Annaliese doesn’t wash her hands after the bathroom. Spread that rumor! Spread the rumor! Liar!- Spread the rumor! No, she calls me out, I call her out! Hey, welcome to “Mythical Kitchen,” where dreams become food. Some people ask me, they say, “Josh, where did you learn how to cook so good?” And I tell them, I tell them, “The Marvel franchise.” I took all the concepts from Marvel. They had one good thing. They had a Tom Holland “Spider-Man.” Everyone loved the Tom Holland “Spider-Man.” Then what did they do? They were like, we’re gonna add more Spider-Men. We’re gonna bring in Andrew Garfield. We’re gonna bring in Toby Maguire. If you take one good thing and you add a bunch of other good things to it, you get an even better thing. Even though Toby Maguire really didn’t seem like he wanted to be there. Did you need the cheque, Toby? So what we’re doing today, we’re taking one good thing, the peanut butter and jelly sandwich, we’re taking another good thing, the fried chicken sandwich, and we’re gonna combine them together, and we’re kicking Toby Maguire. And we’re gonna say to him, “Enjoy retirement. “Toby, you’ve done enough. “You were in “Seabiscuit” for crying out loud.” We’ve broken the recipe down to three simple steps. You can snag the time codes right there. We’ve got a full written recipe down to the description. Let’s get cooking. I know what you might be thinking. You couldn’t get through a simple cooking video introduction without spoiling a movie that’s been out for like five months. No, and now that my mind is on this one track that cannot be derailed, even if I tried, we’re gonna keep going down this. One of the villains was just like a lizard that could jump a little high. Are you serious? You had a scientist that was riding around a little hoverboard throwing bombs. You got a wizard that can transcend the spacetime continuum. And they’re fighting a lizard who’s like a little strong. Don’t get it. Oh, we’re making pickles. Sorry, I should have explained that. This is a cucumber, which turns into pickles with a little bit of finesse. And I’m gonna show you how to do that. This is called a mandoline. It’s also just known as the maimer ’cause it will maim you. So don’t- you gotta be careful and like, look at what you’re doing when you’re doing it, and don’t talk about Marvel movies. Here’s the thing, Tom Holland’s the best “Spider-Man.” You didn’t need to get the other Spider-Men in there. I came for the Tom Holland Spider-Man. I feel like I got baited-and-switched in. Couldn’t get Kirsten back? She’s like, “Oh I do art films now. “I’m married to Jesse Plemons.” I’m mandolining out some pickles, and what we’re gonna do is, we’re gonna put these pickles on a sandwich eventually. And that sandwich will be filled with fried chicken and the Cooterman’s of peanut butter and jelly. And where this idea came from… I wasn’t done, I sure need more. I don’t think I need more. We’re gonna put like three slices on a sandwich, what are we gonna do with the rest of them? Who knows? Find out. We did a thing for “Good Mythical Morning,” the show that we also produce on, that was an uncrustables chicken sandwich. And we made that and we were like, “Listen, this is… Jesus Christ.” And we were like, “It’s pretty good, “but this concept can be improved.” So then we did it on the TikTok, and then we’re like, “You know what? “That was okay. “But this could be even better.” And so now we’re kind of on our third variation of a fried chicken, peanut butter and jelly sandwich like Santiago from “Old Man In The Sea.” We’re out there just beating our fists against the wave, trying to get this thing perfect. And that’s what’s happening right now. And the way it starts is fish sauce, pickles. So I’m rubbing some… I’m rubbing some salt into the cuc- Man, I see you brother. All right, so we’re rubbing some- Why don’t we talk like Joe Dirt now? I see you brother. All right, so we’re rubbing salt into the cucumbers again, to get ’em like nice and pliable. This is a thing that I always do with the pickles. So just makes it nice and snappy. There we go. Pan’s hot. We’re gonna add just a little bit of white vinegar. Whoa… damn it. Get it together, dude. We’re adding some white vinegar, we’re adding some water, we’re adding some fish sauce. We’re trying to play with the idea of like a Panda Expressy, sweet fried chicken that’s sweetened with the jelly. ‘Cause like orange Marmalade, you could feasible use in a orange chicken recipe. And so we’re gonna use grape jelly instead. And to me, this all sort of makes sense. So we’re going to some other like, you know kind of Southeast Asian flavors going on in here. We got some ginger, and then I’m adding cilantro to the Mason jar. Why didn’t I put the ginger in there? That didn’t make any sense. I’m gonna squeeze some lime juice right in there. We’re just gonna wait for this to come up to a boil. We’re gonna take all of our pickles. You see they’re nice pliable. They don’t break in half. Huh… Oh, that’s nice. And then we’re gonna pack that in the Mason jar as well. And then we’re just gonna put a little juice on it and let that sit in the fridge for at least an hour at most. I don’t know, like eternity, when the sun finally explodes, you know? When one of Elon Musk’s little drones goes haywire and decides to crack the nuclear codes. I don’t know. Whenever that happens, the pickles are probably done. So we’re just gonna pack it. Too much. No, that’s not too much pickles. Well, I got the ginger, let’s put the ginger on top. The ginger should weigh down the pickles. And then you don’t need this to come to a boil. I’m not saying I wanna cook the pickles. We’re trying to dissolve the sugar here and get it a little bit warm, and then bingo-bingo. Yep, I made a mess doing a very simple task. and that doesn’t bode well for the rest of this. I gotta tell ya. It’s like how Peter Parker really made at a mess, both physically and emotionally, when he was trying to- like was he like trying to get into college? What low stakes? No one called him out for that. He was like, I’m trying to get into college, an absolute meaningless distinction because you could just… Tony Stark, don’t you have access to any of his resources. Why do you need to go to MIT? Kill your gods of higher education, Peter Parker and you almost destroyed the world because of it. So we’re gonna let these sit and then we’re gonna fry up some chicken. I mean, what a revelation Jacob Batalon has been though, you know? Great supporting guy. Marissa Tomei, she should have done an in-character as Mona Lisa Vito for “My Cousin Vinny” though. That’s my only beef with the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe, That they needed “My Cousin Vinny” to also be a part of that. ‘Cause then Ralph Macchio could have crane kicked that lizard. We have just a panoply of flavorful liquids here. And I remember which one is most of them. And so we’re gonna try and combine them to create a peanut sauce, kind of inspired by the delicious like Thai peanut sauce you’ll get with what’s it called? Satay? Truly delicious, which is technically Indonesian. Don’t tell David, and am I right? He’s from Indonesia. So we’re gonna go ahead and we’re gonna add some water to a pot, also known as a pan and then we’re gonna add some peanut butter to that to thin it out. We’ll just get it up to ten. We’re gonna kind of smooth it out. Man, I’m saving this for the jelly sauce. Hold on. I can like… yeah, here, I’ll scrape it. I’ll scrape it off. There we go. So we’re gonna get that peanut butter softening in there. Yeah, this is what I wanted for that. We’re gonna add that to there, and then we’re gonna add a little bit of garlic to it and then we’re gonna add a lot of bid- Oh, it’s burning! Wait, hold on. We’re adding some garlic and then grape jelly. This grape jelly, it’s gonna melt. All it is is sugar and gelatin. And so we’re also adding some… I’m the crane man, I’ll fight Spider-Man. I go… Not to be confused with Michael Keaton who is… “The Vulture.” “The Founder,” Ray Kroc, McDonald’s which is part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. What do we have in here right now? That’s me asking myself. It’s not like a rhetorical thing. Vinegar, grape jelly, garlic, Thai chili, and gochujang, that’s what we need. Gochujang, delicious Korean fermented rice and red pepper paste. Really, really a delight. And then a Thai chili that we’re gonna palm heel strike. This is the most dangerous palm heel strike. Don’t go pee after you palm heel strike. This will- if you do go pee-pee, you gotta go hands-free. Which I do a lot in the, so now I’ll just, I’ll pull my pants down on my ankles and I go hands-free. And whoever walks in, they walk in. Palm heel strike that just to express the chi, and then kind of… Ow! Oh God, that’s getting in the eyes. Then we’re just gonna let that reduce. Now we got a little bit of Thai sweet chili sauce that’s going right in into that. I don’t think that heat’s on. And then a little bit of brown sugar. It’s not coming out. There it is. Little bit of brown sugar, little bit of black pepper in that. So the idea is we’re gonna create a really delicious, syrupy, liquidy, sugary sauce. We’re gonna fry up some chicken thighs. We’re gonna get that sauteing in this delicious grape jelly, all-out orange chicken, put the spice, the vinegar, the little bit of aromaticness from the garlic- Oh, soy sauce needs to go in, peanut sauce too. That’s right, that’s right, that’s right. We’ve added all the liquids into the pans. And now it’s only a question of what verbs to do. Guess you just got stir ’em, but neither of them seem hot yet. Well, we’ll wait a sec. I have a lot of other Marvel Universe hot takes. My hot take is that I haven’t seen 95 to 100% of the movies. And so when I watch one they’ll just be like…. infinity stones. Then I’m like, what’s that? What’s… I don’t understand. I thought Thanos was a brand of speakers. I-I-I really don’t know. I watched them piecemeal. Like the coming of age tale of “Spider-Man: Homecoming” and then the rest is just lost out. I think it’s just, I have too much ADD, and so that like when they start introducing like more than one hero and one villain I’m just like, you’ve lost me. I’ve tried to watch “Infinity War” in theaters but it was after work, and it was one of the theaters with the nice reclining chairs. And so I literally fell asleep right during the opening scene. And then I woke up, and like Chris Pratt was punching a purple guy and I was like, I’m back out. And then went asleep again. And so that’s all I know about that movie, it’s Chris Pratt punches a purple guy. Spoiler alert. This is looking good. We wanted to thin out the peanut butter. You could just spread peanut butter and jelly on this, but we tried that in our first iteration and it didn’t, didn’t super, super work out great. But here get a nice way, I wanna add…. Ooh, that’s nice. Hold on, maybe I’ll add a little bit more water. Thin that up, a little bit of water, take it off the heat. Now I see it’s nice, runny, and drippy. That’s gonna be a lovely sauce to spread on our buns. We got all the soy in there, the aromatics, the jelly, Thai chili… The jelly and the Thai chili, that’s all melting down. We’re gonna let this firm up a little bit but let’s do a taste of the hot sugar liquid. Oh, oh, Ooh, Ooh. Ooh, that’s spicy. Needs a little bit more salt. Jesus, this is gonna be a face melter, in a really good way. So when you think of peanut butter and jelly you think of just being in immense pain. Right, fry some chicken. I’m like Dr. Strange from the Marvel movies. Yeah, Marvel’s a scam. You know what else is a scam? . And you can listen to Nicole and I talk all about it on our podcast, “A Hot Dog Is A Sandwich,” latest episode just dropped recently. As recently as, sometimes soon to now. And as well as on Spotify. Really, podcast is, it’s so much better than this cooking show. It’s, oh my God, it’s easily the best thing that we do. This cooking show is a piece of crap compared to the podcast. So you should listen to it. So I’m gonna season it. This is such a small chicken thigh. I don’t want that one. I’m gonna season up some chicken thighs, just a little bit of salt, and then we’re gonna drop that into, and make sure this is rice flour, corn flour and wheat flour. Like I said, you got your Tobies, you got your Andrews, you got your Toms. You’re gonna want all of them coming to the party, even though it’s gonna be like way more expensive to do it. But it’s like budget isn’t an issue when you’re Marvel and on a cooking show. So it’s like, I can just get rice flour whenever I want, you know, but at home, just do normal. Use pancake mix, use Bisquick. I don’t know, that’ll probably work. So we’re just gonna dredge that. Leave it in there. We’re gonna dredge a couple more. We’re gonna drop a bunch. So drop like four bad boys in there. Shoot, I forgot to season it. Now we’re getting season in the flour. Yeah, no, it’s off-the-rails already. Okay, and then now do the swishy thing, ’cause you see chefs do that. And we’re just gonna fry these here, chickens. Beautiful! And then now, since you’ve been working with raw chicken, you will wash your hands, Annaliese. I’ve seen Annaliese go to the bathroom. Annaliese doesn’t wash her hands after the bathroom. Spread that rumor, spread the rumor. Liar! Spread the rumor. No, she calls me out, I call her out! Annaliese doesn’t go to the bathroom. She doesn’t- She sees a bird in the road, she just drives through it. The chicken is done. We’re gonna pull it out. I know what you’re saying, “It’s not as golden brown as some chicken I’ve seen, Josh.” That’s ’cause there’s corn starch in it. And also, it’s gonna get covered in jelly sauce. Well, you haven’t seen chicken do that either. So we’re gonna just toss the chickens in the jelly sauce. We’re gonna use these nice little tongs to kind of toss this around. Can you see, Maggie? Yes. Look at this chicken. I know. Thank you. Yeah, there it is. Make it nice and wet. You’re gonna crank the heat on this jelly sauce to get the wet chicken. And then this way the chicken will be wet. I don’t know. I don’t know if this is gonna work out. There we go. It’s kind of nice and caramelized now. You can take this, pop it back on there. Is Mindy coughing from the vinegar vapors? No. You sure? I’m okay. Sorry Mindy. Nice and little caramelizy. Is that good? That looks so good. It looks good? You like it? It looks so good to me. You like it, I like it. Chris likes it. Chris likes it? That was great. We should just crowdsource all of the opinions about the food, I’m like, “Chris, do you think the Stew’s done? “Maggie, do you think that the potatoes are cooked?” Here we go. So as you’re jelly cooked down more, the reason I was watering it previously is that it can caramelize a little too much. There we go. This looks pretty dankidie-dank. And it’s gonna taste dankidie-dank as well. Okay, all right. So here we got four delicious jelly coated, Thai chili bashed chickens. And then now here’s the bun. It’s a pretzel bun. First time I’ve ever seen a Petzel bun on the show. This is big. No, no screw you guys. So we’re gonna take, we got that covered in the jelly. We’re gonna take our peanut sauce, we’re gonna use that as if it were a mayonnaise. We’re gonna spread that on the bun and then we’re gonna take like one jelly chicken, maybe another jelly chicken like that. Yeah, does that look good? Kind of a little low coated, ain’t it, Nicole? And then we’re gonna wipe my hands there, gonna take a couple pickles. Which is a little… kind of finger the pickles out. It’s a nice thin pickles. And you kind of drape ’em. Drape our pickles over it. And then peanuts. Look how crunchy, we like that. We like crunchy. We’re gonna add some peanuts, and then we’re gonna take a couple fresh mint leaves. Why? Well… Nicole. You wanted them? Yeah, I know, but why did I want them? I don’t know. I think it’ll be good on it. It’s your call– Well, I’m doing it. There we go, couple of mint leaves. What if this is the thing that makes it bad. It’s your fault. No, I know. I know, this is what I do. You asked for it. I know, but oftentimes I’m wrong about my own needs. And then some more peanut butter sauce on top. Here we go. And then we’re just gonna do a little crown of thorns. That’s a weird thing to say right now. Anyways, chicken sandwich is done. It is a peanut butter jelly chicken sandwich. We got our gochujang, rice wine, vinegar, grape jelly, boiled fried chicken on a pretzel bun with a little Thai inspired peanut sauce on there. Some fish sauce pickles and inexplicable fresh mint. Eating time. One last call for chick and sandwiches. Okay, we’re gonna smoosh it down a little bit. Here we go. Give it a pat… cheese and fudge. Maggie, my son, Simba. Okay. And this is gonna be nuts, so. Oh, oh, oh! This might be the best chicken sandwich I’ve ever had. I know we do a lot of silly things. You got these ole’ PBJ. Well, it all just really works. You don’t get a ton of the grape flavor. All you’re tasting is the sweetness and a little bit of acid from that. Put a ton of aromatics into it. The pickles, you know, what’s the kicker? The fresh mint. The fresh mint, the unsung hero of this whole day. Okay man, nice little . But don’t take my word for it. Take Mikayla’s word for it. ‘Cause we’re gonna go spork her. Mikayla, get ready for the sporkening. Mikayla, the sporkening, it has begun. Oh my god. Do you wanna eat a peanut butter and jelly chicken sandwich? Yeah, let’s do it. Oh, thank God. If you said no, I don’t know what I’d do. Okay, here, you take…. You take that. Okay. You film me. I’m gonna pretend to feed you with a spork, except I’m kind of just gonna flittle-flattle this up, and then you should probably just grab it with a hand unless I can support you in any way here. I’ll hold the plate. Yeah, hold the plate– I’ll hold the plate. So I can– So this is a grape jelly and gochujang glazed fried chicken, pretzel bun, fish sauce, pickles. Do you have any food allergies? Not that I’m aware of. We’re about to find out. Okay. I’m really proud of this one. Mmmh, mmmh. Yeah, wow. You did it? Can I have more of that? Yeah, this whole sandwich is yours. I’ll take it. No, I– Can I just like walk away? I fear the rest is, don’t- I mean, if you’re gonna walk away, like continue talking to the camera, we got a run time to film, Mikayla. Come on, come on. What do we think we’re doing here? This is delicious. Kind of serving some Panda Express vibes a little bit, you know, the sweetened coating on the chicken. I love anything sweet and savory. And this is… Ooh, it’s dripping. Yeah, it’s a wet sandwich– All over the set, sorry about that Link, so… Yeah, sweet and savory. The flavors just, they’re very powerful but they’re incredible. And then this sandwich itself is just like super juicy and like– You should be a judge on “Chopped.” Oh, that’s my dream. That’s my dream. Let’s just start a new “Chopped.” Let’s do it. You know? Yeah. But for toddlers, they have “Chopped: Kids,” we need to do it for two-year-olds. For two-year-olds. I think two-year-olds could actually, like really come up with– They can work a deep fryer. They could. Yeah. I don’t think I wanna see that though. We’ll, figure it out. Anyways, Mikayla, thank you so much for being our sporky. And thank you so much for stopping by the “Mythical Kitchen.” We have new episodes for you every week. We have new episodes through our podcast, “A Hot Dog Is A Sandwich,” every Wednesday, where we get you a podcast, hit us up on Instagram and TikTok @Mythical Kitchen, with pictures of your mythical dishes under #dreamscomefood, just like Brett and Sammy did. They got a stand mixer. And the first thing they made with that stand mixer was a flaming hot Cheetos pizza. And honestly, it looks better than mine. So Brett, keep your day job. Don’t come after mine, please. Like I need this, Brett. I need this. You’re too hot to handle and so is your, bakeware, get a Mythical Kitchen oven mitt available now at mythical.com.