Costco vs. Sam’s Club Cooking Challenge

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Channel: Mythical Kitchen

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Episode Post Date: March 5, 2026

Transcript

Today we're putting two grocery stores
to the test. It's Costco versus Sam's
Club. Now in this video, I will show you
how to handle large large chunks of
meat. I'm going to teach you my secret
special mashed potato recipe. It ain't
that secret. It ain't that special, but
you're going to see it and it's great.
And then I'm going to do something
wholly unforgivable to a lobster that
you won't be able to unsee and we might
not be able to come back from if
if we're being honest. I still feel
weird about it. The kitcheneers are out
shopping at Costco and Sam's Club right
now. Let's see what they got for a
delicious surf and turf.
What?
We're making a show already?
I was still thinking. We got a lot of
stuff in front of us and and frankly
it's quite early in the morning. And the
reason it's quite early in the morning
is cuz we're cooking giant Hold on. Hold
on.
>> [laughter]
>> WE'RE COOKING big old sides of beef
today. We are doing Costco versus Sam's
Club. We spent $558 at Costco and $380
at Sam's Club to make a prime rib and
lobster dinner. Cuz here's the thing,
we're used to doing this with the Dollar
Tree and sometimes like a Walmart, but
this is like big special occasion.
You're pulling out all the stops. You
spent $214
on beef. That seems bordering on
irresponsible at some point, but that's
what it is. Over here at Sam's Club, we
have a nice What is this? 9.7 lb chunk
of prime rib. Now when we're talking the
term prime rib literally just means it's
a believe a cross rib roast, uh but the
term prime is literally a distinction
made by the USDA based on the amount of
marbling
and that distribution. So if you look at
that, that is a nice prime piece of rib.
However, going over to the Costco, we
got a large untrimmed
choice rib roast. So technically it's
not even prime rib, but I think it could
be almost just as good if we really
treat it right. This one's untrimmed, so
we actually They two like very different
pieces of meat right here. We're
basically going to trim this up, try and
get it to that, see if there's a
difference there. The other main
differences here, we're doing a nice
little steamed lobster tail. We had to
buy 5 lb of lobster over at Costco, and
then Sam's Club had a 1.25 lb thing. So,
there's going to be big price
differences here.
However, if you're like cooking 10 or 10
on a large crowd, which I don't know if
you are, maybe you're just making a
whole 10-lb prime rib for yourself at
home, which
God, that sounds really fun. You can
wear a top hat and a monocle, you know,
you can parade around all fancy, do a
little like penguin [music] tail suit,
you know what I mean? Eating the whole
prime rib roast to yourself.
What a Friday night. Anyways, then you
might need 5 lb of lobster, but I'm
going to shut the hell up, and we're
going to start cooking this thing cuz we
got a lot to do. So, what we did is we
hired a Moyle to go ahead and trim that
big old Costco roast. Moyle is You You
just Google it. Uh the big old Costco
roast down into 8 and 1/2 lb to match
the Sam's Club roast right here. And if
you see like the marbling on this isn't
quite as good, it still looks pretty
solid though. This is one of the reasons
I like cooking roasts as opposed to
steaks in general, just because you get
more time in the oven, and that lets
some more of that intramuscular fat
actually break down. Because it's not
just a function of temperature, right?
Temperature, time, and pressure are all
functions of each other. Is that
accurate scientifically? Wait, do we
have any barometric scientists in here,
KG? Not today. We couldn't We couldn't
afford to book a
professor of barometry? No, he was busy.
Right. Why you got to be Why is it Why
is it he? They were Whoa.
>> [laughter]
>> I think when you're cooking a roast over
a long period of time, especially when
you're cooking it to rare, I don't think
you necessarily need the prime, but
we're about to see when we actually
taste it. Other things regarding prime
rib and general roast cookery, you could
salt it the night before, you could salt
it several days before,
uh and I think that makes a really good
prime rib. I'm sort of agnostic on it
though, because you kind of get more
seasoning and salt penetration through
the beef, but then I think you
some of that like beautiful sumptuous
beef texture. I think you end up with a
little bit of like that kind of snappy
corn beefiness cheese.
Uh but that said, when you salt I'm
trying not to get my hands dirty.
There we go. Good catch, man. Cuz then
I'm going to have to spend the entire
time washing it. But you can really just
crust the outside entirely with salt
here. You're never really going to
oversalt it. God, that is it feels so
good to just really lay all that salt
out. Okay. And over here so this guy
Yeah, look at that snowball.
All right.
Hold on. Now I'm going I'm switching to
right hand. I know normally I wouldn't
use tongs. It feels wrong. It feels like
I'm
forsaking God. You know what I mean? God
gave you tongs.
Use them. God and she did a good job,
KG. God can be a woman, too, just like a
professor.
Tons of garlic. We got a whole head of
chopped garlic in here. Good old
Christopher Ranch garlic. And it's going
into some butter. The butter over at
Costco Costco God, I got to keep They're
the same thing. One just copied Sam's
Club just came like 2 years after and
copied everything that Costco did. But
they have different products. Like Heinz
versus French's lateral move. I mean, I
love French's. I love Heinz. But come
on.
This is Kerrygold, which to me Kerrygold
is super super high quality, but also
like one of the few things that's like
mass market and high quality at the same
time. You're not going to taste a
difference when it's rubbed on a thing
of beef. Uh but for using that in other
places, the mashed potatoes, that might
actually make a difference. Oh, we're
making mashed potatoes and creamed
spinach and lobster. We're doing a lot
today.
We're doing a lot today cuz sometimes
when we do this, we make like a sandwich
and some beans.
And so we're like, "You know what, man?
Let's really get after it today." This
is a pretty fun technique, the mustard
and the butter. Mustard is basically
ground mustard flour, which is just
ground mustard seed powder mixed with
vinegar and salt. And so when that
vinegar evaporates, you're kind of just
left with like the particulates of the
mustard flour, which are actually going
to like kind of bind to the beef and
really help that seasoning stick to it.
Take my beets.
All right. Thanks, everybody.
Just got to get at Just got to get after
it right now. And maybe that wasn't the
right move.
Well, we're here. The problem is with
the softened butter on it is it hardens
immediately when it touches the cold
beef. So, I'm going to try and really
get some motion in there to melt it up
again.
We have a salt-free seasoning. We
already added salt to it. So, we're just
going to get a very generous crust right
here.
What's in this one? Organic
Oh, my hip cracked. Organic onion,
organic garlic, organic carrot?
Carrot?
I don't care at all about that.
Black pepper, I like that one. Red bell
pepper.
>> [music]
>> Tomato granules, this is a crazy
seasoning. You got tomato and carrot
granules in there. I don't know. Most
seasonings exist the same. We're going
to be fine.
You're not going to eat this and go
like, "Wow, I really taste that carrot
in there. Thanks, Sam's Club Costco or
whatever this one is." This one's
Costco, to be clear. Now, we're going to
one-hand it into the roasting rack.
Go on, grip.
There we go.
What? [snorts]
What? You got something [laughter] to
say? I got to wash my hands. Well, I got
to let the water run for 15 minutes so
it finally gets warm.
But until then,
we can mix some stuff together. Going to
get some mustard in there. We're just
eyeballing this.
But I can't I can't contaminate it with
this mustard
butter hand.
You know what I'm going to do? I'm going
to microwave that more. I'm going to
microwave this more.
Because I have a theory. You got to get
this
All those theories.
Didn't he get a rash?
Like um
was it Marat?
Was it Marat who like um
he had such terrible skin disease that
he basically sat in like a bath
filled with oatmeal for like most of his
most of his days or is that Robespierre?
Robespierre? Someone look up
Robespierre.
Nobody knows what I'm talking about
ever.
Bath's nice and warm.
>> [music]
>> I think it was Marat. Yeah. Okay. With
the skin disease? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Was
it Was it because they
they tortured him and they made him sit
in baths of human
Can you look that up?
Yeah. Yeah, thank you.
Back to the cooking show. So, what we're
going to do is we're going to go ahead
and rub this down. Yeah, we got that
nice and melty that way it can kind of
solidify on. Yeah, they had a lot of
much more creative torture methods
back in the day.
You know.
What's in this seasoning?
Dried garlic.
This one does have salt, okay.
We ever figure out why Marat sat in
baths for so long?
It was eczema. It was eczema, but like
was that eczema
>> [laughter]
>> Was that eczema caught Well, you know
what I mean? Like natural?
We talking like normal style eczema
[laughter] or like
You know what I mean?
We got our giant trimmed up, seasoned up
roast. We're going to roast this at a
low temp for a while, almost kind of
doing like a reverse sear situation, and
then we're going to blast the heat to
finally get a crust, but this is going
to sit in there until the internal temp
reaches about Let's say pull it at like
115, 118.
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>> [laughter]
>> We got over at Costco, we got the
Kerrygold butter, we got some garlic, we
got some onions sauteing in there. We're
making a little bit of cream spinach.
So, if you're worried about
I don't know how pans work. If you were
Stop yelling at me. I'm trying my best.
If you would check this out. Watch this
new
Well, dude, who spilled? It's flooded
over there. Here's the thing that I've
been doing.
Water. Wait, are we aware there's a
giant puddle over here?
Could be less dangerous.
Anyway, that's [laughter] what I've been
doing.
If you're worried about your onions
>> [laughter]
>> I was just going to show you a very
useful little trick. If you're worried
about your onions and your garlic
possibly burning, but you're also just a
little bit impatient and don't want to
saute them at low heat, I've been
getting them like slightly burnt then
just deglazing them with water and then
just letting them soften like that. So,
that's a fun time. So, we're getting
that going. We're making a little bit of
cream spinach and mashed potatoes right
here.
Comical. This is what they would use to
trap a Looney Tunes character.
You know, underneath like a bucket with
a little Rube Goldberg-esque machine
that would involve the coyote falling
off a cliff. So, that's pretty cool that
we have this. We're just going to go
ahead and grate it straight from there.
This is crazy. I need like a
I need a cheese tester. Cheese tester's
a job, you know that? You go to a barrel
of cheese and you take like a large uh
kind of like a probe like the way that
they uh in
um the pit where they uh
You know what I'm talking about? They
like stick the They like we got to eye
all them and they stab them.
You know what I mean? They do that but
with cheese to test the quality of it.
All right, we're going to go ahead
>> [laughter]
>> and we're just going to add our spinach
to the sauteed garlic and onions. Uh we
use fresh spinach so they don't have
frozen spinach. Frozen spinach for cream
spinach is so much better because this
is like a whole bag of spinach. This is
a whole 1-lb bag of spinach that is is
cooked down and rung out a little bit.
But, frozen spinach is generally better
for So, my god, the with the beeping.
Not everything needs to be a computer. I
think this used to not be a computer
with numbers. It was just a fire that
you put a pan on. We've been doing it
for 100,000 years, man. I'm not crazy.
Pepper, a little bit of black pepper.
That's fun. Just get some of that in
there. Just a little bit. Don't need to
use it all, you know? Perfect. All
right. Anyways, remember that time we
went to a bar that had beers?
And they were like, "You can just scan
the QR code and then you can just put it
in the app." and I refused. I was like,
"I'm going to go talk to a man and order
a beer."
And I did. And I went up to him and I
said,
"You got any like beers that that are
your favorites?" And he goes, "No, I
don't really like beer." And I said,
"You work at a craft beer bar called 33
Taps. You got 33 beers. Lie to me. Tell
me one. Tell me one that you got. Tell
me the oldest one that you're trying to
get rid of. I don't care. Just lie to
me. Make me feel like things are special
again." I'm going to run these back to
the sink.
I don't know why anymore. Give me a
second.
Mountain of rags.
The reason I like to add a little bit of
water to it is cuz you I really want the
onions and the garlic and the spinach to
all kind of work together, but I don't
just want to add more cream. Well,
there's a little bit of residual. Should
I add more cream? Should I add more
cream?
All right. There we go.
What are you doing? Let's not be a shy.
Not be a shy with the cream here. All
right, go ahead and give that a stir.
These Is there going to be any
difference? We got Philadelphia cream
cheese
on both. I'm going to let the cream
reduce a little bit before I add that
cream cheese. And then we should start
grating some of this cheese in. This is
a comical amount of cheese.
Sorry.
Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ.
Come on.
Come on.
This has always been a Christian cooking
show, Taylor.
If you missed the overt themes, that's
on you.
Perfect.
Mezzaluna
factory.
>> [laughter]
>> Hey Mambo. Like one of them Olive Garden
commercials. They show their kitchen in
Italy.
Let me see if there's any I can do all
things through Christ who strengthens
me.
They're both very good.
I want to be a Pentecostal cooking show.
Get some snakes up in here, man. Not all
Pentecostals do the snake thing, but the
cool ones do.
There we go. This is looking pretty good
though. I I like the way this is
looking. We're going to drop
a little cream cheese in there.
Bring some cream cheese on a potato.
That looks nice. Now I got to use all
the potatoes for the cooking that we're
doing.
A little bit of cream cheese just kind
of thickens it up. We're going to shut
the heat off of that. Going to see where
this ends. When do you finish that? Cuz
we got to make potatoes as well.
To me, for my money, if I'm going to a
steakhouse, uh
mashed potatoes, cream spinach, that's
the way to go. I lied to you. I hate
mashed potatoes. I don't order it, but
people like it. I thought you'd like it.
I'm making this for you.
But if you didn't want mashed potatoes,
you could have used your QR menu to
order something else, so
Ow.
We're going to rice some potatoes. This
is my favorite way to make mashed
potatoes. So we've boiled Yukon Gold
potatoes whole. Now we're going to run
them through a potato ricer. You could
also use something called a food mill.
Would not recommend using a food
processor because that like that it like
whips up the starch too much in potatoes
and you can make them kind of gummy.
But, potato ricers are so easy to use.
Oh, we were talking about yesterday if
we could see if I could dual wield. I
don't think I can. Try it. I'll try it.
I'll try it for the bit.
See if it works. So, we're going to
stick a whole boiled Yukon Gold in
there.
But,
my boiled Yukon Gold
We have potatoes in both hands.
We're going to use this as a grip
strength test. I have small hands for a
man my size. That worked.
Why do the potatoes look more yellower
over at the uh Sam's Club?
Should be the same kind of potato,
right? What Sam's Club's got the Sam's
Club's got the yellow potato hookup.
Good for them, man. All right, I'm just
going to rice these potatoes. Check back
in a second. Uh
If
>> [laughter]
>> If I have anything depressing to say in
the meantime, surely we'll cut to it.
Josh and his taters now live and on tour
better than ever. Um I found out the
mystery of the potatoes. So, over here
at the Sam's Club, they are using actual
Yukon Gold potatoes. Yukon Gold potatoes
were originally developed literally in
Canada near the Yukon territory. And
then over here, they're actually not
Yukon Golds. They're called Idaho
Yellows that are very very similar, but
you can like tell a very distinct
difference here. And apparently Yukon
Gold has more starch content. Idaho
Yellows are more of a waxy potato.
But, I didn't expect them to be that
different. I'm curious to see if it
actually changes the taste of the mashed
potatoes. We'll find out. That gets me
all excited. Now, I'm excited about
modernity. Uh we have some cream
steeping in a little bit of crushed
garlic. I'm going to go ahead and just
add all that in right there.
And anytime you steep, kind of just take
that, kind of mash the cream out of the
garlic. Kind of just want to throw the
garlic in there. No, don't do it. I like
a perfectly smooth mashed potato
as opposed to a chunky rustic mashed
potato.
Let's put all the butter in at once. You
can just mash it together. It's all
going in the same place.
Take the cream over here
from the Costco.
Pour all that in. You can adjust with
milk. Honestly, you can just like throw
some extra water in there, too, if it's
too tight. The main ingredient in cream
is water. You know your bodies are about
Well, like 6 76% water or is that the
Earth? One of them.
One of them has a lot of water in it.
The other doesn't.
And that beautiful Kerrygold butter.
Man, I wish we had the yellow butter in
the yellowest potatoes. Wouldn't that be
fun?
I think your body's like 60% Earth is
like 70. Body's only 60% water? And the
Earth is 71% water?
What if I told you flip it?
Does that make you think differently?
All right, I'm going to grab a little
bit more milk just to thin out these
potatoes a little bit. We're using
straight heavy cream. Listen, this is
not It's not a light meal. Why does the
heavy cream feel heavier at Costco?
Costco, we got the heaviest cream of any
membership-only based retail store.
That's looking fun. We're just going to
let this gradually heat up. I'll give it
a taste and then season up from there.
We're going to let that butter slowly
melt into it. Let's put that on top. Let
that kind of go.
Let's do this.
Kind of steam on there.
I think we did it. We've made the turf.
And now for surf. I just made that up.
Surf and turf.
>> [gasps]
>> That's crazy. Yeah, we're making
lobster. Lobster is some something
that's sometimes eaten with steak. I've
never kind of understood it. You know
what I mean? How like what are you
supposed to You just kind of alternate
bites? I don't know, but it's fancy.
It's like the fancy thing that people
know about. And so, we're going to do
that. We're adding
some this here butter.
Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Uh-oh.
It's too hot. Too hot. Move it. Got to
keep it moving. Got to keep moving. We
don't want it to be hot. We're adding
butter and garlic. We can make a little
garlic butter lobster. We're going to do
the fun little like steakhouse
preparation. Cuz that's like the
You know, I guess when I said it's like
fancy it doesn't make any sense. That's
not true cuz that's what fancy food kind
of is, you know? It's kind of like
ceremonial for the sake of being
ceremonial, you know, when you like
really want to treat yourself. And I
think that's kind of cool. I think those
little intangibles are sort of the spice
of life and what make things kind of
magic in a way. We're going to try and
do that steakhouse thing.
You know where they kind of like perch
the
It's like cooler because you've seen it
in the commercials for the Outback
Steakhouse where there's a lobster like
perched upon its shell. You know what I
mean? You see the kind of exposed tail
meat and then the lobster there. But if
you really think about it, if it was
like a human, what we'd do is
is we would sort of like crack all the
way through our breastplate and then
pull all of our organs and flesh muscles
out from our breastplate like
and then kind of just like splay our
meat across our shattered breastplate
just like
You ever saw what the Bolton clan did in
Game of Thrones?
The flayed man. That's what we're doing
to this lobster, but it's cool. It's
fancy.
So I'm going to go ahead and cut through
the shell.
And then once we get
this back part here,
going to pivot the scissors
under there. Nope, don't stab yourself.
Pivot the scissors. Try and make a
lateral incision.
There There we go. You're going to kind
of want to hunch your shoulders all
weird when you do this.
Okay.
Now all you got to do
is kind of going to kind of
just a little bit just kind of detach it
a little bit.
Don't crack it.
Don't crack it. Just detach it a little
bit.
Then you're going to kind of
You're going to kind of take your
fingers
This is cooking.
This is what we all [laughter] signed up
for. And And you're going to maybe maybe
two will help. And then
So sorry.
So sorry. What if What if like Julia
Child did this? Would she be doing this?
The two fingers actually does really
help. It gives you a wider base.
It's not about the depth, it's about the
width sometimes. So you're just going to
go ahead
kind of detach that up top.
Yeah.
Yep.
Yep. Well,
I want to go home now.
So there you have it. We'll see you all
next time. Thanks so much. Hopefully you
come back. I don't think you will after
that display.
Um but that is indeed what I was trying
to do. So
there it is. Right? I'm not crazy.
That's what we were trying for.
Yeah, yeah. Thanks, man. Thanks. And now
we know how to do it. So just kind of
one finger along the top to dislodge it
from there cuz that's what That was the
sticking point last time.
Just from the top.
Yep.
Yep.
There you go. Should it hurt? Is it
supposed to hurt?
Got to dislodge it from the shell is the
thing.
And one kind of makes way for two.
And then
that can just sort of
be birthed out of there.
We got a breach.
And
okay.
There it is. That's fine.
Pull that out.
Now we just perch that.
>> [music]
>> Yep.
Maybe we can just have the mashed
potatoes for dinner.
>> [laughter]
>> Just going to brush that with some
garlic butter. And we're just going to
prep that for the oven. Little bit of
salt on there.
Wow. Thank you for your service, I
guess.
Um feel stupid even talking about this.
Lobster looks way better.
Way pinker, plumper, felt felt nicer on
the finger, I'll say that. We're going
to bake them off. See how that goes.
Still waiting. Now we got a whole uh
curtains in there. Those are going. And
then we got uh
lobsters are going.
Going somewhere.
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We're so close, and I'm so hungry. All I
ate were a bunch of pocket almonds, but
then there was a bunch of lint in the
pocket almonds, so I had to throw them
away. So, now there's no more pocket
almonds. But, what we do have is the 16
total lbs of prime rib that are now out
of the oven. So, now we're going to
start making the shoe Oh my god! That's
not supposed to be on direct heat, but
that's totally fine, cuz that's what
we're doing. We're going to throw some
garlic cloves right in there. I saw
smoke and I needed to deglaze this so
fast just to get Oh god! Oh, what's
going Oh, yeah, yeah, these are Okay.
Well, hey,
we got this.
There it is.
The active deglazing
is where there are bits of flavor at the
bottom of a pan after say like a roast
or maybe something that you've seared,
and then you can use alcohol or honestly
any sort of water or stock to really
like get in there and scrape up those
bits of brown myards in there, and that
This went poorly on account of uh
This isn't the right
This isn't going great. So, what we're
going to do is we're going to add
Just add broth in there, and then this
is going to simmer for a while, and then
we're going to strain it,
and then we're going to add
Worcestershire in there, and it's the
same brand of Worcestershire except it's
more expensive at the Costco. Even
though Colby is really mad about this.
So, the same brand of Worcestershire is
more expensive at the Costco even though
Costco's membership is already $10 more
expensive.
And so, if you're going to Costco to get
the Worcestershire,
think twice, buddy. This is the best day
of my life. I'm really excited. We got
giant hunks of beef in front of us. We
pulled them at about 116°.
Should be up to about 130. [music] I'm
going to see what we got inside. Wait,
is this going to fall into the lobster?
With Colin Farrell. Look at that. Hot
diggity!
Damn!
What do the kids say? They go, "Yeah!"
It's a "Yeah!" right? Is that what they
say? Uh English cut or American cut?
American cut.
English cut is very thin. American cut
is thickest.
I'm doing a nice thick, almost a full
inch cut on this.
Wow, dude, look at that.
Just big old bam bam bam. It needs like
a tail. I'm just going right on the
apron. All right. That was Sam's Club.
>> [applause]
>> Like a child that is spelling the s a m
s k l u b Sam's Club. All right, let's
see what Costco is looking like. This is
the choice. We got a nice kind of big
ring of gristle that I don't love, but
that happens with prime rib sometimes.
All right, I'm not too mad about this.
It does look better though. Going to go
with a nice big inch cut.
Wunderbar.
Wow. Man, of these that still looks
pretty good, but I know I'm going for
that one. We're going to pop.
Look at that. A little bit of green on
the lobster. We paid $15 to get a full
gallon of parsley.
Just going to go ahead and take this
broiled lobster tail. Bam, right there.
Serve it with a lemon wedge. Isn't that
beautiful? This lobster looks more
pinker and I like lobsters. I like
lobsters that look more pinker like
that.
There we go. Pop that there. Nice little
orientation. I didn't put the green on
it.
This green looks more browner.
What else is going on?
Okay. Okay. Okay.
Going to go
>> [music]
>> right
down there.
And then the cream spinach is going to
lay atop that potato barrier. That's
what I wanted this to look like. Listen,
is this the most elegant plating?
Absolutely not. I don't care. This is a
plate of food I want to eat. Potatoes
The potatoes from
Costco
seem better and less starchy in a way.
Yeah, bud.
Yeah, bud. That's a plate of food.
Holy crap. We made food on the cooking
show. Everybody give it up for
yourselves. JUICE. JUICE.
STOP. STOP. I'M SO SORRY.
I freaked out again. I forgot we had the
Jew.
Golly, man. You guys are crazy.
Disaster averted. Most people aren't
allowed to scream at their jobs, but I
seem to do it with impunity.
There we go. Okay, now everyone can
clap. Now everyone GIVE IT UP. HOLD ON!
[screaming]
DOES ANYONE WANT A CAR KEYS? OH, THEY'RE
IN MY POCKET. OKAY, we're good. Everyone
give it up for the kid.
Vinny and Celeste Austin, do you agree
to tell the whole truth and nothing but
the truth, so help you God? Yes.
All right, cool, man. Hey, you look
nice. Thank you. I look good outside of
the kitchen, I promise.
>> I wasn't even teeing you up. That's a
mythical shirt? Yeah. Damn, dude. We're
making good Go to mythical.com and buy
my shirt. Okay, I'm not just flashing my
nip wheels, I got that shirt on. Okay,
B, before you we have two plates of
prime rib and lobster tail and Yukon
Gold mashed potatoes and creamed spinach
with a little bit of drawn garlic butter
>> [music]
>> and lemon. Now, one of these is from the
Costco and one of these is from the
Sam's Club. It is your job to eat these.
What a job to have today. It's your job.
You have to eat these. This is my job
and these plates were made [music] for
goddess like me, Josh. That's right,
dude. What?
I don't know, man. I guess. Okay, I'm
going to start.
>> I call you a goddess, you know what I
mean? You're allowed to.
>> No, you're allowed to compliment women
not physically. Call you, you know. You
know? Like like an Herbal Essences
commercial is allowed to go like,
"Unleash the goddess in you with this
shampoo." That makes sense. But me just
going like, "Hey Vinny, you're a
goddess."
Yeah.
>> Well, I guess it is normal. That's a
solid compliment.
>> Blaine, you're a goddess, too. Let me
compliment everybody how Josh likes to
compliment people. You are
hair.
>> [laughter]
>> Thanks, Josh.
>> Yeah, yeah. You're such a kind friend.
>> Non-normative evaluations, you know?
From visuals, this looks like a more
expensive plate just off of the way the
lobster is and the green stuff on the
top.
I'm going to try this one first cuz it's
in front of me. There's a horseradish
cream that is not from either Costco or
Sam's Club so we couldn't find
horseradish, but I wanted to eat it.
Wow.
That's salted really well, Josh. Thank
you. I put as much salt as I could
possibly fit on there. I'm going to try
the mash I'm going to I'm going to try
them all individually and I'm going to
say things
I'm going to say things with words
after.
Don't look at me.
I'm going to act like I'm not here.
You, too. Act like I'm not here. Oh,
that's Sizzler all the way. Sizzler's
not part of this though, right?
>> No, Sizzler's bankrupt.
>> [laughter]
>> Straight up. They don't exist anymore. I
thought this episode was called Sizzler
versus Outback. I don't think I'm in the
right episode. Okay, I'm going to try
this one now. Switch sides. This one's
wet. It's like a little pool I can jump
in. Yeah, they kind of had a nice little
natural crater. Whoa, this one's way
juicier. This does taste like A FREAKING
SIZZLER.
>> [laughter]
>> YOU. IT REALLY DOES. AND THAT'S a
compliment in my book.
>> It is. Sizzler used to be the shiznits.
I've never made a broiled lobster tail
like this
in my life. I've never broiled in it
somehow it really tastes like Sizzler.
Okay, the seasonings on this one are a
little bit more powerful.
>> Does the quality of meat taste any
different?
I like this one better than this bite,
but I like the seasonings and flavor
on this one [music] more than that one.
So, I'm going to keep going
cuz I got mashed taters all up in here.
Why you put this on here? Like it's
floating.
>> know. I kind of messed up, yeah. I
didn't know what to do. I wanted more
potatoes. Mhm.
Mhm.
You're just eating like you're getting
ready to play football. I might be. Run
in the parking lot. Do you want to run
Oklahoma drills, Taylor, do you? Yeah.
PUT ON THOSE PADS, SON. GET IN THE BULL
RING.
MHM. GET IN THE bull ring with me,
Taylor.
That was the coolest thing I've ever
seen in my damn life, dude.
>> Really? You were eating that LOBSTER
TAIL LIKE AN APPLE. That was hilarious
You look like you're doing a photo
shoot right now for something.
Free swing. [music] And they're like,
"We're just going to give you a lobster
tail. Whatever you do with it." You just
rip it. Overall, flavor-wise, I like
this plate a lot better. This one, I
like the sides and I didn't like the cut
as much. Yeah. But it was still seasoned
well and prepared very well.
V, in 3 2 1, you're going to put your
hand over which dish you think was from
Costco. Costco? Okay. Maybe, I don't
know. Dude, I ate some with butter. 3 2
1.
>> one. No, dude, that's Sam's Club. I
never been to Sam's Club. What?
>> one that is prime. The one from Costco
was choice. Yeah.
>> So we spent more money total at Costco
by about $150, but that's cuz we had to
buy like a giant untrimmed piece. So
when it comes down to it, this plate of
food cost $28. This plate of food only
cost $22 to make.
But I think it might be worth it for
that extra six bucks. Like this is This
is good. This is Dude, you just I want
to try the other lobster. We got more
lobster anyways. We're going to finish
having this fight. V, thank you so much
for your astute culinary opinions. Thank
you all for giving us the excuse
to cook [music] 21 total pounds of cross
rib roast on just like a Thursday or
Tuesday or whatever day this is cuz
we're eating good when those cameras
shut off, baby. I'm already covered in
grease. We'll see y'all next time. Check
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