- It's actually pretty darn good value,
it just could taste horrendous.
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Hello everybody it's Barry here,
I hope you are well, wherever you are in the world.
Welcome to our kitchen.
Today, I've just got to touch on it straight away.
I have a sore throat,
I've had it for about eight, nine days now.
I'm absolutely fine.
I have an audition tomorrow for an advert.
Hello, it's Barry,
do you like the taste of Coca-Cola?
On brand because,
recently I suggested the idea of sending cookbooks,
anything that you've got lying around the house
and I'll work my way through it.
We need to come up with a name for that,
I think Patreon you're gonna help me.
And the latest one that's arrived is a Coca-Cola cookbook.
So I have picked a recipe which was actually quite hard
from this Coca-Cola cookbook.
We're gonna do a Cola chilli,
a mixed bean chilli.
So it's a vegetarian, suitable for most people,
and I'm generally intrigued to do this.
We've done Coca-Cola chicken before in the past
and that was phenomenal and it is in here.
So I have a little look through it,
it's a little bit disappointing on the recipe front
I gotta be honest,
the person who sent it didn't put their name in there
and I'm getting a lot of you messaging me about it.
The best way, if you wanna send me a cookbook
is use the contact form on my website
if you don't mind, please.
If you wanna do that
and then maybe we'll build a recipe playlist
of checking old cookbooks, and cool cookbooks,
and quirky cookbooks.
Let's have a look inside this
and see why we were quite limited to making this today.
So for me when it says cookbook on the front,
you think, okay it's a cookbook,
but actually if you read on the back,
there's only 30 recipes in there
and the rest is basically the story
of the world's most famous beverage.
I don't know if the world's most famous beverage is Cola,
maybe it's water.
So yeah, I've got the story of like how it's created
in like 1886 by a famous pharmacist in Georgia.
He made a fragrant caramel coloured syrup
in a brass pop kettle in his backyard.
There's actually a video
that you guys have asked me to do before,
complete homemade Coca-Cola.
I think a few people have done that
but I quite like giving it a go.
Then it's they've got patents.
It's really important to in your cookbook
to discuss about patents.
Bottling, Olympic games and different bottles and stuff.
Oh, Kim Bassinger, very nice.
Dunno what she's doing these days.
And of course there are a lot of adverts,
and then you hit the recipes.
Now for me, it's a bit surreal
because some of the recipes in this book touch on things
that we've done on the channel very recently.
The very first one,
look French onion soup, which is basically what we made,
I dunno like a month ago on the channel.
I was like that would've been amazing,
but they have a Coca-Cola infused French onion soup.
There was a dip,
but that didn't sound very exciting.
Coca-Cola steak,
that looked a little bit bland.
Coca-Cola ham, but I've done that on the channel before.
It is absolutely phenomenal to be fair.
Oh yeah.
Coca-Cola chicken wings.
I was gonna do that but we did do Coca-Cola chicken
also a couple of years ago,
and again, really nice.
Teriyaki chicken.
We did that recently in the pineapple boat,
in fact, I did that last week.
That was one of the most recent videos
and it did resemble that.
So, you know, that's pretty cool.
A cola teriyaki chicken.
And one more we've done recently, baked beans.
I was like, is this just like following my life?
I couldn't believe it.
A MacGrenedine,
which looks like there's Coke with cherries in it.
This mint cooler looks like Coke with mint and lime in it.
All very, very cool indeed.
But I kind of felt like it was fate
how all these recipes were like coming together.
I'm like, I really liked that deep fried Coke thing,
I've been sent a Cola book
and I can't find any recipes.
However, before Chloe left for school today
she asked for this.
- I'm going to school
and there was like a bean chilli petite, please.
- She really wanted that tonight,
she had no idea I was doing a Cola book
and there is actually a mixed bean chilli,
a Cola chilli in this book.
So I'm like, okay.
So by the time she gets home from school
she will be able to taste it.
I'm not gonna tell her that it's a Cola one
and just see what her reaction actually is
later on when she gets home.
And that is it.
I feel like it's kinda like a Coca-Cola fate,
sounds like a movie maybe.
Coca-Cola fate coming soon.
Right, chilly times.
All right, first of all, grab yourself a pan.
I'm not gonna warm it straight away,
I'm gonna do it cold on here
so you can just see this first step at least.
That was one tablespoon of sunflower oil.
We generally normally use vegetable all here
but I found some right at the back of the cupboard.
It then says to add in one tablespoon of chopped onion.
So that's some frozen chopped onion.
We buy this in the supermarket,
this is really good value,
saves you having to cut it up and all that stuff.
And it is trying to make me cry.
So we've gotta cook this up for five minutes on its own.
Okay, here's pan cam straight down.
Warming, warming.
I don't know if it's just me,
but when you have a chilli
it always tastes better the next day.
Doesn't say how many this serves,
that serves four people?
I know, I feel like part of me wants to put more onions in
but I'm gonna stick to it.
Two teaspoons of cumin and some smoked paprika.
I love paprika.
So I'm actually really excited for that,
should give it some nice flavour in there.
And two garlic cloves.
They're getting nice and brown
so I've probably got like one more minute to show you.
We have some other cookbooks that you might have seen.
Remember we did this "Back To The Future" cookbook
and it was shockingly,
well, I can't really say it,
but it wasn't amazing.
We adapted the hover board cookies to actually hover.
That was a cool video I think last year.
Your kids are gonna love it.
The unofficial Disney world cookbook thing was amazing
and Chloe and I will probably do more recipes from that
just because they were phenomenally naughty.
Had this baked bean book for years,
never done anything from it,
but there is a lot of cool stuff in there,
so I'd probably do that one.
I've looked through this bubble gum shrimp
like "Forrest Gump" book,
and I've really struggled with that.
So I'm gonna have to give that another look at that.
This Toblerone cookbook someone told me to get,
and I think I touched on this in a previous video,
but it was so basic it was like,
Hey, here's chocolate chip cookies with Toblerone.
It's just like, what?
But one I will do is one of the first books
I ever, ever got.
Bizarrely, Mrs. B got with this Ben and Jerry's cookbook
and they've got some real authentic recipes in there
just with an ice cream maker.
So that could be phenomenal.
Like I say, any cool cookbooks you see.
Ideally all the sort of more quirky ones,
do get in touch.
Well that is if you actually like the concept.
Anyhow right, we'll get this cumin in.
It's cumin in the pan to party.
Paprika, woo.
And the chopped garlic.
So I take it off the heat to show you this step
'cause the Coke is going in.
Tin of chopped tomatoes and oh,
these are some Diddy cans of Coke.
150 meals of each.
So 300 mill in total.
Yeah, that's weird.
All right, back to pan cam.
So back onto the heat and we'll stir this through.
Oh wow, that's a really interesting colour, hello.
Interestingly now, that is it for 20 minutes.
We bring this up to a simmer
and we'll add the beans at the end just to soften them.
Although it's tempting to do that,
if you add the beans into early
in general when you make your bean chilli,
they'll just go really, really mushy.
Will thicken it up though,
you just have no beans in it.
Be like, oh it's a bean chilli,
but it's just pure pulp.
It's just mush.
We don't really get Coke in the house,
in fact, I never had a fizzy drink until I was about 14.
My mom did very well at keeping me away from those
and then I was unleashed.
It was like, wow, I just can't drink them very fast,
all the carbonation just gets me.
So this is standard Coke
that even for 150 mil is 65 calories.
So there's a spare amount of sugar content in there,
and yeah, it wouldn't surprise you that already
only after two minutes,
that is simmering with that sugar in there.
So hopefully it's gonna put some caramelly syrup in there
that's gonna work.
I think it's gonna be all right.
It does smell like a big can of Coke right now.
The other thing I've done is got a pan on,
I'm just cooking some rice slowly.
We serve it up with sour cream and guacamole.
Now I was just gonna get a tube of it,
but last night when I was shopping
when I found this really weird sachet thing,
so we'll kind of do it semi-homemade like now.
To be fair I have made guacamole,
it is really fun to make
but it just reminds me avocados of like dinosaur eggs.
Legitimately I wanna watch the film "Aliens" now.
Which of course I've seen.
My little avocado gadget,
one of my favourite ones.
Doesn't always work mine.
No, sometimes.
There we go.
Shot out like a table tennis ball.
But other than shooting a stone out,
it does give you some pretty good avocado halves.
So now we mash it like you would normally
and I'd have my coriander, some chopped tomatoes,
a little bit of seasoning,
but I'm just gonna use this sachet thing.
Main ingredient is water, chilli paste,
honey, onion puree, white wine vinegar, mustards,
things like that.
Ooh, oh that's cheeky.
Oh well I can put it on at the end,
Chloe might not like it.
Apparently we just pour it on there.
Oh my gosh, that looks angry.
It did say it was medium heat, but oh my word.
Ooh, well that's got some kick but just bearable.
That's nice.
Oh, it's actually quite sweet,
I can taste honey more than anything,
which is I've never put a honey on guacamole
and that is actually really good.
Right, this is going in the fridge,
we're getting our beans in.
You're giving me that face today boy that says,
you put Cola in a chilli?
Better turn that rice down,
it was gonna simmer over.
The only thing I would say about that avocado thing
it does need that little fresh kick of herbs in there,
it was missing there.
It was like sweet avocado,
and I am on board with that.
Right beans go in here,
there's two tins of mixed beans that I've drained off.
And I've actually managed to get
an extra ingredient in here now.
In this tin is mixed beans,
but it's also got sweet corn in it as well.
So you might be able to see
a few little pieces of sweet corn.
Get in there.
And with our rice nearly done,
our crazy honey guacamole in the fridge,
a little bit of sour cream,
and some coriander to one side,
we can now build our Coca-Cola chilli.
I just wanted to show you again
how much those beans have padded out.
We make a lot of bean chilies.
They are one of the ultimate cheap, budget
midweek dinner night meals and the weekend,
they are so good.
Although they don't always smell of cola
I know though Chloe's gonna be a teeny bit disappointed
because the recipe says not to add cheese,
but the ingredients for this,
or, I mean obviously I'll omit the Cola were really cheap.
So it's actually pretty darn good value.
It just could taste horrendous.
Well, I hope if you're quite privileged folks,
I bought this bowl just for this video.
But no doubt we'll use it for the rest of our lives
which tends to happen with most of our bowls.
So I'm piling that rice on there
and also quite a bit on my worktop
so I'll get rid of that in a minute.
Oh, look at that colour.
Look at that, oh my gosh.
Right here we go.
We are gonna get some of this on there.
I might try and aim for the middle-ish
so you can still see some of the rice.
Obviously there is no way I could get away
with serving my family a portion like this,
like 80% rice.
And then apparently they just put a few coriander leaves
just along the top.
But I have to say,
as I come in with that like there,
that is a pretty darn good clone of this image.
Let me just zoom to that now.
You see that?
I'm really happy with that.
I just feel like we've gone to the effort
of getting sour cream like it says in the recipe itself
but the photo just didn't have it.
It says to serve it alongside it,
I wanna have it in the bowl.
And if you're wondering why it's wobbling,
it's 'cause for my thumbnail,
I propped it up a little bit with a sweet corn holder.
There we are.
I think that looks bliming awesome.
Right, let's try a Cola bean chilli.
Okay, the smell is not Coca-Colarish at all.
So I'm gonna try, first of all, just some of the bean chilli
because ultimately that's what it's all about.
Oh wow.
That has pleasantly surprised me.
I was going to go two ways.
I was thinking right, right.
Speech.
It's either gonna taste insanely bad
or like super strong syrupy,
or it's gonna taste of nothing.
But I'm actually in the middle.
There is a lovely sort of faint mild taste of a Cola syrup
running through it.
And with all the other savoury,
particularly the cumin and the paprika going on
to contra that, it just absolutely works.
I wanna try it with the rest of it.
Oh, I know what that was.
Oh wow, I was like, wow, if anything
that's made it even more sweeter,
that was like guacamole mix that I did.
But the be chilli in itself is absolutely outstanding.
I think I've done quite a good job of cloning it as well.
And we don't tend to put anything sweet in our bean.
I mean, it doesn't necessarily really need it.
You get a little bit of sweetness from the tomatoes right,
but that is phenomenal.
Would I do it again?
I don't know because getting the cans of Coke
is a bit out of our normal shopping thing.
Would I drop the cookbook into a bowl?
Yes I would.
Would I recommend you try it?
Yes, absolutely.
This cookbook, well there's 30 quirky recipes in there.
Thank you so much to the person that sent me in.
If you get in touch again,
I'll sign this and send it back.
And do, if you wanna send me a cookbook, get in touch.
As I say, I generally think
everyone should try making this once
and maybe you can try it with Fanta,
or Sprite, or beer.
That has actually knocked my socks off.
I'm generally impressed.
It's not too sickly,
it's not nothing,
it's just that perfect balance of the wholesome beanie chilli
and a little bit of Coke sweetness.
See you later.
♪ If I take you to my crib, you'll be in for fill ♪
♪ I'll be spitting on the menu ♪
♪ Chuck some food on the grill ♪
♪ I like to do my cooking at 10 to nine ♪
♪ You can do it anytime and you'll be just fine ♪
Quick bonus scene from one bean
to a completely different other set of beans.
These have been sat on the side,
I did a patron bonus video
with some gadget giveaways the other day.
They know that I tasted all of these.
They're basically extreme heat jelly beans.
You've got sriracha, KM, habanero, jalapenos,
and the Carolina reaper.
I'm not gonna show you all of them,
but for your viewing pleasure,
I have got no milk near me this time.
This is the Carolina reaper jelly bean.
And it starts.
(coughing)
This started really sweet.
Oh my gosh.
I've got some cream here now.
Ah, that didn't help at all.
Ah, it's still so bad.
Wow, wow.
Wow, now it's giving me a runny nose.
Maybe that's why I've got a sore throat
because of these jelly beans.
Wow, try this bean chilli folks.
See you later.
Oh, they're so hot.
Been busy?
- Bean chilli. - Yes, sorry yeah.
- Nope bean, oh
- [Barry] Okay two bites and you'll have a chance to see
if you like it yet or not.
So that's probably a good thing.
- That is good. - Yeah.
Can you taste anything in it?
- It just tastes like a normal chilli
that has the right amount of flavour in the sauce.
- [Barry] Yeah.
- In the sauce there's a sweetness
- [Barry] Right.