Today I'm doing the unthinkable, I'm going to be making a chicken breast taste like a steak.
I'm talking about the juicy and delicious steak. Don't believe me?
Just listen to this. -Try some chicken bro Guga just made these. -Alright cool.
This one tastes like steak!
-Chicken breast whether you love it or hate it let's be honest it's not one of the best
things in the world. You can ask anyone in the world and I can guarantee you no one will say
their favorite thing to eat is chicken breast. So that got me thinking, how can I make a chicken
breast taste like a steak? Well, it was not easy but let me show you how it was done. As you can
see I have six regular chicken breasts. There's nothing fancy about them they are just plain old
good chicken breast. Now the first thing I need to do is to remove all of the moisture, and in order
to do that I'm going to be using something that is called a freeze dryer. The science behind it
is fascinating and if you want to learn more how it works check it out in the description
down below later on, because I have done a video explaining exactly how it works. And if you didn't
know this is what astronauts do whenever they're taking food to space. So all I really have to do
is throw it in my freeze dryer set the settings correctly and let it do its thing for two days.
Once the time was up I took it out and take a look. This is a regular chicken breast without any
moisture, all of the liquid is completely gone. Just holding this thing in my hand is absolutely insane.
Right now it feels and weighs the same as a styrofoam basically looks like it's a prop from
a movie. Let me show you what it looks like inside. So I went ahead grabbed my knife and took a slice
And take a closer look, notice that the process did not eliminate all of it. But that's okay it's not going
to stop us from continuing our experiment. I went even further to find out even more information.
So I sliced the whole thing in half, and when I did, wow! Take a look at this, it looks like
cloth. I don't know about you but at least to me, this is fascinating. And as I get closer to
the spot that did not get dehydrated look at the difference. This is something you do not see every
day, that I can guarantee you. Now the next step is to go ahead and rehydrate the whole thing. One of
the most interesting thing is that this works like a sponge now. Any type of liquid that is put on
top look, it immediately rehydrates itself. Right now I'm just using regular water and the more
water I put the more it rehydrates. Wait a second maybe I shouldn't be using just water. Because
as you can clearly see this became chicken again. Look it's like a regular plain old chicken breast.
Now what to use to rehydrate? The first thing that came to my mind is wagyu beef tallow, and I think it's
a great combination because chicken breast has no fat. Adding beefy flavor and fat at the same
time come on that's a win-win! The big question is it gonna work? Well, let's find out. The first
thing to do was to melt the wagyu fat, that was super easy you just got to leave it at room
temperature or even put it on your microwave. Then I grabbed the syringe to make sure that
I tried to infuse as much as possible. And as I started putting it on top oh man it was actually
sliding off. It was not absorbing as much as I wanted and that's because the top of the
chicken breast is not that smooth. As you can see the more I added it just completely slid off.
So I went ahead and split the whole thing in half, and as you can see just like the previous one
this one did not get freeze-dried all the way. But that's okay because I went ahead and dumped
in the wagyu fat, a good amount. I'm talking about a ridiculous amount, as I like to say if fat is
flavor umm this gotta be delicious! As you can see once I was done the whole thing was covered with it and
to my surprise, it was absorbing quite a bit. But at least to me, that was not enough. So I went ahead
throw it in a vacuum bag and dunk even more wagyu fat on top. I told you the more the better. I took
a step further and vacuum sealed it, doing that will ensure that the wagyu fat penetrates deeply
into that meat. As you can see once I was done this is what it looks like. Now all I have to do is to
let it rest a little bit so that everything can soak in. As you know I have more chicken breast
so I went ahead and wanted to do two more. One of them I'm gonna be rehydrating with chicken stock
and the other one with beef stock. Now to keep it fresh the process is exactly the same I split
everything in half and threw all of the stocks in there. Now the most interesting thing for me
is that this absorbs a lot faster so maybe this one is going to work even better, but at the same
time I have no idea what's about to happen. As you can see once I was done this is what it looks like.
If that does not look like a meat experiment I don't know what does. So I let everything rest
in my refrigerator for 24 hours. The very next day this is what it looks like. I'll tell you one thing,
it feels like a chicken breast. So I went ahead and opened all of them up ,extracted all of the liquids
and set every single one of them on a cooling rack. This is looking really promising as at least to
me they now look like regular chicken breasts. I promise you if you were here you will not be able
to tell what this thing went through. Now holding it in my hand is even more interesting because
it feels exactly like a chicken breast, this is insane. But always the most important thing is
how is it going to taste? Well we're about to find out right now because the next thing to do is to
season it. For that I kept it real simple a good amount of salt, followed by freshly ground black
pepper and garlic powder. I'm seasoning these chicken breasts just like a steak. Now to cook
them I'm going to be pan-frying all of them. But to give a nice wonderful flavor I'll be basting
them with a lot of butter. I'll be cooking all of them until I reach an internal temperature of 165
degrees Fahrenheit. I have no idea what's about to happen but I cannot wait to find out because
now I say it is enough talking and it is time to cook all of these chicken breasts. So let's do it!
[upbeat music]
All right everybody here we have our beautiful chickens. Isn't it beautiful?
[crickets]
-Who are you, what have you done with Guga. - I told them before we started recording not to say that guys. -Listen I must say
they look quite interesting, you guys will understand later on what I actually did with
it. But with all that being said we got a lot of chickens to try so we're going to go this
direction. Obviously, it's an experiment, I want to know your honest opinion if it's good eat it,
if it's bad -Don't eat it? -Spit it up! You know? -We really want to know. Really setting the tone here
for the rest of the video. -Hey we gotta be honest everybody if it's good it's good. Okay, all right,
We'll start with this one first, go for it yeah. that's it bro? Wow you can really tell that you're
a steak guy huh that's all you're gonna get? -Hey look you told me if I like it eat it if I don't
like it spit it out .-Okay well, fair enough! Let's see enough talking let's try it. Cheers! -Cheers.
Pretty normal I'm not gonna lie. -Damn just normal? Well, I'm saying that is a good thing. First of
all chicken at Guga Foods but this is not right. And wait, wait, wait, worst chicken breast everybody.
Yeah there's ah Angel? -It's good like chicken breast bro I hate this.
-You can tell that we really enjoy chicken breast right? Enough let's go for the second one. Go for
it. Tell me about everything I want to know the smell, texture. -This one was harder to like stab with the
fork. -Hey it smells pretty good? Are you ready for it? -My hands like shaking. -We are all taking a very...
-I'm scared right now. -We are all taking a very small bite everybody. Are you taking the big no.
We're gonna let you know the truth everybody, it shouldn't taste bad
we're gonna find out right now. Ready? -Okay, cheers!
-Hey hard as hell. -Yeah that is dry! -It is a bit of dry yes is right, but it's not bad. -No it's not bad it
tastes kind of like tuna in the sense of the fact that it's so dry that it almost like falls
apart in chunks. I don't know I it doesn't really taste like chicken to me. -Really? I feel like the
biggest part about chicken is it being juicy and since there's such a big lack thereof that
it's just weird. -This is hard as hell, it's dry as hell. -It is a little bit dry. -But the flavor is doable.
-The flavor is doable, I agree. The flavor is still chicken though. -It it tastes like chicken at least
to me, it smells like chicken, I mean if you were I was in a survival mode and they gave me this. -I'd be happy.
-Survival yeah. -I'm gonna eat it. -And at least to me, you give me this piece of chicken here
I'll eat it, it's okay but I'm not gonna say it's nice. -It's edible. -I'm not gonna say it's nice, it's not nice, it's edible.
Now for the third one. You're ready? -I'm a little -You worried? No, no, no you shouldn't be worried.
-If the criteria that we have to follow is either you eat it or you die,
that's not good. -You know going back to that first one, the first one is really good.
-I missed the first one now. -Smell it and let me know what you guys think.
[sniff]
-Is it just me or does it smell like steak to you guys?
-Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, what? -It smells like steak, smells beefy. -Okay
enough let's try this. Are you guys ready? I'm excited. -I'm excited. -Cheers everybody. -Cheers.
You gotta pass the dryness, you gotta get over that hump. -It's it's like the same thing texturally as
the last one where it breaks off in chunks and it's it reminds me of tuna it doesn't taste like
chicken. -It does not taste like chicken. whatsoever. -Now that I'm tasting it, it has a little bit of a
taste of like steak juices. -Yeah it tastes a little beefy it's so this is the weirdest thing I've ever
tried. -I quit this experiment work it's a success everybody because that's what I was going for.
I'm actually trying to make a chicken taste like a steak and it tastes like a steak. Agree?
-Congratulations Guga, you did it. -So so far so good but we're gonna go for the last one, let's
grab it. -Bro what is this? -Bro putting my fork in it, it felt like my fork was just its piercing
soap. -It feels crunchy. -Listen to this maybe you're gonna understand better what we're talking about.
Okay that's what it is. -This is, that has to be one of the most disgusting things I've ever smelled.
-It smells bad? -I don't know if you guys have smelled it it smells
so gross. -Smells like metallic. -This one smells really bad everybody. Are you ready?
-What do you mean? -I have to like fight the urge to like throw up because this is
really this is nasty. -This is bad. -This is so, no I don't want to do this! -Okay enough.
-That's not even hitting the back of my tongue no. Salty metallic and gross. You know what it
reminded me of you guys correct me if I'm wrong, like chicharron but a bad one. iIm trying to like
describe to you guys how it tastes it's it's like biting into a really, really old block of cheese.
It's literally fighting you as you're trying to chew it. -I couldn't have said any better at
the same time when you bite it it's like a wafer but without any juice but the taste is pure fat.
I don't know if you guys, when I squeezed it it's just the juices of fatness just like wagyu
but in a very bad way happened, that's what it is. My whole experiment was to try to make a chicken
taste like a steak. With all that being said, which one actually did its job? -This one. -I agree it
works. Do I recommend you doing this? Absolutely not everybody just cook your chicken regularly.
-I'm not even listening I'm eating it. -Listen everybody's on a diet right now the beginning of the year okay
so the deal is you gotta cook chicken like a chicken it's not gonna make any difference all
right. Anyway guys these are the results I hope you guys enjoyed this video. If you did enjoy
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