In today's video, we're going to see
what happens if we take two popular fast food meals,
and pull all of the moisture out of them.
What's going to be left?
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Guys, we have a new freeze dryer,
and you have seen this do at least one really
weird thing with it so far.
We have freeze-dried steak.
But we want to take it to the next level.
That was just one thing.
So now, we're going to try an entire meal
from two different places and see what happens.
Here's the basic idea.
We'll get a meal from Wendy's, including a Frosty,
and a meal from Panda Express.
We'll throw them both in the freeze dryer,
and let it run for about 48 hours to really remove
every drop of moisture.
We've all had fast food, and we know what they're like,
but we are curious to see what's going to happen
if we extract all of the moisture
from an entire meal.
And not just like a burger,
we're talking the burger, the fries, the shake,
and the drinks on the side.
Like what are those going to do?
The orange chicken, the chow mein,
the fried rice, let's do it.
All of it.
We want to try it.
So we've got our freeze dryer,
so next step, we need some food.
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All right.
Let's go with a junior bacon cheeseburger,
a medium french fries, and a small chocolate Frosty.
Get it in the first order?
Yeah, that's all one order.
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We've got fried rice,
Chow Mein noodles, orange chicken,
beef and broccoli,
and with that,
we've got a cup of Pepsi with some ice still in it.
We've got a Wendy's Frosty,
a junior bacon cheeseburger, bacon is somewhere on there.
There you go.
That's got lettuce,
and tomato, and mayo as well,
and we've got some french fries.
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Alright.
Now it freezes.
So is this what we're going to do for just like the next 48 hours?
Yeah.
It's been two days of freeze-drying.
So I think our food is about as dried out as it's going to get.
Now, I want to see what happened to it.
We can see that something has definetely happened.
We had a Frosty in there,
and now we have an explosion of Frosty foam all over everything.
And some soda, a little bit of soda in there.
Soda, I think has also escaped the confines of its container.
We got a side-by-side meal here...
To compare the before and after.
Yeah, exactly the same meals.
Got a laptop with the footage uploaded from our GoPros.
It goes pretty fast.
That--
Whoa ! Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing.
>> Boom. >> Gone.
Wait, wait, wait.
What's the other one look like?
Nothing.
You can kind of see a little bit of change.
The letuce, and then just a lot the Frosty
and a little bit of soda.
She's gone.
I kind of watched the--
Oh, okay.
There it is.
Right there.
Wow.
Holy cow, that escaped its container.
Oh and look at the mayo on the burger.
Scrub forward just a little bit.
There you go.
The mayos inflating the same way as the frosty.
You can see our soda is starting to bubble up as well,
not as much as our Frosty, not even close.
That is just everywhere,
and it does look like it also got
on our Panda Express food at the back.
So we may have to dig
through some Frosty to find the Panda Express food.
:Let's open it up.
No, it really is all over.
Oh, and it's cold.
Let's try and see if there's any smell.
Ice melting off the sides.
So it's more snow everywhere.
Is there supposed to be snow everywhere?
That's pretty normal.
Okay.
In fact, I think there used to be more ice there,
and then some of it sublimates off
as it vacuums.
You know what we have to do now.
It's too cold.
It's actually good.
Kind of is.
Like, I like fries crispy.
I usually ask them to be cooked extra crispy.
This is more extra crispy.
This is crunchy.
Hopefully, I don't--
Cold.
Oh no, our poor Panda.
That was in the frosty to start with.
The soda is pretty much just done for.
That I like.
That's really good.
Dehydrated soda starts out as a crunchy candy,
and then it goes gumming, kind of like a now and later,
and it's so good.
And we put soda in our regular dehydrator before.
This is a fancier process.
Similar result.
Not quite the same.
All right, Frosty.
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It's pretty good.
If you've ever had astronaut ice cream,
it's very similar to that.
I'm just wearing Frosty.
This is so light and puffy.
Like this thing weighs less than a marshmallow.
Yeah, we should definitely taste...
We should taste the individual ingredients here.
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That still tastes just like lettuce,
just--
Just crunchier?
It's paper lettuce,
but the fact that it still tastes like lettuce is bizarre.
We need to try some of this.
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This is freeze dried beef and broccoli.
Well, just the beef part.
Regular.
So this is bought about 20 minutes ago.
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Yeah, it's still really good.
When we freeze dried the steak, those were very very thick,
and we didn't really seasom them that much,
so it wasn't a lot of flavor.
Almost none.
Now, of course,
fast food is known for just having a ton of chemicals in it.
This stuff, even though it's been freeze-dried,
is still delicious.
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How is it?
Good.
Still tastes good.
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I would eat these as chips.
Just make straight vegetable chips.
>> I'm gonna cut our cheeseburger, >> Oh, no.
our a junior bacon cheeseburger in half.
All right, here we can see bread, burger, bacon,
cheese, lettuce, tomato,
and I think there's some mayo on top of that,
or there was.
Well, this has cheese as
much as fast food burgers have cheese on them.
Completely freeze dried.
I'm going to try dipping it in cool water,
and see if it comes back to life at all.
Let that absorb for a bit.
Here's a comparison of our not freeze-dried.
So you can see most of the same pieces,
the cheese is definitely a different texture.
Oh, yeah.
If I wasn't touching this,
if I didn't know that it was crunchy,
this actually looks more appetizing to me.
That just looks slimy.
This looks fluffier.
Would you like a cup of water?
There's some Pepsi behind you.
How's that working out?
I'm gonna see what happens
if we put a freeze dried french fry
into some hot water.
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I don't know
how long french fries should take to rehydrate.
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The inside is more of the normal French-fried texture now.
The outside,
I don't think has quite finished absorbing the water.
The outside of a french fry is gonna have a lot of oil in it.
So it may be repelling the water a little bit.
Still crunchy.
So, so far I would say that other than the Frosty,
Panda is holding up better, I think.
Looks like that so far.
Okay.
Let's add some chicken.
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Should we had some broccoli?
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Delicious.
Let's see what that looks like in ten minutes.
The freeze dried noodles have a very styrofoam like texture.
It has a crunch, and then like a--
Freeze dried reconstituted chow mein ramen with orange chicken,
and broccoli and beef.
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Okay.
So we had to switch out the water,
because it got a little bit cold.
And I think all of the flavor ended up in the water just
like it would have like a Ramen broth.
That was a problem
that we had when we freeze-dried our steak again.
We lost all the flavor when we tried to reconstitute it so...
Yeah.
Basically the same problem.
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Starting pretty small.
That is not much water,
and it's just sucking it down in.
No mixing.
No stirring.
Just dissolving it.
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All right.
Let's try this rehydrated Frosty.
Now, it's not going to be frozen,
because we weren't mixing it with frozen water.
That's kind of hard to do.
But let's give it a try.
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It's not bad.
It's a chunkier than I like my Frosties.
Little tiny bits of the frosty definitely aren't mixed in.
So it tastes kind of
like you made it from a powder mix,
which we basically did.
Yeah.
And just didn't mix it quite enough.
I'm going to blend up a Wendy's meal into dust.
Margarita.
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Soup.
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That is part of a junior bacon cheeseburger,
and several french fries.
Hmm, might as well.
Spoonful of cheeseburger and french fry powder.
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Yeah, I'm sticking to my panda.
That's really weird because nobody's ever thought,
what does the powdered cheese burger look like?
But that's probably what you would guess.
While I'm eating it,
it doesn't really feel like I'm eating cheeseburger,
and maybe that's just because the texture is two different,
that I don't really
notice the flavors are similar or something like that.
But I got to say,
what's a little strange is after I'm done eating,
I'm just like...
That, you see the cheeseburger?
Like it feels like I ate a cheeseburger afterward.
So it does have all
the same flavors and components in there, of course.
The experience is very different as you're doing it.
So weirdly enough,
I would say that out of everything,
the thing that reconstitutes best is the broccoli.
This actually turned out pretty good.
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