- If we have to slow dance at prom, where do I place my hands? - Just like there. (laughing) (upbeat music) - Welcome to Mythical Kitchen,
where dreams become food. Now I love cooking out of boxes, I grew up cooking out of boxes, they are a great way to skip tedious steps but I got one problem with it,
the recipes on the back are way too boring. - So Josh and I are each gonna make our own recipe using Bisquick but only one recipe will be good enough to go on the back of the box. - It's time for... - [Josh And Nicole] Unbox Recipe! - So today I am making
crab cake corn puppies, they are mini corn dogs made
with Bisquick crab cake batter. - [Nicole] I'm making
pimento cheese monkey bread. - There's a real monkey inside your bread? - No! - We could do it. - I draw the line. - I got a guy. - I draw the line at monkey. - So Bisquick really, it's like flour and it's got the shortening
that's powdered already up in it and it's got leavening agents, so you can kind of use it for anything, you can make biscuits, they
recommend to make waffles and pancakes on the back of this but I think we can do better, so I'm turning this
into a corn dog batter, which means I'm gonna go ahead and add some corn meal into
that and then I'm gonna take an entire can of crab. - [Nicole] Oh my gosh! - [Josh] You've never
seen a can of crab before? - I've never seen, not like this! - Yeah they pack all the
little leggies on the bottom. So I'm just gonna run my knife-- - Gross! - What do you mean, gross? - I don't like that. - That's what you do, you
subtly sabotage me emotionally. - You know what I feel
like this is like, Josh? I feel like me and you are
about to host a dinner party but we're the only ones that
are gonna eat the dinner. - If we hosted a dinner
party, what do you think we would make together? Because we've talked about
opening up a restaurant. - These things. - We've talked about
opening up a restaurant playing to both our Jewish heritages. So I'm making like, a
bacon-fat matzo ball soup and you're making like... - Borscht. - Just borscht? - I'm just gonna make some borscht. I also put a little bit
of mayonnaise in here to soften up my cream cheese. Have you ever had pimento cheese before? - I love pimento cheese. - I love pimento cheese, the
first time I had pimento cheese was in Portland, Oregon
at Pine State Biscuits and boy, oh boy, did that change my life. - All right so I've added egg, a little bit of Monterey
Jack cheese, just because I like getting that little
cheese pull in the batter and then some scallions,
just for a little bit of flavor and color. Now we're gonna throw in some
Zatarain's Creole Mustard. - Zatarain's! - Zatarain's, hey! My apron came untied. - Turn around. - [Josh] I wanna do... - Keep talking about what we're doing. - If we have to slow dance at prom, where do I place my hands? - Just like that. (laughing) - Just keep them? - Yeah, just like that. - Do you remember the term freak dancing? - Of course I do. - There were eight parents
at every high school dance that would come and
physically pull you apart from freak dancing, problem
is no one ever taught us how to dance, they taught
us how not to dance. You're not supposed to go
front to back and do this but no one ever taught us how to dance. - Josh... - So I'm gonna add a
little milk to this batter. - I'm gonna add mustard
and then pepper and then, this is Laurie's Garlic Salt,
have you ever had it before? No! - Why? - No. - My mouth's clean, I
gargle bleach every morning just to feel something. - Try that. - [Josh] Do you want some of mine? - Yeah, I've actually never
had Old Bay Seasoning. - You've never had Old Bay? Oh my God. Ooh! - That's good. - [Josh] That was nice. - And then I add Worcestershire sauce, which is the secret
ingredient that makes it a really nice pale gray color. (laughing) - Pale gray is the most
appetizing color in food 'cause you think of any
fast food hamburger, if you actually really look at
it, there is no brown on it, it is simply a pale gray. It's like a, I don't know,
the color of a television tuned to a dead channel. - Is that like some deep cut (bleep) that I don't know? - That is a thing that there
is gonna be one comment on and I'm going to search YouTube comments, control F Neuromancer to
see if anyone gets that and one person will and I'll go ha ha, that was worth eight seconds of airtime. - I'm gonna add some pre-chopped bacon. Do you wanna drain my
diced pimentos for me? - I sure do. - That'd be great, thanks Josh. It's so fun whenever he helps me because normally I'm
helping him, you know? - [Josh] I do require a lot of help. - Yeah but it's fun, you know? - One day she had to help me
tie my shoes in the morning 'cause I hurt my back dead lifting. - Yeah that was like, three
weeks into me knowing you. - Yeah and I just came into
work holding my shoes in my hand with my head down. I was like, "Nicole, I need help." - Yeah I remember, that's when we became really good friends. What have you ever done for me? Well you do this. - I help you take out the
trash every single day 'cause you have no upper body strength. - Yeah I never ever take out the trash. - All in? - Yeah throw them in there. - I look like I just helped
a rhinoceros give birth to Jim Carrey. (laughing) (box closing) So right now I am making a remoulade which is a New Orleans-style
pink mayonnaise-y sauce, which I cannot stress
enough are the best sauce. It's gonna be the best condiment
for a little seafood-y crab and also a little smoky, you'll see. It'll come together, you're doubtful now but everyone doubted me. Nicole doubts me every single day. - I don't, I empower
you, you're so sensitive. - You just told me I don't
know how to zest lemons right. - I'm gonna show you how,
don't worry about it. I'm gonna make biscuit dough,
it's gonna be really easy. It's gonna be a one, two situation. - So you're using the recipe
on the box to beat the box. - No I'm not, I'm using my own, no, no, no, I am drawing inspiration from the box as most artists do. It's called appropriation, Josh. We learned about this in the beginning. - A universally good word! - Whatever, tomato, tomato. And I'm just gonna take
about five cups of this stuff and then mix it with a cup of,
not water, this isn't water. I've got the white water. - Yeah you got the old light cream water. We got into an argument where
I believe that if you add water to heavy cream, it turns into milk but no I'm saying, if you run
out of milk for your cereal, you can mix heavy whipping cream, even if it's expired by two months, with water and put it in your Fruity Pebs. - Okay, I have a confession to make. I actually gave Rhett
and Link one time a-- (elevator music) - All right so I am gonna
grate some fresh garlic into this remoulade. You can kind of add
whatever you want to it, I'm doing capers, mustard,
Worcestershire, hot sauce, a little bit of lemon zest and juice. Also so many people do
the knife flattening thing but once I cut myself,
so I've just started palm heel striking my garlic. (garlic smashing) - [Nicole] Josh! - Okay how do you zest a lemon? - Okay, so I zest a lemon like
so because I can see the zest and I can also see the lemon and the pith. Instead of just going like this, who knows what I'm getting on there. - You gotta cook with instinct, you gotta use your instincts. - No, look how clean this is
and then you can finesse it. You can move the lemon too, see? You can like, it's all about, you're so good at tactile stuff. Do the thing where you roll
the lemon around your body. - Right, toss it. - See? He's so good at tactile stuff. See, why don't you be tactile? - So we're gonna add just
a little bit of lemon zest that Nicole zested for
you, right into there. (laughing) You look like you're really
deft with that Bisquick, did you grow up on Bisquick? - Deft? - Deft, you have deft hands. - What does that mean? What does that mean? - Like the deft ones, the band. You're soft and fluid and
fluid with your movements. - Yeah well I like to cook
professionally, this is my job. - I like to cook with
brute force and bashing. - I like to cook with gentle coercion. - And together we make a begrudging team. All right I'm adding hot
sauce, Worcestershire, little bit of moutard Creole. Did you grow up eating Bisquick? - We were more of a red box family. - I was blue box, we got
Krusteaz Pancake Mix. - Oh my... - K-R-U-S-T-E-A-Z. So we would get these 10
pound bags of Krusteaz, my dad would make us
pancakes every Sunday, as I mentioned before, every
single dad somehow has learned to burn pancakes at the same
exact, so I grew up eating burnt Krusteaz pancakes and they were still the best pancakes in my life, except for every other
pancake that I've eaten other than that. - My dad was good at making pancakes. - Well must be nice, Nicole. I'm just chopping up some green onions to get it in the remoulade and then we're gonna stir it
together and then after that, I'm gonna be frying up my corn puppies, which are small dogs. I'm not cooking dog but the
ethics on that, I think, we're gonna talk about that-- - I'm not talking about that. - Because I made the claim
that I would eat my cat if it died of natural
causes, I think it would be disrespectful not to. - Josh! Listen to A Hotdog is a Sandwich, please. - Every Wednesday we talk to each other on the phone for an hour. - It's so nice, it's so nice. - It's like a little retreat. (box closing) So I need to actually dip my corn dogs. We got Lit'l Smokies, which are great, have you ever eaten Lit'l Smokies? - I think so. - The recipe of my people, Nicole. - Oh it's cold, it's cold, it's cold. (beep) - We're about to heat it up. - Yeah, heating it up, boss! - Heating it up! So I'm about to dip it on
these little toothpicks and we're about to put it in
our crab batter and fry it. - Oh what's the glass for? - You're supposed to skewer
the hot dog and you take it and you put it vertically in
and pull it out vertically 'cause if you try and roll it around, the batter is gonna drip off the sides. - I'm so interested to
see if this is gonna work because I don't trust the
weight of the toothpick but I do trust your intentions. - I've never put, I've made a
lot of corn dogs in my life, I have never put a bunch of
crab into the corn dog batter. - I'm excited for this. - If you want to beat the
box because let's be real, those recipes on the back,
those are hard to beat. They got recipes for
waff-les and pan-cak-es. (laughing) - Pan-cak-es! - Waff-les and pan-cak-es,
I mean those are two crazy dishes, who
knows if we can beat them? - So what I'm gonna do
while Josh is busy doing whatever he's doing, I took equal parts... (laughing) I took equal parts butter and olive oil and I heated it up a little
bit and I'm just gonna brush my Bundt pan, so none
of the monkey bread will stick to it. - Nicole, what is monkey bread? - It's bread that is
sweet and stuck together. - So monkey bread's having a moment. Taco Bell literally made a
monkey bread version of a chalupa called a triplelupa. - Oh I thought that was a
human centipede version? - Yeah, I guess so actually. If you really think about it. - Yeah, that's what that was. - [Josh] So are you making
human centipede bread? - No it's still monkey bread. Human centipede is long, this is high. - The corn dogs look like
they're working out though. I'm just dipping these straight vertically and they look like they're getting fully submerged in batter. - That's great! Go for it! - [Josh] I'm just gonna
give it a little twirl. - Oh my gosh, it held! I'm so impressed. - [Josh] And then I'm
just gonna drop it in. - [Nicole] That's great, Josh. - Gonna put it back on the
heat 'cause I need to let my oil temperature get wildly high because I'm often distracted,
I have the adult-onset ADHD. Didn't do so hot in school. - You know what I did? I went to 13th Grade. - What? - Oh you didn't know this? - Did you get held back? - No I graduated from
high school, I walked, I got my diploma but when I opened it, it said please see your counselor. Yeah it wasn't a real
diploma and they're like, "you've gotta take another Math class," and I'm like "what?" If you fail Math, you can make
pimento cheese monkey bread. - Only do drugs if you want to. - Don't do drugs. - Don't do drugs. - Okay so I flattened out
my little Bisquick batter, my dough, and then I'm gonna
take a little bit of my filling and I'm going to push it
towards the edge and then I'm-- - Oh you're stuffing the monkey bread! - [Nicole] Of course! - Nicole! - Josh! Why don't you listen to me ever? And throw it in there. - Wait, that's gonna be so good. - I know! - That's gonna be so much
better than mine, oh crap! - It's not gonna be better,
it's just gonna be different. - When you said pimento
cheese monkey bread, literally the whole time I
thought you were just gonna ball Bisquick and shove pimento
cheese on it and bake it. - No I'ma stuff it. - Damn, that's smart. - Yeah I'm creative. - I gotta figure out,
so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go ahead and I'm
gonna stuff these sausages with the crabs and then I'm gonna... - You failure. - Now you sound like my
high school Math teacher. (laughing) Nicole, looks like you got
your monkey bread all mon-- - [Nicole] All monkeyed out. - Monkeying around. - Yeah lots of cheese, lots of bread. We're gonna put in the oven
at 350 for 25, 30 minutes until the cheese looks nice and bubbly and golden brown on the top. - I got all of my crab corn puppies made, we just need to get some little remoulade dipping sauce for that. I'm pretty good, I genuinely cannot wait to see how that turns out
because I am imagining the hot molten pimento cheese. One, there is mayonnaise in
that pimento cheese, right? - Oh yeah, there's mayo all right. - Hot mayonnaise is like
one of my favorite foods in the entire world. - It's your middle name. - Mayonnaise isn't my middle name, it's just what I call myself on Tinder. (box closing) (laughing) Oh look at that! - Shall I flip her over, you think? (groaning) That looks much better. - I think you should do that,
I think you should do that and just fill the middle with the-- - Oh my God, I'm gonna fill
the middle with pimento cheese. That was my idea. (laughing) - I'm just gonna put some of the remoulade in the middle of that, I'm
gonna put some chives on there because the rest of my
plate is quite brown. - I think we just have an issue where if our plate is too
brown or too monochrome, we have to put something green on it, it doesn't matter what it is. - Yeah, honestly that's
like, a great tip though for just impressing people with food. If you put anything small,
chopped and green on your plate, people will think you're a better cook than you actually are. - [Nicole] I feel like a
Midwestern mom right now. - You are a Midwestern mom. - Like, hey honey, I heard
soccer practice wasn't so good. You want some pimento cheese monkey bread? - All right, so here we have our crab cake Bisquick corn dogs. - And we have our pimento
cheese monkey bread. Mine's better 'cause
it's on a spinny thing. - Corn dogs! All right, so now let's
taste these bad boys. Bad boys, let's taste these Bad Boys Two with Martin Lawrence. (laughing) (upbeat music) Nicole, these look stunning. - I know, I'm so impressed
by the two of us. - One more than the other, I
tend to cook very brown food. - No it's beautiful. - But we have to decide,
what would actually look appropriate on the back of the box. Like, whose looks more
camera ready to be there? - I don't know, I mean it depends if a hippy mom is buying it, mine. If a chef-driven mom, yours. - Objectively speaking,
this is incredibly gorgeous and I am very impressed. - Oh my gosh. - Shall we actually dig in and try it? - Yeah. I'll try yours first. - Okay. - Chin chin. - L'chaim. - That's delicious. - That's really good. It's got that classic corn dog chew, you know there's a corn dog chew? - Yeah I don't like corn dogs
but I do like this a lot. - You can taste a little bit of the crab. It's actually pretty easy to make but would the Bisquick
corporation actually expect people to buy Lit'l Smokies and dip
'em and crab 'em and fry 'em? I don't know. That said, this is freaking delicious. - It's absolutely delicious. - Mm-hmm! - Okay, shall we dive
into this monstrosity? - Yeah why not. Okay, so I'm just gonna go... - Yeah just go for it, go for it. - [Josh] Oh mine just
exploded in pimento cheese from the inside out. - Wait you have to dip it
in the cold pimento cheese. - I don't have to do nothin'. - Josh! It's the full experience! - Oh the bacon just hit me
first and that's freaking good. - The caramelized cheese is where it's at. - The smokiness from the
bacon, the little sweetness from the peppers in the pimento cheese, I love all the mayonnaise in there. - You can taste the mayonnaise but it's a warm hug of mayonnaise. - I have my answer for what should be on the back of the box. - Shall we put our hand over
which one we think it is? - On three, two, one. - Yay! - This is awesome, it's like,
a super fun, inventive idea. It's also super easy,
deep frying stuff is hard. But this is freaking
gorgeous, it's gorgeous, it's fun, it's shareable. - Super fun. - It's like the epitome
of a recipe that should be on the back of a Bisquick box. That said, I'm still
gonna absolutely eat these for breakfast tomorrow morning. I'm gonna put them in an omelet. (laughing) - I think we both gave
a very valiant effort and we should both be
very proud of ourselves but I win! - Us two sentient human
beings are better than a box and we're smarter, even
though we both seemed to struggle in school. - Don't know what sentient means. - Thank you so much for
stopping by Mythical Kitchen. If you think that Bisquick
should add this recipe to the back of the box, tweet
@Bisquick with #UnboxRecipe. - Thank you for joining us
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Ok, this new series is awesome. The duality of the recipes, taking turns doing things and explaining things... Josh and Nicole at their best! I love it
I really wanna know what Nicole did to Rhett and Link. 😂
I love Josh, but it's so much better when Nicole is there too. The 2 of them are just too good together.
I love this new series! It was so fun to watch and I love Josh and Nicole’s banter :)
Mythical Kitchen as a channel is freaking killing it.
Unbox Recipes
Past Food
Fancy Fast Food
Cook Food Good
So many good video series. Not to mention if they bring back Food Fears and Snack Smash.
Although I must say that as much as I love Josh, he's so much better with a co-host/sidekick. Whether Nicole, Trevor, or mythical crew members (Emily ftw), Josh always seems best when he has someone to play off of.
I really want to try makomg both of those!
The title of this series is a reference to the YouTube channel Unbox Therapy :o