Does watching over 6,000 hours of cooking content make you a better chef? Meet Taylor. He’s been editing Mythical Kitchen for four years and seen approximately 6,000 hours of Mythical Kitchen content. That is 250 days worth. So today we’re going to see how much he remembers and how much it’s improved his cooking skills. Josh. You start doing the same thing. I’m a professional. To make it fair, I’m going to swap roles with Taylor’s job. Even though I’ve watched zero hours of him editing, you just stare at me all day. Yeah. That’s a crazy life you live. Everyone, please welcome our editor and camera operator. Taylor, you become a man today, son. Okay. Uh, Taylor, you have been here for pretty much every single episode. Yeah. But you’ve never been here for every single episode. No. And you have watched me for an ungodly amount of hours. Yeah. You know, I often think about this. Who do you think sees you more? Me or your wife? Definitely you. Yeah. 100% you. What– What has been the most alarming part of my face you’ve seen? Your tongue. A lot of it. I’ve noticed I do this thing that you’ve probably noticed more where when I go to take a bite, I stick my tongue out first. I hate how intimately you know me, but also I kinda love it. Yeah. Um, well, today we’re trying to see if you, watching thousands of hours of me has actually turned you into a better chef. And to test that I have three distinct culinary challenges to run you through. You have never watched me edit. Well, except for when you walk past me to go to the bathroom, you’ll just like walk by and you’ll go, huh, that was fun. Um, ’cause I see my face on so many screens around here and I feel entitled if, obligated to comment on it. And I should probably stop interrupting your, your work. But I can usually like sense you just behind me. And so then I’ll pause and then I’ll turn around and wait for your comment and then you walk away. I’ve also wondered how you knew to pause and turn around. I can feel you. The gravitational pull. Yeah. Um, but you’re gonna, you’re gonna try editing today too, so I’m not gonna try editing. I’m gonna edit this whole dang video. I found this. I have no idea what it does. It says Groot. I am. I am Groot. Uhhuh. I would’ve said this is a portable iPhone charging thing. You know, like you can plug your phone in here and it’ll charge. Maybe you can, can I plug it in? Yeah. If you’re watching this right now, that probably means that I already failed and somebody had to. Scrap it together to make it actually work. I’m running you through a very specific mythical kitchen set of challenges. We’re gonna test your knife skills. Right. Your burrito basics, and can you make a sauce outta the random crap we have in the fridge? Yeah. Yeah. And if you pass all of those challenges, I will let you post the most embarrassing thing that you’ve ever seen in the thousands of hours of footage on my Instagram. Oh, I have so much to pick from. It’s a deal. Yeah, it’s a deal. But I, I have to get a little bit more into character. Um, so I’m gonna change, I also brought you a little change. Um, a little change. Um, you’re not gonna dress me up as an adult baby, right? Because– No, you’ve done, you’ve done that. While Taylor’s getting ready, I wanna let you know that this portion of today’s video is sponsored by Opera. Even though I’ve never been an editor, I do spend a lot of time on my computer writing recipes, writing interview questions, rewatching mythical kitchen videos where I make cheese steaks. I’ve started using a new browser and it’s really leveled up my screen experience. Opera is a browser experience like no other. Let me show you some of my favorite things it can do. Put on your flip flops ’cause we’re taking a trip down to Tab Islands baby. I can group tabs based on context. So I’ve got a bunch of recipe docs grouped over here. And over here are a bunch of mythical kitchen episodes. I’m planning to re-edit after I get so good at editing. The best part, I can expand or collapse my tab islands whenever I need to keep things neat. Opera has great theme options that you can customize however you like. Personally, I think midsommar is the way to go and I like to modify the keyboard sound effects too. I can also use split screen mode whenever I want to cleanly compare two windows next to each other. Just drag a tab downward and it’ll neatly snap into place. Super handy if you’re live streaming and want your stream software on one side and chat on the other. I like using it to compare which cheesecake I made looks the best. And perhaps the most important feature, their music player, which lets me control my background music without having to pull out my phone or open an app, I can just hover over the player icon and the controls appear right there. You could even detach the player and move it wherever you want inside or outside the browser window. Now these things might seem small, but they really do make a difference, especially when you got cooking challenges To get back to. Big thanks to Opera for sponsoring a portion of today’s episode, you can download Opera for free with the link in the description. I wish I had your life. Taylor. That’s such a good shirt. Thank you. Wait, if you’re not gonna wear those beads, can I have those beads after the shoot? Yeah, because these are– I don’t, I don’t, need these, are they the same? Yeah, yeah, yeah. They’re the same. First search result on Amazon? 6 bucks. My guy, also, Uh, I’m gonna cherish this shirt so much. Oh yeah. I don’t know what kind of neurodivergence I have. All I know is I really like talking about apples and I really do. I mean I tried to make it as look as scary as possible ’cause I know that you wear scary stuff. Yeah, it kinda looks like a Joy Division shirt or my Kimdrac shirt. Do you want my Kim Dracula shirt? That’s okay. Alright. Today I’m gonna run you through, this is the knife skills challenge you are going to mince all of that garlic and dice that onion. This is the true building block of cooking something you would’ve seen me do hundreds of times. Yeah. However, I also have a secret set of criteria here that I’ll be judging and I’ll not tell you what they are. Uh, put the time on the clock and then three, two, one. No, no, go. I need to see how you set up a cutting board. I’m trying to judge every single aspect of you practicing. Okay. But I have to do what you do before any episode first. Effectively. Yeah. Which means, um, anybody wanna make a dollar? Anybody? KG? KG? Um, yeah. If you could just, thanks. Get your protein. Protein. Protein. Okay, now him. Thank you. Mm-hmm. I, I brought up my phone ’cause KG, I’m gonna Venmo you for all of the dollars that I haven’t paid you over the years. Yeah. It’s like 20 bucks. Yeah. It’s like, yeah, no, I’ve been keeping a tab. It’s 28. Period. You’re on, you’re Karolina. I’ll probably just take this. You’re welcome. 28 bucks. Anybody that I owe back pay to. Now’s the time. ’cause I got my Venmo out so. It’s a trombone. I’m gonna wet this. Smart. And why are you wetting it? So, uh, because I’m gonna put it down so this doesn’t stick the cutting board that I chose over here. Smart boy. Come on. Look. Look, I’ve also wanna be a part of like the Big brother, big sister program. You know what I mean? But now I worry that if I did have little mentees. They would all just end up dressing like this and and acting like me. Well, actually. Heavy duty dish soap. Taylor, it’s good for your hands. Okay. Now, I don’t know, uh, exactly how you mince it, but I know that you, you do a little too much show business right here. I think I do just the right amount. We sold that Palm heel strike T-shirt. Okay. I am not nearly as tall as you. And this counter comes up to about my. Yes. Elbow almost. Mm-hmm. Which you said I have to stack. Correct. So if you could, there it’s, thank you. I’m so sorry. How do you do this with the beads? Huh? It feels like a carpal tunnel issue. Roll ’em down, roll ’em down, roll ’em down, down. There you go. Okay, so I, I have to like block the elbow, I think. See, look at that. What, did you ever see someone like do something so horribly wrong, but the end result ends up horribly right? Oh, okay. I feel like that’s what I want. That’s fine. That was really interesting. You’re, you’re, you’re arm was like incredibly straight. It was kinda like you. Let’s try. You wanna like, but okay. Bend down to my height and do it. Bend down to my height and do it. And see what, how you, how you do. Oh, I see the, I see your point. I see your point. Is that how small you think I am? Um, so then what you would do, you would, uh, you would look at it and then you’d probably, you’d do this with your fingers. Um, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The claw. And then you do this so that you don’t cut yourself. The claw! Sorry, Jim Carrey. You want me to mince this? Mince? Yes, yes, yes. So I haven’t gotten to the mince part. So then you would just do this. That would cut, and then I’m just gonna go this way. Just seems a rocker technique. You look like. Uh, sorry. I feel like a, a proud papapa looking at his, at his son right now, though, you look like a, uh, like a disaffected line cook who’s just chopping his like thousandth garlic for his thousandth brunch service. And that’s a compliment. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I think, um, you should just put a time wipe in, uh, try and figure out what that means. Time wiping three. Two, one. This already feels like school and I hate this. This. Oh, the whole thing. Okay. Control C. And then now you can go the other timeline, which is good. Good. This one, and then you can paste it where you think it should go. I edited. Okay. But now play it and tell me if you think that’s right. Uhoh. One. That’s not how that works. This is what you do. You cut this. And I’m gonna assume this is trash and not throw it on the floor. So KG has to clean it up. So, uh, originally, uh, chainsaws were created for childbirth. Is that the level of fun that my fun facts are? So then what you, what you have done? Mm-hmm. Which is not what I would do. What would you do? This is what I would do. This is not gonna be a good dice. I’m just gonna call that out there. I’m just showing this technique. Josh, you start doing the same thing. I’m a professional. I was a little editing machine over there. I’m just showing you my technique. This is what I learned at Chapman. Okay. Wait, no Chapman. What? I think it was Emerson. I’m from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Oh yeah. You and Hitch went to a school that I don’t know the name of. That nobody knows the name of. What’s it called? You wanna shout ’em out right now? Point Pork University. Point What? Or as I called it, Poot Poot University toot. I’m not, did you see? Yeah, you’re dicing an onion. What the, what the [bleep] do you think I do? Okay, can I show you what you’ve done? Show me what I do. Show me what I do. Taylor. I’m curious. Now, this is what you have done, and I know this because I watched you at four x speed last night at two in the morning. Wait, what was that making when I did. Oh, by the way, you at four x speed. Scary. Oh, that’s six and a half speed for most people. So there, those are all the cameras over there. And then they line up with all these numbers. It’s the, it’s the wide single, single angle boy. It’s like we got the, the personal pen pizza. We got the overhead and the details cam. Yeah. Future you. Yeah. Okay. I’m okay. You’re gonna cut to this camera. It’s like a Mr. Beast video. Boom, boom, boom. Okay. So I’m gonna want to get like a extreme close up here. Okay? Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. I want to see your eyes. What do you think that, like makes the viewer feel? I’d say connect. Connected to you. Okay. Let’s watch it back. Okay. You’re gonna cut to this camera. Okay. You’re gonna cut to that camera. Okay. Dylan. Dylan on me. Dylan on me. Dylan. Okay. Hitch. Yeah, she’s got it. Okay. Now you’re gonna lean in. Come here. Look at that one. That’s the camera. You’re gonna cut to that one coming at you, buddy. That’s pretty good. How do you feel about that? I feel really good. I would send that to me. My secret criteria, did you set the cutting board up correctly? You did. I’m actually very proud of you that you used the wet paper towel method to stop your cutting board from sliding safety is always first in the Mythical Kitchen, order of operations. Now I would’ve cut it in half sooner than you did, and you only cut off the root, which is the point that you should actually keep intact. That way you have a nice little onion handle. Well see. I didn’t, I didn’t know the, the butthole versus the nipple part. There’s, there’s the nipple at the top of the butt, hole at the bottom. That’s it. That’s how every creature in God’s green earth has been constructed. Nipples is the top butt hole at the bottom. You should know that about an onion. Um, you’re, uh, holding the knife and you’re. Uh, manual posture was good. You did the bear claw technique with the knuckles. That was good. Thank you. You did. Palm heel strike the garlic, funky technique. Whatever gets the knockout, gets the knockout. At least, least five. I’m at least five. Uh, overall presentation of the garlic and onion uniformity in size. You picked through this, I mean, this. Wasn’t the right technique we’re, we’ve seen some kind of longer, pieces right there. See, now you’re going, you’re going over here into this that I didn’t cut. I’m seeing does that look uniform to you? Taylor? I think you got most of the way there. The one thing that I was looking for that you really didn’t do. Oh boy. Is talking about saving your onion skins for stock and then laughing it off because what a joke that anyone would actually save their onion skins. Well, I would, you know. The three people in the comments, I wanna save my onion skins and then the three liars below them going Me too. Overall, Taylor, I do give you a pass. Wow. That’s huge. Now burritos are my favorite food, it’s Spanish for little donkey, and you Taylor, are my little donkey. Okay, so I am going to be looking to see how you construct this burrito. You have all the ingredients in front of you to make a burrito. You do not have to use every single ingredient in front of you that that’s a plus one right there. You do not have to use every single ingredient in front of you because I’m looking to see which ones you choose and how you choose to construct this with its architecture. Okay. Um, before I do that. Have you ever wanted to cook, but you can’t? Have you ever wanted to be part of the Mythical Kitchen but you can’t? Well, you can get a shirt. We have the new Mythical Kitchen staff collection. We have. We have two shirts. We got a hoodie, we got a hat. And guess where they’re on sale? Mythical.com. No cooking skills required. That was pretty good. I think we should let Taylor do all of the merch plugs from now on. Oh, hey. Hey. What’s that over there? Is that um, really cool Eagles sports plays? Oh, this is, oh my God. This is a Seon reverse hurdle. Bam. Suck it Jacksonville. Boom. Backman. And then you can tell. That he was either gonna spin or hurdle and he was like, why not do both? And it’s those seven yard gain sale that really add up over time. Yeah. So it’s not just looking at yards per carry, but it’s really looking at like success conversion rate. Right? Yeah. So if it’s third and three, he’s getting three. You know what I mean? It’s actually being able to move the change, so then sustain those drives. And Saquon did that all year, man, what a magical year. Then you go, well, Brian Westbrook I don’t want this. They’re like, similar thing with Westbrook and Sean Jackson, where it’s like they’re not returners. I’m gonna start with the meat ’cause I know that for sure. Does the order matter? I don’t know. What would you do to this? Uh, if it was, if you weren’t trying to, to, well, I would put french fries in this. Yeah, it’s a plus one. I should put the cheese down first though. Yep. You know what I’m gonna do? This is a Josh move. Sometimes you need to start over. You wanna time wipe again? You figured that out earlier. Yeah. Hit him with the time wipe, Josh. Thats sick yo. Start slamming little iris diamonds in here. Boom. You get Iris’s diamonds. You get Iris diamond, let’s see how this goes. I’ve taken a lot of time and energy in helping you shape your, your outfits. It’s true. Into who you are today. But I wanted to wear this, um, to channel, sorry, channel, um, your older self. Was that a plus one? That was a plus one for saying chennel. Chennel. And then you probably would use your hand to do this, but I’m not gonna do that. That’s the right amount of meat for sure. It really is. You’re gonna put way too much in there. Dude. Keep in mind, you’re the one that’s gotta roll this, so this you’re gonna put in there. Yeah. Uh. This is not nearly as wet as you would make it. It’s gotta be really wet. Like everything you do is so wet. It really is. Um, and that’s intentional. I don’t know, I don’t think. I see where the conflict is cause that’s somewhere between a wet and a dry. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. These aren’t, these aren’t that wet. Mm-hmm. Well, maybe if I dig to the bottom. The digger you deep, the letter the bean. The digger, you deep. Okay, so what you would do, you always, you, you say pinkies are important for this. You’re, uh, a little, a little pinky help can go a long way. So you always like, do this and then scoot back. You scoot backwards. Okay. Hold on. Oh, no, no, no. Yeah, go ahead. I want you to game theory this one. I don’t know. Really imagine yourself rolling the burrito, how you’re about to roll it and where the bites are going to land. Can you, um, in post, uh, pick some type of music that you think fits this moment? Stuff Cyber goths listen to. Do you think this music software knows what a cyber goth is? Do you know what a cyber goth is? Not a single bit. Can I show you a picture of cyber goths? Yeah. Oh. [cyber goth music] It is pretty good. Do you think that fits the moment? I don’t think that fits the moment. No, not. You can go ahead and scroll down then. Okay. Yes. Like, like later Ramstein. Repull your resources. Um. I specifically at the five x speed last night at 2:00 AM watched you and Trevor try to roll a burrito and stuff kept coming out, but Trevor ate it, so it was like it never happened. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So could you do that for me? Yeah. I got, okay. Um, uh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. I heard boos happen. Yeah. See, look, look, look, look, look, look, look. Ew. It’s even grosser so close. All day, Josh. Have you ever seen a hippo eat a watermelon? Yeah. It’s this. This is like that. This is exactly that. Can I just turn it up? Yeah, yeah. Turn it all the way up. I’m glad you messed up. I don’t find mouth noises disgusting. I find them alluring. It’s clear. Yeah, and so I wanna really, really keep that in. Go ahead. Inspect what happened here. So it is incredibly wet at the bottom, but I do love that it’s like a soup dumpling. This does tailor look like a good burrito. I love what you did with the cheese. Get full cheese coverage that generally holds a lot of the ingredients in. I will say when you wrapped this burrito. You did it entirely the wrong way that left all of the beans only at one end. Oh, I see. You’re saying, okay. Yeah. You do want all of the ingredients to be evenly dispersed. And I think I may have gotten the bean end at the bottom, but just give it a try. Um, are you critiquing on the way I eat this as well? Mm-hmm. Okay. So what you do is you usually squeeze. Mm-hmm. And then you suck. Yeah. Well, you miss the tortilla entirely. Well, because I’m about to explain. Okay. You called this the Hoover method. Correct. So you suck. I don’t want it. Hmm. And there’s entirely too much in your mouth. Doesn’t it feel good though? It taste good. Yeah. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Follow me. Follow me, don’t worry, Josh will cut it. Is that, is that Arizona gunslinger? Oh yeah. That’s my favorite hot sauce in the world. I just drooled. Genuinely though, you did do a lot of things right. You did warm the tortilla to make it pliable, right? You did avoid the bean and rice trap. Well, you avoided the rice trap. The beans were optional. I almost did. You almost avoided it. The wrapping technique, this is where I have to deduct. Not only major point sailor, but to me, if you do all of the steps right in a recipe, and then at the crucial point, you get it completely wrong, IE wrapping the burrito in the wrong direction to where you only get beans on one end. Everyone has bitten into a Taco Bell burrito and gotten a bite of sour cream. Look, that’s that is all meat. Dylan, Dylan, Dylan, Dylan need to inspect the butts of these burritos. Oh no, look at that. Taylor. Taylor. That’s guac. The guac is the green. Look at that. All of your beans ended up here ultimately, Tyler. I’m sorry, but I have to fail you in this challenge. Now you have one more chance. I drooled on camera. Listen, nobody criticized you for that. You have one more chance to get it right. Great job. As you see, we have french fries in front of you, a fine food. However, there’s one problem. You need to make me a sauce for these fries using all of the knowledge that you’ve compiled over the thousands of hours of me that you have watched. Right? Okay. Time starts now. There’s never been a clock. Josh. Edit a, edit time in the clock. Okay, so this right in the bottom corner. Okay. Here. You can change this up. Remember before when you zoomed in my eye. Yeah. Yeah. You can do whatever you want with it. How do I do this? You wanted to do that? Yeah, I wanted to do this the whole time. Okay. Time starts now. There’s never been a clock. Josh, Edit a, edit time in the clock. Okay, so this right in the bottom corner, this bowl far too big for what you do. Yeah, that’s about it as what I wanted because now the spinnings implies movement. Josh loves white creams, so we’re gonna go with, wow, there’s so much hot sauce. Thank you all compiled this year. ’cause we, we cleaned out the hot sauce for at the end of last year. ’cause we had some that were six years old. Okay. So you can play and then whenever it’s done, we compiled it. And then do what? I’m on break. What I would do, because I’ve watched you, um, like a son watching his father. Teaching them how to shave. Now you don’t measure a single thing. Absolutely. Yeah. Can I ask why the sour cream? Uh, because. Uh, white cream. Okay. You love a white cream. The mayonnaise, someone call it a white cream. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. There’s no cream in the mayonnaise sometimes. Exactly. Ah, thank you for answering that. Okay, Taylor, can you tell me what mayonnaise is? Uh, eggs blended with oil. And in science we call that an? Emulsion. Wait, why does this look like this? In what country was mayonnaise invented? Uh, duke. What? So I’m gonna take this sauce from this. Because it’s, it’s spicy and it’s good. I’m gonna, I’m going for like a, like a spicy aol. Yeah. Dropping the eye at the end of what is technically a French word. Not Italian, but that’s fine. Okay. This is broken, which explains why everybody coughs in here when they do this. ’cause it’s just, there’s no holding back. Yeah. Well, I’d like to say you broke it. Okay. So, but I do know salt, fat. I need acid. But then we got heat here. Mm-hmm. So I need, I need acid. I need acid. Where would you get acid from? I’m gonna use this. Pretend it’s a lime. That is something I’ve also done before the, the pico gallo in my fridge at home is made with lemon instead of lime. ’cause I went, ah, [bleep]. Forgot to get limes. Pretend it’s a lime. Okay. But what I’m gonna do before I do that, ’cause I’m not a big lemon fan, is I’m gonna taste it. Hold on. See, I, I wish I could burp. How many diet Cokes you drank during the shoot? Well, zero, but I also have a soft flap. There are tasting spoons here. I’ve never seen you use one. Absolutely not. However, I have my own, I have my own tasting spoon right here. Now what do I do with the rest of it? Am I supposed to lick it all off? Yeah. Yeah. Was that too much? You can, that’s, that’s way too much. I’m just gonna keep it there. I, I know I’m not supposed to guide you through this. You supposed to do it yourself. But that will give you a rash. Okay. I think I got it. I think I got it. Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait. No. It needs something, but I don’t Where would that be? Where would that be? I think it would be over there. I think I know what he’s coming for. Bye God. I think I know what he is coming for. Uh, nope. Uh, nope. Uh, wait. Yeah, he is. Got it. He is got the red boat fish sauce. Ladies and gentlemen, he’s found the Easter egg. Josh? Yes. Taylor. There was one time when you used this on camera and I almost threw up in the parking lot. KG had a picture of me almost throwing up in the parking lot and, but now that’s it. I gotta put it. Yeah. Oh God. Okay. That seems like a lot. Have you never cooked with fish sauce? Uh, no. Because you have made me absolutely horrified. I’m gonna go in for a taste. Would you like to grab a french fry? Yeah. I don’t find mouth noises disgusting. I find them allure. Sour cream was a wild card. I did not expect you to do that on account of, I would never add sour cream to a mayonnaise based sauce unless it was ranch dressing. However, you did call out the fact that all good cooking comes from salt, fat, acid, heat, or at at least that’s what one cookbook author said, and then somehow everybody knows that and thinks that there’s so many more components than salt, fat, acid, heat. Not every dish needs all of them. Why did we all suddenly decide that that was just like the Bible first French? A lot of respect for what Sam. Back to my wins. Back to your wins. You do have a very well balanced sauce. And then the umami kicker from the fish sauce I think goes really good. The consistency here, you want it to be able to nappe on a spoon, so if you put the back of a spoon in, you should be able to wipe your finger clean. Got a nice track Mark. Did you run around the kitchen all crazy making it, or were you calm now? You stayed calm under pressure, which I don’t think is the right move. However, you did say several insane things throughout this episode, which to me, Taylor, that means you have won the challenge, everyone giving up for Taylor, he’s proved he’s truly the mythical chef. Do you like that? Yeah. I thought it was really good editing’s, easy, man. I don’t know what you’re always talking about. We ultimately posed the question, does watching 6,000 hours of cooking content make you a better chef? From what I saw today, today, Taylor, it does. Do you feel like it has genuinely? Yeah. And to think that of those 6,000 hours, like three fourths of it was just you making an omelet. This is pretty good. Oh yeah. Oh, we shot for so long. Because here’s the thing, we only see like, you know, the 40 minute video or whatever. No, he, he watched every single attempt. I totally forgot about that. I didn’t know what the daylight looked like for like weeks. Taylor truly thank you for your service. You have earned the ability to take my grease covered phone and post anything you want from– Your background is just tacos? Yeah, so sweet. Julia’s background is is me. Taylor, truly, I am proud of you for this. I, um, God, I hope I’m proud of myself for how this edit turns out. I’m proud of all you for watching Mythical Kitchen. We got new cooking videos out all the time. Check back Taylor. Hit ’em with the outro. Uh, yeah, we got, we welcome to the kitchen. Make kitchen when we make food have dream. Come food. Uh, please subscribe to our channel, mythical.com. Click the link, subscribe the bell. It’s like a David Lynch version, you know. How do you feel? I feel great. I think we made a fantastic episode. Yeah. I think all we have to do is save it and export it. Alright, coming up File Export Media. Oh. Our new Mythical Kitchen staff collection is here. Grab yours today at mythical.com and become a part of the MK team. No culinary skills required.