- Hello, I'm Alvin.
Welcome back to Tasty's Making it Big,
the show where I make giant food for my friends.
Today, I'm gonna be making a giant Subway sandwich
because one of my good friends,
Inga, apparently loves Subway.
And I think it's gonna be fun to make a huge version
of one of their signature sandwiches.
So first things first, let's talk to Inga,
and see what kinda sandwich she likes.
(upbeat music)
Hello.
- Hello.
Thank you for having me back,
and yes, I do love Subway.
We had Subway shops in Hong Kong
and my mom would like treat us to sandwiches.
Eating at Subway with a cookie, that was a treat, so.
- True.
All right, ma'am, welcome to Subway.
Can I take your order?
(Inga laughing)
- So my go-to is the steak and cheese.
That's what I want,
and I want it on herbs and cheese I think.
If they have that, I always go for that one.
I get like the usual stuff that they have in it.
Sometimes I swap out the American for Swiss cheese.
Barbecue sauce, I love that.
- Would you like your buns toasted ma'am?
- Absolutely, yes.
Thank you.
- Well, I will get started on your order,
and it'll be ready in a couple of hours.
- Thank you.
I'm very excited.
I haven't had one in so long.
- Okay, bye.
- Bye.
(chill music)
- So the first thing I gotta do
is to make the Italian herb and cheese loaf,
and we are gonna make a large version.
First, I'm gonna put some sugar and yeast into this water.
Let it bloom.
I'm gonna put in bread flour.
Don't spill Alvin.
Did enough of that in the OREO episode.
Oh my God, It's like a sugar crime scene over here.
Into this, I'm gonna put some shortening, and some salt.
(mixer running)
My little yeast baby over here has gotten quite large,
so he is ready.
(mixer running)
This is why I can't have nice things.
Faster this time, Alvin.
(mixer running)
There you go.
Sometimes you just gotta go fast.
If you go too slow, ain't gonna work.
Okay, so Todd has been working diligently
and relentlessly for the past 10 minutes.
We will now put you back into the equipment graveya--
Ah, room where you belong.
Flour the surface.
Doop, doo, doo.
Get him out.
He is so warm, wow.
And because this can only fit one batch of the dough,
our wonderful culinary team actually made another
batch of the dough in the back.
Woo.
Now they're gonna get married.
So soft.
It's like a big pillow.
(spraying pan spray)
(Alvin blowing)
I'm going to gently lower my bread baby
into his slippery home.
I coulda said that one better.
(upbeat music)
So the next thing on Inga's sandwich order
are green bell peppers and red onions,
which I think are sliced, but raw,
in the sandwich to kinda provide a nice balance.
(chopping pepper) Oh I have a lot to get through.
I'll see if I can speed run this.
(chopping pepper)
Now, probably one of my most feared tasks in all of cooking,
cutting red onions.
Not just one, not just two, but six.
I'm gonna cry.
(chopping onions)
(Alvin sighing)
Oh, I can feel it.
That's only half of one.
(chopping onions)
Hoo-ee.
(Alvin sighing)
It's okay Alvin, you can be your own fan.
(Alvin blowing)
You should all be your own fans.
OnlyFans.
Nope, can't say that.
(chopping onions)
It's okay Alvin, you can push through the tears.
You've done that so much before.
(Alvin sighing)
- [Producer] Do you want a face shield?
- Yeah.
Give me that.
Hello.
I'm back.
(chopping onions)
Modern problems require modern solutions.
I feel powerful.
I feel like a new man.
Just kidding, it's not really working.
I think the onions are finding their way into, oh my God,
it's not working at all.
(Alvin sighing)
This doesn't even help any more
'cause I can't, it's blocking the fan.
Any of you guys got like a straw or something?
So I could just, I could suck it up.
(jazzy music)
When I cook for my friends,
I try to cook everything from scratch,
even though it may hurt me sometimes.
But we're gonna make barbecue sauce.
So this is a "New York Times" barbecue sauce recipe.
Gonna put some ketchup, some apple cider vinegar,
brown sugar.
For some smokiness, smoked paprika,
one of my favorite ingredients.
Cumin, freshly ground black pepper, and salt.
(exotic music)
Okay, so this barbecue sauce is very rapidly boiling
and spattering everywhere.
Like my mom when I don't take out the trash, sorry mom.
Tastes like barbecue sauce.
Ooh, that's good, okay.
Seems like my dough baby has grown up.
Woo.
Now that he is nice and proofed,
we are going to get him into a nice sub shape.
This is a bread recipe by the talented Joshua Weissman.
This bread comes from his subway sandwich but better video.
And we've scaled his recipe up a lot.
This is probably not the best way to do this,
but I'm not a baker.
I just make big foods.
(patting dough)
And just so that this guy proofs nicely,
going to give him a little foil cage.
(foil crinkling)
Wrong way, Alvin.
We're gonna add some more reinforcements.
These are just, I dunno, we found these in the back here,
wrapped them in foil and they're big so we used them.
Kinda looks like a built like a spaceship,
or it's like something Elon Musk would design.
We're gonna take this bread ship,
and we're goin' to the moon everybody.
Good joke, Alvin.
(cheerful music)
So to make Italian herb and cheese bread,
we need Italian herb and cheese.
So we have Italian herbs and cheese.
This is very complicated.
Hold your applause.
That's gonna go in.
And there you have it, herb butter.
My big bread spaceship has returned from the moon
to get that signature look
of the Italian herb and cheese sandwich.
Gonna brush this guy with the herb butter,
so I can officially call this Italian herbs and cheese.
I am curious, if there are any Subway employees watching,
please let me know how many mistakes I am making
in the comments.
The cheese goes on now.
This is just some parmesan.
Kinda reminds me of like a Olive Garden breadstick.
Time to go on a field trip.
This bread is not actually going into the moon,
we're putting him in an oven.
It's very, very different.
In to the oven you go.
Oh yeah.
(Alvin exhaling a beat)
Bye-bye.
Oh, I was supposed to exit first.
(jazzy music)
The steak and cheese sandwich is not complete without steak.
So we have some beautiful shank steak
which we got from the butcher.
This cast iron is very hot.
I don't know if that's how they do it at Subway,
but I love steak and this is how I like to cook it.
Here we go.
(pan sizzling)
Yeah, that's the sound I like to hear.
(pan sizzling)
Ooh it smells really good.
I don't wanna crowd it,
so we're just gonna hang with that for now.
Some salt and pepper.
Ooh yeah, look at that.
We're getting some good sear on this.
This is looking pretty good.
Oh, that's me.
Okay, I'm gonna cook five more of those.
This is a great day.
(upbeat music)
So this is what a little bread baby looks like.
Smells great.
Cheese got nice and crusty, and delicious.
And I heard the culinary team's also making another one
so we might have a extra long sandwich.
So in order to connect the two, I am going to trim a bit,
and then we're gonna do the other one.
A nice loaf of bread.
I'm gonna save this for sandwiches later.
I'm going to attempt to cut this in half.
Ooh, that cuts really nicely.
Come on oak.
(Alvin sighing)
Why didn't I go to the gym.
This is a nice, nice loaf of bread.
And this is the second loaf.
The one that the culinary team made.
They are really the backbone of this show
Jackie and Hip are great.
All righty, the base is set.
So one thing that Inga specifically requested
is that we toast the buns.
This bread is not gonna fit in an oven,
so we come up with a solution.
First, we're gonna use a lot of butter,
as we do on the show.
This is a heat gun 'cause it won't fit in the oven,
so this is the only way we can toast this.
Here we go.
(heat gun blowing)
Oh, yup, that is definitely the smell of butter toasting.
Okay, so it's been about 15, 20 minutes.
The bun is finally toasted,
and I think we can build the sandwich.
So the 15 pounds of steak, it's a lot of steak.
Cheeses, and green peppers, and red onions.
And if I'm correct,
Subway starts off with the vegetables first.
So we are gonna do that.
This kinda reminds me
of those sandwiches that you might buy
for those big birthday parties,
or things like that.
But this sandwich is for one person,
and I hope she's hungry.
Next up, my dear friend red onions.
Try to slice 'em thin
so that they don't get too much of that acidic bite,
but we will see.
I think I cut too much onion.
Definitely did not need to go through
all of that pain and suffering.
And now my favorite part, the steak.
Oh man, this is great.
I'm having a good time.
This is a lot of steak.
Oh my God.
Just take it easy here.
I went to college for engineering,
that is definitely not helping me now.
(Alvin laughing)
This is so big.
All right, let's do some cheese.
So nice slices of American.
Wow, look at that.
Now we have Swiss.
To melt the cheese we're gonna use the heat gun again.
(heat gun blowing)
Ooh, that's lookin' nice,
It smells so good.
It kinda smells like the Subway shop, not gonna lie.
Some nice pretty lettuce for the garnish.
Last but not least, barbecue sauce.
Woo.
This is fun.
(bottle squirting)
(Alvin laughing)
We don't need that audio.
Okay, now the final part.
Don't mess this up Alvin.
(victorious music)
I think we did it.
Wow, that's cool.
It looks good.
I'm excited, I hope Inga likes it.
I think it's time to call her up
and let her know that her order's ready.
(funky music)
Inga is here in the building,
she currently cannot see.
Hi Inga.
- [Inga] Hi.
I can smell it.
I can't see it, but I can smell it.
- Ma'am, your order is ready for pickup
on the count of three.
One.
Two.
Three.
(Inga laughing)
- Oh my God, that is huge.
It looks so much like a Subway sandwich,
I'm like a little shocked.
Maybe that's too big.
- [Alvin] Did you just say too big?
- It's too big.
I'm on the wrong show.
- [Alvin] No such thing.
(Inga laughing)
- [Inga] Holy crap.
- [Alvin] The bread is a little thick.
- That intersection.
I don't know if people understand how big this is,
like hello.
How do people normally do this?
- They don't, they don't normally do that.
- There's no way.
(upbeat music)
(Inga laughing)
Tastes really good.
Oh my God, mm.
The flavor is very similar.
- [Alvin] Not bad right?
- [Inga] It's almost like the exact same.
- [Alvin] Really?
- [Inga] Yeah.
(upbeat music)
- Mm.
- Thanks Alvin.
- Yeah.
- This is really good.
It's gonna take me a while to finish, oh my gosh.
- Okay, bye everybody.
I'm gonna continue eating this.
Bye.
I can't wave 'cause my hands are full.
(upbeat music)