- I'm Josh Scherer, AKA Mythical Chef Josh
and this is everything I eat in a day.
So the first thing I do when I wake up
is I immediately try to calm my panic attack
and I grab my phone
which only exacerbates the panic attack.
But then I have an 18 minute routine,
it takes me exactly 18 minutes
from when I wake up to get out the door.
I immediately hop in the shower,
I'm probably washing my entire body
with Garnier Fructis shampoo on my loofah,
cause I don't know, I'm that stereotypical person.
And I'm out of the shouter-
out of the shouter?
(crew member laughs)
Out of the chowder?
And I'm out of the shower
and I immediately make the first thing
that I consume in the day,
which is called C4 Ultimate pre-workout
because the first thing that I do every morning
is I workout.
Working out has always been a huge part
of my life.
I was an athlete at UCL.A., I was a hammer thrower
which I hope I can use my platform
to get people to know what hammer throwing is.
Everyone right now, stop watching this video
and Google hammer throwing.
Are you back? Wasn't it pretty cool?
Anyway, so I have been working out
and lifting weights consistently
since I was like 14 years old.
So I drink this pre-workout and I start cranking
some Deathcore, a really beautiful genre of music
After The Burial, Thy Art is Murder,
really uplifting stuff.
Before the pandemic, I was a part of a gym
called Orale Strength.
Shout out to Ryan Felix,
my trainer and coach there.
Who, even now during the pandemic,
is still writing home workouts for me.
And so every morning I'm at home,
cranking with my kettle bell.
And it's something that really helps me focus.
You start the day just being like
how fast can I do 100 pushups?
And then you do 100 pushups,
and you're like, I have accomplished at least something.
So even something at work
or in your personal life hits,
you're like, hey, remember that time
you accomplished something earlier?
That was pretty exciting.
I typically eat the same breakfast
or roughly the same breakfast,
every weekday.
And It's after the workout,
I am typically in the studio everyday.
And so I keep like a couple of gallons
of 0% fat Greek yogurt.
So I will take about a cup of Greek yogurt
and then I add a scoop of protein powder to that.
Sometimes when I'm feeling really good,
I'll take some of the really nice cocoa powder
that we have here, like a Guittard Dutch processed cocoa,
and you mix that together with Greek yogurt,
and it almost tastes like pudding,
assuming you've never actually had real pudding.
It tastes like post-apocalyptic pudding.
Like something in a shattered society would serve you
and say it's pudding, and you'd be like,
this is not it. This is Matrix food.
Next up in typical day, I supposed lunch tends to be
the meal that comes after the breakfast.
Most days I am in the studio where we are either filming
a YouTube show, or we're filming some TikToks,
or Instagram, and so we live among just
an abundance of food.
So my favorite thing to do for lunch
is to make like a Chopped-style staff meal,
of all the stuff that we have in the fridge.
However, the food that we tend to focus on,
which is the food I'm the most passionate about,
is that very, like, munchy junk-food type of stuff.
So we don't tend to have a lot of fresh vegetables.
There is the infamous wet French fry salad.
If you fry French fries, and then you toss them
into a salad, with like a really lovely spicy vinaigrette,
you make a really tasty meal.
We once had a whole leftover baby goat,
and so we actually braised that into goat birria,
and then we made our own birria burritos,
cause we always have flour tortillas on hand.
That was maybe one of the better meals we've ever had.
Either that, or we're getting some take-out, catering,
there's so many awesome restaurants in L.A..
And especially to me, in The Valley, where the studio is.
There's so many fun, hole-in-the-wall places that
do delivery, and right now especially it's awesome
to be able to support them.
People think that I would be a big snacker,
just because of how much I love food.
Especially snack-type foods.
But I don't like to graze,
typically I like to consume it all in one large
just orgiastic snackfest.
That said, over the past week,
I had eaten a string of especially spicy lunches,
and then after I eat spicy food,
I always want something sweet,
and so I was complaining
to Trevor, Nicole, and V, my co-workers,
that I would like a single bite snack cake,
do we have any single bite snack cakes around?
And they're like,
"What is a single bite snack cake?"
So I described what I wanted.
Like one little morsel of a chewy, pastry-type thing.
So Nicole just ordered a tray of
fancy Danish butter cookies from Costco.
And so now I have this.
We call it Josh's special cookie box,
and they have hidden it from me
so that I don't eat them all in one sitting.
Like, I don't know what this is, but
(crunches)
Mm-like a caramel delight.
Just like a little shortbread cookie,
covered in chocolate.
I'm like a Mogwai from the movie "Gremlins".
You can't feed me in the middle of the day,
cause then I'll eat anything.
You know, like you couldn't feed them after midnight.
What I'm saying is I'm gonna turn into a gremlin.
And then another weird thing about what-
I use "lunch" in quotations marks-
we use the phrase here at Mythical Kitchen,
we say "where dreams become food".
Which is kind of a nonsense phrase.
But also, I am making the food of my dreams everyday.
And like I said, it's very much in that fast food,
junk food realm.
You know if I'm on set with a Crunchwrap Supreme
that I have filled with pulled pork,
and sharp cheddar mac and cheese,
I'm not gonna take one bite
and then throw that food away.
No, no, no-
Like me and my coworkers are all huddle around that
stuffing it into our faces.
Right now I have a belly full
of cheesy Korean French fry crusted corn dogs.
And so that typically throws a wrench
in what might be considered a "lunch".
Because I'll eat that at like 11:00 a.m.,
then eat that at 3:00 p.m,
and then another one at 5:00 p.m.
And now we get to dinner.
Like I mentioned, I start my day with protein,
and yogurt, but then dinner is something
that's really important to me.
I live with my girlfriend Julia,
whomst I love very much,
and she's super into food.
And about 8:00 p.m. we sit down
and have like a nice dinner together
and talk about our day.
And we also installed this
really awesome home bar.
And every month we set-up
a rotating little menu of three different cocktails.
My favorite cocktail of all time
is the classic penicillin.
And I make it with Monkey Shoulder blended scotch,
I'll use some Laphroaig,
and then I make my own fresh ginger juice,
and of course my own fresh ginger honey syrup.
I love kind of living in this duality
of high and low.
Like I love eating Crunchwraps and cookies,
and nachos in the middle of the day,
and then coming home and being able to make
a beautiful, refined cocktail
to all of the specs that I love it.
And then cook a really delicious meal.
We typically meal prep,
but not like "meal prep" meal prep.
Like, every weekend we'll order all our groceries,
and we'll kind of plan out a menu
of what dinners we want to eat,
and then I'll get home on the weekday
and we'll just cook something absolutely delicious.
One of my favorite weeknight dinners
is Filipino chicken adobo, vinegar, soy, garlic,
black pepper, and bay leaf.
You just braise chicken down in that,
it's so, so, so flavorful
just eat that with a bunch of rice and greens.
I love dinner so, so, so much.
Late night snacking-
I am a huge fan of.
I try and not like go overboard with it,
but you get a couple of penicillins in you,
and I'm gonna want to visit
the 12 pints of ice cream that I have in my freezer.
That is the current number-
it is an all-time high that I have had right now,
but I have 12 pints of ice cream in my freezer.
I will take four pints of ice cream,
and I will pop them all in the microwave
for a couple of seconds to loosen them up,
and then I will take a spoon and I will eat
like two bites of each,
and then revisit my favorite one,
and then make sure that's my last bite,
and then put that back in the freezer.
And that's my favorite thing to do.
But the single best ice cream pint
that's in my freezer right now,
and also the best ice cream I've ever had in my life.
That's some local L.A. ice cream maker
under the label Casacoco,
her name is Mercedes Salcido
It's a vegan,
I believe almond-based genmaicha bergamot ice cream.
It's like this incredible balance of savory and sweet,
and it just like refreshes you all at once.
If you have any artisanal ice cream recs,
drop them down below,
I will go through great lengths to find great ice cream.
I actually don't get hangry-
I think I actually get full-gry.
Like if I eat a ton on set,
especially a bunch of greasy food,
and I've got a belly full of like
processed meats and fried food.
I get kind of like angry when I'm asked to do things.
So no, I don't get hangry, I get full-gry.
There's not a single ingredient that I really avoid using.
Every ingredient has it's place out there.
I avoid lids, there's equipment that I avoid using.
One: toaster ovens. I hate that there's one on our counter.
It's the biggest concession that I had to give up
when I moved in with Julia.
Two: pot lids. You just use another pot to cover the pot.
Then you don't need a drawer for the lids.
Then I can fill that drawer
with weightlifting supplements
that may or may not be a scam and not do anything at all.
But I need to take them, they're like crystals.
Weightlifting supplements are like crystals for bro.
It's like astrology.
It works only if you believe in it.
There are two big ingredients that I always have on hand,
and I think you could use these to season
any single dish you want to make.
That is one: Vietnamese fish sauce
and two: Tony Chachere's Cajun seasoning.
It's just got salt, garlic, onion, paprika, cayenne,
like all the flavors that I want in food.
My favorite food city is Los Angeles, without question.
I spent a couple of years as a journalist
covering the restaurant scene in L.A.,
and there are just such diverse communities.
You can go to suburbs of L.A.
that don't make it on the news,
and people typically don't hear of,
and find the most amazing restaurants.
I mean, Pacoima, Arleta, Sun Valley-
I won't even say L.A. is my favorite city.
I will say The Valley is my favorite food city.
The most incredible birria de chivo, tortas ahogadas.
You can find some of the best Thai food
in all of California, in like North Hollywood.
I'm thinking of Kim Thai, in the El Super Swap Meet
in North Hollywood.
There are just so many gems in Los Angeles,
and I love this city with all my heart.
And that's everything I eat in a day.
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