- Today's episode is just icing on the cake.
Or is it?
- Let's talk about that.
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- We're about to find out if anything is better on cake
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- Now, I believe it was Renee DeCart who once said,
I'm getting emotional about it.
- It brings a tear to your eye.
- He said, what the H-E double hockey sticks would I do
if I had cake,
but didn't have any dagum icing?
- Ah, yes, I remember that well.
It's a very good question,
one that we should answer today.
It's time for, "Next Best Thing: Cake and Icing Edition."
Before we taste the alternatives,
let's taste the original thing.
- Of course, 'cause we gotta know.
- I like cake.
I love icing.
- You were talking about on a not too unrecent episode,
I don't know how much more do you want,
about how much you loved icing.
But if the cake's not good.
People are taking issue with if the cake's not good.
- Well, they're right,
but they're also a little bit wrong,
because icing can make bad cake good.
I'd rather just eat icing out of a tub.
- Well then, you've come to the right place, friend.
- Without a cake.
But if I'm gonna eat cake,
I could do without the icing.
And I'm very interested in having something.
That is some good icing though.
- That's some good cake too.
Mythical Kitchen, they do it right.
Let's have a little bit more just to remember it.
- Yeah.
Need to double remember.
Hey but, if you going through the trouble of making a cake,
and you don't have icing,
you don't want to have to get up and go to the store,
you wanna just reach for something else in your pantry,
so let's start reaching.
Sometimes you want to eat your cake
and have your dinner too,
but you want your cake to be your dinner,
and this may be the perfect solution.
- Okay.
- Mac and cheese,
just the sauce.
- Just the sauce, don't get any ideas.
- Which apparently we are just making.
- Yeah, well because we can make just the sauce.
- We have it right here.
- Cut it and squirt it.
- You know what, I'm gonna cut it,
but I'm gonna let you do the icing this time,
'cause I did it last time.
Thank you for letting me use this.
- Ooh hoo hoo.
- Go even more.
- Go even more?
- Do a little bit more.
- But I don't want to do it,
I want to do it in a way that you would actually do it.
- An icing level?
- More icing than that.
- It's kinda stingy.
- You think that's stingy?
I'm the icing guy and I don't think that's stingy.
- Let me put a little bit more.
- It's different.
I taste a lot of cheese..
I'm glad I didn't do more.
- It's not bad.
It's actually good.
I mean, when you're eating icing on cake,
you forget the cake's sweet too.
But when you put cheese sauce,
then your really leaning on the sweetness of the cake.
- It's not horrible.
You know there's two types of cornbread?
There's cornbread that's very cakey,
and there's cornbread
that's like from a skillet and very savory.
- Yeah.
- I prefer the savory one,
in a skillet with some jalapenos, some cheese put in there.
Actual pieces of corn.
But if you move to the cornbread
that is sweeter and more cake-like.
- I like when you said cornbread,
it was bread.
- Yeah, I can't do that again.
- Cornbread. - Cornbread.
- Cornbread.
- You could imagine cheese being on cornbread at that point.
- Yes.
- And that's kinda where we're at right now.
- Mm-hmm, we're here.
We're living in this moment.
This is me right now.
- If I told you that this was cornbread
and I had put cheese on it,
you'd be like.
- Good for us.
It's not as good as icing,
but that's not what we're determining,
we're determining the next best thing.
So, this one's the best we've had so far.
Just the cheese.
Just the sauce.
- Clearly, we're not head over heels for it,
but maybe it'll grow on it.
- We'll see.
- Ranch has been expanding its boarders
since it was introduced,
just buying more and more land,
getting into more and more foods.
Everybody thinks you gotta put ranch on everything.
Can you put ranch on cake?
- I hope we can.
- Can I cut, you squirt?
- Yeah.
This time.
- Don't squirt before I cut.
- You knew that was gonna happen?
I was already squeezing?
I'm not gonna squeeze.
- But, how about you squeeze at the same time I cut?
So it's perfectly in sync.
So, it's a three, two, cut.
Three, two, one, cut.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Three, two, one, cut.
You're actually, your hand's shaking,
you're squeezing so hard.
Three, two, one, cut.
Oh.
- You gotta go deeper.
Oh no, Rhett.
- These scissors.
- Oh, whoa.
Whoa.
Oh, oh, oh.
Oh, looky.
- Why did we do that?
Now I got ranch, I can smell it, stop.
- I was just filling in the hole.
- Scoop.
That right there.
- I wore my ranch shirt.
- I saw that.
- You wouldn't be able to tell I got anything on it.
Plus, I'm beginning my mission after this.
- Your two year mission to eat ranch on everything possible.
Share the good news of ranch.
- I'm feeling the same as the last round.
- It's very similar to cheese.
- It's not.
- But it's stronger than cheese.
- I need you to say something
like you said last time about the cornbread.
- I don't know if I can do it.
- That's gonna help me.
- I don't know if I can do it.
It's weird.
- Isn't there like a ranch cake that exists?
- Sure.
- Etsy? Something?
- This cheese is still winning.
- Yeah.
We didn't have any icing,
so I just put the spam in the blender.
- Yeah, you did.
- Why are we?
- Can I squirt?
I'd like to squirt a spam.
- Your turn.
Then I'm gonna touch your hand.
- Oh, you wanna do a double squirt?
- Actually, not for spam, no.
- Oh, wow.
If you're wondering how they did this,
we were told they put spam in a blender.
- That's what I said.
Put spam in a blender.
(background laughter)
- Oh, I was just thinking about
whether or not I would get to squeeze it.
- Really
ugh.
I mean, can you come up with an explanation?
Ooh, Rhett.
- It's just spam.
- I know but.
- It's actually kinda good by itself.
I just wanted to remember that
before I did this unholy thing that I'm about to do.
- When the icing is more cakey than the cake.
If it's a meat cake.
- You mean from a consistency standpoint?
- Yeah, it's disturbing.
(yells)
- It's like they're crawling.
- I tap.
I'm tapping out.
- This is not good.
- And it comes out like a worm.
- I'm sorry,
I don't have any stories to make it better, Link.
- Once upon a time,
forget this happened.
- Moving on.
How about vodka sauce?
- How about it, man?
- Now, the reason we're not doing
a raspberry jam or something like that
is because, well,
because it wouldn't pour out like that.
Okay.
But also, you know that that's gonna work on cake.
We're doing things that are more interesting.
We want to discover something.
- Pass that glass.
- Discover something that you already know.
I don't want to rule this one out.
You know?
- I don't want to either.
I want to taste it, analyze it,
say something a little quippy, and then roll it out.
- If you told me any of this before we did it.
The temperature is not easy to deal with.
And the fact that it's room.
- Yeah, you think we should've made it hotter?
We should've hottenated it.
See, I'm trying to get a--
- [Stevie] Wait, what is hot,
and what is cold,
and what is warm?
- Everything's cold.
- The sauce is room.
- [Stevie] Everything is corn, everything's cold, okay.
- The sauce is room.
- [Stevie] Okay.
- And usually, when usually something is room temperature,
first of all, it depends on the room you're in,
but secondly, it's never,
it's not a great way to describe food.
- I love room temperature watermelon.
All fruits, I enjoy best at room temperature.
- Okay.
I guess you don't want hot fruit and cold fruit.
- I enjoy rooms.
- Prepared foods, not natural foods.
- This is not bad.
It's not cheese.
- It's not as good as cheese.
- We're starting to appreciate the cheese more.
I thought it would grow on me.
- Now, from a vision standpoint.
- It's pretty.
- It's doing some things for me.
- Mm-hmm, it's Italian.
- I just like the contrast between the two colors.
- Who needs tiramisu when you can vodka cake?
- I would want tiramisu instead of this.
So, I would be the who.
This is not doing it for us.
- Nope.
- Cheese remains on the stand.
- Rhett, this one's for you.
- Woo.
- Refried beans.
- Oh, I wanna make this one pretty,
'cause I feel like this one's gonna be on the internet.
No, I've screwed up already.
- You need some help?
- Oh, oh, oh,
there was a solitary band, I don't need help.
I'm the bean guy, you're the milk guy,
stay on your side.
Can we put up a barrier?
- It looks like you need help.
- There was a solitary bean.
- Oh, dude, do like.
Do flowers.
There you go.
- Turn it around, dad.
- It looks so beautiful.
It actually looks like unrefried beans now.
- All right, I feel like I need to.
- It's pretty cool, man.
- There's an occasional whole bean,
which I'm not complaining about.
This is by far the most nutritious option we've had.
- This is some tasty room temp beans.
I ain't mad at it.
- This is gonna require a commitment on your part,
if you're gonna try this,
you have to be willing to step outside of your comfort zone.
- I like the help from the fiber of it.
And there's some sweetness in refried beans, isn't there?
- Can I take this home?
- Yeah, you can have that, brother.
- Can y'all put that in my backpack?
- Now you need to pinch it off.
You need to put a little.
There you go, roll it down.
- Tie it into a knot.
- You're loving this?
Or you just saying that because?
- Right now,
I'm just thinking about getting these beans home.
You got a lighter I can seal it with the fire?
- No.
- I'll figure that out on my own time.
- I'm gonna let you argue if this better than cheese.
- Okay, this is the thing.
We live in the year 2023, right?
And what that means--
- Make no mistake.
- Is that if you're gonna do something,
you're not doing it for yourself,
you're doing it for the clicks.
You know what I'm saying?
You're doing things,
you're making decisions
so that people will think things about your life,
which will then make you think,
well is that true about my life?
I did that thing on Instagram
and now that person said this thing about my life,
and maybe that's true,
maybe I am who the person on the internet thinks that I am.
- Definitely healthy.
- That's what happens today.
And I think that if you're living that life,
living life for others,
living a selfless life
for the sake of people on the internet.
- So selfless.
- You want to do things that are more interesting
and I think that beans are by default more interesting
than just putting some cheese sauce on cake.
- Be the most interesting man behind the cake.
- And it actually taste pretty dang good.
- It does taste good.
- And it's nutritious.
- That's what's gonna put me over the edge.
The nutrition.
- We did it.
We succeeded.
Refried beans are currently
the best thing you can put on cake.
- But let's move on.
- Yeah.
What if you want your cake to have a little kick?
A little kick on your cake.
- Well then, what about some sambal-olic?
- Some Sambalolic?
- Yeah, what about it?
A little bit of chili paste.
In my life.
(yells)
It's beautiful.
- Okay.
- It kinda looks like a strawberry shortcake.
- It does.
You might think that you are having strawberry shortcake
but you're not.
- How'd that happen?
- Success.
All right.
- I mean, this would really fool somebody.
Gather around for the strawberry cheesecake.
- Other than the fact
that it's giving off a very strong chili paste smell.
I don't know, I like mixing some spicy
with some sweet,
but one of my favorite things in the world
is a red pepper jelly.
- Dink it.
- Yeah, air dink.
It's doing a similar thing.
You know what I really want though at the same time?
- Strong and weird.
- Original icing and this.
- Why'd you take that deep breath?
- Because I got so excited.
Can you give me a little of the original icing?
- I don't like you sniffing at me like that.
- I'm not sniffing at, I'm sniffing at the air around you.
Yeah, just a little bit.
- I mean, that's beautiful.
- You don't have to go across the whole thing,
'cause then you ruin the whole experiment.
- I'll ruin the whole experiment?
- Yep.
This right here.
- So now you got icing,
but you've already done this.
Dang it, I can't get the right amount that I want.
- That didn't quite mix the way I wanted it to.
- No.
- 'Cause I was thinking,
like cream cheese and red pepper jelly, on a Ritz,
leave me alone with that for awhile.
(background laughter)
You'll come back, I'll be unclothed with crumbs all over me.
- Okay, I'm closing the door now.
So we just discovered.
- Sometimes you just gotta get naked to eat things.
- Really?
- Yeah.
Nobody else relates to that?
- [Stevie] I just like that you're on your show right now,
you're eating something,
and you're thinking about eating something else
that you're not currently eating.
- Right.
I'm always thinking about eating something.
- Naked, naked, don't forget that part.
- Okay, man I wanted to like this.
It's so pretty.
- It's interesting that we found
that it was better without the icing.
- Yeah, we did find that.
- So, that was valuable.
But yeah, it ain't beans.
(laughing)
- It ain't beans.
Last.
- Well, we could just put gravy on cake,
but why not put the mashed potatoes and the gravy.
- Starch, right.
- Because I don't know, I don't know why.
Why did we do it that way?
- Oh, oh, oh, whoa.
- 'Cause it's more beautiful and viscus.
- Oh, look at that.
- That's why.
- Boom, looks like a brain.
- Look at that.
- Oh, whoa.
- I did a little snip,
that's why it's so earth wormy.
- It's uneven.
Oh okay, yeah.
- How about that?
- That was too much.
It was cool for awhile.
- You know me.
- This is like space food though.
That's why I wanted to be an astronaut.
- See, so he could eat.
- Stevie, you're right.
- So I could come in and,
I come into the air lot with one of these and be like.
- He might.
He chose his profession based on what he could eat.
He didn't even know it.
He was like, I wanna be an astronaut, so I can eat.
- You had space ice cream lately?
- Not lately.
- Yeah, I don't have it enough.
- Okay.
Whoa.
It's kinda like a Thanksgiving dinner.
- All right, help me out later.
- Huh, what's upon a time.
- You got cranberry sauce.
- Cranberry sauce would just send this
completely over the top.
- Oh man, so like a Thanksgiving dinner on a cake.
Hmm.
Then it wouldn't be sweet enough.
This is giving us,
the sweet comes from the cake.
- I'm bringing the beans back in
because that's what we're really trying to decide here.
- The salty savory starchiness of this is comforting.
- This is a different experience over here.
Get back on that.
Back on the bean train.
- Is the bean train kinda,
it's kinda like an English breakfast but.
- Beans on toast?
- Yeah.
But instead of toast, it's cake,
'cause it's your birthday.
- Right, right, right, yeah.
It don't have to be your birthday.
You can have cake by yourself.
- This is a bonus if you're British.
But I think I'm sticking with it.
- Hold on, you haven't given any,
you haven't given any reasons.
- [Stevie] They're also refried beans,
let's contemplate that one.
- I keep forgetting they're refried
because they made 'em look just like beans.
- Yeah, I have a way with that.
- Look at that, that's not a bean, that's a refried bean.
- I'm the only people that can make a refried bean
look like a regualr bean.
- So now that we remembered that, Stevie,
what else do you want from us?
(background laughter)
You want it to win?
- That's not bad.
- It's not bad at all.
But this is the thing you can do at a party
and people will,
people will put it on Instagram,
and that's what matters.
- So you're going back to this?
- Mm-hmm.
- You seemed like you were going towards this for a second.
- Oh, I did?
- Yeah, we're all confused.
- I'm sticking with this.
- Okay, got it.
Now I understand.
- Mythical Refried Beans Traditional
is the next best thing on cake besides icing.
- I mean, when you showed up today,
and when we showed up today,
we didn't know this was gonna happen,
but we didn't know we were gonna have beans.
- I question whether it did happen.
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