Are Boomers better cooks than Gen Z and Millennials? I feel old. Today, we will be definitively deciding which generation made the best chefs. Now, our first contestant, we have the handsome Gen Z man himself. That’s right, our very own gamer boy, Trevor Evarts. Yo, what up? It’s Trevor Fortnite Evarts, and I’m here to rock and roll. Just got back from Tomato Town. What up? I have no idea what that means. I will be representing the Millennials. I grew up on BuzzFeed which Hogwarts house are you quizzes, and I still remember the philosoraptor meme. No? Nobody else? And then finally for our Boomer contestant, he’s right on the edge of Boomers and born in 1965. Patrick Q. – Thank you so much. – Let’s give it up. Nice to see you. 64, please. I’m officially the last year of the Boomer generation. And that was the best year of the Boomer generation. It was, it was. It was a beautiful year. Early Blondie, The Clash, newspapers, bookstores, all stuff that you probably haven’t heard of. Rock the Casbah? They’re selling books in stores now? Yes, it’s, it’s an amazing new development. Yeah. Well Patrick, thank you so much for coming here. I am really excited to see what you got in store. We have a very specific challenge today. We have four ingredients that all of us will be using, decided pretty much at random. We have a tomato, heavy whipping cream, rosemary, and chicken. We wanted a blank slate, and now all of us have also chosen our favorite secret ingredient that represent our generation perfectly. Fortnite. This will be all tasted blind by a judge at the end to see who’s the winner. Okay. You guys ready to get cooking? He’s on his phone. Sorry, I’m on Tiktok. What is up with it gamers, it’s your boy Trevor Fortnite Evarts, for my ingredient, I have picked the Pink Sauce. As seen on TikTok and Instagram. It doesn’t get more Gen Z than that. Josh had as seen on TV. He had the Fushigi Ball and ShamWow. I have Pink Sauce. As seen on TikTok and Instagram. Let me paint you a picture here. It’s 2013, housing crashed five years ago. You thought $35,000 a year was a lot of money until you realize how much things cost. It’s your 21st birthday, you’re sitting in something called a gastropub. They were all the rage in my generation, and we thought they weren’t gonna go anywhere. There’s a man, he has a bun in his hair. We called it a man bun back then. He looked like either Mumford or one of his sons, and they were indeed playing in the background. You thought you could change the world by having a job. Turns out, wasn’t exactly the case. The burger you’re eating, it had bacon jam on it. There was bacon ground into the patty. Bacon was everywhere. I had a T-shirt that said bacon strips and bacon strips and bacon strips and bacon strips. Because my era of YouTube was Epic Meal Time, and that was it. My secret ingredient is bacon because that is part of my culture and this is indeed an epic bacon moment Josh picked bacon and when I, you know, it’s so brave. He picked bacon. Way to explore the outer edges of creativity on your home turf. So, you know, what great job. So, I have actually got an ingredient that’s hard, the kiwi, once they were sort of what is this thing ingredient. And the kiwi, it’s, compact, it’s furry, it’s green, it’s kind of tart, kind of sweet. But I’m going to incorporate that into a dish that I hope works. Sautéed chicken breast with a rosemary au jus. Tomato, onion, gratin with rosemary breadcrumbs. Okay, so here’s the thing. My strategy for this is to say as many words as possible, that Patrick doesn’t know. Okay, that’s how you keep the competition on their toes. Josh, he’s been around my shenanigans for years. I can’t really say anything that wouldn’t, that would, that would, you know, knock him off balance. But Patrick, I can say things like, yo, that was a big chungus moment! Let’s freaking go, gamers! Hold on, let me hit the Griddy. Patrick, are you familiar with the Griddy? No. Dude. Doesn’t even know the Griddy. There is a 28 year age difference between Patrick and I, and I feel so much, so much more culturally connected to him than I do Trevor. I cannot understand a single word that Trevor says. His jokes, there is no punchline. He speaks in baby voice and makes video game references because there is not a single monoculture left that Gen Z has to cling to. At least we had teen comedies of the early 2000s and that was something. What? Stifler’s mom! I’m going to do two things at once, which would be great. And I’m going to start the breadcrumbs. I’m just going to take a little bit of this. You should try doing zero things and getting on TikTok instead. Yeah, you know, by the time I’m on social media, it’s become obsolete. So I, it’s the proof of how obsolete it is if I’m on it. So, long may it last without my joining. What do the kids love more than ramen? Nothing. Nothing they love more than ramen. So, I’m going to take, kind of, because we’ve got tomatoes and we’ve got rosemary, so I’m going to do a little bit of marriage between kind of a ramen and a tomato soup action. So I’m going to get some of these sort of tomatoes, obviously going in here, with some onions, some tomato paste, some green onions, some garlic, more tomato, MSG, ginger, soy sauce. That’s all of them, I think. Water. And then this chicken. So, we’re just gonna get a lot of these ingredients going in here, kind of marrying the flavors of ramen and tomato soup. We’re gonna insta, I touched it with both hands like a doofus. I only touched it with pointer finger and thumb, though. Patrick may not approve, but I don’t care. I don’t care, because, listen, I’m literally a freaking epic gamer, elite gamer. I’m literally Diamond 1 in Valorant, so, 1V1 me. So far I haven’t touched any raw chicken, therefore I’m comfortable touching this with my hand. I’m gonna put some breadcrumbs over here. Patrick, do you agree that life is too short to cook on medium? I hadn’t heard that before, but I don’t disagree with it. I like cooking low, or I like cooking high. But medium is, that’s a good expression. I hadn’t heard of it before. Do you know where it’s written? I don’t. Look down. And I’m an avid fan, so I don’t know how I missed that. I’m gonna grind this chicken into a burger. We’re getting our bacon jam going right now. I’m gonna pour the tomatoes. That’s one of the secret ingredients. We’re gonna let all that cook down. It’s gonna get nice. And sort of supple, we’ll get the smokiness of that bacon, tomatoes are gonna cook down, I’m gonna give it the flavors of ketchup, we’re gonna add, boom, brown sugar into there. Like I said, everything I ate growing up was a burger. Every single restaurant, you had to have a fancy burger on your menu or you just couldn’t survive. And now everyone’s eating these simple little smash burgers. Harkening back to quote unquote simpler times. No, I want more complicated times. I want a blue cheese whipped cream on my burger. I want, I want bacon, every single inch of that. I remember I once had a bacon fat, washed, old fashioned that I paid $18 for when I couldn’t afford anything. Was it good? No! Not at all! Tastes like pork fat, but we had it. We’re putting this on soup. I can read upside down, soup broth. Anybody can see with that? Anybody, not upside down can read that? Four hours? Four. We’re going for four hours, everyone. Hey, I hope Patrick brought some, some caf, some coffee or something. Folgers, am I right? Because it’s gonna be past his bedtime in about 30 minutes. Shoot, I was, God dang it, chicken fingers. This dish, by the way, comes, was made, famous by, Judy Rodgers of the Zuni Café in San Francisco. One of the preeminent restaurants of the late 80s and 90s. You know, a salute to Judy Rodgers, one of the great early female chefs of, California. So I have my emulsion that will keep the cream from separating. This is beautiful cream. And I’ll add a little bit right there. Again, not too much. Keep the emulsion going and bring this slowly to a boil constantly and slowly incorporating more liquid. So that the emulsion stays solid. Alright, I’m gonna break down this chicken. Slap that on there. Now there’s a single bone running through the thigh. You’re just gonna scrape your knife down there, doing some actual cooking. Not just dumping ramen in a pot and pressing go. I’m sorry Trevor, you’re catching strays out here. Grow up. Patrick, do you think young cooks have forgotten proper technique? I don’t. I don’t think they’ve forgotten. I wish I had a sassy answer, but, but I don’t have a sassy answer. I mean, I feel cooking is like language, constantly being renewed, constantly being, updated just by usage. Young cooks are constantly amazing me. Gen Z, I mean, we bring so many things to the table. I mean, like, we really love and care about other people. We have TikTok. I could just put this, why am I picking it? I’m not, I’m nervous, okay? I’m nervous. I’m not showing out good for Gen Z right now. I was supposed to get this cream and butter going before I did this. The lid’s not even on. I’m not even cooking this. It’s gotta go for four hours. All right, we’re gonna grind this chicken. Crank that on. I might need a little bit of breast to supplement it. There we go, just, bombing chicken. I’m gonna add a little bit of breast to this just to get some more meat in these patties. Yeah, it’s funny being a 32 year old man existing now. Because you sort of think you’re going to be the young one forever and then you end up, going to a public gym and you decide to go after work one day and that’s when all the high schoolers go and, you don’t understand a single God dang word that they’re saying. It’s unreal. It’s like they’re speaking an alien tongue and I don’t want to hear it. And now I am the old person complaining at the gym. And I grew up with old people complaining at the gym. You will grow up to become everything that you hate whether you want to or not. And so that’s what this episode is really about for me. Patrick, have you ever met Joe? Joe? Yeah. Joe who? Joe Mama! You know, I mean, I cringe as I laugh, but if that’s humor, good job. I’m gonna kind of fry this egg up in cream and rosemary and butter, and then I’m gonna hit it with a little bit of chili flake on top, and I’m just gonna kind of get a fudgy yolk going there. This is gonna go for eight hours or something. I’m gonna put the rosemary in now, just to perfume the breadcrumbs. Finally, it’s sort of coming together. I know it’s not gonna separate because it has the béchamel, and then I’m just going to pour it over. And then my beautiful breadcrumbs. I’ve got my breadcrumbs here. They should be a little bit more toasted, but, my hands have still not touched raw chicken, so I’m good. Dude! And make that like that. So, that will be the nice rosemary breadcrumbs on the tomato. I’m gonna get my burger patty searing. We mix some rosemary directly into this nice chicken burger. It’s going to seal that down. Pull off the paper. Beautiful. So just to finish up a great dish. And making your own comfy garlic is fantastic, because you get two ingredients. You have not only the comfy garlic, but you have that flavored oil, which you absolutely have to keep. All right, so I’ve got this soup that cooked for 13 hours. It’s great. There’s chicken in here. Let me, let me show you. That’s chicken. Part of it, I’m just gonna bowl that. This is how, this is how the kids are doing it these days, Patrick. This is how the kids are doing it. Trevor, do you think Gen Z developed this brand of ironic anti-humor to cope with the fact the world is crumbling around them? I think this, I think Gen Z developed this ironic brand of anti humor because it’s funny. Now we’re going to make blue cheese whipped cream. In my era, chefs were doing stuff like this all the time. Things that made absolutely no sense, but kind of sounded cool on the menu. And then you ate it, and you found out, that’s not very good, but I’m gonna try and actually make it good. We’re gonna see what happens We’re gonna crumble some nice Maytag blue cheese in there. Classic Millennial overcompensation Yeah, no, we listen we did have to overcompensate because again, we thought that if we acted good we could change the world. And then we found out that we probably can’t, but damn it, we’re still out here. We’re still trying. Gonna drop in some cream in there. Gonna grate in a little bit of garlic. I went into a Lucky Jeans store the other day because I needed new jeans. And there was like, a Millennial working there along with the Gen Z. And I was like, hey, what’s with all those like, cool, wide legged pants that the Gen Z are wearing these days? And then this Millennial working there goes, we don’t have any cool pants here, and I was like, you work here! You should be selling me the pants! If I worked here, I would have sold the hell out of those pants. Would I have improved my life at all from doing that? No, working hard doesn’t actually get you anywhere, but you know what I do now? Go to Boomers for financial advice. I’m like, hey, what’s the 401k mean? I don’t know. No one taught me. So that’s why I prefer Boomers to Gen Z. I’m proud of being a Boomer. Okay, Boomer. We get it. One thing that was, there are cringeworthy moments, like when somebody has to explain how this stove works, so yes, I acknowledge. And, the moment that somebody had to explain how, how Instagram worked to me, that, oh, I can post something that, you know, Jay-Z would read, maybe, or something like that. It’s like, wow, I can communicate with Jay-Z? And I didn’t have a prayer of him reading that, but it was like this, transformative idea that you can communicate directly with somebody. That’s a beautiful thing. There were so many layers of hierarchy that used to exist before you could communicate with somebody and somebody might, who you admire, may answer your communication, and that never existed. So, that’s a real opening up of the world. So, so enough talk and on to the chicken with kiwis. Wait, did you slide in Jay-Z’s DMs? Is that what you’re saying? Well, this was embarrassing. I thought I could. Alright, I’m gonna take some of this liquid here and, it’s gonna be, okay, yeah, that’s boiling already. Call that the old instant boil technology. I’m just gonna get this in here. This is gonna be the, the ramen broth. So, I’m gonna, I’m gonna pull apart that chicken, but I’m gonna get this going and I’m gonna add cream to this and Pink Sauce. We’re gonna get a little creamy ramen broth going with pulled chicken, tomato and rosemary and the eggs gonna go on top. Okay, ramen, Top Ramen, delicious food. TikTok dances, shoot, shoot. Okay, what’s a good TikTok dance? Okay. H-O-T-T-O-G-O H-O-T-T-O-G-O. It’s something like that. Hot to go? You wouldn’t get it, Josh, cause you’re not cool. Rosemary. It’s gonna blend all this. Whip it, whip it real good. Let’s see what happens when you crank it. Cranking that, cranking that Soulja Boy, we invented that. So, I’m gonna salt this nicely, and you want your, your hand to be dry. You don’t want a wet hand. I will be washing my hands between touching this chicken and addressing the kiwis. I should have done the pepper mill first, so you got me. Classic. Good job. I bet Patrick has never even gotten a victory royale in Fortnite, and neither have you, Josh. Ramen’s going, it’s boiling up. That’s nice. Oh, I want to get the Pink Sauce in there. Hold on. But before I use it in my dish, I’m gonna head over to sporked.com because they just released an article where they tell you what ice cream you are based on your zodiac sign. And I’m a Leo, and I’m really curious what that means about me, because, you know, people have opinions about Leos. I’m a Leo Cancer cusp, so who knows. Head over to sporked.com What’s, how, that’s a lot. I’m good at cooking. Oh yeah, that’s good. Oh, I bet, I bet Josh, I bet, I bet, I bet Patrick is putting like tapioca in his dish or something. And he’s like, oh, I’m gonna come and make my favorite dish, tapioca, or gelatin, or something. Josh, I bet Josh is doing something stupid. When did Taco Bell come out? He’s gonna be like, yeah, I’m the Taco Bell generation, I’m gonna put a taco in there. I feel like I’m gonna want more blue cheese. Oh God! Well, it’s solid, so that’s good. Butter’s foaming. I’m gonna pull this off the heat. It’s nice and cooked. What are we working with here? Blue cheese whipped cream. I actually really like this, I’m really proud of it. I’m gonna drop a bunch of salt in there. And give it a nice stir. I could have found a better tool. Absolutely not. Where’s Patrick? Hey, Patrick! Yeah? We’re not the participation trophy generation, you are! Do you think we bought our own trophies when we were seven? They were bought for us by you, you think we asked for those when we were seven? Absolutely not. You yelled at our coach for not giving us them, dad. I mean Patrick. Recipes have instructions, but don’t forget what your ear sounds like. Your ear can tell you if the recipe is working or not. And if this, if this chicken breast doesn’t start to do a little sizzle, I know I’m not starting very well. Oh man, I, if I do bad in this challenge, I’m going to plead that I had spent the most time exposed to the internet, from a young age and it has rotted my brain. Because I think that’s actually what’s happened, and I think, I genuinely believe that I’m getting dumber. And I think it’s happening exponentially. I am so much dumber than I used to be. But that’s okay, because, because I got a lot of victory royales in Fortnite. By Trevor’s ramen. Very, very ironic, very of the moment. Patrick, I am, so many things were new. We have almost nothing to discover in the world anymore. And so I love that he’s very excited about what I consider an incredibly pedestrian fruit. I’m gonna guess it’s gonna be some sort of just like seared chicken breast. I hope he does an airline chicken breast, where you keep the wing on because that’s what they taught at all the culinary schools, between like 1958 and now because the only people teaching at culinary schools are of that generation. And not a single person has eaten that in forever. Okay, so those chicken breasts, I hear that, I hear that nice sizzle. That means that the skin is starting to crisp up. I don’t want to turn it, I don’t want to touch it. People touch food in pans too much. It’s doing what it’s supposed to do. And we’re gonna get it in the oven. There we go. Okay, so this is the moment of truth. Can I turn a kiwi? Turning is very much a technique of the 70s and 80s. Everything had to be turned. Every carrot had to be turned. Every parsnip had to be turned. But, I’ve never turned a kiwi. Trevor’s gonna make a Takis crusted iPad and he’s gonna show the judge one of those like, infinite loop video game clips to keep them entertained. Ramen, ramen, ramen, ramen. Okay, this is kind of vile looking. Okay, I’m gonna nestle this, it’s gonna be beautiful. I’m going chicken. I want more chicken than that. Gotta grip it. That’s one thing about Josh and Patrick is they never gripped a chicken like I have. The kids these days are gripping chicken different, you know what I mean? We’re turning. We’re feeling very nervous inside. The knife is not quite as sharp as I would like, but let’s see. We’re making excuses, we’re rationalizing. Very Boomer, Boomer. So, this is too big. Okay, so now I’m just it up. Crispy kale. Kale is also everywhere alongside bacon inexplicably, but that is the duality that we sort of lived up to. Very good, beautiful little chicken patty right there. I’m gonna take some of this whipped cream. This is just going right. On top of that, it’s gonna melt, it’s gonna be nice and sumptuous. Tomatoes. Artistic choices are gonna be that there’s a pile of tomatoes. Rosemary’s gonna go in last. Everything over here is hot. Okay, egg. Egg, fudgy yolk. Cream, rosemary egg. Come on, baby. Okay, egg. Get freaking owned. Millennial, Boomer. Okay. So, it’s time to, it’s time to make the sauce. And, I’ve got some nice, caramelized juices there. So, the steps are degrease, deglaze, add butter. So I’m gonna degrease. I’m gonna deglaze. There’s a, there’s a nice sound. Get that reduced. Little orange juice, as I said, a little nod to nod to duck à l’orange. Just gonna reduce for a second. Crown it with the top bun. Boom, there you have it. You got your chicken and rosemary burger with the bacon and bourbon jam. Then you got the blue cheese whipped cream. Eat your heart out, olds and youngs. I’m just sitting here in the middle trying to figure it out. What’s a Roth IRA? Okay. What’s a, what’s a, what’s a victory song? Oh, we got the Spongebob. And it’s sweet, sweet, sweet victory, yeah. A real ingredient that came out, sort of came of age in the 70s and 80s. We take it again for granted, arugula, that’s going to add a little vibrancy there. And now for the true creative moment of adding the kiwis and heating them and adding that to the garnish. This is groundbreaking stuff. I’m going to bring them to one quick boil. There they are. And now it’s time to really represent the Boomer generation with a couple of turned kiwis with a seared chicken breast. And there we go. That’s my dish. Ode to Zuni Café Hi everyone, I am today’s judge. So, I’m judging three different dishes, all from different generations. And I need to guess which generation cooked these. So, let me just dig in. I’m gonna go here first. There’s kiwis on here. I don’t know why. It’s very confusing. But it kind of looks like culinary school like threw up on it. I see some tournée attempts on here. There’s just like slices of tomato and onion. Let me try this. That’s pretty good. It looks really underwhelming, but it’s good. And then this is a chicken breast, and I think some sort of sauce at the bottom. I started eating it with a kiwi. Okay. Weird. It’s really weird. It’s not bad though. Okay. I’m just gonna use my palate cleanser. A Sprite Zero. Great. Okay. This one’s interesting. The rosemary sprig is throwing me off. I feel like I would see this from a Boomer, but there’s also ramen noodles in it. This dish seems a little confused. It kind of looks like a little child made it. Like, why are there random raw diced tomatoes? Weird. Also weird. There’s tomato. It’s like tomato soup vibes. Creamy. It’s good though. There’s like a nice cooked egg right here. Let me try the egg. It’s nice and jammy. Okay. Yeah, the rosemary sprig is confusing me. Let me palate cleanse. And then we have this burger. It might be chicken or turkey. There’s some sort of like marmalade or jam at the bottom. And then there’s kale. It looks like a gastropub. Just like trying to do too much. Okay. Blue cheese. Okay, that’s good. This one actually like looks, no this one is really weird with the kiwis, but this one I really wasn’t sure what the flavors would be, but it seems like it’s a chicken patty and it’s super sweet and salty, and all the flavors are coming together really nicely. So, I think I have what it takes to guess whose is whose. I think that this one is the Boomer. It just is very culinary school-esque. Like, I learned a lot of these techniques during culinary school. I think this one is the, Gen Z. It just looks like they are too young to, like, know how to cook yet. Like, it just is a little bit confusing. And then I think this one is the Millennial. And my favorite one is this one. Yes! That’s what’s up. Oh, it’s yours? Fellow Millennial bias. Okay. Was I right on the other ones? You absolutely were. Lily, this is our Gen Z chef-testant, Trevor, and then our brave, sacrificial Boomer. Great analysis. I love it. Hello, Mr. Boomer. It’s nice to meet you. Completely on point with your analysis. Patrick, this is incredible. Trevor, you did awesome, buddy. You want to hit the Griddy on the way out? I do. There he goes. I feel like we broke some generational boundaries here. And truly, Patrick, thank you so much for coming down. My pleasure, my pleasure. Lily, thank you so much. And thank you all so much for stopping by the Mythical Kitchen. Comment which Boomer you want to see cook on here next. Jay-Z, I believe, is a Boomer now. Is he? Yeah. We’re tight. Yeah, DM him. We’ll get back to him. Ice cream flavors are the new zodiac signs. Find out which ice cream flavor you are at sporked.com