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watching welcome one and all to this newest edition of the running on empty food review series
i'm your host the report of the week thanks for checking in number one let's get the camera a
little bit in focus anyway hopefully that will be sufficient and satisfactory taco bell review
now i'll admit right here right off the bat first and foremost uh this review
i was actually intending to do a different review first that's what the original plan
was i was actually going to try out the uh what do they call the new papa bowls from papa john's
and unfortunately i couldn't get my hands on them this time around so i think that's going to be the
next item coming up after this one i did find out though that taco bell had brought back what many
consider to be a favorite and actually i think i'm going to turn i don't like how the lights
fluctuating here so i'm just going to let it do whatever it wants to do and we'll just go with it
taco bell has brought back an item that i think a lot of people consider to be a favorite of sorts
the grilled cheese burrito for a limited time is back at taco bell now i've reviewed this before
and i enjoyed it personally this was an item that had a lot to it there's a lot of ingredients as
you're going to see in a moment and this is one of those items that i always regarded as kind of
it could either be really good or with so many ingredients involved it has the potential to
be absolutely horrible and this is one of those times that taco bell pulled through
and an item that at first i'll admit i didn't have much faith in turned out to be quite good so it's
back again back for a limited time and what i essentially want to do is that i know a lot of
people they regard this item very highly like i said it's a favorite of many i want to see okay
it's been about nine to ten months since they had this item back on their menu are they maintaining
the standards is it as good as you remember it being right has it changed at all in the meantime
because i mean things obviously can change in that time frame that's what we're going to find out
all right some basic facts about the item it again is the grilled cheese burrito now
you can get it with either seasoned beef on it or steak and again they're promoting the double steak
variety so that's what i went with because i wanted to have it just like how i got it
the last time i reviewed it so then we could really compare and contrast and see um how it is
and if it's changed if it's the same etc in that nine month span so again season to be for steak i
got the steak double steak after that it also has seasoned rice in the burrito a three cheese blend
fiesta strips i did that because that means you know it's a fiesta and then we're partying it up
chipotle sauce nacho cheese sauce sour cream and then it is in a tortilla with the grilled cheese
wrapped around the exterior price for this seven dollars for the double steak
burrito i believe if you get it the normal price if you don't get any double steak or any of that
is uh around six dollars back in 2021 november of 2021 i gave the
item a 7.75 out of 10. so definitely a satisfactory score at the time i will say
dollar price for this number one there is a lot in this burrito i know that by taco bell standards
that might seem like a lot but you gotta remember we're talking about steak here
i bet this is filet mignon in here it's gotta be there's the grilled cheese burrito
wrapping
and let's see what we have
oh it looks like there's another wrapper inside this one okay
there it is
so this is what this is what i mean by the grilled cheese being on the exterior
all right you see how
how it's there on the outside of it very oily so bear that in mind
but that's the grilled cheese on the outside of it it's not wrapped around the entire thing
mostly the grilled cheese is on this side of it i'll do a quick thumbnail like that
and again you could just study it get a good view of it
and i think that's satisfactory so let's turn the autofocus back off i'm getting rid of this i'm
just going to keep it this way you can kind of see the
condensation i don't know if you really can i can
and i don't like the look of it so very oily like i mentioned not that i mean i'd kind of expect
it to be so anyway what i want to do with this burrito is i just want to dig in just try it out
see how it tastes see if it's as good as many people remember it being
and then go from there so let's try it out the grilled cheese burrito from taco bell it's back
is it better than ever though let's find out it's going in
first two bites are a little underwhelming mostly because
there's no steak to be found so if by the third bite there's nothing i'm going to
cut it in half and just go straight into the middle and then we'll see what we find
and this is a problem that does exist with taco bell items and not even just
taco bell many places you know that do burritos sometimes the distribution
may vary okay but i just want to give you an honest experience you know an honest
assessment but you know how it is and then go from there all right
yeah this is a bit better all right there you go that's a proper cross section now
if you see that that's that double stake
so sorry to drag this on now take another bite or two and then i'll give you the assessment
all right
so when there's an item that has many an
ingredient obviously you're going to be able to taste some ingredients
more than others you're going to be able to there's going to be more that you're going
to notice and certain ingredients are just it's going to seem like they're not really there so
i gotta pause that there's a big bug flying around i'm gonna be quick
i lost sight of him i couldn't get him but i heard him flying around and i
guarantee now that i've started the camera again
he's going to make an appearance oh well just got to deal with it maybe that's one of the
representatives from del taco or something i don't know so like i was trying to mention though and i
kind of distracted me for a moment but i'll try to be a little bit more abridged um with
the assessment now so what i was trying to say is that when you get these sorts of items
there's some ingredients that are more pronounced than others and we understand that when there
are a lot of uh a lot of various items and ingredients i should say involved all right
now here's the thing that i think a lot of people want to know so i'll just address it right now
it's still pretty good so if you like it you're a fan of it and you're contemplating getting it
again i'd say go for it understand though that the distribution and with that your reading experience
may vary but i do think that there are a few things that are definitely going to be pronounced
uh in every burrito that you get number one the cheesiness of this this is definitely
a cheesy burrito although when you look at it you'll think all right it's got three cheese blend
nacho cheese sauce and it's got the grilled cheese on the exterior interestingly enough when i when
i eat this and when i consider the flavors and everything that i notice the most potent i'd say
the most potent cheesiness of the burrito is the grilled cheese on the exterior this time around
it's not the three cheese blend inside the burrito nor is it the nacho cheese sauce but it's actually
again that grilled cheese on the outside which is good i mean that's that you know that's this
item's namesake that's what this is what we we know it as it's the grilled cheese burrito so the
fact that that grilled cheese is what i actually noticed the most that's good that's quite good
because again i always like the items where it's in the name it's what we associate it with so it
always makes sense for that to be what you really notice about this as opposed to it
just being treated as some sort of garnish it's a legitimate component of this item so i like that
it's very oily though just be aware of that i think we all understand that though as we uh as
we kind of get this now looking at the rest of the item all right like i said the distribution
of the ingredients inside will vary so it might be a little lopsided just like how i tried it out
the first few bites that i took at the one end it was just all rice with a few of those
fiesta strips if you go right into the center then you'll get a more of a i'd say a more suitable
understanding of how it is some of the ingredients you could definitely taste some that you can't
the sour cream i don't really notice at all i can't taste much of that
and likewise the fiesta strips even though i could see them i don't really notice them either and
even the seasoned rice it's kind of just there now none of these ingredients degrade at all from the
eating experience they don't it's just they are there but don't expect to get this and say i'm
only going to get the grilled cheese burrito so i could taste those fiestas chips understand that
one thing that i want to mention is the steak inside the burrito now as you can see in the
cross section there's a good amount of it there actually is a decent portion of steak
again i got the double portion of it so i'd say there's a good amount one thing that i noticed
this time around with the steak from taco bell it seems a bit chewier this time to me
when i got it the last time the quality of it just seemed a little higher i know i kind of joke
around and act like this is like there's no way i can't i can't make this joke every time i see
the so-called steak from taco bell i i always i have to make that joke about it being filet
mignon i mean i can't i can't resist that but i think we all understand that this is taco bell
we're talking about so we know that it's not going to be necessarily the highest quality in the world
as a result this steak it seemed a little drier and a little on the chewier side to
me this time around not to the point where it degrades from anything but i just think it was
a little better the last time just a little it was a little more flavorful it was just a bit
softer this just seemed it was a bit tougher in my opinion but overall it's a pretty good item cheesy
the steak still all right still flavorful still contributes a lot it was a little better the
last time but still decent everything everything blends together that's the most important thing
all the ingredients come together nicely and i also like the chipotle sauce on the burrito
it adds a nice spicy note to it so understand it's still a pleasant eating experience
maybe not in my case anyway as great as it was the last time but still pretty good the ingredients
comes together and the only thing is that the steak was a little lacking this time around
seven dollars out of ten the last time i i reviewed this again i gave it a 7.75 out of 10.
this time around i'm going to give the item a 7.0 out of 10 just a little bit of a draw
but in the end still pretty good for what it is so if you like it and you've been a
fan of the grilled cheese burrito it's back get it while the getting is good and just
bear in mind that there might be some quality fluctuations all right on one quick final note
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