How NYC's CHOPPED CHEESE has Changed 

Thank god. So many chopped cheese recipes online don't actually chop the cheese into the meat. Literally what is the point, its called a "chopped" cheese. The cheese has to be chopped.

This should’ve been a 420 special 😂

Steve, if you make a slurry of xanthan gum with a neutral oil (any oil so just a cheap one), then mix that into the sauce, it'll dissolve much better. Alex did a video on it ages ago, xanthan gum clumps easily in water (or a water heavy sauce like almost every sauce) but it works much better in oil.

I was raised on chop cheese. I lived a couple blocks from hajisz for sure it happened before 99. I been eating it since 96/97.

I would go OG, I don't like messy sandwiches or sandwiches that I have to hunch over and unlock my jaw to eat.

I would try your "Ocky Way" yes - but would always order the OG Chopped Cheese every time - Nice job

Blossom end!! Another awesome video! Thank you!!

Love your content 😊😊😊

This channel is rather fantastic!

I've never had a chopped cheese before, so I would have to try it both ways! When trying your Ocky Way, though, I would ask for pickled jalapeños chopped into the meat and please add a little adobo juice to your sauce--YUM!

Your Ockham way looks delish! I would go with the OG way, though. I would struggle to get my little mouth around that. LOL. Love your channel. You’re my new addiction!

Thank you for posting this video! I watched the video with Frankie Frank that you included in this one. It took me about five minutes, but I was able to do a freeze frame showing the first seasoning he used. I’m 99% certain that it’s the Goya adobo seasoning with the blue cap. They make about five others with different color caps that are different from each other. I knew that FF used something else because he had another jar of seasoning, but it was impossible to read the label on it. I’m going to guess that the Goya Sazonadzor Total (which is amazing) is equivalent to the Badia Complete that you used. I’m going to get some of the seasoning in the packet you used. I will hit my next chopped cheese with all three. I really appreciate this video because the chopped cheese I made before with just the Goya adobo blue was disappointing and I felt like I was missing something. You may have explained how to get from “meh” to “magnificent”.

YOU FORGOT THE BEV!!! 😂😂😂

Another masterpiece from my favorite RU-vid Chef.

I can't wait to get back to NYC and get myself a chopped cheese! As always great content man

OMG he's great I am starving for his last sandwich he made thanks for recipe. You are so talented and lovable. I'm 90 and going to ask my daughter to try and copy. That seasoning sauce looks yummy. God Bless

I love you, I do, so fucking smart and you know your shit. We're blessed to have you making us smarter. You made me a better cook. A better man. I appreciate you. I thank you with all my heart.

OG all day only had a chopped cheese once at a random bodega but it was amazing

you the man for this video

I love Rahim's attitude and culinary balls! I want to go to NYC just to experience his shit.

@5:41 - "It's nice.." actually lol'd.😆

Damn, this looks good!

Hard top pick Both look awesome 👌

Is anyone else spazzing on the the fact that he hit a nice-ass lateral cut on the mozz stick?

I would have to try them both.❤

That's probably one of the craziest and most delicious looking sandwiches I've ever seen. I am inspired.

Mouth was watering the moment o started this vid lol

I need thiss 😭

When building I'd switch the order of the lettuce & the tomatoes

I can't wait to make my own version of this. Great Idea Steve!! You must wrap it up!! It's a must!

🔥🔥I like your version!

That shirt is dope 👍🏾

bro. Bro. The french fries and the mozzarella sticks at the end. BRO.

Definitely want the Ocky Way. Looks amazing

I have been putting off seasoning my new cast iron for months. Definitely gonna do it to make this. Looks insane.

Now I know how to make a classic NY style chopped cheese! YES!

Im glad the abobo, completa, and sazón inspired you to make a creation. Those 3 are the main things that make our beef stew different than normal (among other things) Check box they have different kinds. Con azafrán had a yellow base, con culantro and achiote have a red and cilantro base etc. now go make a carne guisado brother 💪🏽

i dunno bro the chop cheese for me was discovered in E Tremont in the Bronx and everytime I put other people on in New York, no one knew it existed before.

"There are no real rules..." Me: Could I get that without onions? Griller: Sir, please leave the state.

I use an equal mix of mayo, mustard, ketchup, and sweet pickle relish for my spread on the rolls. Amazing sandwich and much better than any hamburger.

I've wanted to try an authentic NYC bodega chopped cheese - but never quite sure where to go around midtown. Any suggestions? And I think I might take the Ahka way to Buffalo and mimic their Stinger Sub - chopped cheese w/ buffalo chicken fingers on top. Man. Now I'm hungry.

I gotta try both tbh. but then again I watched this while I'm hungry....

I don’t know the science behind it but iceberg lettuce levels way up when shredded.

Steve, thank you thank you thank you for pronouncing homogeneous correctly. I love it. Oh and the sandwich is money$$$

id go classic but mozz sticks sounds like a banger addition.

Both look great! Never had one but I am thinking ground lamb, feta, onion, garlic, oregano, lemon.....help me!

Maybe you can unravel the mystery of the New York mozzarepa for us next. I saw it in little Italy when on vacation but was too full to try it. I have yet to find a recipe online that looks anything like the street vender.

Oh, man, I'm with you on dill relish vs sweet. Dill, every time.

why 720p?

Its so funny. I've lived in NY my entire adult life, and this was a great video. I'm going to make a chopped cheese tomorrow. But I showed a buddy of mine who lives across the country.... So many questions! What's a bodega? What is a chopped cheese? What's Adobo? What's Sazon? Gotta say, now that I've lived in NY for 30 years, I can honestly say that I eat much, much better than all my old friends.

Speaking as someone that has had their fist, second, and third chopped cheese over the past week from 3 different food carts and delis, (I'm in NYC on a business trip - one from a food cart outside the Natural History museum, a deli near my hotel on 26th, and from another deli outside the WTC subway), I find that the closer it gets to a cheeseburger, the better it is for me: ie, chopped hamburger + american cheese + onion, toasted bun, a bit of ketchup and mayo on the roll, lettuce and tomato. The ones that I had that got away from that (mainly throwing in different sauces, additional vegetables, different meats) made it taste....off, at least to my pallate. However, I found it to be closer related to a "neat" Sloppy Joe, honestly - most of the ones I had didn't actually have lettuce or tomato....and I could really notice it was missing. I was all "y'know, this could really use some crispness and cold sweetness".

BOTH WAYS!

The ocky way seems inspired by "fat" sandwiches popular in NJ, especially college towns.

Woah. Watching a video about a New York sandwich, and this dude pulls out the cheddar cheese made in my West Coast area! Tillamook is a Local Staple here in Oregon.

Yummy!

Any recipe that calls for mustard, switch out your plain old yellow for a stuff called Herlockers Dipping Mustard. It adds a whole new layer of flavor.

OMG finally chopped cheese!!!! yesssss

Oh yeah baby!!

Gettin both bro ❤🫡

On the Jersey side of NYC, sometimes you get a Portuguese roll instead of a kaiser roll.

OG all day 😎

We cannot say this is good for the heart, but dang does it look good for the soul

Nice ✌️

Very similar to a maid rite in midwest

Grew up eating bodega steak sandwiches (which is how I know them) they are so freaking good

I don’t use the badia complete seasoning anymore. I use Goya sazonador total. Less sodium and gives you more room for flavor and keep the sodium down. The secret is just achiote y culantro lol. That’s just color. Doesn’t add flavor. My gf is from Nicaragua and I use that all the time. It’s just for color but adds sodium. Goya will keep the sodium down. Especially when using adobo. Goya adobo is the best!!

dawg that shit looks fire

Gentlemen, we are witnessing the evolution of food made manifest.

Classic all the way for me.

That french fry brand has great tots also, they seem to be bigger than other brands also.

Love this but… do the orange Goya sazón packet with adobo how the bodegas do it, you’ll love it my brother. You the man though.

The Ocky Way is more of a lunch/dessert combo more than anything. The OG chopped cheese will not be dethroned.

I like your version a lot. I'm a sandwich guy, and this looks like one of mine. I'm getting hungry. 😁 Also garlic butter is a goat move.

I’m gonna have to order it your Ocky way those mozz sticks sold me

I'm INCREDIBLY surprised you didnt slap 2 cutlets into this, i coulda swore i was gonna see chicken cutlets lolol Love it anyway!! Top tier content ❤

Yes to your way and hot sauce!

Can’t forget the bev

The OG!!

best steak and cheese ive ever had was in hudson, New Hampshire... little shack called Cahill's Super Subs

I wouldn't have a problem with either but the OG is old school American and has been around since the patty melt (even though it was chopped they called it a patty) or cheddar melts. The OG looks like a Big Bacon Classic from Wendy's minus the Bacon so I would eat that often! The sauce you made was a fancy McDonald's secret sauce for the Big Mac, I like Sriracha instead of Frank's though. I make chopped Cheese Street tacos with that sauce instead of the smash burger version that you see on youtube. It's quick and easy.

Tillamook is great; I grew up on it. If you get a chance to try Face Rock Creamery, I have been really happy with that, too.

Jus ground beef and cheese

I’d order both.

Classic cheeseburger 🍔, please comeback!

My family has been making chopped cheese since the 20s

I tend to go for the OG, but I'd give the Ocky way a try

Without the press it's not the same, you don't toast in the inside of the bread you toast the outside. The inside is supposed to be soft and fluffy. Still probably good, but without that serious crunch when you bite down on the bread it don't feel like a chopped cheese.

OG for me ❤

nice and healthy with the tomato and lettuce

Throwing moz sticks and fries into that starts to give New Brunswick Grease Trucks vibes

Probably OG, though if you cut out the fries and the mozz out I would go with yours. I think the sauce would be perfect and the peppers in the chop would work great. Keeps the sandwich easy to bite into.

Akhi, pronounced aji, the j being the Spanish jota. That’s how “kh” is pronounced in Arabic. Good video, like always.

"Hey, look, a shark! Let's jump it!"

Ocky is too busy for me.

Gotta go with the OG, but I would try yours without the mozz sticks and chips (they’ll get too soggy) but leave the steak fries.

There's something to be said for tradition

Both look good AF and the OG is definitely fire but Steve's Occy way is most definitely for the "Big Back" or the 420 community no doubt!!!

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This shit is wild and I approve

720P?