- Okay. The. (snickering) Great start, great start, great start. So on August 8th, 2020 Gordon Ramsay officially declared
war on Mythical Kitchen when he did a reaction duet TikTok to our ramen grilled cheese video and he absolutely roasted it. However, Gordon, I'm here to tell you this is a war you cannot
win because I know more about making grilled cheese than you and I have the video evidence to prove it. I'm not saying I'm a better
chef than Gordon Ramsay. Not by a long shot. He is truly one of the
greatest chefs of all time. I mean people only know
him from Hell's Kitchen, Kitchen Nightmares, I could list off his other 35 different Fox shows, but he actually has 22 Michelin stars across 16 different restaurants, he has opened up restaurants
all around the globe, so I cannot compete
with him on any of that. I have never made a
perfect beef wellington, not by a long shot, but if you're coming at me for late night munchie food you best come correct Gordon and you did not, sir! I'm gonna read Gordon's
reaction TikTok duet verbatim. Here we go, here we go, here we go. "No, stop it. "No such thing. "Late night munchie nightmare. "Is that a doll in the sink?" We did have a doll in the sink. That was my bad. Should have taken it out. "Bread only one side down. "Donut. "More plastic cheese. "Ramen cheese on toast. "Forget it. "I'd like to ram that somewhere. "In the toilet." He said it. "Ramen cheese on toast, I'd like "to ram that somewhere," and then I think he realized that he implied he was gonna physically shove toast up my booty hole, so then he like pivoted to in the toilet. I believe that is what happened. But you know, neither here nor there. The thing that I really want to focus on is when Gordon Ramsay said one side down. What Gordon Ramsay was specifically referring to with "only one side down" and then he called me a donut. Who calls someone a donut? I toast one side of the bread, put the cheese directly on the hot bread, it starts the melting process early, less risk of overcooking your bread and getting an unmelted grilled cheese. There's a second reason I do this too. When you toast bread you're actually removing moisture from it and so you're preventing any sogginess from happening. If you're making a correct grilled cheese, at least in my heart of hearts
I believe this to be true, you want that cheese to
be as melty as possible. That means a high moisture cheese. Remove some of the
moisture from the bread, toast it, provides a protective layer to prevent sogginess. And again, I'm not offended
by his critique per se. If Gordon Ramsay had a
much better grilled cheese technique than I would
absolutely welcome it. But this is not speculative. I have seen Gordon Ramsay
make a grilled cheese on his YouTube video Gordon's
Ultimate Grilled Cheese and to call that
"ultimate" is a disservice because Gordon, that was
a trash grilled cheese. I love you, and I'm sorry,
and Gordon Ramsay stans don't come for me, but his grilled cheese is inexcusable and I'm gonna prove it. I got the video pulled up and I'm gonna break this down piece by piece. - Now we all love grilled cheese. I grew up with it. That was cheese on toast. There's something quite
amazing for a grilled cheese, especially when you have
these incredible cheeses. A romano with pepperberry and asiago. - Okay, let's break this down. The two cheeses that Gordon
Ramsay chooses to pick are romano with pepperberry and asiago. These are two Italian cheeses
that are very low moisture. They are typically aged. They do not melt well. I understand that Gordon, you're a fancy little Victorian boy who wants only the best products, you
wouldn't stoop to the level of American cheese, but
this is a very aggressive choice that is going to
make it very difficult to make a proper grilled cheese with. He's taking the cheese and he is cutting it into half inch absolute slabs. And I don't know if
this is a mistranslation between what an American grilled cheese is and what the Brits call cheese on toast. - Now the bread. The secret behind a great grilled cheese is to make sure the bread is not too thin. - All right, so Gordon Ramsay says that the most important
part of a grilled cheese is the bread and the key
is to not cut it too thin. You are playing a dangerous
game when you do that. You're essentially creating
this thermal fortress around your cheese that is not
going to get melted at all. This sandwich is gonna
be four inches tall. It has no hope at all. Who's the real donut here, Gordon? It's you, I'm sorry. Punch me in the face, daddy. - Nice and warm. Touch of olive oil in. Beautiful. - Wowsers in me trousers! He just poured half a bottle of olive oil in there and called it "just a touch". We call that the old Sandra Lee two shots of vodka in there. If you see what Gordon
Ramsay is doing right now he is just going to an open fire fireplace and he's putting cast iron directly on it. That's like this very new school, rustic live fire cooking where this idea of cooking directly in the flame has this fetishization around it. But what makes that very
difficult to cook something, especially like grilled cheese which is shockingly
technical as you'll see from this video when he screws it up, is that you need to be able to control the heat and do it low and slow. Otherwise all you're gonna
do is burn that bread, none of the heat is going to get to the cheese and you're gonna have this cold cheese burnt bread sandwich - Just lightly. Starting to smoke. - This is where Gordon Ramsay knows that the entire dish is messed up. So he took olive oil,
which has a notoriously low smoke point, he put
olive oil on cast iron directly on top of a legitimate fire. Just an actual raging fire. He knows the oil's
reached its smoke point, he knows that it's gonna burn the bread immediately because it did that, he knows it's going to taste like crap. You gotta steel yourself and say I screwed up, let's start this over again. Let's put it on a colder part of the fire. - There she goes. - A grilled cheese should
not sizzle like that. That sizzle means that
there are water molecules reacting with the fat at a very high heat. That is not a good thing
for a grilled cheese. Again, Gordon knows this. - [Gordon] Start putting
some weight on there. You have to push that down. - Now he's trying to
save the grilled cheese by saying that you can just push it down to really try and mash more
heat through the bread, which to some extent is true,
but this is beyond repair. - [Gordon] Turn that over. - Just, just, if you... Look at this sandwich. Halfway through he flips it, the bread is obviously burnt on the outside. Even if you like that very crusty toasty bread, this is
burnt, and you can see the cheese is just still in solid blocks. I feel like I'm going crazy on this. - Push that down. - "Push that down." You can actually see the
concern on Gordon Ramsay's face where he's just like should I start over? Or no, I probably gotta go, I don't know, buy humans to hunt for sport. We can't legally say that Gordon Ramsay hunts humans for sport. - Two minutes each side. - Two minutes each side! Who can cook a grilled cheese for two minutes on each side? Are you saying that Gordon
Ramsay is such a good chef that he can actually make heat
penetrate the bread faster than the rest of the grilled
cheese cooking world? - Just place the spatula on top. - He's using every ounce of his strength to try and smash this
sandwich down praying that the cheese is going
to melt, but Gordon, no cheese God is coming for you today. - Push down. And that helps to get
the cheese nicely melted. - That helps to get the
cheese nicely melted? We can see. He's acting like this is a radio broadcast of him making a grilled cheese
and he can just fake it. We can see that the cheese
is not melted at all. He is just lying to everyone's faces which to me is utterly ridiculous. - [Gordon] Beautiful. Our cheese is melted. - He just says it. He's gaslighting you. - And this. You can hear how crispy that is. - We hear how crispy it is 'cause you threw it on an actual fire, dude. Now he covers it with his hand. I think he is trying to obscure the view inside the sandwich so you can't tell his cheese didn't melt. - [Gordon] Beautiful. Look at that. (sputtering) - He just said the cheese
is melted, then he pulls the sandwich apart and goes look at that. There is a gap between
the bread and the cheese. None of the heat even penetrated the first layer of bread. This is an ice cold cheese sandwich. If you are in this situation and you don't have enough pride to just do the sandwich again proper, what you do is you take this and you
put it in the microwave for 30 seconds and then
the cheese will melt. The bread's not gonna
taste as good, but if you are really hurried, that's
what you're gonna do. - It's still very hot. - He actually blows on the sandwich that we can see is ice cold. And again, this is Food TV. That sandwich sat for at least a couple minutes for beauties. I know it's not burning
your fingers, Gordon. This is bordering on sociopathy. He's trying to mime his way
through this cooking video convincing you that
your eyes are not seeing what you know your eyes are seeing. This to me is one of the wildest videos on YouTube I've ever seen and I've seen some dark
stuff on YouTube, man. I've seen some dark stuff. He's literally using his fingers to hold the bread together
because none of the cheese melted into the bread
to hold together itself. But you know what would
have helped Gordon? If you would have toasted both sides of the bread like I said to. If you would have done the damn step that you criticized me for, you would not be getting roasted for this video. And it's not just me doing the roasting. Even Gordon Ramsay's own fans have been roasting this video. User Agent JimmyCheese said "He would have "a mental breakdown if someone "served him this on Hell's Kitchen." That's the thing, when you
create your entire career out of being judgmental, you can dish it but you can't take it, Gordon. User RU says "This has to be one "of the worst things he's put out. "WTF, unmelted cheese, burnt bread "and unnecessarily expensive cheese. "Just a waste of good ingredients." "Terrible." I agree, user RU. All right, but here's the most important comment of them all. GreetingsFromArrakis says
"The cheese didn't even melt, "but who am I to criticize Ramsey?" Gordon Ramsay is great at what he does, he might even be the
best, but he is not a god. He is not untouchable and he
is not immune from criticism. He is also prone to mistakes and you saw a very, very clear one right here. Again, I'm not saying I'm
better than Gordon Ramsay. I've had my own screw ups. Ironically we were making the funnel cake grilled cheese video, and
it came out of the oven, and I saw it and it didn't look right, and I put it on the
plate, and everyone knew this funnel cake grilled
cheese did not look right. We all, without speaking,
grabbed the ingredients that we needed to make a
fresh one from scratch. And we knew it meant that we all had to stay late that night, but we also knew that we need to put out
the best product possible. Okay okay Josh, we get it,
you're taking pot shots at Gordon Ramsay 'cause
he's more famous than you. Yeah, kinda. That's a little bit of what this is, but also he came for my neck first. All I am doing is defending myself. Why am I grabbing my breasts? Felt right. But I think people have
this tendency to elevate celebrities to this godlike
status in their mind. They are normal people who
are prone to screwing up. Even if you have all these accolades in the restaurant world,
you are just as likely to screw up a grilled
cheese as anyone at home. Gordon, I will never have a Michelin star. I will never have a chain of
international airport cafes and I will never have anywhere close to the amount of clout and respect that you have in the restaurant world and I'm okay with that because I can make a damn good grilled cheese And you know what? I'm willing to squash this beef, man. Come down to the Mythical Kitchen. We'll make grilled
cheese, a cheese on toast, crack open a few pints of
beer and we'll just hang out. Just guys being dudes. Chefs being chefs. Was that too negative? I feel like I got to a pretty
dark place at some point. I was trying to imply
that I love Gordon Ramsay and I respect what he
does, but I got on a roll. I got a little ahead
of myself a little bit. Just a smidge? Well anyways, thank you so much for stopping by the Mythical Kitchen. We got new videos out for you every week. We got new episodes of our podcast A Hot Dog is a Sandwich
out every Wednesday wherever you get your podcasts. Hit us up on Instagram @MythicalKitchen with pictures of your mythical dishes under #DreamsBecomeFood. I'll see you next time. I'll see you next time. I like how I'm insinuating that I'm a chef on the same way that
Gordon Ramsay is a chef. I had a pop-up called
Stoney Baloney Chimichangas And he has like 22 Michelin stars. Eh. You can cook up your own feast while wearing the Mythical Kitchen apron. Available now at mythical.com.
Good nod to My Cousin Vinny
I'm not even close to being considered a chef of any kind, though I can make a decent grilled cheese sandwich. I remember when Gordon Ramsay released that video on YouTube and I basically had the exact same reactions as this guy - but Gordon didn't attempt to subsequently roast my grilled cheese making process so I didn't make a video on it.
This guy is spot on: Gordon should have just abandoned ship and restarted when he realized, on at least three separate occasions during his video, that he had completely fucked up
Oh man I watched that grilled cheese video with my girlfriend because we wanted to see how we would have done it and the whole time we were staring like... WTF is he doing. The cheese is all wrong, the crust was so hard to cut it looked like you would break a tooth biting into it, he basically deep fried the bread in oil, and you can see that he puts butter on the bread too. I guarantee that bread was soaking with oil, the type of thing that he makes fun of every restaurant on his show for.
This is how a REAL chef makes a grilled cheese. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD8UTr5mMVk
What the hell is up with the editing on this video, why is it necessary for every sentence to punctuated with a weird zoom cut?
I liked the content, but the presentation was shit.
If you haven't already, r/grilledcheese. Great vid.
Take a look at his "American" style pancakes...he whips the shit out of them and they are sad and flat and not fluffy. It's my biggest pet peeve Ramsay video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rTVuc26eFk
You put baking powder and buttermilk in pancakes because you want a chemical reaction: The acid in the buttermilk reacts with the baking powder and makes CO2. All those bubbles make your pancake nice and fluffy. If you whip the shit out of them, you knock all of those bubbles out and you get sad, flat pancakes. If you're gonna do that, what's the point of the fucking baking powder?
Look at his sad little pancakes in the video and compare them to a real american style buttermilk pancake:
https://img.buzzfeed.com/thumbnailer-prod-us-east-1/51a9c5b156c84977ae50004b5ef622b2/finalFB.jpg
Wish people would stop labeling foods as "the perfect" when we all like different things and different tastes. Same thing when Gordon has a go at fast food or microwaved food like its instantly ruined. As long as we enjoy what we are eating we don't have to pay an extra £30+ because its "better" taste-wise. Wish we stopped relying so much on others telling us what's good or bad. See the same thing with movies. Just make your own minds up! Rant over hehe
Bet this guy is right-handed.