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He’s got a lot of short videos where he makes something for $10 or less (his lowest was $2 if I remember right).
This sounds like most daytime television anytime I catch it tbh
In my family of five well four now we cook a big meal every sunday and it always lasts till at least wed or thur
Oh no, what happened? Did you have to eat the fifth?
Every match ends with an 8 way tie of
Welp, it’s edible! You Win
There’s surely got to be something like this on YouTube
I did a bid upstate…well here downstate. And one of the best meals I had was top ramen and crunched up flamin cheetos. But doesn’t feel the same when making it now.
Huh, despite eating both extremely rarely, I’d try that! Don’t laugh, but do you have any tips? Just cook Top Ramen and add Flaming Hot Cheetos to it, or are there measurements or techniques I should aim for?
The jail technique is to crush both, throw them in a bag with optional pickles, sausage, whatever the vending machine has. Dump in just enough very hot water to soak everything, then knead it a bit until it forms kind of a loaf.
Not the same, but Restaurant Impossible would show making restaurant quality meals and the actual costs associated. Puts into perspective how much you can do if you budget ingredients
There are like nine seasons of a show called Struggle Meals.
Cool will check it out
Emmymade on YouTube has a series on depression era and similar recipes. Not all winners, but its a decent sized series on that theme
I watch that lady, and she makes entertaining videos, but she makes Martha Stewart seem chill.
Martha before or after a J?
Omg, thank you! TIL. Wonderful videos!
Dollar Tree Dinners on FB
Mythical Kitchen is that, a lot of the time. When they actually fucking cook anymore, anyway. I am not a fan of the talk show type shit they started doing; I want 7/11 junk food turned into gourmet dining, damn it!
But a lot of home chefs on YouTube are exactly what you’re looking for.
Cooking shows are funded by product placement and advertising deals. You can probably figure out the rest.
Because cooking Rice & Beans is just a 5 minute YouTube video, not a culinary series.
BUT exploring how the addition of stuff like rice to regional dishes in order to increase yield… how techniques of necessity like that helped evolve traditional cuisine in the south, Cajun and Creole cooking… also how ingredients of necessity like potatoes are not just a random starch but a life blood and the source of a thousand dishes… stuff like that is worth a series.
I think there really could be a great cooking show that highlights stuff like that; especially as a vehicle to show how to turn traditional wisdom into practice.
A lot of shows start with this idea. The chef goes in to it with the idea that they’re going to show people how to make good food with what they have that they can afford.
Then when they’ve kinda done all they can with that in a season or two it starts to go off the rails.
Then eventually you have Alton Brown lowering an entire turkey in to a boiling 25 gallon pot with a ladder and a pully system in the back yard of his studio house.
Because these shows are entertainment first, cooking second.
Struggle Meals was exactly this.
Look up Jack Monroe.
Atomic Shrimp does this all the time - I sorta believe that his £1 / 2 days challenge might have been the basis of some MP misunderstanding it and claiming that people can live on 50p/day
I’ve wanted to do this in conjunction with Aldi using only aldi ingredients for a long time now. I’ve always wanted to make a rehearsal video and send it to them. Think they’d go for it?
In Germany, there’s a cookbook written by someone who only used Aldi ingredients. It’s called “Aldi dente” and focuses on cheap and delicious meals. It’s a couple of years old by now so Idk if it’d still works but might be worth looking at.
Edit: it’s from 1996, I’m getting old
