- Today we take flamin' hot where it's never been before.
- Let's talk about that.
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- Today we gon' get flamin' hot!
- Uh-oh. - Because flamin' hot-tah!
- Oh you move, the microphone moved.
- Flamin' hot! - You got so flamin' hot.
- Oh sorry, I flamin' hotted ya.
(chuckles)
It ain't just the spicy red powder
that stains your fingertips and your bowel, bitch.
- Uh-oh.
- It's a high mark of culinary achievement,
a staple of gastro ingenuity, a flamin' force
so inspiring that I once gladly became it.
(suspenseful music)
Ugh.
Okay. - You taste incredible.
- Here's the nipple if you wanna lick that.
- For the record, I did not lick your nipple.
- On camera.
- Thank you for offering though.
Link is not the only thing to have been flamin' hotted.
Of course there's Cheetos but there's also
Flamin' Hot Funyuns, Fritos, and Doritos,
and even Taco Bell had the Flamin' Hot Taco
but there are still of foods out there
that have yet to be flamin' hotted until today.
It's time for Stuff We Try That You Can't Buy:
Flamin' Hot Edition.
- That's right so the question is,
what has not been flamin' hotted that should be
and we picked some popular name brand foods
and asked Mythical Chef Josh
to make flamin' hot love to them.
(Rhett chuckles)
- And it's gonna be our job to see
if what was birthed is worthy of mass production.
We're gonna be deciding is it flamin' hawt or flamin' nawt?
And we're starting with breakfast.
- Yeah, awhile back I saw this picture,
popped up on Reddit.
Flamin' Hot Cheerios, new, people got really excited
about this but it was just shopped man.
- Just shop-- - Just Photoshop it.
It wasn't a real thing but we're gonna do
the Cheerios R&D department a favor
and test this one out ourselves.
- We have invented Cheerios: Flamin' Hot version.
- [Link] Yeah look at that.
See if we got nutrition facts and a maze.
- A maze. - For the whole family.
- [Rhett] It's amazing!
- Look at that it's basically like hell Cheerios.
- There's nothing in here. - What you call it--
- As you can see, I'm moving it like this
because they're all right there.
- It's over here, my brotha.
- [Rhett] Now go ahead and pour some milk in there.
- Now the interesting thing, Josh,
about Flamin' Hot Cheetos is that the recipe
for the flamin' hotness is not published.
If you look at the ingredients list on the stuff
it just says flaming hot flavor so--
- So how'd you do this magic, man?
- [Josh] Yeah so there's some kind of
industrial food additives that you know
you can kinda reverse engineer out of it,
things like maltodextrin for anti-clumping
and it gives it more body.
- Of course, yeah. - There's also red dye
number 40 powder that's mixed with dextrose.
- Love that. - Of course,
dehydrated cheddar cheese powder's one of the main flavors
that you get. - Really?
- [Josh] You don't realize it because it's cut
with so much citric acid,
'cause Flamin' Hot Cheerios are really sour.
Flamin' Hot Cheetos, not Cheerios.
- Yeah. - Oh man.
- Sour? - Yeah, so you get a lot
of acid with it so I got citric acid powder
and then that is just gonna be combined with salt.
There's a lot of MSG in Flamin' Hot Cheerio, Cheetos.
Garlic, onion, a little bit of white pepper
and it was all ground in a coffee grinder actually
to get the universal powdery consistency.
- And it tastes-- - Incredible!
- Spot on flamin' hot flavor.
- You're right about the,
what's the thing that makes it sour?
- [Josh] Citric acid.
- Yes, that is one of the things that makes 'em
so addictive, that there's this super sourness
and super hotness at the same time,
and it tastes incredible on Cheerios.
- How did you do it?
You just told me how you did it and I'm still like
how did you do it? - Hold on.
It's not just, but hold on, you're responding
to how well he recreated it.
- Yeah I haven't even got
to the Cheerio part. - I'm responding to
how good it is.
- Uh, well that's a different story.
- But you don't like hot stuff.
You don't like Flamin' Hot Cheetos to begin with.
- You know what I'm sorry that I have my own opinion
on this show sometimes, Rhett.
You need me to agree for you to be validated?
- It has nothing about me.
I'm validating the people who are excited
about Flamin' Hot Cheerios, not as some novelty
because they thought it was real.
Now it is real.
And as someone who would actually be excited about it,
I think I'm gonna have to be the judge of this thing
and I'm gonna say without a doubt,
this thing is flamin' hot.
- And I'm gonna have to be the second judge
and say as a cereal lover, I don't want it flamin' hotted.
I'm sorry, so kudos to you, Josh.
We're not fighting. - It's so good.
- We just choose to disagree.
- [Rhett] So the verdict is
flamin' hawt - Flamin' nawt.
- Now that we've had breakfast,
let's move onto lunch in a can.
If you've ever wondered,
does Chef Boyardee have flamin' hot ravioli?
They boyardon't but maybe they should.
- Uh-huh and we have made that,
look how bright that is. - Now if you can't remember
what regular ravioli looks like,
bring that in just to see how red this has gotten.
I mean that's-- - Look at the difference.
Now Josh, did you just sprinkle actual Chef Boyardee
or did you recreate ravioli as well?
- [Josh] No I recreated it so I mixed the flamin' hot powder
into fresh pasta dough,
overcooked it just like Chef Boyardee
and then I actually made it-- - Oh come on, hey.
- Yeah, yeah. - What?
- Is it in the stuffing too? - He helped win World War II.
He's a hero but he overcooks his ravioli.
- The meat mince stuff in the middle is flamin' hotted?
- [Josh] Yeah I even pureed it just like theirs is
so you don't really have to chew.
- And Josh, I can't give you all the props
'cause I gotta give some to the art department.
Zack and the art department worked this stuff up.
But it does have your face on it so you're--
- Oh yeah, you still win. (chuckles)
Okay.
- Chef Boyardee is you now.
- [Josh] Yeah.
- Now I thought this was pretty interesting.
Flamin' Hot Cheetos were actually invented
by Richard Richard Montanez who was a janitor
for Frito Lay and he decided to coat a Cheeto
with a homemade chili spice and then of course,
there was a huge response to that.
He was then promoted to VP of multicultural sales
for Pepsi Co. America.
- Wow! - That is a story
for the ages.
- You go, Richard!
Dink it, sink it.
- Hmm, it' actually pretty subtle.
- It has a rolling heat to it.
- I like foods that look completely unnatural.
Check mark there.
- There's a little...
Whoops, I dropped it on my hand.
This is on the table. - Now, you know how I feel
about this, I already said it was good in cereal,
so this makes more since 'cause this is a savory item
adding some so-- - Oh yeah absolutely.
I'm eating it off the table and you know what's been
on this table. - Oh so you likey?
Mikey likey?
- I do, yeah.
- I think this could definitely work on a mass scale.
- Chef Boyardee, listen up.
Beef ravioli--
- [Rhett and Link] Flamin' hawt!
- Up until today,
the famous Smucker's PB&J sandwich Uncrustables
has been both uncrusted and un-flamin' hot.
But why not?
- Look at that.
We got a Flamin' Hot Uncrustable, y'all.
- It looks so real, Smucker's.
We just gotta hand one over to ya and say,
well just keep doing, put that through your factory.
Unless it's bad.
- Oh yeah that's what we're gonna find out.
Incidentally, Smucker's slogan since 1962 has been
with a name like Smucker's, it has to be good.
Why?
- I don't get the logic, like what about the--
- It could be bad.
Think of the things it rhymes with.
- It's like smack is smacking?
I really don't know what they meant by that.
We're good on size.
It's a little less--
- Come on, you didn't have to do a side-by-side, come on!
(crew laughs)
Why you gotta do that to Josh, man?
- [Josh] It's not the size.
- Let's just dink it, get a healthy bite, and bite it.
- I love this so much I wanna eat it first.
This is a magical thing and again you're messin'
with something that's precious to me.
- Mm, it's also subtle.
- You haven't gone too hard, yet,
there's a bit of a heat.
- There's a bit of a heat. - At the right moment.
Mm.
- The sweet and spicy is really good.
- And peanut butter makes everything butter. (chuckles)
- I'm about to eat the whole thing.
- Yeah it's good.
- I think you might have a difficult time
marketing these to the intended audience
because other than Link, mostly children enjoy these.
So I just don't think that kids are--
- And I'll fight kids off when they're down
to like one package left.
I'm like punching kids in the face.
- I just think children, the whole flamin' hot meets
like pre-schoolers, there's not a big market.
- You got a marketing challenge.
- From a marketing standpoint, I'm gonna say flamin' nawt.
- But from a taste standpoint--
- From my soul standpoint, I'm gonna say Uncrustables--
- [Rhett and Link] Flamin' hawt.
- There are few foods so perfect
that they should never be tampered with
and Twinkies are one of those foods but we went ahead
and tampered anyway because if we didn't,
we'd just be eatin' a regular Twinkie.
We have flamin' hotted the Twinkie.
- But actually Twinkie has tampered with other versions.
They've had peppermint, strawberry, peanut butter,
and cotton candy over the years.
- How have I missed this? - Since it was created
in 1930.
All right so we got two of these.
- So we got some flamin' hot in the cakey part
but also on the inside, right?
- It still smells mostly Twinkie.
- Yeah you wouldn't know unless you looked at it.
- [Josh] And there's actual whole Flamin' Hot Cheetos
blended into the cake dough itself
so there is some corn meal in there.
- Dink it. - Twink it.
- I'm gonna break it and take a look.
Look at that.
Pink hot goo in the middle.
- The cream doesn't balance it as well as like
the peanut butter and jelly balanced the hot
from the Uncrustables.
- I would say it's a little weird.
- This might be the first one for me at least
that's just not workin'.
- I'm not feelin' it. - I like a red Twinkie.
- I'm not feelin' it either, man.
Maybe if you put peanut butter in there. (chuckles)
Then I'm back on board but--
- Okay so Twinkies.
- [Rhett and Link] Flamin' nawt.
- I'm willing to bet you a Hungry-Man microwave dinner
that if you love Hungry-Man microwave dinners,
then you also love flamin' hot powder.
- It is, that's true. - Which is why it makes sense
to combine those forces into one,
the Hungry-Man Flamin' Hot country fried chicken TV dinner.
- Oh look at this.
Now, we've got flamin' hot fried chicken,
we got flamin' hot mashed taters, we got flamin' hot corn,
but we got regular brownie. (chuckles)
Because it's just a little reward
for getting through the meal.
- Oh is that right? - Mm-hmm.
- Just a little comparison if you wanted it.
Here it is.
Sad.
- Happy. - Happy.
- I guess just-- - Man, I haven't had
a TV dinner in so long.
I used to just live off of these.
- You've been a Hungry-Man before?
- I've been called a Flamin' Hot Hungry-Man many a time.
- You wanna get some taters
or you wanna go straight chicken?
- I wanna get some taters.
Dink it.
Yeah, doesn't even look like a potato,
it looks like some sort of strange Mars food.
- It's good, I mean,
it's exactly what you think it would be.
Now it tastes like you were saying.
From a marketing standpoint, the Hungry-Man market--
- They are ready. - They are so ready.
- They are ripe. - There's Hungry-Man, listen,
seriously. - They are begging.
- Listen to us, we created so many things on this show
and no one has ever been like you know what,
we're gonna do that. - Hungry men are down
on their knees--
- Hungry-Man. - Around the world
beggin' please to be flamin' hotted.
- Oh that's, oh, you guys put our address on there.
(crew laughs)
Oh, I was gonna call them out where they're at.
I don't know where Hungry-Man is.
- And don't say where we are.
- Well it just says, you know, Hollywoodland.
But listen. - Hollywoodland, California.
- Come on, Hungry-Man, listen.
You guys gotta reinvent yourself.
What's going on in the Hungry-Man board rooms these days?
It's not fun, it's not stale coffee.
- It's not that you need to be less hungry,
you just need to be more flamin' hot.
- Don't be afraid of them people's ideas!
- Mm. - Make a frickin' Hungry-Man
Flamin' Hot Hungry-Man.
I said it twice.
- Wow.
- That's good. - It's really good.
You guys are doing a good job.
- Flamin' hot corn is good.
It's better than regular corn.
- Live your flamin' hot life.
- Hey listen, we'll do a whole PowerPoint.
Is that what you need?
- Is that what you want from us?
You want us to stroll into your business
with a laptop under our, what's that called?
- Arm. - Arm.
And do a PowerPoint?
- We will do a freakin' PowerPoint--
- We will click. - In your frickin' board room.
I don't care where it is, it's probably in the midwest.
- There's probably gonna be-- - I'll go there.
I can fly. - 24 slides at least.
- Gosh!
Just fricking live a little.
- Get your head out of your own butt.
- Hey hold on, no no no, take that back, take that back.
- Okay, I'm sorry. - 'Cause I'm serious,
I'm going if I have to, listen, I'll come by myself
'cause he just insulted you. - Listen man,
you're not that hungry, your head's not in your own butt.
- That's right.
Your stuff is great already but it needs to be greater.
- Yeah yeah, we can team up.
- I mean the brownie's good.
So anyway. (chuckles)
- Hungry-Man frozen dinner.
- [Rhett and Link] Flamin' hawt!
- So Chef Boyardee-- - Please!
- Smucker's, Hungry-Man.
Hey, we're gonna PowerPoint up,
just let's meet up somewhere.
- Anybody who wants a PowerPoint presentation from us,
hit us up, we will be on a flight, you know.
- Everybody else just keep doing what
you already been doing and don't listen to us at all.
- That's right, thanks for liking,
commenting and subscribing. - You know what time it is.
- I'm in my boy's hostel.
My name's Alithia.
This is my bag of onion Cheetos also called Kurkure.
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