Fun fact: when you get a real mcmuffin, it's not supposed to have a runny yolk. It's probably more common right now, with stores being desperately understaffed and many of the experienced staff leaving, but mcdonald's policy calls for the egg to be fully cooked all the way through.
Yeah when I worked at McDonald’s I was trained to break the yolk after putting the egg in to cook. There’s a specific tool to do it with that looks kind of like some funky tweezers
Your sandwich recipe looks delicious, prob going to make a version of that today! Ha, but perhaps I am a little bias since it’s your recipe and it’s vegan 🌱. I do like the mushroom idea from the other recipe so I’ll probably add that in too.
Honestly -- I'm a fan of both you and Joshua. My problem with his content isn't that he's snooty, but I feel like his "But Cheaper" is very, VERY misleading. It's done by weight per serving. Since I can't go to Market Basket and just get 0.012 lbs of kale, I end up spending/wasting more if I don't use up all the ingredients he uses. That's where I feel like your content shines through, you're incredibly blunt and honest with the recipes you test. Since I'm a big visual learner, seeing you put out everything you use at the beginning of a recipe gives me a lot of perspective.
I couldn’t agree more. The thing that really pushes it over the edge for me is his absoluteness about it all, like its such a be-all-end-all solution while completely disregarding that what he’s saying only makes sense when its performed at scale. I like the guy’s work, he’s entertaining and definitely makes good food. But damn… that series is just unforgivable in how misleading it is.
Hey David, Just wanted to say that I think you are killing it lately! I’ve been a subscriber for about 3 years now and your content has improved greatly since then(not that it was bad to begin with lol). Not just your cooking skills but also the editing, narrative and the way you critique the food. I remember the times you didn’t even have a cast iron skillet. Now look at you. :’)
Completely agree he’s come so far since the early days of his channel, his cooking skills and narration are just on point. Love his sense of humor too, but that’s always been there
Honestly with Josh, I always kinda felt like he was doing a bit when he's acting all snooty over food. Like it's one part - "yeah I could do so much better, ha fast food", and one part - "it's good for what it is so I respect it, but let's do it better". I highly doubt he goes through all the effort that he does for the food in his videos every time he gets hungry and if he does, then well, good for him! He likes quality food and likes going through the effort to get it.
He had an interview on what he eats everyday, and it's just a simple menu, his but better videos are just for fun and mostly by being suggested by his viewers, but don't get me wrong, he loves food and if it is bad, it's really bad. He clearly stands out of all the TH-cam Chefs with him and Babish, they add humor and personality than most youtubers that are just happy go lucky and just cook type chefs you find on youtube.
As someone who was subscribed to him before he even had 100k its so strange to see people hate on him when its clear he is just joking around. Behind the cringey jokes he is a really genuine and hard working guy who appreciates his subscribers.
Josh’s problem is his fans. His discord is down right obnoxious and they complain when he tries to change the tone to anything slightly serious. His cookbook is great though.
In the grand scale of discords, it is by far not the worse one I’ve been in (those are gamer discords because, obviously) but it’s often got that bro-y hyper excessive atmosphere that the channel now seems to be mired in. I only pop in and out so I can’t say for certain what it’s like at the moment but last time I was looking at it regularly was around when he announced the cookbook coming out and people were begging for attention over that.
The best breakfast sandwich I’ve ever had was when I worked at McD’s in HS and an AM shift cook had a super sus crush on me (he was like 40). But I’d I showed up during breakfast he’d make a fresh batch biscuits then fry me an egg and melt the cheese while on the grill. He’d use extra cheese and put extra butter on a fresh hot biscuit. Then bring it straight out to me, fresh and piping hot. It was perfect. Dude almost won me over with that sandwich. But he was still like 40 and I was 16 so no.
What the actual fuck 40-16 is really just... wrong. I'm ~40 now and I'd never even think of dating anyone under 30. Some dudes just get lonely and shit but that still shows no self respect.
@@fenix849 I knew it was wrong but I didn’t process that it was kind of a big deal that a man old enough to be my dad was pursuing me. I’ve always had this fvked up part of myself that couldn’t quite recognize sht when it happened to me. If it was a friend, I’d have been fighting the dude. I’m a mom now and I’d loose my mind if my kid ended up in that sit. I just hope I can teach my kid to see that kind of behavior differently then I did, and value herself more. So far I think I’m doing a good job. (Still was the best breakfast sandwich ever, unfortunately the memory of that epic sandwich is a bit tainted by hindsight.)
@@BRobes92 at least when I worked there the biscuits were premade (but not baked) and frozen. Like a lot of the ingredients, they came into the store that way. They were then baked in large batches. I only worked the am shift a couple of times bc of school (this was before breakfast was extended) so I only saw the process a few times.
He should start making his own language and retreat into a forest where he builds his house, garden, and only ingredients found nearby. Maybe keep the clothes on though, let's not get too crazy here
First we take all the comments about Josh and dissolve them in water, then we evaporate it SLOWLY to about two thirds of the original volume, so gypsum and other unwanted salts fall out. We repeat this step one more time as so we can leave behind the bitterness (magnesium- and potassium-salts). Now this solution should be around 80% salt just like the comments about Josh's attitude towards fast-food and boil it down to a solid state. And voila salt.
@@IRFengshui I'm a happy subscriber to JW's channel, and I agree with pretty much all of his opinions about the fast food joints he's taken a stab at. I gotta admit, however, my boi's pretentious asf.
For the vegan one, I'd skip the "egg" and go for topping it with sauteed mushrooms, onions and spinach with a sprinkling of brewers yeast for umami. And possibly some soy sauce chucked in with the mushrooms.
Yeah I kinda hate the trend of veganizing food by only replicating the appearance.... It hardly even makes for a good taste and makes people try those recipes as opposed to ones that may not look as good but taste way better. Vegan food definitely doesn't have to be bland and boring
I like watching Josh Weissman, but I would never make one of his recipes - too extra. I'm ok with the actual Egg McMuffin. The whole point is I don't have to do any of the work. That makes it taste better 😃
I second the burger bun recipe it’s SUPER quick and easy and WORTH IT. Also his standard pancake is also amazing and isn’t far off at all from normal ingredients for any pancake.
I’ve made his hollandaise sauce, avocado toast with smoked salmon, butter, caesar salad, focaccia, mac & cheese, steak, panda express chow mein, english breakfast, korean fried chicken (probably my favorite), Italian hot chocolate, churros, lava cake, and boba. I agree though, often time consuming, and I can’t recall a single time for most of these recipes well I had to make a trip to the supermarket for ingredients.
One more observation is that homemade is never the same with many take away / fast food items as we don’t let them sit and sweat in the wrapper … that’s the step that makes the difference. 😉 sounds gross but is actually the forgotten finishing step!
When I worked at McD's like...30 plus years ago... they told us that quality declines rapidly after 10 minutes. So literally anything you don't eat right away is going to be much worse than anything fresh. I wince on channels where they eat the menu and order everything at once.
You bring up a good point. But I think it depends on the food? Sandwiches def need to "sweat" in the wrapper and it makes such a difference. But a crispy food, like fries or fried chicken will actually degrade when sweating. So when making comparisons for crispy foods the person making it home should either eat it at the restaurant fresh or wrap their creations in a sealed bag or wrapper so theirs gets soggy too otherwise it is unfair.
I worked at 5guys and can confirm, eat the fries ASAP but let that burger sit for a few minutes in its wrap. It stays together better too. Only thing I don't think it improves are things like crunchy tacos lol
Some predictions: Inside Edition will take either second or third for being a very faithful recreation, Josh and Sam will be tied for first, but Josh's culinary complexity will eek out over Sam's, and Sauce Stache will be very good but lets be real, we crave egg mcmcuffins for cheap semi-meat, not good healthy-er food. Edit 1: Holy crap, I FORGOT how genuinely creative sauce stache's was. that's wildly smart
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Did anyone else catch that he used sweet Italian sausage on the first one? That has quite a different flavor profile than standard pork breakfast sausage...not that it would be "bad" but it would definitely taste a little off.
I think David you can try Ramen next! There are some pretty intriguing and interesting options out there, I guess you can try Uncle Roger, duh, Nigela Lawson, Ethan Chelbowski, etc.
I don't doubt that everything Josh makes is fantastic, but I'll never know because I can't afford basically any of his ingredients. Even "but cheaper" only takes the individual portion costs into account, and I'm cooking for just two people, so it never works out that I can get my costs as low as him. I lack many of the tools he has access to. I'm also way too busy to do things like bake my own bread or butcher meats in complicated ways. I don't hold that against him, but it does make his content less useful to me. To me, his channel is like, branded for home cooks but structured with content that only works in small to medium sized restaurant kitchens. Controlling costs is also important for small businesses, but can actually be accomplished through scale in a way that just doesn't work for home cooks. He can also sound like a bit of a prick, but I think at least some of that is a deliberate affectation for the camera. I guess if you know you're the kind of person to add truffles to things no sane person adds truffles to, you might as well lean in?
I still feel like Josh needs to, as a rule, limit the ingredient cost to the price of the competition. The bougie version can be a follow up or addon recipe.
Jesus! I just thought of looking for a video of someone trying one of Joshuas dishes... I don't know how many videos from this channel I've looked at today, but they´re alot! Good job with making these videos to see how these foods taste, since it's pretty hard not be biased in a video about your own food. Thank you!
I've been watching Josh for around 2 years. I've definitely seen a significant personality shift from this nerdy chef showing us the recipes he creates in his past time to a snobby, arrogant TH-camr. The entire snob situation started because of the 'But Better' Krispy Kreme episode where his donuts were utterly different, textually and visually. However, he still said it was better and similar to the Krispy Kreme ones. When viewers pointed out that it wasn't similar and that Krispy Kreme won, he corrected himself but said his donuts were better "textually." It kinda sucks that he said that because the one thing that Krispy Kreme is known for is their light and airy texture, while Josh's was a lot denser and had bigger holes. A lot of the more dedicated viewers say that the Krispy Kreme video was the video that started the beginning of the end. As 'But Better' progressed, it felt like Josh's snooty behavior was becoming more apparent, and more and more JW stans left. I still watch his content because I appreciate the effort and love that he puts into his videos, and his ethos of everything from scratch is really inspiring, but it sucks that we don't get to see his nerdy side as much as his snobby side nowadays.
He said they were “textually better IMO” he wasn’t stating it as if everyone has to agree with him. I think him declaring Krispy Kreme the winner after saying he won in the video makes him a more respectable person. Just what I think. Part of his bit for TH-cam is him being this chef that can’t stand anything that isn’t made by him. If you’ve seen him in videos not on his channel, it’s quite the opposite, he eats a lot of junk and has respect for the fast food industry. Just how I interpret it, all jokes imo.
I love Josh and his videos. But everything is going to taste good if you spend $100 to buy the ingredients and spend 3 days making it. He makes the absolute best version of everything. Most of his videos are for entertainment and not for the casual home-cook.
I have my own version - it's a lot simpler than most of these and probably closer to what the fallen arches do. I do the egg over-hard in the ring, OK, that's the same - then I put it with a slice of Canadian bacon and a slice of either Cheddar or Gouda on an English muffin then put it in a toaster-oven. I also sometimes *scramble* the egg, and put everything on a *bagel* (sometimes also with a sausage patty, couple slices of beef bacon, and one of those hash brown patties if I'm really feeling extra).
So happy youv included a vegan recipe ! :) Tip: you want to add the black salt at the last point of cooking. Iv found that the eggy/sulphur flavour cooks out quite easily
I like Joshua Weissman, I think he is a very talented chef and his recipes that I've recreated have always been fantastic but I do have to agree in that he does come off as a bit of a snob.
@@fnjesusfreak See, now THAT comes across as a bit snobby... Being concerned what behaviour or which jokes are "appropriate for a specific age group". It's fine if it isn't your taste, no need to talk down to it because it doesn't appeal to you.
True story: I am a chef at a 5 star authentic Spanish restaurant, and I will absolutely destroy a pack of pizza rolls. I’m not boujee in any way shape or form.
0:40 Wow, David! I really appreciate this vegan segment of the video - have been watching your channel for several years and being plant-based for the last three... I still enjoyed your content but sometimes felt a little excluded, you know :D Hence, this made me smile a lot - especially considering I really love Sauce Stache's creations and approach! . Anyways, thanks a lot David for consistently entertaining us! Have a great week ahead!
Josh Weissman is a cross between Johnny Depp and Julia Child - entertaining, oddly compelling and sometimes just silly. It's a fascinating combo. His recipes are usually too complicated for me to bother replicating but I enjoy watching him, and I'm also oddly proud of him; he had a tough childhood but never waivered from his original love - cooking. Guy's done very well for himself, and he's also put together a stellar group of editors and videographers. It's amazing what people have been able to do with TH-cam, making their own 'jobs'; wish this medium had been available when I was a LOT younger.
Yeah, I worked in a kitchen for a while, I cook myself easy meals like packet pasta and frozen foods, for myself I go for easy stuff over cooking all out, focus on taste over presentation and a lot of the easy stuff actually doesn't taste that bad, I usually just add a few spices and things but it's mostly just what it comes with
out of curiosity because I had a life changing experience with this last week, but have you made sam's chicken bacon ranch sandwich? I swear I have never had a better sandwich in my life
I absolutely love watching you and the time you take to make all the different recipes. Huge respect. But you did not try mine? Could you do an episode of trying random recipes from online?
I think Weissman is pretty spot on about most of the stuff he "But Betters". He's just a little bratty about it. Entertaining IMO. Any fast foodies know this and which franchise stores to avoid and which ones are more reliable.
Wow i thought i was alone on the joshua weissman hate train, its not hate hate but his views on fast food are so filled with anger and elitism, like, of course the food is half assed they make hundreds of those, they dont have time and care for each sandwich. I do watch his videos but not for him personally, i just enjoy people cooking. I have also tried one of his recipes and it was good, my only complain was the white pepper, if he ever says to use white pepper in his recipes don’t, it smells like a bad pepper and overpowers the whole dish!
I’m the same way about Josh. The food he makes looks amazing, but he seems arrogant AF when it comes to his food versus the original/traditional versions. Plus, I’m really tired of how it feels like half the time his videos are of him singing certain sentences. I know it’s meant to be funny, but it’s not.
I dislike josh not because of his view and elitism around fast food, tho it doesn't help, but because of his arrogance and massive ego. Any cook or chef that refuses to cook simple food is the equivalent of announcing to the world LOOK HOW GREAT I AM LOOK HOW SMART I AM LOOK HOW TALENTED I AM. Fact is, some foods simple and should be kept simple or loses all meaning and it morphs into another recipe entirely. Even gordon ramsay understands that and does plenty simple but perfectly executed dishes. Not weisman tho
I get it, personally. It's not that fast food is simple, it's that it's bad. Like, you could take the same ingredients and the same amount of time and make something way better if you gave a s***.
Everyone has their own persona for their youtube channel. Josh has a very funny and entertaining one! I especially love the confidence he emmits whenever he cooks as he does his best to beat other people's foods or his "But cheaper". You can feel genuine emotion out of it. Love the man. Sad to see him get hate
Yeah but I also get how sum people can’t take a joke, some people rely don’t see that that persona is a PERSONA to make us laugh not his actual personality
I do wish Joshua would tone down the arrogance a tad, like I'm sure what he makes is indeed better then fast food but the way he pretends that the fast food is so unpalatable is a little much.
I made English muffins for the first time recently. The dough should be nearly batter to get the right texture. I was sure Weissman's would be too heavy as you were comfortably kneading it like bread. It needs to be kneaded with a stand mixer or a wooden spoon and a strong arm.
I take inspiration from Joshua, but I never make his recipes because most of them require you to have equipment that I don't have or he has you make homemade components of things that are so easily (and cheaply) picked up at the super market. Case in point: on his recent monkey bread episode, he made homemade dough. I would probably recreate and just buy the biscuit dough portioned out because it's 10x easier to do.
When compared with monkey bread made with actual bread dough, using biscuits comes out kinda gummy and not as nice. If you don’t want to make bread dough, at least get frozen dinner roll dough not biscuits.
I def had to take a break from Josh's But Betters because i cannot handle the draaaaaama he does when tasting food. I guess some people think its funny or else he wouldnt do it, i just avoid those videos cause his other ones are always so good looking!
They’re truly unwatchable, which is sad bc the food looks amazing. I wanna die when he refers to himself as “papa” in that weird voice and chides some decision or makes a warning. I wonder if it appeals to a certain age demographic and that’s why he does it? . Le sigh. I want to like his videos- the food looks so good!
@@kw1535 I definitely agree, every once in a while i forget what his videos are like and click one thinking they can't possibly be as cringeworthy and uncomfortable as i remember. I never make it more than a couple minutes.
Here’s a fact I refuse to call fun: All day breakfast DID end, because of the pandemic. Or at least, app support ended, however at least at my location you can still order breakfast items anytime. I’m sure there are many other locations that are just as lenient and compassionate.
Joshua wiessman does do some questionably extreme steps but his point is that you can make food that's far better at home. You don't need processed foods for them to be tasty!
Okay ... admittingly I would like to see Tasting History on one of these vs. episodes mainly just to see how well some of these odd historical recipes hold up against modern recipes. Like his very recent apple pie episode vs a lot of modern apple pies.
Because he is a real chef with culinary background from a high rated restaurant while the other competitors are just experimental and knowledgeable cooks?
@@Pqndchannel Sam's a cook. He was a pharmaceutical executive who quit to start a travel tv show. 9/11 happened and shut all that down, so he switched to a cooking show.
@@MilwaukeeWoman Um isn't that the reason itself why he makes videos? I would rather take lessons from professionals rather than random internet cooks who just reuse the exact same recipes over and over again. If you can't cook what he does then don't lol. It isn't his fault why some people can't keep up with him. There are already many youtuber cooks that are beginner-friendly like Babish, Adam Regusae or Tasty. No need a reason for him to be like one of them.
sam getting a win isn’t exactly fair when it’s a egg McMuffin with like 4 other toppings that don’t go on them. Adding extra stuff instead of what others did makes it not fair
As a former McD employee (I'm not proud!) I know that the secret to the Egg McMuffin is that they break the yolk as soon as the white starts to set. You never get a runny yolk at Micky D's!
Can you tell me if there is any secret to these ? Every single Egg McMuffin I have ever got, I get the slight taste of nutmeg. I have even contacted McDonald’s and asked about it, and gotten nowhere. But it is always the first thing I taste ! But I always get the one with Canadian bacon, so it is not in the sausage. Am I the only person on the planet who tastes nutmeg ?
What do you mean you’re not proud to have been a McD worker? Sure the chain strongly contributes to the crisis climate crisis but let’s not be classist.
Love the fact you included a vegan recipe! If you want to try vegan recipes that have a lot of flavor check out GAZ OAKLEY. His recipes remind me of Joshua’s with how involved they are! 🌱☺️
I don’t even eat meat and sometimes I watch Joshua’s channel. He doesn’t bug me at all. I’ve tried to veg some of his recipes and once or twice, depending on what it is of course. I like SS recipe the best, but I am a fan of his channel and recipes 🙈. Homemade veganized muffins and mushroom sounds good though! I bet that would make the sandwich even better! 🌱
The thing is Joshua is so familiar with junk food and fast food and you can hear it when he makes comparisons, I mean you can tell when someone's just tried something for the first time in their life vs someone who knows it's flaws from eating it normally and that's why they chose to make a recipe for it. So yeah his "character" is to promote the idea we should all take the time out to cook but it's obvious that he is very familiar with all the normal foods everyone else eats--- it's very likely he grew up eating them too.
I don't think joshua acts like he's "too good for fast food" i feel that its just an act to make his videos entertaining. he mentions in almost all of his videos that he respect fast food for what it is but he can simply make it better. this side of his is emphasized in the In n out video
11:27, David completely disrespects thyme and doesn't list it in the ingredients read out. ... ... ... or maybe he just didn't have the THYME for it. Lol
Up to the point you said it around 11:15, Joshua Weissman is has the 2nd greatest number of wins in your versus series (5), behind Bon Appétit's 6 wins.
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Fun fact: when you get a real mcmuffin, it's not supposed to have a runny yolk. It's probably more common right now, with stores being desperately understaffed and many of the experienced staff leaving, but mcdonald's policy calls for the egg to be fully cooked all the way through.
Yeah when I worked at McDonald’s I was trained to break the yolk after putting the egg in to cook. There’s a specific tool to do it with that looks kind of like some funky tweezers
@@charliev4156 YEAH I DID TOO we made the eggs in the little steamer thingy
@@krishaunafisher Yeah. Those things are/were so annoying to clean haha
I like my egg medium in a sandwich. When it's easy its super messy! When it's medium I get it slight runny but not bursting like balloon
Exactly! Whenever I’ve had eggs at McDonald’s there was no runny business involved 😂
Dude!!! I'm just seeing this!!! hahaha man I'll never forgot that panel! 100% the reason behind my success!!
Your sandwich recipe looks delicious, prob going to make a version of that today! Ha, but perhaps I am a little bias since it’s your recipe and it’s vegan 🌱. I do like the mushroom idea from the other recipe so I’ll probably add that in too.
@@user-bv7mk8id5t thank you!!!!
Let's Go Sauce Stache!!!!!
Love your recipes and you inspire me to make my own mock meats
Honestly -- I'm a fan of both you and Joshua. My problem with his content isn't that he's snooty, but I feel like his "But Cheaper" is very, VERY misleading. It's done by weight per serving. Since I can't go to Market Basket and just get 0.012 lbs of kale, I end up spending/wasting more if I don't use up all the ingredients he uses. That's where I feel like your content shines through, you're incredibly blunt and honest with the recipes you test. Since I'm a big visual learner, seeing you put out everything you use at the beginning of a recipe gives me a lot of perspective.
My issue with him is the sophomoric humor (especially the "You know what ? B-roll." stuff), but I do watch a fair bit of his stuff.
@@fnjesusfreak each to there own
The thing is alot of times u already have the ingredients so it's fine but I get what u mean
We can all agree joshua food is AMAZING
I couldn’t agree more. The thing that really pushes it over the edge for me is his absoluteness about it all, like its such a be-all-end-all solution while completely disregarding that what he’s saying only makes sense when its performed at scale. I like the guy’s work, he’s entertaining and definitely makes good food. But damn… that series is just unforgivable in how misleading it is.
Everyone is taking about Josh but honestly, congrats Sam the Cooking Guy for busing out such a creative and relatively easy recipe
Chicken McNuggets debuted in 1981
Egg McMuffin debuted in 1972
The egg came first. End of story
Thank you Mr. Kim, very cool
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Hey David,
Just wanted to say that I think you are killing it lately! I’ve been a subscriber for about 3 years now and your content has improved greatly since then(not that it was bad to begin with lol).
Not just your cooking skills but also the editing, narrative and the way you critique the food. I remember the times you didn’t even have a cast iron skillet. Now look at you. :’)
Completely agree he’s come so far since the early days of his channel, his cooking skills and narration are just on point. Love his sense of humor too, but that’s always been there
I think this is the only channel I've watched 95%+ of the videos since I've subscribed.
Honestly with Josh, I always kinda felt like he was doing a bit when he's acting all snooty over food. Like it's one part - "yeah I could do so much better, ha fast food", and one part - "it's good for what it is so I respect it, but let's do it better". I highly doubt he goes through all the effort that he does for the food in his videos every time he gets hungry and if he does, then well, good for him! He likes quality food and likes going through the effort to get it.
He had an interview on what he eats everyday, and it's just a simple menu, his but better videos are just for fun and mostly by being suggested by his viewers, but don't get me wrong, he loves food and if it is bad, it's really bad. He clearly stands out of all the TH-cam Chefs with him and Babish, they add humor and personality than most youtubers that are just happy go lucky and just cook type chefs you find on youtube.
@@ziroh4122 I'm a huge fan of Adam Ragusea too; the science and history lessons he includes while cooking accessible food is really awesome.
@@22hmartin Adam has big amounts of the smart uncle vibes that helps you in the kitchen on a family reunion lol.
As someone who was subscribed to him before he even had 100k its so strange to see people hate on him when its clear he is just joking around. Behind the cringey jokes he is a really genuine and hard working guy who appreciates his subscribers.
I find it pretty annoying
Josh’s problem is his fans. His discord is down right obnoxious and they complain when he tries to change the tone to anything slightly serious. His cookbook is great though.
what is his discord like? I didn't know he even had one but then again with discord it's always some sort of hellish place
Do tell for us who don’t like joining their favourite youtubers’ discord
I won't judge josh on his fans cuz there's bound to have loud, obnoxious, toxic fans in a lot of them since it's discord
In the grand scale of discords, it is by far not the worse one I’ve been in (those are gamer discords because, obviously) but it’s often got that bro-y hyper excessive atmosphere that the channel now seems to be mired in. I only pop in and out so I can’t say for certain what it’s like at the moment but last time I was looking at it regularly was around when he announced the cookbook coming out and people were begging for attention over that.
The best breakfast sandwich I’ve ever had was when I worked at McD’s in HS and an AM shift cook had a super sus crush on me (he was like 40). But I’d I showed up during breakfast he’d make a fresh batch biscuits then fry me an egg and melt the cheese while on the grill. He’d use extra cheese and put extra butter on a fresh hot biscuit. Then bring it straight out to me, fresh and piping hot. It was perfect. Dude almost won me over with that sandwich. But he was still like 40 and I was 16 so no.
What the actual fuck 40-16 is really just... wrong. I'm ~40 now and I'd never even think of dating anyone under 30. Some dudes just get lonely and shit but that still shows no self respect.
@@fenix849 I knew it was wrong but I didn’t process that it was kind of a big deal that a man old enough to be my dad was pursuing me. I’ve always had this fvked up part of myself that couldn’t quite recognize sht when it happened to me. If it was a friend, I’d have been fighting the dude. I’m a mom now and I’d loose my mind if my kid ended up in that sit. I just hope I can teach my kid to see that kind of behavior differently then I did, and value herself more. So far I think I’m doing a good job.
(Still was the best breakfast sandwich ever, unfortunately the memory of that epic sandwich is a bit tainted by hindsight.)
@@fenix849 I'm only 20 and even now 16 is like a toddler
I'm just surprised that u said mcdonalds makes their own biscuits.. or do u mean he microwaved 1 fresh for ya
@@BRobes92 at least when I worked there the biscuits were premade (but not baked) and frozen. Like a lot of the ingredients, they came into the store that way. They were then baked in large batches. I only worked the am shift a couple of times bc of school (this was before breakfast was extended) so I only saw the process a few times.
Josh Weissman be like: “So first we’re gonna make our own salt.”
He should start making his own language and retreat into a forest where he builds his house, garden, and only ingredients found nearby. Maybe keep the clothes on though, let's not get too crazy here
First we take all the comments about Josh and dissolve them in water, then we evaporate it SLOWLY to about two thirds of the original volume, so gypsum and other unwanted salts fall out. We repeat this step one more time as so we can leave behind the bitterness (magnesium- and potassium-salts). Now this solution should be around 80% salt just like the comments about Josh's attitude towards fast-food and boil it down to a solid state. And voila salt.
@@tommj4365 there's a dude on TikTok who made a calzone in the woods. It was pretty cool to watch.
😂😂😂
@@IRFengshui I'm a happy subscriber to JW's channel, and I agree with pretty much all of his opinions about the fast food joints he's taken a stab at. I gotta admit, however, my boi's pretentious asf.
You really stayed true to the McDonald’s recipe by adding that hair in the first sandwich, very creative!
For the vegan one, I'd skip the "egg" and go for topping it with sauteed mushrooms, onions and spinach with a sprinkling of brewers yeast for umami. And possibly some soy sauce chucked in with the mushrooms.
And spicy aioli!!! 🥳
Yeah I kinda hate the trend of veganizing food by only replicating the appearance.... It hardly even makes for a good taste and makes people try those recipes as opposed to ones that may not look as good but taste way better. Vegan food definitely doesn't have to be bland and boring
Yeah he should have added the mushrooms from the winning one!
They should of put just egg for the whole thing instead of the tofu with just egg in the middle
tofu needs to be marinated/seasoned otherwise it tastes like nothing
I like watching Josh Weissman, but I would never make one of his recipes - too extra. I'm ok with the actual Egg McMuffin. The whole point is I don't have to do any of the work. That makes it taste better 😃
If nothing else, make his burger bun recipe. It is amazing.
his recipes are awesome but hella expensive and long tbh
I second the burger bun recipe it’s SUPER quick and easy and WORTH IT. Also his standard pancake is also amazing and isn’t far off at all from normal ingredients for any pancake.
His cinnamon buns recipe is also amazing!
I’ve made his hollandaise sauce, avocado toast with smoked salmon, butter, caesar salad, focaccia, mac & cheese, steak, panda express chow mein, english breakfast, korean fried chicken (probably my favorite), Italian hot chocolate, churros, lava cake, and boba. I agree though, often time consuming, and I can’t recall a single time for most of these recipes well I had to make a trip to the supermarket for ingredients.
One more observation is that homemade is never the same with many take away / fast food items as we don’t let them sit and sweat in the wrapper … that’s the step that makes the difference. 😉 sounds gross but is actually the forgotten finishing step!
When I worked at McD's like...30 plus years ago... they told us that quality declines rapidly after 10 minutes. So literally anything you don't eat right away is going to be much worse than anything fresh. I wince on channels where they eat the menu and order everything at once.
I bought some wax paper wraps for sandwiches just for this reason.
You bring up a good point. But I think it depends on the food? Sandwiches def need to "sweat" in the wrapper and it makes such a difference. But a crispy food, like fries or fried chicken will actually degrade when sweating. So when making comparisons for crispy foods the person making it home should either eat it at the restaurant fresh or wrap their creations in a sealed bag or wrapper so theirs gets soggy too otherwise it is unfair.
Josh from MythicalKitchen always makes his food sweat when he recreates fast food items. He says its integral to the flavor
I worked at 5guys and can confirm, eat the fries ASAP but let that burger sit for a few minutes in its wrap. It stays together better too. Only thing I don't think it improves are things like crunchy tacos lol
Omg Sauche Stache!!! Thanks for including a vegan one!
Still waiting on SortedFood to be covered in a future video
Yes! Please!
Yes!!!! They are great!
Yesss!!
yes, please! I'm a huge fan, my favourite cooking channel
Yeah totally agree
Thank you for including Sauce Stache, because I really question a lot of the vegan alternative recipes. It's good to see them compared.
It looks so expensive and the muffin sounded crunchy hard.
Some predictions: Inside Edition will take either second or third for being a very faithful recreation, Josh and Sam will be tied for first, but Josh's culinary complexity will eek out over Sam's, and Sauce Stache will be very good but lets be real, we crave egg mcmcuffins for cheap semi-meat, not good healthy-er food.
Edit 1: Holy crap, I FORGOT how genuinely creative sauce stache's was. that's wildly smart
🚨🚨🚨 AAAAAAHHHHH!!! 🚨🚨🚨 school is sooooo boring i am in 8th grate and its so boring i am having sucess on youtube so i think i will drop out of school. i dont have friends so i need your opinon bb
Kinda need to be creative when you're faking meat from scratch or near-scratch. XD
Big difference with Sams cooking is he makes things that anyone can cook and it comes out great.
Did anyone else catch that he used sweet Italian sausage on the first one? That has quite a different flavor profile than standard pork breakfast sausage...not that it would be "bad" but it would definitely taste a little off.
I was impressed by the way David said "kala namak".. Black salt, his pronunciation was on point!
Personally not vegan, but I love seeing a Sauce Stache recipe representation!
I think David you can try Ramen next! There are some pretty intriguing and interesting options out there, I guess you can try Uncle Roger, duh, Nigela Lawson, Ethan Chelbowski, etc.
Tiktok ramen trends too omg
I don't doubt that everything Josh makes is fantastic, but I'll never know because I can't afford basically any of his ingredients. Even "but cheaper" only takes the individual portion costs into account, and I'm cooking for just two people, so it never works out that I can get my costs as low as him. I lack many of the tools he has access to. I'm also way too busy to do things like bake my own bread or butcher meats in complicated ways. I don't hold that against him, but it does make his content less useful to me. To me, his channel is like, branded for home cooks but structured with content that only works in small to medium sized restaurant kitchens. Controlling costs is also important for small businesses, but can actually be accomplished through scale in a way that just doesn't work for home cooks.
He can also sound like a bit of a prick, but I think at least some of that is a deliberate affectation for the camera. I guess if you know you're the kind of person to add truffles to things no sane person adds truffles to, you might as well lean in?
I still feel like Josh needs to, as a rule, limit the ingredient cost to the price of the competition. The bougie version can be a follow up or addon recipe.
Jesus! I just thought of looking for a video of someone trying one of Joshuas dishes... I don't know how many videos from this channel I've looked at today, but they´re alot! Good job with making these videos to see how these foods taste, since it's pretty hard not be biased in a video about your own food. Thank you!
i think your instant yeast might be inactive David! that might be why Josh's english muffin turned out dense
David can you make a video about sheet pan pizzas? I recommend Brian Langerstrom and Ethan Chlebowski! They both have a tone of great pizza recipes
since it’s fall, david should try people’s pumpkin pie and see who’s the best :)
I've been watching Josh for around 2 years. I've definitely seen a significant personality shift from this nerdy chef showing us the recipes he creates in his past time to a snobby, arrogant TH-camr. The entire snob situation started because of the 'But Better' Krispy Kreme episode where his donuts were utterly different, textually and visually. However, he still said it was better and similar to the Krispy Kreme ones. When viewers pointed out that it wasn't similar and that Krispy Kreme won, he corrected himself but said his donuts were better "textually." It kinda sucks that he said that because the one thing that Krispy Kreme is known for is their light and airy texture, while Josh's was a lot denser and had bigger holes. A lot of the more dedicated viewers say that the Krispy Kreme video was the video that started the beginning of the end. As 'But Better' progressed, it felt like Josh's snooty behavior was becoming more apparent, and more and more JW stans left. I still watch his content because I appreciate the effort and love that he puts into his videos, and his ethos of everything from scratch is really inspiring, but it sucks that we don't get to see his nerdy side as much as his snobby side nowadays.
He said they were “textually better IMO” he wasn’t stating it as if everyone has to agree with him. I think him declaring Krispy Kreme the winner after saying he won in the video makes him a more respectable person. Just what I think. Part of his bit for TH-cam is him being this chef that can’t stand anything that isn’t made by him. If you’ve seen him in videos not on his channel, it’s quite the opposite, he eats a lot of junk and has respect for the fast food industry. Just how I interpret it, all jokes imo.
I love Josh and his videos. But everything is going to taste good if you spend $100 to buy the ingredients and spend 3 days making it. He makes the absolute best version of everything. Most of his videos are for entertainment and not for the casual home-cook.
I have my own version - it's a lot simpler than most of these and probably closer to what the fallen arches do. I do the egg over-hard in the ring, OK, that's the same - then I put it with a slice of Canadian bacon and a slice of either Cheddar or Gouda on an English muffin then put it in a toaster-oven.
I also sometimes *scramble* the egg, and put everything on a *bagel* (sometimes also with a sausage patty, couple slices of beef bacon, and one of those hash brown patties if I'm really feeling extra).
So happy youv included a vegan recipe ! :) Tip: you want to add the black salt at the last point of cooking. Iv found that the eggy/sulphur flavour cooks out quite easily
Don't get me wrong, Joshua's great, but it's also lovely to see him lose one of these - doesn't seem to happen often haha
I like Joshua Weissman, I think he is a very talented chef and his recipes that I've recreated have always been fantastic but I do have to agree in that he does come off as a bit of a snob.
I don't see him as a snob, I just find his humor a bit sophomoric.
@@fnjesusfreak To me it doesn't come off as funny
@@nathandrake1447 Me neither. Another way of saying "sophomoric humor" is "juvenile humor".
@@fnjesusfreak See, now THAT comes across as a bit snobby... Being concerned what behaviour or which jokes are "appropriate for a specific age group". It's fine if it isn't your taste, no need to talk down to it because it doesn't appeal to you.
good thing you aren’t forced to watch him
True story: I am a chef at a 5 star authentic Spanish restaurant, and I will absolutely destroy a pack of pizza rolls. I’m not boujee in any way shape or form.
Don't restaurants just go to 3 stars 🤔
@@Demolishorx those are Michelin stars
@@Demolishorx That’s only for michelin stars
0:40 Wow, David! I really appreciate this vegan segment of the video - have been watching your channel for several years and being plant-based for the last three... I still enjoyed your content but sometimes felt a little excluded, you know :D Hence, this made me smile a lot - especially considering I really love Sauce Stache's creations and approach!
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Anyways, thanks a lot David for consistently entertaining us!
Have a great week ahead!
Yeah, sometimes Joshua got the fame into its head... I thought it was only me that feel that way.
damn i love this channel. it feels like watching something on PBS. it is just wholesome.
Really cool what Sauce Stache can do. I was really excited to see him in one of these.
Josh Weissman is a cross between Johnny Depp and Julia Child - entertaining, oddly compelling and sometimes just silly. It's a fascinating combo. His recipes are usually too complicated for me to bother replicating but I enjoy watching him, and I'm also oddly proud of him; he had a tough childhood but never waivered from his original love - cooking. Guy's done very well for himself, and he's also put together a stellar group of editors and videographers. It's amazing what people have been able to do with TH-cam, making their own 'jobs'; wish this medium had been available when I was a LOT younger.
That's the main reason for the success of his content, making everything better. The testing gets less notoriety
Helix beds are awesome! I love mine! Thanks David!
Yeah, I worked in a kitchen for a while, I cook myself easy meals like packet pasta and frozen foods, for myself I go for easy stuff over cooking all out, focus on taste over presentation and a lot of the easy stuff actually doesn't taste that bad, I usually just add a few spices and things but it's mostly just what it comes with
out of curiosity because I had a life changing experience with this last week, but have you made sam's chicken bacon ranch sandwich? I swear I have never had a better sandwich in my life
When you make these, for each one, do you make a serving for everyone in your family? Or do they have to die of jealousy?
I absolutely love watching you and the time you take to make all the different recipes. Huge respect. But you did not try mine? Could you do an episode of trying random recipes from online?
I like this idea !
I think Weissman is pretty spot on about most of the stuff he "But Betters". He's just a little bratty about it. Entertaining IMO. Any fast foodies know this and which franchise stores to avoid and which ones are more reliable.
Wow i thought i was alone on the joshua weissman hate train, its not hate hate but his views on fast food are so filled with anger and elitism, like, of course the food is half assed they make hundreds of those, they dont have time and care for each sandwich. I do watch his videos but not for him personally, i just enjoy people cooking. I have also tried one of his recipes and it was good, my only complain was the white pepper, if he ever says to use white pepper in his recipes don’t, it smells like a bad pepper and overpowers the whole dish!
I agree about white pepper if you've ever lived or been on a farm it smells like a horse barn.
I’m the same way about Josh. The food he makes looks amazing, but he seems arrogant AF when it comes to his food versus the original/traditional versions. Plus, I’m really tired of how it feels like half the time his videos are of him singing certain sentences. I know it’s meant to be funny, but it’s not.
I dislike josh not because of his view and elitism around fast food, tho it doesn't help, but because of his arrogance and massive ego.
Any cook or chef that refuses to cook simple food is the equivalent of announcing to the world LOOK HOW GREAT I AM LOOK HOW SMART I AM LOOK HOW TALENTED I AM.
Fact is, some foods simple and should be kept simple or loses all meaning and it morphs into another recipe entirely.
Even gordon ramsay understands that and does plenty simple but perfectly executed dishes. Not weisman tho
I get it, personally. It's not that fast food is simple, it's that it's bad.
Like, you could take the same ingredients and the same amount of time and make something way better if you gave a s***.
Actually fast food is simple and it's also fast. Making a Joshua recipe will take you forever and you'll be doing dishes for an hour afterwards.
Everyone has their own persona for their youtube channel. Josh has a very funny and entertaining one! I especially love the confidence he emmits whenever he cooks as he does his best to beat other people's foods or his "But cheaper". You can feel genuine emotion out of it. Love the man. Sad to see him get hate
Yeah but I also get how sum people can’t take a joke, some people rely don’t see that that persona is a PERSONA to make us laugh not his actual personality
@@kekesweets1891 or maybe they don't like the persona and the jokes
McDonald's capitalized on our childhoods to their advantage and it worked and I'm glad they did
It really is a McDonald's world and we all live in it
I recommend you to try bigger bolder baking's no knead english muffins. I tried them and they're delicious.
Also would love to get a review as I do not know how english muffins are supposed to taste.
I do wish Joshua would tone down the arrogance a tad, like I'm sure what he makes is indeed better then fast food but the way he pretends that the fast food is so unpalatable is a little much.
I haven't watched him, but know what you're talking about. Gordon Ramsey turns me off that way.
grow up
I made English muffins for the first time recently. The dough should be nearly batter to get the right texture. I was sure Weissman's would be too heavy as you were comfortably kneading it like bread. It needs to be kneaded with a stand mixer or a wooden spoon and a strong arm.
Pumpkin spice month lesss gooooo
Sam's looks wonderful, except that I'm allergic to mushrooms. I'd love to try out making homemade English Muffins tho!!
I take inspiration from Joshua, but I never make his recipes because most of them require you to have equipment that I don't have or he has you make homemade components of things that are so easily (and cheaply) picked up at the super market. Case in point: on his recent monkey bread episode, he made homemade dough. I would probably recreate and just buy the biscuit dough portioned out because it's 10x easier to do.
When compared with monkey bread made with actual bread dough, using biscuits comes out kinda gummy and not as nice. If you don’t want to make bread dough, at least get frozen dinner roll dough not biscuits.
I def had to take a break from Josh's But Betters because i cannot handle the draaaaaama he does when tasting food. I guess some people think its funny or else he wouldnt do it, i just avoid those videos cause his other ones are always so good looking!
They’re truly unwatchable, which is sad bc the food looks amazing. I wanna die when he refers to himself as “papa” in that weird voice and chides some decision or makes a warning. I wonder if it appeals to a certain age demographic and that’s why he does it? . Le sigh. I want to like his videos- the food looks so good!
@@kw1535 I definitely agree, every once in a while i forget what his videos are like and click one thinking they can't possibly be as cringeworthy and uncomfortable as i remember. I never make it more than a couple minutes.
He gets the fast food home and slams the bag on the table. How good is it going to look when he throws it around like garbage?
Maybe you should avoid all food videos based on your profile picture 🤣🤣
I agree
First video of yours I've seen and I love it. Also to the peeps in the comment section hating on Josh and his style, I see you and respect you
Sam is the casual cooking king!
Enjoyed the time watching this video 👍 appreciate that you included vegan recipe from saucestache!
Should've done the olive garden mcmuffin from mythical kitchen ;)
How long do you spend shooting videos like this? I appreciate all the work you put into your content, you’re one of my favorite channels ❤️
Thank you for including a vegan recipe 💚
Egg McMurphy! Love it!
I cant watch Joshua purely on that basis. I retreat back to you and Sam for the good vibes
Here’s a fact I refuse to call fun: All day breakfast DID end, because of the pandemic. Or at least, app support ended, however at least at my location you can still order breakfast items anytime. I’m sure there are many other locations that are just as lenient and compassionate.
Over here we never had all day breakfast. So it technically never ended because it was never a thing to begin with lmao
Joshua wiessman does do some questionably extreme steps but his point is that you can make food that's far better at home. You don't need processed foods for them to be tasty!
Okay ... admittingly I would like to see Tasting History on one of these vs. episodes mainly just to see how well some of these odd historical recipes hold up against modern recipes. Like his very recent apple pie episode vs a lot of modern apple pies.
Cooking youtuber: *cooks something*
David Seymour: I'll fuckin' do it again
15:05 was your yeast good? Also According to temp doesn't it take more or less time
I don’t even know how I haven’t seen this video yet.
6:40 I bet David ate that small piece of muffin
Josh used to be pretty overweight in large part to fast food. I think that's a big reason why he looks down on it a bit
Just when I was thinking when you would upload your next video
Well, it's not too surprising that Joshua Weissman wins a lot given how involved his recipes are.
Because he is a real chef with culinary background from a high rated restaurant while the other competitors are just experimental and knowledgeable cooks?
@@ziroh4122 i mean sam is also a chef
@@Pqndchannel Sam's a cook. He was a pharmaceutical executive who quit to start a travel tv show. 9/11 happened and shut all that down, so he switched to a cooking show.
@@ziroh4122 he is but he's making videos for people who aren't.
@@MilwaukeeWoman Um isn't that the reason itself why he makes videos? I would rather take lessons from professionals rather than random internet cooks who just reuse the exact same recipes over and over again. If you can't cook what he does then don't lol. It isn't his fault why some people can't keep up with him. There are already many youtuber cooks that are beginner-friendly like Babish, Adam Regusae or Tasty. No need a reason for him to be like one of them.
sam getting a win isn’t exactly fair when it’s a egg McMuffin with like 4 other toppings that don’t go on them. Adding extra stuff instead of what others did makes it not fair
Pls test Alvin's 100 hour tiramasu and I love u and u are amazing and u put soo much effort in the video
Josh of course :)....I"m excited!!!!
As a former McD employee (I'm not proud!) I know that the secret to the Egg McMuffin is that they break the yolk as soon as the white starts to set. You never get a runny yolk at Micky D's!
Can you tell me if there is any secret to these ? Every single Egg McMuffin I have ever got, I get the slight taste of nutmeg. I have even contacted McDonald’s and asked about it, and gotten nowhere. But it is always the first thing I taste ! But I always get the one with Canadian bacon, so it is not in the sausage. Am I the only person on the planet who tastes nutmeg ?
@@cyann410 Not sure. Could be the bacon is cured with nutmeg?
@@cyann410 do you usually get sausage? I feel like it might be in there somewhere
@@trash3570 I never got the sausage
What do you mean you’re not proud to have been a McD worker? Sure the chain strongly contributes to the crisis climate crisis but let’s not be classist.
Love the fact you included a vegan recipe! If you want to try vegan recipes that have a lot of flavor check out GAZ OAKLEY. His recipes remind me of Joshua’s with how involved they are! 🌱☺️
That was the most expensive recipe to make. The Just Egg is so expensive.
Thanks for including mark
Yessss excited for pumpkin spice month will probably be my third or fourth one
Before I watch, I’m calling Weismann
Edit: heck. Still looked amazing though!
“Just noticed the hair on there”
We love the _attention to detail._
Hey David can u try and make a pumpkin pie brownie recipe using the tasty brownie recipe??😁😁
I don’t even eat meat and sometimes I watch Joshua’s channel. He doesn’t bug me at all. I’ve tried to veg some of his recipes and once or twice, depending on what it is of course. I like SS recipe the best, but I am a fan of his channel and recipes 🙈. Homemade veganized muffins and mushroom sounds good though! I bet that would make the sandwich even better! 🌱
Please, do a "I tested everyones Pancakes"
That vegan sandwich looks like it slaps. And you gave me an idea for a meatless sausage. Thank you :)
Hairs lookin great btw my man
Damn those look wonderful. I agree with Sam winning that round. I do love the idea of the spicy Mayo instead of the teriyaki sauce
Have you already done McGriddles? B/c if not, you should put those one your list of things to do.
I thought Joshua would win, but Sam surprised me! His recipe seems easily doable though so I’ll definitely give it a try!
The thing is Joshua is so familiar with junk food and fast food and you can hear it when he makes comparisons, I mean you can tell when someone's just tried something for the first time in their life vs someone who knows it's flaws from eating it normally and that's why they chose to make a recipe for it. So yeah his "character" is to promote the idea we should all take the time out to cook but it's obvious that he is very familiar with all the normal foods everyone else eats--- it's very likely he grew up eating them too.
I don't think joshua acts like he's "too good for fast food" i feel that its just an act to make his videos entertaining. he mentions in almost all of his videos that he respect fast food for what it is but he can simply make it better. this side of his is emphasized in the In n out video
i love watching these while i eat
Need to start watching Brian Lagerstrom....top quality recipes and none of the pretentiousness..
11:27, David completely disrespects thyme and doesn't list it in the ingredients read out.
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or maybe he just didn't have the THYME for it. Lol
So funny😐
I saw that too!!
I see what you did there !
Up to the point you said it around 11:15, Joshua Weissman is has the 2nd greatest number of wins in your versus series (5), behind Bon Appétit's 6 wins.
You gotta do Tiramisu next because Alvin uploaded.