- Is milk really the best thing for cookie dunking?
- Let's talk about that.
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- Now, when it comes to finding the next best thing,
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So many that perhaps the most iconic of all
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- Oh, okay.
- Just like a racoon into a cat door.
- Oh, that can happen.
- I'm talking about cookies and milk.
- Well, it's likely that milk is the best complement
to cookies, but is there something out there
that we've sleeping on?
It's time for next best thing, cookies and milk edition.
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- We may be on the verge of discovery.
- Or not.
To determine the true next best thing to milk for cookies,
we'll be dipping into all kinds of liquid-y substances.
Drinks, condiments, sauces.
A lot of different options.
These are all things the Mythical crew and kitchen
determined stood the best chance
of stepping into the presidency,
should something ever happen to milk, God forbid.
You know how it works.
It's just order of operations.
What do they call it?
What's the official government term?
I didn't pay attention in that class, but first-
- Order of operations.
- So no, that's math. - Yeah.
- Let's have some good old fashioned cookies and milk,
so we can remember where the bar is set.
- We're going with the chocolate chip cookie today.
- I like to do a few dunks.
- I like to do the one dunk and hold,
which I'm gonna carry through this test and then the dab.
- It works its way into the cookie in a beautiful way.
It's a complementary flavor.
There's nothing wrong with it.
Now, again- - Nothing at all.
- We're not necessarily trying
to find something that's better.
- Next.
- Next best thing, you know?
Doesn't have to beat it.
(upbeat celebratory music)
All right, up first, there's nothing better
to congratulate yourself on a workout well done
than with a plate of cookies and a red sports drink.
(Link cheering)
You did sports!
(Link cheering)
- All right.
- I mean, this is odd.
You're starting in an odd place.
- I think that's correct.
- I'm doing my traditional three to four dips
and then inspecting each time,
just to see how it's doing under there.
I got saturation.
- I thought it would make the cookie redder than it did.
- It made it pink-ish.
- I do see a strong line, which sets my expectations
of where I need to be biting to.
- The sweetness and the fruitiness-
- [Link] Strange.
- Of the drink is something that's unexpectedly better
than I thought it would be,
but not as good as milk, by any means.
- Because it's sweet, it's sweet on sweet,
but it's fruit sweet on chocolate sweet.
- Have you had those cookies that have the little pool-
- It's not bad.
- Of raspberry jelly in the middle of them?
- Yeah, I know what you're talking about.
- It has the exact same flavor profile as if you dipped.
There's chocolate on that, as well.
- And the more you say that, the better it gets.
- It's like a jelly-filled, chocolate covered donut.
Nobody's complaining about that.
Man! - No.
- I didn't think that was gonna be good at all.
- See?
We've discovered something already.
- And it keeps you in shape because it's sports drink.
- Yeah, it does.
So by default, it's going up here on the podium.
But will it last longer than just a few seconds of fame?
I don't know.
- I don't know, let's find out.
(gentle celebratory music)
- White queso dip.
- Why?
- Why, yeah.
Now, the Mythical crew, they do a lot of testing.
There's things that never make it.
- That don't even get to this point.
- This far, so there's a reason why these are here for us
to taste for the very first time
and we just have to discover.
- Now, I know-
- I know mayonnaise didn't make it.
- Mayonnaise didn't make it?
- Mayonnaise didn't make it.
- I demand a recount.
I like the idea of cheese on desserts
ever since I was introduced to the south,
the Midwestern phenomenon,
of putting a piece of cheese on an apple pie.
I think it's a Midwestern thing.
We didn't do it growing up, but I've done it
since working on this show.
- And I think it's gonna coat it, but not soak into it.
- Right, but there's so much on the outside
that the flavor comes through.
I just like queso a lot.
I could dip anything.
I probably would get away
with putting a really old cat turn in there.
You know what I'm saying?
- Trust me, I've been working with those lately.
You don't wanna do that.
- You don't want toxoplasmosis.
Then you'll start taking risks.
- The fact that, I'll go for a second dip to make sure,
but the fact that the cookie is not soaking any of this up.
- It's not creating a new taste.
- Right.
- It's creating-
- They're so very separate.
- Cheese and cookies together, which incidentally,
I do like both of those things,
but it's almost like, I was going to the snack table
and started eating the queso and chips
before I finished the cookie that just happened
and they mixed in my mouth a little bit
and I'm like, okay, I'm not gonna complain about that.
- I will complain about this because there's also a spice
that's in the queso.
Everything is working against everything.
It's a nasty juxtaposition.
- Well, before you say that.
- No.
- As a man who likes mole and you don't like mole,
so I don't think it's better than sports drink,
but just for those of you who wanna try all these,
I will say, if you like mole
and like the spicy, cheesy taste and the chocolate together,
it's happening in my mouth with this, so.
- I would say you gotta go hotter and runnier,
so to get some soakage.
- It might get runnier later, I don't know.
- So alter your queso, if you wanna try that.
- All right, but it does not dethrone sports drink.
- No.
(gentle celebratory music)
- All right, we've got a glass of warm, wintry beverage.
- [Link] Is it real hot?
- Apple cider.
- Is it hot?
- I would say it's pretty hot.
- [Link] Is it real hot? - [Rhett] It's not real hot.
- [Link] It's just hot?
- I'm expecting to like this for the same reason
I liked sports drink, but maybe even more.
- Because of the apple pie thing you said.
- [Rhett] Yes.
- [Link] But I guess not.
- [Rhett] No, well-
- You were saying cheese on an apple pie.
It ain't no cheese. - Well, no.
Because apple cider is already closer to dessert,
like apple pie.
It's just kinda like, let's mix apple pie
and chocolate pie together, which is something that.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
It melted it.
Look how flimsy that made it.
I gotta get to it.
- [Link] It's real hot.
- It made like, an apple strudel.
Whoa. - Wow.
- It turned into like, is that a strudel?
Is that the right thing I'm thinking of?
- Yeah, a hot strudel.
It melts the chocolate chips and you get a lot of soakage.
- Whoa!
- [Link] You gotta be careful with your timing here.
- I wanna do another one immediately,
but there's more rounds to go.
This is no contest for me.
(Link applauding)
- So good! Wow!
- This is still a little bit weird.
There's nothing weird at all about this.
Apple cider and you gotta get it
at right temp for the meltage.
- You gotta make it real hot.
- But not too hot.
- Just kinda hot.
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Black sesame paste.
This is not hot.
But can I come up with some sort of paradigm
or can you give me one?
- I definitely can.
- To help me-
- Even if I didn't have one, I'd give you one.
- Have an entry poin here.
- But I do have one.
Some of my favorite desserts,
like if you're gonna get mochi, you know what I'm saying?
- [Link] Oh, yeah.
- A lot of times, the black sesame or the red bean,
like on the inside, it's a different approach
to desserts, in general, is to have something
that's a little savory thrown in there to balance the sweet
and I'm a fan, so I think this could totally work.
It's a weird consistency, though.
- Yeah, it's very pasty with like, it's kinda like walking
into a pond to take a swim
and realize that you're up to your hoo-hoo in mud.
- Yeah.
- You ever gotten up to your hee-haw in mud?
- Yeah, well, also, one time,
I went across the ropes at the tar pits.
- It did not, the cookie did not absorb it.
- [Rhett] It's not bad at all.
- [Link] But much more dip-able than, say, peanut butter.
- To me, the functionality here
is what I'm taking issue with.
- I'm getting a peanut butter sensation, which I like.
- Yeah, sesame paste is just a nut butter.
That's all it is.
- And the blackness of it
complements the chips in the cookies,
so I like the coordination.
- Again, there's a lot to celebrate here.
- Yeah. This is good.
- It's really good.
This is better than the sports drink.
- Yes, but not better than the apple cider.
- Apple cider made a strudel.
It made a new thing.
- There's no absorption.
It's still a separate type of thing.
It's almost like a chip and a dip sensation
versus a new creation.
- And if we're gonna let something, here's the thing.
I don't wanna set the bar
that you have to have absorption for it to.
If the taste is good enough,
the absorption, I'm setting aside.
But the taste is not so great
that we can let the functionality fly the coop.
- Stay up here, cider.
- I don't know where that analogy went.
- Fly with the chickens.
(gentle celebratory music)
- I know you can't tell, but there is a glass
of balsamic vinegar in front of me.
Right there.
- Well, I got one, too.
You can tell over here.
- Now, first of all, I know it's not apple cider vinegar,
when I see a glass of any type of vinegar,
I immediately have that flashback
to that time we made ourselves violently ill.
- Right. From drinking a pop.
- The worst I've ever felt on a show,
when we drank a pint of apple cider vinegar.
- Don't do it.
- But a dip into balsamic is a different thing.
I'm only doing one.
Maybe two dips because this is penetrating very deeply.
- [Link] Yeah, I think it's getting a little soakage.
- But it's also very strong.
I think maybe we just both overdid it, but let's just.
- Should I blow it?
Oh!
- Definitely overdid the first dip.
- Oh, my God.
- I'm going back in for.
You can't do what we just did.
- [Link] I'm just gonna start over.
- I'm gonna dip the nip.
- Just really quick.
A quick dip of the nip.
- I'm not going past one quarter of the cookie.
One, two, three.
- Just a little.
- Shake it, bake it.
- I took a bigger bite.
- Okay.
- That's a better ratio.
- Now, we're in a place where I can begin to evaluate
and just immediately hate what I did to myself.
(Link grunting)
- See, I've got milk just off camera
and I just wanna keep going back to it so badly.
- There's not a whole lot of complementary things
happening in my mouth right now.
- No, this is a lot of suckage.
We're in the zone of suckage.
- I would definitely not say that, just so you know.
If you told me that this was some fancy dish,
I would probably just eat the whole thing.
- He'd fall for it. He'd fall for it.
The marketing. - It doesn't suck.
It doesn't suck.
- It sucks.
- But it's not a contender. I will say that safely.
- It sucks.
- And it's too easy to overdo it.
- Sucks.
- Okay, it sucks.
(gentle celebratory music)
- Marshmallow spread.
I can't imagine that we're not gonna like this.
- I'm sure that people already do this.
- But is it going to create something to topple the strudel?
Oh, well, see-
- [Rhett] The consistency isn't-
- [Link] We're not in a soaking.
We're in a dipping territory.
- Yeah, this is using it almost like a chip and salsa.
Which, again, I'm sure somebody
out there's already doing this.
Not that that means we can't do it.
- It's good, but it's not a dip.
It's not like a cookie dip experience.
It's a scraping, not a dipping and soaking, so I'm out.
I'm out.
It tastes amazing, but it's not a discovery.
- It doesn't taste as good as it should,
is one thing I'll say.
- Well.
- You know what would be better?
Just whipped cream.
Just a tub of whipped cream.
- Oh, yeah, because I think there could be a little soakage.
And a lot easier dip-age.
This right here, you're really at risk of-
- The fact you're having to dig.
- Breaking off a cookie.
- Wouldn't you have to use the cookie as a shovel?
I think you crossed a line that you can't come back from.
Next thing you know, you'll be burying
your dead pets with cookies.
You don't wanna do that.
- And thinking about the days when you were just celebrating
with apple cider and your living pets.
(Rhett laughing)
- Got really dark unnecessarily.
I'm sorry.
(gentle celebratory music)
Okay, it's about to get weird.
Sour cream.
- Well, sour cream is just milk's weird and sour cousin.
- And I love sour stuff.
I love sour cream.
I like cream cheese icing on a cake,
and I know this is not cream cheese,
because it's got that sort of tanginess.
But sour cream is a next level of tanginess
and as you demonstrated, it's not-
- You don't even have to hold it.
- [Rhett] But I think it's gonna-
- You just shove it and then remove it.
Hey, that's pretty good coverage.
- And you don't want too much of this
because you know it's gonna go a long way.
- It's cold.
- It's doing the same thing
that cream cheese icing does on a cake for me.
- Yeah, it's not bad.
- It's definitively good, in my book.
- It kind of wakes you up to the reality
that you don't know everything.
- Right.
- You know?
It's like, dessert is not a time to just sit back,
turn your brain off.
- Right.
- It's a time to perk up.
Dig in.
Learn something new.
- There are possibilities lurking
in every corner of your kitchen.
All you gotta do is open your mind a little bit.
Just don't open the fridge and open the cabinets.
Open your mind, as well.
And then open your mouth and eat it.
- Man.
- Hold on.
I'm actually having a difficult time.
I thought this was runaway because apple cider was so good.
I think this is a side-by-side time.
- Yeah because we gotta be reminded
of what's happening here, that there's a soakage,
there's a melting of the chocolate,
there's a strudel-ing of the experience.
- [Rhett] It tastes like apple pie.
- It's just so-
- It's so good.
- Nice.
I would love to say sour cream.
- I'm going back into sour cream.
- It's happening, but I just feel like
this is what's happening.
That right there.
Our eam. You know?
- I agree.
Apple cider is revolutionary.
This is revelatory, I would say.
Revelatory.
- And we're gonna revel in it.
You should, too.
- [Rhett] But try the sour cream.
You will not be disappointed.
You'll be surprised.
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