- Does fear exist in this dojo? – No sensei! – Does pain exist in this dojo? – No sensei! – Does defeat exist in this dojo? – No sensei! – Strike first, strike hard, no mercy! – Sir. (lively music) – Back in 2014, Taco Bell decided to get into the fast food breakfast game and came out with the morning edition of its namesame, the waffle taco. – It was discontinued only a year later but today, we’re bringing it back. – It’s time for past food! – Past food! – Hoo ha, hoo ha, righteous! – Let’s go, Bro! – Let’s do it! Trevor, do you remember the waffle taco from Taco Bell? – I remember it being advertised but I don’t ever remember eating it. – It was really good, well-ish. So it came out in March 27th, 2014 when Taco Bell decided to play off the game that McDonald’s started with fast food breakfast. They actually god actors whose names were Ronald McDonald and they got them to tweet in support of Taco Bell’s breakfast menu. They also produced an entire commercial where they crafted this dystopian realm which Ronald McDonald was a dictator and people were trying to escape this dystopian commune to the land of Taco Bell breakfast, this is a real thing, Taco Bell had an entire production. – Sounds so fake. – The point is Taco Bell invested so much money into their original breakfast menu, launching their waffle taco was supposed to be their signature item but it got discontinued only a year later in favor of the biscuit taco which I actually camped out at Taco Bell at five in the morning, there was no one else there. – (laughs) You told me this story and the workers were really confused. – They had no idea the biscuit taco exists. So the Taco Bell breakfast menu has gone through so many different iterations but today we are crafting the original because it’s an important piece of history. – I am very excited, because if there’s one thing that I love, it’s waffles, and I also love tacos so I mean, this seems very exciting for me. – I love jorts. – I do, really? – My hips cramping. – That’s crazy, and my legs are shaking. – From Taco Bell, we are getting the eggs, which you see I didn’t even know these are eggs when I saw these in the fridge. We’re also using the signature, very finely shredded cheddar cheese. – Five cups. This is what a side of cheese looks like from Taco Bell. – You can take it like a shot. So we have to make the actual waffle taco shell ourselves, it was deep fried and heavily artificially flavored, we have to make the sausage patty that Taco Bell discontinued and we have to make brown syrup. – That sounds exciting to me! – It’s not Maple, nothing came from a tree. Let’s bring this back from the past! – Back from the past! – Bro! – Bro! – Waffle Taco! (lively music) All right Trevor, we have to make the actual waffles for the waffle taco but first, I want you to make us some dewmosas. – What is a dewmosa? – It was actually called Mtn Dew AM. This is a real thing that Taco Bell tried to do to sell more Mtn Dew in the morning ’cause they were like look, Mtn Dew sales spiked from 11:30 Am to two PM and then again at 11:30 PM to two AM we need to hit that like six AM to nine AM Mtn Dew rush, the sad thing is, this sounds really refreshing to me right now and I’m actually excited for it. I’m gonna start mixing our waffle batter, we’re just gonna start with a fair amount of flour, we’re just eyeballing everything ’cause again, we’re not trying to make the best waffle so to make the best waffles they do it kind of souffle style where you whip the egg whites but this, we need something floppy so it can adhere to a taco shape inside the fryer. – Here you go, Josh. – Uch, I love brunch. Here cheers. – Cheers. – To life and Taco Bell. – And Taco Bell. Oh my God. – Another! I’m dumping in a bunch of sugar ’cause the waffles were really sweet and that’s actually kinda one of the weirder things about this item ’cause they get so much of that fake maple flavor and so much sugar but there’s this like weird Taco Bell spice. – Oh my God, I’m gonna throw up. So at the same time that Taco Bell came out with the waffle taco jack in the box actually came out with a waffle breakfast sandwich. If you’re calling this a waffle taco, you better call jack in the box a double decker waffle tostada breakfast sandwich, right? That’s what we’re talking about. This aint a waffle taco, this aint a taco at all, this is just eggs inside of a waffle. But it’s Taco Bell so they had to call it a taco. – Hey, I pride myself on being really good at making pancakes however, I don’t know anything about waffles. – Smell that. – Oh, that’s very mapley. – God, I got some in my actual nose. Oh, ruh-oh. – Very mapley. – That’s a lot of maple. – Go one more egg, one more egg, one more egg. – Here you go Josh, comin’ in. – Oh! Thank you! – That was well done. – Great teamwork. We have a basketball hoop in the parking lot and me and Trevor got there and we practiced our alleyoops. Yeah the cool thing is the hoops are right near our bosses cars and so sometimes we hit ’em with the ball but we don’t tell them. (soft music) All right we’re just gonna mix this together. – You got flour on my jorts, Josh! – [Josh] Pour more milk. There it is, that’s what we’re looking for. – That’s lovely. – Yeah, nice pasty waffle batter, we got our waffle batter. – Why did you, why did you? – I don’t know, I don’t know dude, we’re going fast and– – Josh, what are you, why would you, who does that? – Dude looked, I’m all jacked up on Mtn Dew bro, okay? I can’t think right, I got the shakes! – You’re like every junior high kid ever. – All right so we’re just gonna get some waffle batter in here, we’re gonna see how this turns out. I don’t like to. – Did you scrape the bottom of the– – Trevor, you’re out of line right now. It’s one of those days, it’s one of those three dewmosa days. So we’re just gonna close this up, we’re gonna let this go. (timer ringing) There we go! – Wow! – [Josh] These are nice lookin’ waffles. – [Trevor] Are you gonna grab ’em? Yeah yeah bare handed. – I don’t like how you do that – [Josh] Bare handed, bare handed. So it’s nice and floppy and pale you can see it’s got some wiggle to it. So we’re gonna put it in the deep fryer and it’s gonna fold up and then we’re gonna put the eggs and cheese in it. – And what else in it? – And also brown syrup! – And what else in it? – And also Mtn Dew Mosas. – Sausage, Josh! – And also sausage! (light music) Trevor, we gotta make the sausage right now. – Okay. – So we have this pork shoulder right here and it’s about half frozen because we need sausage to stay very cold while we’re making it. – Okay. – We’re gonna dump a fair amount of sugar into it and a lot of spices that Taco Bell actually uses in the sausage. – Okay. – Why are we standing like this? – I told you, this is my power stance. – I guess I’m here then. Okay, I need you to cut that into about one inch cubes. So the reason we want to keep the meat extra cold when we’re making sausage is because the cold allows the protein called myosin to develop. Myosin is the protein that makes sausage have that signature snap and that is created by agitation and cold and also the curing process of salt. – How do I know you’re not lying to me? – What do I gain from lying to you about myosin? – It makes you seem smart? – I am smart, we play Jeopardy all the time, I scrape. And I’m actually gonna add some ice chips to the blender, just to ensure that it’s cold and it’s also gonna emulsify some water into the actual sausage itself. All the movement from the food processor is actually going to heat up the sausage just by the way that friction adds heat to things. – All right. – So this is gonna keep it extra cold. – See that’s a real thing unlike myosin, Josh which fast food chain do you wish had breakfast? – I’ve always had a fantasy. This is what I fantasize about at night. I want Chipotle to make breakfast burritos. So I want just a two pound brick of breakfast in my face. I want a walk into Chipotle with my own basket of eggs and just be like can you just crack this onto your steam table and cook these eggs up for me and put ’em in my rito, but they won’t do that. Taco Bell is the first restaurant to actually launch a profitable breakfast in year one, which I think is fascinating. And what’s extra interesting is people think that McDonald’s actually launched all day breakfast in response to how successful Taco Bell’s was and also have aggressively Taco Bell advertised against McDonald’s to launch their breakfast. – Oh yeah, the dystopian future. – The dystopian future, dude we gotta watch this video. I’m adding sage and garlic powder and a little bit of onion powder and a whole lot of black pepper then I’m gonna pour a lot of fake maple syrup in there and a lot of sugar. – I can’t feel my fingers. – Trevor! – What? – Does fear exist in this dojo? – No sensei! – Does pain exist in this dojo? – No sensei! – Does defeat exist in this dojo? – No, sensei! – Strike first, strike hard, no mercy. – Sir. – Okay, so we’re gonna go ahead and add a lot of sugar to this as well because there was a lot of sugar in that breakfast sausage. – Sweep the leg. – Can you imagine people in the ’80s, we’re like Taco Bell got a waffle taco, they’d be like no way, man! – They’d be like no way, man! – No way, man! I think we’re good with this amount of pork. Trevor, can you open up that Crisco, scoop some Crisco in here, so typically you’d use, just be normal about it. So typically. – I got pork on my hands. I don’t wanna contaminate. – We’ll wash it. – No we won’t. – Just hand it, just (laughs). – I got a wait, I got a spoon in my pocket. – Oh I got a spoon. – I got a spoon in my pouch. – Just, I don’t wanna touch. – No, get in there. – It’s weird. So we’re gonna go ahead and just get some Crisco in there. We wanna get a little supplemental fat, yeah yeah yeah. – What, that’s a good technique. – [Josh] Want me to put it back in the pouch? – No, not with the Crisco! – Yeah, put it back in the pouch, it’ll keep everything moving down there. Anyways I’m just gonna go ahead and buzz this up. Yeah so it’s gonna make an unsettling noise but all it’s doing is grinding the ice chips up. – That looks very appetizing. – That smells nice though. – No it doesn’t. – Yeah, it smells like raw pork! All right, that’s what we’re looking for. This is gonna be our sausage patty. We gotta go ahead and we’re actually gonna flatten this out we’re gonna create flat discs and then we’re gonna try and mold those disks, that was a discus, I used to throw discus. He gets it, we’re bonding! Let’s make some sausage disks. I got a pouch full of lube here and I’m just gonna go ahead and spray down our silicone mats right here, we are making sausage, what we have to do is take the sausage, roll it out on this, cut it into disks and then actually, there it is, and actually curve it in these taco molds so it will fit our curved waffles because to Taco Bell, right? Everything is curved. Which is not an actual structure of tacos, Taco Bell kind of invented the hard shell taco, you can trace its roots back to the Hallaskin dish Tacos Doratos. – Am I doing good? – Yeah, we’re gonna actually fold that over it. I love that you’re just getting your hands dirty. – Ah, you’re right, frick, okay now I gotta do the one handed roll. – Oh you’re doing it? – No no no, you and me both. – What do you mean? So Tacos Doratos right? They’re just like a folded corn tortilla that’s fried in shallow oil but then Taco Bell, Glenn Bell, saw this family making them and was like I can do that but adapt it to an American audience so he started pre-frying his taco shells. – Okay. – And just used these kind of curved stand alone structures and then filling them with the meat et cetera and all the lettuce and the cheese. – Yeah. – So that became what most Americans think of as the taco so that’s why everything at Taco Bell is actually just sort of curved, oh no. – Oh Josh. – No that’s good. That’s good. – You ripped it away. – No this is a good meat sheet! Trevor, what’s your favorite sheet meat? – I don’t know what sheet meat is, Josh. – All right, so you’re gonna go ahead and take that silicone mat and kind of curve it between these. So we’re just gonna pat this out into very thin molds then we can always like shape it. – We did terrible, Josh. – No no no, we did pretty good, we did pretty good. What if we just put the ball in there. – [Trevor] Oh, and then shape it! – [Josh] And then shape it. We got a curved sausage, I think we just do this. – Wait wait wait, I got one more coming in. – Jam, uh oh. No! – Finger it back, finger it back! No no no no no, get yours in there! Mold it, but I gotta hold it here, I gotta come around with this. There had to be an easy way to do this. – [Trevor] Is that good enough for you? – Have you seen that Taco Bell made? What do you mean– – Maybe that was the way is we lay it flat and then make kind of an oval shape. – That’s one of the things on this show, we’ll make the final dish and then people will see it and be like that doesn’t look as good as the Taco Bell picture and it’s like yeah, that’s not the real item at Taco Bell, that’s something that they spent like $10,000 a day for a photo production crew to make. You see the actual item at Taco Bell? You see those eggs, they look like scrambled mayonnaise. There was like cottage cheese in there, we’re trying to recreate the experience of Taco Bell to the fullest! – Exactly. – Which means we’re doing this. All right Trevor, we just gotta fly this in the oven. – The ovens right there, I don’t know why you walked over there. – (laughs) Was like over here. I was gonna put it. – Pop those in the microwave. – We’re gonna put this in the oven. Eh, probably what, what do you think? About eight to 12 minutes? I touched the hot grate on the oven, that hurt. (light music) Slide to the left. Slide to the right. That sausage turned out really well. I’m really proud of that. It’s got the nice curved shape. – [Trevor] It’s taco-shaped. – So I’m gonna go ahead and deep fry these waffles and you’re gonna make the syrup. – I have three ingredients here, syrup, maple and brown. – What other ingredients would you need? That was all that was in Taco Bell’s actual syrup packet that they gave ya. It’s not maple, it’s maple-flavored breakfast syrup. Dump some corn syrup in there, color it brown, put some maple, that’s all we need. So I’m gonna take this waffle and I’m gonna drop it in the oil, I’m gonna use a paint scraper to jam it down and curve it. – Josh, it’s not a paint scraper, it’s used for tempering chocolate. – I’ve been scraping paint off the walls with this when I get nervous for the last year. – What, is that what all those marks are? – Yeah, that’s my corner. All right, so we’re droppin’ it in and we gotta work fast. You gotta jam it down. – [Trevor] Just gonna pour the rest of the maple in there. – Oh yeah yeah yeah no, it’s a lot. You want to reek of maple extract. Look at that! – Oh, it’s taco-shaped. – [Josh] Taco-shaped deep fried waffle boat. – No. – So dumb, it hurts so bad. Here Trevor I may need your help. Try and hold this like this. – What? – Yeah. – With the tongs. – With the tongs. – And then I’m gonna go around you and then you’re gonna drop that in there and then I’m gonna jam it down but you need to keep it squeezed at the sides. Okay, you ready? On four, one, two, three, four. Yeah, there had to be an easier way to do this. – No, this is the way they do it at The Taco Bell. – That’s why they actually discontinued it is ’cause it required two people and they were spending too much money on paint scrapers. Fun fact. – It’s lookin’ brown. – Pull it on three, one, two, go! – (laughs) We did it, it’s good! – This is why, this is why we test. We’re gonna go back to the old method. I still don’t regret our try. – No, ’cause now we can eat that one for snack. – Yeah, dip it in some syrup. – Waffle in the syrup, wow! Very nice. – You havin’ fun? – I’m havin’ fun. – [Josh] Maybe I can just use my hands. – Don’t, stop, no, Josh. Why’d you drop it in so aggressively? – What do you mean? This is good. We’ve got our taco waffles waffle tacoed. – Yeah. – Should we make this? – Yeah, so how does it work? – [Josh] I guess we’re just gonna take some curved sausage – Okay. – Just gonna nestle that in our curved waffle. – Okay. – Then you’re gonna take some of those eggs. – [Trevor] Oh those are– – [Josh] They’re cold, we’re gonna heat it up. – Jarringly cold. – We’re gonna heat it up. We’re gonna wrap it in foil, let it steam in a bag and then put some cheese on top of that. The fake maple needs to sweat into the cheese. This is the accurate. – This cheese is jarringly dry – [Josh] Yeah yeah yeah, well there’s so much anti-caking agent on the cheese. – How do you feel about that? – I’m feeling pretty good about this. This is it, man. We did the waffle taco! – That’s it (laughs). – I never want someone to laugh and say that’s it when they see your sausage but I get it, it doesn’t look like much right now. That’s why we gotta put it in the box, then it’s gonna all come together. – That’s gonna make it better? – Oh, it’s gonna make it better. Trevor, we brought this thing back from the past! – Back from the past! (orchestral music) – What a romantic Taco Bell breakfast we have set up here. – Very excited. – Can I pour you a baja blast mosa? – I would love that, thank you. – Absolutely. – Oh, that turns an awful shade of green. – Yes yes yes, indeed indeed indeed. – This looks like poison. – Cheers. – Cheers! – [Josh] To life. (light music) And let’s crack open these waffle tacos, let’s see what we’re workin’ with. Looks like it did when we made them. – Wow, I’m shocked always by how much this looks like Taco Bell. – So I’m gonna go ahead and saturate mine in syrup ’cause this is how I like to eat my waffle tacos when they came out and then I’m also gonna fire sauce the whole thing ’cause it’s Taco Bell, you gotta fire sauce it. Trevor, let’s get into these waffle tacos. – Okay. – I’m gonna shift my sausage to the tip. – I’m just gonna go really big. – Do we cheers a waffle taco? That’s how I did it when I ate ’em. – Yeah. – All right I’m gonna try and get my whole mouth around it. (light music) Mmm. – Mmm! – Well, there’s something objectively Taco Belly about it. It could be the fact that we dumped fire sauce all over it. – The fire sauce is the best part. – The weirdest thing to be is how it eats like a chalupa. – Yeah. – Because you get the fried shell and the fire sauce. – Yeah. – You see this old fry oil, we intentionally did not clean our deep fryer for a month and a half just to recreate the Taco Bell experience. – In comparison to other fast foods breakfasts, it’s on par. – It’s on par! – You know, it’s not doin’ anything special for me, but like I would swap between this and a McMuffin. – Put yourself inside your own mouth. Is it happy right now? What are the emotions in your mouth? Give me your mouthmotions. – My mouth emotions say that– – Mouthmotions, one word. – My mouthmotions say that yeah it’s got eggs, it’s got waffle and it’s got sausage and it’s all wrapped together in a nice neat little taco shape, and I’m happy! – I actually love this way more than when they actually had the waffle taco. I think it was one of those absence makes the heart grow fonder situations where at the time I didn’t appreciate it. – Definitely, I’m excited. This is really good. Also, the DewMosa is really good. I mean, I feel so austeer right now. – Can I get another? – No, you! – Another! – Chugged yours. Oh my God, that came in so hot. – Trevor (burps) should Taco Bell bring the waffle taco back from the past? – I’m indifferent. – You’re goin’ neutral? – Yeah, I’m goin’ neutral because honestly, my life is neither better nor worse for whether or not this exists. – This is the best morning I’ve had in six months. This is making my life right now. I absolutely think Taco Bell needs to bring the waffle taco back. I don’t know that it would do anything for their business. I don’t know if anyone else would like it but me. But, I would camp out again Taco Bell for your waffle taco, I would sit outside there at 4:30 in the morning, in the tired arms of dusk and dawn for this to come out. – No you wouldn’t. – (laughs) I would, I absolutely love this. – No you wouldn’t. – I wouldn’t camp out, I have like a job now and I get tired very easily. – Yeah. – I’m all for this, I think Taco Bell needs a re-revamp of their breakfast menu and I think the waffle taco is just the item to do it. Oh yeah, give me some of the brown. And if you think Taco Bell should bring back the waffle taco, tweet @TacoBell using #PastFood, thank you so much for joining us in Mythical Kitchen we got new recipes for ya every week. – And don’t forget to check out A Hotdog is a Sandwich every Wednesday wherever you get your podcasts. – And as always, hit us up on Instagram @MythicalKitchen with pictures of you mythical dishes under @DreamsBecomeFood, see y’all next time, imma slurp it. – I’m slurping some fire sauce. – [Josh] Make your kitchen more Mythical with these stickers and magnets, now available at Mythical.com.