Funny thing is, there are plenty of times where "Babish" will say, "this is terrible. don't make this." in his videos. I like these sort of unofficial videos he does, where he's more wacky and unscripted. Different flavor of video, keeps things interesting.
I think the point about pesto being oil-based and keeping the rice from sticking together was specifically a counterpoint to making a tomato sauce, and the amount of moisture that would add back to the rice. Like you said, I think Andrew, for all the goofy antics in the video, made the dish pretty thoughtfully.
The fun part is, because Andrew often tries to reproduce stuff from TV and movies, there are a number of videos where he actually spits out the food and says it's bad, and then he tries to redo the recipe, changing to improve what didn't work.
One of the reasons I like Mythical Kitchen as a cooking channel is that sometimes they're like "yeah, this doesn't taste good." I also like that they don't pretend to be normal, like they'll add ingredients like soy lecithin or maltodextrin.
@@carterstoinis3397 it’s the same person, but considering they said Mythical Kitchen, my guess is that they mean the Mythical Kitchen channel, which does include Josh, but others as well
Would love to see you react to Mythical Kitchen, I appreciate Josh Scherer's pioneer attitude and that he owns his weaknesses and challenges himself to improve.
Credit to Babish he didn't called it "Asian Egg Fried Rice" so yeah he did make fried rice but just not asian style but its HIS version of italian fried rice.
One thing i feel like people fail to realize, it's not egg fried rice, it's ITALIAN FRIED RICE, meaning it's using the same techniques for fried rice but using ingredients and methods from italian as well
I will be honest, growing up, my mom always told me that fried rice was to use up left overs while also making something good. The premise that Babish had using left over rice and Italian ingredients while unusual, isn't as much as an issue to me because all in all, it is leftovers. Rice is essentially just pasta here and I think banish did a good job. Egg fried rice can be as normal and be the common/traditional way. But for my family, it could have some wierd stuff in it. Not as wierd as babish's fried rice, but it was normal to say the least.
I think it's really cool when chefs combine weird ingredients to make something new. Doesn't always work, but nobody ever got anywhere by not trying new things.
Idk. Getting to grips with techniques and educating yourself about ingredients is a better way of developing recipes imho. I see your point, but knowledge is better than randomised action if you ask me
Well Brian, since you asked so nicely, lol …during the Gordon Ramsay ramen episode, you referred to nori as kombu. No worries, I love your show and enjoy hearing you talk about food! :)
Three ingredients, Egg, Fry, Rice. As often as he gives that recipe out, I really want to see how he'd react to someone taking it literally and deciding to make it with fries.
I am no pro Chef by any stretch of the imagination BUT I was really hoping that you would do a react to this video in specific as I personally didn't think that those flavors would be horrible and it was great to hear the different perspectives.
The thing is, Uncle Roger's character is that of a grumpy Asian uncle who's never happy with anything that's not faithfully Asian. For instance, he kept calling Andrew's dish an egg fried rice, when it's not. Because, in character, the only fried rice he accepts is authentic Asian egg fried rice.
The name Babish isn’t a Frasier reference. The channel is named after Oliver Babish, one of the White House Counsels on The West Wing. Specifically, Babish was President Bartlet’s fifth and final White House Counsel, serving from the show’s 2nd season to the 7th season (though he is only referenced and is unseen in seasons 4-6).
I hate to say this because I really do love Uncle Roger, but I think watching Babish's video without all the cuts Uncle Roger did makes it a better viewing and reacting experience. This cut version really cuts down on the bag and forth between Babish and the Camera guy, the whole "fuck it let's just do it" feel, and also Babish talking about certain ingredients, I believe there was a Realization that the meatball wasn't actually meat in this video. I originally watched the Babish video and a day or two later watched Uncle Rogers, and I remember thinking how the video just felt worse to watch and missed a lot of stuff that was funny/important.
Babish "What's in the Fridge?" episodes just remind me of university students who have random ingredients at home but can't afford to go and buy more food, so they just try to make do. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
@@Lukeywoodsey I haven't eaten it with raisins before, but that sounds like it could be tasty. I've more commonly seen it with apples or stone fruits (plums, apricots, peaches, etc). Or just plain cinnamon sugar, that's probably the most common, just not a fruit.
I like the idea of cooking up something with left overs. A great skill to have as a chef but sometimes like now, you'd invite me and say we'd eat pesto and rice, I might say no.
Always happy to see your videos, Brian! I appreciate your perspective on this, and pretty much every one of the reactions you do! Keep being awesome! :D
Asian and Italian are very opposite on your pallet profile. I would’ve tried to dice the meat balls and then combine with garlic, ginger, soy, and green onion then each reformed them or kept them as a grind inside the rice. Wouldn’t really go pesto, and if so I would’ve done a red pesto instead but I think he could tried to make a Chinese tomato sauce using some garlic, ginger, sun dried tomatoes, white vinegar, and some sesame oil or use sesame oil in a sun dried tomato pesto. Use that as a coating for a cook rice fry combined with the meat. Almost like meat balls with marinara but with rice, and having an Asian base to it. Fusion is one of the hardest things to get right, but when done correctly you make a name for yourself.
Andrew “Babish”: Italian fried rice Nigel “Uncle Roger”: Egg fried rice What the fridge is literally cooking stuff that’s left in the fridge. No expectation was set that he will cook something authentic or mind blowing. While uncle Roger keeps saying egg fried rice when no expectation was set in the first place. Based on the comments on uncle Roger’s video, he got away with it.
I believe Uncle Roger is making a comedy video and is home cook at best. He has to keep the content going. Chef Brian gives us perspective from his culinary expertise 😊
@@navyasingh6597 Totally. Uncle Roger is doing a piece of performance art, not offering a professional culinary critique. I actually think Uncle Roger's act is meant to be satire. I think he's having a dig at the rather large sections of the internet that seem to have very limited view of "authenticity" in cooking. I think that term is meaningless, but that's me. Just show me something delicious. But much of the internet thinks that "authentic" does mean something, and what it seems to think it means is that for any given dish, there's exactly one way, and only one way, that it's ever allowed to be prepared (whether or not one claims "authenticity"), with absolutely zero wiggle room for any reason, and with no regard for if the dish simply tastes good or not. Food can never evolve with time, and incorporating techniques from different styles of cuisine to enhance both is grounds for being horse whipped. I think that's why Uncle Roger uses what could otherwise seem like a potentially offensive "Engrish" accent to do reviews of western chefs (or cooking presenters) making Asian food. He's showing those parts of the internet what they look and sound like to make fun of them. The joke is at the audience's expense, not the person being reviewed.
I do remember Nigel saying that the audience shouldn't attack the person he reviewed in his early videos, but this doesn't happen frequently. I understand that he needs to pump content to be relevant. My reaction to Nigel's reaction video is that his character is showing some inconsistencies, such as not knowing the context of the video he reviews, but he does research on authentic dishes, while dissing out cooks that mess up authentic food. Now you mention it, the reason why he gets away with it is because he is playing a character.
Uncle Roger's fanbase have the unfortunate thing going where they always go "IT'S JUST A JOKE IT'S JUST COMEDYYYYY" while simultaniously going "mhmm he is right wow he's so smart what a genius" and they switch between the two whenever it's convinent lmao. The Uncle Roger character has run its course anyway, there's only so many times you can make a video that's just "white people bad at cooking, do you get the funny?"
I make rice and vegetable stir fry multiple times a week and I change up the tastes with spices. An Italian mix (rosemary, oregano, tyme, and red pepper) works pretty well. Furikake mixes and Ethiopian Berbere spice mix also work great to change up the tastes
This kind of reminds me of the "Garbage Stew" episode. It's the same idea of using what you would normally throw away to make something. Speaking of which, didn't you say you would make a video where you tried to make something using the Garbage Stew ingredients? I can't wait to see it.
Babish is a West Wing reference apparently. the character Oliver Babish was a lawyer on the show. Past that I'm no longer sure. And yeah the goal was to make something edible out of what he finds in the fridge Uncle Roger was doing the typical judgemental family trick of moving the goalposts lol
I like that I suggested this very react video to both yours and Nigels channels and RUclips didn't recommend me either one. as a lowly viewer thanks RUclips!
When Vincenzo made his egg fried rice, he also made an Italian version which was left out on Uncle Roger’s reaction video. Andrew’s version, in my opinion, makes more sense and I think would taste much better.
No, it won't. Adding balsamic vinegar will make the rice cold, wet, and soggy. Also the rice will be overpowered by the vinegar taste, which is bad. Balsamic vinegar is actually dangerous when heated. The acid inside the vinegar becomes corrosive and therefore not safe for consumption. Balsamic vinegar is mostly used for cold foods like salad and fruits. Sorry, but Babish is complete shit. Probably some coke head funded by some media gangster. I am willing to bet his house is funded by them as well.
Italian Fried Rice is just so cursed, it's like making ramen but replacing the ramen with fettuccine and replacing the tonkotsu with meatballs and ruining the broth by adding tomato sauce
Uncle Roger would lose his shit at a fusion restaurant! 😂 There’s a little place near me called The Mad Hunter - it’s a South African restaurant. It’s owned by an incredible chef from Durban in SA, but he frequently ventures into Asian food and travelled all over Asia perfecting his craft… That restaurant is hands down the best food I have ever eaten! 🙌🏻🙌🏻
In my experience, reduced balsamic vinegar is edging on the sweet side, making it fine for something like this... Sure, it's not traditional, but as a 'use up your leftovers', it's fine. Hell, I just made some rice with the 'juice' of a tomato/onion/mushroom dish mixed with 1/2 cup of leftover cream of chicken soup(and some curry powder)... Served the mix on top after adding onion greens from the garden (IN CANADA, AT THE END NOVEMBER!) and some sweet red peppers. SUPER rich for rainy day, and cleaned out the fridge in the process! Saving money is good, and this shows it. As long as it doesn't taste bad, it's all good!
Babish actually took his name as from a West Wing character, Oliver Babish, played by Oliver Platt. He has mentioned though, that he is a huge fan of Frasier.
Back in the 90s or early 00s, I told people that my parents cut up hot dog into their fried rice and eventually it just became hot dog fried rice. I got a bunch of "ewww" and "gross" reactions and that it was ruinous. We were first generation born in Canada and hot dogs were wonderful things that my parents believed that adding a little helped to get food into us if we're being picky. Besides, fried rice is about using left overs and concocting into something else.
started binge watching all your uncle roger reacts a few days ago now i just watch everything on your channel. Love your reactions when someone messes up . keep up the awesome reactions dude.
In Hawaii, we regularly threw a raw egg on top of hot rice, then stirred it in really quickly. The rice not out of the rice cooker is hot enough to cook one or two eggs. Breakfast or lunch might be steamed rice with the raw egg(s), and on top, a couple/few slices of fried Spam and some green onions. A raw egg doesn't have to stay raw!
Thanks for the video! I love Babish. I think Uncle Roger's reaction was a little ridiculous because Andrew never claimed to be making an authentic dish. He was cleaning out stuff from the fridge and he achieved that.
After watching Uncle Rogers vid on this, it was one of the few times I didnt agree with him for most of his critiques. The problem with his entire review was that he was expecting it to be egg fried rice as in Asian flavors. But the whole point of the video was to make fried rice with italian ingredients as well. In my opinion, babish did perfectly fine
Brian, I'm a little late to the party on this (watching your videos backward through time!) Love your videos, love your commentary. If I ever make it over to NY I'll definitely try to stop by your sammich shop! :)
Honestly I'm like you use to watch babish back in the day. My husband sent me the crabby patty video and I was hooked. Love your show, sorry about your other video. RUclips is not the place it use too be, no free speech.😔. I'm glad that I saw the video before they took it down. P.s. I hope you get your uncle title.😃😊
I just saw this and thought it seemed like a weird "trashcan stew"-esque fried rice... maybe not the best combination of ingredients, but I'd try it. It still beats when I was a kid and added lemon zest pepper to an omelet I had made; I still shiver when I think of it.
I mean, the whole point is to use up leftovers and whatever happens to be around in your fridge at the time. It's basically like the Garbage Stew video, but with a bit more culinary skill involved. Because, yeah, sometimes you open up the fridge and are like, "... ok... dafuq am I gonna make with this?" And yeah, sometimes it works. I once cobbled together an amazing pasta sauce. Other times, it's like, "well... it's not bad enough to kill me, but I won't be making this again..." As a restaurant owner, you know that food waste is literally money being tossed out the back door. You want to try and get every ounce of a meal out of every ingredient (I still think you should make buttery toasted bread bites with the scooped-out portions of bread from your sandwiches, but that's me), and that's what often happens in kitchens around the world. "I gotta eat. I need to make something. Let's see what happens."
I’m Sicilian and we have an Italian fried rice dish with tomato sauce and boiled eggs sliced up and added at the end. I’ve eaten it for 60 years and my ancestors ate it for at least 40 years before me
"I do that all the time... where I mean to say one thing and another word comes out of my mouth." I do that, too, which is why I generally let it slide, but I'm amused that this came right after you said "the wok will spread out the rice," and I'm pretty sure you meant to say "spoon." I'm also looking forward to the story of how you accidentally took over a Chinese restaurant; I'm guessing it has the same sort of incompetence on the part of the owner as the story of how I accidentally became front manager at a diner.
I dont think it would have been bad, but I personally dont think it would be good. The amount of pesto and balsamic vinegar would make for competing flavors, rather than having them compliment. Then the meatballs... no. Also, adding reduced balsamic vinegar like soy sauce was definitely a "random" move, to phrase it like you did. That's just going to taste burnt. Also adding more balsamic vinegar after having added lemon, that's just a lot of acid.
I really didn't like the perspective Roger went Into this video. It was never an "egg fried rice" to begin with, but more of like. We got left overs and we want to use them up with this rice. So a stir fry deffinetly does work. Also saw a bunch of comments from Asian people on Rogers video that a lot of them do use some sort of vinegar with their fried rice some times. So I think it deffinetly works. I think you should really react to botched by babish. It's his uncensored just dumbassery of him fixing his recipes that people said were made wrong. Really entertaining and funny
So as far as Italian and Asian fusion goes, I have seen some Indian restaurants or cafes that serve Spicy Peri Peri or some desi spicy versions of Pasta and they're not so bad.
Hey bro, keep up the good work, you're doing a wonderful service here on RUclips. I feel like Andrew leaned hard into your don't be afraid to fail philosophy on this one haha I saw another comment about them, but I'd love to see you react to Mythical Kitchen because Josh takes massive risks and does some pretty wild things, I'd love to hear your thoughts throughout one of their episodes. Luv ya dude, have a kick ass day
Balsamic vinegar and rice both go with almost everything come on. Parsley is just a milder coriander I hear, and coriander in rice is a very common thing in Indian cooking. Nigel's asian uncle schtick was funny when it was novel, but it's increasingly just getting on my nerves. Raw egg on hot rice is a very common combination across all asian cuisines so I don't see the issue. It was fry and it was rice what is his problem anyway. EDIT also leftovers fried rice isn't appropriation, it's probably the most authentic form of fried rice.
Its a crazy experiment. And I know Andrew is not a professional chef but he is a very good amateur. Lets see if this becomes a story arc between Babish and Uncle Roger
This one of the few Uncle Roger videos I think he leaned too hard into the character. This was/is a good dish (from similar experience with "what do I have in fridge") and Uncle Roger became the closed minded idiot that was supposed to be what he was lampooning
I agree with you mostly. Seems like a decently thought out dish. Only thing throwing me of is that i think rice is not the right carb for it. Probably not bad, but i don't think it's great either.
Things I have put in my entirely non-authentic and non-asian fried rice: 1. bacon/bacon bits 2. spam 3. Carrots and peas because I won't eat either of them outside stews, sauces, or a dish like fried rice of some sort and I need more vegetables in my diet. 4. fried egg 5. leftover cooking wine 6. rehydrated/defrosted garlic 7. leftover fried rice from a restaurant....
honestly i dont see anything wrong with it. He never said he was trying to make a normal traditional chinese fried rice. Most of the flavors seem like they would work well together. As for adding raw egg, its common to do so in japan for tamago kake gohan so its not like its unheard of in asia.
Yeah, the context of the Babish video isn't making some recipe for people to try or serve in a restaurant, but to do something creative with the leftover ingredients from the fridge. So I don't think judging the video by that standard is fair
Babish is an absolutely amazing chef. The greatest minds in history didn't gain notoriety for taking zero risks and never trying new things. Babish isn't afraid to take those risks and innovate. I actually think this fried rice would be pretty good. Like you said, starches are neutral. Why not throw in some international flavor? I want to see some Greek fried rice. Garnish with feta. Also, if Roger thinks a raw egg yolk is just a western thing, maybe he needs to come out here to Japan. I'll show him some shit. :P
I've done a greek fried rice with the left over rice and meat that's in my fridge when I get Greek Takeout. Cut up the souvlaki nice and small, steal the olives tomatoes and onions from the greek salad sometimes cut up the roast potatoes and add them too. I garnished with the extra feta that came with the salad on the side and off to the side of the rice Tsatziki. Now I often times intentionally order the family meal for my self with the intention of making fried rice the next day.
@@Math.Bandit Why are you comparing him to uncle Roger? That wasnt the question. That's like if i'd reply to you with " Gordon ramsey is deffinately a better chef" what are we doing here?..
@@Zinjiredhawk4301 Because the narrative is "Well obviously if Uncle Roger said this must taste bad then obviously Babish is lying and this is terrible" despite the fact Babish is much much more credible than Uncle Roger.
I think that the Babish fridge episodes are interesting, because they mimic so much of real home cooking instead of cooking for an audience: oh, I've got all this stuff that I need to use up because it's about to go bad, what can I make that I will enjoy? And what he made I'm sure tasted very good. Improvising and getting something tasty, even if it would never go on a menu, is a skill that's good to have.
I think you may have been referring to me pointing out your "The best way to cook rice is to actually soak your water overnight." in you Jamie Oliver reaction video.
For some reason I think why Uncle Roger criticize a lot is because he trying to fit in the Asian character which most Asian people thinks that they have lots of egos and they can criticize every little things. Uncle Roger really need to watch Basics with Babish instead of What The Fridge segments because it's right at the segment title, it just try to make something that is already in the fridge without needing to go to the supermarkets and buy something
The thing is, Uncle Roger's criticism in this video was restrained by the character. His brand is the overly critical Chinese uncle, who shits on anything deviating from the traditional. I'm sure Nigel would be much more lenient as himself. That's one reason why it's valuable to have real chefs reacting to his videos as well.
Philippine Garlic Fried Rice uses coconut vinegar so there is a precedence of the vinegar. Japanese Kake Gohan is straight up white rice and raw egg, so there’s that. There are presidency.
this reminds me of a short story form my childhood, if was by a well known Russian children's author whose name I forgot. In the story a young boy tries everything he can to cover up the taste of some dish his mother wants him to eat. He adds tons of different ingredients on the logic that it will fix the taste, but nothing works. He finally dumps a ton of Horseradish over it because "with horseradish you can eat anything" but by this point it is too powerful and even the Horseradish can't hide the taste. At the end he throws it out the window. Feels like Babish succeeded where that little boy failed.
It's actually a myth that Marco Polo brought pasta from China to Italy. There are references to foods that are pasta in all but name going back at least to the writings of Galen, more than a thousand years before Marco Polo.
When I saw your short ,I quickly search for your reaction for this vid,but I cant find it.Turn out it was your new reaction vid.I tought you already react it in old vid
If that is aged balsamic it has a strong sweet flavour , the pesto is very strong to , i'm at a loss as to what that would taste like , guess if Andy likes it maybe it's good enough to try lol
I agree with you. Though i would go further and say that "Uncle Roger" has a bit of his own preconceived notions about a singular technique along with an asian original ingredient requiring some form of Asian only flavor profile. He's missing the mark as far as what Andrew was going for. Andrew was going for utilizing an Asian technique while using an Italian flavor profile. Which I agree with you that he could have done a better job of but still made a more than adequate dish.
Did you see when Vincenz's Plate and Uncle Roger did their egg fried rice challenges? Vincenzo did an "Italian" one just as a laugh at the end of his video 🤣
I saw the ingredients that babish had and all I could think of to really take that rice to the next level would be Arancini. Since you need leftover rice to make italian rice balls. Italian Rice Balls stuffed with cut up meatball in place of ground beef with some pesto to dip.
@@ChefBrianTsao Indeed. Italian Arancini are addictive as all hell. Cheesy, Gooey stuffed with meat etc. Even better yet if sprinkle a bit of MSG and Salt on them right out of the fryer. God, it's 10:30 am in the morning and talking about it made me want to make them on purpose.
Commenting partly to help with the monetization, partly to defend Andrew/Babish as other comments here have. I don't recall if this was the first Babish video that Uncle Roger has reacted to, but if it was, I feel like Andrew was being put at a serious disadvantage. For one, this particular series is a lot more loose (chaotic) and improv-based than the majority of his content (see his Binging and Basics series), so I feel like this video didn't give the best first impression. I'd very much like to see Uncle Roger react to the fried rice video from his Basics series, or even his ramen videos or whatever else Uncle Roger feels qualified to talk about, where I feel like Andrew would have a much better shot of winning him over. And yeah, Andrew never said this was authentic in any way, just an opportunity to try using whatever ingredients he had lying around in a creative way. Also I do take his reaction to the taste to be genuine. If it doesn't taste good, Andrew will tell you. There are *plenty* of examples of that in his other videos. So yeah, maybe I'm biased because I've been watching Andrew for years, but I don't think he deserved the level of criticism (note how I'm not saying Andrew never deserves *any* criticism) that Uncle Roger threw at him. Anyways, really enjoyed your reaction, as always, and I look forward to your next upload!
To be fair, i saw a few video where Andrew spit out his food in disgust. So i guess he reaction are genuine
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@@otakuha9ow33there are multiple videos like that. Because he tends to recreate food from movies and shows.
Funny thing is, there are plenty of times where "Babish" will say, "this is terrible. don't make this." in his videos. I like these sort of unofficial videos he does, where he's more wacky and unscripted. Different flavor of video, keeps things interesting.
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I think the point about pesto being oil-based and keeping the rice from sticking together was specifically a counterpoint to making a tomato sauce, and the amount of moisture that would add back to the rice. Like you said, I think Andrew, for all the goofy antics in the video, made the dish pretty thoughtfully.
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The fun part is, because Andrew often tries to reproduce stuff from TV and movies, there are a number of videos where he actually spits out the food and says it's bad, and then he tries to redo the recipe, changing to improve what didn't work.
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Infamous ASiP video. Fight Milk and Rum Ham look horrid irl
I think it was the car panini where he went, "I've got nothing. What about you guys?" And then did a contest.
One of the reasons I like Mythical Kitchen as a cooking channel is that sometimes they're like "yeah, this doesn't taste good." I also like that they don't pretend to be normal, like they'll add ingredients like soy lecithin or maltodextrin.
mythical kitchen...do you mean mythical chef josh that shows up on good mythical morning channel?
@@carterstoinis3397 Yes, under the Mythical Kitchen channel. They upload twice a week, I think.
@@carterstoinis3397 it’s the same person, but considering they said Mythical Kitchen, my guess is that they mean the Mythical Kitchen channel, which does include Josh, but others as well
Would love to see you react to Mythical Kitchen, I appreciate Josh Scherer's pioneer attitude and that he owns his weaknesses and challenges himself to improve.
Babish does that too though, idk why people are assuming it's forced and whatnot in this content
Credit to Babish he didn't called it "Asian Egg Fried Rice" so yeah he did make fried rice but just not asian style but its HIS version of italian fried rice.
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One thing i feel like people fail to realize, it's not egg fried rice, it's ITALIAN FRIED RICE, meaning it's using the same techniques for fried rice but using ingredients and methods from italian as well
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I will be honest, growing up, my mom always told me that fried rice was to use up left overs while also making something good. The premise that Babish had using left over rice and Italian ingredients while unusual, isn't as much as an issue to me because all in all, it is leftovers. Rice is essentially just pasta here and I think banish did a good job. Egg fried rice can be as normal and be the common/traditional way. But for my family, it could have some wierd stuff in it. Not as wierd as babish's fried rice, but it was normal to say the least.
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I think it's really cool when chefs combine weird ingredients to make something new. Doesn't always work, but nobody ever got anywhere by not trying new things.
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Guga… god of food steak experiments
As I said on Uncle Roger's video, I would definitely eat this :)
Basically just saying I don't want to offend the cook by saying his s***'s wrong.
Idk. Getting to grips with techniques and educating yourself about ingredients is a better way of developing recipes imho.
I see your point, but knowledge is better than randomised action if you ask me
Well Brian, since you asked so nicely, lol …during the Gordon Ramsay ramen episode, you referred to nori as kombu.
No worries, I love your show and enjoy hearing you talk about food! :)
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to be fair, Andy never said he was making "egg fried rice" only "fried rice"
Egg fried rice is fried rice with egg. He said Italian fried rice.
He has made decent egg fried rice kn the past his video not the best evidence for him. Funny reactions to it tho
Also with these videos the whole concept is making do with what he has
Yea uncle roger just exaggerated it, there's no egg.
He says Italian fried rice tho and pretty sure not even Italy they make fried rice like that
Three ingredients, Egg, Fry, Rice.
As often as he gives that recipe out, I really want to see how he'd react to someone taking it literally and deciding to make it with fries.
I am no pro Chef by any stretch of the imagination BUT I was really hoping that you would do a react to this video in specific as I personally didn't think that those flavors would be horrible and it was great to hear the different perspectives.
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The thing is, Uncle Roger's character is that of a grumpy Asian uncle who's never happy with anything that's not faithfully Asian. For instance, he kept calling Andrew's dish an egg fried rice, when it's not. Because, in character, the only fried rice he accepts is authentic Asian egg fried rice.
This is one of Babish’s newer series, which is basically him just goofing off and experimenting.
The name Babish isn’t a Frasier reference. The channel is named after Oliver Babish, one of the White House Counsels on The West Wing. Specifically, Babish was President Bartlet’s fifth and final White House Counsel, serving from the show’s 2nd season to the 7th season (though he is only referenced and is unseen in seasons 4-6).
there's a lot of mixed fusion places that do pretty well. my favorite is Chinese prepped in a Mexican format.
I hate to say this because I really do love Uncle Roger, but I think watching Babish's video without all the cuts Uncle Roger did makes it a better viewing and reacting experience. This cut version really cuts down on the bag and forth between Babish and the Camera guy, the whole "fuck it let's just do it" feel, and also Babish talking about certain ingredients, I believe there was a Realization that the meatball wasn't actually meat in this video. I originally watched the Babish video and a day or two later watched Uncle Rogers, and I remember thinking how the video just felt worse to watch and missed a lot of stuff that was funny/important.
Actually in Italy it's common to fry/sauté leftover risotto going more on the crunchy side, and yeah it's better than freshly made risotto
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Babish "What's in the Fridge?" episodes just remind me of university students who have random ingredients at home but can't afford to go and buy more food, so they just try to make do. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
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Struggle Meals with Frankie Celenza has a similar segment in his show. It’s pretty good. Sometimes what he comes up with work, sometimes it doesn’t.
A rice pudding with fruit could actually be nice. The problem is the "cheffy twist".
Milchreis is a rice pudding that often has fruit in it. It's delicious.
It commonly has raisins with it
@@Lukeywoodsey I haven't eaten it with raisins before, but that sounds like it could be tasty. I've more commonly seen it with apples or stone fruits (plums, apricots, peaches, etc). Or just plain cinnamon sugar, that's probably the most common, just not a fruit.
@@Lukeywoodsey Suddenly wanting rum raisin rice pudding.
Same lol
Is this not a common thing? They're both acting like this is crazy but fried rice is probably the 2nd most common way I get rid of random leftovers.
Is meatloaf the first?
@@chuckwilliams6261 Soup/stew.
I like the idea of cooking up something with left overs. A great skill to have as a chef but sometimes like now, you'd invite me and say we'd eat pesto and rice, I might say no.
I can't unsee the garbage pot leftovers video the Uncle Roger reviewed when I read this 🤣
why not eat it? I doubt it tastes bad
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Loving the videos! Watch every release and glad to help. Can't wait for the next one!
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I don’t have too much to add. I just like watching you Chef Brian! It’s fun and soothing to watch your videos as I have breakfast before work
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Always happy to see your videos, Brian! I appreciate your perspective on this, and pretty much every one of the reactions you do! Keep being awesome! :D
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Asian and Italian are very opposite on your pallet profile. I would’ve tried to dice the meat balls and then combine with garlic, ginger, soy, and green onion then each reformed them or kept them as a grind inside the rice.
Wouldn’t really go pesto, and if so I would’ve done a red pesto instead but I think he could tried to make a Chinese tomato sauce using some garlic, ginger, sun dried tomatoes, white vinegar, and some sesame oil or use sesame oil in a sun dried tomato pesto. Use that as a coating for a cook rice fry combined with the meat. Almost like meat balls with marinara but with rice, and having an Asian base to it.
Fusion is one of the hardest things to get right, but when done correctly you make a name for yourself.
Andrew “Babish”: Italian fried rice
Nigel “Uncle Roger”: Egg fried rice
What the fridge is literally cooking stuff that’s left in the fridge. No expectation was set that he will cook something authentic or mind blowing. While uncle Roger keeps saying egg fried rice when no expectation was set in the first place. Based on the comments on uncle Roger’s video, he got away with it.
I believe Uncle Roger is making a comedy video and is home cook at best. He has to keep the content going. Chef Brian gives us perspective from his culinary expertise 😊
@@navyasingh6597 Totally. Uncle Roger is doing a piece of performance art, not offering a professional culinary critique.
I actually think Uncle Roger's act is meant to be satire. I think he's having a dig at the rather large sections of the internet that seem to have very limited view of "authenticity" in cooking. I think that term is meaningless, but that's me. Just show me something delicious. But much of the internet thinks that "authentic" does mean something, and what it seems to think it means is that for any given dish, there's exactly one way, and only one way, that it's ever allowed to be prepared (whether or not one claims "authenticity"), with absolutely zero wiggle room for any reason, and with no regard for if the dish simply tastes good or not. Food can never evolve with time, and incorporating techniques from different styles of cuisine to enhance both is grounds for being horse whipped.
I think that's why Uncle Roger uses what could otherwise seem like a potentially offensive "Engrish" accent to do reviews of western chefs (or cooking presenters) making Asian food. He's showing those parts of the internet what they look and sound like to make fun of them. The joke is at the audience's expense, not the person being reviewed.
I do remember Nigel saying that the audience shouldn't attack the person he reviewed in his early videos, but this doesn't happen frequently. I understand that he needs to pump content to be relevant. My reaction to Nigel's reaction video is that his character is showing some inconsistencies, such as not knowing the context of the video he reviews, but he does research on authentic dishes, while dissing out cooks that mess up authentic food.
Now you mention it, the reason why he gets away with it is because he is playing a character.
Uncle Roger's fanbase have the unfortunate thing going where they always go "IT'S JUST A JOKE IT'S JUST COMEDYYYYY" while simultaniously going "mhmm he is right wow he's so smart what a genius" and they switch between the two whenever it's convinent lmao. The Uncle Roger character has run its course anyway, there's only so many times you can make a video that's just "white people bad at cooking, do you get the funny?"
I make rice and vegetable stir fry multiple times a week and I change up the tastes with spices. An Italian mix (rosemary, oregano, tyme, and red pepper) works pretty well. Furikake mixes and Ethiopian Berbere spice mix also work great to change up the tastes
yeah, he did said that he is making an italian fried rice... so you cant really complain about him not making a chinese or asian style fried rice..
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WEST WING reference. Love youir channel, btw...thanks, bro.
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This kind of reminds me of the "Garbage Stew" episode. It's the same idea of using what you would normally throw away to make something.
Speaking of which, didn't you say you would make a video where you tried to make something using the Garbage Stew ingredients? I can't wait to see it.
Babish is a West Wing reference apparently. the character Oliver Babish was a lawyer on the show. Past that I'm no longer sure.
And yeah the goal was to make something edible out of what he finds in the fridge Uncle Roger was doing the typical judgemental family trick of moving the goalposts lol
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It is a reference to that character.
I like that I suggested this very react video to both yours and Nigels channels and RUclips didn't recommend me either one. as a lowly viewer thanks RUclips!
When Vincenzo made his egg fried rice, he also made an Italian version which was left out on Uncle Roger’s reaction video.
Andrew’s version, in my opinion, makes more sense and I think would taste much better.
No, it won't. Adding balsamic vinegar will make the rice cold, wet, and soggy. Also the rice will be overpowered by the vinegar taste, which is bad. Balsamic vinegar is actually dangerous when heated. The acid inside the vinegar becomes corrosive and therefore not safe for consumption. Balsamic vinegar is mostly used for cold foods like salad and fruits.
Sorry, but Babish is complete shit. Probably some coke head funded by some media gangster. I am willing to bet his house is funded by them as well.
@@gaiachaos2000 I agree with you about the balsamic vinegar. I don’t think I would use lemon either.
Italian Fried Rice is just so cursed, it's like making ramen but replacing the ramen with fettuccine and replacing the tonkotsu with meatballs and ruining the broth by adding tomato sauce
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fettuccine, meatballs and tomato sauce just sounds like a regular dish
Uncle Roger would lose his shit at a fusion restaurant! 😂
There’s a little place near me called The Mad Hunter - it’s a South African restaurant. It’s owned by an incredible chef from Durban in SA, but he frequently ventures into Asian food and travelled all over Asia perfecting his craft… That restaurant is hands down the best food I have ever eaten! 🙌🏻🙌🏻
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In my experience, reduced balsamic vinegar is edging on the sweet side, making it fine for something like this... Sure, it's not traditional, but as a 'use up your leftovers', it's fine. Hell, I just made some rice with the 'juice' of a tomato/onion/mushroom dish mixed with 1/2 cup of leftover cream of chicken soup(and some curry powder)... Served the mix on top after adding onion greens from the garden (IN CANADA, AT THE END NOVEMBER!) and some sweet red peppers. SUPER rich for rainy day, and cleaned out the fridge in the process! Saving money is good, and this shows it. As long as it doesn't taste bad, it's all good!
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Babish actually took his name as from a West Wing character, Oliver Babish, played by Oliver Platt. He has mentioned though, that he is a huge fan of Frasier.
Back in the 90s or early 00s, I told people that my parents cut up hot dog into their fried rice and eventually it just became hot dog fried rice.
I got a bunch of "ewww" and "gross" reactions and that it was ruinous.
We were first generation born in Canada and hot dogs were wonderful things that my parents believed that adding a little helped to get food into us if we're being picky.
Besides, fried rice is about using left overs and concocting into something else.
My mom made fried rice w hotdogs all the time!
started binge watching all your uncle roger reacts a few days ago now i just watch everything on your channel. Love your reactions when someone messes up . keep up the awesome reactions dude.
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Commenting for the monetizisation! I can't imagine this dish to taste too good but appreciating your comment!
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"You guys will not let me forget it"
Tries to give example.
Immediately forgets it.
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In Hawaii, we regularly threw a raw egg on top of hot rice, then stirred it in really quickly. The rice not out of the rice cooker is hot enough to cook one or two eggs. Breakfast or lunch might be steamed rice with the raw egg(s), and on top, a couple/few slices of fried Spam and some green onions. A raw egg doesn't have to stay raw!
Thanks for the video! I love Babish. I think Uncle Roger's reaction was a little ridiculous because Andrew never claimed to be making an authentic dish. He was cleaning out stuff from the fridge and he achieved that.
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I really enjoy watching your videos, thank you for giving me a smile on the tougher days.
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After watching Uncle Rogers vid on this, it was one of the few times I didnt agree with him for most of his critiques. The problem with his entire review was that he was expecting it to be egg fried rice as in Asian flavors. But the whole point of the video was to make fried rice with italian ingredients as well. In my opinion, babish did perfectly fine
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Brian, I'm a little late to the party on this (watching your videos backward through time!) Love your videos, love your commentary. If I ever make it over to NY I'll definitely try to stop by your sammich shop! :)
Honestly I'm like you use to watch babish back in the day. My husband sent me the crabby patty video and I was hooked. Love your show, sorry about your other video. RUclips is not the place it use too be, no free speech.😔. I'm glad that I saw the video before they took it down.
P.s. I hope you get your uncle title.😃😊
His krabby patty video is still up unless there’s another one I’m missing.
I love the crabby patty episode! 🤘
It's a West Wing reference - Oliver Platt played a character named Oliver Babish.
I just saw this and thought it seemed like a weird "trashcan stew"-esque fried rice... maybe not the best combination of ingredients, but I'd try it. It still beats when I was a kid and added lemon zest pepper to an omelet I had made; I still shiver when I think of it.
I mean, the whole point is to use up leftovers and whatever happens to be around in your fridge at the time. It's basically like the Garbage Stew video, but with a bit more culinary skill involved. Because, yeah, sometimes you open up the fridge and are like, "... ok... dafuq am I gonna make with this?" And yeah, sometimes it works. I once cobbled together an amazing pasta sauce. Other times, it's like, "well... it's not bad enough to kill me, but I won't be making this again..." As a restaurant owner, you know that food waste is literally money being tossed out the back door. You want to try and get every ounce of a meal out of every ingredient (I still think you should make buttery toasted bread bites with the scooped-out portions of bread from your sandwiches, but that's me), and that's what often happens in kitchens around the world. "I gotta eat. I need to make something. Let's see what happens."
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I’m Sicilian and we have an Italian fried rice dish with tomato sauce and boiled eggs sliced up and added at the end. I’ve eaten it for 60 years and my ancestors ate it for at least 40 years before me
"I do that all the time... where I mean to say one thing and another word comes out of my mouth."
I do that, too, which is why I generally let it slide, but I'm amused that this came right after you said "the wok will spread out the rice," and I'm pretty sure you meant to say "spoon."
I'm also looking forward to the story of how you accidentally took over a Chinese restaurant; I'm guessing it has the same sort of incompetence on the part of the owner as the story of how I accidentally became front manager at a diner.
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I don't know if Babish is a Fraser reference, but Babiš is a universally hated politician in Czechia, former prime minister
at least he didn't say it was traditional fried rice like so many others do, it's his version of fried rice.
I dont think it would have been bad, but I personally dont think it would be good. The amount of pesto and balsamic vinegar would make for competing flavors, rather than having them compliment. Then the meatballs... no. Also, adding reduced balsamic vinegar like soy sauce was definitely a "random" move, to phrase it like you did. That's just going to taste burnt. Also adding more balsamic vinegar after having added lemon, that's just a lot of acid.
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Chris is a great video by Italia Squisita that shows you how to use a more pesto without getting the pesto that color
Babish is a character from the west wing which is one of Andrew's favorite shows
I really didn't like the perspective Roger went Into this video.
It was never an "egg fried rice" to begin with, but more of like. We got left overs and we want to use them up with this rice. So a stir fry deffinetly does work. Also saw a bunch of comments from Asian people on Rogers video that a lot of them do use some sort of vinegar with their fried rice some times. So I think it deffinetly works.
I think you should really react to botched by babish. It's his uncensored just dumbassery of him fixing his recipes that people said were made wrong. Really entertaining and funny
Oh nice!
So as far as Italian and Asian fusion goes, I have seen some Indian restaurants or cafes that serve Spicy Peri Peri or some desi spicy versions of Pasta and they're not so bad.
Hey bro, keep up the good work, you're doing a wonderful service here on RUclips. I feel like Andrew leaned hard into your don't be afraid to fail philosophy on this one haha I saw another comment about them, but I'd love to see you react to Mythical Kitchen because Josh takes massive risks and does some pretty wild things, I'd love to hear your thoughts throughout one of their episodes. Luv ya dude, have a kick ass day
You too dude! And thank you so much 🙏
Balsamic vinegar and rice both go with almost everything come on.
Parsley is just a milder coriander I hear, and coriander in rice is a very common thing in Indian cooking.
Nigel's asian uncle schtick was funny when it was novel, but it's increasingly just getting on my nerves.
Raw egg on hot rice is a very common combination across all asian cuisines so I don't see the issue.
It was fry and it was rice what is his problem anyway.
EDIT also leftovers fried rice isn't appropriation, it's probably the most authentic form of fried rice.
Its a crazy experiment. And I know Andrew is not a professional chef but he is a very good amateur. Lets see if this becomes a story arc between Babish and Uncle Roger
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This one of the few Uncle Roger videos I think he leaned too hard into the character. This was/is a good dish (from similar experience with "what do I have in fridge") and Uncle Roger became the closed minded idiot that was supposed to be what he was lampooning
I agree with you mostly. Seems like a decently thought out dish. Only thing throwing me of is that i think rice is not the right carb for it. Probably not bad, but i don't think it's great either.
15:30 Ahh, another guy you'll need to kidnap.
2:29 "Marco Polo brought back spaghetti or noodles from Asia..." Let's hope Vincenzo never hears about this vid or he'll go mad :D
Things I have put in my entirely non-authentic and non-asian fried rice:
1. bacon/bacon bits
2. spam
3. Carrots and peas because I won't eat either of them outside stews, sauces, or a dish like fried rice of some sort and I need more vegetables in my diet.
4. fried egg
5. leftover cooking wine
6. rehydrated/defrosted garlic
7. leftover fried rice from a restaurant....
Sounds like a good dinner to me!
honestly i dont see anything wrong with it. He never said he was trying to make a normal traditional chinese fried rice. Most of the flavors seem like they would work well together. As for adding raw egg, its common to do so in japan for tamago kake gohan so its not like its unheard of in asia.
Yeah, the context of the Babish video isn't making some recipe for people to try or serve in a restaurant, but to do something creative with the leftover ingredients from the fridge. So I don't think judging the video by that standard is fair
Babish is an absolutely amazing chef. The greatest minds in history didn't gain notoriety for taking zero risks and never trying new things. Babish isn't afraid to take those risks and innovate. I actually think this fried rice would be pretty good. Like you said, starches are neutral. Why not throw in some international flavor? I want to see some Greek fried rice. Garnish with feta.
Also, if Roger thinks a raw egg yolk is just a western thing, maybe he needs to come out here to Japan. I'll show him some shit. :P
You're wrong. He's not an "absolutely amazing chef" he's an ok chef. You simply dont know what your talking about mate
@@Zinjiredhawk4301 He's certainly magnitudes better than Uncle Roger, who is a comedian and not a chef at all.
I've done a greek fried rice with the left over rice and meat that's in my fridge when I get Greek Takeout.
Cut up the souvlaki nice and small, steal the olives tomatoes and onions from the greek salad sometimes cut up the roast potatoes and add them too. I garnished with the extra feta that came with the salad on the side and off to the side of the rice Tsatziki.
Now I often times intentionally order the family meal for my self with the intention of making fried rice the next day.
@@Math.Bandit Why are you comparing him to uncle Roger? That wasnt the question. That's like if i'd reply to you with " Gordon ramsey is deffinately a better chef" what are we doing here?..
@@Zinjiredhawk4301 Because the narrative is "Well obviously if Uncle Roger said this must taste bad then obviously Babish is lying and this is terrible" despite the fact Babish is much much more credible than Uncle Roger.
Babish is a reference to the West Wing, the Frasier reference is that you're remembering his earliest videos using the Frasier theme song.
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I think that the Babish fridge episodes are interesting, because they mimic so much of real home cooking instead of cooking for an audience: oh, I've got all this stuff that I need to use up because it's about to go bad, what can I make that I will enjoy? And what he made I'm sure tasted very good. Improvising and getting something tasty, even if it would never go on a menu, is a skill that's good to have.
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Plus Andrew's hometown is about 2 hours north of my hometown so yeah.
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I think you may have been referring to me pointing out your "The best way to cook rice is to actually soak your water overnight." in you Jamie Oliver reaction video.
Oh man, yeah, that was a hilarious one 😂
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I just had a great idea maybe for a series ya could do..... Literally, make some of these recipes and give us an HONEST review of it.
Yup! I actually had the idea after the Cooking w Jack video!
@@ChefBrianTsao Ha dang it. Well if you do it can I still get the credit since idk big fan???? lmfao just kidding!
Babish is an obscure one off character in the west wing
For some reason I think why Uncle Roger criticize a lot is because he trying to fit in the Asian character which most Asian people thinks that they have lots of egos and they can criticize every little things. Uncle Roger really need to watch Basics with Babish instead of What The Fridge segments because it's right at the segment title, it just try to make something that is already in the fridge without needing to go to the supermarkets and buy something
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@@ChefBrianTsao You should definitely react to Basics with Babish making real fried rice, too
The thing is, Uncle Roger's criticism in this video was restrained by the character. His brand is the overly critical Chinese uncle, who shits on anything deviating from the traditional. I'm sure Nigel would be much more lenient as himself. That's one reason why it's valuable to have real chefs reacting to his videos as well.
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Philippine Garlic Fried Rice uses coconut vinegar so there is a precedence of the vinegar. Japanese Kake Gohan is straight up white rice and raw egg, so there’s that. There are presidency.
I kinda wish he'd have done a meatball stuffed Arancini (Like an italian take on a Scotch Egg/Armadillo Egg).
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this reminds me of a short story form my childhood, if was by a well known Russian children's author whose name I forgot.
In the story a young boy tries everything he can to cover up the taste of some dish his mother wants him to eat. He adds tons of different ingredients on the logic that it will fix the taste, but nothing works. He finally dumps a ton of Horseradish over it because "with horseradish you can eat anything" but by this point it is too powerful and even the Horseradish can't hide the taste. At the end he throws it out the window.
Feels like Babish succeeded where that little boy failed.
Nah, I live in Nyc and we have multiple Gardens in my neighborhood , they grow herbs and veg and one even has a beehive. Good Video, keep it up.
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It's actually a myth that Marco Polo brought pasta from China to Italy. There are references to foods that are pasta in all but name going back at least to the writings of Galen, more than a thousand years before Marco Polo.
Well to be fair japanese fried rice usually got the standard frozen veggies in them (green peas,carrot,corn)
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When I saw your short ,I quickly search for your reaction for this vid,but I cant find it.Turn out it was your new reaction vid.I tought you already react it in old vid
Nope, but I did react to Babish in the past!
TBF, Guga has eaten things and said, "Oh this is bad" xD ... and I can't think of anyone else that has done that.
If that is aged balsamic it has a strong sweet flavour , the pesto is very strong to , i'm at a loss as to what that would taste like , guess if Andy likes it maybe it's good enough to try lol
The name Babish comes from a character in West Wing
I agree with you. Though i would go further and say that "Uncle Roger" has a bit of his own preconceived notions about a singular technique along with an asian original ingredient requiring some form of Asian only flavor profile. He's missing the mark as far as what Andrew was going for. Andrew was going for utilizing an Asian technique while using an Italian flavor profile. Which I agree with you that he could have done a better job of but still made a more than adequate dish.
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Did you see when Vincenz's Plate and Uncle Roger did their egg fried rice challenges? Vincenzo did an "Italian" one just as a laugh at the end of his video 🤣
Yup! I’ve actually reacted to it!
@@ChefBrianTsao I had no idea! I'm going to find it right now!!
I saw the ingredients that babish had and all I could think of to really take that rice to the next level would be Arancini. Since you need leftover rice to make italian rice balls.
Italian Rice Balls stuffed with cut up meatball in place of ground beef with some pesto to dip.
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@@ChefBrianTsao Indeed. Italian Arancini are addictive as all hell. Cheesy, Gooey stuffed with meat etc. Even better yet if sprinkle a bit of MSG and Salt on them right out of the fryer. God, it's 10:30 am in the morning and talking about it made me want to make them on purpose.
Commenting partly to help with the monetization, partly to defend Andrew/Babish as other comments here have. I don't recall if this was the first Babish video that Uncle Roger has reacted to, but if it was, I feel like Andrew was being put at a serious disadvantage. For one, this particular series is a lot more loose (chaotic) and improv-based than the majority of his content (see his Binging and Basics series), so I feel like this video didn't give the best first impression. I'd very much like to see Uncle Roger react to the fried rice video from his Basics series, or even his ramen videos or whatever else Uncle Roger feels qualified to talk about, where I feel like Andrew would have a much better shot of winning him over. And yeah, Andrew never said this was authentic in any way, just an opportunity to try using whatever ingredients he had lying around in a creative way. Also I do take his reaction to the taste to be genuine. If it doesn't taste good, Andrew will tell you. There are *plenty* of examples of that in his other videos. So yeah, maybe I'm biased because I've been watching Andrew for years, but I don't think he deserved the level of criticism (note how I'm not saying Andrew never deserves *any* criticism) that Uncle Roger threw at him. Anyways, really enjoyed your reaction, as always, and I look forward to your next upload!
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The Babish part is a West Wing reference, not Frasier.
you know what chef? We loved to see you reacts to outtakes too
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Balsamic + white rice is okay as like a "well shit, all I have is rice and balsamic" meal, but it's not a replacement for soy.
Keep on going ! ❤
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Brian does it again.
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Your videos are so much fun chef!!🙏🖤✌️
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