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can I make a Better Burger than the most
expensive burger in the whole
city over here we have the cheapest
Burger we could find in the city this is
$4 from 7-Eleven over here the most
expensive burger in the city also my
favorite burger in the entire city from
Patito fancy fren Chef Ludo leev this
thing cost $37 and yet to be seen it’s
the one right in the middle the one that
I make myself what happens when you
remove the Ambiance from food when you
remove the when you remove the name
brand today we’re going to find out
because a blind Jud damn it I got to
stop calling the judges blind and I am
going to have a judge blind taste test
each and see if my food can compete with
the best in Los Angeles or maybe the
cheapest option will actually win find
out because this is and then we can ADR
in the name of the show we’re going to
call it like naked burgers with Josh nak
naked I feel pretty confident beating
the $4 7-Eleven burger and also you
might look at that price and go most
fast food burgers are cheaper than that
you’re correct I don’t know what to tell
you we want to buy one from a store we
wanted to get the absolute Baseline also
it’s quite thick and it is going to
match the size of the other two burgers
and I’d be lying if I said that I did
not really want to I’d be lying if I
said I did not I would not here we go I
would not not be lying if I said that I
did not not want to beat the most
expensive burger in La the big Mech from
petito it is truly my favorite burger in
Los Angeles it’s got this like Von fused
Borday sauce it’s got like house ground
patties two beautiful slices of American
cheese this silky Brios bun it is such a
good burger I can’t compete with that in
terms of good product we’re trying to
use the most Baseline product that you
would at home but I’m going to try and
use some really cheffy tricks right here
to try and make the best homemade burger
possible so if manners make his man
condiments make burgers that’s why we
are going to make two right now we’re
doing a jalapeno lime donkey sauce just
a little bit of acid a little bit of
brightness in there donkey sauce of
course
gu Yeti’s famous condiment that people
were mad about and they’re like donkey
sauce it’s basically just mayonnaise
it’s like what do you think every single
sauce is it’s all mayonnaise baby
speaking of which go to sport.com find
their rankings of the best burger sauces
if you want to make the perfect burger
at home bacon Jam we’re doing it right
now we have a blender we’re going to
throw some tomatoes in that but first I
want to get some of this bacon rendering
this is uh normal bacon from the store
we’re going to slice this as thin as
possible cuz here’s the thing I love the
flavor of bacon on a hamburger but I do
not like just having giant thick
especially bacon strips on a burger cuz
I think they obstruct from the texture
to me you want to like really break this
down I’m going to get it crispy going to
get some onion saang in the fat get some
Tomatoes working in there a little bit
of sugar a little bit of vinegar sweet
spicy Smoky we’re going for absolute
flavor bombs here there we go this is I
could not cut through a single Pig
carcass I can barely cut through one
strip of its flesh you want some solids
to soak up the flavors right you know
what I’m saying cuz onions are solid but
they’re very porous and when you put
them in flavors all those just get
inside the cell walls and then you get
to Crunch through the flavors instead of
just slurping them is this adding up for
any the other chefs in the room you know
what I mean onions are just it’s like
Flavor solids CU otherwise it’s just
flavor liquids and you want to be
Crunchies over Slurpees that’s right
thank you God culinary school man amen
if you don’t got really really good
tomatoes uh great way to make them good
is to like process them do some cooking
with them so we’re going to do that
we’re going to Chuck them into a blender
tomatoes on a burger too they’re they’re
too watery you got to get some of that
water out and we’re certainly going to
get some of that out we’re going to
check a little bit of vinegar in there
because sour is good and then we’re
going to hit that with some sugar in the
pan is bacon going good Bacon’s going
great you fiddle with sometimes you got
to fiddle with the knobs you guys ever
did this is the cooking equivalent of
when you go to a crosswalk and you know
you pressed the button already but it
hasn’t gone in a long time so you go and
you just furiously press the button a
couple times
and then it does make it go faster so
then you got to fiddle with the knobs in
your pan just going to blend this up
into a tomato slurry and then this is
all going to cook
down yeah nice little pink slurry in
there drank it up it looks bad now it’ll
look better later our homemade burger
has many similarities with everybody
else’s homemade burgers because we only
have one burner that works and every
stove at home only has one burner that
works oh you have other burners that
will certainly turn on but would you
really say they work no uh fresh raw
garlic is delicious in mayonnaise I’m a
big fan in France they call this ioli in
here I call it donkey sauce that’s
American God dang it a little bit of
wherer sauce gti’s official recipe for
donkey sauce is Wister sheer mayonnaise
additional olive oil for some reason and
roasted garlic um we are using raw
garlic a little bit of whsy we’re using
Dijon mustard I like that it’s just nice
additional little peppery kind of
horseradish flavor in there yummy yummy
in my yummy and a little bit of hot
sauce just cuz I I cannot make a burger
sauce without adding just a little bit
of chili making it a little bit orange
yes all right cool cool
cool
nice get the onions in there bacon nice
and crispy never use your knife blade to
scoop up
ingredients we’ve taken the Tomato
slurry and this looks terrible it’s
going to look so much better and we’ve
added it to our onions and our bacon
we’re going to take a little bit of
sugar suar add that in there the Sugar’s
really going to make it that sort of
Jammy texture we’re going to take a
little bit of
salt got it no no one lift the finger it
was right
there Josh just hold it together we just
talked about this the fact that like you
don’t seem to have any idea of object
permanence you will see an object right
in front of you and then yeah this
morning I almost like called Julia into
the bathroom to ask where the toothpaste
is it was where the toothpaste all is
the counter next to the toothbrushes
what we’re going to do we have two
condiments right I don’t want to put
lettuce and tomato on this we have our
bacon Jam we have our donkey sauce the
burgers are going to be really juicy cuz
we’re using really fatty beef and we’re
going to do a Smash Burger so now we
need a soop right a wine you guys know
wine sots in the Middle Ages they would
put bread inside the wine to soak it up
and they said it was actually make the
wine taste better or they would call it
a toast that is why we use the phrase
toast like at a wedding soes to
physically put toast in wine we’re
making a soop right now and I’m doing it
with breaded onions one of my favorite
things on a burger we’re going to take
an onion we’re going to mandolin it out
super thin and I think my commitment to
architecture is going to make me beat
this very expensive hamburger from
Patito which I cannot stress enough is
an absolute Delight uh but I think you
put some little tips and tricks and a
little bit of love into it and I think
that’s going to give us a victory oh
yeah mandolins mandolins very dangerous
I have shaved off fingerprints uh many
times on these before so use the
mythical kitchen oven mitt to protect
your hands we literally don’t Endor that
why
dude it’s an oven mitt it can’t cut
through the oven mitt I had I had
requested buttermilk to dip the onions
in and now I will not be doing that I’m
really going to add a bunch of Tony
sasher to some flour and the onions are
wet enough the onions are wet enough
right now I know I’m sorry thank you for
the buttermilk we can take the
buttermilk home you want to make
biscuits later no
it’s s the Tony Satur I forgot about
that all hits like a
ton uh buttermilk matah no the
buttermilk makes it not matah no I’m
sorry Nicole all
right where’s the guard for
that bring back the can
95s uh it’s going to sploop these in
here and then I’m going to give him the
old like uh pickle ball treatment
here I’m trying to dust the flower off
so we don’t just get biscuits in the
bottom cuz it’s Passover Nicole can’t
eat the biscuits
golly there we go this is perfect this
is perfect yep simple homemade
burger there we go splishy splash this
around that’s perfect that’s perfect
those are going to fry about 3 4 minutes
give me a sec I’m just caked right now
onions are looking pretty good and I’m
pulling them I’m pulling them boom nice
little onion strings going to act as a
perfect juice soop for our hamburger
nothing Raw on my
hands don’t breathe
run we have some 70304 PB patties right
here we got a nice big grocery store bun
that has been toasted in butter we’re
going to do like a half Smash Burger
right here uh I think this is where we
can kind of compete with that fancy
Burger so we’re taking super fatty beef
we’re smashing it down I know I’ve
talked a little bit of smack on Smash
Burgers before um but I have since seen
the light and come around I’ve must seen
the light on uh a bunch of black pepper
on Burgers I used to say stuff like the
black pepper will burn and get bitter
and because I heard somebody on Food
Network say that and then I made it and
I was like yeah this tastes great why
not keep doing that so we’re going to do
that we’re going to get a fair amount of
oil in this pan I know even though it’s
a 7030 Burger we could just use that fat
as its own lubricant in there pop that
down real quick just get a light smash
we’re not trying to go crazy but I do
want to make sure we get all of those
crusties there we go it’s probably fine
what I think is going to happen I think
the fancy Burger is going to be quite
identifiable as the fancy Burger because
they got some like red whiny sauce on it
however I think our judge is going to
prefer mine so I think we’re using big
bold GE Yeti flavors I need to wash my
hands cuz I put Rob beef on
it go away I said no Paparazzi at my
birthday spread some manise on the top
we’re all just going to put some pickles
on there that’s going to be good should
flip these
hamburgers there we go that’s a
beautiful sear not an ostentatious
amount of crust I’m actually going to
kind of shut off the heat we’re going to
put on two slices of Po American cheese
just let that melt we’re going to stack
the burgers on top of each other yeah
we’re we’re getting Swifty here oh how
is the judge going to think about the $4
7-Eleven burger no one’s like going to
7-Eleven getting a burger and being like
yum can’t wait for for this they’s food
at 7-Eleven that is delicious the
hamburger it just certainly ain’t one of
them we’re going to put some of that
tomato bacon Jam this turned out
incredible um I think they’re going to
taste that and they’re going to go like
M kind of tastes not not great that’s
what they’re going to say and then we’re
going to stack those fried onions on the
bottom cuz we’re going to take those
greasy hamburger patties and that is
going to sit on this bed of onions and
it’s almost going to like hydrate these
fried onions right here which I think is
going to be really freaking good I
should have made a simple Burger I have
regrets now all right burger
patties are cooked that’s
perfect should I do it should I just put
it on put it on put it on all
right
awesome we going to take a couple
pickles pickle
pickle pickle pickle pickle pickle
[Music]
I made a hamburger there we have it we
got my best attempt at a delightful
homemade hamburger to see if it can
compete with the most expensive burger
in Los Angeles and see if our judge can
taste the difference between this the
cheapest and the most expensive go in
from sport.com and also an episode of
Jeopardy and you won that episode um I
absolutely did not but thank you for
asking
uh do you understand what your task is
today I understand that you’re going to
be feeding me three burgers while I’m
wearing this blindfold I’m going to tell
you how good they are and whether I
think that they are the cheapest Burger
in La the most expensive burger in LA or
Josh’s special homemade burger okay then
we got the first Burger coming up and
you might be asking surely I could have
fed myself N I don’t want you to be
fooled by the texture okay wait gentle
gentle
[Music]
gentle it’s kind of rubbery a little bit
it tastes like it doesn’t have a lot on
it it’s um are these just all plain
Burgers on buns no they are certainly
not but I I’ll give you a little hint
okay that one is okay no no no secrets
you’re missing there okay so this is a
little dry I’m going to have to take a
minute to chew and swallow it yeah yeah
hey someone throw hey throw me the gaty
bottle okay do you want like a a squirt
of water in the mouth I don’t know I
don’t trust myself can’t do it hand it
to me okay what’s a it’s a those SP it’s
like yeah yeah it’s like how the
athletes have it on footballs is it open
yes
okay mhm that helped a lot thank you
okay okay good I did it g are you ready
for Burger number two yeah I think so
beautiful okay this one a little bigger
if I had to estimate I’d say like three
and a half I’m going to kind of Smash It
Down Like a little bit this one right up
to okay kind of just wedge it oh W just
wedge it in there oh my
God
okay this is a very different experience
from the last burger that I just ate it
has so much flavor it has like flavors I
can’t even identify wow are you ready
for Burger number three
mhm nope all right this also are you
having a good time this seems SL yeah I
am actually this is how I’m going to eat
every meal from now on my desk is close
to yours I can make I can swing it
during lunch go I’m getting like the the
the burger itself is like maybe a little
more cooked than I would personally
prefer it to be G do you think you can
give each of these Burgers a score out
of 10 yes Burger number one I’m going to
give a three out of 10 I’d say that’s
even generous
okay I know I was like I’m like so I
don’t want to be rude but and burger
number two Burger number two I’m giving
a 10 holy smokes Burger number three a
nine point uh nine mhm I almost did a
point I always like I always do points a
nine do you want to do point if that’s a
n if that’s a 9.9 Burger that’s a 9.9
Burger a 9.5 Burger G which Burger do
you think is the most expensive burger
in Los Angeles I think it’s going to be
Burger number three go and please remove
your blindfold you are absolutely
correct Burger number three this is $37
and that’s before tax and also comes
with fries but the TX and it’s like a
$50 burger at the end of the day this is
my homemade burger um you are tasting a
bacon tomato jam and then a little bit
of jalapeno donkey sauce on there just
little fried onion strings to sop up the
burger fat then this is from 7-Eleven
you got a microwave oh my God it really
is yeah so the texture thing I mean this
is hard this is like almost solid on the
bottom yeah listen to get the meat
cooked through you really got to Nuke
that bun oh no oh no I’m absolutely
flattered though this means so much to
me this is like 7030 commodity ground
beef nothing special on there just a
little bit of cheffy Tricks a 10 out of
10 Burger it’s absolutely incredible so
you scored this burger 9.9 you scored
this burger 10 but you can still
identify that as the most expensive
burger why is that I also I I gave this
a 9.5 9.5 sorry to be
clear um I feel like I’m familiar with
like the sauce that’s on it it reminds
me a little bit of there’s another place
in La called f my father’s office that
has a burger kind of like this and has a
very similar sauce in that is like a
notoriously expensive burger this tastes
like an expensive restaurant Burger to
me and this tasted like something holy
special I’m beaming right now man I’m
not coming down from this high it’s also
the juny energy drink that I drank I had
a skull on it what kind I don’t know but
I’m going to start doing Jiu-Jitsu now
damn I better watch out G thank you so
much for stopping by the mythical
kitchen and for giving your your expert
opinions check her out over at sport.com
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