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Rhett:
Link:
infamous for its assault on the bowels.
Well, Josh, you're still here in the kitchen.
- I haven't left in months. - ( laughs )
- We like it that way. - Yeah.
So we're gonna up the ante on every part of this.
Every single part. So it all starts with the tortilla.
- Rhett: Ooh! - Josh: For the flour tortilla,
we have an ancient grain. I made it myself.
The blue corn tortilla is from a producer called Masienda.
They make everything organic, shipped in from Mexico.
And then for the veggies, we got some living butter lettuce.
And then we have heirloom tomatoes.
Also I hot sauce every single bite,
so we're gonna make our own flame juice.
We're gonna do ten different dried chiles in it.
These little small guys right here, if you can see 'em,
they're actually about $260 a pound.
Imported from Mexico.
We're gonna make a crème fraiche infused with huitlacoche.
- What is huitlacoche? - So, the literal translation
- is "corn smut." - Can we call you corn smut?
Yeah, if you'd like to, I guess.
Josh: So this cheek and this tail
is actually from the same cow.
I went to Standing's Butchery, single best
butcher in L.A. He only gets one animal at a time.
We're actually gonna beer braise it in
this Belgian-style lambiek.
- It's wild-yeasted-- - I, too, am wild-yeasted.
Yes you are. My single favorite part is the nacho cheese.
So we're using Velveeta 'cause we want all that, just, creaminess.
Josh: A cheddar, cave-aged, from a tiny farm in Wales.
And that bone marrow is actually from
the forearm of the same cow that our cheek and tail is coming from.
And then we are going to light that bone marrow on fire
- with this Clase Azul Mezcal. - Does it have pepper in it?
No it's not-- it's not a pepper grinder.
Okay, let's make an even more supreme Crunchwrap.
You touch the cheeks, I'll touch the tail.
That's good. That's kosher that way.
And then you're gonna douse it in all of that.
Link: I can't talk and shake at the same time.
- I think you've shaken all of out now. - Once I've started
- shaking, I'm-- - Caught in a shake loop. It happens.
- You just grab the forearm. - Wait-- okay.
- Massage it in there--yeah. - There we go.
Josh: Rhett, if you wanna open this beer...
- ( pops ) - Link: Oh!
- ( sizzling ) - Josh: It might flame, it might not.
Look at that, we're making clouds, man.
This is gonna go in the oven.
Here we've got some roasted marrow bone. Shove a spoon in there,
- and give it a good jimmy. - My dad's name is Jimmy so I'm not comfortable doing it.
- My ex-stepdad's name is Jimmy. - Do we have anyone in the room
whose ex-stepdad or dad is not named Jimmy?
- ( metal grinding on bone ) - Ooh, that noise!
We wanna kinda melt it down because we don't
- want it to blend in with the nacho cheese. - ( sizzling )
So the marrow's gonna start to melt. Pour some Mezcal right there,
and pull the bottle away pretty quickly.
- ( hissing ) - OH!
What?
Somebody get a freakin' extinguisher.
- Did I do good? - You did great, man!
- It went really high. - Gently spoon it in to the nacho cheese.
So what we're gonna do now is make our lime and Mexican truffle crème fraische--
No, please put that down.
- Grab it right-- - Dude, you hold it by the not-sharp part.
- One, two, three. Almost cut my finger. - Turn the lime.
- One, two, three, four, five, six, seven... - You should probably stop now.
- Josh: Jimmy... - I can jimmy better with my right hand.
Okay, I'm definitely leaving.
- Link: Give me one of these, then. - Rhett: Oh, man.
Taco Bell, for me, is completely useless
without hot-saucing every single bite.
Um, that's distracting. We're gonna create our own hot sauce.
- Yeah. - The habanero, pasea de Oaxaca.
( food processor whirring )
( mouthing trumpet melody )
- That was beautiful. - Wow.
- ( whirring ) - Oh, yeah.
Flame Juice, not affiliated with any Mexican chain restaurant.
Let us assemble.
What you're going to do is take the tortilla
and you're gonna put it on this hot griddle.
- Josh: And you kinda rotate it. - ( Link imitates scratching )
Daub right there. Next we're gonna go with the nacho cheese.
Drizzle it over the top. And then you're gonna take the...
beautiful heirloom corn tostada--
shove that on top. There we go.
Just a little bit of lettuce and then some tomatoes to finish.
- And then you just, fold, brace, - Link: Fold it over.
- fold, brace. - We would've just totally screwed that.
- Pinch, fold. - You're like an origami master.
- Face down. - Josh: Then you give it a little smash.
- Yeah, not too much! Not too much! - Whoa, whoa, whoa!
Oh, sorry. I freaked out on you. Want to give it a flip?
- Josh: There we go. - Link: Oh, my goodness!
both: Look at that.
Link: We have crunched it, wrapped it, and supremed it.
Now, for comparison's sake...
- Link: There is not a dramatic difference. - Rhett: Mm-mm.
But it's what on the inside that counts.
Rhett: Oh, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho.
Look at that. Oh, my goodness.
It looks crunchy, savory--
- Rhett: Almost sexy. - Link: Right.
Now, Josh...how much would this run a person?
So this, with all the Mezcal, all the fancy beef,
- this is $254.79. - ( laughs )
- You don't want to do this every weekend. - Yeah.
- Flame juice. - ( Latin guitar playing )
Triple dink it.
Triple sink it.
- That Flame juice has a bite. - Oh, gosh.
Then you start getting the queso...
Whoo, that beef is magical. And it's so Taco Bell-y.
If this doesn't work out,
- you can get a job at Taco Bell. - ( laughs )
- Are you firing me? - You know, the jury's still out.
- How do you get the other piece? - 'Cause I finished mine first.
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Rhett:
a sunrise on a sweatshirt.
I don't get metaphors.
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