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We are doing another pitting
three different YouTubers against each other.
Well, not them, but their recipes.
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On today's YouTuber face-off,
I am testing waffle recipes.
A lot of you guys requested breakfast foods
and some of you requested waffles and I love waffles.
So I thought, why not?
This could be so much fun.
I love breakfast food.
So I have three different people that we are,
well, technically four,
because one of them is two people.
The youtuber's whose recipes we're testing today
are "Rachel Ama", "BOSH TV",
and "The Chic Natural", AKA Kim.
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All of these waffle recipes are a little bit different.
Rachel's is gluten free,
"BOSH TV" is like a very decadent version,
they call them bannofles,
so it's kind of like a banoffee pie,
but inspired into a waffle situation.
Kim's is like the easiest waffle recipe ever,
honestly, I feel like I would take that route
on a weekend and she is serving up chicken and waffles.
Alright, so let's get started with the first recipe.
Alright, so this first recipe from "BOSH TV"
is the banafie, bonoffles, bannofles.
So it is, we have some chocolate,
banana, and some caramel, pretty simple recipe,
everything's kind of done in a blender,
and then they give you a great recipe,
super easy recipe to make beaten caramel
while you are doing the rest of this.
I mean, it seems pretty standard to me,
we've got our flour, water, sugar, let's do it.
So we've got some almond milk,
we have our flour.
What's really fun is that in their recipe,
they call it a liquefier.
We had to watch the video to figure out what that was,
I'd never heard a blender called liquefier before,
so that was a fun one for me today.
Is that common?
Let me know in the comment section down below
if that's like just a common UK way to say blender?
Baking powder, vanilla,
caster sugar, orange juice, and some salt.
Alright, and then just blend that.
Alright, so it's a nice and creamy,
like the recipe says,
and then it says pour into a jug,
already have it in a jug because I use my Vitamix,
and then pour mixture onto a hot,
lightly oiled waffle iron and cook for four to six minutes.
My waffle iron is non-stick,
so I'm not going to oil it, I mean,
we could do maybe one oiled and one not oiled.
It doesn't exactly say how much,
so I'm just going to eyeball it.
One more, there we go.
Alright, so this recipe is topped
with banana slices and dark chocolate.
I have chocolate chips here, so I'm just going
to chop them up and slice the bananas
while I'm waiting for that to cook.
Alright, so it's been about five minutes
and it looks like this, which I think is pretty much done.
Alright, so we've got one.
Alright, so let's decorate our bannofles,
and then I'm going to go caramel and then chocolate,
but I think you can do that in whatever order you want.
Oh yeah, there we go,
breakfast of champions.
I'd say that's a well-balanced breakfast.
There you go, you got it your carb,
your super food, which is the chocolate,
sugar's important.
Oh, well, this caramel is made
with maple and maple has minerals.
So there we go, it's well-balanced okay,
don't come for me.
Alright, these second waffles that we are going
to make are from "Rachel Ama".
They are gluten-free waffles,
she says gluten-free waffles for all the waffle lovers.
Well, I am a waffle lover,
so this one is made with oat flour, plant-based milk,
and then we have salt, a banana,
apple cider vinegar, and flax seeds.
The banana I assume is for flavoring.
So again, we're going to have like a banana flavored waffle,
flax seed to bind it together.
I mean, this recipe,
everything in here makes sense to me.
So let's go ahead.
Oh, they're buttermilk waffles, I just read ahead.
So we are going to turn the milk into buttermilk.
So they're like a gluten-free banana buttermilk waffle.
Alright, so we're making our flax egg,
mix that together, let it sit for like 5-10.
I have the vinegar here to make the buttermilk,
mix that around, that should curdle up a little bit.
While those are sitting,
I'm just going to mash up this banana,
it's a whole banana.
I would have liked this banana to be a little bit riper,
but all the bananas in the house were exactly the same.
I'm trying to get it really nice and smooth.
It doesn't say whether it's banana waffle specifically,
so I don't know if there's supposed to be chunks of banana,
but it just says mash,
so I assume like a really consistent mash
is what Rachel's going for here.
Alright, so it's been a few minutes,
I've let both the buttermilk and the flax egg sit,
so now I'm just going to have all of the ingredients
in one bowl and then we'll make waffles.
Alright, we've got our flax egg,
baking soda, our oat flour, and the buttermilk.
Alright, so she says mix them together,
but don't over mix them.
So I'm just going to mix them until they're smooth.
To be honest, I don't really use a lot of oat flour,
it's not really my go-to flour.
I mean, I'm not gluten free or anything,
so I don't really have to worry about it.
But if I do choose to use
like a gluten-free flour, it's usually a one-to-one.
Alright, so that's mixed together without being over mixed,
and then she says, add it to the waffle iron,
if the mixture's too thick,
add a bit more plant-based milk,
if it's too runny add more oat flour,
but I think is kind of perfect.
I think that's about the consistency that we would want.
It doesn't say whether
or not to grease the waffle maker or anything,
but I feel like her food is a bit on the healthier side.
So I assume that she's not greasing it.
It also doesn't say how much to add to the waffle maker.
I've noticed that with both of them now,
they don't give them amounts of how many.
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So she doesn't mention how long these have to cook for.
It does say at the beginning of the recipe,
prep time five minutes, cook time five minutes.
If you are making two big waffles,
then that would be two and a half minutes per waffle,
if you're making three then,
so I'm thinking maybe the five minutes cook time here,
there was a lot of condensation coming off of it.
So I'm a little concerned that it's going,
like when I lift up the lid, it's going to get stuck,
'cause I didn't grease it, but.
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Still very soft on the inside.
So it's been cooking for five minutes
and maybe it's just, it looks soft on the inside,
but maybe that's just, it's like dense,
which is fine, because she said
it makes two large waffles or three small.
So I'm going to go for the two large.
I mean, when I first saw the photo on her website
I thought they were chocolate waffles
because they were quite dark.
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It's been about,
it was a little bit thicker than the other ones,
so it's been about six minutes, almost seven,
and it still looks a little bit raw, but again,
I don't know if it's just supposed
to be really soft on the inside,
but the outside is nice and crispy.
So we're going to go ahead and take that off.
I am worried that I'm going to burn it
if I leave it on here any longer.
I'm just going to put this one on the bottom,
'cause it's bigger.
There we go,
so those are the waffles and she says
that she likes to top it with chocolate and hazelnut,
and I have a chocolate hazelnut spread,
so that's perfect.
And I got some berries
because I think this one would taste really good
with chocolate and some berries.
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Alright, the third recipe
is from "The Chic Natural", Kimberley,
and I found this recipe in one of her what I eat in a days,
and I love how basic and simple this is.
It is made with Bisquick,
I always have this on hand just
because it's nice and simple,
and easy to use on the weekend when
you don't want to make everything from scratch.
So she pretty much just follows the instructions
that are on the box and just leaves out the eggs
and that's it.
And she likes to do it with like chicken and waffles.
Now in her video, she uses mushrooms to make the chicken.
I just happened to have some fried chicken
on hand from another video we did a couple of days ago.
So I'm going to use that instead of the mushrooms
like she did, but we're going to do everything else the same
and we're going to get the same outcome.
Alright, first thing I'm going to do
is add some plant based milk.
The video is actually called Lit Brunch Ideas,
its not what I eat in a day, I misspoke there,
but I've seen her recipe
for waffles a couple times on her channel.
Adding the Bisquick and then adding the oil,
and that's it, it's pretty much like using
any other kind of pancake waffle batter.
But it's so nice and simple,
especially for going to go out of your way to
make a vegan chicken from scratch.
Throw them on the waffle iron.
Although for waffles, the box says,
cook it for five minutes.
So again, I'm going to do like about a cups worth.
We'll come back in five.
Alright, so this one's done.
I think they all have two, except for the first one,
which made enough for three waffles.
Alright, so this, it's me,
so I halved the Bisquick recipe,
so this one made two waffles, which is the perfect size,
and then I just heated up my fried chicken.
This is my seitan recipe, so it's just breaded,
and you can find the recipe for that on my website,
but the way that she does this
in the video is she puts the chicken on top
then she adds the powdered sugar over everything.
And the maple syrup over that.
Alright, and then she says that she likes to eat
the chicken with the side of hot sauce.
So I have some Valentina here and voila,
that is the third one.
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Alright, so have a little bit of each one on our plate here.
I'm going to start with Rachel Ama's.
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All I taste is berry, hold on.
- It's a little bit dry?
- Yeah, I'm feeling the same thing,
it's a little bit dry.
- Because there's no butter or oil or anything, right?
- The flavor's not bad,
I'm thinking it could be a little bit sweeter.
'Cause I don't think she's going for a savory waffle
if it's banana, the texture is a lot better
than I thought it was going to be based on like
not knowing how to cook it.
I think could be a little bit sweeter,
and then yeah, it's a good gluten.
- Yeah, for sure. - Yeah.
- And it looks nice too. - It's definitely
not the worst gluten-free waffle I've had by far,
I would just make it a little bit sweeter.
- [Female Guest] I'm really happy with that,
I think it's like an easy way to make a vegan,
like brunch alternative. - Yeah, absolutely.
I haven't tried it with the hot sauce
and then them together yet either.
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I mean I love sweet and savory together.
Yeah, so good,
I probably should have done the hot sauce last 'cause
now my mouth tastes like that.
Bannofles. - Oh, these are hard to cut.
- The waffles are quite good.
They are hard to cut though,
so if you're not serving them right away
they can get a little, stale is the wrong word
that I'm looking for,
but you know what I mean? - Stiff.
- Stiff, yeah.
But they're good.
And yeah, I would,
next time, I would listen to what they said
and I think I would grease the pan
because I think this with a little bit of that
like oil to fry it a little bit would be really good.
- I definitely love the combination
of bananas and caramel sauce though.
Alright, how do we pick our favorite?
They're also different, but we did that
on purpose because we wanted the personality
of the person that we're testing to come
through on each waffle.
I don't know,
I mean chicken and waffles is a go-to for me,
I definitely like savory breakfast
more than sweet breakfast, and that has both.
- I think the banoffee, bannofles,
is that what they're calling it?
- Bannofles. - I think it gives me like,
like brunch, like restaurant vibe,
- Yeah. - more than the other two.
The other two are like super like good for homemade.
- I think I would have this,
like, this is a great healthy alternative
that is still tasty.
I would just make it a little bit sweeter.
If you are adverse to sugar, you can easily do that
with like maple syrup,
or agave, or something.
- Yeah, and it would be good to have like
as a weekday breakfast instead
of something more weekend. - Right.
Alright, so who's the winner for you?
- I think think "BOSH TV" is the winner.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
- I think Kim's the winner for me just
'cause chicken and waffles has a place in my heart.
- This is a fun episode. - This was so much fun.