Straw’s clean. No. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, welcome to Mythical Kitchen. Today we are answering the age old question or it’s at least as old as a couple weeks ago when we started doing this series. Does it actually matter where do you buy your groceries and how much you spend on them? We are making two identical dishes going with chicken pot pie today, the perfect dish for 106 degrees summer in Burbank, California. And on one side we’ll have a pot pie made with ingredients from 99 Cents Only and on the other side we got a pot pie made from Whole Foods ingredients. Those two pot pies will then be blind taste tested by a judge to ultimately determine, everyone with me, does it matter where you buy your groceries and how much you spend on them? The acronym is . When I was 12 years old, I was on the Venice Boardwalk by one of those novelty t-shirt shops, and one of them said, “Chicken pot pie, my three favorite things.” And as I read that, I said, this is the quintessence of comedy and nothing will ever be funnier. And I was absolutely right. And here we are making chicken pot pie on the cooking show. So we got all of our groceries from Whole Foods over here. It’s upside down so I can’t read it, it’s upside down to me. So anyways, we got our groceries at 99 Cents over here. We are using pre-cooked chicken, this is grilled chicken strips in a bag that’s frozen because if I’m making a chicken pot pie, I’m probably making it for like leftover rotisserie chicken or something so I wanna use some pre-cooked chicken. Over at Whole Foods, again, meats is really where it gets expensive especially with all the organic stuff. It’s about $13 at Whole Foods and only $2 per pound. So that’s really expensive. A funny thing about this though, the flour, the butter and the heavy cream from 99 Cents store were actually more expensive per volume than they were at Whole Foods. Don’t mind me if I’m looking and pointing at the wrong things. Just listen to the words that come outta my mouth. Can we make my body, can we flip it in post so my body’s pointing to the right things because I am confused. Anyways, that said, the total amount that we spent at Whole Foods, which is this one is $52. The total amount that we spent at 99 Cents store which is that one was $25 for doubling up on the amount. We’ll see what it actually shakes out to when we boil it down to the per unit volume. You look at the produce, this is all gonna get broken down into a mirepoix that’s carrot, that’s celery, that’s onion that we’re gonna saute and put in there. Whole Foods, I’m not impressed with your celery today. This looks kinda like dark and not very taut. This looks nice and crispy, but that said celery maybe should be darker than I’m actually used to. Carrots, onions, garlic, man, this is gonna be a dog fight to the very end. It could come down to this chicken or it could come down to how bad I am at making pie crusts. Okay, here’s why I’m confused because this one’s Whole Foods, this one’s 99 Cents store. This one is more expensive than this one, despite the fact that this is a 99 Cent store and this is what people call whole paycheck. But here’s the thing about Whole Foods, their 365 line, again, we’re not sponsored by Jeffrey Bezos but their 365 line actually is like relatively inexpensive compared to a lot of things. And they’ve done a lot of work to try and get their prices down because Whole Foods used to be like which we’ve already done an episode about. Didn’t really have a lot of its own store brands and it was just really top tier expensive prices. But once they started getting more and more popular, they were like, we should try and make good food for cheaper. So like, I don’t know, they’re trying. Are they still a symbol for gentrification? Whatever, I don’t know man. Let me buy their spaghetti sauce. Some people grate the butter when it’s frozen because effectively you want chunks of butter that are going to evaporate and then go pew, pew, pew and create little air bubbles inside there, so don’t touch your butter too much, try and just poke at it once. There you go, because your hands can actually warm it up. All right, so what we’re doing right now, I just got a Final Destination fear where my fingers went in there and it got my… So we’re gonna put some water in. Yeah, but this isn’t a good poury. See what happens. Nah, let’s kind do it. If you sprinkle when you tinkle, please be a sweetie, wipe the seatie. Like a cat we’re just gonna gently toss it and bring it together. We’re gonna wrap it up and we’re gonna get in the fridge. We’re gonna rest it. We’re gonna roll it out. We’re gonna make some chickens. We’re gonna go ahead and we’re gonna make a rue. We’re gonna saute aromatics. We’re making the filling for the chicken pot pie, it’s basically like a very thick soup. It’s a combination of pudding in soup, it’s poop. Then we are going to saute our aromatics, that’s the mirepoix onion, celery, carrot with our garlic, and then we’re gonna add the flour in there, cook that together for a rue, thicken it up, make it thicker than a snicker. Snickers that thick? Aromatics are nicely cooked. We got the carrots are softened so we’re gonna take our flour we’re gonna dump that in, we’re gonna stir it around. I feel like I should only go right-handed. I feel like I should go like stir, stir, stir then stir, stir, stir. It’s like a car, however, allegedly you’re not supposed to like use the the two feet on the gas and the brakes which never made sense to me. I feel like I’d be a much more efficient driver if I just drove with two feet. Or is that something that somebody lied to me about? I’m gonna taste some chicken stock. Okay Not bad. 99 Cent store chicken stock, oh, the Whole Foods chicken stock is terrible. Oh my god you can even see it’s so blonde, the bones weren’t roasted. Store bought chicken stock is always like a bit of a cluster fluff anyways. Fantastic you’re gonna get that boil a little bit. I’d like to add my stock a little bit at a time to a rue. Because otherwise I think you can get nice big clumps, I like to create a little paste or a pudding paste or I guess that’d be called, a paste. Look at me, go. I’m ambidextrous, means I live on water and on land. All right, so that’s good. I gotta solve this eventually, but we’ll figure that out later. Dumping in the chicken again, man, bro, I think, I think 99 Cents store has this one on lock right now with the salty chicken and the better stock, like I think it’s gonna be significantly better. Both of these are looking nice and thick, I’m gonna taste it for salt. Eventually I’m gonna dump ’em. I’m gonna dump peas in last, because if you mash the peas around too much you’ll go blind. But also they will just sort of like crush and emulsify into the sauce. So like you don’t want that. Yeah, when we’re looking at that cream, which is a nice healthy meal, this is a hardy meal for anyone who wants to grow. Lot of ingredients, I love that. Love that. I love what we’re doing here. Peas going in still insulted gingerly toss your peas. Gingerly toss your peas. You’re gonna wanna scoop up and around there. That’s looking like all she wrote, man. That’s the hell… That’s looking like murder she wrote. I feel like I haven’t looked at the camera in a while. Hey, welcome back. We’re just making big old pots of slop. Should have been, instead of where dreams become food it should been welcome to Mythical Kitchen, we’re making big old pots of slop. And we’re just gonna flipity dippity. There’s pie crust over there, swatted. All right. And just kind of gently use your little fingies you don’t mind if there’s a little overlap. Then again, this is a homey dish. Piss off. All right, cool. Now flip, flip, flip. There we go. All right, we got it Shut- Oh, that’s on the burner. That’s on the burner. Okay. Okay. Oh yeah, baby, wait, but no like Austin Powers like, oh, he’s like, oh yeah babe. Oh yeah, baby. Yep. That’s the, that’s the 99 Cent store one, kind of kind of fudged it a little bit. That might be too high. I’ll slurp some off with a bogus draw in a second. Dumping, Whole Foods. I always forget what the stores are. What? What? No, it’s good. You want it to be big, it’s pie. Come on. Big old pie. Yeah, maybe I’m going to bail a little bit outta here. No… Do it. Why? The straws clean. No. Yeah I only got peas. All right. Pop the top. Once you pop the fun, don’t stop. You go ahead. Yeah, as in listen, nineties kid we had, so we were inundated with so many more fun slogans than kids these days have. I forgot. I don’t know how to make a pie. Let me figure this out. All right, hold on. We’ll get those on there. That seems right. And then I feel like if I was doing this, Hypothetically if I, if I was doing this what I would do is I would take a scissor and I would go around this, hold on, here’s what I’d do if I were me and some would argue that I am. But again, it’s kind of an ontological argument I’m not prepared for, here’s what I do. I do this and then there’s a crimping process. I feel like I’d want my hands to be wet. I can’t explain why, but I feel like this is what I’d want. Right? Someone to the pastry degree stop me. But I feel like I’d want my hands to be wet and I would kinda like, kinda just like, no I’d probably fold it over itself. That looks like ass. I feel like you just get like a little hedge clip. What time is lunch? I got what? Eight minutes? Well you see if you said I have eight minutes, I have eight minutes. Say legally, Analise, I am required. All right, well I did it. Now I gotta egg wash it now, that’s its own beast. This kind of looks cool. Yep. Yep. That’s thick. That went pretty thick and heavy on that one. The crimping work was so good the crimping wasn’t the problem it was the mindset that was the problem. We are so close to doing this. I’m gonna carve the letter J for Josh, into both these pies. This is fine. Here just open up a fissure. Yeah, it just needs a hole. All I need is a hole. As long as the hole is there, the steam can get out. Jordan, welcome back. Thanks. I had a better opening line. I didn’t, before you have two chicken pot… Wait, can I test a joke on you? Yeah, please. Chicken pot pie, my three favorite things. So we have two different chicken pot pies before you. One is from 99 Cent store, the other is from Whole Foods. You’ll eat them taste, decide which one you like and which one you thought came from each respective grocery store. This one is prettier. I’ll just say that. I’ll start with that. That might be user error by the way. I’m assuming… Yeah, that makes sense. I’m pretty bad. I made both of these though. Okay. Soupy yum. What’s the vegetable blend you do in a chicken pot pie? Okay, so peas. We used canned, we used canned peas- From both places. Controversial, from both places. Okay. Mirapoix, no potato because to me the crust is the potato and we actually used pre-cooked frozen chicken. Because, you don’t like it? No, it’s delicious. No potato. Oh yeah, no potato. Grow up. Okay, what else is…the moment I break into this one it already looks more vibrant inside. Carrots are canned carrots or fresh fruits? No. So it was fresh carrots from both, fresh mirapoix from both, canned peas from both, frozen flame grilled chicken breast pieces from both. Okay. The chicken is much better in this one. Notably better. What are you tasting in the chicken that’s different? It tastes actually grilled a little bit, but the bigger thing.. well and visually it looks like they put the like fake grill marks on it. The texture is so much better, that’s the main thing. The texture is so much better than this one. This one kind of just like melts like an Andy’s mint in your mouth. Which is not typically what you’re looking for from chicken. I want chicken mints. I think this is Whole Foods. I think this is 99 Cents store. Why? Except for all the other reasons you just stated. Okay. You gasp. So I’m like, am I wrong? Mm. I could be wrong. Hold on, let me eat half of each chicken pop pie and then tell you. Both of them are very good. I think the chicken in this one is better which makes me think Whole Foods really prides itself on the quality of its meat. I don’t necessarily think 99 Cents store is bringing it with the meat. I think they have a lot of strengths. I don’t necessarily know if they’re stronger than Whole Foods when it comes to meat. But I would, if Josh had done a better job cooking either one of these I would happily eat the whole thing. This is a rough one, I’m not gonna lie. This is rough. You should have seen me trying to cut the hairs off the pies. That was tough. Yeah no, both are good. I like both. Jordan, you are abse-Goddang-lutely correct. This is the pie from Whole Foods, this is a pie from 99 Cent store on this side. $22 to make the whole pie, which like, I don’t know man that’s kind of, that feeds like six people and then only $11 to make a whole pie over the 99 Cent store. The chicken was significantly the most expensive difference. I actually thought you might like the chicken in the 99 Cent store better because to me it was just saltier. I know normal people at home though know how to use salt so I don’t think this will be a problem there. I do think that both dishes are really good. I don’t know if this one necessarily is two times as delicious as this one. That being said, this one does taste a little better. So if you can splurge, maybe splurge on the chicken maybe go to the 99 Cent store for all your other ingredients and just get the chicken at Whole Foods. Honestly, that’s kind of how I shop in general. Yeah. If there’s like a specialty, I’m like oh I want the nice shrimp. I’ll go there and then I’ll buy all. Absolutely. We always want the nice shrimp. Jordan, thank you so much and everybody out there thank you so much for stopping by the Mythical Kitchen. Go support local, women hate myself. The Mythical Kitchen’s favorite way to obliterate garlic immortalized in t-shirt form. 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