ramble before you get into today’s episode it’s me trevor everts the host of the podcast trevor talks too much here to tell you about a very special episode we have uh it’s gonna be all me solo not only will i be talking too much by my darn self but i’ll be giving you all a closer look into my mind the window into the inner workings of the mythical swag lord so we’ll be talking a bit more about me this particular episode is all about some of the struggles i’ve had coming out of the pandemic social anxiety and how some of these new connections have me kind of looking deeper into my inner self and doing some reflection so don’t forget to be on the lookout for this episode next week by subscribing to trevor talks too much on apple spotify or wherever you get your podcast apparently people haven’t realized anything can be a knife if you try hard enough because we live in a world where strawberries stem pickers avocado d seeders and for goodness sakes even banana slicers exist it’s time to rethink all your kitchen appliances because today we explore what’s the most useless cooking tool 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 a hot dog is a sandwich a hot dog is a sandwich welcome to our podcast a hot dog is a sandwich the show where we break down the world’s biggest food debates i’m your host josh sharer and i’m your host nicole henderson and nicole today today what was that with the name excited adding a little flair today this is an exciting podcast topic for me yeah but i get to get mad about nice things that people give me because that that’s where this whole idea came from that’s funny um as as nicole you cook you you enjoy cooking i love cooking but that’s probably like one of the things that people really know about you do you get a lot of cooking gifts no because i don’t get a lot of gifts i guess that makes sense i’m not a big i i just say give me money and people give me money money please yes people don’t give me like actual physical gifts what about like significant others parents because that’s where the worst gifts come from uh i get frames framed to to put up of you and your significant other yes yeah i guess that makes sense yeah i i have gotten so many terrible gifts from significant other parents many of them shall not be named um and they’re always cooking gifts right and they’re generally right if they’re giving you a gift it’s probably depending on how long you’ve been together it’s probably in that like you know 20 to 40 dollar range right and the only cooking tools you can get for 20 40 are either useless or i already have them yes and so i have gotten i mean pulled pork shredders i’ve gotten avocado slicers i’ve gotten little slap chops and so i and i also hate clutter because the adhd brain clutter really really distracts me so like when i cook in a kitchen my kitchen at home countertops are completely clean i just i throw things away constantly i use a chef’s knife to do almost every single tool uh every single task because to me that’s like you know the most important kitchen tool and so i hate these useless cooking tools the pulled pork shredder isn’t it just isn’t it just claws it’s wolverine clothes it’s wolverine clothes it’s literally wolverine claws uh that you’re supposed to pull pork with but it’s less effective than a fork yeah use a fork a fork is like a wolverine claw that you can hold and also you can eat foods that you need to stab with i agree yeah so why would you have those so i mean today we can just take our anger out on all of these useless kitchen appliances i am ready because we got a list yeah yeah what you got what you got okay i’m gonna say one thing though you said slop chops are stupid you use the slap shot no they’re not stupid but like they’re useful like those like chopping tools like whenever you have to make like 50 pounds of salad nope okay this laptop that i got though because it was in that 20 to 40 dollar range yeah it was so small that you could fit like an eighth of an onion in there and i was trying i was try i tried the thing is i tried to use these things because people gave you a gift wow that’s such a magical thing they wanted to show their love and appreciation and i tried to make like egg salad i could put like a half an egg in there at a time yeah but that’s the fun part of the ad it’s just for you but like that’s your slap shot but there’s like big ass slap chops that are like literally like like yay big joshua’s seeing what i mean when i say yeah yeah that’s that’s about uh sixteen and a half inches right there let the record show me let the record [ __ ] could put that on the record yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah meggy you got on the record strike it from the record and you lift it and you chop in you can make like you can feel like four cucumbers in there at a time like that’s a useful kitchen tool that that might be useful the ones that i have get out of here the my my favorite i i once um i i wasn’t exactly sober and i was watching television this is in college and there was an advertisement for the slice-o-matic which is a slap shot but a slight a slap slice essentially slop slice so it’s essentially it’s a manual it’s a mandolin with a lever that catapults the food through a slicer okay that’s fine except like the best lever and food holder you have is like a hand right and so this is always like what if you’re scared to cut your hand i no that’s really fair and i generally am because i’ve gotten some i mean mandolins will ruin you yeah i’ve never done a good thing knock on wood knockouts you’ve never had a mantle an accident knock on wood josh oh god i’m not spit on the floor uh no mandolin accidents are the worst like sometimes it’s bad if it just shaves like a fingertip clean off which i’ve had happen before but which one let me see no i mean they’ve all grown back like my fingertips are so what are you an amphibian you want wolverine your finger group i got the wolverine claws to pull the pork and now i am hugh jackman have you have you seen did i show you that video in the kitchen the other day of hugh jackman doing adr like supplemental audio show me you showed me uh you show trevor because you guys have a joint love of huge acme i love huge act man yeah someone find the video of huge act man in a studio to the scene in logan where he’s sprinting through the forest just hugh jackman and normal clothes going and i imagine it’s very similar to what it sounds like hearing me do that on the podcast but it’s it’s my favorite video um but anyways this so the slap slice one of the things about all these useless cooking tools is so many of them have this as seen on tv yeah thing and uh i i used to be obsessed with those when i was a kid and then i bought enough of them to find out that like most of them are pretty garbage yeah yeah so the slice-o-matic uh it you know showed it like chopping through rocks and pennies and all that stuff you know they always do that i love that and i was on the frequently asked questions part of the website and it went and it was all these questions you know uh what are the return policy would you ship to alaska all this stuff then one just goes does a slice-o-matic slice tomatoes and i thought it’d be like of course it sliced through a freaking rock and it just goes like nope unfortunately the technology does not exist just slice through tomatoes which is so much of these things because a knife can do anything that a slice matter can or a mandolin sure yeah i know okay let’s talk about one that i really really hate a spiralizer oh wait a spoon no no no no no you think what oh okay a spiralizer yeah dude curly fries curly fries are the best cut of fries okay fine okay okay but it’s fine okay do you do alt pastas like like zucchini pasta type of stuff i’m trying to i don’t love it but i did try hard of palm pasta wow right what a trip how was it cut was it spiralized no it was just in noodles cause that’s the thing with the spiralizer like you don’t it got really big because uh people were making zoodles with it right zucchini not a noodle girl too wet no too wet too wet yeah they’re always wet yeah uh but they were making zoodles with it but i when i wanted to try it out i was like well i’m i’m gonna make uh zetter delay zappadeli i used a mandolin to cut the zucchini into ribbons and then i cut like that right yeah and it worked great so i guess you don’t need a spiralizer but you can use a knife if you’re making curly fries it’s the only way to do it it’s the only time well how often do you make curly fries not often enough and maybe that’s the problem because i don’t have a spider like okay next lemon squeezer just use yeah i just ordered a lemon squeezer oh my maybe i’m finding out something about myself today okay my mom calls them every time my mom would go to bed bath and beyond she was like nicole i found a gadget she calls me gadgets and she literally opens the drawer and there’s like there’s a zoodler there’s an avocado slicer there’s a lemon juicer there’s a special knife to like cut the crinkles i’m so sorry i know you hate them and it’s just like my like my mom bought like three garlic presses i’m like we don’t even eat that much garlic lady she loves them she’s really sure is the kitchen at home like super cluttered uh the the cabinets are there’s nothing on the counter tops kind of just like yours but like inside like you can’t even open it because like for some reason there’s like a weird there’s like a weird spatula that like has like a handle on it you know the meme yeah yeah yeah it’s like that weird handela spatula thing and it just and i have to like literally just like like that’s me going through the cup i don’t have any foley here to do it but you know what i mean there are some things that i i will clutter my cabinet for like um i don’t know if you saw my my instagram this past weekend but i was uh just going through a dumpling tear but like having a bamboo dumpling steamer is like probably not something i would keep in my home yeah however it’s been really great to like play around with it what else have you done ice cream machine i got i got that 60 pound ice cream machine oh i was talking about the like the steamer like what else do you do with the steamer oh the steamer i don’t know because i mean i have the little steamer inserts that you can put into a pot right like i i am so allergic to clutter in my kitchen that i really do throw away all my pot lids oh that’s a little excessive i know i know it is but i i don’t know if you notice this i’m a little bit into excess as far as people are concerned yeah i guess but i throw away the pot lids because i think you can just take another pan and put it on top of that you know yeah but like that doesn’t look nice think about the aesthetics of it who who’s coming to my who do i have to impress i’m not yourself no i have no self-respect that’s the thing how have you known me this long and you think i have self-respect especially when i’m cooking or dealing with food you’ve seen me eat you’ve seen me dip a cpk pizza in ranch then crust the whole thing in takis and eat it over a trash can yeah how do you think i need a potluck i guess i guess i guess i just had some expectations and you just i don’t know but there are these little gadgets that like i i love to play with like the ice cream maker is a perfect example of something that is like that thing’s like 40 pounds what’s it called like uni like unit unit so unit tasker it’s a unit tasker but i love ice cream ice cream is my favorite dessert and i love playing with it making like a salted caramel popcorn ice cream oh my god what a treat yeah but you know you can just go to the store and get ice cream yeah well i mean but like making it is like fun like that’s the next day that’s fun for you the dumpling making that was a fun activity especially now that food is my only form of it it’s like food and netflix and my only forms of entertainment now it makes total sense but there are a lot that don’t have that capability like i’m thinking about the banana slicer yeah i was just about to bring up the banana slicer i want do you know the story of john henry huh do you know who’s i mean it sounds john henry the american familiar american tall tale of john henry it it might be problematic one with the ox no that was paul bunyan but like same time period right like i think so john henry american folk hero yeah uh totally totally fictional but but he basically like raced this pneumatic train spike driving machine with just a man and a sledgehammer and he like beat it but then he died from exhaustion afterwards and it’s a whole story i want to take on the banana slicer like that to prove that what is it explain what a banana slicer is for the people a banana slicer it is a um a concave uh sleeve that has little slats in it it’s concave to fit the shape of a banana you see yeah but there’s so many different shapes of bananas oh so you see the problem with the banana and then you place this kind of sleeve over top of the banana and you press down on the banana and then it cuts it into slices oh wow but like you said there’s many different sizes of bananas and no one size like the bigger bananas aren’t necessarily better you know you can put hot dogs in there you gotta curve your hot dogs first yeah but whatever and it’s so dull it kind of just like mashes the banana a curved hot dog but there’s no what what oh yeah actually there’s a nice little curl like the board’s head you know the ones that are like blue yeah yeah a little boar said bloopers but like what’s the utility that what is it like i’m trying to be empathetic banana coins but use a knife uneven what do you mean i mean i mean uneven who needs perfectly even banana coins my four-year-old braden says if his bananas are not even coins he but but kaden but caden likes thicker banana coins brayden likes the even ones and jaden likes it when i cut his banana and twain yo straight up braden jayden and cayden were all like top 10 baby names of 2018 yeah and everyone’s gonna be so embarrassed in 50 years yeah man looking back this is my lawyer brayden co-counsel jayden other council caden would you like to weigh in sure chad he did indeed kill his wife um that’s what the trial was about that was the joke it was a murder trial okay that’s where that went okay but like there’s no real is it i’m trying to imagine that the harrowed mother who’s just my god she needs to slice 15 bananas a day for all her nine brayden’s jadens and cadence and how much time would that really save you i don’t know i don’t have brayden jaden and caden degree me neither but it’s like those tasks like they aren’t something fun there aren’t something like a bamboo dumpling steamer that’s not fun for you but think about the activities that you can do with banana coins you can okay listen i’ve also watched a lot of as seen on tv ads and i’ve also worked on a few fun factoids about me really yeah i can’t i don’t i think i signed an nda so i can’t actually tell you but i’ve worked on a few of them you can use the banana slicer to make little you know like a circle like to put a little bear’s face on it with chocolate chips that’s true can you not use a knife to also make a bear’s face yeah but it’s it’s uh there’s a there’s disturbance in the force i’m sorry the the biggest as seen on tv cooking product that i’ve seen lately because i i watch a lot of live sports on hulu because hulu has live sports they’re not sponsoring this i’ve just really enjoyed the user interface of hulu live as far as cable goes anyways whatever ad that they serve you uh 99 of them are for something called the the spurtle what did you call me do not go to hr so spurtle is a is a scottish uh porridge stirring spatula oh the one that does it itself no it’s not the automated spatula which is a whole other thing we should talk about yeah yeah this is simply like imagine like an um a a cake froster okay it’s like a long bill on a thin handle okay it’s like a cake froster except it’s slightly concave like a spoon okay but it but it’s like very like long and broad so imagine being able to like scrape all the like sides of a deep sauce pot while also stirring like a wooden spoon it’s basically a very long wooden spoon that you can use to scrape the sides and i just have a screwdriver in my head now i have the image of a screwdriver i can’t i can’t like visualize it i’m sorry it’s so bizarre because they’ve poured so much money into advertising this like as seen on tv it’s a spurtle you don’t know about the sparta lady it’s a scottish device that’s kind of cool it’s kind of cool but it’s so bizarre because in this thing like it was made for stirring porridge right and that seems like the ideal use and the person who is the woman who is like selling the squirtle she like used to be martha stewart’s food stylist or something and that’s her whole whole thing so she’s like got a background but in this whole thing she’s like and it’s the perfect way to scramble eggs and like they show her just like mashinet eggs with this spurtle and it’s like that is not nearly the best tool to do that it’s always the best tool to scramble don’t say a fork a fork don’t say a fork every time i scramble exit the fork josh just stares at me and he’s like what creature is it’s less efficient than a whisk but who has time take out a whisk i i do i want my eggs perfectly scrambled i hate when there’s a little egg white problem that’s a you albumin what’s what you got against albumin man last name human first name al al buman when it comes to your journey hyundai is thinking of every mile that’s where the new 2023 hyundai palisade comes in the palisade offers all the technology safety features and comfort a family needs for the journey ahead and boy does it really have 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because there’s so many of these very stupid ones right like the the apple corer which actually that’s probably pretty useful that’s pretty useful that’s right what about a strawberry huller like a strawberry i think hola euler but like outside of these very stupid unitaskers yeah like the avocado there’s that like five in one avocado tool that’s like we skin it and pit it and slice it in one and like none of it works because avocados different sizes no but also i understand why people buy an avocado tool but you know because you know avocado hand is a real thing and people get hurt a lot that was a big that was a big big thing they called an epidemic in great britain there were so many brits that had just discovered how to use an avocado and they would like cut through the the pit into their hand yes while holding it very dangerous i feel like that that’s the only that’s the only excuse for me to have that five in one avocado tool yeah like if i hurt myself yeah if you if you have a history of personal injury related to avocados yeah like i feel like well again i think what we’re just finding out is that all of these quote-unquote useless tools are just unit taskers and like that’s what’s pissing us off like we’re just like i want to be able to use something with mo to give me like my biggest bang for my buck yeah but like that’s not possible with like a nutcracker is it a great you can crack a crab you can crack lobster with nutcrackers okay but what what is a kitchen appliance that most people think is very useful that you have a personal vendetta against garlic press garlic breast i don’t get it well what are you using to crush garlic a knife but how long is that because getting because garlic press will like crush garlic okay i kind of like the meditative act of crushing garlic with the knife i like adding the salt and like getting really there’s kind of like a meditative you take the side of the blade and you scrape it against the cutting board but not everyone likes to do that and they don’t like their hands to smell like garlic so i don’t know josh my my big thing um so when me and julia moved in together you know combining two households worth of kitchen equipment oh wow into one uh slightly stressful time because i like even i don’t like having the tabletop salt and pepper oh really cause i’m just season your food you just your food should come out the pan but not everybody likes your style of seasoning that’s true yeah and also she had like four kinds of salt and i was like why do you have four pounds like they’re not they’re just different 12 kinds of salt well like i have but like there needs to be a main salt you need to have a main sauce just a coarse ground kosher salt to season everything iodized iodized mortons whatever you love as long as you have a a consistent saw anyways point is toaster evan she loves toaster ovens i love my toaster oven do you’re not slandering i hate toast strawberries take up so much counter space josh oh my god are you kidding me the toaster oven is one of the greatest colors what do you do with what do you do with a toaster toast but why why not just get i mean a toaster i also don’t agree with but like do you not can you not just get that in a pan on a stove top i don’t want to why is there even any time difference because i don’t know i haven’t tested it but the heat of a toaster oven is like sacred i don’t want to turn a whole entire do you know how expensive it is turning on your whole entire not that expensive like literally not that expensive think about the electricity bill yeah i have never thought about my electricity bill my mom and dad do and they tell me all the time don’t use the oven for bs and i say okay no problem and then i just use a toaster oven it’s literally like point eight cents how do you know just like an electricity bill just feels like 30 like 30 a month and that’s mostly because lights anyways i’m trying to i’m trying to tell you i love toaster ovens and your toaster oven slander has no place in this house is there anything else you have that because like i i love like a blender like i need a high quality like an air fryer oh you’re anti-air fryer i used to be pro anti i mean i used to protect icy pro air fryer but now i’m just like it takes up so much space on your counter unless you’re like a single person or you got like you kind of live in the bachelor pad lifestyle it makes sense for you to have it because you don’t want to turn on a whole oven or you don’t want to get your pants dirty just use an air fryer but like in the grand scheme of things it does take up a lot of room i i used to be very anti-air fryer and now i’m very pro air fryer i don’t have one we’ve changed we’ve both grown so much as individuals well i’m so proud of you i’m so proud of you oh my god wait kind of my bridal shower um anyways i used to be very i used to be very anti-air fryers i was like it’s just a glorified toaster oven yeah you say that all the time and then i realized that like yeah it’s a toaster oven that actually works like it’s it’s a toaster that works really well it circulates the air really fast it’s very dry environment so like why wouldn’t you just have an airfryer instead of a toaster and there’s airfryers that look like toaster because toast in an air fryer turns into like a brick have you tried it no [Laughter] i just based off of other things that i’ve made in an air fryer it would turn into like a solid brick of bread it removes the air yeah it takes some more it takes some moisture which is what makes things crazy turn it into a croton yeah but a toaster oven it’s just like a coil on the top and maybe a coil on the bottom yes the air isn’t circulating the way that i would in an air fryer yeah that makes sense so like yeah toast how often do you make toast is that an important thing to you i live in a persian household so yes we have a lot of bread that is actually not like a a cultural piece of knowledge that i had yeah eat a lot of my daddy we love yeah not not like white bread or like yeah or like wheat bread but like yeah we like to toast our red hot bread hot pita yeah yeah it’s important but you don’t do that on a on a stove top you do that in the toaster oven yeah i do it in toaster oven interesting eat a lot of bread what what’s is that like your one kitchen tool that you can’t live without toaster evan like if you had to pick one i don’t know i think that’s another podcast topic to be perfectly honest with you so i’m not going to reveal that sorry i’m not going to reveal that today i i use have you had changes of heart about other like home kitchen appliances that you used to think were useful now you’re just like this is absolutely garbage oh my gosh it’s a really good point um i don’t really know i mean you’re gonna get mad at me a whisk i mean i love whisks but like i don’t really need it i love whisk so much they do they do what a fork does but ten times better okay you know you just don’t put effort into forking things i put a plenty effort into forking i can fork with the best of them you four you go for it yourself just forking you do a half-assed forking full forking josh did you ever get into the home sous vide movement yeah i had an anova do you did did you ever how often did you use it well i think i made it use it like five times yeah yeah same way because i was dating a guy who was really into it uh that’s my problem whenever a guy’s really into something i automatically get into it too like record collecting and sous-viding me like what sorry that’s too much that was an overshare this is sorry you’re talking to the person who is now listening to like the dear evan hansen soundtrack because his girlfriend is a broadway musical fan um so believe me i understand yeah yeah ben platt my god yeah great fantastic so good so we can’t wait for washington heights by the way what is that lin manuel’s uh uh new movie coming out on hbo max i’m not a sponsor just excited is it a uh a musical uh yeah yeah i believe it’s a broadway musical it’s a broadway musical theatrical okay yeah yeah that’s pretty exciting sorry in the heights it’s about washington heights yeah yeah what is washington heights uh it’s a neighborhood watch the musical watch the musical i can’t explain the whole thing lin-manuel can explain it much better than i can okay uh come in the pocket lin-manuel come on the podcast um i i also sous-vided like five things but that that was the first gadget that i was like oh my god this is going to change my life i’m going to get a sous-vide and i’m going to make perfect steaks yeah every time perfect chicken bread all this stuff oh my god you can infuse the flavor of rosemary into your freaking carrots and the souffeed machine i can cook like a restaurant does and then i found out restaurant food tastes the way it does mostly because the amount of butter and salt they’re adding uh and that the sous vide machine for me i know people out there love it and i guess that’s the key to all this like if something brings you joy not to be all like a dirtbag bro mari kondo over here but like if you use something a lot if something brings you joy then it’s not useless absolutely right so i know there are people out there who sous vide machines are like really awesome for them it’s something that has like gotten people really into cooking totally for myself i i now can’t stand it i like set it up to use it and i get mad i have not souved anything in my own home in like four years i every time i cook a steak i can get it perfect if i just temp check on on a reverse sear that’s the best way sam it’s like an impressive tool the fact that you know how to use an uh a souvenir machine is impressive to other people i guess no it’s true and like i i you know we like ourselves i like to think we both like ourselves it’s like treating myself maybe once in a while i’ll use a soothing machine we both like we both walked in between narcissism and extreme self-hatred so much so much so much of both that’s part of the gig yeah yeah but that kind of averages out to the phrase we like ourselves yeah i like myself and you like yourself yeah so if i’m feeling myself sure i’ll pop out the sous vide machine but it’s also a big waste of water yeah i don’t know dude i leave the water running when i brush my teeth you know yeah but i only i i shower like once every three days so it all sets it off you know what i hate turkey basics who needs a turkey baster it looks gross too it looks like a gynecological tool if we’re being honest it makes you uncomfortable you know what this is a turkey baster hate group that’s how they artificially inseminate horses you know that yeah i did it shouldn’t be called chicken babies it should be called a horse inseminator and that stays in the podcast that’s not dirty that’s about animal husbandry which is an important part of our agriculture horse baster get rid of all your horse basters i’m gonna buy you the most deluxe gaudy horse baster for next hanukkah i’m gonna get you like a gold plated yeah yeah yeah and make the squeezer ball like like studs [Laughter] you’re sick are there any like gadgets that you have on a wish list though for real like what are you looking forward to are you trying to ask me what my wedding we’re just doing oh you literally yes okay so all the attachments for a kitchenaid mixer would be really nice but also maybe too cluttery i don’t know oh like a meat grinding attachment pasta rolling attachment yeah yeah that’s great because that’s that sticks onto a very useful tool it consolidates all of those those large intense uh things on your see i should just be a spokesperson for kitchenaid that’s where all this is going yeah like after people stop listening to this podcast our like second act in our media career yeah is gonna be like uh not billy blanks what’s the other one billy uh the dump cakes lady dumb kicks lady yeah whatever her name is i love her i’m gonna sell weird scottish uh cooking equipment on qvc cake lady 2.0 dump gigs too i call these dump muffs you want to dump into your muffins going to eat nicole’s dump muffs oh i want a meat grinder you want to be you want to meet kindness yeah i would make like really good grinder at home it’s nice yeah it’s really useful i use it like for my birthday oh my god so quarantined birthday what i did was i got meat and i i made my own smash burgers on my birthday wow so that was a really nice thing i did you based him with not nothing well if i didn’t get you that horse master nicole you can have the most basted smash burgers out there for my presents you’re getting a baster give me a better present two basters what did we find out from this podcast josh nicole i think what we found out is that really uh de gustavus known as disputandum right there’s no accounting no i mean everybody has different kitchen needs out there not to wrap up with something totally cliche 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membership plus ten dollars off your first order that’s butcherbox.com hotdog and use code hotdog to claim this deal [Music] hi nicole you heard it you heard of did you know nicole you’ve heard what you and i have to say now it’s time to find out what other wacky ideas are rattling out there in the twitterverse it’s time for a segment we call opinions are like casserole [Music] all right first up we got caleb mack nine walnuts and or almonds in baked goods are gross i’m sick of the nuts in brownies slander yeah what kind of what kind of opinion is this i think they’re delicious i’m a big nut guy i like them i love my nuts i like nuts great little textural contrast real good i ate a sack of planters spicy peanuts right before this podcast so you couldn’t hear my tummy rumbles on the microphone i had a nanner i i get why people don’t like nuts i mean it’s like how i don’t even really like chocolate chips and cookies because i’m like look man i’m here for the delicious cookie texture so i understand the opinion i just happen to think it’s wrong i also love coconut i like textures yeah give me all the pictures i’m on the same page k kcroggles says bell peppers are overrated and overpower whatever dish they’re in especially yellow ones this is the first time i’ve ever heard somebody say bell peppers are overpowering really i hear that all the time you do well this is the first time i’ve heard especially the yellow ones because i’ve heard that from green bell pepper a lot yeah green has a more vegetal taste yeah it’s almost like it’s like grassy and metallic totally i don’t like when places will randomly throw sauteed bell pepper in with a thing just to sort of like have another vegetable yeah exactly but when they have a purpose like i actually um i i’ve been on a weird bell pepper streak lately uh because i love like i don’t super love celery well no that defeats the point no no no i was saying like you know mirepoix right like that is i eat so many stews because it’s nice to meal prep and i enjoy eating a nice hearty stew when i get home sure um but recently i instead of doing mirepoix i did cajun trinity which is bell pepper onion celery yeah which is great replacing the sweetness of the carrots with like you know this kind of like grassy vegetable you know brightness totally from the bell peppers it was fantastic and then i used i had some leftover bell pepper and i had some habaneros too and i blistered both of them and then blended it into a hot sauce did it kind of bell pepper habanero hot sauce totally delicious great it’s good for you it no it is great not overrated yeah i totally get why people don’t like them though i like to eat them raw oh yeah i love raw bell peppers they’re such a good taste like an apple if you’ve never had i’ve never had an apple before maybe all right that one hot dog guy adding cream cheese to your chili dogs make them so much better yes yes yeah yeah not totally uh i i don’t love chili cheese dogs i just have like shredded cheddar or even like american cheese wrapped around them i mean of course i still like them but we’d rather have a chili dog but you put cream cheese in there yum you get that melty creaminess or that spicy chili yeah cream cheese is like a really good secret ingredient to like pop into foods like in your pasta sauces a little nub of cream cheese really really helps and your alfredo sauces are really really really really really really really really good it stabilizes everything too in a sauce like that yeah i feel like cream cheese has been kind of ruined in some people’s minds from all those tasty videos oh yeah cream cheese hatred because it it was cream cheese abuse it’s cream cheese it was absolutely cream cheese yeah exploitation of cream cheese absolutely you know philadelphia cream cheese is like made in illinois has nothing to do with philadelphia oh isn’t where’s philadelphia pennsylvania all right i’m sorry i don’t know i’m having a i don’t know if he was the capital of america for like the first capital the bell pennsylvania yeah the liberty bell i said pennsylvania i know but like you the fact that you had the guests i’m having an off day okay courtney153 says pepperoni and pineapple is far superior to basic ham and pineapple i disagree i think the spiciness and the tomato tomatoey nature of pepperoni takes away from the sweetness of the pie and sweetness and like fruitiness of a pineapple so the ham complements it with that little touch of smoke and that little touch of meatiness so you’re saying the ham acts as like the bridge between the savory cheese and the sauce i do the ham is the sweet meat bridge i sure do the sauce the pineapple correct um i mean you’re wrong but uh what no i don’t i get that i like ham and pineapple when so uh round table pizza most underrated small mid chain never pizza restaurant they have the maui zowie pizza oh wow which just you guess says ham and pineapple on it yeah but instead of a red sauce they do this kind of like sweet they probably call it something offensive like polynesian sauce which is like corn syrup and spices okay okay um but i like that with ham when it’s meant to be sweet but if it’s a typical red sauce pizza i like having the pepperoni on there for the familiarity and the spiciness so you get that like high level of salt and then the pineapple comes in and just punches through with sweetened acid i agree with this this is an underrated take i even better you go pepperoni and bacon and jalapeno and pineapple pepperoni bacon jalapeno pineapple um all right at shelby 49 boxed mac and cheese is best when mixed with sweet corn know it is best mixed with hebrew national hot dogs uh no i i actually i do like box mac and cheese with sweet corn and i have had that maggie’s embarrassed oh shelby you’ve embarrassed our producers oh we’re killing maggie with embarrassment i’m not apologizing i’m not embarrassed this is like american get out of my room mom it’s like american street it’s like american uh korean cheese corn or lotus yeah this is a latte it’s a lotus this is white elote and it’s a beautiful thing i think this is good i like a little pop of corn in my mac why not yeah it changes the taste dimensions a whole lot it makes it a new thing i don’t think it’s best but i do think it’s accessible yeah again hot dogs and ketchup i’m serious hot dogs and ketchup you put the ketchup on the hot mac so the ketchup gets up to mac honey you don’t need to explain none of this to me you are preaching to the choir all right the mangy cat says drinking straight pickle juice is 100 acceptable i keep a jar of pickle juice in my fridge so i had a period of time when i would do the same thing and i think you might have a deficiency i think you might have a sodium deficiency i’m not trying to be rude i think yeah i think you just need to up your salt and take in your food i need to start using pickle juice and more cocktails yeah you sure do i sure do you know what i got one time i got something called pickle pops and it was pickle juice uh ice uh what isaac icicles what popsicles people just popsicles yeah otter pop but so crazy it was pickle juice frozen pickle juice at jhon 101 honey in a hot salsa not not all the time but it satisfies my basic sweet spicy salty needs yeah uh putting agave in salsa is a great little tip a thing that i’ve realized most people don’t know how to balance is like i mean you should like not all sauces need sugar but if you i mean a little pinch of sugar into tomato honey like really it’s the sweetness of the tomato and then it can handle more salt too totally i remember once i was making homemade salsa and i was kind of trying to go for like the whitest salsa possible like paste picante sauce right great piece picante sauce is lovely it’s a lot of people in america yeah it’s what like a lot of americans think of when they think of jar salsa and i was kind of trying to make my own and i found out it was just a constant balance of sugar and salt until both were at such insanely high levels uh and that was the secret to it got it so yeah a little bit of honey and salsa do it to it yeah why not brew drew x beer says strawberry jelly on oreos rules okay yeah you know what this is what this is sponge what’s not sponge no this is a pinguinos pink oh it is yeah this is basically gansito yeah that that to me is why the mexican snack cakes will always overtake the american snack cakes because there is the reason well i mean like oh yeah dude i love the the gancito brand you think so i think i guess i like the flavor of american snack cakes more because they’re sweeter that’s just me i know what you mean some of the mexican ones are a little bit more bready yeah they’re bready yeah yeah yeah uh but no i i really enjoy the combination a lot of them have like a fruit and chocolate combo to it so i love i love love getting that with the oreos uh oreos just roll though yeah oreos are you can probably put anything with oreos like any sweet thing with oreos and it’ll work dump some like nice fancy like cinnamon almond butter on an oreo yeah i just love peanut butter and oreos kind of like because i learned it from the parent trap movie yes yeah i remember trying to explain to like nine-year-olds that that was a single actor uh-huh and they were like how did they do when were you hanging out with nine-year-olds no i was nine i was not oh you were nine i was nine i wasn’t as an adult trying to explain lindsay lohan’s role to nine-year-olds that’d be weird okay no would it kinda why why because you watched it what if you were a camp counselor and like you watched it that makes sense i guess like you have like little cousins and nephews and stuff so like you’re around children yeah yeah i’m never around children yeah m.l jetson says but can’t americana banana slash zucchini bread is just cake disguises bread why call it bread wrong texture uh i think it’s because it’s cooked in a loaf pan for the most part i’m poundcake’s cooked in a loaf pan yeah but that’s butter cake cooked in a loaf pan why are you not called butter bread i don’t know why i don’t know this is the thing i think about all the time when people are talking about like banana bread because it is it’s just a cake it’s a banana cake yeah it’s banana cake which bread is a misnomer but then people come and be like well there’s quick breads and then there’s yeasted breads and it’s like no no quick bread it’s called a cake there’s savory cooked breads like a beer bread irish soda bread stuff like that um but no i fully believe that banana bread is cake and that there might be a podcast in the future about that yeah at adriana k shaw my roommate dips cucumbers and cream cheese and chocolate pudding weirds me out same well yeah why no no no no no don’t be judgmental the whole idea of this part of the podcast is to be judgmental what are you talking about don’t be judgmental no this is the whole part of this is to try and uh try and eschew your judgments for empathy maybe for you so my favorite flavor maybe my favorite ice cream in all of la is um saffron and rose cucumber ice cream really that’s your favorite i think it’s so spectacular because i’ve had like cucumber sorbet and stuff like that but this isn’t that this takes cucumbers and they’re like pretty much sugar cured in the ice cream so they get this like crazy sort of like crunchy tooth some texture uh and and it’s not any acid or freshness it’s just cucumber and sweet cream and sugar it’s absolutely delicious so i love sweet cucumber stuff it’s the chocolate that bumps me a little bit chocolate and vegetable taste to me i do not enjoy it i don’t understand it no yeah like like chocolate and jalapeno don’t love go chocolate chipotle chocolate and a dried chili that’s right but it’s like the greenness for me yeah yeah yeah but keep keep doing it you know eat what you want you know how you go out you go out there you know you have a hard effort all four quarters you know and that’s really what the opinions are about nicole well on that note thank you for listening to a hot dog as a sandwich if you want to 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 mythicalchef or and handyzadeh with the opinion casserole i need some beef jerky for more mythical kitchen check us out on youtube we launch new videos every week and of course if you want to share pictures of your dishes you can hit us up on instagram at mythical kitchen we got any turkey jerk in the kitchen we’ll see you next time [Music] when it comes to your journey hyundai is thinking of every mile that’s where the new 2023 hyundai palisade comes in the palisade offers all the technology safety features and comfort a family needs for the journey ahead and boy does it really have so many tech safety and comfort features stay connected with the 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