April fools idea- give Chris a SLIGHTLY different dish the second time around and completely make him think he’s losing his mind. Ex. A burger where the first round is beef, cheddar, iceberg, etc. He recreates it. But the second round is a Turkey burger with provolone and spinach
So BA just needs to cut the chord on a few of their other YT shows and dedicated the resources and time to this one. By far and away the best thing they currently produce. NEED these episodes far more often than we are getting them.
I agree with you, but actually it's mentally quite taxing to do this a lot. You're a pro chef that's being put under hundreds of thousands of viewers to be fooled; now we might be in awe of his intelligence by the end of it, but for Chris, to get things wrong in his craft or cook incorrectly, it's quite demeaning. I think once every 2-3 weeks is fine.
Love that you guys included Chris riding on that wheelie cart thing, a nod to his grocery store days! That being said, can't wait until we get to see him in the store again, so much fun watching him riding the carts and having breakdowns in the cheese aisle!!
"Hmm... I'm sorry Corvax but wrong again. Good try with the peanut and fruit spread on traditional wheat, but the answer was actually a roasted garlic clove. Almost as close as it was to the salted watermelon...."
I think one of Chris's problems is that he's so smart and good at what he does is that he always over complicates things. Instead of seeing a pancake and instantly thinking "whipped cream" like a normal boring person would, he goes direct to some complex pastry cream thing. That said, I'd be so bad/horrible at this I have no room to criticize yet here we are.
Look at some of the challenges he's had though - there's been some really challenging & outside the box recipes he's had to reverse engineer, and he has no idea if the next one is going to be super basic or just completely unique.
@@wildkeith me neither, but when trying to figure out what that pancake topping is I would definitely reach ‘whipped cream’ well before I hit ‘custard’
“Inside they are completely different” Taste: 80% I can only conclude that there’s a huge discrepancy between what I think of as “completely different” and what Hana thinks of it.
I take back my comment about Chris doing the shopping. The moment he tested the warmth of the items (this may have been a different video) and admitted his strategy, gave me all the warmth in the world. No other celebrity chef has the balls to do a challenge like this. Chris does it, and also just straight up tells us the advantages he is trying to get. That's how hard it is. You go man.
I'm impressed actually. People go nuts trying to recreate this dish, and he hit a solid triple (not quite out of the park) without ever having heard of it.
I would love to see another chef try this challenge!! Maybe with a dish Chris picks, just so see how impressive his super taster abilities are in comparison
I use to think Chris was this uptight, neurotic dude that I didn't necessarily appreciate, but over time he's really become one of my favorite vlog chefs. I think maybe he reminds me of myself, if that makes any sense. 🤷♂
Can u try putting a dish in front of him without blindfolding him, and challenging him to make it PERFECTLY since he can see it? I'm interested to see how close he can get. One of the issues with seeing it is that he may gain a false since of security and lean too much on it. I think that would be an interesting battle to watch 🤔... especially when dealing with traditional foods of different cultures. The way different cultures do things makes the outcome sometimes slightly different and other times wildly so.
Chris going into the take to meditate figuring out the Macha. That's such a specific flavor that I'm really use to, especially food Macha has a distinct bitter chalky flavor, but if you haven't had it recently or just don't have the color give away I can imagine how confusing it is on a western pallet.
Chris your first guess is your best guess. TRUST YOUR TASTE BUDS !! He overthinks about everything but to his credit he is a very good analytical thinker.
Starch choices got him pretty good- recognizing matcha and not immediately considering what starches would be most likely in a Japanesque dessert. The recipe as written would have left an unused egg yolk too, and that's not something someone in recipe dev would consider ideal so missing that was a gimme.
@@CelticRuneSingeryou seem to be uninformed about the scope and character of the distribution of this recipe years earlier. Anyway, what are you trying to say? That Chris is not obliged to know this recipe? No sh*t.
@@vsb101 And you don't seem to understand that a good portion of well-to-do chefs didnt even know this thing was a thing When you're claiming this was a thing
What we wanted: Chris Morocco being a flavor wizard and astounding us all. What we got: the custard recipe we never new we needed, “The first pancake is never a winner” (one of the most strangely wise things I’ve ever heard), and Chris Morocco astounding us all with his ability to overthink a recipe.
I was looking for a comment fangirling over Christina and I found it😁 I couldn’t tell if it was her because she looks so different now and I didn’t realize she stayed at BA definitely making me what BA used to be 🥺
The fun thing about this intro is that he’s like “it’s like someone made a pancake in a ring mold but I have no clue what this is” he always is so spot on at the start. Also anyone would be fooled by matcha >:(
I will continue to comment this until it happens: GET CHRIS A SHOPPING CART FOR THE KITCHEN. I miss him rolling around the grocery store. Edit: I appreciate the rolling flattop but it’s not the same.
I've watched a couple of vids where Hana is the judge and just felt like she doesn't credit/acknowledge Chris enough on how great of a job he's doing! He's recreated something he's never eaten before to almost exact likeness - with no sight! That's crazy stuff
I was right there with Christina, like how can you not recognize matcha right away? Especially when you're already thinking in the Japanese direction. Sometimes I wonder if parts of this are scripted. (Also sidetone, I just realized that I Kris, am commenting on the interaction of Chris and Christina, so that's amusing)
I like her scoring!! It's not as generous with her colleague unlike most of the other reverse engineering episodes where they gave ridiculously high scores
Omg Chris! It’s just matcha, cream, sugar. You got it right in the first time, just maybe too much matcha or too much something that it didn’t taste right!
The dish isn't Japanese. Soufflé pancakes were invented in Hawaii, by chef Nathan Tran in 2009, at Cream Pot restaurant in Waikiki. Japanese chefs stole his creation. Just FYI.
12:36 man channels his inner Japanese by sitting in seiza to try and figure out what japanese flavor is in the whipped cream glrorious nippon steel or smth idk
Yeah major cheating especially when they have previously gone through some extreme lengths to not give him any hints. Without that major help I don’t think he would have ever gotten to “matcha”
I liked her as well. One thing that annoyed me though is that she deducted points in technique for not using the correct amount of egg whites. That should obviously go into the ingredients score.
Soufflé pancakes were/are very popular, I'm surprised Chris Morocco didn't know what they were. That being said, calling it a TikTok pancake felt a little like an insult.
To be fair though, it would be so hard to get the exact height of the cake without measurement - let alone blind testing it. Just knowing that it's a cyndrical souffle pancake with icing powder with whipped cream at the exact spot is A+ for me already as far as appearance go. You can't expect him to get the exact size of the cake by tasting it
I think this would be even more fun if after the first try, he gets to pick two or three ingredients to ask about and find out if he got them correct or not. Just a yes/no answer though. Not for them to tell him what an ingredient is supposed to be if he got it wrong.
Wait I’m confused. Did they say that Chris’s pancake was taller than hers because it didn’t have enough meringue? I thought the more meringue, the fluffier and taller something will be. So I thought hers is the one that didn’t have another meringue. Can someone explain?
