The 2 Dollar Gourmet Breakfast Sandwich | But Cheaper 

@@maybeaspider3456 i have seen countless comments like these all across his But Cheapers. Ya'll need to calm tf down. You guys talk as if he's putting a flipping gun to your head saying this is the only way you can enjoy it. Not to mention ya'll sound salty asf. He literally says he's just gonna make the fanciest version possible in the cheapest price he can. The entire point of his But Cheapers are so that *people can see its possible to make really fancy food right at home while also maintaining a reasonable price,* not "my way is the only good way you must make everything from scratch if you don't have time make time don't care about your preferences" Homemade stuff made from scratch WILL taste better than the "shit that comes out of a bag or a bottle", if you're lazy enough to not do that, that's your thing. If you don't have enough time, then just do what you can. Go look for fast meals instead of videos of a professional chef. It's called But Cheaper, not But Faster. Stop using time and laziness as an excuse.

@@maybeaspider3456 Don't want to make the buns? Buy them, especially if you have access to a good bakery, but even from a grocery store will be good. The sauce is dead easy and literally takes 1-2 minutes. I can' fathom how you can complain about that. Don't have/want mortadella? Use a different meat. If you don't want meat, avocado would be a great substitute. Even if you buy every ingredient, it'll be cheaper than going to a restaurant and the sandwich comes together in 5-10 minutes. The video is meant as a baseline for inspiration, you don't need to follow it completely to come out with a good breakfast sandwich.

@@conor0011 Exactly. Man is giving out great ideas, trying to de-mystify cooking for people who would think it reasonable to pay 11 dollars for something you can make in 10 mins (if you buy the bread). The only issue I have is the amount of oil he used.

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@@maybeaspider3456 you’re missing the whole point. The purpose is to inspire people to cook at home, by showing what’s achievable by making an effort and encouraging people to get into it by showing how much cheaper it CAN be. Learning to cook/make food is a skill for life. Papa smack.

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1 english muffin - $0.30 1 egg - $0.27 pickled onions - $0.10 chipotle mayo - $0.10 shredded cheddar cheese - $0.15 1/2 hot italian sausage - $0.70 Pickled onions: heat enough cider vinegar and brown sugar to cover 1 sliced red onion. Let cool, seal in a jar, and let it sit in the fridge for a few days before using. Remove the sausage from the casing and form into two patties (one per sandwich). Beat the egg, season with salt and pepper, and add a small amount of shredded cheddar cheese. Start scrambling the egg, but while the curds are still wet, bring together so that it binds together, flip to finish cooking. At the same time, cook the sausage patty. Toast your english muffin, add some chipotle mayo on both sides, add pickled onions to taste, and the egg and sausage and enjoy. Total cost: CAN $1.62 Total time (aside from the pickled onions):

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@@JeremyHaak You know? I'd enjoy red onions raw if they weren't so powerful. That quick-pickled red onion thing sounds great!

a lot of it probably goes to rent tbh

And that 15$ a hour minimum wage

@@teodoragape97 yea go fuck yourself youre online defending ludacris pricing that stores put in place bc they know theyll have dumbasses like you defending them. If a business cant pay a living wage they do not deserve to be in business.

Lol movie theaters don't pad anything

rent, utilities, labour, materials, repairs.

it would be basically the same video, just start with store bought bread

I got you do everything he did minus the tomato and go buy some bread boom

@@ezze-does-it lol I guess.

Check out Internet Shaquille’s series Easier Tastier Prettier or sm like that

You comment this on a video where he just fries meat, an egg, and tomatoes on toast lmao

Why?

@@creatureofhabit7049 if I'm going to the grocery store, I cant buy per serving. itemizing the ingredients for the whole unit would be really helpful for budgeting.

Not to mention stand mixer and other special tools. I want to get into cooking and I just moved out, but I don't have anything and it's a little overwhelming knowing where to start

@@AlwayZash You can buy a cheap stand mixer for 60$ it doesn't have as much features but it does simplify the process and save you time. You could wait till black friday comes and get a deal on a good stand mixer, it's not like you're buying a stand mixer more than once. Or if we're keeping with theme of this video just mix with your hands, it will take longer but you will reach the same destination. If you want to learn about cooking basics you can find that info on youtube, I've been learning alot from "Pro home cooks" but you could probably find similar channels

​@@AlwayZash You can always *literally always* do everything by hand, from the Kitchen Aid bread mixing to even mincing meat. He mentions it often in many of his videos. What you probably should do is look up some general cooking techniques and start small. He has years of experience and a lot of his but cheaper videos focus on making things from scratch to cut costs. Start with simple things like baking a white bread, cooking eggs (it's cheap and is cooked with multiple methods), making sauces. Pasta is super cheap, for anyone trying to be extremely budget conscious while trying to maintain calories to keep or gain weight. Using beans and eggs for most protein is cost effective, and making your own bread is extremely rewarding as well and cuts some cost. Learn to cook rice as well if you don't know how already. Eggs and rice go amazing together, beans and rice go amazing together. Potatoes are also extremely cheap and extremely versatile. Chicken will be your cheapest meat, outside of lunch meat. Keep lunch meat and bread and cheese on hand for when you're legit too lazy to cook anything at all, just to put something in your stomach. The skills you learn cooking cheap with making your own bread and your own potato stuff? It all goes into making something as fancy and delicious as gnocchi. B) Josh doesn't have many videos like that on the simple subjects, but I recommend Binging with Babish and his Basics with Babish series, he and Josh have actually worked together before. Start with Essential Kitchen Tools (Josh also has an awesome video on the tools he considers most important in the kitchen) and work your way up from there.

Completely agree. I've thought this from the start

Yeah, maybe, but nowadays, most people don't cook for large groups of people anymore. Plus the serving price gives you a point of comparison to bought items and what drives the price for larger groups is mostly the meat components...

@@petrichor9417 even if you’re cooking for one person, you don’t go out to buy stuff in servings do you? You’ll pretty much always be buying the same amount

You're either lazy or pretentious (or both). It's called leftovers. Learn to reuse, and expect to maybe eat the same thing for a few meals in a row. Most of the ingredients here would last a couple weeks in the fridge and could be used for something else. (FYI, that expiration date on your carton of eggs? yea... Add 5 weeks to it; they'll still be good). Edit: And if you have something you don't think you'll use soon? Simple! Just google how long it can be kept in the freezer. Most stuff will last for months.

@@matt475 I think you should've been looking at a mirror while writing that first line, not at a phone screen.

you use mortadella as well? is that good on breakfast sandwhich?

@@matt4535 I ate it with both regular ham and mortadela. I prefer it with good regular ham, but it's still really good with mortadela.

@@ryszardlaskowski2688 cool thank you bro, never considered mortadella on sandwich before this video!

@@matt4535 mortadella is literally used in every sandwich here in Brazil

@@OlTimeyChara I’ve never heard of mortadella before this video

You know you're going to be hungry 2 days from now though...

“hey guys I’m going to make breakfast for the rest of the week starting tomorrow!” one day later “it’s done guys! looks so good!” “wow this is awesome it tastes so good!” “yeah it costs less than $2 a sandwich too, and I made enough buns for the rest of the week too!”

@good one lol gtfo

Think about what you just said next time you make plans to go out to eat.

You can make most of this the day before, and just fry the eggs and sear the sausage the morning you'll eat for about 15 minutes. It's not that complicated to figure out.

Delicious!

I'm pretty sure they have this video saved

Nah, takes too long. Need more time to procrastinate doing assessments!

College students in dorm: I have a microwave, coffee pot, and fridge. Dorm doesn’t allow anything else. Crying they can’t make this in dorm.

@@rxanime535 Don't you have a dorm kitchen

Trust me, you can make almost anything in dorm. It only takes some creativity and several shots of cheap whisky.

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Well, there's tomorrow......

nobody gives a fluck about what you had for breakfast today kid

@@galaxy.9162 damn who shit in your scrambled eggs this morning?

Obviously that guy didn't start making ciabatta bread/buns yesterday and didn't have this sandwich for breakfast today. Someone definitely shit in his eggs and it was himself lol

you can probably just toast the buns and fry all the random stuff in the same pan tbh, would save a few

For real though just use one pan. Unless stuff is actually stuck to the pan then you can just wipe it out with a paper towel and use it again

Life hack: you can use the same pan to fry multiple different things, especially if they're all going on the same sandwich.

Honestly though, y'all just want to hate. If you're cooking, they'll be pans to wash. It's not rocket science.

Why would you use more than one pan for this lol

Great now I'm imagining mayo made with dog or cat eggs from their ovaries...

What?

Then mercilessly talking down to the rest of us for not doing the same 😭

@R. college students: 👁👄👁

Also, be super careful when microwaving eggs, they are known to explode, sometimes even after you take them out

Yoo my comment went cinda viral btw for the record I should say I only microwave cheap bacon 🥓

exactly, no normal person is gonna make this sandwich

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Dont forget the MSG!!!

Thats the American way 🦅

Obesity forever!!!!!

It definatly adds a lot of cost but it doesnt make stuff comparable. If i was to make this as a single i could probaly pull it of in a hours active time. If i was to make it for 5 it would take me just over an hour making the price wastly different

Not if it takes 4 hours

If you have the time, then you save the money making it yourself.

Okay here's how I'd tackle this to better manage the time: Since the most amount of time is spent on the bread, I'd just make a bunch of those in advance in like a weekend and then store them. Then when I need to make the sandwich all I need to do is spend 20 minutes making the rest of the stuff and then make the sandwich itself. Yes I'd spend the 20 minutes because it's worth it for the taste and quality. It can take even less than 20 minutes if you have your breads prepared and if you're a skilled cook like Josh here. So I guess they wouldn't be as cheap if you did all the steps on the same day, but can be made much cheaper if you can manage the process and time if you did that. Or at least that's how I'd do it, hehe

Yes, there is also the intrinsic value add of learning a skill and the satisfaction of doing something awesome yourself.

What are u saying it's very easy

@@fleuttre4510 basically lots of people keep jabbing at this series because he makes so many things from scratch, and for some reason those people think he wants them to make it from scratch as well, and they're either too lazy or busy to do so and so they complain. I mean what did they expect? Its But Cheaper, not But Faster or But Easier.

You eat with your eyes first. If it doesn't look good then it won't taste as good even if it actually is really good

Came in such handy when making the rum caramel for the monkey bread today.

Apologize if I'm wrong, but doesn't he normally provide a link to the recipe on his website in the youtube description?

@@matt475 yes but then I have to pause the video and go to the website. With the recipe written in the description I can use the video like a follow along. No worries 😊.

Make multiple and freeze them?

A number of these ingredients are things you might already have at home. At any rate, if you're buying all those ingredients, you are likely to be able to use them to make several sandwiches over a long period of time, so you still get your savings.

Not to mention this is gonna take a shit ton of time to make

Yeah, love Josh but this is pretty facetious. Just making the bread is an insane undertaking to save like 5 bucks. Ice cubes in the oven to steam your special buns? If you're on an insane budget this is just a crazy recipe overall. Still fun to watch but let's be honest... nobody on a budget will have this much time anyway.

The average joe will put the ingredients in their pantry or fridge and use them over a period of time for multiple meals, and with the exception of the sliced meat the ingredients he used here have a shelf life of weeks or even months. I'm sorry but you're an idiot if you think the "leftover ingredients" are a waste, just store them and use for other meals like a regular person.

Yeah no, this series is a farce. It's restaurant economics, not realistic home cooking economics.

Yeah, but you have a brain. Use it. Adapt the recipe to what you do you have.

@Jaren Browne If they werent necessary, he should provide options, especially for the pizza steel and cast iron pan.

Cast Iron Skillets aren’t that expensive.

The real problem is the oven...that costs the money

I got tomorrow's three meals lined up, lmao.

All Ethan gave us was some beans

@@baljeezy I'll make a Taco or some shit, it's the ideas and inspiration that I take from these vids, not always full recipes.

Scandinavia calling..

As a French that leaves near the Swiss border I can relate so much. Big up to Switzerland btw

@@vivienpandart non pas big up ils nous méprisent frère sois digne

@@dask7428 je méprise l'état de la France actuelle au moins autant que les suisses. Et j'ai plein d'amis suisse qui aiment les français. C'est notre gouvernement qu'ils n'aiment pas

@@vivienpandart to be fair, the French people are awesome, we're just cautious of outsiders and other governments in general...

For this, honestly there doesn't need to be. That's the great thing about bread making. Yes you can use a stand mixer with a hook, but you don't need to. Really all you need is a container for the dough starter, plastic wrap and 2 hands. Cooking should never "require" gear in my opinion. Keep it simple. Good quality ingredients, attention to detail, patience, and time. That's all that's needed.

Aussie here, I lived in the US for several years and you're kidding yourself if you think that the produce is better there. Food is cheaper, but much lower quality. You can get really good food, but it's a lot more expensive than here. Eating out in the US is cheaper (even with a 20% tip) than here because their wages are far lower than Australia.

The produce here in Aus is a pretty high standard. I don't think I've ever seen anything on this channel or say, Babish etc. where I've thought that food in the US is better. Except Kosher salt :)

Americans get better produce? Are you sure. maybe in California.

Thank you for sharing.

Ah, yes, my daily pre-breakfast Netflix binge 😂

thank you like a but cheaper that we as normal people could actually fucking do

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You spend at most 10 minutes actively making the bread. The rest of the time is for proofing / cooking, which is hands-off.

@@matt475 for some breads, true, not ciabatta though. I'm not against making breads at home of course, I make my own too.

@@andrewdatcu870 It sits, you fold it every once in a while, while proofing. Not hard to do. And takes only a couple minutes per fold session. If you have the right tools, you don't even have to get your hands dirty. It's no more than 10 minutes hands-on for the entire process. Edit: I don't follow Weissman's recipe for making Ciabatta, but it's pretty close, somethin I learned a few years ago.

@@matt475 Unless you work from home with really flexible hours, you're probably not getting much done during the 1 hour intervals between folds lol. It might be doable for some people I guess. Mixing the ingredients and tossing them in a breadmaker is way more reasonable for most people's scedules, its entirely hands-off. I don't think you can make ciabatta that way though.

Per serving. Yea.

Yeah thats how math works

Word like where the hell you gon find 220g of bread flour for $0.25??? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 this is insane

@@amogus1415 how do you not get what he’s trying to say? Y’all read like some 1st graders

@@MrCole-cp2yp i can buy whole kg for under 1 usd, and i use flour often, because it's great and usefull

But not per Sandwich

Not true. The price is based on the cost of the item and amount it can make Hence the amount used can be calculated in the full product costs.

When you don’t have a stand mixer; “$200 breakfast sandwich”

@@reecegeorgens1755 or just use your hands like 90% of the world does idk

@@johnree6106 can you buy 1000 grams of flour? No. You can only buy 5 lb bags of flour for 4-5 dollars. If you bake a lot, this isn't an issue. But let's say you don't, like most people living in the developed US. You have bought a whole bag of flour and now have most of it left, taking up space in your cabinet. You can't buy very specific quantities like this. I'm sure the sandwich is great, but is it cheaper? No.

Just commented something similar! Cooking at home is still way cheaper than going out, because *wow* have restaurant prices skyrocketed in the last year. But it gets tiring seeing all these "cheap" recipes and meal plans knowing if I make it it'll cost 2-3 times as much. As a former Chef I've considered starting a "good food on a budget" channel for Canadians but my kitchen is crap and I don't think anyone wants to watch me struggle in my galley kitchen at weird video angles when there's all these aesthetically appealing channels already on youtube :P

@@findingfrugal2093 I'm a retired cook, I've never liked the term chef, as the only difference between being a cook or a chef is recognition of educational institutions. But the actual work remains the same. As for creating a Canadian budget meal series on your channel, I would do it. There are so many people who could benefit from it. Practical cooking is quickly becoming a lost art. I live in Alberta, it's 9:50 am my time, and about 3 hours ago, I started cooking paprika coconut chicken drum sticks. It's a wonderful meal coupled with either mashed potato's or rice with a food cost of around $10.00 cad and makes enough to feed 4. If you're wondering why I would cook something like that so far away from dinner time, the answer is my nephew (who I helped raise from the age of 8) is currently building a house nearby, and I thought if he has the time to swing by, he can have a hearty home cooked lunch.

@@0donny Fair play about the term "chef", for some reason non-professionals get confused when a pro-cook doesn't refer to themselves as a chef so I just got into the habit online lol I might see about doing some videos, I have most of the stuff necessary to film on my phone and I cook constantly. Wouldn't be the video quality of channels like this one but some people might still find value in it. That sounds absolutely delicious and I hope your nephew appreciates you thinking about him! I'm in BC so if I get in the car now I can be there in time for dinner ;) Have a great day!

@@findingfrugal2093 I think it'd be a good idea, something you should seriously consider!. And yes it's a really good dish very easy to make, just a little time consuming and I know he'll enjoy it, since his GF is a vegan and he doesn't get to eat meat very often. You have a great day too!

id love to make my own bread but im a broke college student that doesnt own an oven

okay but i'll complain about the bread making because stand mixers are unreasonably expensive and a loaf of white bread is like 2 bucks

@@talullah1065 Bread was made a long before stand mixers were invented. And the white bread that you get in the bread aisle is nasty compared to homemade.

@@deniseh107 he uses a stand mixer so if i wanna use HIS recipe i'd have to use one. I'm not watching his channel to make a completely different recipe?? also i don't care that bread from the isle tastes bad i'm fucking poor and it's what i can afford.

That’s so true. Like for example, I was gonna make some lo mein, and found I had to buy sesame oil. The only oil Walmart carried was a 15 ounce container of sesame oil…. 15…ounces… I brought it home and to my utter disgust I found I only needed like 3 drops of the shit. It’s been sitting in my pantry for 9 months now and I haven’t touched it since.

@@ehh2681 lol that's funny, honestly though the fact that you made lo mein makes me think you'd be willing to cook other things. I'm just saying that there are so many uses for sesame oil.

To be fair, I'm using his own math, and I hit $1.99 for one sandwich for just the eggs, cheese, meat, and basil...so not even including the bread, tomato, butter, salt, pepper, oil.

Mortadella isn’t expensive?

​@@daves1412 youre not taking into account the massive cost of living in western europe... and the massive wages. everything is very expensive there for people from countries where beer costs less than five euro.

@@icedcat4021 no it isn’t. It’s frequently cheaper than many places in the US. I live in London and feed even here isn’t that expensive. Unless you go out to eat (and then it can be, but isn’t always *very* expensive). Brexshit has obviously put up the cost of living massively but even so it’s still not too bad regarding food prices.

That’s so sweet of you, I hope your family are grateful for what you to for them - you’re doing great!

@@maisj26 Yea I get my younger siblings to help me and we all have a great time :)

To be fair you learn a lot about a person when you share a kitchen. The quality time and comfort ability ( that’s not a word 😯) gives more memories than an underpaid waiter and slightly cold surroundings

@@chloehaynes3718 as a retired chef and family man, I totally get your point, but the amount of time to make these, means getting up at 3am to make breakfast, and that's where I find most CopyCat vids to be hilarious, they are great info but generally impractical this serving little use.

@@2AChef-n-BBQ you can make the bread ahead of time...

@@raviatm of course you can but that's not the implication of the vid.

@@2AChef-n-BBQ watch until the end... are you sure youre a chef? do you make bread to order?

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Restaraunt workers make way mote than minimum wage once you factor in tips. And restaraunt owners have rent to pay so that you can sit in the restaraunt and eat the food. Stop being a bitch.

If it was such an easy business, we wouldn't have over half of new restaurants failing within the first year and 80% of new ones closing within the first five years. There is A LOT of costs associated with running a restaurant, it's not just the worker wages... Plus, american restaurants are honestly a good bit cheaper than most western european ones, especially if you compare to somewhere like the UK.

@@natehiggers42069 Uh, that's not for every American resturaunt. In fact, employers only have to pay workers $2.13 (federal minimum wage)as long as their tips equal up to minimum wage. So they get away with paying their employees barely anything while customers make up the difference. Not only that but there's a significant amount of illegal underpaying with minimum wage/tipped jobs and these issues go largely unreported because people have been so desperate for work they're willing to be mistreated. This also affects minority communities disproportionately to others in America. So not only do smaller resturaunt owners not pay as much in wages as other small businesses, customers make up the difference and pay people for merely doing their job. You should also note that the tipping industry in America literally came from people not wanting to pay black people a real wage. Not only that but even 13 years ago research showed that customers give larger tips to white workers than black workers regardless of service. Lmao customers pay to sit and eat food. It's stupid to try and use that as an argument as if it's a privilege to be able to sit in a restaurant we pay for as consumers to eat the food we pay for. Also, you complain about rent which some would also argue should be cheaper and is currently overinflated. I think you need to educate yourself about the things you try to talk about before being rude and calling people a bitch, ironic for the one actually bitching.

@@marcup1584 American restaurants could he cheaper because we use significantly more preservatives and fillers which would lower the cost of food. Not only that but there's more agriculture because it's more fertile land which means more access to food. Also, you can not put all the blame on costs. A lot of the blame can placed on inexperienced and uneducated business who don't do their research. You can also put a lot of blame on a government that doesn't do enough to financially support and cultivate small business or the high costs for renting and buying a building or even just land. Honestly, if anything is going to affect the rate of businesses closing, especially smaller resturaunts, it's not going to be the $2.13 an hour (depends on your state but this is the federal minimum wage) they pay their workers when most of what those minimum wage workers make are literally tips.

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