Some of you don’t understand, when he says “poor man’s spaghetti” he means spiritually poor. One bite of that and you’ll immediately believe god has died.
if you were really on a budget you could get eggs and flour and make it yourself, its not terribly difficult and itd probably be 40 cents of flour for a huge portion
@@_peepee_ Pasta isn't made with eggs. And honestly, the time/effort required for such small savings in making homemade paste could just be used towards being gainfully employed for 1/8th of an hour to buy several pounds of pasta, or even better, bulk white rice
@@nekostix2760 If you are watching a poor man's spaghetti video and parse the meaning of homemade vs premade, that's why your family hates you and you have no friends.
This isn’t “poor man’s spaghetti”, this is “I feel nothing but a dark void of extreme self hate, I could’ve just made normal spaghetti but I only wish to hurt myself through my stomach-spaghetti”
It probably doesn't taste bad though lol, not saying I'd ever make it but nacho cheese slaps with a lot of unconventional foods and it's probably the only thing you taste
Meijer sells jars of sauce at $1 for 16oz A box of noodles is usually under $2 A full box of spaghetti noods and pasta sauce is more than enough calories for most people, at the very least. The only thing cheaper is rice+protein for most single bachelors lmao.
Spaghetti and sauce is one of the cheapest “college budget” meals you can eat. His $4.50 cheese dip (really $2.25 since he only uses half the jar) and his $0.70 sausages, and his $1.00 from two top ramen packs is $3.95. Spaghetti sauce is $1.30 and you use 1/3 of it for a single meal ($0.43), and using half of a $1.50 packet of spaghetti noodles ($0.75) brings your actual college budget meal to $1.18. When I saw “poor man’s spaghetti” I was thinking he would revolutionize the world, but all he did was make it cost 3x.
7:24 the man literally swallowed a whole forkful of beer eggs in like 1/5th of a second. It enters his mouth, the mouth closes, and in less than a blink of an eye he’s speaking again with an empty mouth. Astonishing
Rarely are we blessed with a title so misleading. One bag of ramen itself costs more than angel hair and half that cheese dip costs more than both combined.
I love that all these "cooking" channels have the same aesthetic. Dumpster kitchen, poor lighting and food that would make prison lunches look gourmet. And cheese. A lot of cheese.
Ironically this guy spent more money in his poor man’s spaghetti than just doing it properly. One box of spaghetti is less than the cost of a couple of ramen packets, and combined with one jar of sauce could probably make the dish three to four times.
@@sympathiea that's why you get the tomato paste and puree and then season it, it only costs $1.75. Used to be less than a dollar, but with a shitty ass government, what do you expect but consistently rising inflation rates.
Aaaaand this is why I encourage my siblings to actually learn how to cook. This is what happens when parents don't teach their kids how to cook a meal.
"Poor man's spaghetti"... Using Walmart's website and grabbing the absolute cheapest things I can see Basic ass spaghetti: Spaghetti noodles: $0.82 Spaghetti sauce: $0.88. $0.94 if you wanna grab the cheapest 4 cheese sauce you can see. Total: $1.70-$1.76 "Poor man". Once again, grabbing the cheapest Ramen: $2.66 for a 12 pack (but I know you can grab individual packs in store, so we'll divide that by 12 to get $0.44 since he used 2) Vienna sausages: $0.48 Tostitos Cheese Dip: $4.47 Total: $5.39-$7.61 With that price difference, you can even add the $3.64 cheap ground beef for meat in the basic spaghetti, bumping the price to $5.34 and it's STILL cheaper than the "Poor man's spaghetti"!
@@Utgarman Lots of people don't have time for that? I would say lots of people don't want to do it or don't know how but that's a lame copout. You can buy the pasta sure, it's already a small portion of the cost of the dish. The jar of queso he used in the video is already more expensive than buying generic brand spaghetti, a jar of Ragu, and Vienna sausages. I was mainly speaking to making your own sauce, which does not take much work, 15m~ of prep and sautéing, and a couple hours of looking at it every now and then while you do other things. It also produces many times the amount of sauce, at a higher quality, than you would get from spending the same amount on jarred garbage. If you're hustling hard enough to not be at home for 15 minutes and then have someone to check it/check it yourself for 2~ hours at any point in the week, you shouldn't have money troubles.
Bro straight up that tostisos dip is like 5 or 6$ thats luxury compared to 30 cents of noodles and dollar store weenies. Could literally whip a real meal up with that kind of dollar
I really don't think that parmesan could in any way save that dish. That shit looked like vomit. He really could've gotten the same result by just eating regular scrambled eggs with parm, drinking the beer, then throwing it back up.
@@KatSpicert Oh yeah, I dont think the dish was good, I just also go "and lets add just a touch of parm" before dumping half a block in my risotto or cacio e pepe
Out of everything what triggered me most was the dude using silverware on his coated pan. Buddy is probably scraping up so many little teflon flakes, maybe they're protectively lining his stomach and that's why he's able to keep eating this preposterous cuisine
"Poor man's spaghetti" ....isn't Spaghetti already a poor man's meal though? I'm pretty sure all the ingredients are less than 2 dollars unless you go out of your way to buy them at expensive af stores like Whole Foods.
I honest to god bought a full pound of pasta for a dollar like 2 days ago and though I make my own slow cooked sauces if you go for the jarred stuff you can definitely spend less than 4 dollars to feed like 5 people
1 pound of meat is like $3 at it's cheapest where i live, spaghetti noodles for $2, spaghetti sauce for $3, so spaghetti where i live is $8 minimum...... Even at the cheapest shop.
That first guy literally lives in the exact same apartment complex I used to. Never seen him or anything, but his apartment is an identical match to the one I used to have. Terrifies me to know this man could have been cooking these abominations mere feet away from me.
This video is truly an achievement in cinematic history - the one-shot film is reminiscent of movies like 1917 and Birdman. It's inspiring, and even brings a tear to my eye
Yeah, that was way too much parm. Also, very poor choice of cheese. I don't think canned parmesan even melts, it just gets crispy. There are much better binding cheeses. Just go with American singles, they're at every grocery store.
spaghetti is literally a "poor mans food" like put in sieved tomatoes that sell 39cents a can in austria, garlic, onion, basil (buy it once and you are good to go for a few months with that) and minced meat (if you cant afford it just put in corn and whatever other canned things you have, mushrooms whatever) there you go no magic involved.
@@MissSimone02 Tbh some things are universally alright in most foods. Like I could eat an Oreo with ketchup and be ok. It won’t taste good but it won’t taste awful.
@@SantaClaus-kk8zr I couldn't because I dont like either one 😂 But hey, it's not the most disturbing combination I've ever seen. I think that title goes to banana in mayo 🤢
I'm so jealous of his ability to easily reach into the overhead cabinet and take things out. If I tried that, every pot would fall out and probably bang my head or face on the way. Then my neighbors would call these police and my dogs would start barking, the smoke detector would go off and I'd end up in jail somehow.
i mean, those flavor packets are almost entirely salt, so it probably does cut out a good chunk of the sodium, but it def will still give you a heart attack with the amount of sodium
I am italian and hearing the words "poor man spaghetti" sent me in such a confusion that I missed the next 20/30sec of the video and I had to restart it. A fucking plate of spaghetti al sugo or a proper Matriciana will cost you next to nothing even with the best ingredients while he managed to spend a fucking ton to make some disgusting mess. Amazing
Guanciale costs more than 50€/kg here. I'd rather use something cheap for poor man's pasta. What's cheap in Italy isn't necessarily so in the rest of the world. ;)
Well he has good sense of humor and does things he likes. One day he creates a serious video about something and next 3 videos can be about games, movies or something. Your cooking isn't horrific or anything but it's just not very interesting. Large amount of videos are sandwiches where you toast bread and add egg with mayo or something else. You don't need to be genius at cooking but make it more interesting. Like a simple person should learn how to marinate meat. Grill on coals or something. People from US usually make videos around burgers, pizza, steak and etc. You could try cooking shashlik which is very easy.
its a lot cheaper, i can make enough spaghetti to server my entire family and have leftovers for probably around 6-7$ which is probably around the amount he spent to serve 1
Box of noodles: as little as 1$ but we'll say 2$ for the sake of the argument. Jar of sauce: 2$ 1 pound of ground beef: 5$ 9$ in total Pack of ramen: 0.40$ 1.7 pounds of Vienna sausages: about 6$ (liquids in can also add considerable weight.) Cheese dip: 5$ 11.40$ in total.
beer is good for plumping up pancakes. theyre so soft if you add beer and make the batter frothy. sparkling water works too, but i prefer the undertones given by lager. works so well with fruit jams, cuts their sweetness.
I just got over being sick, and watching Mike make beer eggs made want to run back to the bathroom and vomit. That straight up looked like cooked throw-up.
