@@silent_pete painting an oven instead of just leaving it or getting another one is quite a choice lol. You could probably find a much nicer oven for free on Facebook marketplace.
Great attention to detail with lots of respect for the source material. This is truly a faithful recreation of a timeless classic. It came out exactly as unappetizing as I thought it was gonna be.
Reminds me of those gross recipes from the 1960s that were desperate to make Jell-O look sophisticated. Probably where Auny Myrna got it from, just everyone was too polite to tell her how awful it was. Still, it's nice to see a Cooking with Jack recipe that doesn't contain severly undercooked, bleeding chicken. :D
Funny you should bring up the Jell-O salads from the mid 20th century! At first (pre-WWI) I think it was a bit of a 'status symbol' that you could eat the same thing the rich were eating since gelatin used to be a thing only the rich could afford, then during the Depression it was more of a 'stretch your ingredients as far as humanly possible' thing, and then I believe it was more of a convenience/presentation thing and also something heavily advertised by the manufacturers who now had a surplus of product post-WWII.
What's funny is Jell-O (really gelatin dishes) were a status symbol before the 1960s! Like the industrialization of animal collegian took a long time to figure out and perfect, so it took a lot of skill and money to produce dishes like Aspic.
@@psychedelic.dreamer cheese and bell peppers I feel like go fine together then you add pimentos and celery and Cool whip and yeah it's not going to end up well
@@angrytater2456 the guy has massive balls, he used 1 year old leftovers for Chilli at a Chilli contest, it has different shades of green and a straight up black crust
Gelatin salads are such a weird thing to me. Some are beautiful rings of what's basically candy, and then others are filled with vegetables, but still aesthetically pleasing. And then the Party Cheese Salad showed up and is the worst of both worlds.
I read a comment on Jack's original video or it might have been a reaction video saying that Aunt Myrna might have had dementia and based on her age, it would make sense she came up with something like that. Back in the 1950s, aspic and gelatin were all the rave because it was cheap and you could throw whatever you wanted in it. People often had sweet ones and savory ones separately but never together like you see in the party salad. Maybe Aunt Myrna had really bad dementia idk. I overthink things a lot lol
I swear it's possible to make them tasty but it matters what veggies go in what jello. Used to work in a remote camp where a guy made orange jello with shredded carrot and coleslaw mix inside - it was way better than expected.
You summed it up perfectly. The jello, pineapple, cream cheese, nuts, and cool whip could probably go well together. The rest of the stuff is just… why?
My grandma used to make this but the end product was much more yellow and solid-- I think she didn't use but half the amount of cream cheese and whip Aunt Myrna's version calls for. If you can believe it, this is actually meant to be scooped onto chips... :- | She used to make it for Bunco night. I swear it seemed like the whole Bunco Club was an excuse for them to torture each other with horrible recipes.
That same generation demonized dungeons and dragons players for doing their thing, but they basically did the same thing except instead of embarking on a campaign in a mystical land while eating pizza, they played lame dice games and ate aunt myrna's party cheese salad
Thanks for actually trying this out properly. I remember seeing a video years back where someone tried making it and claimed it was vile but made all sorts of substitutions and cut corners where it couldn’t reasonably be considered trying the recipe and all the comments were just people having fun making fun of the recipe. I had forgotten about the video and how unreasonably angry it had made me, but this feels like vindication years later
Most likely it was Deadwing Dork. Another content creator, Should I Series, has made it in a professional kitchen, no less, and the only thing he could say after trying it is "fuck you, aunt Myrna"
I think if you were to take out like half of these ingredients and adjust the preparation method you could have a solid lemony pineapple dessert type thing.
You know if you replace the bell peppers with granny smith apples, replace the pimentos with marachino cherries, use rhe cool whip as a topping and get rid of the cheddar all together, you might have a workable ambrosia salad style dessert. If you really want to add the cheese orange, perhaps manderins, but that would probably add too much acid
Alright amazingly done now do one of Jacks famous “I put the chicken into the oven and somehow they came out less cooked” recipes. Sure to get the mouths watering!!
Jack did say shredded American cheese on top and specifically not to use cheddar. Jack didn’t become the chef that he is today by playing fast and loose with his ingredients.
From my childhood I remember My mom used to make this fruit salad cake that looks similar to this (minus the vegetabes n cheese). Cant really explain what it was actually called but It was delicious. Basically you fill pot with various fruits pour some sugar and cook it on low heat till fruits starts releasing juices then you add gelatin n cook some more (based on gelatin). At the end you add yogurt and nuts , Mix and Pour it inside a bowl then chill it over night in the fridge . If everything goes right you flip the bowl and this white mountain / dome pops out.
I made jack's butter chicken once but I upped it up a noch and put it in the oven for 2 hours on 37 degrees Celcius. The chicken came out even more moist, all the juices where blood red exactly how I love it.
take chicken out of freezer. run under cool water until fully thawed. sprinke with raw (FRESH, not canned!) pinto beans for added flavor and to add a bit of crunch and enjoy!
I have a couple of theories on why this is a thing. Aunt Myrna hated her family and decided to throw random things into a dish and take it to family gatherings and Jack got used to the taste. Jack has no sense of taste so he decides to troll the internet.
I could definitely see the first theory. If you want to stop being invited to gatherings, or don’t care for having guests at your house, this would be a magnificent deterrent.
a more realistic theory is that myrna was just a participant in the 1950s-60s trend where jello was considered a miracle health food so people tried to put it in everything
seeing jack's newer videos (or at least their thumbnails) it seems like it has all genuinely just been a journey on him learning how to cook. he just has no common sense towards cooking, finds ingredients or recipes, and tries them with full faith. i think he might also maybe just have no taste/very warped taste because it seems like he really likes to use the things he like even though they never work together.
I think I probably could have at least finished the piece if I was offered it at a dinner out of sheer midwestern politeness, but since I didn't need to be polite, I just tossed the rest.
Oh, god, this dish. Jack truly must be able to eat anything in the universe because he makes a completely straight face and has no problems in the video where he eats it.
I imagine this was conceived in minasoada or another land far into the Midwest deep in the land of salads that aren't salads by some cruel grinning witch who wanted an original salad for her potluck or so the legend says
You know what that's exactly what this is . I was always thinking this was maybe 3 recipes put together but nope this is a dessert and a cheese dip put together.
I still love the joke Elvis the Alien made in a commentary video on Cooking With Jack's party cheese salad video. Cooking With Jack is a big guy, and he wore yellow in the video, so Elvis remarked that he looks like Wario. When Jack took a bite of the finished salad, followed by a big "Mmm!", Elvis said: "It tastes WAAAAAHnderful. WAAAH!"
Ngl my family would make a version of this a lot for special occasions. Didn’t have the cheese or cool whip or vegetables- it was just the green jello with crushed pineapple and pecans and cream cheese mixed in. the lime jello is the only one that it works with. I’m aware it’s kinda weird because my roommates have teased me for making it as a nostalgic birthday thing once, but whatever lol
Jelly with fruit is a common dessert here, and cheese is not the worst food to be with jelly. It's the damn veggies. You don't mix sweet jello with veggies!! ever!! go get plain gelatin for fuck sake!! the 50's obsession of mixing fruity Jello with savory stuff is the worst era of food, and the competition is with the random Great Depression Salad where you pick random weed on roadside and hope it doesn't kill you
This must be the result of two pages of a cookbook being stuck together....you know, what someone thought was the continuation of one recipe was actually an entirely different recipe. At least I hope so....
My theory on Jack is that comes from a really poor background, a lot of his weirder stuff has this feel of "Its what we have, time to make due with it." Or really really "Make use of as much as possible" without a good background of how to cook.
The name of this dish is such a meme that it's surreal to think someone is actually trying to make this instead of watching it on "Cooking with Jack show"
When I was like 11 started trying to cook for myself and think I just grabbed things I liked, cooked everything in a pot, mixed it all up, and basically made garbage very similar to this
@@HumanIsError I just watched it. I can't tell if the actual brisket he used in the video was from last year or if he was just mentioning that it's the same brisket recipe from last year? It definitely doesn't look very nice though!
This is the Cheeseball gone wrong! Drain the crushed pineapple, leave out the lemon jello, and the cool whip, you will get the classic cheese ball with a sweet twist. I agree with everyone else, that the bell peppers, celery, and pimentos are veggie substitutions for candied cherries or red & green maraschino cherries or other dried fruit. The lemon Jello might be inspired by grated lemon zest in the cheeseball. So if you used the instant Jello pudding mix and the candied fruit/cherries, maraschino cherries, and other dried fruit with the cool whip It would be a delicious Jello fruit salad. The cheese substitute would be toasted coconut flakes/shreds.
Maybe this recipe was from the Great Depression, so they tried to get as many calories as possible and they put in celeries and bell peppers to ward off scurvy
I think he was lying. I think he was making a 1940s little rascals reference by saying aunt Myrna. Because my aunt Myrna always said, you shouldn't put off till tomorrow what should've been done yesterday
This is the quintessential "use the leftovers" dish. There is absolutely no way that Aunt Myrna deliberately CHOSE those ingredients right?... right???? This screams to me of "oh no, the church potluck is tomorrow and I didn't plan for it, what do I have that is about to/already has gone bad that I can throw in a casserole out of desperation".
Watching this recipe come together coupled with what sounds like the intro score for Manos: The Hands of Fate really filled me with unspeakable terror.
I appreciate that this was a true and honest try and that it looked like the one Jack made. Also, what that Sonic 2 music before you took the first bite?
