- [Babish] This episode is sponsored
by Bandai Namco Entertainment America
and their new game, "Elden Ring".
It's an action role-playing game
for PC, PlayStation, and Xbox.
"Elden Ring" is a new fantasy world with a deep backstory
created in collaboration with George R. R. Martin
and Hidetaka Miyazaki.
Click the link in the description
to learn more about the game
and begin your journey to become the Elden Lord.
(explosions)
Hey there folks,
welcome to a very special episode of Binging with Babish,
where we're taking a look at the giant land octopus
from Elden Ring.
Here to help me both because it sounds really hard,
and because he knows video games better than I do
is Alvin Zhou.
- [Alvin] Thanks for having me,
and not only are we going to be making
the giant land octopus,
we're also going to be making
a flask of crimson tears,
which is the HP potion from the game.
- [Babish] That sounds delicious.
My HP is pretty low,
I could use some potion.
- [Alvin] And our spirits are very high.
- [Babish] Manna!
- [Alvin] So, you wanna uh,
slice up this garlic, thin slices.
- [Babish] I love doing thin slices
of whole cloves of garlic.
This is a rare treat for me.
How's this for thickness?
I should've asked before I sliced.
- [Alvin] No, no that's great, that's great.
- [Babish] Okay. So now what?
- [Alvin] We just need to heat oil.
- [Babish] Oh, okay.
- [Alvin] Oh, sorry. We need to grate ginger.
- [Babish] I'll get the saucepan goin'.
- [Alvin] Yeah.
- [Babish] Oil.
I say things wrong so it's funny.
- [Alvin] Yeah, I think we're there.
- [Babish] All in one go.
Plop it down, Daddy.
There we go scoop, scoop, doo, doo.
Once that cooks for, what'd ya say?
Three minutes?
We pour it over some chili flakes.
- [Alvin] Just gonna do this quick.
- [Babish] That already looks delicious.
- [Alvin] Yeah.
- [Babish] Now left to do-
(Alvin and Babish high fiving)
Is open fire an octopus, make some tea.
(Babish chopping wood)
Ow.
(Babish chuckling)
So, we have a strong fire.
We have a pot of boiling water-
(both coughing)
We have a strong fire.
We have a pot of boiling water.
Now we have to boil an octopus.
- [Alvin] Yeah!
- [Babish] Love this guy.
You wanna, wanna kill the octopus a little bit?
- [Alvin] No, you got the gloves on, you can do it.
(Babish chopping)
- [Both] Oh.
- [Babish] We will roast ourselves some tentacles
of this land octopus.
Now into the boiling water goes the octopus.
For how long, Alvin?
- [Alvin] For about 20 minutes,
until it's kind of tender,
you can see some of the tentacles are already curling up.
That's a good sign.
Should we season it?
- [Babish] You're good at this.
(Babish laughs)
- [Alvin] Here, I got that.
You did the octopus, I can do this part.
- [Babish] Thank you.
Here I have an onion.
And I forgot that we're in the wilderness here,
so we can just throw our waste right in the fire.
- [Alvin] Yup.
- [Babish] It's part of the joys
of being a cook in the wilderness.
There's an onion.
What the hell is this crap?
- [Alvin] So this is lily flower-
- [Babish] Oh.
- [Alvin] That's been dehydrated and rehydrated.
- [Babish] Sounds kinda nice.
Careful, it's very hot in there.
- [Alvin] That's minus five HP.
- [Babish] Minus five, we gotta make our potion.
- [Alvin] All right, that's some garlic.
- [Babish] Right kids?
Here, come on.
Here, let's, let's switch spaces.
I can't, I can't conscionably watch this.
- [Alvin] All right, now we have some, uh nettle leaves.
- [Babish] Oh, look how much better he is.
- [Alvin] Nettle leaves and peppercorns.
- [Babish] I got a couple bay leaves here,
I'm gonna throw some bay leaves in and just add these on me.
- [Alvin] All right.
- [Babish] If you were an old mage in a wood-
- [Alvin] Yes.
- [Babish] And you were preparing this
for me.
How do you do it?
Because I'd be like,
"I trust this old mage.".
- [Alvin] Yeah, it's like,
"Hey look, you're looking a little worn down.
Here's some soup to help you along your way.".
- [Babish] Yeah.
- [Alvin] Plus 10 to magic and physical resistance.
- [Babish] Magic and physical resistance, well folks-
- [Alvin] Very important.
- [Babish] We're gonna let this simmer for 45 minutes.
(both laughing)
Um...
(Babish coughing)
All right.
'Til then.
We'll see if it's fork tender.
- [Alvin] Oh, that's very tender.
- [Babish] What is fork tender?
I thought fork tender was like, you know,
short ribs or something.
- [Alvin] Oh, that's fall apart tender.
- [Babish] Okay?
- [Alvin] You wanna poke it?
- [Babish] No!
All right, yeah.
Yeah, it's good.
Is that all of it?
- [Alvin] I think so.
- [Babish] Okay. Let's bring these inside.
- [Alvin] All right.
- [Babish] And we'll make our, our health potion.
- [Alvin] Mhm.
- [Babish] The HP pot...
ion.
- [Alvin] Yeah.
- [Babish] And uh, then we'll uh, go you know uh,
score some points, get some coins.
- [Alvin] Huh?
- [Babish] Video games!
(Alvin chuckling)
(Babish clapping)
- [Babish] What do we do now?
- [Alvin] For more flavor I thought it would be fun to
blitz the chili oil,
so we can get all this kinda more blended together.
- [Babish] Sounds fun to me.
Now here, now you get it.
Get it, grab the bowl.
(Alvin singing)
- [Babish] All right, and here we are.
Make it as difficult as possible.
Here we go.
Mm, mm.
Can you say flavor?
- [Alvin] Flavor!
You can do the honors of blitzin' this.
- [Babish] Oh, thank you. I love that honor.
(food processor blitzing)
- [Alvin] Oo.
I think we're good.
- [Babish] Wow.
- [Alvin] That's awesome.
- [Babish] All right, so we got our, our chili oil here.
Now what are we doin'?
We gotta make some tea, yeah?
- [Alvin] Yeah.
- [Babish] So, how we makin' our HP tea?
- [Alvin] So, I was thinking that, you know,
Kendall also came up with this idea.
Oh.
Jess came up with this idea that
the crimson part could be from hibiscus.
- [Kendall] Oh no, that was my idea.
- [Alvin] Kendall came...
(Babish exhaling)
This is hibiscus, we also have some soursop.
Here, you can do the soursop.
(leaves crunching)
Damn. It's like me and my report cards.
- [Babish] Oh! I was dumb too as child.
(Alvin laughing)
All right, let's pour some water over it.
- [Alvin] Whoa! - [Babish] Oo!
- [Alvin] Wow, that's amazing.
- [Babish] Wow.
That's very potion looking.
What?
- [Kendall] This is like coffee grounds
where like it takes a longer time
for the water to pass through-
- [Babish] That's fine.
- [Kendall] It's not steeping, it's just the color.
- [Babish] I got you covered guys, don't worry about this.
♪ This is how we steep it. ♪
- [Alvin] So, we let this steep for a couple minutes?
- [Babish] Yeah, let it steep for a couple minutes.
- [Alvin] So. This is pine cone bud syrup.
Because in "Elden Ring" there is the Urd Tree.
Which is a great and magical tree,
which sometimes use resin
from and resin is a cousin of sap.
And sap turns into syrup.
"Elden Ring" Urd Tree pine cone syrup for the tea.
- [Babish] That is some wild stuff.
You think that's steeped long enough?
- [Alvin] Yeah, I think so.
- [Babish] Okay.
When we, when we unsteep it.
- [Alvin] Okay.
- [Babish] It's very red.
It's extraordinarily, it's, it's, it looks like blood.
It's incredible.
- [Alvin] Crimson tears!
- [Babish] Yeah.
- [Kendall] Do you want that towel?
- [Babish] Do I want a towel?
To what?
In case I make a mistake?
What are the odds of that happening?
Now we're gonna add some pine bud syrup.
I'm gonna go a little hog wild with it.
♪ Mix it up, mix it up. ♪
♪ Give a little mix and mix it up. ♪
♪ Gotta mix it up, mix it up, mix it so it's homogenous. ♪
♪ Come on mix it Spiderman. ♪
- [Alvin] Oo.
- [Babish] You like it?
- [Alvin] That'll be really nice once it's chilled too.
- [Babish] I can't wait for it to cool down.
- [Alvin] I can't wait to eat octopus with this.
- [Babish] I can't wait for any of this!
This is so much fun.
All right, so we got our octopus here.
I'm eatin' chocolate.
Let's skewer some octopus.
Two skewers, I guess?
- [Alvin] Uh, I would,
I think you know what you're talking about.
So I would like to see how you do it.
- [Babish] I don't think I know what
I'm talkin' about at all.
I don't think I ever have.
- [Alvin] Important thing is you sound like it.
- [Babish] That's the important thing.
- [Alvin] We have our skewers.
- [Babish] All right, we have our skewers.
- [Alvin] Outside!
- [Babish] Outside.
- [Alvin] Back we go.
- [Babish] Back we go.
You ready?
- [Alvin] Let's do it.
- [Babish] Should we do marshmallow style first?
- [Alvin] Yeah.
- [Babish] Yeah.
Oo, wood fired octopus.
Give them a little char.
- [Alvin] Yeah.
- [Babish] And then, uh-
- [Alvin] Until they get nice and crispy.
Oo.
- [Babish] Beautiful.
- [Alvin] Yeah, this is badass.
- [Babish] Yeah, dude.
- [Alvin] Now this is cooking.
That honestly looks pretty good.
- [Babish] Pop it on there, Papa John.
We've got some sizzling grilled octopus.
Let's go eat it.
We got our skewers.
Why don't we just put them right here.
We have to make our nightmare plating.
And just pour some chili oil over top.
And there we have it,
some land octopus, lightly killed.
- [Alvin] Lightly kills?
- [Babish] Uh, uh poached, grilled
and smothered with homemade chili oil.
- [Alvin] Yup.
- [Babish] Cheers.
- [Alvin] Cheers.
That's actually quite nice.
- [Babish] Mine's still warm, but it's very good.
All right, should we just?
I'm just gonna take a bite off of one of these.
- [Alvin] Mm, that texture's quite nice.
- [Babish] That's really good.
- [Alvin] It's like pork belly texture.
- [Babish] Wood fire grilling is the key,
like so much flavor in that.
- [Alvin] And it's so tender.
- [Babish] Mm. Now let's make it look even better.
- [Alvin] Yeah.
- [Babish] Let's do a, let's do a plating. Shall we?
- [Alvin] All right.
- [Babish] Chili oil on top of the super spicy
and then dribble that around.
- [Alvin] Pretty legit!
- [Babish] We'll see.
I was thinking batons.
What do you think?
- [Alvin] That's pretty cool.
- [Babish] Not too bad.
- [Alvin] I dig that.
- [Babish] Maybe just for some shoots and googles,
we throw a little finishing salt on there.
Look at that!
- [Alvin] That's pretty cool!
- [Babish] Huh?
Try it with all this chili oil,
a little more salt,
see how this comes out.
- [Alvin] It's quite nice.
- [Babish] Well dude, thank you so much for coming through
and making this fun and easier on me.
Really appreciate it.
Cheers dude.
- [Alvin] Cheers.
- [Babish] Thanks again to
Bandai Namco Entertainment America and "Elden Ring"
for sponsoring this episode.
In "Elden Ring" players explore and uncover
the mysteries of the lands between.
You can customize your play style with tons of weapons,
armor, skills, magical abilities, and crafted items.
The game's also a great entry point
to enjoy a brand new world and lore.
Especially if you found "Dark Souls 2", well daunting.
Click the link in the description
to learn more about the game
and begin your journey to become the Elden Lord.