I Made A Giant 100-Pound Boba Milk Tea • Tasty

hi i'm alvin welcome back to tasty's making it big where we make giant versions of some of america's most beloved foods today i'm going to be making a giant boba milk tea drink but the thing is i've never made boba from scratch so i'm going to call my friend inka she was my co-host on the giant ramen episode and i think it's going to be a lot of fun so enough talk and let's get started [Music] what's up inka how's it going alvin good we are using your bubble recipe today to make a giant boba i'm going to get started so first thing is the the sugar in the water right okay stir it until it gets dissolved right yeah wait what heat should i be cooking this on basically just enough for the sugar to melt you don't want it to be on high heat do you have it on high heat that was on height yikes yeah basically once it's warm you'll want to remove it from the heat actually remove it the starch sorry table that one tablespoon full that's a lot that's a little bit less okay it's like that yeah sure all right she said it so if the recipe goes wrong it's not my fault you know i can only see so much from the zoo oh that's true it's 100 my fault as you're stirring it right it should form into like almost like a paste that's great once it's all dissolved you want to return it to the heat and now you just cook it down until it's slightly thicker okay return to the heat wow it's like three ingredients but the amount of like technique is quite a lot i think it's getting kind of thick now the rest of this starch goes in and then stir fast oh it's getting sticky oh boy like really lumpy it's like really hard to scrape off the bottom of the pan yo how do i know when to get it out you're supposed to get it out like asap oh okay asap all right so far things are going bad dude that's really liquidy it's your recipe yo like can you work with this do you think so i think so i can't feel it so yeah i mean it feels like oh god okay it looks really weird right now so i'm not gonna i don't know how to describe this texture uh it's a little sticky and it's kind of warm what the heck it's kind of like alive the moment you set it down it like does its own thing but when you try to move it it's like a rock wait okay then i think there's something wrong what's wrong it's not supposed to be like a rock yo i don't think that's right when you're putting the starch in it remember how like for you it was just like a liquid it's supposed to be like a dough at that point already yeah no like it comes right off right that's not right when you pull it it should be stretchy at this point stretchy i think we have to redo it alvin oh no it's 100 my fault it's okay it's only a few ingredients it'll be okay we'll be right back uh attempt number two you were saying that i messed up in the sauce like the thick sauce stage we think that's what it is that you need to get it to a consistency of a thick mochi sauce and hopefully that's the problem thick mochi sauce thick mochi sauce thick mochi sauce can you see this is that almost there right no it's not oh keep going ah that's where that was the issue i think the first time i didn't make the thick mochi sauce it was just sauce oh yeah i think it's good are you 100 sure i'll take the blame you can i'm like 85 80. oh that's a b 75 okay let's add the start okay off heat right yeah okay are you worried oh a hundred percent let's go for it okay she said go for it please work does it feel different oh it feels so different oh my god like nothing's really getting stuck yes yes yes yes yeah so now what you have to do is roll it out a little bit into like an oval shape divide it into three sections okay you need to wrap plastic around two of the doughs this is just to help retain its moisture okay what's next what's next roll this one out into like a long snake shape until it's like roughly around 0.5 you have a ruler with you yeah i do 0.5 is actually still too big it should be a little smaller like a finger like a finger okay yeah look at that little ball oh that looks so nice yes it looks great boba has a pretty unique texture when cooked how do you describe what it tastes like or feels like well the taste is faintly sweet but the texture is q-q q-q so q-q is the term that people in taiwan use to describe the texture when it's kind of chewy it has a slight bounce to it but it's not rubbery i feel like there's a misconception there mochi is kind of qq you know like it's that kind of a situation and qq is my favorite word to describe everything noodles can also be qq when they're cooked right i have currently rolled only this much yeah oh my god thanks nina for helping me good luck alvin i'm sorry i can't be there to help i have a lot of work to do i'm gonna be here for like hours do jesus okay we're back in the tasty kitchen with a huge pot the boiling water for the tea these are black tea bags these are the ones that i use and i used to make and sell bubble milk tea i'll tell you guys that story later but essentially you would just take these tea bags and drop it in and we have 500 tea bags sounds like a lot that's because it is i think this might have enough caffeine to keep an elephant going for a very very long time all right so this is all the tea it's been chilled it's been brewed as you can tell the color is super intense it gets like 22 liters or so i don't know how many cups of boba that's gonna make but i think the answer is a lot okay after many hours and some culinary assistance we were able to make a lot of fresh boba four trays probably like a thousand of these little ones all right here we go oh they're like little little bullets oh wow this is really hot all right let's give these a stir one more here we go oh this is burning don't kill yourself alvin come on that was pretty nice aninka's recipe the goal is to cook these until the bobas rise to the surface goodbye you little boba balls all these little bobas they're nice and plump so i'm going to take these guys directly into some ice water i think i said this stuff is really important because it sort of shocks the outside of the boba and helps to give it that qq texture that she was talking about they look really good and they can't stay in the ice water for too long wow look at that that's awesome okay i have a lot of little boba balls to cook so see you guys in a bit pretty important part about boba at least for me is if it has like a nice brown sugar syrup and to start five cups of water into this giant pot and seven and a half cups of dark brown sugar stir this until everything comes together you sort of have this syrupy brown sugar that's really nice and i've coached the outside of the cup and i kind of make this streaky pattern probably my favorite part is going to be cooking the boba in it so here we go stir until it gets nice and sticky and sugary and delicious oh my god it smells oh it smells amazing i do want to taste one oh oh that's good all right i'm gonna let this cool down and then we're gonna go build the boba drink woohoo okay so i found a vase that's apparently supposed to be used in hotel lobbies around the world as my boba glass it is 10 inches by 30 inches tall which in mathematical sense means it's very big no alvin there's no pressure you just can't do it again if you mess it up let's first get the boba in oh my god there is a don't break there is a huge vertical distance that this is gonna have to travel probably gonna spill everywhere but that's okay this is really hot [Music] oh wow it's like steaming the glass up you know we don't we don't got to use the sound for that right we could just tweak it so we could skip past that part that's fine my dream was to have the whole thing a hundred percent fresh food but i unfortunately don't have the manpower and miscalculated a lot of this so i asked our culinary team to get some of the fast quick boba i still wanted it to have the look of a real bubble milk tea so in this boba there is a mix it's not all fresh but i still think it's going to taste great so please don't be too mean to me in the comments but that's what we ended up doing at the shops they kind of get the brown sugar drizzle going down the sides kind of want to emulate that so we're gonna that's a spill we're gonna do this wow this sound is really something else huh okay it looks kind of cool i'm pretty into it oh i was gonna tell you guys a story about how i used to sell boba back in the day i was a junior high school kid after lunch we'd always go get boba so i thought i could make a lot of money by also doing it so i dropped out of chinese school much to the dismay of my mother figured out how to make boba at home went to costco got the big cups the recipe was exactly the same as this tea i set up a little table outside a classroom when the bell rang the kids came out i sold it for 250 without boba three dollars with boba the kids would buy it made a couple hundred dollars that summer when i ran out of boba my mom would actually stay at home to cook the boba and drive over a couple of batches whenever i ran out but in return she asked for 50 of all proceeds i was like mom that's a lot of money and she was like alvin i'm just trying to teach you this is how life works she told me that she was actually gonna save the 50 and put in my bank account later i never saw that money ever in my life again she denies all allegations and has no recollections of the final amount of money i had for watching mom all my money back yo you can't make milk tea without milk so thanks cows [Music] look at that dang that was pretty cool this is bigger than my wildest dreams please hold don't break so uh i'm gonna find a straw that was big enough on amazon so i ended up ordering a clear pvc pipe i think this is the only thing that will be usable for this boba i'll be very careful with this but here we go get in there oh it went to the bottom now we are going to slowly stir is it moving i can't tell this is actually really hard oh my god this camera is pissing me off up here slow this is wild oh my god my shoulders are so tired [Music] okay i think that's all the stirring i can do wow this is the complete finish thing this is a lot of bubble i don't even know how much this weighs i'll have to do some math later but i do want my friend inka to see the final result so i'm going to give her a call and just show her what we got what's up how's it going you want to see the giant boba that we made yes show me all right one two three oh my god wait is that a straw it's a pvc pipe oh my god this is insane that's so much tea and so much boba yeah it's uh six gallons of milk uh 22 liters of black tea this is crazy i love it congratulations you did it you made it a giant boba tea i mean this is your recipe just times 500 probably enjoy all right hmm wow this tastes really good i think this is definitely something you could serve at a boba shop and people would buy it so you guys are probably wondering what's going to happen with all that boba i would have loved to share it with my friends people that i like to see just because that's something i like to do with the show but unfortunately that's just not something i'm able to do right now so if excuse me i have a lot of things to drink i had a lot of fun today and i hope you guys had fun watching so i'll see you guys next time you

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Length: 13min 10sec (790 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 28 2020

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