I Tested Viral Tik Tok Recipes 

Sorry but why don’t you make single recipe videos anymore? I seriously miss that format. I know you’re putting so much effort into your videos I just seriously miss your simpler content. Lately it feels like buzzfeed here.

French person here. The open faced croissant sandwich is a thing in France bakers do with their unsold stock. It tastes awesome.

Listening to Josh complain about not having a mold is priceless. Lemme go toast my burger buns on my pizza oven while I grill them in a tandoor

Whoever did the sprites for the tier list is awesome. Appreciated.

why did he make like 50 pounds of pink sauce

What a generous review! Thank you so much for testing my pickle (fermented) fries recipe so faithfully - I luv you ♥️🥒🍟

the chocolate bombs are fun to not only eat but make as well. some people like making semi difficult stuff like that, its like a rewarding project

Take the vinegar coke. Add lemon or lime juice. And coriander. This will give it the coke smell. And if you want to add a bit of sugar you can always caramélise honey with that coriander and lime.

The flat croissant is actually a regular for years here, that's how we use stale croisants another favourite is stale croissant, a nice cured ham or bacon, brie, rucola inside and in a sandwich press / contact grill

The reason why the pickled fries lead to such crispiness is because it actually removes water from the cells of the potato. The pickle juice has a much lower osmotic potential than the potato, and so water is drawn out of the cells via osmosis. It is the same in how salting prosciutto ham will create a dry crust on the outside of the meat.

joshua’s rivalry with air fryers are a sight to be seen

I love these collaborations where you can see both opinions! One from a professional and the other one with people like us. It is rich, funny and constructive

Recipes Shown 0:52 - Pink Sauce 1:58 - Smash Burger Taco 3:24 - Hot Chocolate Bombs 4:49 - Ramen Lasagna 6:15 - Healthy Coke 7:19 - Chili Oil Eggs 8:28 - Sushi Bake 9:56 - Puff Pastry Tarts 10:50 - Butter Board 12:01 - Smashed Croissant 13:31 - Million Dollar Spaghetti 15:11 - Yogurt Toast 16:23 - Baked Feta Pasta 17:33 - Cloud Bread 18:34 - Pickled Fries

"Cat's probably gonna piss in this" Josh is clearly enjoying having a cat.

idk how you made that cloud bread but it really shocked me the it came out so bad because when me and my family made cloud bread it was amazing it was so fun, we made a sweet one and some savory ones with cheese and bacon they were so delicious and fun and the texture was so fun too i loved it.

French here, and filled with cheese smashed croissant with a gulasch as dipping sauce is just divine, trust me

I am french and I am sorry but that looks dope Honestly I am all for using croissants every way you like These things are awesome and I am always happy to find a new way to eat them

Here in Japan there's a lesser known type of sushi called Chirashi Sushi. It's sushi but deconstructed; a bed of vinegar rice with whatever raw fish, salmon roe, etc thrown about on top. The sushi bake is conceptually not that far off so I could see someone slowly pushing it from what it was to what it is. If people like it then why not :) P.S. marymaryquitecontrary9765 in the comments said that sushi bakes are warm dips in Hawaii which is one of the many places where Japanese culture has evolved outside of Japan so the more you know I guess!

This whole video felt like gate keeping cooking. Cooking should be for everyone. If any of these recipes get someone into the kitchen and enjoying homemade food then that's a win. I have a culinary arts degree and worked as a chef for 7 years.

Cooking is about eating what you enjoy. Doesn't matter what it is, or what ties it might have to this custom or that tradition. Anything less shackles it and stops innovation. Many of the best foods out there flew in the face of culture and tradition when they were created. If you enjoy it, and no one is hurt, it isn't wrong.

I made a version of the baked feta pasta today, and I've got to say, just making a few adjustments really turns it into a pretty nice and easy meal. All I did was add some cloves of garlic with the tomatoes for that roasted garlic flavour, added oregano in addition to the salt and pepper, put some cream cheese and pasta water with the tomatoes and feta and mashed it all into a sauce. Had it with some spaghetti and pesto. Was pretty darn good.

I need to know why he made 5 fucking gallons of pink sauce.

What's with the raw arugala hate? I throw that shit on my prosciutto sandwiches all the time and it slaps. It's like better and more peppery lettuce tbh.

this video started burning my eyes out. thanks Joshua

I've had sushi bake here in Hawaii at potlucks for years & it's more of a dip served with wonton chips or small sheets of nori. NEVER eaten as a casserole. If it's gone viral recently I think it's someone who saw it & assumed it was a casserole not a warm dip...

Sushi Bake is common in Philippines and Hawaii. It's meant to be party food for sharing or as lunch box food. Chili Oil Eggs is also super common breakfast in Asian households. It's not just a Tiktok trend.

Fabulous take, excited to try making the pickled fries!!!!!

I'm french and I can say that this croissant recipes look delicious!

Im french and i approve of the smashed croissant it looks awesome (especially when you consider that not all croissants are made equal and so its kind of a great way to turn meh croissants into an actual edible dish)

I feel like the three sides of tiktok food are “healthy! Trying to be healthy! It’s yummy but HEALTHY!!” “Quick and easy version of your favorite food! It doesn’t taste as good but at least it’s fast!” And then “this is an actual recipe! A lot of people have never heard of it! It’s not fancy but it’s new! Yummy!” Most recipes on tiktok are all about one of those.

A restaurant in Flagstaff AZ has been doing pickled fried for a few years now. They are fire! Its called Shift kitchen and bar. Its a small upscale restaurant. I highly recommend if you are ever in the area.

need more of these TikTok food ranking vids 🍜

Food is fun!!! Go and make whatever you want in what combo you want and enjoy!

I loooove the baked feta pasta. I make it at least once a month. I add four cloves of garlic though and less oil. Sometimes I add spinach too for some extra nutrients!

The pasta feta dish is actually a kinda favourite of mine^^ But we add Joghurt&harissa paste at the end, topped of with roasted nuts, parsley and fried onions, gives it 3 textures and a roasty flavor. Just if anybody wants to try it out with a twist. I also add my Chinese chili oil after sometimes if I feel like 😅

I found your channel yesterday and can't believe I've never seen it before. My new favorite channel

I absolutely loved the tier list icons for all the recipes; I hope whoever designed them had a ton of fun making them!❤

We do the "sushi" bake in our house often. It comes together quickly, it is pretty inexpensive since we dont typically use salmon... And for someone who loves sushi but lives rurally and not coastal it sates the craving until we go into a city.

Also how does a chef not know that pickles are lacto fermented?

Did not expect the baked feta pasta to show up here. Mom used to make that pretty frequently for us growing up, and it still serves as a nostalgic comfort food for me today. Don't knock it til you've tried it.

I’m Asian and all of my Asian friends love the sushi bake!! And using nori sheets as a vessel for the crab and rice is soooo good and comforting

Šaltibarščiai is a beautifully hot pink soup made from Beets in Lithuania. Those people who want to have pink food should look it up. It’s a favorite in my house.

Agree with ratings & the message of enjoying food with ppl you care about as well as food made with love. Hit different.

I have been brining my fries for years. Potatoes need a lot of salt to taste good and brining them before frying is the way to go. Love watching you, your friends, and your videos!

what i like about tiktok food trends is that it made the younger generation go to the kitchen and try things out. it made kids go back to the kitchen. :)

Joshua should 100% do a vid where he makes these recipes better. Plz we all want culinary viable cloud bread!

I don't know why, but I love watching and hearing your reactions to trying the food 🤣😂🤣😂

This youtube channel FINALLY got some upgrade to the sound, so I'm subscribing. I've been waiting for this moment like 5 years or so...

I will say I work at a grocery store and when the feta block recipe was popular we were just out of stock for feta blocks for like a solid 3-4 months

13:01 As a French id' say this is very similar to ham croissant.. Which is croissant with ham gruyère cheese and béchamel sauce put inside. It's usually reheated in a oven or it can be eaten cold. It's a common sight in baqueries.

You could fix the pink sauce by making your own version by using the dragonfuit powder trick for a sauce that actually tastes good.

I love that the point was to take your time and slow down in life sometimes, and the only recipe that got an S-tier was the one that took 5+ days to make and prepare.

For me sweet and salty foods together is like the apotheosis of flavours. As an Italian I love "sandwiches" made with an empty cornetto. The sweetness of the pastry and the sugar coat on the outside and the savoury of cheese and ham. Amazing

Can we have more of both of them together for such videos ....i just enjoyed this video so much i wanna watch more❤......if u guys know more of such videos plz lemme know

I love these types of videos!!

That cherry tomato pasta... someone redid that one with Boursin cheese, added salt, garlic and some other seasonings... out of this WORLD. I LOVE pasta but I'm lazy as shit, so that was easy and perfect.

Why did you make so much pink sauce? The fact that you didn't like it just shows that it was a massive waste of food. For someone who has professionally cooked I would've expected you to not waste anything.

Smash burger tacos must have come from two roommates who couldn't agree on what to make for weekend dinner

TikTok recipes started me on my journey of cooking more recipes including Josh’s

Why did he make 500 times more pink sauce than he needed tho!?!

I've always soaked my fries in heavily salted water for a while but ive never gone as far as to add dill and other pickle spices, definitely going to try it

This is the first video I’ve seen and I greatly enjoyed this!

Hey, I suggest that while doing these series, make the food in small quantities so that even if it's bad, it's not too much of food wastage.

i find the chocolate bomb quite interesting. i wouldn't make it myself but that's whats creating sweets is all about. it all usually tastes the same but you need to fancy it up by making an impressionistic painting out of it.

The soup joke (11:17) had me cracking! 👏👍 I've actually seen a couple of people who as mind-blowing as it sounds - did something like that. (no, i did not take part in it 🤣)

I literally improvised a version of Chilli Eggs, but using chilli sauce like Sriracha or Gochujang and that actually works pretty well. You move the eggs through the chilli sauce, kind of creating your own chilli oil while coating the edges and the bottom of the eggs.

I'm pretty skeptical of viral recipes but I really like the feta pasta. It took us a while to get the seasoning just right and we are picky about which feta we use but it's so convenient and tasty.

Ive always soaked my fresh cut potatoes in a vinegar water solution over night, it gives a slight vinegar taste like eating thrashers without having to make your fries soggy by using vinegar at the end.

Love the metal spoon in the nonstick pan for your chili eggs😮

Oh snap I loved fried pickles so I gotta try the pickled fries recipe. That just sounds so good!!!

12:59 I am a french person and I am seeing this and honestly I think it’s a cool thing to do with stale croissants. So as long as you are not using fresh-out-the-bakery croissants, I pinky promise I won’t curse you with the baguette-breadcrumbs-in-your-bed-for-the-rest-of-your-life curse🤗

french here, about the croissant, we kinda do it too, look at "croissant aux amandes". It's a day old croissant flatened and sprinkled with roasted almonds, powdered sugar and maybe some custard. Quite Tasty and a good way to repurpose an old croissant

A But Better version of these would CRUSH

I absolutely love sprinkling Dill pickle brine (juice) on fresh cooked fries. It is sooooo good. Almost as good as malt vinegar.

Smashed croissant is cool if you use day old croissant!

14:26 It's Spaghetti pie. That's been a thing to do with your leftover spaghetti since the 90s if not earlier. Who the hell on tiktok called it a "lasagna?"

u just became one of my favorite youtubers !

Wait, nobody else brings their fries! I brine my chickens, turkeys, potatoes, pastas and everything, why isn't anyone making salt water fries or chips anymore? My community isn't even from the ocean or sea, we live in a desert, why are fries being brined seemingly a foreign concept? I'ma have to deep dive into my culinary history to see where we got it now out of pure curiosity

Hilariously, that sushi bake has been a quick staple in my house when we're short on both money and time. It's going to have leftovers and somehow, the combination of salmon, crab (and the imitation crab is because it's way cheaper and cuts down the cost more) always seems to work well. I can get the salmon for about $5, the cream cheese and imitation crab for like $2 each. One of my favorite things is a salmon tower, and sometimes there are times when I really really want to go get a salmon tower somewhere, but I legit just can't afford to.

I love the baked feta pasta lol. I use a hand blender to make the sauce smooth before adding in the pasta, though. It's fast easy and tastes good. As a working mother, I approve of the baked feta pasta LOL.

I gotta say, except for the pickling, all those little tricks (frying twice, salting immediately), are in general the way to get great fries every time! :D

Would love to see josh recreate some of these recipes to make them better

The baked feta pasta is actually pretty good, you wanna mix it all up first and then add the noodles and herbs. I also use about 1.5lbs of feta for that recipe

Okay - all respect to what you stand for as a chef (I'm an actor, and I feel strongly about my own art form just as you do your own). I love watching your videos and using the techniques you display to help improve my own culinary skills. And yes, social media like TikTok is often targeting the dopamine response our brains crave to get a quick fix. With that being said, why bash these creators for trying something they enjoy? Where's the harm in trying to have some fun in what they do while also giving encouragement to people who don't have the time or energy to dedicate to creating a fully realized meal? I use a lot of these TikTok videos as inspirations for what I make for my meal prep during the week. I get it - food is a cultural, almost spiritual thing for many, linking them with their familial and geographical roots; it deserves more respect in a lot of ways. And, hundreds of people dedicate their lives to perfecting the science and technique that goes into creating a unique and flavorful dish. But, that's what they're equipped to do - why diminish others for trying something they might enjoy just because it's not consistent with what you believe is good enough? I would've much rather seen a video that was Babish-style, encouraging people who try these recipes with advice on how to improve them to be closer to your own personal standard of acceptability and perfection. Use this idea to encourage those who are hesitant about upping their mealtime game or don't think it's feasible. That is something I'd love to see in regards to TikTok recipes.

Yesss! Butter boards are VILE!

ive made the baked feta a few times for dinner for my family and it's actually really good

Wow, what a waste of.. stuff making the 5 gallons of pink sauce

I'm French and I don't mind the smashed croissant. It looks tasty as hell and I think I'm gonna try someday 😊

That balsamic seltzer might be right up my alley. I drink watered down apple cider vinegar with a little bit of honey almost everyday. If I end up enjoying it enough, I might have to get me a sodastream soon after.

The baked feta pasta I have made twice but the second time I added breadcrumbs at the end and it really made it better imo

Hi Josh, I want to say that I'm a chef myself, and I've always been watching your videos. I've taken so much inspiration and knowledge from all your content. As a chef, you should know how much food is being wasted in this industry and the food sector of the economy in general. When you come up with content like this, you are wasting so many resources that many people are literally starving for. I've just started watching that video, and you're coming up with a massive bucket of horrible sauce that you know from your experiences will taste bad, and no one will ever eat. If you want to make content like this, please consider making testing batches like you do in the restaurants. Food is not just pleasure, money, and satisfaction from eating. Food is a resource that we all need, and we don't have enough for everyone.

The only thing that I wish would have been included in the video was an extended showing at the end of the entire tier list. It's always a nice reference to have to see everything together once they are all ranked.

I really appreciate your video and reviews. Thank you.

sad to see you use AI for the illustrations.

3:31 "Who has that, do you have that? probably not. I had to BUY these for this" well buddy. welcome to how we feel watching any of your videos lmao

I hope all that pink sauce didn’t go to waste, they knew it’d be bad but they made several gallons worth.

I make the pasta dish all the time. After a looong day of work and wanting a fairly set and forget dinner its great, especially with grilled chiken

TikTok recipes are awesome for when you have no experience in cooking and don’t know what to do. They give you a great starting point, and then you can either google the recipe or look for similar things, which is pretty nice

My favorite part of this was the beginning when he said people worked hard in the kitchen and the video he showed was himself in the kitchen lol. Man loves himself, that is for sure.,

Now you just gotta make a long but better episode where you make each of these recipies better, and it'll be a complete experience!