[Music] I got 200 pounds of dried salt beef enough fresh water to last one year in a bunker that could withstand a one kiloton nuclear blast Josh this podcast is about meal prepping not doomsday prepping oh man I gotta return some gently used body armor now this is a hot dog as a sandwich ketchup is a smoothie yeah I put ice in my cereal so what that makes no sense hot dog is a sandwich a hot dog is a sandwich Welcome to our podcast a hot dog is a sandwich to the show we break down the world’s biggest food debates I’m your host Josh air and I’m your host Nicole and I and today we are talking about doomsday prepping Nicole I didn’t have time to rewrite it just freaking give me a chance here we’re talking about doomsday prepping we are talking about the ethics of eating your fellow man in the event of a zombie apocalypse Nicole what do you think uh no I don’t want to talk about that but did you know that David told me one of the reasons why he married me is because he believes that I could be able to withstand a zombie apocalypse like it’s one of his favorite reasons I don’t know I just look the part act the part I don’t know you asked the part in the sense that you are like the underdog in the movie that nobody expects to survive see that’s that’s your problem what do you mean you think no but you’re okay I have a very unique set of skills I know how to sew and cook do you notice so I know how to well a button a button and a hole in my jeans no hear me out in the movie you’re literally like Nichols from Beverly Hills we tried to ask you what your hobbies were the other day and you’re like getting my nails done getting a massage ooh getting pedicures like Nicole those are our Hobbies those are personal care services that you pay for I’m working on it I know but I’m saying you’re not like the stereotypical gonna survive the apocalypse that’s why I don’t look like Rick Grimes are you trying to tell me that I’m not like Rick Grahams no literally I’m not kidding uh today we are talking about meal prepping yeah whether or not it’s a scam and people get sucked into it like a cult okay well I mean I don’t really know maybe it is maybe I’m coming into this with a spiritual backing like the idea like the idea of meal prepping so attractive so easy you just do a Sunday you just do your Sunday you cook a bunch of rice and you cook a bunch of meat in a crock pot and then you Dole out your veggies and then you maybe have like one little side side thing for each one so it’s a little bit different but in reality like my life is not set up like that I cannot meal prep to save my I’ve tried it many times in different iterations throughout my life I’ve tried it for for a month I’ve tried it for a week I’ve tried it for even a few days to be honest I need Variety in my in my diet so I feel something and like cook actively I like to cook every day I get that I do too I it all depends what you mean by meal prepping right yeah because like when we when I think of meal prepping one I follow got so many like gym bodybuilders I have two before yeah and you just unfollow them all no I still like fall off I don’t know I still like have them on like my my feet but I don’t like uh absorb it yeah like I mean it’s still on my feet though their version of meal prepping is like you cook you weigh out the chicken breast you’re weighing out exactly eight ounces of chicken breast per portion and then you’re measuring out a cup of rice you weigh it all in the food scale you put it in their very specific meal prep containers they’re the black plastic ones with the white clear cover with the white clear no clear is clear yeah those but like everybody knows those are the meal prep that you could just use a tupperware but it’s like are they throwing them out after a first use I don’t hope not I wash all of mine oh same here and you put anything red in there and they’re just stained for forever and that’s fine because that is a price you pay but that type of meal prepping is to me unless you’re living the Aesthetics lifestyle and that is your whole goal and I know people who do that and that’s rad and I know people for whom food isn’t that sort of pleasure Joy yeah yeah they don’t they don’t get food out they don’t get joy out of that variety then that’s Super Rad but for like most people food for those who say like food is just fuel for the body it’s like okay that would be nice if that were the case but you can’t neglect like literally thousands upon thousands of years of human history and evolution and culture and ritual and the fact that like people have been playing with their food and new flavors for literally forever you’re right right but is there a way to marry those two things you know I’ve tried it with like truncated meal prepping so like for example and a great example of meal prepping is like making a big pot of like I don’t know pulled chicken yeah yeah is that like like in your incident no I know what you mean yeah you know what I mean and you recycle that chicken for like one day you have tacos one day you have a casserole uh you put put in a salad you know what I mean yes that does not work for my household well that’s the current time in my life the way that I like to operate in my household with my partner is like I just cook I’m the cook of the house and that’s fine I mean he makes butter toast in the mornings for me which is very nice oh David sweetie yeah that’s very nice but um when I come home from work I’m cooking and I’m cooking meals that are normally an hour and a half to two and a half hours of of actual like prep slash cooking but you’re doing that every night hour and a half to two hours I would I do it you could be driving Uber man you could be making money my car’s too dirty but honestly I mean it just it just kind of centers me and I enjoy the act of like uh like opening uncooking rice from scratch I used to use frozen rice but now I cook my rice from scratch we use a minute rice or rice rice no I’m using rice rice like I make my own rice from scratch now um even though I don’t necessarily have all the time in the world I do take that time to make my own rice I do take that time to cook my own chicken breasts to defrost whatever I have to defrost for the next day so yeah yeah I I know I’m kind of an outlier in that for meal prepping but like like have you ever had salmon that’s five days old in the fridge oh boy is that good well no that’s why I asked if you can marry the two because I I’ve been sucked into I thought that I could live my utopian lifestyle dream of like I don’t count my macros like you know uh macros are protein fat carbohydrate that’s how a lot of gym type people do it I tried once I was like I’m gonna give this a solid month and I’m going you remember do you remember this I remember you went vegan for a month I don’t remember the counting geography you just eat tacos every day oh when I was vegan yeah oh yeah you got vegan tortillas that are made with a vegetable lard man you can roast any type of vegetable put in there it’s great um but no I tried actually meal prep again every day I would come into work with like my little black plastic container yeah yeah I even bought those stupid containers because I was like this is gonna manifest it for me yeah and Julie and I every Sunday we would go out shopping I would plan the meals we literally we had a scale and we’d measure ingredients we did that too but what I tried to do because people who do the broccoli rice chicken thing that’s very easy you put chicken on a sheet pan if you don’t care about what it tastes like you season up some thawny sasharies something tastes a little bit good you’ll have a like calorie free sauce mustard soy sauce mustard which is Nick scarvelis man I watched you just putting mustard on white rice and eat it while we’re watching an XFL game in the stands that was weird brother yeah mustard hot sauce and lemon juice is like the secret sauce for a lot of people yeah but I tried to like make really complex dishes so I’d make like Korean short rib stew and so every Sunday was literally Julia with a spreadsheet and me like barking out ingredients like it needs an extra quarter teaspoon of sesame oil and she’s like that’s nine calories I gotta divide it by five I swear it was soul sucking man yeah yeah but like if you have a goal and it’ll help you reach your goals if that’s less time dedicated in the kitchen if that’s spending less money by going out to eat if it’s you know for health purposes I if you can do it kudos to you do I think it’s a scam maybe I don’t know I I think this scam is defined by the self-delusion right because anything new right like because anything Works uh skincare routines those all probably work if you do it every single day you know uh I mean cardio based programs you have detox juice cleanse what are those things I mean are detox is like real no but like if people you know if you drink juice every day instead of eating the you know Burger bacon egg and cheese sandwich for breakfast yeah you’re probably gonna notice some differences yeah but the things that don’t allow for wiggle room like that’s where you start to get in weird yeah yeah when people are like oh I’m gonna do this five days a week every single day get to that yeah man that fifth portion of salmon on Friday they’re just like gag like you open it and you get you know what I mean yeah you open it and you get and then you create like a pretty negative response to the food and you start to resent it and so I can never go back to that but like you were saying if you’re you’re trying to like go out to dinner less or something but say you have five meals prepped and then somebody invites you out to dinner then what do you do and then you’re like what and then you go out to dinner and then you get the meal prep and then you’re like well you know Saturday I have like you know family thing and then you’re at Sunday and you’re like I made this literally seven days ago and like the the fumes have started to like bloat the lid and you’re like but I’m I’m just gonna chance it and eat it because I don’t want to waste the food God dang it and then yeah and then you wonder if you have botulism I’ve been there yeah it’s not a fun place to be but what about what about so there’s a lot of people talk what is it Michael pollen did like vegan before five or something is that like a book blog thing yeah he’s one of those book blonde guys smart people with the words you know no but you wrote he wrote uh yeah a popular diet did he coin the term oh it’s Mark Bittman Mark Batman to the vegan before five thing but like the whole idea of like reducitarianism as opposed to like veganism okay would not eating any animal products probably be good for the world like sure I mean there’s a lot of different things generative Agriculture and yada yada but like you know net net that’s probably gonna be a good thing but are people ever going to do that no so if you tell someone you got to go vegan or you’re a piece of crap they’re gonna like a little suck on this I’m gonna eat 16 hot dogs now to spite you but if you go like hey you can do things to reduce your amount of meat consumption sure you know meatless Mondays are a thing on college campuses I do meatless Mondays yeah no I eat like two pounds of animal flesh a day but damn it I forgot a chicken but I hate if it was a chicken salad like I try to I understand this this concept and I try to impart parts of these things in my life but I think it’s the the the mundane and the exhausting and you’re opening the same lid and it makes the same noise but what if there’s like a flexitarian version of that because like is there the reason we’re y’all I’m addressing the audience right now this is called a soliloquy breaking the fourth wall yes Hamlet Hamlet baby give me a skull no I mean the reason I want to talk about this is because I don’t know people out there probably looking for actual cooking tips sure cooking is a skill that people are using less and less like data supports that yeah people enjoy cooking less and less people are working longer hours more jobs more stress more convenience foods are out there but also food waste is that an all-time high so I think like giving people practical cooking tips probably a good thing yeah you know and so I’m a big fan I’ve started doing like this flexible meal prep situation okay we’re all meal prep like three to four meals per week per business week per five day week period yes okay and then weekends are at the window I might go to the farmer’s market weekends or grab a breakfast burrito um but I’ll do like three to four meals and I’ll like do what you were talking about earlier where you take chicken thighs and you one I just I’ve just been roasting a lot of chicken thighs I love roses but I’ll put on like a neutral spice base and I’ll generally marinate it because marinating chicken is just a good thing and I’ll put on like a neutral spice base I’ll roast them off and then I’ll keep them in the fridge and then I’ll be like all right now I have a building block I create like building blocks right yeah that’s how it should be yeah yeah but why don’t you do that why don’t you think that works I just I like variety David variety but you don’t think you can have like an infinite amount of variety and like you have to understand the houses that we came from like we’re from two moms that were home all day and they cooked and they cooked well yeah yeah and every day was a new food it was it just was yeah so you’re like you’re trying to like recapture that area too I try to recapture some of it but also I’m a realist and I I work I leave the house at seven I come home at seven yeah yeah so you know there’s there’s there’s moments where it’s like hey man I’m just gonna you know defrost this really quick or yeah hey man just go get sweet green before you come home or there’s like situation or like hey is your mom making dinner like there’s there’s that too but but I don’t think putting the label scam on it is is appropriate yeah because meal prepping isn’t a scam it’s a tool no I generally agree with that and I think like if you don’t I’m gonna call it capital m capital P Meal prepping right which is five days a week making the same hardcore yeah yeah also I am the person who put out a video about my uh egg bars where I bake like polarizing 30 eggs those were some polarizing eggs nobody saw this video here’s my breakfast meal prep I don’t do it anymore because now I just eat protein bars and I’ll drink pre-workout uh I just gotta walked out in the morning uh but sometimes I’ll take like two dozen eggs and I’ll whisk it up with like a little bit of cheese I’ll cook some mushrooms spinach tomato onion some turkey breakfast sausage nice and healthy and flavorful mix that in put it in a 9×13 baking dish with some parchment on the bottom bake it until it’s cooked flip it over and cut it into bars and then wrap it in foil and then you got a perfectly portable Egg Bar who doesn’t love Egg Bar and then after day four they get a weird gray on them close your eyes when you eat it if you don’t like the weird gray ring around your eyes closing my eyes while I eat just kidding nobody does um well yeah also uh speaking of um having tips just go to the dollar store and buy the buy the meal prepping containers from the dollar store oh yeah like do not buy the expensive ones that are fifteen dollars per 15. you don’t need them buy the one dollar packs from the dollar store I cannot emphasize that enough that’s one very important thing about meal prepping [Music] hey hey hot Doggers midterm elections are coming up on November 8th and a lot of you across the US will be voting on some pretty crucial spots in Congress and special elections so vote like a beast is here to help go check out vote likeabeast.com to check your voting status register if you need to and stay informed for the midterm elections vote like a beast.com also has stickers for sale with 100 of our profits going directly to our partners at vote.org be your mythical best by supporting a great non-profit that helps all Americans exercise their right to vote [Music] what do you think you seem pretty disconnected from the needs of the people Nicole but yep if you at least I’m entertaining when I do it no but if you were to give people at home right now like the most practical cooking tip to improve their lives what would it be my issue is that I’m not big on practicality no I feel that I like to just like push myself to the for this possible limit and then just kind of like collapse I know but like certainly you can you because I I generally agree with that like when people are like how do you cook an easy weeknight meal and it’s like well well I can do that and I do sometimes but also I’m a person who like I have this three hour recipe that I’m gonna come home and start at 7 pm and we’re gonna eat at 10 because it’s something I really wanted to make yeah to try yeah you know I don’t do that anymore I kind of truncate it to about an hour and 15 minutes at this point that’s sad um uh I mean I always see I’m just I’m just not a practical person I I got you don’t understand how much could a banana cost Michael ten dollars I’m not I’m not talking from a place of privilege I’m talking from a place of if I don’t cut a vegetable today I won’t feel like I did a good job yeah so I don’t buy pre-cut veggies I don’t buy my like for example like some people buy here here’s one you want to eat carrots use baby carrots baby carrots are just is that a good one baby carrots are the same as regular carrots they’re just whittled down and the outside tough layer is removed so you’re welcome damn don’t they like uh there was something about and they’re like these play they spray bleach on them or something I’m down whatever no I don’t care yeah I don’t care about that like like my I buy my celery hole with the leaves on it I buy my my bell peppers I buy those fresh and I remove the seeds and do all the things like yeah I don’t do a lot of I get hold on this I thought this could this podcast is going to be about like giving practical cooking tips to people but no that’s it now this is trying to give practical cooking tips to ourselves because yeah because I don’t buy any pre-cut vegetables I don’t buy I have garlic but like I’m I mean chopping so much fresh garlic so much and it’s killing me Nicole it’s killing me I could be uh communing with my fiance not like that well I mean I guess yeah in the amount of time that I chop a bunch of garlic yeah you know a little you know yeah you know shower it’s like a weeknight weeknight you know you’re both just you got stuff to do um wait I’m sorry what I’m saying the opportunity cost of us like chopping our own vegetables I don’t like I don’t buy pre-made sauces because I feel like a frog I buy pre-made sauce like I I will but like Mongolian Barbecue simmer sauce it’s very good no I will literally get just like ginger garlic uh sugar soy make my own cornstarch slurry I’m I am and I’m I’m going to the gym in the morning I’m generally going to gym at night we’re eating at like 9 00 p.m miserable what’s going on how do we stop this I don’t know do we like should we just [ ] meal prep is this I think I think what we have to do is have a meal prep service sponsor a podcast myself too we gotta get one of these like cool like uh I don’t know like Margo fit whatever yeah yeah I don’t even know what Mark you’re talking about one like the gym ones one of the gym ones the gym rat ones yeah gym rat ones and they deliver it to your door sometimes I actually worked in a commissary kitchen and I shared my space with those gym rat sweet potatoes sweet potato eating mofos that put like a garnish of kale and maybe like two like red pepper flakes and they’re like okay so like I understand those people and I think we should just give them a chance Josh let them cook for us but I feel like the sodium levels they’re gonna be too high it’s okay wait hold on me and Julie got in a discussion because she was like I I just fill a salt well it’s giant it’s like a 16 ounce salt well and it’s done in less than a month and I’m like that’s a lot of salt to put in things and I told Julia that and she was like yeah well it’s still not nearly as much salt as like restaurant food or prepared food and I was like and I was like no it is we cook like restaurants yes and that’s our problem correct it is so hard to cook conservatively I’ll say yeah when you know that the recipe would be better with so much salt so much butter so much X Y and Z it’s really hard I was making uh chili to impress Julia’s boss shout out Billow Dad hey Bill we love you dolphin entertainment I’ve heard so much about you yeah what’s his favorite food is chili and Julia was like nice and literally he used to work with Rachel Ray and like my favorite meat is hot dog sorry go ahead continue he used to work with Rachel Ray and he was like Rachel Ray’s Chili’s the best I’ve ever had let’s see if you can beat it kind of thing and I cooked for his birthday and so I was like I gotta really crush this chili and so literally I I made the base I toasted the chilies I ground them in powder I sauteed that in the beef fat to sweat it down and aromatize it yada yada did all this stuff yeah yeah uh and then you know we had the basement build I was happy with the consistency and it was like all right now now’s where you make the money this is seasoning time oh yeah and so I already you know you got to add salt early but this is like final seasoning so I’m like adding salt add a couple drops of vinegar stir it taste it salt vinegar okay this can be countered by a little bit of like sugar you know I know I know and you’re tasting it constantly you’re refreshing your palette but people don’t cook that way they do not especially in the week is you shouldn’t they crack their everything seasoning that they got from Kirkland they crack it over their vegetables three times and they call it a day well that’s I mean I can’t do that I can’t do that on weeknight meals I do that because I I work out so much yeah there are days where I’ll like get ahead of myself and I’ll think I want to cook something ambitious yeah but like the the meal that I eat the most is like I take chicken thighs and I literally just dust them in Tony satteries and I let them sit for two this is seriously this is how the Tony sasheries bit became a thing on the show is because like I live it’s real yeah I live for an entire year without salt and pepper and just Tony sasheries that’s why excuse me use that weird time in my life but oh yeah I will dust uh chicken and Tony sacheries and then I will take like broccoli and I will just cut it up roast it with some olive oil uh Tony sacharies on it and then I will stir together yogurt and hot sauce and I dip it all in that yeah but surely there’s got to be something more noble more dignified when people ask me what my signature dishes I truly don’t have one like you know how like doing Bachelorette like things are they like David what’s the best meal Nicole’s ever cooked for you and he’s like I don’t have an answer wait you don’t have I don’t have like a signal no what do you think he would say he said like gochujang chicken I made it like three times but like so what why are you no no no no not so what not so wet why are you writing yourself off because he because like I don’t cook one thing more than like three times really I don’t you don’t have like any go-to’s I don’t like to cook that way interesting I like to cook new things all the time to keep myself interested in it yeah because I do it for a job right so it’s my job to counterbalance that in a weird way by continuing to create in the privacy of my own home yeah yeah and like sometimes I get some hits sometimes I get some misses I get a lot of hits I get lots of hits but see that’s another thing like I can’t meal prep it doesn’t work for my my situation yeah it just doesn’t it doesn’t it doesn’t do it’s it doesn’t meet its purpose for for me or my family yeah that makes any sense no that’s interesting yeah I’ve never made something like three times like I’ve made a green curry twice I made gochujang chicken three times I’ve made um meatballs twice yeah I screwed up turkey meatballs but then I made meatballs out of like beef and they were fine I also like you know being kosher in the kitchen very challenging but it’s fun it’s a nice little it’s a nice little test yeah to see how I can do also all the food is all too salty oh yeah cause you gotta salt the meats gotta salt the meats so yeah but I don’t know I mean maybe maybe this podcast is teaching me that I don’t need to put all my energy into cooking something new every day it’s okay if you eat chicken that was made three days ago maybe it’s okay I think I thought of a practical cooking tip what’s up Josh is it because this is now just us trying to psychoanalyze each other and make us feel okay about the way that we live our lives which is great and we love it we’re very happy I don’t mind uh but okay so uh we try and eat healthy we try and not cook red meat in the house just because it’s like well we eat a lot of we ate a whole lamb Wellington that turns out was meant for four people at a restaurant on Saturday and we just crushed it afterwards that’s nice so we live like that during the weekend and you know we kind of have some little carbon offsets in the weekday and so I eat a lot of ground turkey so I’ll get a few pound tub of ground turkey uh which is actually kind of expensive it’s like 5.99 a pound when you can buy chickens all food is expensive these days yeah uh and I make a ton of Meatballs of them but because I’ve probably made Julia meatballs I mean maybe probably 30 35 times no way three years dude that’s 100 days that’s like what three percent of days we’re eating meatballs yeah that’s a pretty good estimate I love meatballs we love meatballs we Bond over them but but but almost every culture has a has a meatball right yeah sure yeah everyone you got you got freaking Dell you got shots you got sukune you got uh from Italy like there’s just so many different kinds of Meatballs so I’ll take the three pounds of ground turkey and if I’m bored of Meatballs you know if I’m bored of Italian meatballs with like garlic chili flake basil all that then it’s like cool let’s add some Thai flavors here let’s grate some ginger in there um you know let’s I don’t know add add like soy fish sauce sugar uh Thai Basil stuff like that and so like if you view cooking like algebra but like hey here are component parts and then you can add variables you know that’s what I’ve done to keep our marriage fresh you’re not married yet I know one day one day we’ll get that ring Josh do you think people that meal prep are happier than people that don’t meal prep because this podcast is all about finding happiness right that’s a good question well okay here’s the thing what’s that when you analyze data I was talking about this recently with um like people who go to college make more money right but that’s not necessarily because like oh they got smarter or even they’re more qualified to me the confounding variable is they probably grew up with money my compounding variable with going to college is you just make connections that too but I think a lot of this stuff can be like conflated with the variable of like if you grew up with money you’re more likely to get an education sure yeah and you’re more likely to make money if you grew up with money like that’s the thing it’s like you are more likely to have fewer cavities if you went to college it’s like well yeah it’s because you generally got money and you probably grew up going to the dentist and know how to do that and all that so people who meal prep are they happier I think maybe if you have the capacity every Sunday to kill an entire day to meal prep you are probably happier than other people because you have that much sort of free time not to say everybody who meal perhaps is like swimming in free time I know there’s people that hustle and grind for it but what if Josh the people who are not spending their Sundays cooking at home like pounds of stuff they’re out I don’t know in the sunshine could be doing that read in a book could be doing toes dipping in the water of the ocean we don’t know these people but this the fact is that data point exists are they happier than not I think they are I think meal prep people are happier than non-meal prep people is it because they are comfortable living their lives a week at a time and like just planning ahead for the future I think so and I think ultimately does that lead to longer term happiness get out of here no like no I could never like but like I bet they feel a sense of accomplishment that is significantly different than me waking up just like blind at 5 45 every morning like scrambling to feed my cat and dump pre-workout into a mug and hop in my car to you know Drive 25 miles at work I feel like they probably get a sense of daily joy out of that that we I think make up for in creating say a new dish at 8 30 pm on Wednesday even though it’s late you know we made it we made lobster soup dumplings that’s no that’s not a weekday that’s no weekday that’s a week it’s lobster soup dumplings dude I made like a lobster scampi xiaolong Bao wow it was pretty rad so I was like why can’t you take other flavors and put them in a soup dumpling David and I made chicken wings because it was football Sunday oh that’s rad it was nice that’s fun he he helped and it was nice yeah yeah well I have asked here’s the point and the podcast where I thought crap on my fiance who I love more than that you’re not talking smack if she offers to cook for for me if I’m really running late at work or gym or something if she offers to cook for me because we do the you cook I clean nice yeah I I like I like ask her hey don’t just go get food yeah cause like I don’t want to clean up after years because not because I’m like oh I don’t think I should clean up but because when she it’s a war zone and I like it I don’t I’ve tried to watch it happen yeah I’ve tried to watch like how does the rice get on the floor like how are the onion like there’s just like an entire onion in the garbage disposal and it’s clogged have the hole and you get it’s not even peeled they’re just rolled yeah just rolled and there’s I mean broccoli if she cuts broccoli it’s like it explodes like she threw it against the wall so but you know and I don’t know and I and I love her very much and I love the fact that she wants to hear from me through food but then you know there’s 19 pans dirty and I’m like well you didn’t like that pan you put the why is there fish residue on four pans you only need one pan to cook fish what happened and so that’s one of the zenku chicken time baby family meal deal for like 26 bucks so Josh answer the question is meal prepping a scam all in all no if you are somebody who can do it and who is satisfied with your life Etc I think there’s a flexible way to do it to build component parts cook some rice cook some chicken but then have a bunch of fun sauces on hand vegetables um but for being honest my plan tonight because I’m so drained from everything I am literally going to zenku chicken and I am getting three family meals and I am putting them all in my fridge so that way I get the homos I get the muta ball I get the the tabbouleh and I get three chickens and I’m good my mother-in-law’s dropping off Cabo at 7 30. oh I’m coming over [Music] foreign [Music] to find out what other wacky it is are rattling out there in the world it’s time for Segment we call oh [Music] what the hell was that it was different it was different but to what end opinion Joy like that it let the court stenographer Nicole is cupping her hands around her mouth and kind of rocking forward to create a Doppler effect on the microphone and again for what payoff yes Nicole has lost it she needs a one of those mental Wellness checkups or like somebody you know about those uh you’re over the mom yeah yeah I got I got it we’ll cut that out all right that James D stot I just want to ask why everyone thinks pilk is stupid and gross but they definitely Nosh on a root beer float good use of Nosh it’s basically the same grow up people okay I believe Nosh means to eat yeah yeah I get it washing is eating so not a good use of Nosh no but I still think it’s kind of poetic in a way like they need Nosh on it okay because the root beer float has the sugar and the in the ice cream yeah I I want I want to believe in what James is saying but that’s like when I say out of pocket stuff like mayonnaise is basically just pudding and it’s like well there’s some key yeah differences that make it very different yes and use for different things correct so milk and ice cream this is about ice cream being assault like 65 milk you know what I mean I can see why people but I agree with him that um the outrage is disproportionate to the product sure right I guess because he’s right that it’s close enough melted ice cream and root beer well I prefer Coke floats as it is melted ice cream and soda pop it’s CL it is close enough to milk and soda pop to where people shouldn’t be outraged they can go hey I don’t think that’d be good but for people like this is the grossest thing in the world and listen we’re reaping the benefits of The Tick Tock views follow us on Tick Tock We crave your approval all right Okay let’s listen to one of our beautiful messages I’m Nicole I’m a doctoral candidate hi Nicole my name psychology and I love how much you guys talk about therapy and mental health look it up um also what is your opinion on uh like hello fresh and food subscription boxes I know you guys are sponsored by them at one point um I think that they help uh cultivate people to be more creative in their cooking and more advantageous but my mom says it’s making the Next Generation lazy however our generation is entirely lazy so anyway love you guys bye first of all love a fellow Nicole love a smart Nicole look at you doctoral candidate for you as a doctor for doctors they’re on the ballot I had both of them um uh also I didn’t realize you’re talking about mental health and therapy that much that’s cool that we do we do yeah go get Mental Health go get gold therapy it should not be uh blacklisted is that what it is Blacklist maybe it should not be taboo more people need to go to therapy and just just talk talk to you don’t just need to go to therapy if you think something’s wrong you know you just try it out I’ve never done it but I’m trying I did it I’m trying to make appointments I did it and I it helped me tremendously I thought I made an appointment but I messed up on the intake forms and then they canceled it I graduated from therapy I’m figuring out uh and anyway meal prep meal prep kids um do I think they’re they make Americans lazy like people lazy if we did not need any help getting lazy on our own um I think I think meal prep kits are useful very very very very they’re useful yeah again if food and you chopping the onion and you making the stock is not important to you go ahead also like meal prep options they have they have like options where it’s like do you want to do more cooking do you want to do less chopping like meal perhaps do that now which is actually very helpful too so yeah the most important thing that meal preps did for people those little meal kits is that they showed them what foods exist that’s true so like for instance um people who go to the gym a lot of people get tripped up because they literally don’t know what lifts to perform that is so true I’ve been cooking since I was six I’ve been lifting since I was 13. I could tell you 19 different bicep curl variations I could tell you 19 different South American stews that you could make most people put their efforts and times into things that are less myopic you know what I mean so people are like I don’t know what to make for dinner I don’t have that creativity you get like a hellofresh you get any of these other meal kits that’s like lemon herb chicken with orzo and people like holy smokes I didn’t know about orzo yeah I don’t know but um you know and like you toss the dried or the the fresh chopped herbs with the orzo and that brightens it up people wouldn’t know that technique if not for that but the funny thing is is that the utility of meal kits is what makes it a like an interesting business model totally because I know so many people that have signed up for a meal kit and they’re like dude I now have nine different dishes in my repertoire that I know how to cook that’s awesome which is and then they will be like well now I can go to the store and I can make that myself wow so it’s literally like a public service that does not benefit the business model in a way that’s really cool so I don’t think it’s making Americans lazy at all I think it’s the opposite if you want to be lazy I mean their fast food is on every single corner and again not saying anything not using lazy in a judgmental way like cooking is hard life is hard you got things to deal with I’ll go get a McChicken on the way home sometimes um but uh yeah yeah I mean these meal kits they have really taught a generation how to cook in a way that so many things have failed to do that yeah ain’t nobody got time to make a chicken pot pie from scratch oh I’m watching pot pie it’s cold weather it’s Popeye season almost okay not underscore that Michael says don’t knock it till you’ve tried it a drizzle of caramel sauce is the best topping for a Jack’s Frozen Supreme Pizza okay I don’t know what a Jack’s Frozen I don’t either I’ve never heard of Jack’s frozen pizza I’ve never heard of it is it the one with the wacky hair you know the one no that’s wild mics and wild Mike’s frozen pizza F in rules yeah it really does caramel sauce on a frozen pizza though yeah I’ve never seen is this oh my gosh this is wait is that Tony’s this is like some I’ve seen this before once the fonts of Jack’s Pizza looks like Tony’s someone tells me something in my brain tells me that I saw this in the Walmart at Bentonville Arkansas you were in Bentonville Arkansas oh honey I don’t know wait Maggie look up uh so okay so Jax is made by Nestle sorry we’re getting sidetracked but I’m curious see if Nestle makes Tony’s also I wonder if it’s like a Carl’s Jr uh Hardy situation similar maybe not the same the colors are definitely is Tony still independent anywhoom uh 90 oh it’s Schwann’s good for them um it must be a Tony’s competitor it’s called Jack less Italian I’ve seen it before I’ve never had it before but I’m pretty sure it’s one of those like crappy ones like really crappy I think it goes well with caramel no well hold on honey on pizzas become a trend I don’t know if honey can make pizza caramel can go on Pizza who has honey on Pizza often I I mean especially some people might I don’t even I don’t even like the honey Pizza really there’s the one Roberta’s the Stinger it’s called it should be treated as a special Pizza yeah it should not be eaten as your typical Pizza like a little balsamic reduction on a fig and pursuit Pizza something like that honey should go with like a spicy super sauce sure I’m dropping all the vowels like it’s a percent like I’m Tony sopran it’s a prawn I’ve never seen an episode of The Sopranos but I know I’d love it and it would be my whole personality you should watch it you’re such a Carmella I watch Like a season and a half um I’m down with the caramels it makes sense in a certain way but as somebody who doesn’t even like honey on Pizza I don’t think I’m down with this but I really like Falco oh yeah I remind you of Edie Falco great compliment wait I thought you [ ] was the therapist he plays a therapist this the TV5 thinking of which one it was like the Jewish Club kid she was in house come on curly-haired nice Jewish lady in house nice Jewish oh are you talking about freaking Cuddy I remind you what’s her name I don’t know it’s something like Edie Falco it’s like an Edie falco-ish name like Edith Stein no that’s not it’s not either Stein that’s a German philosopher hold on okay hold on hold on Doctor Cuddy Lisa Cuddy Lisa Edelstein Lisa Edelstein I remind you of Lisa Edelstein the compliments just keep flowing with this guy today my God The Social Network yeah yeah yeah oh uh Andrew Garfield yeah yeah oh Justin Timberlake as uh yeah yeah no um the other one the Stars don’t you say don’t you say Justin Eisenberg everybody says Jesse Eisenberg and I don’t get it remind me of Taylor Swift I’m 205 pounds and I’m a 205 pound exchange Wildest Dream people only say that I look like a Taylor Swift or B Jesse Eisenberg and I don’t I want to look like Brian Earl at Brock Lesnar you know give me one of them is Brock Lesnar like a WWE star yeah he was in turn he was in the NFL WWE and then MMA all right voicemail time sure I don’t know if this voicemail is for opinion casseroles but you’re getting one anyway um so who do you think he calls take a cold bar style pizza like that in the fridge overnight put regular like Heinz yellow mustard over it uh-huh so the cold yellow mustard on the cold bar pizza bar pizza that is easily my favorite pizza eating experience I would eat that every day if I could okay what’s a bar or pizza a bar pizza bar pizza Tavern style pizza some people associate it with Chicago so Chicago is the deep dish right but there’s another style of pizza in Chicago that’s like it’s almost crustless in the sense that like they don’t have a very resin crust and so it’s just like a circular pizza and it’s pretty thin crust pretty like ample toppings on it um it’s typically cut into squares but it’s kind of like a very Midwestern style uh some people will say like a um I met a chef who made like jersey style bar pizza you know it’s just like pizza you go to the sports bar and it’s cold so he’s saying cold and then you put mustard on it which I think I know why he does this and why he loves it alcohol oh maybe I mean who doesn’t want to be drunk eating some cold pizza with mustard uh but no I think it sort of gives it a daily sub an Italian cold cut a hoagie a hoagie property to it sure I can see that I can see that especially if you’re eating like a big old loaded bar pie that’s just got like you know everything salami you know bell pepper stuff like that then you’re basically getting the cheese is cold like a cold cut you’re getting a smear of a delicious concentrated tomato sauce you know you’re getting the meats you’re getting the mustard on it why not I think that sounds really good I do too I don’t know if I like the mustard hitting my palette directly you know what I mean like I would sandwich another slice of pizza on it and then you know because we made a muffaletta using Pizza I can’t believe we did that was good it’s disrespectful yeah it sure is so disrespectful Nicole can I read an opinion that you deliberately skipped over I didn’t deliberately deliberately you deliberately skipped oven at Dust In Your Eyes is it possible to craft a demi-gloss using the oju from an Arby’s French Dip and swiss and then they said slams the mythical Chef help button uh Dustin Nicole you don’t take this you want me to take this I mean you said it so just take it all right so despite the fact that ozu when you’re typically making that with say a roast if you were to cook a friendship from scratch you’re probably using like you know a large cut a big old like whole sirloin roast or something something sliceable so you’re making the broth from that you’re getting a lot of the fat the collagen all that stuff leaching out into the broth if you were to take that and reduce that all the way down you would indeed get a form of demi-gloss right you’d get a very concentrated stock you can mount that butter really delicious but the ozu at Arby’s Nicole what they’re doing they’re taking a powdered blend right they’re taking powdered beef bouillon there may be a slight thickener in there maybe some maltodextrin maybe a little bit of cornstarch but not too much so that it’s really just powdered beef stock so you’re not getting the collagen you’re not getting the fat you’re not getting all those things that make a homemade stock so wonderful you know you buy beef stock at the store you make beef stock at home it’s got a mouth coating quality collagen turns into gelatin after a while so that’s what really gives Demi glasses thickness but if you’re just using a powdered bully on all Arby’s you reduce that down all you’re going to do is create more bullion because bouillon is just stock that has been reduced all the way down into a powder so Dust In Your Eyes no you cannot reduce an Arby’s oh Jew cup from the French dip and swiss to make uh demi gloss but thank you so much for your time are you satisfied I do need to go to Arby’s well I thought you’re gonna say therapy well obviously some Arby’s in therapy are the same give me a big old beef and cheddar and I’m a happy man for three days and then I start reliving my childhood traumas on that note thank you for listening to hot dog as a sandwich you wanna hear more from us here in the mythical kitchen we got new episodes for you every Wednesday if you want to be featured on opinions or like casseroles you can hit us up on Twitter at mythical Chef or and honeyzada with the hashtag opinion casserole or if you want to leave us a voicemail give us a ring and leave a quick message at 833 dog pod one hey you did I’ll just religious the message eight three three dog pod one that’s eight three three God did you use my stomach I have been digestion uh for more mathical 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