$5 Carrot Vs. $20 Carrot

okay we're in detroit and we're doing carrots this was adam's idea [Music] carrots we filmed most of this episode at the beginning of this year but we had to pause production because of cover 19. so we weren't able to finish the episode like we normally do so you'll notice some scenes are filmed here in the highlander while we're still practicing social distancing today on worth it we're going to be trying three different carrot dishes at three drastically different price points to find out which one is the most worth it at its price adam found a very delectable carrot steak that happens to exist in detroit yeah a very exciting carrot dish at that last location and we're not just eating three carrots it's going to be three dishes where carrot is the primary component andrew the whole internet knows about your love for carrot cakes it's your birthday cake whatever you want to call it whatever you want to call it every day you know my birthday is a birthday cake that's the only thing you ever call tell me about that cake yeah i love carrot cake i've had it every birthday my whole life and so the first place we're going to we're going to have carrot cake we're going to a place called good cakes and bakes we're going to see april the chef and owner yeah we're going to get one of those nice slices good cakes and bakes is an organic bakery where everything is made in-house from scratch and we do vegan but our bakers are mainly like southern type baked goods since 2012 eight years ago people felt like detroit was a food desert and now there isn't too much of that you can't find we're situated inside of five neighborhoods bagley sherwood forest green acres university district and palmer woods sherwood forest that is where marvin gaye lived diana ross lived there barry gordon all of the motown stars but now in this two and a half mile radius it is the largest black owned building owners as well as businesses in the united states right now so i've been baking since i was nine years old but i have an mba in corporate accounting and i worked in accounting for 17 years and then in 2009 i decided to go back to school to get a degree at pastry arts brienne one of our assistants is going to walk you through and show you how we make our carrot cake our carrot cake is the best carrot cake you ever taste i promise you really so what makes our carrot cake so unique it is the different flavors you'll taste orange you'll taste lemon you'll taste vanilla you'll have the sweetness of the carrots but what helps give us the sweetness of it is how we allow the raisins to soak in hot water so by doing that you don't have to add as much sugar to it by adding the flour in glass and creaming the oil and the sugar that's how you get fluffier tighter crumb opposed to a dense cake and then it's topped off with a sweet and tart cream cheese icing i guess i should warn you that i've actually had carrot cake every birthday for pretty much my whole life my mom has always made carrot cake i can't compete with your mom but i promise you this would be the second best carrot cake you've ever had okay looking forward to it yes okay before we begin i want to just give a huge shout out to the midwest both adam and me are from ohio it feels good to be back cozy feeling cozies yes visually beautiful you know it just has like that golden hue to it looks very fluffy it's nice and firm cheers oh pretty good the texture is very kind it has the kindness of the midwest in it it's like soft forgiving but also you know a little stern depending on whose carrot cake it is sometimes it can skew a little spice cake this one is fruitier it's so bright in flavor it really like lifts my mood up when i eat this and the cream cheese icing has that like tart dairy flavor that strays away from just straightforward sweetness and i think is fantastic in cakes how does this compare to your mom's carrot cake i think this is a very good carrot cake and if i was having a craving for carrot cake i would be very happy with this carrot cake are you saying though that you can't beat your mom's carrot cake i'm putting the spot andrew we got april right there listening listen april this is an excellent carrot cake thank you so it's like second to your mom's right yeah yeah like this i will say this is much better than my mom's carrot cake my mom doesn't make carrot i can say cakes quick time adam has the answer how much did the world's heaviest carrot weigh i mean carrots are like a root and i've seen overgrown roots of trees look pretty massive so i'm gonna go with something like 63 pounds i'm actually gonna go bigger than that i'm thinking the size of a regular adult human so i'm gonna go 135 pounds 22.44 pounds no i was gonna guess lower but you threw me off the trail andrew so when i was born i came out just under 10 pounds so it's like two of me that is yeah that's a very big carrot okay so our next carrot is actually going to be a carrot dog and it's a particular type of dog called a coney dog so i didn't know this about detroit but coney island style hot dogs are very common here and that's a hot dog with chili onion and mustard oh that sounds so good i'm actually used to them with cheese on top as well i love makoni dog's chili cheese style and so the next place we're going is a place called noshpit where we're going to see stefan and karen and we're going to have their lady fantastic coney carrot dog are we gonna see up dog there what's up dog not much what's up with you [Music] we started out as a food truck doing vegetarian vegan soups and sandwiches here at the restaurant we are all vegan all the time so we're trying to do vegan food that is more vegetable based rather than weird starches and stuff you know because this is a carrot episode i want to check if either of you have a particular love or particular feelings for the carrots i was raised a lot by my grandmother she was raised in the depression era where the vegetables that we stuck to were a lot of the root veggies potatoes onions carrots the things that kept i have a particular love for root vegetables because i find them more sustainable i noticed that coney island dogs are a big thing here do you know why that is greek folks moved from greece to new york originally they invented slash perfected the pony dog as they left in new york into the rest of the u.s they brought it with them and i don't know why it took root in detroit coney county restaurants are sort of the detroit version of a diner so we're having a carrot dog but i thought we should have a true detroit coney dog first right dualies hot dog chili onions mustard cheers yeah the way the bun is steamed it's like a hot dog donut but instead of jelly it's chili it is a sloppy joe for hot dogs whoever thought that the best condiment for meat would be more meat was a genius this coney dog is two dollars that's wonderful that's home right there so tell us about your coney carrot dog so i wanted something that was hot dog-ish the shape is obviously the first idea right but then unlike a regular hot dog it does have the sort of underlying sweetness to it but it also has like a savory nature i peel them and then i take a cuber which is a little tool that has a bunch of little blades in it basically it just puts small holes into the flesh of the carrot so the marinade can penetrate a little better i make a marinade and then i soak them for a minimum of three days we do a mixture of grilling and steaming at the same time it's never going to be hot dog texture it will have enough bite to it that it's not mush in your mouth but yet it will be cooked enough that it's not like eating a raw carrot and it's a timing too because we also have the chili it's lentil-based onions garlic tomato paste veg broth nowadays when people come in and they'll ask for something unique you know we have quite a few unique things but this is something that's familiar they know what the flavors are a delightful carrot dog so from this view it looks like a hot dog from this view you get the center of the carrot yeah i'm very confused i want to eat it though okay okay me too dear steven [Music] i don't know why this wasn't more obvious to me but it tastes better than a hot dog because i mean do you love hot dogs i don't really love hot dogs i'm all about the hot dog i mean let's face it it's like the weakest sausage this is tastes like you know much more than a hot dog the carrot is also just the right gunness for me i don't like a carrot to get too soft i want a little bit of crunch to remain that crunch gives me that satisfying to my soul satisfaction yeah so they also have this mac on cheese one of the things that we're pretty well known for locally is our mac and cheese it's again completely vegan it's cashew and potato is the base of the sauce mac and cheese mac cheese yes wait how does that taste so accurate wait i'm confused yeah now this is i mean this is a winner i'm slightly lacking intolerance so yeah there's no lactose here so go and go crazy i'm gone i am going crazy right now one more thing to say about the care dog i don't think i've ever seen so much love and care put into the preparation of a carrot before it is very good and it's also very confusing like my brain is just like jittering right now carefact carrot fact rabbits do not naturally eat root vegetables or fruits what whoa who founded bugs bunny when will we stop lying to children about everything their diets are largely hay slash grass as well as leafy greens now that this fact has come into my life i don't think i've ever seen a real life rabbit eat a carrot but now we gotta move on to our next restaurant our final carrot this is actually the carrot dish that motivated this trip to detroit yes adam saw it and was like we should do a carrot episode carrot alert where are we going now stephen we're going to lady of the house and we're going to see chef kate and her 20 carrot steak that's right 20 and it is a carrot turned into a steak that is a loud bird that is a very loud burp it's that one that one yeah look at the bird so lady of the house is kind of a new american a little bit of an irish hospitality feel we like to say it's like throwing a dinner party every night what we want to drink what we want to eat and what we want to serve we try to be no waste which means we're using every part of the animal every part of the vegetable or fruit and really kind of make the things taste more like themselves what a lot of people don't know is michigan is the second most agriculturally diverse state in the country so the produce that comes out of the state is really incredible so before we get to the main event we've got three dishes just to give us a little more taste of the menu so we have shrimp butter the lady ham trio and the half sour cabbage so shrimp butter's really interesting the thought behind is what else can we spread on toast it's like beautiful shrimp that's almost like emulsified in butter with aromatics and then topped with butter we've been making our own ham since we opened right now we have our traditional lady style parisian ham i love cabbage and we've had a version of a cabbage wedge on the menu for a long time this one gets a beautiful color on it with not much work and it already has like kind of a funk and like umami flavor in it let's do it so this is a shrimp butter oh whoa cheers steven cheers that's really good it reminds me of seafoody cream cheese that you spread on a bagel yeah yeah all right next up what do we got here lady ham trio with parisian ham sassy molasses and the lamb ham oh i forgot the taste of meat for a while oh because we've been eating carrots all day yeah i didn't know lamb can be ham but this lamb is going ham now we're easing back into vegetables there's no mango in it but it tastes like mango it's the miso it tastes like 60 of a reuben sandwich now onto the main event the inspiration for this dish actually came from my time spent in copenhagen i was working at a restaurant called relay the way that they cook vegetables is just incredible that same philosophy would just like make the carrot taste more like itself this became a challenge for me of like okay how can we make it worthy of our restaurant they're peeled and then shaved very thinly then we felt that basically taking the water out breaking down the cell walls so it's more malleable for us to actually line it up and roll it it actually gets rolled into a rose tied and then basically low and slow care and patience basted with butter for about 20 minutes we also serve the carrot with hollandaise which is traditionally served with steaks right or eggs benedict but treating it like a whole meal like an entree like a steak would be treated the perfect texture has a beautiful crust and then that fine line of melting together from the butter and salt and kind of the layers forming together without being you know mushy the attention to detail and the care and the length of time it takes to produce makes it sort of it's like a croissant of carrot i was thinking crepe cake yes should we taste the sauce first let's do it oh wow it's borderline cream cheesy there are my layers i'm going to scoop up a little sauce this really is like fantasy food like they eat this in the elven kingdoms in lord of the rings because only they have the time to meticulously slice carrots cheers [Music] i knew what would happen to it i knew going in what we were eating i've seen pictures of it had no idea that was going to happen it was the same feeling of when you get into a really good medium rare stick and you feel the meat kind of like give to your teeth yeah that's not carrot the transformation here is absurd like we're going from this root to this it has the feelings of unfamiliarity and familiarity also think about carrots are usually the side dish or the afterthought yeah and here it's the centerpiece you know what it actually tastes like carrot cake to me there is carrot flavor it's very buttery yeah it's a sour dairy flavor from the hollandaise and then the pistachio is the nut that you usually find in a carrot cake we're now just eating a savory carrot cake dessert cake yeah yeah you're right it's wild this is one of the best thing i've ever tasted almost like perfectly cooked fish not often do you get to eat foods you've just never eaten before andrew what was your favorite thing in the episode that was not a carrot mmm very good question but i'm gonna go for the easy answer which was the coney dog at dooley's that was delicious i gotta say the midwest vibes all right now it's time that we all been waiting for what carrot was the most worth it to you at a given price point my winner is lady of the house i love carrot cake i respect all carrot cakes and i'm gonna call that dish a carrot cake and it was the most unique carrot cake i've ever had my worth it winner it goes to good cakes and bakes and all of the carrot cake proprietors out there good kicks and baked they did they did the right way yeah good cakes and bakes it just made me feel good being there adam is your worth it winner the mac and cheese uh nosh pet my carrot winner good cakes and bakes okay well that does it for this episode of worth it look we got more stuff coming down the pipeline yeah we're just getting started next week quesadilla [Music] [Music]

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Length: 16min 49sec (1009 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 06 2020

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[u/arbivark]

obviously i liked the middle choice, the $10 carrot coney dog style.