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Okay, I watched the video and that cookie was bound to be awful.
Plus, there was no control cookie from grandma.
Hey hey hey now. You don't watch Nile Red to see him do things easily, competently, or even the right way. You watch him to turn vinyl gloves into cherry soda. 😋
I’ll have to watch more of his videos to assess.
I did appreciate the energy and the sheer over engineering of it.
I just think he can do better.
And we need to know how the impure cookie from grandma tastes out of 10. For science.
When it comes to chemistry he's very knowledgeable and has done some really impressive and hard to do chemical reactions. But he's studied science and chemistry and comes at everything he does from that angle. Which doesn't always work out how you might think. This being a case in point. Just like the super Red Bull video they did. Or when they created dry pelleted human Chow.
god, I watched that vid. When it is described on camera as pre-chewed hamburger and they can barely choke down a spoonful because of how dry it is, I was amazed they even joked about trying to actually make and sell it.
Yes lol watching them process whole burgers, a pizza, and a complete KFC meal. With chicken, corn, mashed potatoes and gravy into a liquid slurry was also a bit of an anxious horror show.
What, no green vegetables?
Not one lol. I think it was a cheeseburger straight up with no lettuce and a pepperoni pizza with no Peppers or anything like that.
It was a big mac, so it had lettuce!
Aaaah bad memory bad! Shit I think I may have caught the olds. You're right it was. Balanced slurry diet restored!
He's very iffy when it comes to safety, too. The comments section for his video about making his own liquid nitrogen is littered with experts telling him how insanely unsafe his setup is and how he's basically built and installed a ticking time bomb in his workshop.
Honestly, aint nothing I trust less than youtube comment experts. Checkout william osmans answer to the "experts" on his xray machine. (Will and Nile are friends and have a podcast together, aptly named safety third).
Normally I'd never trust YouTube comments, but a channel where a wealthy scientist does all the weird experiments they've always wanted to do attracts a lot of other scientists. Their concerns make sense, too - the equipment he bought isn't rated for the use he's putting it to, let alone his future plans to make liquid helium.
And pressure vessels are one of those things where you want to be absolutely certain it's safe. You don't fuck around with Delta P - failure of a pressurized (or depressurized in this case) vessel is the kind of thing that registers on local seismographs.
Well and that video is on NileBlue, that’s his non-serious channel.
Heh true indeed.
I'm a chef. Watching Nigel do anything with food hurts my soul.
I also suspect that tasting and smelling some of the things he's made, like ultra capsaicin and synthetic ass, has destroyed his senses.
To be totally fair to him, NileBlue is his second channel where he puts things he’s less proud of. At least that used to be the case, it’s been a minute since I’ve been on YouTube.
Yeah, the stuff on Nile Blue is more improvised and/or insane. It's where he has an excess of "Fuck it, we'll do it live" energy. Nile Red is for when he actually knows what he's doing. When you watch Nile Red you see him actually being competent and professional.
TIL the difference between the two channels. Thanks!
Nile reds cooking skills are shit. If you wanna watch more (also worse) watch him roast coffee.
the thing he learned afterwards is that the reference substances sold by NIST are for like... particle size testing, or chemical analysis. they are usually sterilised so that the substance does not change over time (wrt mould and such), but that process does not take human consumption into account. that flour could have been like a decade old.
I want to start a debate:
Do you people use mayonnaise on the outside of your grilled cheese, or butter? Or margarine?
Similar to this cookie I find mayo (oil based) gives too clean of a flavour, whereas the frying of the butter improves the grilled cheese with a bit more caramelization and flavour on the bread. Salted or unsalted are both preferable to me.
Margarine is a crime against humanity.
I've always used butter, mainly because the idea of heating/cooking mayo weirds me out even though I know rationally that it's a perfectly valid thing to do. (Probably something to do with how it goes all translucent and gross if you leave it to dry out, whereas butter stays palatable.)
I haven't used margarine since I moved out of my parents' house. Baby boomers might be into that fake shit, but I'm not.
Butter on the outside, mayo on the inside
Chef John’s grilled cheese man. Try that instead. Cheese caramelizes way better.
https://foodwishes.removed/2010/05/inside-out-grilled-cheese-sandwich.html
I’ve never seen this, but this does look superior, thanks
I have made it! It's really good. But like most grilled cheese, the ingredients are really important. Might take some trial and error to find the ideal cheese to melt outside. Sometimes I do super sharp, sometimes I do mild... I really need to try manchego.
I'm a sucker for parm crisps and similar, so even parmesean might work, but i'd probably mix it with something so it sticks better.
I made this today (but I used pizza mozzarella ovaries of cheddar on the outside, it crisps up about the same)
It was good, but my technique needs improving.
The weight of the sandwich as a whole smooshed my white bread, so it was denser than I’d like.
Would make again though.
I use mayo because my wife and two of my kids are lactose intolerant, but as long as you use a decent mayo (e.g. Dukes) it comes out pretty good. I have also found using a slight bit of seasoning (mix of salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, maybe cayenne) kicks it up a notch. Sure, using salted Kerrygold butter is slightly tastier than mayo, but it isn't enough to make a big difference IMO..