I Made This Fancy Ranch And Nuggets From Worth It

I got to get better at this plant slap my name is Andrew you might recognize me from the show worth it where I eat foods at different price points with my pals Stephen and Adam today I'm going to be recreating one of my favorite dishes I ever had on worth it fancy ranch and tofu nuggets wait a second Andrew you never ate nuggets and ranch on worth it that's partially true so in the double cheeseburger episode we go to a place called burger Lords which does a lot of vegan and vegetarian interpretations of classic fast-food dishes in particular they have these amazing tofu nuggets and vegan fancy ranch that's what they call it it's actually called fancy ranch I think it's pretty spectacular oftentimes on the show we'll eat foods that don't make it in the final cut of the video great opportunity to show you some previously unaired footage oh that's so good you think of a meatless version of a chicken nugget it's not obvious where it's getting its deliciousness from I think that these recipes explore something that I'm really interested in which is the fundamentals of why something tastes good polish nuggets are a little weird there are a weird food when you think about it also ranch what is ranch char device just went into my mouth the startling so to start I'm gonna call Fred from burger Lords to get a little bit more information about these recipes hey Fred how's it going good how are you pretty good last time I'm worth it we were trying to double cheeseburgers but we also had these incredible tofu nuggets as well as this this ranch its ranch dressing right yes yeah its ranch dressing a lot of what we do is about no nostalgia so recreating familiar food and the things that we make from scratch like our recipes how do you achieve a really delicious nugget um I think the most important part is for the Nugget skin I guess to call it I mean it's not skin like been nugget batter yeah it's super crunchy flavorful it's like cavernous and has all of the little cracks in it and then the tofu is that it the tofu is actually seasoned really well so we break it down and process it it has a dried mushroom for umami flavor and then it actually has something called chicken spice mu it's like a salt blend but there's no chicken and it just it says chicken sighs I've checked you know multiple times it that kind of helps push it over the top you're getting flavor through the whole thing I look forward to making these nuggets awesome yeah and let me know if you need any help or anything just like text me or email me first stage is going to be assembling the tofu into nugget shape with some flavoring ingredients the first ingredient we're gonna deal with is actually one that I already have dried shiitake mushrooms which I personally use in things like soups this is what we're dealing with here these may in fact be porcini mushrooms I'm not sure I we're gonna take these mushrooms and actually grind them up into a powder so it can flavor the entire nugget I have created like a mushroom sawdust we need to crumble the tofu this is a really annoying packaging there's a lot of liquid here okay here we have our tofu look at that do I like tofu I do unfortunately my introduction to tofu was with horley executed health food and it wasn't until I had a Chinese dishes like Mapo tofu that I came to really love it so my instruction was to use firm tofu I'm gonna break it apart into the texture of ricotta cheese I will add our mushroom dust the next ingredient is chicken seasoned a blend of seasonings salt garlic paprika turmeric sugar onion white pepper cumin black pepper you also have monosodium glutamate MSG which has gotten a bad rap in the past for being like this artificial thing that could get you sick those myths have been debunked it's really no worse for you than regular table salt and in fact it's a thing that naturally occurs in a lot of foods high in umami like Parmesan cheese tomatoes fermented foods seaweed it does have this flavor combination that I associate with chicken oh you know what it tastes like chicken flavored instant ramen plus a nacho cheese Dorito I mean it definitely looks like Dorito dust okay and then the recipe also calls for a little bit more salt and black pepper okay it's funny I do really associate this smell with chicken it's kind of like the pumpkin spice fallacy where people think that pumpkin spice stuff has pumpkin in it or that that flavor is pumpkin but really it's the spices that flavor pumpkin and not pumpkin flavor I'm also gonna add more tofu cuz I didn't do the directions right this is the good stuff okay cut this whole part out oh okay it's not my favorite sensation it's so wet this is supposed to be a half inch there's really no other binding agent here alright oh okay I need a text fret to make sure that this is okay I just sex it Fred he said this is it okay so these are supposed to be about half an inch thick remind myself of what that is this is too thick man I love any food that is in the heika homogeneous squishy mixture and put it into a shape category like making meatballs okay so these nuggets now I have to go in the freezer for 24 hours before they can be breaded see you tomorrow I may actually have to rearrange some stuff in my freezer okay so we're breading the Nuggets the first thing we're gonna do is make a vegan buttermilk to dip the Nuggets in before dredging them in flour an energy egg replacer when I was looking for this in the store is looking for a liquid did not expect to have it be a powder this contains stuff like potato starch tapioca which is going to be doing some of the thickening action required to make this like a buttermilk absolutely zero odor off of that 100% zero something actually Adam told me is that I I smell things too much like it's like a habit of mine okay chef burrito makes a second appearance I made salmon for dinner last night brillo chef burrito on the crispy skin amazing soy milk I was supposed to shake this main liquid component of this buttermilk is soy milk I usually don't buy because I don't think it's particularly tasty however we went to Taiwan for worth it we had that soy milk the first dumpling restaurant Wow big time web it's similar satisfaction to having a milkshake truly a taste of this it's not the same what do we got now a little Dijon and you I'm just gonna eyeball it a couple tablespoons of mustard boom mustard is really pretty freakin good I love mustard Wow well these are two things I never thought I'd be whisking together distilled vinegar got it I'm looking at dairy and I'm smelling vinegar haven't flashback to the pie episode ooh you know the smell is not pleasant currently okay liquids going into the dry shall I taste not very pleasant now also it curse me that I've never tasted regular buttermilk not really sure what my point of reference is supposed to be next up we're gonna be making a flour dredge to bread the Nuggets in wipe the dust out of this it's clean everything's very clean in my house pepper milled by hands Saul cayenne pepper and the last thing here is old bay old bay is like this iconic American seafood seasoning its ingredients are celery salt and paprika salt and pepper basically that that's entirely yet I think I just realized for the first time that will they just smells like celery really makes me feel like I'm doing some kind of like witchcraft you know the last instruction is to add a little bit of this buttermilk to this flour so basically just the the goal here is to make clumps in the flour so that those clumps can then stick to the outside of the nugget giving it more texture this is very satisfying this has a very similar satisfaction to like playing in mud as a little kid time to get the frozen nuggets Wow they look extremely unappetizing that's what they look like look at that I'm like oatmeal cookies right pretty weird dunk mmm and then this goes here there you go that's a frickin nugget I mean you you deep-fry that how did that not taste good oh right they will freeze for another 24 hours so we're making burger Lords vegan ranch which they call fancy ranch what are the key flavor components of ranch like why does it taste so good it's number one that herbs Dale arts the tarragon and just a mix of that with the onion and garlic tastes like a ranch like you I like imagine myself on a bottle of Hidden Valley like it is that feeling you know and when you have the mayonnaise what really distinguishes it from regular mayonnaise is that regular mayonnaise is oil and eggs emulsified together and this is primarily oil than other things to stabilize its emulsion like soy protein okay and the rest of this is pretty straightforward there's garlic powder onion powder there's a little bit of plain salt white vinegar mixing this up now doesn't that look good and then lastly there's a bunch of herbs first we have tarragon uh-huh okay here's all you need to know about tarragon tastes like the licorice all right here we go Aragon next we're gonna do 8 grams of dill dill is one of my favorite herbs still shows up in a lot of Ukrainian cuisine which is the cuisine of my family dill is kind of unlike any of the other herbs we won't do the super thick parts of the stem although those are perfectly edible how do you describe dill if grass was delicious it's the one that is most classically associated with the flavor of ranch last but not least parsley herbs might be my favorite category of food is that a dumb thing to say okay this is our ranch ooh it's funny it just immediately started smelling like what I associate ranch to be Wow fancy ranch it's very fresh tasting I'm ready to start deep frying I've got my Dutch oven here about half way full of oil this is what they look like thick fairly nervous for this this is the documentation of my apartment burning down please show it to no one here goes nothing seems okay so far see what that looks like oh yeah we need to get nuggety already oh yeah you see that camera to either giant nuggets the first time appreciated just our giant peas and nuggets really are okay at this precise moment I'm convinced that you really want to excellently made tofu nugget should go to burger Lords frying at home is very troublesome oh yeah now it's getting really goal I think this one looks particularly good that don't like nuggets Adam you're about to receive a text message from me I bet your response will just be a single exclamation mark frying foods is one of these things where you think it's done or you should really just wait another 30 or 40 seconds and then you're like oh there there it's done okay we've done frying it's time to try the Nuggets this in the shot my nuggets these suckers I think these look pretty close okay nugget into ranch yes look at that nugget huh they're huge [Music] hmm Wow oh those are good I'm thrilled with how these came out in my opinion they're far superior to regular chicken nuggets because the inside is a much softer texture so you have this way bigger contrast between the outside and the filling inside Adam always says that inside is like the texture of scrambled egg I kind of have to agree I'm going to fry up some fresh ones for Adam drive them over to him and see what he thinks jeez these nuggets are huge yeah is it hard that Burger Lord's ones pretty big they're big but these are like I don't know if you can even call these nugget [Music] so what else is going on at Burger Lord's right now with quarantine and trying to get the restaurant back in a rhythm we were able to do a few special project we're making meals for senior citizens we partnered with shelter and Skid Row to provide meals for homeless just recently we partnered with some friends to do a fundraiser burger for n-double-a-cp Legal Defense Fund it's giving us some time to reflect and be able to you know integrate a more charitable aspect to the restaurant [Music]

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Id: MnanvVTQaGk

Length: 13min 53sec (833 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 21 2020