(phone dialing) - [Man] Taco Bell, hello. - Hello, I was wondering if you still had the Volcano Taco on the menu. - [Man] No, no more. - No, no more Volcano Taco? - [Man] No, no Volcano Taco, long time. - All right, well thank you so much, looks like I'm gonna
have to make it myself. - [Man] No, no I don't have the salsa. - Oh no no, you're totally fine. Oh no, it's all good, thank
you so much for the help, I appreciate it. - [Man] Okay. - All right, have a great day. (light music) Trevor, do you remember the Volcano Taco? - No, no I don't. - It came out in 2008. What were you doing in 2008? - I would've been like
eight years old in like third grade so, playing
a lot of Pokemon, what? - All right, so the
Taco Bell Volcano Taco. It was marketed as like the
spiciest taco ever created for the mass market at least. Their whole thing was like
get ready for the good hurt, but that might be why it
failed is that it was too spicy for people and all the spice
came from the lava sauce. This was available on
the entire volcano menu. They would throw this hotten
mayonnaise into a burrito and they say that it was taken
off because they shouldn't share the menu with the
Firey Doritos Locos Taco but I think, I think people back then couldn't handle the lava sauce. I think they couldn't handle the heat. - Riddle me this, the
Doritos Locos Taco is possibly the greatest fast
food creation of all time. - That's true.
- I will say that. So, is it really worth
it to bring it back? Or just make the Doritos
Locos Taco spicier? - I think the lava sauce
was the real victim in the Volcano Taco
being taken off the menu. It was actually like pretty spicy, they claimed it had like 800
skullvills which is 50% more than their hot sauce,
it still isn't like burn your mouth crazy.
- Yeah, okay. - But I think that they need
to bring back the lava sauce because I think people are
ready for the heat now man. - Yeah.
- So Trevor you might be asking me-- - What is in the Volcano Taco? - You would be asking me that. So the Volcano Taco had
a crunchy red taco shell, but here's the thing,
it tasted like nothing, it was just red so it
wasn't the Doritos Locos, it was before they had the
scientific technology and will to infuse Doritos into a taco shell. So from Taco Bell, we're
using the shredded lettuce, their seasoned beef
which is only 88% meat, which to me is even too high. - How old do you estimate
that that beef is? (laughs) Just by taste. - That's a three day age. What Taco Bell doesn't have
is the crunchy red taco shell and the lava sauce so
that's what we're gonna be focusing on creating, are
you ready to get into it? - I'm ready! - Let's bring the Volcano Taco
back from the future past. Let's bring the Volcano
Taco back from the past. Let's bring the Volcano
Taco back to the future. Let's take the Volcano Taco
and we're gonna put it in a time machine and we're
gonna bring it back to Colonial Williamsburg and we're just gonna completely blow everyone's mind. (light music) Okay we have to make the
crunchy red taco shell so we're gonna take Maseca right. - Okay.
- This is also known as masa harna so this is
basically corn frower. Corn frow.
- Corn frower. - Corn flour, this is basically corn flour that's been treated with lye
to break down the kernels. - Okay.
- Are you familiar with the process of nixtamalization? - I don't know but I was
about to say that lye is what they dip the bagels in, yeah? - Yeah! Hold that, okay. So we have the masa harina and we're gonna add our water to it and then to make it red,
we're gonna do the same thing that Taco Bell did where we
take red food dye and we go and we just squirt a whole bunch in there. - That's a lot! And there's no extra, it's just red? - Literally just red, there was no flavor. Taco Bell was doin' this
a lot back in the day where they were just like we
put food dye in our taco shells please eat it, I remember
they did something called The Blackjack Taco.
- Mhm. - And it was literally
just a black taco shell and they put like a
jack cheese sauce in it and they were like Blackjack taco, you guys like Vegas, we like Vegas, we're party guys, you're party guys, eat the Blackjack taco. And I found out about the Blackjack tacos, this is a little humble
brag because my girlfriend in high school, yeah. - You had a girlfriend in high school? - My first kiss when I
was 17, it was lovely. My high school girlfriend,
her dad worked in HR for Taco Bell.
- Really? - And he would like tell
me their seasonal releases that would come out. - Is that why you dated her? - Yeah dude, I went to Taco
Bell's new campus opening friends and family event. - Stop!
- They had a nacho cheese fountain do you release
what a nacho cheese fountain meant to 16 year old me? - I'd so, like that is
just the most Josh thing. Like there's no surprise at all that you dated a girl and her dad was like some hot shot Taco Bell employee. - Oh yeah.
- I'm just proud that in high school that
you had a girlfriend. I've seen some pictures. - Against all odds high
school me had a girl friend. Okay, so we've got our balls rolls up. - Okay.
- So you need to take this in the tortilla press
and you're gonna flatten it between wax paper that's gonna prevent it from sticking together.
- This wax paper? - Yes.
- Don't you have to make like a circle? - In theory. That looks like a tortilla to me. - [Trevor] It looks like a tortilla. - That one might be a little bit dry we see some cracking at the edges. The way that Taco Bell
makes their tortillas right, is you make like a thin, circular tortilla and then you have to put it in something that shapes it and then you deep fry it. Taco Bell has like a whole
copyrighted machinery system but I have something better! The taco shaper, 6.99 at Amazon.com. Taco Shaper, not a sponsor. Oh that's so thin, that's perfect. - [Trevor] Do you remember the first time you ever ate at a Taco Bell? - Yes, first time I
ever ate at a Taco Bell, I would've been six years old. The regular taco was
.59 and a taco supreme was I believe .79 at the time and it came with sour cream and
tomatoes and I was like this is grown up taste. This is what grownups do. I'm like basically like
30, flirty, and thriving. - Stop!
- As a six year old eating tomatoes and sour cream. I can't explain to you
how much that taco supreme meant to me at the time. All right, let's try pulling
this out of the deep fryer. This is lookin' good. - [Trevor] I'm excited about this. - This looks exactly like
the Volcano Taco shell. It's violently red. - That's hot.
- Whoa! - Why would you touch it?
- I don't know, I don't know why I touched it! - What?
- Why do I do any of the things that I do? - Just stop touching it! - I won't stop touching it. - Stop touching it!
- Ah. - Josh!
- This is my kitchen. - [Trevor] I'm worried about your health. (Josh laughing) - It engraves the words taco
shaper into our taco bell, taco shell (laughs). - [Trevor] Now they have to sponsor us. - Now you have to sponsor us! Your watermark is on our freakin' tacos. Thanks for that. We got our taco shells goin', we're gonna keep makin' those. Let's move onto some sauce, huh? Let's get lost in the sauce. - I would like to get lost
in the sauce with you. - Let's get lost together in the sauce. (light music) There's a lot of myths
surrounding lava sauce. People say on Reddit that it was like a nacho cheese based sauce,
that's not true at all. You can tell what Taco Bell
sauces are mayonnaise based by looking at the ingredients. If you see egg yolk and oil, then you know that's a
mayonnaise-based sauce. Any time you get this like
new spicy jalapeno jack sauce it's just mayonnaise in your taco. That creamy jalapeno
sauce in your quesadilla, that's hot mayonnaise
comin' straight to the dome. The thing that made it cheesy was they used dehydrated cheddar powder. - Okay.
- So the ingredients and you can find this in the internet archives of what it was, was mostly jalapeno puree,
that's red jalapenos, that's what you got. So you're gonna trim
the stems off of those, you're gonna throw it in here, and then I'm gonna blow
torch 'em to roast 'em. - You just want me to
cut this off and toss it? - Toss it in there, and
then I'm gonna blow torch it immediately so what we're
really lookin' to do is blacken the skin, this is
gonna start to cook the pepper and also it's gonna give
it a nice roasty flavor. And then we're gonna
shed the skin off later. This is what they do in the
back of every single Taco Bell. - Okay.
- They got a designated torch guy and all you
gotta do is puree this up and we're gonna mix it with
our mayonnaise and our cheese. - Why is mayonnaise in everything? - Yeah, you don't like mayonnaise. - I'm not a big fan of mayonnaise
but I love Taco Bell so. - I like that we can be friends even though you don't like mayonnaise 'cause I like inherently
don't trust people who don't like mayonnaise. - Maybe, you know what I think it is? I think it's the idea
of mayonnaise by itself. - Once you heat that mayonnaise up with cheese in 83 to 88%
beef, it becomes magical. - Yeah!
- Okay, so now, we have to sweat these which means we're gonna throw it in a
Ziplock bag so if you could just get it right in my pouch. - Oh that's efficient. You want me to get 'em in there? - Yeah.
- Aren't they hot? - I don't know.
- I don't have fingers of steel like you do. - Dude, just throw it
in the pouch, thank you. And then I'm gonna keep it tucked away. - Okay.
- And then that's gonna let the peppers sweat so
that means that the skin is gonna come off very easily. We're gonna get 'em in the blender and then we're gonna
finish up our lava sauce. Trevor the peppers are
steamed in my pouch, you see they've gotten
all nice and sweaty. So can you just take it, you can see the skins
already starting to fall off. - Yeah.
- All you gotta do, just use your hands. - [Trevor] You're just gonna,
just like, just take it off. - [Josh] Yeah, look it's comin' right off. - Josh what is your go-to Taco Bell order? - Kobe! So, Taco Bell, the
entire game changed when they added their online ordering system. And so now you can go through
and you can substitute and customize you
could've always done that, I know that 'cause my best
friend Debre whose vegetarian in high school and he would
always do the no beef sub beans hack if you go on there, hold on, keep up. - No I'm here. - If you go on their
online ordering thing, you can just add like potatoes, you can add creamy jalapeno sauce, you can add jalapenos to anything. So I get a crunch wrap supreme and I add potatoes, jalapenos,
and creamy jalapeno sauce and then it just becomes this like sphere because there's so much stuff in it with the potatoes that
they can't even fold it into a proper hexagon, so it's just like a ball of
all the best Taco Bell flavors, 'cause the potatoes Trevor,
the potatoes soak up all the grease from their beef soup. - Yeah?
- And it's beautiful. - My go-to is a quessarito
and a Doritos Locos taco. - Imma puree this stuff. Let's crank it to high, ah! - Ah!
- Ah! (classical music) So we're gonna add a fair
amount of that jalapeno puree. Let's see how spicy this is. - Okay. (soft music) - It's got a kick. - Yeah! - That's got a much heavier
than Taco Bell kick. So that's gonna get cut down
with a lot of this mayonnaise. - Oh, yeah. - And we're lookin' for, it
was this like very burnt orange hue of a color and so
we're trying to match that. Take a little bit of that cheddar powder and dump that in, you want a fair amount, there's gonna be a lot of salt, we didn't salt the puree. The cheddar powder is gonna add the umami. - The umami.
- Taco Bell has got umami. - Umami! - And then almost everything at Taco Bell has some combination of like
onion and garlic powder to it. - Yeah.
- And so, we're just gonna add - [Trevor] Oh we add cayenne too? - We add cayenne to adjust the heat level. - Oh okay.
- So cayenne is like pretty much red jalapeno,
cayenne pepper is red. - Yeah. - That's it, that's the
end of that sentence. - I agree, I agree. - Now let's see where we're at. This is what lava sauce looks like. It's got this kinda like
pinkish, orangeish hue. All the best tasting sauces on earth are just some sort of
pink or orange mayonnaise. Everyones like I am from Utah and fry sauce is my favorite. No in Hawaii we do yum yum sauce. It's all just pink mayonnaise
and it's all delicious. - It's all mayonnaise. - Wake up people! You're just eatin' orange
and pink mayonnaise and it's delicious! All right, so give that a taste. Trevor jeez, use a spoon, be civilized. - Ah. - It's gettin' there, you taste the cheese.
- You put vinegar in it? - No.
- Were you supposed to? - Well, I wanted to
adjust because mayonnaise already has acid in it, right? - Yeah.
- And so, at Taco Bell they're probably just using citric acid. Gonna add a little bit dash of vinegar. - I was gonna say, I
want some most spice too. - I feel you.
- Okay. - Little more spice, there we go. - Nice.
- That should be good. Should we add a little
bit of cayenne in there? - Yeah!
- I think we should add a little bit of cayenne in there. Just a dash, that's perfect. - That's perfect. - I'm gonna taste, it's nice and staggy, very mayonnaise-y. - There we go. - That's lava sauce, man. - I have never actually
had real lava sauce so I'm gonna have to
trust your judgment here, but it is really good. - Oh, it's spicy too! - I need a drink. (light music) You know what time it is? - What time is it Trevor? - Taco time. - These are crisp. These actually turned out really good despite the branding on 'em. Gently spoon in a layer of beef and I'm gonna trail you
with the lava sauce. The construction of
these is very important, the lava sauce has to abut the beef. - How many grams of beef are we thinking? - About 200 grams of beef go
into every Taco Bell taco. That's not true.
- Is that a real number? - No, I just made it up (laughs). - I was like there's no way he knows that! So lava sauce second. - [Josh] Lava sauce second
because them the sauce gets steamed by the beef. - [Trevor] Okay. - Taco Bell needs to sweat. This is something I firmly believe. You can't eat Taco Bell
immediately after you get it, you need to let it sweat
for like 15 to 35 minutes on your drive home,
depending on where ya live, then you get back there, and
you start eating your first item you go crunchiest to softest. Put the soft items in the
microwave for 25 seconds you let that sweat even more while you eat your crunchy items, oh my
God we have Volcano Tacos! Trevor, we took the Volcano Taco and we brought it back from 2008. - So you could say we brought
it back from the past! - Which camera? (uplifting orchestral music) This looks like, like if you
look at it from this angle without seeing the taco
shaper branding on it. - Yeah. - This looks exactly
like the Volcano Taco. - Oh, mine has taco shaper on both sides. - So we got extra mayonnaise for dippin'. - I like how you just call it mayonnaise. - It's mayonnaise, that's what
it is, it's orange mayonnaise I'm gonna do exactly how I
would've prepared each bite when I was 16 in 2008.
- Let's do it, teach me. - First grab the fire sauce packet. - Okay. - Rip it open with your teeth. Now you're gonna try and
spit it in your cup holder 'cause you're in your car. (soft music) There it is. All right now you're gonna go
like about a half a packet. (Trevor laughing) Cock your head. (soft music) Whoa, that's a flavor that
takes me all the way back dude. - Oh man! - Are you feelin' the heat? - Yeah, I don't know if you can tell but I hope my glasses
don't fog up or anything. - Oh my God that's delicious. Trevor!
- That's so good. - Do you think Taco Bell
needs to bring this back? - Definitely lava sauce, I
mean the red shell is like give or take but put this
in a Doritos Locos taco and I am there, I'm there
way too many times a week. - Now they have the
technology to Doritos Locos-fy a taco shell, they need
to take the flamin' hot and they need to add the lava sauce to it and if they do that, that
will be the Taco Bell item to break the internet harder
than Kim K every could've. - Oh like with the butt, with the. Okay, I'm sorry, I'm taking
this back, that was weird. - [Josh] I'm gonna add some
of Taco Bell's discontinued verde sauce to a taco and if you wanna see how to make that, head over
to Instagram @MythicalKitchen we've got the full breakdown there. And if you think Taco Bell
should bring this back tweet @TacoBell at #PastFood. Thank you for joining
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