The star pattern is part of daily prep at a fast food place. In the morning, one of the pre-opening chores is to prepare cheese for burgers. Cheese comes in a big brick of slices to save space in shipping, but they're a pain to peel off like that. So someone will make a few stacks of cheese off-set like that, forming a star, so they're quick and easy to peel and place. "Extra Cheese" just mean you grab a pair (in the form of a star) from the stack instead of a single slice. I guarantee you that this thing is the easiest thing they make, despite how it looks. Grab buns, grab cheese stack, place, close, wrap. Done.
In Thailand, cheese is a food item that isn’t commonly produced locally so it’s hard to find and if you do find it, it’s really pricy. The prestige that comes from being a foreign food item gives it a certain appeal to locals and being able to indulge in a foreign food/ingredient at a low cost makes it even more so. So although it’s possible that someone messed up and ordered too much cheese that now needs to be salvaged, I find it easy to believe that this would totally just be a thing that’s a viral hit for Thais until they realize that it isn’t actually that good
There is a difference between American Cheese _Singles_ and actual American Cheese. Singles are usually made with a portion of vegetable oil, while deli-style American cheese is all milk.
Yeah, i like kraft singles and have the costco sized package in the fridge, but I know that AMERICAN CHEESE and Kraft Singles are different types of cheese.
When I worked fast food (McDonald's, Braum's) decades ago, the cheese wasn't individually wrapped. It came packed, pre-sliced, with every other slice offset just enough to easily pull them apart. If I ever buy cheese slices at the grocery store I always look for that kind as I really don't want to deal with the mess of all those wrappers.
This sliced cheeese has so much salt (a preservative) and a few other things in it .. rarely do these process cheese foods go bad.. I've bought them and kept them in the fridge for 3 months .. nothing went bad..
@@KimberleyJackshawut 3 month is not very long usually they last 3 to 4 months I know I have some that will last until october in my fridge. if you wait 5 or 6 month then maybe they'll be bad.😅 maybe it's not the same kind that restaurant use but it is the wrapped one.
The American cheese that is in a chunk that you can cut off isn't the same thing, though. It's not a cheese product, but actual cheese--basically a light cheddar. I've had both kinds, and they are very different.
That was the government cheese that the local politicians would hand out in 5 lb blocks to senior citizens. The modern blocks sold in supermarkets are nowhere near as good quality.
emmy! i just checked your sub count before watching & i'm so happy to see you've grown to almost 3mil! i've been subbed since you've lived in japan & i always come to your videos to feel grounded. i always end up learning so much from you! i aspire to be like you some day 💛
The moment I saw this video, my first thought was The Simpsons: Homer: "Mmm...64 slices of American cheese" ... "64...63.......2...1..." Marge: "Have you been up all night eating cheese?" Homer: "I think I'm blind."
I think of Kraft Singles (what I believe you used) & Kraft Deli Deluxe American Slices (more akin to what I believe Burger King uses). I’m not sure if it’s true or not; but, in my head the Singles aren’t technically slices, they look like the processed cheese is somehow injected into that plastic whereas the other is actually a block that at some point is really sliced. Singles are ok for grilled cheese; but, I don’t want to just eat it.
Emmy, you should have warmed it at the end to melt the cheese some and see how it was that way 😂. Thanks as always…you were my very first RU-vid person and I’ve watched you ever since. 😊
Sounds like a recipe for a tummy ache. LOL Good luck, Emmy! I believe in you! LOL OMG as soon as you said craft project, I immediately thought of those Reader's Digest xmas trees! Did all 80s kids do that? LOL
American cheese is an interesting cheese in that it doesn't really taste that good cold ... but if you heat it up and melt it a bit (or a lot) it becomes awesome. That's why it's so great for burgers or grilled cheese sandwiches, yet tastes very bland and just "meh" when eaten cold. That being said, it also makes sense when you think about it since American cheese was specifically designed to be melted and eaten hot - while melting nicely and being creamy (when melted) were specific goals during the formulation.
I did things like this as a kid in the 90s, got into trouble for using up all the cheese slices, and, well, it wasn't worth it, I just did it cos I could... :P
In Canada we just call it Kraft Singles (or whatever the brand name is) I will say though we get a lot of variety in them here.. cheddar, sharp cheddar, swiss mozzarella ... though interestingly enough being that I'm lactose sensitive, these types of chese slices don't bother my stomach like regular cheese does... I tend to stick with cream cheese or Laughing Cow Chese which is fresh cheese .. much nicer than these of course
I want to do this with 2 slices of 12 different slices of real cheese…. Cheddar, smoked cheddar, Gouda, Gruyère, havarti, Edam, manchego, Swiss, Colby, Monterey Jack, red Leicester, asiago.
@@brainwithani5693oh don’t worry haha. This is the only ingredient I dislike. And it’s not like I haven’t tried a dozen times in different times of my life 😂
When I worked at a fast food restaurant, we used to stack the cheese like that in order to make it easier to grab when cooking . I loved stacking the cheese lol it was my favorite job , so therapeutic.
I grew up really poor so even kraft single was considered a luxury thing in our house, I remember how happy I was when my parents make a sandwich with it, when usually it's only a margarine (blueband) with a lil bit of sugar.
Feel like a whole bunch of people in Thailand buying this and taking it home to their fridge to make themselves grilled cheese sandos for the next couple of days.
Did you listen 👂 from the beginning? Emmy pointed out she prefers getting American cheese sliced at a deli counter. You can still get unwrapped American cheese. Duh!
@@tracyrobinson9442 I think I do because I myself last week bought a pound of sliced American cheese at a deli counter. I believe EVERYONE has noticed that they may do the same except him.
As an American and accustomed to processed cheese, I would love this, although I would want it a bit more melted. We are very strange in US regarding our love of processed food.
my dog (who recently passed away) LOVED the sound of kraft singles being opened. didn't matter where she was in the house, if you opened a kraft single, she'd hear it and would come running!! :)
That's likely the wrong cheese. The individual wrapped American slices are nothing like what restaurants use. Restaurants use a cheddar/American blend that has more flavor and doesn't melt quite as easy as the singles. The closest thing you can get from the store is the sliced yellow American at your deli counter. I like the Land'O Lakes brand myself. I found out the difference the hard way when I tried making Big Macs at home and found that the cheese and the sauce were blending into a cheese sauce rather than stay two unique flavors and textures.
It's like you're in my brain! As soon as you started talking about how they wrap the cheese I thought "imma have to look that up after this" and then you've gone and linked a video about it right here! 🥰🥰
I watch tribal people try, a channel with Pakistani villagers who try foods from around the world. I feel like this “burger” is the epitome of how they view America. Cheese, cheese and more cheese. They often complain about any cheese at all in their food.
I was fascinated as a kid myself with the American cheese slices. My Mom very seldom got it. She mostly bought Velveeta for grilled cheese sandwiches and real cheese for everything else.
"Ripping the cheese and cutting the cheese, I mean, it's sorta the same thing, isn't it?" When you said that I was drinking a coffee and it spurted everywhere because I couldn't contain my laughter.
Emmy, I applaud you for making it! It looks great! But, I'm sure it was thoroughly disgusting 🤣 I think that the singles are different than the packages of American cheese that comes in a stack of single slices that aren't wrapped. The package says processed american cheese versus processed american cheese food. Even then, I think it may need some mayo in between each slice. You were very brave. I was thinking you'd choke and run for a glass of something to drink. I'm glad you didn't choke 🤗 Thanks!
"Is it cheese?" Interestingly, American cheese can't actually be classified as cheese because it contains vegetable oil, it must be classified as a "cheese product". It is, in fact, MOSTLY congealed vegetable oil with a bit of cheese added to it to give it a cheese-like flavour and could be made without the cheese entirely.
What. . . This is pretty much a cardiologist's worst nightmare. I love my plastic cheese, and I've done something like this, but it was a max of 4 slices!
When restaurants buy processed cheese, they buy it unwrapped and sliced. For them, they wouldn't unwrap the cheese. Instead, they would pull the pieces apart and stack them... which would take less time than the unwrap method.
I would compare this to the insane drinks that some people get at Starbucks that have like 20 specific instructions. It takes longer to assemble that it is worth to get.
This sandwich is honestly genius. Burger King going viral over a sandwich that is cheap to make and no extra needed ingredients. Doesn't even need to be good, just weird enough for some PR. And only available in Thailand.... so no weird American backlash. I am Thai...and cheese is not really in our diets, so I am not sure many people will be ordering this.
I think the tanginess is a result of making the "cheese" shelf-stable by adding emulsifiers like sodium phosphate, potassium phosphate, tartrate, citratem etc
I know it would have made for a much shorter video but I would have went for Kraft Deluxe American slices. No individual wrapping and it tastes much better.
My thoughts were immediately...no, just no. Then afterwards, well, you can cook some pasta, make the buns into crumbs and make mac-n-cheese? That's so much American cheese ... I never buy it anymore, just the other kinds that are "more real" 😂
