DEATH By Cheese!! The LAST Fair Food I'm Eating!!! (Minnesota State Fair)

i don't know how much more cheese a man's heart or body can take but we're putting it to the limits today look it just won't end [Music] welcome back to the minnesota state fair we've done a lot already so far during this minnesota state fair deep dive i've tried 30 different unique foods oh that's very satisfying day one i visited mega food factories cranking out french fries corn turkey legs and thousands of cookies by the minute these are like the size of arnold schwarzenegger's calves in the 1970s but no trip to this annual event is complete without trying our final heart-stopping fried fair offering this is my final day here but before i can go i need to try my favorite food one does not come to the state fair without trying this food this is something you can't pick up at your grocery store you can't order it on amazon and good luck trying to make it at home it all starts here there's so much action back here how many people do you have working right now in this small space we have probably about 45 people have you ever considered yourself overstaffed always okay it's just a matter of having enough people so that it all runs pretty smooth and most importantly guests are not waiting right if you're overstepped you can over deliver exactly this is dave cavallaro he could have spent his days voicing trailers or ufc promos but instead exactly 20 years ago he decided to open the mouth trap giving state fair patrons a taste of heaven with his deep fried cheese curds soon after this became minnesota's most irresistible dairy addiction and i'm here to get my fix can we talk about the cheese sure the cheese comes from wisconsin how did you decide which vendor in wisconsin to get your cheese from i think in the last 20 25 years most of us that are in the cheese curd business have been buying our cheese from ellsworth creamery in america's dairyland also known as wisconsin the village of ellsworth is officially wisconsin's cheese curd capital thanks to ellsworth cooperative creamery what began as a humble butter and eggplant now churns out 180 000 pounds of cheese curds every single day but what the flip is a cheese curd cheese curds develop as fresh milk is acidified coagulated and heated these steps separate the liquid known as whey and the solvent which is the curd we're after the next step is cheddaring through which the curds are stacked cut up pressed together and stacked again repeatedly once the desired texture forms the curds are cut salted boxed and shipped here to the mouth trap mere hours later there we go oh my gosh what i love too is the inconsistency of shape because they all create a little bit different texture and a little variation of flavor yes they do oh here's a good one right here all right [Music] sorry i didn't think in a moment there was no fine it's so creamy just such a fresh wonderful taste the texture of it it's like so thick it's fun to chew through yes it is yeah they do a nice job over there at the creamery these cheese curds are so good it's almost impossible to imagine them getting any better but they do and dave's gonna tell me how so you've got the cheese curd it was driven in a refrigerator truck it gets to your door and what do you do well it gets to our door we put it away about 11 o'clock at night our first year i think we probably brought in 3 500 pounds per night now we're bringing in seven to eight thousand pounds we get here bright and early in the morning and seven o'clock we're making the batter what is the batter made out of is it a wheat flour it's got a wheat flour to it right it's got several ingredients that like i say it's proprietary it's a batter that we buy locally here we mix it with ice cold water the consistency is very close to a pancake batter the most important is getting that batter right and if it is too thick too thin to whatever then it kind of permeates throughout the course of the whole process i see the people mixing the cheese curds they're not being quick about it they're massaging each single cheese curd how important is that really important we want to make sure that each piece of the cheese is coated we don't want to do the downward motion so to speak is that just mashing it together you want to keep it kind of like this once we make several batches the operator generally has a dowel last step it's coated it needs to go in the fryer i don't see any timers here how do you know when it's done actually by the look of it the oil is at 400 degrees we change the oil nightly we clean the fryers nightly so we're starting off with fresh oil we drop them in you see the little edges kind of brown and that's when you know they're done when i think state fair i think this right here cheese curds 18 for a bucket of cheese curds this is far too much for one person i gotta share cheese curds sir you gotta share them i gotta share them thank you thank you thank you for your service cheese curds shareable uh which one do i try here's what i love about picking there's like little ones like this which are gonna be more crunchy and then there's big fat ones like this which are like juicy cheese juice that's my favorite kind of juice screw lemonade screw apple juice orange juice no cheese juice [Music] if you're from outside the u.s come to wisconsin try the cheese curds cheese there is unlike cheese from any other place in the world i've tried it all and there's nothing that comes close the only way to make it better is with what they've done here it bursts in your mouth it's just a spray of hot cheese goo you look at these they're all kind of stuck together like a big clump that counts as one piece here's what's great about the fair if they mark the calories on every food this is information you don't want to have we're trying to have some comfort food knowing the calories would make you not so comfortable [Music] this is it this is the pinnacle we're very good that being said there are a couple other new cheese creations being flaunted about here at the fair these are cheese items that might deserve a spotlight but don't usually get one cheese curds get all the attention they're like the hot chicken in high school except for 18 bucks i can actually hang out with these let's check out some other cheese on state fair day two calvin and i took on bizarre bites strange food combinations like dough skits an unusual spicy mix between a donut and a biscuit we had a pickle surrounded with cream cheese and a cloak of pastrami it's so good and even a nordic waffle filled with mac and cheese topped with a bone-in drumstick oh my wow what a combination as you can see folks in the midwest are quite fond of comfort food that's designed to send you into a deep postprandial coma but when you wake from your insulin-induced slumber you may reach out for something new that's where hot indian food comes in here they serve authentic indian flavors in formats familiar to locals and since i'm on a cheese roll today i'm gonna keep going with this this is a very interesting international fried cheese sensation this is paneer pakora paneer pakora it's a popular batter fried cheese snack originating in northern india i've been to india many times they love cheese but they eat a really different type of cheese their cheese in this case is called paneer this soft milky cheese is an essential ingredient in many renowned indian dishes like pollock paneer in which the paneer is simmered in a spinach curry oh it's so good wow paneer cheese is made from cow or buffalo milk it's curdled kneaded and cut into yummy nutritious creamy cubes but this isn't even the paneer's final form imagine cottage cheese how that's kind of fun to chew on now imagine that in a cube form they take that cube they put their own signature masala on there they give it a little bit of a dip in the batter they fry it and here it is indian cheese curds what sounds pretty unique to me on the side we've got a sauce we'll talk about that later one step at a time boom bite number one i'm going for it i want it to be good is it going to be good let's see oh i like that delicious indian spices similar to like a curry cheese curds they melt the paneer it doesn't melt so even though it heats up it doesn't really change its physical state it just becomes like a hotter version of the cube that it is on the outside it's nice and crunchy it really matches the fair theme everything being fried and in oil now the sauce this is a butter chicken sauce but for some reason in minnesota they've decided to call it tomato butter something i'd never heard of when i was in india if i know anything about indian cuisine it's that you can never have too much seasoning or too much sauce or too much flavor let's try it out yeah it's like a milky tomato sauce and it's got a little bit of heat on my spice meter it's like a 1.5 but for minnesotans that's like a seven this could kill my grandma and she's already dead that's actually true my mom doesn't watch the show don't worry guys on state fair day three calvin returned as we took on this fair's infamous stick food from dogs to alligators it's smiling look from a whole fried snickers bar it's so good i'm going to go to a spaghetti dinner residing on a stick what do you call a fake pasta an impasta now i'm returning to oodles of noodles what i'm getting this time may not defy gravity but it's still as daring a food feat as any in a pan add cheddar cheese palm oil and macaroni mix well and serve in a bowl but wait isn't that just mac and cheese you ask in a dumb guy voice well yes it is except they also add a load of wisconsin cheese curds this isn't your run-of-the-mill mac and cheese my friends this is a spectacle a creation to die for this is mac and cheese curds our final final state fair food now this looks like mac and cheese but mixed in are those cheese curds now they're not fried cheese curds these are raw naked they're naked cheese curds when i do a nice cheese pull you can see the curds are kind of breaking apart melting they're gooey i don't know how much more cheese a man's heart or body can take but we're putting it to the limits today we're gonna find out [Music] oh my god that's over the top this is satisfying on so many levels first of all as i dig around in here i'm finding little bits of cheese curd these are just little flavor pockets i mean the mac and cheese is already cheesy enough it's over the top it's like as melty and cheesy and creamy as it could be then on top of that tons of cheese curds let's try a little bit mmm oh oh yes it's everything that's good for you it's carbohydrates it's salt it's cheese it's oil butter fat an extra stick of bread on the side i'm not sure what for yeah it's just bread this right here is my jam this makes me very happy can you see the stretchiness would you look at it are you looking at it all about hulk well done a lot of people try to do cheese curds don't do that do your own thing or find a way to add cheese curds to your existing food huh you have corn dogs add cheese curds corn on the cob cheese curds everything could use a little bit more cheese curd [Music] guys so that is the end of our fun fair food here at minnesota state fair i promise i swear there's no more foods i think that is 33 foods that we've had in the past four days how am i not in a stretcher with an iv in my arm i don't know next time you're in minnesota next time you're in the usa next time you're on planet earth get over here in late august and come to the state fair it's a great time there's a ton of food it's raining so i'm gonna end it right here best ever food review show is a small team of independent creators and everything we do here works because of you guys click the link in our description to join our patreon and receive exclusive benefits [Music] hey wow this is so i just feel like i'm in truman show or something this has to be available once a year because if you could eat this every week the rates of heart disease would skyrocket you don't want any no i've had plenty today already are you secretly lactose intolerant no not at all at some point in your life if you are in the usa already you need to make a drive to wisconsin sorry i'm just assuming that if you want to go to wisconsin you can't afford a plane ticket so you would have to drive what's that thank you so much for watching i will see you guys next time a peace oh i gotta get an umbrella from the umbrella store also where's my coffee oh hold on it's i got it that's right here i got it now okay

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Id: OBZGeFBjTtQ

Length: 12min 28sec (748 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 13 2021