Binging with Babish: 3-Day Potato Salad from SpongeBob SquarePants 

When I was a kid, I always assumed that when the guy said it took them 3 days to make the potato salad, he meant that they kept messing up and went through 3 days worth of trial and error

When I was a kid, I watched that episode and I thought for almost 5 years that potato salad always took 3 days to make.

Now you gotta make SpongeBobs sundae with ketchup, onions and the whole peanut plant

It probably took him 3 days because he's under the ocean no where near potatoes

Nickelondeon: makes a vague, one off joke in an absurdist cartoon Babish: _It's free real estate_

My grandpa’s potato salad recipe actually does take a full two days (he insists you have to boil the potatoes and then let them sit whole in the fridge overnight so that they don’t crumble when you cube them and then when you mix everything together it has to sit another night for the flavor to be right.) So three days never felt out of the question for me.

Potatoes: *exist* Babish: kosher salt.

The day Babish said his first word(s): Mom: “he’s gonna say his first word! Baby Babish: *Kosher salt*

Did you try setting the fryer to Wumbo?

“Look at all the chives I have” Weird flex but ok.

Somewhere, Brad Leone is wiping a proud tear from his eye.

He spent the first two days trying to find potatoes in the ocean

RIP Stephen Hillenberg Your impact on generations of kids will never be forgotten

This sounds like something Tasty would make like a 3 minutes 3 hours And 3 day potato salad.

This episode feels like when you write a paragraph and by the end you forget what it was supposed to be about

I just realized that since the fish live in saltwater, to pickle anything, they just need to let it float.

This is one of the only spongebob moments I remember because my dad had to explain to me that potato salad didn’t have lettuce in it. I don’t remember the context aside from the fact that I was 5.

it took me 3 days to see this video THREE DAYS

What about a Krusty Krab pizza! The Krusty Krab pizza is the pizza for you and me!

A deluge of freshly chopped dill. A dilluge

Babish: "skoodledoos" Spud: "Im right here, man"

Make cookies like squidwards mom used to make

As someone who uses potatoes in cooking A LOT (Seriously, it's my favorite food, I have a whole cookbook just of potato recipes, I peel and eat raw potatoes as a snack), I love that you left in that bit about the yukon gold not being good for deep frying. It drives me craaaaaaazy when people think you can use any kind of potato for any kind of prep method and have it turn out the same, or even good! It's not just a colour change!! Different potatoes have vastly different textures and flavors, and they all have prep methods that suit them best, of the most popular varieties russets have a thick skin that's ideal for baking, reds are great for hash browns or mashed with skins on (or potato salad!), and golds are great for skinless mashing, etc. They're all potatoes, but they're all different, mashing a russet or baking a gold is like switching out sour cream for whipped cream because they both say cream.

In the Netherlands we call potatoes "earth-apples", so there's your synonym.

3:07 One large fork handle full... Ahh, yes, the proper unit of measurement.

I asked for the peanut onion sundae and THIS is what I get!?!

RIP Stephen Hillenburg. The kitchen’s not the same without him.

Babish’s lasts words need to be “that life was good but I think we can do better”

A new babish vid... that's about spongebob.. on my bday?! ahhh thank youuu!!!! you just gotta eat this with some "uhh roast beef, some chicken, a pizza....."

Make either one of these foods for Christmas!: 1. How the Grinch Stole Christmas live action movie- Who-Pudding, Fruitcake Fa-la-la, & fudge 2. Grandma got run over by a reindeer- Grandma's Fruitcake 3. Shrek- Gingerbread Man or Waffle Santa(from Shrek the Halls) 4. Home Alone- Plain cheese pizza or Kevin's 12 scooped sundae 5. Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas- Hot Chocolate from Donald's Gift 6. Tom & Jerry: A Nutcracker's Tale- Christmas dinner banquet: turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, cake, sliced bread, & fruit

*HE POISONED OUR CHOCOLATE SUPPLY, BURNED OUR ICE CUBES AND DELIVERED A PLAGUE ONTO OUR 3 DAY POTATO SALAD!!!!*

Babish: * makes video about potato salad* Also Babish: * makes french fries *

I SEVERELY DISLIKE MAYONNAISE SO I'VE NEVER LIKED POTATO SALAD. YOU SIR HAVE OPENED UP MY EYES WITH THE SOUR CREAM BASED RECIPE. Thank you!

...... okay close Andrew but I’m still requesting the Krusty Dog hot dog

It's ALLIIIIIIIVE

Hmmm, I was thinking the 3 days was referring to letting it chill for 2 days after making it for the flavors to blend. Because day old potato salad and coleslaw always taste better to me.

Next: pretty patties

You should do an episode about good burger, spaghetti tacos from icarly, purple flurp from jimmy neutron, or butterbeer

Shout out to Stephen for giving me and millions of people a childhood, I’m 20 and I still quote spongebob daily with my friends

German people are looking at that and just shake their head. Standard potato salad: boil potatoes the day before, slice!, submerge in soup stock, let sit till the day of with a few pickles. Add what you like, dress with oil and vinegar (..or instead of pure vinegar: pickle juice)

3-Day SkoodleDoo Salad

Sponge Bob will live on! Thank you forever Stephen. See you on the other side 🙏💙

*THIS KITCHEN'S NOT THE SAME WITHOUT YOU...*

Everyone: grams Americans: donuts per freedom unit Babish: One fork-handleful

RIP Stephen Hillenburg your show still makes us smile every day :)

So you’re making a three day potato salad? Babish: Well yes but no

Love how this was just a front for him to make pickled French fries

Guys he didn’t actually skip time. It’s an editing trick

Here's a tip for salads like these except for the ones with fried potatoes. Make them according to the recipe then refrigerate them overnight. A little mayo may need to be added the next day but the flavors will develop even more.

this is my favorite babish episode. there are plenty that are longer but it feels like it never ends with how many variations of the recipe he tries. he cooks the last one with only 43 seconds left in the video lmfao, that's insane.

No Patrick, mayonnaise is not an instrument

I'm sure this had been said before (I'm a new Babbish fan), but this man's various ways of saying something is well mixed ("start the music, make sure everyone's dancing," etc) are delightful! 🤣

Nice video but where's... *CHOWDERS BURPLE NURPLES??* (Im the guy who request Peter Griffins Car Panini)

Babish: "undisputed food god" Me, not knowing who he is: "ah yes, I know him"

Hey Babish, you left out the best form of potato salad of them all. Austrian (and probably also German/Central European) potato salad is made this way: Boil the potatoes with their skin and them cool down (preferably, let them rest over night in the fridge), peel them, cut in slices. Heat up some beef soup/stock/broth (not too much, we're not making potato soup). Mix the broth with potato slices, chopped onion, vinegar, salad oil (preferably *_Styrian pumpkin seed oil_* for an amazing roasty, nutty flavor highlight), salt, pepper and a pinch of sugar. Let the dressing emulsify and thank me later.

About Aïoli a thing to keep it mind when you make it : make sure your ingredients for the sauce are at room temperature. Source : my mom. We're a family from the south of France and her Aïoli is godly.

Fermentation without Brad?!?!?!?!

I was hoping for a bitchin' Brad Leone appearance...for the love of allicin Babby

One of my favorite chefs ever. The commentary is so funny but chill. Plus his passion for cooking is dope.

It went from potato salad to fermented French fries

Hey, since it's gonna be christmas in a bit, you could do a video about the panettone, an italian type of cake (is it cake? I dunno) that we italians eat during christmas. It's sooooooo good!

The end gave me feels I didn't want today...

A good way to honor the creativity of Stephen Hillenburg. Rest in peace buddy thanks for the endless laughs ❤

“Your mother is as simple as pickling gets, Trebek!” - Sean Connery

Normal people: potatoes Babish: skootledoos

Do the “meat pies” form Sweeney Todd the demon barber from Fleet Street!!!!!!!

Perhaps it was a vinegar and oil based potato salad, which you usually leave in the fridge for a few days

3:14 In Austrian German, some people say „Erdäpfel“ which literally translates to “Earth Apples”, so you could've started calling them that.

.............. 2:52 ....... *pepper pepper pepper*

Europeans: yo, we got this metric system that almost everybody IS using, it's... Americans: 3:07

But potato salad doesn’t start tasting phenomenal until the third day when the mayo and mustard seeps in the potato.

Accidentally turned on Traditional Mandarin subtitles, kudos to the translator. Super on point!

My mother made potato salad by adding vinegar to the hot potatoes right after they were drained so that it would be absorbed. The mayo, mustard and other seasonings were then added, followed by the chopped ingredients: celery, green onion. dill pickle and egg. The closest version I have encountered is found at Trader Joe, in which the mayo doesn't overwhelm the other ingredients.

Question! I feel like any cooking you do after fermentation is going to totally take a lot of that good good flavor away. Might one boil the potato and THEN ferment it in a brine, and then mix it up into the salad dressing?

0:37 *you "lacto-fermented funk"* is my new favourite insult. Thanks Babish!

Babish: Pickled *french* fries Me: *screams in Belgian*

RIP Stephen hillenburg

Maybe a Harry Potter drinks special for the holidays or a Christmas feast with tons of items we see in the tables in the movies when their all having the holiday feast in the main hall. Theirs tons of food to choose from.

Do spongebob’s nasty sundae.

I’m really glad a “fork handle full” isn’t just something that only I do

I use a similar recipe to the second one you used, except I use a half and half mixture of kewpie mayo and sour cream, and I add chopped dill pickles. So good.

Pizza Ball from Eric Andre Show

I work at mcdonalds and we go through phases of screaming random shit and 3 DAYS was one of them

*come into this video expecting to see a potato salad that eventually benefitted from 3 days of work* Babish: Here’s some fries.

"By this time your potatoes should be done frying" No, by this time my potatoes would be grains of charcoal underneath the ruins of my appartment complex. There really is no way I am multitasking anything alongside deep-frying!

i literally viewed this video when it had 3 views and no comments lol i've never been this early in my life for a video on youtube ... Babish you're awesome dude!

Do the lunches from The breakfast club cheers

Babish: "The best potato salad in the observable universe" Life of Boris: Am I a joke to you?

Man Rest In Peace :/

I love how the best way to upgrade Potatoe salad is to for get about the potato salad and make French fries 😂😂

Brad would be proud of those burpers

I always thought they let the potato salad rest for 3 days. As in they fully made it with everything, then let it sit for 3 days before they ate it. Which is sort of true. I always think 'old' potato salad tastes better than fresh ones.

How about making the peanut onion Sunday, krusty krab, pizza or the pretty patties from spongebob? Also, Spongebob Squarepants was by far the most influential cartoon of the 2000's. Change my mind.

A moment of Fs for Stephen Hillenburg. Creator of Spongebob.

I’m glad I made some fan art for Stephen even if it was last minute I feel that it might have helped some people and the recipe you have made today really helped me remember some of my childhood along with my childhood with spongebob thnx babish 😊

Next thing you need to make is a pizza, stuffed inside a Turkey, the whole thing deep-fried and dipped in chocolate, from Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.

2:02 Did they smell bad or did you cough? Lol

I love it when he personifies the ingredients while saying they are added to the party or 'everybody is dissolved'😆😆

Interesting idea! I was thinking that the potato salad would probably taste better after a few days anyway, since the flavors would have more time to combine and emulsify (like how soup is always better the next day)..

Babish: *Snaps Fingers* Me: NOOOOO! Universe: *Flashes*