs, chili, citrus fruits, shit bread (read, toast), tortillas and pasta can easily be stored in the cuboard next to your kitchen (which, i assume, has two plates for a pot and a pan, and nothing else, because thats what i have) for quite some time.
just seperate tomatoes and potatoes from the rest, because they both produce an enzyme which ruins most fruit and vegs
1. Always use one pan for "dry" stuff like toasting bread and tortillas or for giving pasta a last short "fry" before eating it, minimizes cleaning effort
2. using the very limited space in your freezer is key - put stuff in there you like in most dishes, but thats portionable. for me, thats sfrozen seafood. gives me some protein, is not as expensive as you think, is available in most supermarkets, and if you throw some into your noodles, you got a real dish instead of "spaghetti with barilla pesto"
3. kitchen gadgets take away valuable space. try using just one knife to cook, and buy accordingly. at my parents place, i had a thingy to grate cheese - here, i either chop parmesan finely, or buy the shitty pre choppe done
4. OLIVE OIL IS BETTER THAN BUTTER BECAUSE IT DOESNT SPOIL
5. Fuck Eggs, i never use them up before they go bad, aka i have to eaat one disgusting 8 egg omelette cooked in a small pan
6. Store bought gnocci or boiled rice can be thrown into any pan with any combination of ingredients and will be edible
And if you want a "pantry staple", so a dish thats basically ready in 20 minutes whenever you cook it, look up "Norwegian Butter Sauce Recipe" by Food Wishes.
yeet heavy cream, butter and some citrus into a pan, let that simmer down, while it simmers, in another pan put your thin cut potatoes with olive oil, let roast a bit, after like 10 mins throw in your salmon, mput everything together, put some dill, congratulations, you just cooked a meal any adult would think is real food.
Exactly nobodys house looks like this or has the money to keep a well stocked fridge. This video was very out of touch with 90 percent of households in the us
True but there's no way it took him over 10mins to drive 1 mile
I would love to see more of this, I appreciate that you didn't have the mise en place before the video, you prepped everything in the time given. It's why J Kenji's videos are so awesome because there are few if any cuts, and he mostly just shows up the whole recipe from literal start to literal finish, including detours
Yeah inspired me to make some pickled onions too.
@@supermills03 I, too, made pickled onions after watching this lol
i feel like this shows me you were once a line cook who learned to adapt everything on the fly, i loved every minute of this, mad props
This was awesome. I liked the drama of the "race." I hope you keep making these. Also, one thing you consider adding is a timer in the corner of the screen for the entire duration of the challenge. Another fun addition could be including a progress meter in another corner (or near the timer) showing here the person going to get the food is at that current time; I imagine it could be something like the Dominos Pizza tracker showing the various stages of going to get fast food (e.g. driving to, parking, ordering, waiting, driving back) - just a small but potentially fun way to show the status of the race. I was rooting for you and glad you won! Thanks for your wonderful videos and looking forward to more.
HUGE
massively great suggestions
To be fair, he forgot the whole "go to the grocery store and ensure you actually have the ingredients" part!
It's so interesting to see how you move around the kitchen - the chaotic sudden movements and the thought processes while finding the ingredients is just so human and natural and so relatable - exactly how I am when I need to make dinner in a flash. This is such a great series, please make more of these!
Same feelings exactly!
I really appreciate this video! Being disabled, it is difficult to do a lot of cooking. This looks like something I can do. Not only does it take less than 30 minutes, a lot of the prep can be done sitting down. Thank you!
I agree it's a great recipe I'm looking out for those big tortillas I need some!
Or you could buy one from taco bell and save yourself 20 mins
@@StickyxFinga if you watched the video it took almost 20 minutes for Taco Bell to even make the food/give the order
@@MileyObsession96 go to a vetter taco bell. I can make fried chicken quicker than kfc if i include the hour it takes me to get to kfc
@@StickyxFinga Exactly. Why would I go to KFC when I can get the same thing at home? And cooking is better than waiting and driving any day.
The crunch wrap has a special story to me.
Around 5 years ago i met my step dads best friend. I thought he was pretty cool he looked like a skinny 6ft 4 viking and his name was joe. He worked as a manager at taco bell. Over the years i nagged him for a Crunchwrap because my parents wouldn’t let me eat there. So i kept asking every month or so. Well in march 2023 he gave me it and it was amazing. But that year in august 3 weeks before his 63rd birthday, he passed away from a aortic aneurism. I will never forget him. He got me my crunchwrap. And he was my best friend as well
love the style of these videos. It's nice watching someone cook in real time rather than it being all edited. You get a much better understanding of what the cook is doing and why he is doing it.
Love this format and Gabe's presence. If he's down for it, I think this kind of interactions between you two is a welcome addition to the channel
I second this :)
@@Intertextual1 i third this
Just made these in 20 mins flat! My son devoured an entire one. This is definitely going in to our week night repertoire. Thanks Ethan.
Same here. I made 5 of these for my family and, in hindsight I shoulda made less, but my family loved them.
So glad to find u! Quick delicious meals and u have GREAT presentation....Love your personality and naturalness!You make me think I CAN DO THIS!!
I think this is a really great idea. Just started watching the video, but the fact that you're already including prep time is very important and rarely ever seen! Gordon Ramsay has some videos of showing how fast it is to cook something but that doesn't include any of the prep work or clean up which are both essential to the decision making process of cooking vs eating out. Hopefully you do consider the clean up time at the end, but I'm still in the middle of watching, so I'll see!
Jamie Oliver had a good show back in the day where he had a timer and would make meals in 10-15 minutes. It was a good show but he was always pushing a low fat thing, which was very much a sign of the times back then.
I always do appreciate when cooks include PREP TIME into their recipes. Stuff doesn't appear out of a fridge or pantry fully chopped.
Its been done before lol, on like tasty or bon appetit or something, i’ve definitely seen it before, still love this though lol
So true, Ramsey probably never cleans up his own shit
I like how you dont just take one bite but eat your whole creation on camera. Most of these food channels never really eat their food, so I enjoyed that. Also your bro seems pretty cool, was nice to see him talk so well about his bros food. Keep it up you two.
Current favorite food channel, hands down. Used to cook at home all the time, but into some bad eating habits over the last few years. A combo of you, Kenji, and rediscovering Chef John are making me excited to be cooking at home and fixing my diet again. Especially when I watch you and Kenji, it feels like a lot of things you guys cook are more like food frameworks instead of recipes. They feel like they just lend themselves to experimenting with ingredients that you might have on hand instead of needing to go shopping for every new dish. Thanks for the consistent great content!
I also recommend the guy at the Not Another Cooking Show channel, he knows his stuff
I really enjoyed the structure of this video. I like how it was “live” and we got to see your process while cooking. I feel like I learned more techniques, etc. watching you cook “raw” rather than edited. I try to cook as quickly as I can and usually without any prep either, so this helped show how someone cooks in a realistic way. Great video!
Seeing your kitchen, you grabbing the items from your fridge and preparing it in front of us the way you do make’s it very digestible and obtainable. Like every other comment for a home cook this is a great video. Thanks man
For me, ordering fast food is less about things being fast or tasting good, but more about just not having the mental or physical energy to actually make something (especially since I rarely do have the right ingredients for what I want lol). That being said, I love this series, it's always fun to watch while I'm getting things done!
Yep, I’m with you on that!
if its something laborious like this I plan these things to do on a day where i have plenty time and as a reward. its really tyring to do something like this spontanously (especially this one cuz it has so many steps and you have to wash up so much afterwards haha)
Yep same here, sometimes you just don't want the stress of having to cook.
I think that's the main issue for most people. You hit the nail on the head
And money, fast food is always cheap
Mexican here married to my very own red head. Your cooking show is a pleasure to watch! A tip for you Ethan...warm up any tortilla (flour or corn) that you plan to fold, roll, etc before toasting, or frying to prevent tears and crumbling. Put it onto a comal so the edges get warmed up instead of the edges skirting around the edge of a pan.
I can see how brave you are everytime you come on the camera! And the seasonings are on point for sure! Thank you
This is great because it demonstrates an aspect that is rarely discussed: workflow. Just seeing how you gather your toppings on to a try and move around your kitchen is insightful. Great stuff here.
I used to work at TB making food. We never put onions on a Crunchwrap Supreme, but it makes for a nice touch. Also, we don't use any kind of spray on the tortillas to get the browning, we have a sort of press with two grills on the top and bottom that sandwich the Crunchwrap to sear it on both sides. And you put a whole hunking pile of beef in it. We would only do one scoop, same as how much beef goes in a soft taco.
You know at TB its about portion ratios and overall weight, standard meat and even double meat would never cause the tortilla to tear if he preheated it properly
Is extra beef really just a single extra scoop? I've started to order the value burrito (the one with fiesta strips) with extra beef and it makes such a massive difference, I'm starting to think they're hooking me up bc I'm a regular lmao
@@ScumlordStudio Yeah, if someone asked for extra beef, I'd only put an extra scoop
@@ScumlordStudio yeah, usually just an extra scoop. the one i was at was pretty strict about portioning/weight.
I reasoned that Taco Bell limits ingredients to remain profitable.
Ha! I love the idea man. Always good to see the kitchen shuffle.
This type of videos are fun
@@Hamox agreed
Not his idea, he stole it from the Bon Appetit youtube channel
@@good_beans lol
ChefPK & Ethan collab when?
kept me watching for 32 minutes with almost no music, no fast edits and cuts, just pure, simple cooking and filming
i really like the unedited/live videos
i dont know how to explain but theyre so educational and not only because you get a way better sense of time
more please! good job
My man out here cooking like it's a friday night at the restaurant 🤣Wiping stuff on the floor, ingredients flying everywhere, flipping trays in the walk in. It's great.
What is unique about Ethan's recording and style of cooking is that it is very realistic: the clean up, the washing hands, wiping the space down -- great content!
I was thinking the same. I agree. Great video
Spent half the time walking back and forth to the fridge. If i worked with him in a restaurant, id be pulling my hair out.😂
When you are folding over, add some cheese right under the folds and put it cheese side down on the pan to brown. It will seal it quite nicely, and wont come apart while you eat it.
excellent
I watched KimmyKreations make a paste with water and flour. Also looked like a great alternative, and has the added bonus of being able to form it ahead.
My first time making my own crunchwrap i bought one and literally studied it. In taco bell they have the double sided press that heats both sides. Definitely an important step but also be careful while flipping the wrap, the folds can and will come undone easily lmao
if you preheat the tortilla properly, which he did not, you do not need to do anything other than grill both sides for about 20 sec each to achieve the structural hold for the crunchwrap
@@davindamico1759 I've made a few hundred of these. Of the ones I ate, the part I enjoyed most was the crunchy cheesy wrap seal. As long as the sides aren't tearing, you preheated long enough. You can do things like add extra ingredients for an oversized crunchwrap, Even if the folds don't quite meet, the cheese seal will insure the wraps integrity, regardless of tortilla preheating.
I really love this video! Not only is it a really solid overview of making a solid crunchwrap, but it's a real view into how even an experienced home chef operates. Everyone makes mistakes, and things tend to veer off course sometimes. It's just nice to see a recipe turn out well even with little oversights here and there.
dude i think i like this style video even more than your usual ones (which is saying a lot). It was totally engaging the entire time and really brought me into the kitchen and the cooking experience. Definitely made me want to cook the next time I feel like getting Taco Bell. Also made me wonder what you typically have in your kitchen at any given time and how you have it organized. You should do a tutorial for stocking the kitchen, with tips for what ingredients you keep on hand, your basic suggestions for equipment (i noticed you have a mortar and pestle -- which items do you say are must haves?) and how you keep track of expiration dates on your various perishables. I'd watch the heck outta that
I concur on all of this.
I like that you included cleaning and putting things away in the video. That’s always a challenge and people don’t account for the time it takes for this
I'd love to see a cost breakdown. Like the cruchwrap costs $X, and the cost of the ingredients was $Y (this would take a lot of estimating, since it's hard to price like one ounce of lettuce).
Joshua Weissman does it and IMO it's pretty ridiculous how he prices things like teaspoons of sugar or tablespoons of flour or grams of whatever spice, but hey, maybe it's what you're looking for.
@@uwirl4338 He didn't at first, and people got annoyed that things were left out.
Hey are you south asian? If so, how do you think this dish would taste if instead of using tostada in the middle you use papad/papadom?
@@itsdonuttime7729 I'm Indian, and I don't think it would really work. Papad is a little too salty and spicy to make sense in this context, I think. I recommend enjoying some with a nice rice-dal, instead :)
@@akashpisharody I am indian too and I just randomly got this idea in my head so I trolled through the comments trying to find my fellow countrymen lmao. The papad also might be too thin, maybe papdi would work better.
Hey Ethan, I used to deliver tortillas for a living. Taco bell uses mission foods tortillas (a special version), and you used their competitor's. This could affect the flavor, or is at least a variable. Also, the 12" tortillas are the burrito size, sometimes also called wraps, and should be in every grocery store.
Is the version noticeably different in taste? not just engineered for their specific storage needs etc?
@@byroncanty8986 they both store the same tbh. They do taste a little different but it’s probably not too noticeable when you make a meal with it.
I knew they tasted like mission lol. Authentic tortillas are better.
i think the purpose of the video was if you can make a crunchwrap yourself at home (with the ingredients you have at hand) faster than driving to taco bell and ordering a crunchwrap. not necessarily making a perfect crunchwrap clone.
Thank you for this info!
Letting us see the entire process feels much more real and natural as a cooking video.
The way cooking is done and everything feels so homemade, Love the video and it's so relaxing and beautiful to see how everything really works instead of fancy edits
you know what, he’s trying his best, and he’s not arrogant nor egotistical. that’s a big plus.
We must be watching a different video then.
His body language says it all. In high school, he was probably voted _Most likely to follow someone home after being cut off_ or _Most likely to be served with a restraining order._
@@jerk_store thought i was the only one seeing that
Paranoid schizophrenics out here in force huh?
@@jerk_store I guess you're carrying a lot of baggage from high school, huh?
@@SamBrickell my thoughts exactly lmao
I like that you actually do things like go to the fridge, get your spices out from the cabinet, put things back, etc. The text tips are also a great add-in.
I actually prefer this film style to your more curated videos. Would love more of these as it feels like we are right there in the kitchen, I’ve learned so much!
This is the first video in a long time that has made me go out to the supermarket, buy ingredients, and then immediately cook the recipe. We had a few variations owing to us being in New Zealand, but boy was it a banging dinner! Thank you for a great video.
For any NZ'ers who might stumble across this, I used:
- A heap of Mrs Rogers' "Mexican Seasoning"
- Extra cumin
- A mix of edam and cheddar cheese
- Tostitos lime tortilla chips
- Leftover (maybe half a tin) La Morena chipotle sauce that I had in the fridge.
Man, this really shows how fast cooking can be. I grew up in a household with a lot of bickering, so any kind of cooking that wasn't super simple would take like... an entire hour. It's why I don't cook for myself more often, I always saw it as a huge time sink. Maybe now that I have my own space I should give it a shot more often. Thanks for the insight, this was super interesting.
Thats because there is no cooking in this lmao. You just brown minced beef.
That's cooking@@Snowsc-dp7qo
Gabe's response was awesome! Love his explanation and real world view. Great common man personality. I trust him.
Gabe for president
@@-Metonia-This but unironically
Gabe’s brutal honesty is so endearing and relatable. How many times have you gone out for fast food and by the time you have your first bite you think “I immediately regret this decision.” It’s a feeling you only know when you’ve experienced it.
@@c_hanleyliterally every time for me. I'm glad I'm not alone
Would like to see more of these type of videos. This "not fully prepared" style of cooking is great!
I love this video buttttttt. While I've made my own Crunchwrap before; and it does taste good / better there are a couple factors that really do limit this option that I'm surprised wasn't brought up that immediately stood out to me:
1.) Ingredients. You have to have the ingredients ready or not missing anything. It's not usually likely I have all the ingredients, let alone FRESH and ready to go, or the amount needed. You suggest going to a hispanic market, which is fine if that's where you always do your shopping, but for the tortillas, that would be a possible extra trip to get. You can add them on the next trip to the market but that leads int leads into
2.) Cost. If you're missing any ingredients, then that cost factor adds up quick. If I have to pick up sour cream, tortillas, beef, and say one or two other items here (especially if it's a spice) you're running up the $$$
3.) Portion. I live alone, so this may not be everyone's experience at all, but now I have all these tortillas which I won't go through because I don't want to eat tortillas that often. Most of the other things are multipurpose, so I won't hassle ya on that. But I'll be reusing that beef (or whatever xyz for limited meal options before it goes bad and yes, I'm aware of freezing - but I have limited freezer space, and of the time its full of other ingredients of things ha)
4.) Time and cleanup. It definitely didn't take me 20 mins to make mine, and I think I had less overall things I did than you (my recipe was a little more simple). That, in part, comes down to skill. But also I don't have an induction burner. Cleanup is a pain too. When I come back from work, I'm already exhausted. If I order, tit's usually while I put away work clothes or decompress for a second / take care of laundry or some other random chore. Energy levels start to get low.
5.) Mistakes. You burn something, drop a pan on the floor, miss an ingredient etc. and it's over. Comes down to skill, but stuff happens.
I love the content and the point of this video. Definitely better and people should learn to make it so that they can make it for me. But those other factors exist as to why it might not be the best option for someone, or why they may do the fast food.
I agree with a lot of these, and I think the time part is a little skewed in the video because he goes in line instead of the drive thru which imo would've been faster
The Crunch wraps actually used to use two scoops (their long, taco length spoon-like tools) of beef, but over the last 10 years or so, they changed it to one. And I think a scoop is ~1.5 oz.
Insider?
@@laurisjones No, a friend of mine worked there years ago when we were in high school. It was two scoops then. You can find videos on TikTok now of the workers making the items and they only use one now.
@@IAmNeomic sad shit, i love the doritos tacos with 2 scoops of meat, the bottom being soggy was kinda the best part since it didnt shatter like a chip
Three and half years ago my self it was 1 scoop and it is 1.5oz
Holy cow, that’s like 1/10 pound of beef (or “beef”) haha. I normally eat 1/4 to 1/2 pound of meat in a dinner
You should compare cost as well, and see how many of the item you can comfortably produce to get to an average home made price average. Great videos, thank you!
I think summary: expensive as a one-off meal. Far cheaper if eaten frequently. Sometimes i try a recipe and buy lots of stuff i never use again. So it gets expensive. But if you make the same food or similar often it’s far cheaper. I live alone and that makes cooking pretty expensive. It’s hard to buy things in small quantities sometimes (in Nigeria there’s a poor man version/portion of everything LOL. Here… for instance the least amount of toilet paper you can buy is 6 rolls. I couldn’t finish a whole pack of tortillas EVER. So i invite friends over often so i can get rid of food.
@@pearlosibu Also, although he put things away, the cleaning up for real would take a bit of time that hasn't been added.
@@marusnak1113 no. If you put everything away as soon as you use it, like he did, and wash the utensils as you use them, knives, potato masher etc, wipe off the chopping board each time it’s used and wipe down the bench between there’s very little cleaning up to be done at the end of any meal prep or cooking. And then anything left can be washed while the food is cooking Something my Grandmother taught me a billion years ago when I was first learning to cook. It saves time and leaves you with an uncluttered cooking space, and a clean kitchen to serve up a meal in.
ground beef is around 5 dollars a pound
nacho cheese is around 3 dollars
tostadas are 3 dollars
sour cream is 2 dollars
20 count tortilla is around 5 dollars
taco seasoning is 1 dollar
1 lime is around 44 cents
hot sauce is around 3 dollars usually
you might save yourself a little money if your grow the veggies compared to buying them at the store but the Crunchwrap supreme by itself is 4.50. The ground beef alone is going to cost more than the crunchwrap. Granted, you're going to get a lot more servings.
@@panspermiapancakes you could theoretically scale down the recipe to a portion by portion cost. If this uses 3-4 ozs of beef, cost is offset proportionately
To make the beef the same texture as Taco Bell you have to add the ground beef to the pan. Then add cold water. Mix so it’s the texture of pink goo. Then start cooking. I came across this recipe and I do it for tacos and sloppy joes. Anything that you want your ground beef to have that texture.
Oooo thank you! Im not a chunky crumble taco beef person
I learned that the same way, handed down recipe
I do that with my ground beef, too. I also do it with ground sausage for certain recipes.
I use an immersion blender. I very quickly immerse it in the meat, like for a second before moving on to another area. I’m going to try your method. Then I don’t have to wash the blender!
This is true.
Loved this video & I def wanna try your recipe with nacho cheese added! It looks absolutely delicious!! ❤❤❤
It would also be interesting to note the price of the taco bell order vs the cost of the home cooked version
if you only include the food on the actual crunchwrap it should be a lot less.
Love this series! I like the low-edit feel, it's almost like watching a stream and it's refreshing.
My thoughts during the video were mostly about how it was missing nacho cheese so I was glad to see that mentioned in the comparison. It's what makes taco Bell imo
The ONLY upgrade I'd recommend is adding a cornstarch slurry to the meat to get that saucy creaminess (maybe turmeric for color)
He added MSG unironically. 😳
@@blankablueboy1501 you got a problem with msg?
@@blankablueboy1501 nothing wrong with msg
@@blankablueboy1501 well yeah because msg makes everything tastes better and it's authentic to the recipe he's duplicating
@@blankablueboy1501 msg in small quantities isn't bad at all man
8:26 I’m a manager at Taco Bell, it’s all reheated like microwave food. Idk what the factories do to it but it’s not fancy at all
This is an excellent video to illustrate that cooking food at home may sometimes be a better alternative than driving to pick up fast food during rush hours. I think it is important to mention a few caveats and conditions for this to work. First, he has a full on professional kitchen, large fridge, and plenty of cabinet and countertop space to hold his tools like potato masher and box grater. Second, his cooking skills are above the average person which contributes to the speed. So if one was living in a small studio apartment kitchen with limited countertop/storage space, with basic cooking gadgets like just a knife and spoon, with average cook skills, going out to buy fast food would be faster and less painful.
It can also be cheaper per meal in some circumstances. If there's 3 of you, you have to buy ingredients for 4. Can't really use the scraps as that would only feed one the next day.
As someone without all the fancy stuff (cheap tiny studio apartment with no pantry and tiny fridge) I can still do all this, except the grinder cuz I just never got around to it. But you can cut a lot of this work out with store bought taco seasoning and taco bell sells their own too.
yeah, hardest conditions for everyone who is not a professional : one, a full pantry of fresh stuff plus the spices, and two, the equipment. And maybe three, the cleaning afterwards.
Simon, you initially make valid points, yet individuals on their own at some point must INVEST in more than a knife and spoon, so folks, please do so as soon as you can afford.
For example: that $8-$15 "cheap fast- food meal" could've bought you at the Dollar Tree store ( in the USA, 2023; btw, now $1.25) :
....sharp knife/knives;
...cutting board;
... measuring cups/spoons;
... spices (individual like oregano, or cumin, OR a mixed seasoning).
...canned beans/veggies or boxed pasta/rice/gnocchi, etc, etc.....
he didnt wash his hands tho after touching the meat. ew
I’ve been cooking for 4 decades since a young kid and I love your approach. This is what young people like my University age sons need to see. I try teaching them and they are receptive but you know how it goes as I am not cool. Door Dash and Uber Eats are leading to many people losing motivation to cook and spending way too much. Plus making stuff is fun. You have great practical useful information and skills in a realistic format.
I am “single” when it comes to food because my wife is vegan. When we dine together, 80% of the time it’s something that is vegan, and the other times I cook separate but easy-to-prep meals that usually just means adding meat to my dish (adding chicken to a big garden salad) or using meat for my serving of pasta and a vegan meat substitute with hers. When I am alone, I actually enjoy cooking for myself, but sometimes I just go out for stuff like French toast, a burger, or taco because I hate buying ingredients that may go to waste because I can’t use them before they go bad, or I throw out leftovers because I couldn’t go through them fast enough before getting tired of them.
I see two problems. One is that simple recipes are also simply boring. Now, give me something interesting to cook and that can be fun but ask me to make something as basic as a crunchwrap and you might as well ask me to make some scrambled eggs, exceedingly boring and feels like a waste of my time.
Second is that I feel like this video is misleading. I could easily WALK to my local Taco Bell and still get the food back home in under ten minutes. I have no idea what took them so long (short of just burning time for the sake of the video) but the only time I've ever seen fast food take that long is when some big event was happening in town.
I'm not saying you're wrong. It's a good thing to know how to cook for yourself. But between a lot of foods just being so simple as to be boring to prepare and fast food being...well...a lot faster than is portrayed here I think there's an argument to be made for it given that it's within the budget and isn't your only source of food.
I'm not gonna lie this is the first video I've seen from you and I absolutely love the idea of a race with minimal editing too show exactly what you are doing while cooking it's the type of cooking content that I enjoy keep up the good work
You can use commas and dots if you want. So it doesn't come off as you were vomiting your own thoughts
I love the lack of cuts, it really shows off your workflow in the kitchen. Sometimes it just seems you're doing random things to occupy yourself, which is completely fine. I'm glad you left those parts in.
I appreciate the fact that you didn't slam Taco Bell in this video. Yes, of course your crunchwrap was better, but there are times (or instances) where TB is just fine. Also, another thing to consider is the fact that someone making this at home may not have all the ingredients and would have to go to the grocery to pick them up which would add to the time. All that said, I almost never eat out anymore because 95% of the time, what I make at home is better, fresher, and super hot (I like food right off the fire). Great content. Thank you!
I love this episode, because it's very raw unedited, undramatic version of what happens in the kitchen. But let's not forget, it's not just the cooking time. Planning and prepping is a big part of home cooking. A well stocked pantry and kitchen is half the job done to cook well and quick. But as the sole runner of my kitchen I can tell you this, it takes almost 30 mins of my time everyday to keep my kitchen, fridge and pantry stocked. This is when I am in Bangalore, everything is delivered to my door. An hour every couple of days is for ordering, remember to stock up and putting the shopping away.
Also, adding clean-up time to the home cooking as well as the time it takes to shop for the ingredients (especially if you can't get them from your normal grocery store) and factoring in that many people just get fast-food on the way home so the only extra time really is the wait time for the food.
As a paramedic, i really can imagine how good this self made food works for me, if i prepare the sauce, vegetables etc. the day before and only have to make the rest. Time is very limited, but this is very timesaving and extremely tasty. Ty sir for your dish.
Greetings from germany.
Day before is key, I always bring breakfast and lunch to work and do it the night before so it's ready to go. Also, since you are on the road fke work I really reccomend a heated lunch box that plugs into either the car cigarette/adapter plug or into a typical wall socket. You can put your food in the metal container and plug it in an hour before you plan tk eat and then its hot and reafy to eat :)
Not to mention you get more food at a cheaper price. When you buy fast food you are paying for more than just ingredients, but labor, the establishment costs and meeting significant profit margins as well.
This video makes me so happy. This is how I cook, especially the ingredient munching at the end with the time it sped up for toasting
I really love the casual live format of this, reminds me a bit of Kenji. Unrelated, but have you ever considered making a video just about grocery shopping? I really love your content because it is very relatable and I usually can find applications of a lot of your techniques. A video of similar format to your "What I eat in a day" of your thought process for groceries and what you buy in any particular week could be really insightful.
The cleaning tip that shows up is the best advice my first head Chef ever gave me. Clean whenever you get any spare time.
It makes EVERYONES life easier.
I appreciate that the comparison was based on observable facts, and was not 100 percent biased in favor of the chef. Your call out about how Taco Bell uses nacho cheese in their crunch wrap, and it being something that yours was missing helped make this video a genuinely positive experience to watch. Thank you for putting this video together.
Ethan - you are a gem and an asset to all good UA-camr cooks...
Love the no cut format. I literally can’t stop watching. Feels like I’m actually there with him watching!
I was eating my Crunchwrap (totally my guilty pleasure) and remembered that I queued up this video to watch. Amazing job! I need to start making my Crunchwrap’s at home. You have inspired me.
Regarding the time it takes to make it at home vs going out to get fast food, I completely agree. Several years ago I realized that it took me 30 minutes to get fast food for my family. And it also took me 30 minutes to make dinner at home. Who wants to leave the house when it takes the same amount of time! getting fast food is a hassle.
and you have to pay sales tax- in our state-fl- no tax on groceries- except for beer- boo hoo
But you have to also do dishes!
@@ashjoyner8032 kids and other family can do the dishes lol
@@ashjoyner8032 I have a family so doing dishes is an everyday chore, no biggie. And I have a dishwasher to do the work for me.
I love Ethan's taste tests - he takes HUGE bites.
It's just an illusion. The mighty mustache cover so much that it looks like he's eating half by one bite.
mans eats like a damn barbarian
I'm disappointed that Gabe's bites weren't anywhere near as fun to watch as Ethan's. I was so turned off by Ethan's bites the first time I ever watched him, and now it's like an ASMR experience for me.
now this is a man on a mission. I subscribed and liked. he was cleaning up every chance he got. perfect execution minus the nacho cheese. it's my first time here and I enjoyed your thoroughness!
This format of video is awesome. I love the live cooking feel. Seeing what you're thinking and your process is really fun to watch. Good stuff!
8:30 it’s my understanding that the meat they use is actually like, meat paste that comes in a vacuum sealed bag that gets stuck in a giant immersion circulator. Mystery meat aside though, I LOVE the idea of this series. Most people don’t eat fast food because they think it’s better than home cooking, they do it because it seems faster and easier. Being able to make fast food items with better ingredients in a similar amount of time to ordering them out will be a game changer for a lot of people.
Last time I heard it's a finely ground beef mixed with oats, like oatmeal, also ground to consistency
The oats are in the seasoning mix and they are there for texture. Ground beef has a hard pebbly texture when it has been sitting for too long because the meat dries out. Because the meat mixture is held at temperature the oats keep the sauce from breaking and have a softer overall texture. That’s also why meatloaf made with oats is always better than meatloaf with bread or cracker crumbs.
@@TepidBat Yep, and this is why nothing at Taco Bell is gluten free. I'm sure the oats mixed into the ground beef also keep their overall costs down... after all, oats are cheaper than 100% beef.
To get the Taco bell meat Correct add 1 Teaspoon Flour to meat leave a little grease from the meat stir.
I love how you are doing all of the things in “human” speed. I saw lots of similar series but the problem is that people who are cooking are professionals and they are doing things with extreme speed, so its not hard for them to be fast. Here it’s more realistic
Imo he went slow as hell, stopped for a few seconds multiple times, forgot everything and moved everything around too much. And if he warm the tortillas in the oven and cut the vegetables while cooking the beef he could have got this done in 10 minutes. He also had to do extra steps most people wouldn’t like cleaning and grating Cheese. I know I could make those in like 9 minutes. Specially since I know I’d have everything ready that needs to be ready like the pickled onions.
@@Leavemealone670 Yeah, that's human speed.
@@veraducks half the stuff I said has nothing to do with human speed. Just prepping
@@Leavemealone670 Having everything perfectly on hand and making no mistakes is not human speed. The mistakes, the faffing, the "oh wait" *is* honest human speed. If you have everything perfectly lined up and ready to go, you're kinda defeating the purpose of this whole exercise.
@intellectual gladiator This is a video of a guy with fast prepping skills doin' it live. The guy getting mad about him not doing it fast enough is complaining that he didn't have everything pre-prepped and made mistakes. He's not describing "human" speed. He's describing, at best, "professional kitchen with everything lined up and on hand" speeds.
I really appreciate you showing the steps to make this in real time, it's very easy to fallow if someone wanted to make one them sell. 👍
This looks amazing but I will note, the thing that stops me from cooking when I’m feeling lazy isn’t the cooking, it’s the cleanup. I LOVE cooking and making meals, but the messy counters, floors and sink full of dish is enough to give me full blown panic attack some days.
Agreed dude cooking is like 40% cooking and 60% cleaning
I've never found that. I clean as I go, as Ethan suggests.
Ethan just wipes it onto the floor and makes someone else sweep it up.
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I lived with my mom for her last 6 years. She was OPPOSITE! She said, "I'll do the cleaning if I just have somebody who will cook!" I LOVED that, and i have a video of my 99 year old mother cleaning up while i was cooking!
Before going off on me for making a 99 year old ITALIAN lady clean, she enjoyed this, and anything she's capable of, you don't take away from her, or she loses overall range of motion. It was her kitchen skills that kept her going!
I love this idea. Until I moved from the states to Europe, I always thought cooking was so much harder than going through a drive thru until I was forced to cook every day. It's so much faster, cheaper and healthier. And it made me lose 45lbs last year lol
I assume you live in a more rural area? Cause in the cities fast food is still pretty easy accessible
Yea its interesting once you pit them side by side. For some dishes, fast food will usually be faster, but for others its the other way around!
@@markusschafer9572 depends on your definition of rural, I'm like 30 min from a big city. In the US the closest fast food was a 2 min drive lol
@@EthanChlebowski Yeah I mean for me my favorite fast food is Chipotle and no way I can make that at home faster than I can go get it. Even if I have all the ingredients on hand and thawed, I'd have to cook brown rice, make the black beans, marinate and cook the steak, make pico de gallo, make hot sauce, make corn and roasted poblano salsa. You could save time in the long run by making big batches of all of this and heating it up but making it all from scratch in the first place would take a long time, hours for me probably since I'm not that organized in the kitchen.
@@markusschafer9572 but also price. If what I've seen from North Americans on UA-cam and Reddit is anything to go by, fast food compared to fresh ingredients seems to be less of a price difference than in many EU countries.
This felt like the start of something special Ethan. If the comments (and my own) response are anything to go by, you've stumbled across and tapped into something special and mesmerising. Very entertaining, interesting and inspiring, thanks mate!
this inspired me to make this with impossible beef instead of ordering food today! thanks for showing just how doable this is in a short period of time. you've changed a life today
Love this format and how “unprepared” you were. Makes it so much more relatable and realistic!
To think that this guy would have had even more time if he didn't make the pickled onions or had gotten pre-grated cheese. This is awesome
I will say that this doesn't include the time it takes to shop + clean dishes.... But yea, definitely more economically to make your own
@@rockyrocker23 But then you have ingredients to make all those crunchwrap supremes, much cheaper than them. :P You'd definitely have to use less beef than he did here, though.
Hand grated cheese isn’t really something you can just substitute, it’s covered in some kind of starch to prevent it from clumping up which makes it not melt nearly as easily as hand grated cheese. Still would work but doing it by hand makes a lot of sense.
@@DeepfriedBeans4492 Starch ain't the big issue, but rather cellulose (aka "wood pulp", though all plant matter uses cellulose for its non-digestable fiber content); it's also used to replace some or all of the fat content, as well. It's where all the memes about pre-shredded cheese being bags of sawdust and the like come from. While I don't mind dietary fiber in the least, it has no place in cheese, at all, and I will forever buy a block or wheel of cheese and grate it myself, dammit.
@@KainYusanagi Kain is Able! To make better cheese.
The pure Chlebowski Power radiating off even the thumbnail, wonderful. Once again, taking an idea a few food channels have tried and reimagining it as something people could actually cook from (I'm not spending 8 weeks cave-aging cheddar for cheese fries, Weissman!). This is the channel I cook from by far the most despite being largely vegetarian. Looking forward to the rest of the series.
Speaking of fast food and vegetarian, have you tried the TVP chorizo at chipotle? It was way better than I thought it would be.
@@ericconrad8854 we don't have chipotle in Ireland unfortunately. Had mixed results with prepackaged vegan chorizo here, you're making me jealous!
@@shelf-regulatingsystem1323 apologies for assuming you were in north America. In a market with so many bad "meat substitutes" soy chorizo generally stands out as a really great alternative.
@@ericconrad8854 As a meat-eater I've noticed soysage does tend to be better than other meat substitutes. Some guy on YT made pepperoni that was vegan and it honestly looks like something I'd like to make just to try.
Great video,you can buy tostadas which are already crisp. A store-bought queso would be a great addition. Thanks for sharing ❤
I love the raw authenticity. Seeing mistakes and trying to fix it is so cool, I usually just find recipes and follow the video step by step, whereas this just looks like a friend cooking. I don’t usually try cooking random things like this, but now I’m motivated. Also I never had Taco Bell but this does look fun to cook. The worst part of cooking is the cleaning afterwards but this made me realize it could actually be so easy, and less hectic
Great video ! Really liked the fact that the whole cooking process is one single take where we can see everyting happening in real time. Much more realistic when it comes to learning the "flow" of cooking ! Please keep this concept and do as many more as you please.
I love seeing you cook in real-time. I first saw the format with Kenji's channel, and it makes the content WAY more relatable. Please do more of this!! (and hopefully it takes less editing work?)
But also keep the regular videos! I like this as well, but the professional style videos are the best on UA-cam. (Well, tied with Helen Rennie).
Anything made at home is so much better than fast food unless you are a really bad cook! You Rock!