The art of engaging, but mostly uncut content is difficult and there aren't many people doing it super well nowadays. But I'm really enjoying this style of video from you Ethan! + I completely agree on sandwiches. Every single day.
Hoping realism in these really helps break down any objections from folks that think cooking tasty food takes to much ___ . (Effort, time, etc). Keeping these handy for the next round of tech bros that say they just want a steady stream of door dash bc cooking is inconvenient 🙄
It's kind of minor but I appreciate showing the indecision of certain steps. So many other cooking videos are so thoroughly planned out that following along makes it feel like there's no room for error but it's nice seeing you go back and forth on what to do in the moment (even if it's just you silently moving in different directions before committing) and even rethink a decision like not scooping the bun. It's a human and relatable touch.
I really got into rice bowls. My current fav is having thinly sliced meat with a bit of a marinade and cook it with sliced onions on top of the rice in the rice cooker and topped with an egg yolk once it's done. It's a one pot meal that's super filling and tasty.
One that I’ve been eating a lot lately is: 1. Ground beef / chicken seasoned with different spice mixes 2. Pickled something (onions, beets, pickles, sauerkraut) 3. Sauce of some kind 4. Mix with rice High volume, good macros.
I think stews might be my favourite category, because you can cut everything up, throw it in a pot and a couple hours later you get this delicious meal
Deciding things on the fly, moving randomly left to right to find the item or the knife you need for the next step, the snacking on the fallen pieces of meat and veggies this makes this video so human and relatable. Thank you Ethan you are doing a service for food youtube! I'm pretty good in the kitchen and I love these videos for how other people's mind work during cooking.
Hard agree on sandwiches. Most underrated category of food because they aren't seen as 'fancy.' Sadly I had to cut them out of my current diet (too many calories to use enough/quality bread) but I greatly look forward to adding them in as a staple once I'm bulking.
In the same booth friend, though I got a long long way to go before I can bulk. Gotta lose just casually 1½-2 people's worth of weight before that. Sandwiches are the bomb when done correctly, egg sandwiches are my weakness and this sandwich could easily also become a weakness.
My favorite food category is probably pasta. You can change it up and have heavier pasta sauces, but you could also make a light oil dressed pasta salad as well. Plus there are literally hundreds (if not thousands) of pasta shapes so it’s almost infinite combinations of different shapes textures and flavors
Sandwiches are definitely one of those. Super highly versatile and amazing food groups. I mean depending on how you define a sandwich, it automatically already includes burgers, but even without something like burgers you're thinking like oh you got stuff with like ciabatta and a pesto. With it going in all the nooks and crannies you have got a pita filled to the brim with some heavily spiced meat and fresh vegetables. You know you've got a classic kind of like sandwich meat with some fresh tomato. You have got tomatoes with just salt and pepper on a slice of bread you've got behind me like it is super versatile. It can do so many things and when I think of my upbringing in Germany, that's when I think like how important bread and sandwiches really are. That's literally the normal supper in Germany
Really enjoying these new videos, I was a big fan of your old recipe videos on your main channel, they helped me learn a lot about cooking. I love the long form videos on there now too, but I'm looking forward to trying these new recipes out. Great to see you progressively get more confident with this style as these videos come out too!
Big E, I think my favorite category (in the broader sense) is Asian cuisine. After living all over the world, I have identified several food truths: Italian’s have pasta down (obviously), the French do sauces and desserts, however, the Asian communities have the entree down in the best possible way. That is my favorite classification I could eat for the rest of my life. The balance, textures, and flavors are second to none. Oh, BTW as Americans we excel at the snack.😊
Favorite food category: chili. I eat it pretty much every day. You can do a ton. I put all sort of veggies in. Potatoes. Vegetarian. Beef. Tofu. Chicken. Beans. You can get so much variety and nutrition packed in. Plus you can make a bunch at once.
A food category I like is, Rice bowls. Protein over rice. Doesn't matter what kind of protein, how it's prepared or what ever else is on top, if there's a bed of rice and whatever I can find in my fridge, it's a good one.
Dumplings are defenitly one of the best food categorys out there because you get some form of filled dumpling in almost every country of the world. Weather it be pirogie, in eastern Europe, manti in turkey, empanadas in Latin America and Spain or all king of asian dumplings or dim sum
Noodles (Asian) is my category. All the various varieties - rice, egg, wheat/ buckwheat. prepared as stir fried, deep fried or in soups, hot or cold. Plus the massive spectrum of what you can add to the noodles - meats, vegetables, sauces, different ways with egg, various dumplings - you can be vegetarian or omnivore. I could likely do something different every day for a year.
I would have to agree sandwiches would be something I could eat everyday too. Such a versatile framework. So much so I am baking hoagie rolls today from your Cookwell site!
Being on a diet anything with chicken breast is my go to... UNTIL the home grown tomatoes come into play. Ill eat a heavily spiced cooked well (think pulled around 155) chicken breast every single day and feel full. I cant feel full off of something like a pasta dish or a burger. I still sometimes get a salt hit at the end of the day with popcorn or ramen, but that isnt the main form of sustenance for the day. One tomatoes come in ill eat a tomato sandwhich, but that tomato will clock in at half a pound. Massive slice on some toast with mayo salt and pepper. My brandywines last year got to 1-1.5 lbs /tomato.
For me, my favorite genre of food is noodle soups. Taiwanese red-braised beef noodle soup, ramen, udon, pho, even chicken noodle soup or instant noodles - all of it tastes like home. Sandwiches are a close second though, since they're almost as good and so much easier to make.
Love the show and the ease of making this sandwich. Cannot wait to replicate it at home. Also love that backsplash. Would you happen to know what the backsplash color is called?
Favorite food category : either tacos or stir fry. Tacos for their ease of eating, stir fry because the abundance of veg along with rice/noodles or some other starch to soak up a delicious sauce
Definitely gonna try this one. I think my favorite category would be stir-fries. Like Asian style with either noodles in the stir fry or served over rice.
hello ethan, love your videos. Was wondering if you could try to do some low carb meals like this instead with something like a lettuce wrap or something similar? As a diabetic i have to watch the carbs or it will shoot up my blood sugar haha.
My favourite category would probably be hand-food. Sandwiches, burritos, wraps, basically if I can stuff it into my face without a knife and a fork, I'm happy.
I have to go with what we do most here which is a 3 item meal. Meat, potatoes and some kind of veg, preferably in bechamel sauce. I could down that every day and never get tired of it.
Stews and soups. I got IBS so having my vegetables boiled to oblivion makes me less likely to react to what I eat. Plus, I love how easy it is to portion it out into one portion containers and freeze them.
Food categories, rice bowls is up there for me! Is that too broad of a category? Like rice beans carnitas; or rice, steamed veggies, chicken teriyaki, etc?
Having just come back from Mexico, I can say I’d eat tacos every day. Breakfast tacos with egg, meat, veg, and cheese, and anything you can imagine for lunch and dinner.
I have to agree, a good hot sandwich is good anytime, all the time! Asian noodles is a close second! Also, I have started using napa cabbage in place of iceberg lettuce.
How I think about food categories is what you do with leftovers. Do you turn them into sandwiches, salads, fried rice, etc… For me leftovers become tacos.
Pizza and sandwiches are definitely my fav food formats. With sandwiches, the wide array of possibilities presented by a few slices of bread just makes me so happy. (Edit: this sandwich looks so delicious!)
What is the model of scale used here? It measures to a tenth of gram, which is really nice - my oxo scale is pretty all over the place when i just want one gram, and my little accurate scale is hard to use with a bowl of any size.
I think it has to be sandwiches or stir fry - there's a heck of a lot of variety inside those two categories. But going just based on how balanced you can make it, and how easy it is to skew from rich to light, probably sandwiches.
I don’t think a category exists that I won’t get tired of but sandwiches would also be on the top for me followed by pizza but it ultimately depends on my mood.
Stews easily but it's kind of a cheat, since it includes curry and you can serve it with any carb, i can have pot roast, birria, cantonese brisket/tendon stew, oxtail, etc
I’m a massive sandwich fan. I could eat a sandwich every day and with the huge variety it could probably be different for almost every day of the year. Now I’m curious. Has anyone ever done that?
I'm wondering, why are you wrapping it just to get it out when you eat? I always keep the wrapper on while I eat, I think that's the point of it; the sandwiches fall apart while one takes a bite out of them, or the ingredients spill at the edges; the wrapper keeps them in while one bites. I've seem you doing this in multiple instances now.
For eating, I feel like nothing beats a sandwich, but stir-fries are indispensable for cooking because you can literally make a delicious meal out of anything as long as you've got the technique down and you know your ingredients
I agree with sandwiches being something that I could eat forever as long as I can change it up... But in my current diet there is no room for that amount of carbs, I really really miss my egg sandwiches. As a European, I'd love to see more food or sandwiches that uses fish, we all love salmon but something that's rare to see at least outside of deep fried in NA food youtube is some white flesh fish.
Burritos, dude. Burritos. Breakfast burritos, veggie burritos, even a well executed bean and cheese burrito. Let's not get started on California Burritos (carne asada with extra crispy french fries, cheese, sour cream/guac, and pico.) Go bonkers with whatever salsa you want. I'm a hardline burrito boy. I'm from Southern California so that definitely has something to do with it.
I often ask myself that question: When you would only be able to eat one category of food for the rest of your life, which one would it be. I always come back to the same answer: Ramen
I’m loving the old food network vibes of watching a quick meal be made. No gamification.
The art of engaging, but mostly uncut content is difficult and there aren't many people doing it super well nowadays. But I'm really enjoying this style of video from you Ethan! + I completely agree on sandwiches. Every single day.
I appreciate it, I’m having fun with it too!
Hoping realism in these really helps break down any objections from folks that think cooking tasty food takes to much ___ . (Effort, time, etc). Keeping these handy for the next round of tech bros that say they just want a steady stream of door dash bc cooking is inconvenient 🙄
Another great example of (Almost) uncut but greatly engaging channel in TH-cam would be Chef Jean-Pierre if anyone would be interested
It's kind of minor but I appreciate showing the indecision of certain steps. So many other cooking videos are so thoroughly planned out that following along makes it feel like there's no room for error but it's nice seeing you go back and forth on what to do in the moment (even if it's just you silently moving in different directions before committing) and even rethink a decision like not scooping the bun. It's a human and relatable touch.
I can’t stand this😂 it’s so fake. I don’t believe for a second he doesn’t know what he’s going to do next.
I really got into rice bowls. My current fav is having thinly sliced meat with a bit of a marinade and cook it with sliced onions on top of the rice in the rice cooker and topped with an egg yolk once it's done. It's a one pot meal that's super filling and tasty.
One that I’ve been eating a lot lately is:
1. Ground beef / chicken seasoned with different spice mixes
2. Pickled something (onions, beets, pickles, sauerkraut)
3. Sauce of some kind
4. Mix with rice
High volume, good macros.
"try to keep em pretty thin" bro you are splitting atoms
This channel should be growing way faster. The way you just show how to quickly throw something amazing together is such a cheat code.
I think stews might be my favourite category, because you can cut everything up, throw it in a pot and a couple hours later you get this delicious meal
Yup. Soups and stews are goated for me
Same here. Chili, curries, stews, soups. Anything with a broth/sauce and chunks of stuff, flavored in various ways.
There is something special about just adding stuff to a pot and coming back several hours later. It always hits the spot.
Love the format. Refreshing to see unedited, not pristine, near real time demos. Gotta make that sandwich tomorrow! If I can wait that long.
Deciding things on the fly, moving randomly left to right to find the item or the knife you need for the next step, the snacking on the fallen pieces of meat and veggies this makes this video so human and relatable. Thank you Ethan you are doing a service for food youtube! I'm pretty good in the kitchen and I love these videos for how other people's mind work during cooking.
Hard agree on sandwiches. Most underrated category of food because they aren't seen as 'fancy.' Sadly I had to cut them out of my current diet (too many calories to use enough/quality bread) but I greatly look forward to adding them in as a staple once I'm bulking.
In the same booth friend, though I got a long long way to go before I can bulk. Gotta lose just casually 1½-2 people's worth of weight before that. Sandwiches are the bomb when done correctly, egg sandwiches are my weakness and this sandwich could easily also become a weakness.
I also miss sandwiches, but some wraps with mission low carb tortillas can be just as good
My favorite food category is probably pasta. You can change it up and have heavier pasta sauces, but you could also make a light oil dressed pasta salad as well.
Plus there are literally hundreds (if not thousands) of pasta shapes so it’s almost infinite combinations of different shapes textures and flavors
Pastas feel pretty limitless too in what you can make with them!
I tried this today, it was awesome, finally a simple way to cook chicken breast that I actually enjoy. Thank you so much Ethan.
I’m big into salads! I’m obsessed with trying new seasonings for my proteins and trying new dressing recipes. Love this new channel btw 😊
I'm with you Ethan, sandwiches are supreme in my eyes. Thanks for all the great cooking videos, always inspire me to cook better!
Not a fan of the deep dives, but I love these uncut cooking videos you do. I'm a huge fan of this new channel. Thanks Ethan!
Sandwiches are definitely one of those. Super highly versatile and amazing food groups. I mean depending on how you define a sandwich, it automatically already includes burgers, but even without something like burgers you're thinking like oh you got stuff with like ciabatta and a pesto. With it going in all the nooks and crannies you have got a pita filled to the brim with some heavily spiced meat and fresh vegetables. You know you've got a classic kind of like sandwich meat with some fresh tomato. You have got tomatoes with just salt and pepper on a slice of bread you've got behind me like it is super versatile. It can do so many things and when I think of my upbringing in Germany, that's when I think like how important bread and sandwiches really are. That's literally the normal supper in Germany
Favorite category is curries. Serve with rice, noodles, or flat breads and it's amazing.
This concept for a cooking channel is 100. Keep cookin!
Coffee. Coffee is the one food group I can have every day. It never gets boring.
Is coffee a "food" group? As an attorney, I feel coffee is just a necessity of life.
Curry is definitely my favourite food category. So many different types across the world. So much flavour, protein, healthy. balanced
Really enjoying these new videos, I was a big fan of your old recipe videos on your main channel, they helped me learn a lot about cooking. I love the long form videos on there now too, but I'm looking forward to trying these new recipes out. Great to see you progressively get more confident with this style as these videos come out too!
Big E, I think my favorite category (in the broader sense) is Asian cuisine. After living all over the world, I have identified several food truths: Italian’s have pasta down (obviously), the French do sauces and desserts, however, the Asian communities have the entree down in the best possible way. That is my favorite classification I could eat for the rest of my life. The balance, textures, and flavors are second to none. Oh, BTW as Americans we excel at the snack.😊
Soup has gotta be the food I can eat the most often for sure
I'm a seasonal soup eater myself! What are some of your favorites?
@@CookWellEthan matzo ball definitely, tortilla soup and Italian wedding soup are great too.
I made this today and it was amazing. Thanks for providing the recipe and the video!
Favorite food category: chili. I eat it pretty much every day. You can do a ton. I put all sort of veggies in. Potatoes. Vegetarian. Beef. Tofu. Chicken. Beans. You can get so much variety and nutrition packed in. Plus you can make a bunch at once.
Sandwiches are definitely my favorite category. From the simple PBJ to maybe more elaborate ones that I would buy. I love them all
Salads, so many protein, dressing, vegetable, starch, crunchy, etc. options
That sandwich looks so good, I'm be interested in seeing kind of a chopped salad version.
I'm still a mayo marinade believer! happy to see more of it cant wait to give this one a try
His earlier videos got me into it, and I haven't stopped!
A food category I like is, Rice bowls. Protein over rice. Doesn't matter what kind of protein, how it's prepared or what ever else is on top, if there's a bed of rice and whatever I can find in my fridge, it's a good one.
Huge fan of 'one pot' meals... so chili, soups and stews. Followed closely by sandwiches.
Combine the two and that's money!
I love that you make enormous sandwiches like I would. Epic video as always
Dumplings are defenitly one of the best food categorys out there because you get some form of filled dumpling in almost every country of the world. Weather it be pirogie, in eastern Europe, manti in turkey, empanadas in Latin America and Spain or all king of asian dumplings or dim sum
The sound when he was cutting the chicken really hit the spot in a good way😩
Sandwiches and anything tortilla-based as well are 1a and 1b for me. As is or toasted, freshly made or store bought.
Noodles (Asian) is my category. All the various varieties - rice, egg, wheat/ buckwheat. prepared as stir fried, deep fried or in soups, hot or cold. Plus the massive spectrum of what you can add to the noodles - meats, vegetables, sauces, different ways with egg, various dumplings - you can be vegetarian or omnivore. I could likely do something different every day for a year.
I would have to agree sandwiches would be something I could eat everyday too. Such a versatile framework. So much so I am baking hoagie rolls today from your Cookwell site!
Curries are definitely my pick! So much variety and so many flavours
3:42 tacos, noodle soups (ramen, pho, handpulled noodles, etc)
Being on a diet anything with chicken breast is my go to... UNTIL the home grown tomatoes come into play. Ill eat a heavily spiced cooked well (think pulled around 155) chicken breast every single day and feel full. I cant feel full off of something like a pasta dish or a burger. I still sometimes get a salt hit at the end of the day with popcorn or ramen, but that isnt the main form of sustenance for the day.
One tomatoes come in ill eat a tomato sandwhich, but that tomato will clock in at half a pound. Massive slice on some toast with mayo salt and pepper. My brandywines last year got to 1-1.5 lbs /tomato.
For me, my favorite genre of food is noodle soups. Taiwanese red-braised beef noodle soup, ramen, udon, pho, even chicken noodle soup or instant noodles - all of it tastes like home. Sandwiches are a close second though, since they're almost as good and so much easier to make.
My favorite category would be the "rice bowl" category! Random rice, veggies, protein, and sauce!
Sandwiches, every meal, every day, no question.
love your content Ethan, this new channel is great
My favorite food category I could eat for the rest of my life are tacos
Have you tried using butter to spread on the bread rather than Mayo. That's what we do here in Europe. Very tasty
Love the show and the ease of making this sandwich. Cannot wait to replicate it at home. Also love that backsplash. Would you happen to know what the backsplash color is called?
Favorite food category : either tacos or stir fry.
Tacos for their ease of eating, stir fry because the abundance of veg along with rice/noodles or some other starch to soak up a delicious sauce
You had me at "It's not exactly healthy". 🤣😉 Looks wonderful and one I will definitely make! Thank you!
Hey Ethan, could you please add a dinner category to the website? I don't know much things to eat at dinner
Definitely gonna try this one.
I think my favorite category would be stir-fries. Like Asian style with either noodles in the stir fry or served over rice.
hello ethan, love your videos. Was wondering if you could try to do some low carb meals like this instead with something like a lettuce wrap or something similar? As a diabetic i have to watch the carbs or it will shoot up my blood sugar haha.
I'd probably say Pasta. You can make a good variety of different types to hit different cravings of mine.
My favourite category would probably be hand-food. Sandwiches, burritos, wraps, basically if I can stuff it into my face without a knife and a fork, I'm happy.
Sandwiches, burgers, pizza and of course, the humble noodle/pasta. You can never go wrong with a sandwich, though. Sandwiches are awesome.
My top category would definitely be soups, closely followed by sauces and sandwiches (incl. open-faced sandwiches).
I have to go with what we do most here which is a 3 item meal. Meat, potatoes and some kind of veg, preferably in bechamel sauce. I could down that every day and never get tired of it.
Please stop doing these amazing food video, it seems so good and I won't stop until I reach the taste level your dishes have
My favourites are quesadillas….. love them!…. Thanks Ethan, looks amazing x
I'm with you. Sandwiches all the way.
Stews and soups. I got IBS so having my vegetables boiled to oblivion makes me less likely to react to what I eat. Plus, I love how easy it is to portion it out into one portion containers and freeze them.
Food categories, rice bowls is up there for me! Is that too broad of a category? Like rice beans carnitas; or rice, steamed veggies, chicken teriyaki, etc?
I'd be really happy if this channel continued to feature low level, early ChilledCow-style lofi music just to help the vibe
You always have such good meals ideas. Tonight I am doing the lamb burger you did a few weeks ago!
Having just come back from Mexico, I can say I’d eat tacos every day. Breakfast tacos with egg, meat, veg, and cheese, and anything you can imagine for lunch and dinner.
I have to agree, a good hot sandwich is good anytime, all the time! Asian noodles is a close second! Also, I have started using napa cabbage in place of iceberg lettuce.
How I think about food categories is what you do with leftovers. Do you turn them into sandwiches, salads, fried rice, etc… For me leftovers become tacos.
Tacos! I can eat breakfast tacos, chicken, beef, pork or seafood, all day every day.
YUUUUM i will be making this immediately 🫡 sandwiches truly are the top tier food category
Love Topo Chico. Sandwich make it REALLY great. Yum
Mine is definitely rice bowls. I love a good rice bowl with any type of rice
What are the macros on the aluminum foil? I never liked sandwiches wrapped in foil. Always end up eating a bit
Pizza and sandwiches are definitely my fav food formats. With sandwiches, the wide array of possibilities presented by a few slices of bread just makes me so happy. (Edit: this sandwich looks so delicious!)
Thinly slicing chicken to cook up like that is so simple but I'm not sure I've ever done it!
Burritos/tacos. Breakfast lunch and dinner I can get down with this
What is the model of scale used here? It measures to a tenth of gram, which is really nice - my oxo scale is pretty all over the place when i just want one gram, and my little accurate scale is hard to use with a bowl of any size.
Swap the mayo for Greek yogurt, and the cayenne for paprika, and you got something similar to chicken gyros.
I think it has to be sandwiches or stir fry - there's a heck of a lot of variety inside those two categories. But going just based on how balanced you can make it, and how easy it is to skew from rich to light, probably sandwiches.
Pizza is my food category. Also if you haven't tried Fugazzeta (Argentinian pizza) it's a must try
Thanks for the video. What scale is that? It is different than the one in your shop.
Sandwiches are my favorite as well. Hot meat and cheese on bread is my G spot.
what cutting board are you using in this video? Thanks!
I don’t think a category exists that I won’t get tired of but sandwiches would also be on the top for me followed by pizza but it ultimately depends on my mood.
Stews easily but it's kind of a cheat, since it includes curry and you can serve it with any carb, i can have pot roast, birria, cantonese brisket/tendon stew, oxtail, etc
for me it has to be "rice focused dishes"... maybe a little broad lol. Things like dhal and rice, biryani, curry rice, jollof rice are my go-tos.
Sandwich is king, as long as you have good bread.
An easy one...Cheese Burgers and any variations on them! Sandwiches are a very close second
Tacos is a category I could eat from every day
What brand food scale are you using, can you link it?
has to be pasta, i can make exacly 356 days of the year a different meal with thae same base
Pasta is my favorite category 🤗
I’m a massive sandwich fan. I could eat a sandwich every day and with the huge variety it could probably be different for almost every day of the year. Now I’m curious. Has anyone ever done that?
Hi,
What scale are you using? Your kitchen gear links to some other Amazon one that’s not nearly as nice looking.
Soup/Stew and a good sandwich!
I'm wondering, why are you wrapping it just to get it out when you eat? I always keep the wrapper on while I eat, I think that's the point of it; the sandwiches fall apart while one takes a bite out of them, or the ingredients spill at the edges; the wrapper keeps them in while one bites. I've seem you doing this in multiple instances now.
For eating, I feel like nothing beats a sandwich, but stir-fries are indispensable for cooking because you can literally make a delicious meal out of anything as long as you've got the technique down and you know your ingredients
I'm not sure what my second food category choice would be, but stir fries are definitely a strong candidate.
In no particular order, sandwiches, salads, soup/stew, tacos, stir fry, sushi
i tend to phase between pasta and tacos because theyre easy to make and i can try different varieties or experiment.
I agree with sandwiches being something that I could eat forever as long as I can change it up... But in my current diet there is no room for that amount of carbs, I really really miss my egg sandwiches. As a European, I'd love to see more food or sandwiches that uses fish, we all love salmon but something that's rare to see at least outside of deep fried in NA food youtube is some white flesh fish.
Burritos, dude. Burritos. Breakfast burritos, veggie burritos, even a well executed bean and cheese burrito. Let's not get started on California Burritos (carne asada with extra crispy french fries, cheese, sour cream/guac, and pico.) Go bonkers with whatever salsa you want. I'm a hardline burrito boy.
I'm from Southern California so that definitely has something to do with it.
I often ask myself that question: When you would only be able to eat one category of food for the rest of your life, which one would it be. I always come back to the same answer: Ramen