Pantry Raid: Krispy Rice Treat Edition

Alton Brown here almost all alone at the the good eats Test Kitchen and I want to make something today that we would never make on good eats because it would depend upon on a brand name cereal and we can't use brand names so we are going to make rice Creek Rice Krispies my quarantine mask rice krispies treats come on over we're gonna make them let's do it here's the simple truth ladies and gentlemen if you're gonna make rice krispies treats you better be using rice krispies not puffed rice cereal which is what you have to say on TV because after all this is a brand name and here's another thing you're gonna need marshmallows are you better off making your own marshmallows sure but are we gonna do that right now no but we might be able to to find some made ones some bad ones and I would only go with jet pop I have two 10 ounce bags of the aforementioned jet pod can I do this with one yes but why would you send one bag of marshmallows if you could send to the one little switch up here butter you're gonna need a stick of butter and this is where I'm gonna get a little gourmet on you this I'll actually needed that this is a brand name butter and it's a darn good one this is a Kerrygold it's a high fat butter it is high butter fat it is tasty stuff and it is going to make all the difference in the world to this recipe more on this later because we've got to do some stuff to this I'm also gonna add salt because kosher salt there you go so the parts list is you know the stuff that you know from childhood you might notice that I have a wok here and the reason I have a wok here is because I'm going to toast all of this cereal and I usually do that with a slightly smaller box so odds are this is gonna make a terrible mess that no one's gonna clean up because there's nobody here and I'm not going to do it so let's come on over and put this on the heat I'm gonna do this over medium-high heat at first my goal here is to just toast the cereal making it just a little bit darker a little darker brown that is gonna bring out more of the the ricey flavor and believe it or not that is going to definitely translate into the the final dish it's gonna take a few minutes I'm getting 99% of it back in the walk I think it's pretty good turn down the heat just a little I smell I smell burning I can't tell if it's snap or crackle but one of them's we're good to go so I'm gonna remove this to a bowl because we need the wok or other business we are going to brown the butter we're actually going to cook it until it's sugars and milk proteins Brown a bit that is going to bring a considerable amount of flavor to the party you could do this with regular we'll call it everyday butter instead of the really good stuff but I do think that for a dessert like this I mean heck of you can eat this many calories make it good you know you do not have to do this in a wok you could do this in and separately in a saucepan you could do it in just anything almost I've actually browned butter in a tin can one time guys it was technically aluminum but since I've got to use the wok anyway I'm gonna go with this now if you wanted to toast your rice but you didn't have the wok is use the biggest pot you got with the widest bottle you won't be able to do the tossing part but that's okay [Music] if you want to check for the color if your if you're using a dark pan like a wok you'll have to use something where you can get a look at it I'm gonna let that Brown just a little bit more but not too much because I don't want to burn it that's all right it's about all I want out of that I'm gonna add a little bit of salt that might film up a little don't worry about it all right let's turn the heat down just a bit marshmellows now at this point you're probably gonna want to get a rubber spatula cuz things are about to get really really sticky and just stir until those marshmallows break down remember they're mostly air but they are gonna get really gooey don't get this on your hands so you'll have to chop them off that's oddly satisfying there you go I'm gonna let this just melt down meantime I'm gonna get my container ready now most of you have probably made rice krispies treats in a pan but when I was a kid I wanted to eat these things without my mother knowing that I was eating them so when I made them and I learned how in Boy Scouts I actually just learned to spray a little cooking spray into the original cereal bag we're going to actually put the mixture back in here and let it set that way you can just walk around looking like you're eating cereal but you're actually that's right mom that's what I was doing that whole time mmm basically we've got brown butter marshmallow fluff I feel like Willy Wonka keep the heat on at this point where the marshmallows will set too soon now just stir and be patient it's gonna take a few minutes this is kind of people's minds now we got to move fast ordinarily like I said into a pan and that's perfectly fine if that's how you want to do things but not me trust me there'll be plenty of leftover because this is gonna more and fill this box I really should have put a glob on one because this isn't terribly sanitary and - I'm burning just like snap and crackle but you know what I'm here by myself except for camera guy he doesn't mind I'll we'll just let this cool down for a few minutes ha ha ha ha an innocent box of rice krispies ha ha so here we have it huh completely hidden inside an innocent box of unsweetened cereal so that when my mom yells at me no I'm just eating cereal there's not even any sugar in here

Channel: Alton Brown

Views: 960,376

Rating: 4.9448438 out of 5

Keywords: Alton Brown, GOod Eats, Cooking, Food, Recipes

Id: dworC_RqzHw

Length: 6min 52sec (412 seconds)

Published: Thu May 07 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/[deleted]]

Alton Brown has always and will always be the top culinary genius in my mind

[u/artmoloch777]

Lol this vid is so cheeky.

[u/iamtheonewhoknocks69]

Well, that was satisfying. I know what I'm doing once I get my hands on some Rice Krispies and marshmallows. Already have the KerryGold!

[u/onduty]

Next level, fruity pebble treats. Made them once in my life, too good to make again

[u/Mverrd]

KerryGold is just so amazing. It will make all your food taste 100% better... Steaks.

[u/AmazonHotWax]

I have a box of strawberry Rice Krispies just waiting to be made into these!

[u/subsidizethis]

and nobody will clean it up, because there's nobody here!

cuts to over the shoulder camera

[u/spoookycat]

He was STILL so damn excited about pulling off the cereal box trick as a kid, that devious laughter was contagious, such a cool dude.

[u/[deleted]]

I have said it before...one day Alton will die unexpectedly and, only then, will the world aknowledge his genius.