We all just giggled and snickered in his behalf for this entire episode. I have never heard so many people talk about how they handle, beat, squeeze and treat balls. Also…. I couldn’t stop laughing at the Canadian Dominatrix as a Canadian.
Josh's reaction to being told he was distractingly ugly when he eats pasta was hilarious. He was visibly self conscious after that. He looked like how it feels when you see someone looking at you while you are walking and you become super self conscious, hoping that you don't look like an idiot when you walk, so you completely forget how to walk on autopilot to places and you have to do it completely manually.
Josh is often disgusting when he eats. I wonder if someone called him on chewing with his mouth wide open. He stopped doing it awhile ago. Thank goodness, that was so painful and distracting.
The transformation of Lily’s personality from when she started at MK to now has been stunning. She’s been absolutely hilarious since they came back from break.
probably!!! its a thing i've noticed a lot of people with adhd do, they have a thing that they really like telling people (be it a fun fact, a story, an ideology, etc) and they forget who they have and haven't told about the thing, so they just tell everyone again
I guess but the thing is they usually break down what is happening scientifically or pretty close with each cooking method and explain the differences in taste, texture, etc. when trying then side by side. At that point I feel like you can take the information given while knowing what you're own personal tastes are to approximate which methods would best suit your palette. Doing a blind taste test might effect the results in the end but I'm also not sure how overall important it is, especially as others pointed out this is for entertainment and people going into this should understand what subjectivity is. Certainly a sample size of 2-4 people does not an experiment make. Even then we wouldn't discover the best meatball if everyone in an entire country participated in the experiment. All we would find out is the overall preferred meatball liked in that particular country. You could extend it to the world but even then I still don't think majority truly decides something as subjective as taste.
This is my favorite Mythical Kitchen format because it’s a beautiful blend of informative AND chaotic and everyone just looks like they’re having so much fun
Them going from "Do you think people think we hate each other?" To the entire last segment where the pure wholesomeness of Josh and Nicole's friendship just shines through is beautiful, love it
Same, and it brought me back to a TikTok that made me die by a girl who acted like God and an angel talking and the meatier/meteor exchange explained the dinosaurs extinction, I don't know if you have seen it
I found a pretty neat trick from my sister who is gluten-free - if you don’t have bread or crumbs for some reason but you do have oatmeal, grind some oats up as rough or fine as you like and substitute for the bread. Oat “flour” makes the meatballs almost indistinguishable from regular meatballs, or leave them mostly whole to give an interesting texture - I go for the oat flour myself. I still prefer bread crumbs, but have no problem using oats.
Yesss! I never seem to have any viable bread products in my house come meatball day, and im broke af, so oatmeal has been in more things than i dare tell my family about 😂. Great tip!
My great grandpa off the boat from Sicily taught my grandma to add breadcrumbs and milk to the mix and cook the meatballs in the sauce raw. The best way imo
This is always interesting and proof that there is no one way to cook anything from any country because my Sicilian family did the milk and bread thing, and seared the meatballs and finished it off in the sauce. We also added raisins!
14:08 Same concept when they make beef balls for pho or something like that... The beef gets the hell beaten out of it with wooden mallets and turned and beaten for like 30 minutes straight, and afterwards, you get a very dense, very springy, almost tough beef ball.
I wish you had tested the weird cooking competition thing I’ve seen lately where chefs just throw their meatballs in the deep fryer before putting them in the sauce
ngl... soup ice sounds revolutionary! also Nicole, Josh... it's not that we think you guys dont like each other, you just fight like a married couple thats been married for 10 years.
so, in my family, we use dry bread crumbs and cook in the sauce for hours. The dry bread crumbs will soak up moisture from the sauce (we say gravy) and that will add flavor to the meat ball and also thicken the sauce. Side note, sauce tastes better the next day sure... but if you freeze it in batches, the last batch to be used out of the freezer is THE best of all.
If you want moist, light meatballs, use parm/romano cheese. Adding breadcrumbs and egg just makes them small round meatloafs and makes them denser. The cheese still retains fluid in the meatballs, but it completely dissolves into the meat, and creating steam inside. Just like butter in a croissant.
Josh and Nicole are a lovely duo on camera. The improve ability between them and the natural flow of conversation as they work is so quick and seemingly effortless after all this time, not to mention hilarious. I loved watching them in this video! I would love to see more of them cooking together
For scientific value, they should've had 2 hands mixing each meatball mixture for the time limit. For entertainment value, what they did worked perfectly.
Also the 15 minute mix will help the meatball stand up in the sauce, becoming softer again once cooked for many many hours in the sauce...otherwise it just breaks down in the sauce...I also cook my sauces for around 8-12 hours, adding the meatballs maybe 3 hours before sauce being done, but sausage in the whole cook time...
We've always seared the meatballs then finished them in the sauce, simmering it for however long..hours... And never did a 15 minute mix. And unless the meatballs didn't have something to bind them together they held up fine
My grandmother did the same, but she would also put boneless pork ribs in at the beginning with the sausage, and over 8 hours they would dissolve into the sauce. Soooooo good.
At the 3:31 mark, I feel like it’s less messed up to split the grocery bill equally if Josh is typically the one cooking. Labor (and skilled labor at that) turns those plain groceries into delicious meals. It might not be an even trade, but it’s closer than it seems at first glance. But obviously having a conversation about it with his wife to be is the best way to settle this potential issue.
Soup ice kind of already exists. Where I'm from many people make their own tomato paste and freeze it in ice cube trays so they can add it a tablespoon or so at a time.
All of those were exactly how I learned to do meatballs from my Italian nonna. In her house, meatballs were tiny and served pretty much as an appetizer. They always came out first, right out of the frying pan and put in a plate in the middle of the table for everyone to snack on before the pasta was served.
Nicole backing up from a 4 inch flame is funny to me. The salamander at my job explodes and makes a big poof sound when you turn it on 😂 and we light it with a blowtorch so its double the fun. Hasnt burned anyone yet 😅
There is one variable missing here. When you bake a meatball until the outside looks right, then simmer it in the sauce for the whole second half of cooking, it absorbs more sauce and makes a saucy, meaty meatball. You get both flavors and it's pretty nice.
I started making my panade out of a combo of panko, grated and drained onion and a bit of milk (But for sure more onion than milk). Makes for a darned good meatball.
A Knight's Tale is an amazing movie. Well done Josh! And thanks for the Warpaint info! I wonder, do you know the one "failed" take that was kept in the movie? This is my favorite piece of A Knight's Tale trivia...
I make my turkey meatballs by pan searing in cast iron, making a tomato sauce from scratch and reduce it in the cast iron with the meatballs for 45 minutes; after the meatballs are seared on both sides. never can go wrong with this method
I got mine about a year ago on Amazon. I did leave the olive oil and the juices from the turkey meatballs in the cast iron tho so the tomato sauce had some lubricant against the cast iron.@@DizzyBusy
They tried filming this episode with Trevor but he giggled every time Josh said balls so they had to reshoot it
Confirmed.
Facts!
smosh had custody of Trevor during this episode bc of this lmaooo
oh i thought it was just the vicious custody battle with smosh
We all just giggled and snickered in his behalf for this entire episode.
I have never heard so many people talk about how they handle, beat, squeeze and treat balls.
Also…. I couldn’t stop laughing at the Canadian Dominatrix as a Canadian.
i love when you can just tell Josh regrets saying something as the words are leaving his mouth
I know that look, and I also know exactly how it feels, as it happens to me all the time ....
Josh's reaction to being told he was distractingly ugly when he eats pasta was hilarious. He was visibly self conscious after that. He looked like how it feels when you see someone looking at you while you are walking and you become super self conscious, hoping that you don't look like an idiot when you walk, so you completely forget how to walk on autopilot to places and you have to do it completely manually.
It was not wrong. That's for sure.
Josh is often disgusting when he eats. I wonder if someone called him on chewing with his mouth wide open. He stopped doing it awhile ago. Thank goodness, that was so painful and distracting.
Really? I thought it was cute. Like a cute idiot 😂
Omg the walking thing happened to me today 😅 it was horrible
@@kyqueennAwe 🥹🤣
The transformation of Lily’s personality from when she started at MK to now has been stunning. She’s been absolutely hilarious since they came back from break.
she is so lovable ❤❤
I love how her character went from happily rolling with the punches to slowly descending into madness and mildly violent tendencies
yup she was super shy originally
She’s cute, that helps.
I have such a crush on her especially now that she's let loose and unhinged haha
I don’t think Josh tells Nicole things over & over again bc he thinks she doesn’t remember, but bc josh actually doesn’t remember telling her 😭
probably!!! its a thing i've noticed a lot of people with adhd do, they have a thing that they really like telling people (be it a fun fact, a story, an ideology, etc) and they forget who they have and haven't told about the thing, so they just tell everyone again
@@lavenderstreakedI literally do this everyday lmao
Me jfnfnffb
@@lavenderstreaked this is literally me 😭
I kinda wish they did the tasting blind without knowing which is which just to eliminate unintentional biases
Don’t 90% of people watch this for entertainment rather than culinary advice? It really doesn’t matter, most of us just enjoy the banter.
@@Sniperboy5551i watch it for both tbh. i don't know how to cook so i learn from them, and the banter is a plus
and i wish they actually tested all combinations of the myths to get to the real answer
I guess but the thing is they usually break down what is happening scientifically or pretty close with each cooking method and explain the differences in taste, texture, etc. when trying then side by side. At that point I feel like you can take the information given while knowing what you're own personal tastes are to approximate which methods would best suit your palette. Doing a blind taste test might effect the results in the end but I'm also not sure how overall important it is, especially as others pointed out this is for entertainment and people going into this should understand what subjectivity is. Certainly a sample size of 2-4 people does not an experiment make. Even then we wouldn't discover the best meatball if everyone in an entire country participated in the experiment. All we would find out is the overall preferred meatball liked in that particular country. You could extend it to the world but even then I still don't think majority truly decides something as subjective as taste.
The synchronized looks of exhaustion the gals gave the camera after Josh's grocery bill comment rlly spoke to my soul
I love that they're really playing up the "Lilly's insane" bit.
This is my favorite Mythical Kitchen format because it’s a beautiful blend of informative AND chaotic and everyone just looks like they’re having so much fun
When Nicole said “you’re so ugly” I cry laughed for a solid 3 minutes
Knights Tale is one of my favorite movies of all time. Severely underappreciated
The ending is so epic!
I was excited when he quoted A Knights Tale! 😁
RIP Heath Ledger (William Thatcher in the movie). I don't think people talk about that role enough honestly
The extended edition has my favourite quote of all time and it's absolutely CRIMINAL that it gets cut from the original release
Pretty sure I watched this while tripping on acid. It's the jousting one?
Them going from "Do you think people think we hate each other?" To the entire last segment where the pure wholesomeness of Josh and Nicole's friendship just shines through is beautiful, love it
dude Nicole during the meatier/meteor bit had me ROLLING
Same, and it brought me back to a TikTok that made me die by a girl who acted like God and an angel talking and the meatier/meteor exchange explained the dinosaurs extinction, I don't know if you have seen it
Josh’s what? To the vibe question was hilarious
He captured exactly how I feel talking to my younger coworkers
he sounded so confused, I screamed
He honestly had no idea what she asked him.
11:00 "I'm the Canadian dominatrix?" If the studded denim jacket fits.
I love that the transition was Nicole angrily smashing a cheeto sandwich at the camera... way to play up the dommy mommy vibes.
I found a pretty neat trick from my sister who is gluten-free - if you don’t have bread or crumbs for some reason but you do have oatmeal, grind some oats up as rough or fine as you like and substitute for the bread. Oat “flour” makes the meatballs almost indistinguishable from regular meatballs, or leave them mostly whole to give an interesting texture - I go for the oat flour myself. I still prefer bread crumbs, but have no problem using oats.
Twice now Lily has gotten away with some cussing. I like it.
Oats for meatballs is a yes
Yesss! I never seem to have any viable bread products in my house come meatball day, and im broke af, so oatmeal has been in more things than i dare tell my family about 😂. Great tip!
@vincedibona4687 did you make a dumb comment and then make another dumb comment as a reply to your first dumb comment?
Yeah... you totally did 😐
@MayimHastings maybe you should try, I don't know... getting a JOB... to not be "broke af". Try being a responsible adult?
Nicole and Josh are just perfect silly besties
Love Myth Munchers!! I'd love to see a version where they test the options blind and find out what they prefer after they taste!
u should do a myth munchers calendar with all the drawings/collages josh shows at the beginning. i need that wisdom on my wall/fridge
warming up for HBO with OZ to watch the sopranos is like eating ghost peppers to prep for a spicy chicken sandwich from wendys
1:30 only Josh could get 3 women to chant “balls” after asking “who likes balls?” 😂😂😂
Listening to Lily tell her adoption story is giving me all the feels
The feels being cold fish in the morning
Josh and Nicole content!!! an iconic duo proving itself once more!!!!!
sacrifice a few balls for the sauce, break them up and cook, then add the other balls after done.
This guy's thinkin' with his noodle, here!
Sound like double meat and I’m here for it 💯
Yes. I will co-sign this take.
Another certified ball busting classic, thanks Josh.
As a Canadian, I wholeheartedly endorse Nicole's "Canadian Dominatrix" look.
As a citizen of the multiverse, every version of me endorses that look.
Loving the 70s Italian disco babe vibe! That jumpsuit is awesome!
"you're distractingly ugly" goes too hard
That was way too fn hard
Nicole is looking snatched in that denim jumpsuit!! gorg!
wtf are these adjectives
My great grandpa off the boat from Sicily taught my grandma to add breadcrumbs and milk to the mix and cook the meatballs in the sauce raw. The best way imo
This is always interesting and proof that there is no one way to cook anything from any country because my Sicilian family did the milk and bread thing, and seared the meatballs and finished it off in the sauce. We also added raisins!
I poach mine too.
Nicole was a blast on this episode!
WHERE ARE THE JORTS JOSH
Summertime is comin 😄
You can tell by Josh's hunger and Nicole Sass that this was a long day of shooting!
14:08 Same concept when they make beef balls for pho or something like that... The beef gets the hell beaten out of it with wooden mallets and turned and beaten for like 30 minutes straight, and afterwards, you get a very dense, very springy, almost tough beef ball.
The comradery is always a fun watch. Look forward to these when I need to unwind.
THAT JUMPSUIT 😍
Settle down. She’s married.
what does her being married have to do with her fit looking cute lol@@vincedibona4687
@@vincedibona4687So people just aren’t allowed to compliment how a married women looks?
YOU Settle Down 🤡
@@vincedibona4687So is Lily, but I’d still knock her ankles loose..🤷🏽♂️
@@vincedibona4687 settle down im a straight woman
I wish you had tested the weird cooking competition thing I’ve seen lately where chefs just throw their meatballs in the deep fryer before putting them in the sauce
ngl... soup ice sounds revolutionary!
also Nicole, Josh... it's not that we think you guys dont like each other, you just fight like a married couple thats been married for 10 years.
Nicole trying to keep up with Josh's ADHD demons is so cute, I love y'all, favorite channel ever!
Props to Nicole for putting up with Josh LMAOOO
Nicole was SO RIGHT when she said JD Samson of Le Tigre has a great mustache. I've been admiring it since I learned about Le Tigre in high school
lily slowly but surely turning into Josh..what a character development 🤣🤣🤣
Best meatballs I've ever made were smoked over pecan and cherry, then seared.
I just ate lunch, and now look what you have done.
is so funny how Lilly is chaotic until she's put on the spot and then changes to "ohh ummm .___." after she's asked to do an italian lil john
Meatier meteors are Nicole's métier
This is a great Nicole and Josh being friends episode
so, in my family, we use dry bread crumbs and cook in the sauce for hours. The dry bread crumbs will soak up moisture from the sauce (we say gravy) and that will add flavor to the meat ball and also thicken the sauce. Side note, sauce tastes better the next day sure... but if you freeze it in batches, the last batch to be used out of the freezer is THE best of all.
The apron string design is awesome!!
Awesome! Take Alex french guy cooking as a guest! He has a series on this
Josh's aggressive spaghett slurping sounds have deeply traumatized me
If you want moist, light meatballs, use parm/romano cheese. Adding breadcrumbs and egg just makes them small round meatloafs and makes them denser. The cheese still retains fluid in the meatballs, but it completely dissolves into the meat, and creating steam inside. Just like butter in a croissant.
I missed Josh and Nicole's dynamic on screen, this was so fun to see them back together again 🤣
Josh and Nicole are a lovely duo on camera. The improve ability between them and the natural flow of conversation as they work is so quick and seemingly effortless after all this time, not to mention hilarious. I loved watching them in this video! I would love to see more of them cooking together
this might be the single greatest idea for a video i've ever seen
not the meteor/meatier tiktok being brought to life 😂
OKAY SO THAT WAS WHAT IT WAS REFERENCING RIGHT
Nothing beats when my grandfather would mix the meat with his mechanic hands. No one could duplicate the flavor.
For scientific value, they should've had 2 hands mixing each meatball mixture for the time limit. For entertainment value, what they did worked perfectly.
Nicole is a gem
I love the work wife/husband dynamic with Josh and Nicole.
I used to sear but now use the air fryer as you get an even cook and good Maillard
I, too, have a convection oven.
“Too much heat”
“I’ll turn it down”
“Life’s too short to cook on medium” 😅😂🤔🤔
"you're so ugly when you're eating" is brutal
A proper matrix could be cool. 2 minute mix vs 5 vs 15, each seared/oven/raw, then each of those with the different in-sauce cook times.
Also the 15 minute mix will help the meatball stand up in the sauce, becoming softer again once cooked for many many hours in the sauce...otherwise it just breaks down in the sauce...I also cook my sauces for around 8-12 hours, adding the meatballs maybe 3 hours before sauce being done, but sausage in the whole cook time...
We've always seared the meatballs then finished them in the sauce, simmering it for however long..hours... And never did a 15 minute mix. And unless the meatballs didn't have something to bind them together they held up fine
My grandmother did the same, but she would also put boneless pork ribs in at the beginning with the sausage, and over 8 hours they would dissolve into the sauce. Soooooo good.
nothing like a tall glass of sodie pop with a few cubes of clam chowda on a hot summers day
Adding into the family at Thanksgiving, Lily is the aunt who has a very specific sense of humor that honestly terrifies the rest of the family
At the 3:31 mark, I feel like it’s less messed up to split the grocery bill equally if Josh is typically the one cooking.
Labor (and skilled labor at that) turns those plain groceries into delicious meals. It might not be an even trade, but it’s closer than it seems at first glance.
But obviously having a conversation about it with his wife to be is the best way to settle this potential issue.
I usually just throw them in raw for 90 minutes but I also sear a pan full and throw those in part way through.
Lilly rocking the stash is hilarious 😂
No Trevor I’m sad
Mids
Please get rid of Nicole and bring back Trevor!!!!!
it's OK he took the divorce pretty hard and he's happier no
Nicole J Leno wants his clothes back
Trev is now over on smosh unfortunately
Josh's movie references were top notch today. "You look like Katinka from Dodge Ball" 😆 🤣
Oh my god. Its true. Even during the myosin part, in the background he yells "SAY IT!" just like Harvey dent in the dark knight!
Love the energy between Josh and Nicole, thr sibling rivalry energy reminds me of home
Soup ice kind of already exists. Where I'm from many people make their own tomato paste and freeze it in ice cube trays so they can add it a tablespoon or so at a time.
All of those were exactly how I learned to do meatballs from my Italian nonna. In her house, meatballs were tiny and served pretty much as an appetizer. They always came out first, right out of the frying pan and put in a plate in the middle of the table for everyone to snack on before the pasta was served.
“Has…has he follow his feet? Has he found his way home at last?”
I respect how Lily got herself a free Ben and Jerry's pint for filming the intro
Nicole backing up from a 4 inch flame is funny to me. The salamander at my job explodes and makes a big poof sound when you turn it on 😂 and we light it with a blowtorch so its double the fun. Hasnt burned anyone yet 😅
The way they lean in to speak into the whisk ‘mic’ always cracks me up 😂
Nicole in that denim got me like WOAH.
THANK YOU for getting rid of the old crunch noises! They were rough on the ol' misophonia, and these new cuts are MUCH better on the ears.
I love how this channel has gradually become more TV 14
When I was little, my grandma would add salsa to her spaghetti sauce, and now I can't live without salsa in my sauce. It's delicious.
Trevor’s absence is appreciated.
I’ve watched this episode probably five times now. You guys make me happy thank you so much.
I’ve watched this five times, but not in a row, but I revisit
I love the fun chaos. Better than the loud chaos. Loved this one.
There is one variable missing here. When you bake a meatball until the outside looks right, then simmer it in the sauce for the whole second half of cooking, it absorbs more sauce and makes a saucy, meaty meatball. You get both flavors and it's pretty nice.
I started making my panade out of a combo of panko, grated and drained onion and a bit of milk (But for sure more onion than milk). Makes for a darned good meatball.
I love Josh and Nicole's chemistry!! This episode was hilarious 😂
A Knight's Tale is an amazing movie. Well done Josh! And thanks for the Warpaint info!
I wonder, do you know the one "failed" take that was kept in the movie? This is my favorite piece of A Knight's Tale trivia...
This episode is distinctly *more* unhinged than normal
The "meatier meteor" conversation was perfect 😂
8:22 idk why Josh's "what" made me laugh more than it should
I make my turkey meatballs by pan searing in cast iron, making a tomato sauce from scratch and reduce it in the cast iron with the meatballs for 45 minutes; after the meatballs are seared on both sides. never can go wrong with this method
How old and seasoned is your cast iron? Mine is defo not yet seasoned enough to use for tomato sauce 😂
I got mine about a year ago on Amazon. I did leave the olive oil and the juices from the turkey meatballs in the cast iron tho so the tomato sauce had some lubricant against the cast iron.@@DizzyBusy
Nicole with the Miss Teen North Carolina 2007 reference!
I think the 90 minute soak might be better for meatball subs, im gonna think about this!
Josh’s portion of the opening is great.
My favorite part of these is when one of Josh's jokes causes him to break like at 26:51
Is the Black Flack Hot Dog t-shirt Vi is wearing a mythical kitchen original or where else can I buy it? I need one already
My grandfather uses bread soaked in warm milk (and onions) for meatloaf, but breadcrumbs for meatballs. I find this interesting.
“I lie to them enough I don’t wanna lie to them more” 😂😂😂 I died