- Okay, so here we are, "Eating Your Feed."
- The show where-- - Our best friend, Adam--
- Challenges us to make ridiculous viral foods
from the internet.
We're going to be making everybody's favorite category
of food, it seems these days, giant food.
- [Niki] We have to make a really, really big burger.
- Here on Tasty, there's a show called "Making It Big."
- Our friend, Alvin, makes big things.
Big burger. - Big bun.
Lots of cheese. - That's upsetting.
- Oh, okay.
Making the bun is definitely gonna be
the hardest part of this.
- We have to make the bun?
- Yeah.
- We can't just buy extra large buns? (laughing)
- I'm excited about touching that soft, soft, brioche dough.
- That's a lot of cheese.
- Oh, but he's making a slice of cheese.
- Ugh!
- It's thick cheese.
- I feel like you shouldn't do this to cheese.
And sauce. - And burger sauce.
- It looks like a cartoon. - It does.
Very interesting.
- It's a little upsetting, to be honest.
- To turn this into an even more groundbreaking burger.
- Ground beef-breaking burger.
- In fact, yes, ground beef-breaking burger.
We're gonna be doing this with a meat substitute patty.
- Oh! - Yeah.
Adam was pitching a bunch of episode ideas
for this season. - Uh-huh.
- And he said, "How 'bout that giant burger?"
And I was like, I'll do it if you replace
the meat with fake meat. - Oh.
- Because I didn't think he was gonna accept those terms.
- So this is your fault. - Yeah.
Earlier, you said that Adam's our best friend, but--
- He's my best friend.
- It was a little bit of a lie.
Well, you know who my best friend is?
- I have, no it's not, no. - Rie is my best friend.
(all laughing)
- Hi. - Hi.
Are you on this fake meat train?
- I have never tried, you can do it.
- Oh, you think we can do it?
- Yeah, yeah.
- Do you think we can do it and make it tasty?
- (laughing) Giant food-- - That's what I said.
- It's more like quantity than quality, right?
- Right, we can't have both. - Yeah.
- What if, that's gonna be my goal today.
I want to have both. - Okay.
It's gonna be my first no-meat burger.
- Same. - Yeah.
- Thanks. - Good luck!
- Bye!
It's time to make the burger bun.
(gentle whimsical music)
We're working on our brioche dough,
but the butter needs to be room--
(both laughing) room temp.
- And it just came out of the fridge.
- And it just came out of the fridge,
so Niki's helping us out by-- - Listen.
I walked into the room earlier, and Andrew was shoving these
into his pants pockets.
- I've heard chefs talk about that.
- We're using a brioche recipe from finecooking.com.
It makes small brioche buns?
But 16 of them.
We're each gonna make a batch,
and then, combine them, because we cannot double
the recipe in one of these mixers.
- Combine the flour, sugar, yeast,
and salt, at a low speed, until well-combined.
So we're gonna continue mixing,
and add four eggs and our milk.
Should we crack the eggs before we go?
Can I just crack them into my milk?
- Yes. - Yeah, why not?
Let's just do it. - Okay.
(laughing) Andrew!
- I learned a lot about why things don't happen
a certain way while baking.
- Cheers! (laughing)
Blarp. (mixer whirring)
- [Andrew] Okay, so we're swapping
from the paddle to the hook.
(mixer whirring) - It's too big.
- [Andrew] Oh.
- So my mixer's having a little bit of a hard time
with the size of the dough, and Andrew and I
have to combine our doughs at some point,
so we might just blob 'em in now.
- I have a pretty big mixer over here.
(mixer whirring)
Look at this glass of water.
It's like "Jurassic Park" in here.
Okay, so now, we're going to add her butter.
- Is this butter soft enough?
It's having a hard time.
- Um. - I think it looks okay.
- It's becoming quite soft, like a mousse.
You feel good about this?
- Yeah.
- You've made brioche before.
- Yeah, see, this was what I couldn't get right,
'cause my butter to the rest of the dough ratio
was far too high. - Really?
- So it never came together.
- I don't think this is gonna pull off the sides.
It's just, there's too much of it, you know?
- Adam just said if our recipe is doubled,
would it take twice as long to mix,
and quite possibly, yeah.
It sounds terrible. (mixer whirring)
- It's starting to--
- It's working - Ball up at the top.
- [Niki] It's working.
(fast paced hands slapping)
(hands slapping rhythmically)
(both laughing) - Oh!
You messed up this time. - Did I?
I thought that was fun. - Maybe.
I messed up?
Yeah, it makes sense.
That checks out. - Look at it,
look at it, look at it, look at it.
- [Andrew] Oh.
- It's gonna-- - It just became dough.
- [Niki] It's a ball, it's a smooth, shiny ball.
- I think I'm too anxious to be a baker.
I was ready to pull the plug on this thing.
- I know. - Boy, was I wrong.
Now does this look like what Alvin did in his video?
- So satisfying.
Oh, (beep).
- Kind of, yeah. - Yeah.
Oh, yeah, oh that feels great, right?
- Oh, yeah. - It's not that sticky.
I think we did, I think we did do it.
She's pretty. - I know.
Okay, we're gonna cover it to let it rest.
- Bye-bye. (whimsical music)
Wow! - Wow.
Our dough has-- - Look at that.
- Really doubled.
Wait, watch this. - It's massive.
Ooh, yeah.
- [Andrew] So we're gonna make a mold
just like Alvin did for our baking sheet.
- This is huge. - Yeah.
(foil crinkling)
- Oh no, did we do-- - Is that enough?
- [Niki] I don't know.
- [Andrew] Don't let it touch the floor!
- Could this wrap the both of us?
- Yeah. (both laughing)
- Is this sturdy enough?
- I don't know.
I don't think our dough's gonna be
big enough to fill that out.
- Fill this? - His is at least half
of the size of what ours is right now.
- I think-- - But measure the burger.
- No, but look at our dough.
I want to-- - No, we're using--
- [Both] All of it.
- Yeah, so let's do it, man, big is scary.
- [Niki] Ee!
- [Andrew] Oh.
- Ah!
- Oh.
So now we're going to punch down our dough ball.
Oh, it's so, it's like leaking.
- We touched it too much.
Put it in, just put in it.
- Okay. - Just put it in.
- Okay, so now we're just gonna let this proof.
- It smells like bread.
- Yeah. - It smells like baked bread.
(whimsical music)
That's comically large.
- I think this is ready to bake.
This is gonna be an ugly bun.
- Oh, we gotta egg wash the top.
- Okay, let's get a couple eggs.
We are now going to put this into our preheated oven.
(whimsical retro music)
Okay, so while the bun is in the oven,
we're going to prep some of our vegetables.
You wanted caramelized onions.
So I'm gonna slice 'em up,
throw them in this pan right here,
and you're gonna work on the sliced tomatoes.
- [Niki] Sliced tomatoes.
- Let's go check that brioche.
- [Niki] I think we need to cover the top,
'cause it's very brown, and it's only gonna get browner.
- [Andrew] Oh, shnikes.
We should-- - But how?
- It needs a foil hat. - Foil.
It needs a foil hat.
I'm a baker.
- You know, a good burger sauce really can make
or break a burger.
This is gonna upset some people.
Mayonnaise is very polarizing.
- This whole video's gonna upset some people.
- We want a nice orangey color, yeah?
- Yeah.
Oh, you're gonna add the relish?
- Yeah, but more ketchup first.
- Should we put a little relish in?
- Yes, I know you're so excited about the relish.
- Well, you don't like pickles.
- I don't like pickles.
I will accept a little relish in the sauce.
- This is gonna, I think, add--
- Okay, stop, stop. - The tartness.
- Stop there. - Let's give it a taste.
- No, no.
Why did you eat that like a mouthful of soup?
- It could use more relish, for sure.
- No.
- We caramelized the onions for you.
(Niki groaning)
- No, what are you doing?
What's wrong with all of you?
- Now we're making a burger.
(whimsical music)
Okay, so it's time to assemble our patty.
We're going to smash them onto this baking sheet,
just like Alvin does in his video.
- Did you wanna get some spices?
♪ Did you wanna get some spices ♪
I'm gonna start plopping them out onto the sheet.
So it actually kinda smells like ground beef.
- A little.
It's like fainter, the smell.
- So this is like my standard burger size, probably.
(intense drum music)
All right, we gotta check that bun.
- I know, I know. - I'm nervous now.
- [Niki] Wow!
- Yeah, we're good.
♪ Bam, bara, rap, pah, pah, pah ♪
- Cool.
So we just need to make a patty that's this big.
- Two patties that big.
Also, meat shrinks when you cook it.
- For sure.
Start with some salt.
- I also got roast, smoked paprika and regular paprika.
- Ooh! - 'Cause I feel like,
you would have an opinion. - I don't,
but both sound lovely. - Okay.
- [Andrew] Some black pepper, sure.
- Garlic powder.
(imitation meat squelching)
This is very cold.
Throw 'em in? - Throw 'em in.
See what happens.
I turned it up to 475.
(intense string music)
So Alvin made a giant version of a slice of cheese.
- [Niki] Right, he melted it and then, recongealed it.
- Do you wanna do that?
Or do you wanna just-- - Not particularly. (laughing)
- Slap cheese on top of our patty?
(upbeat music)
We're back from the store
with our main objective, the cheese.
- Our main cheese.
- Thankfully, they let us buy this unsliced.
- Thankfully, they lettuce. - (laughing) Okay.
We've got our glorious block of American cheese,
the finest cheese, perhaps, for burgers.
- Why is this knife sticky?
- I used it to cut the onions?
- On-on-onions.
- So Adam thinks that we should do it the long way.
- [Niki] I agree with Adam,
but that looks like a difficult task.
- Okay, yeah, that's gonna be tough.
- Yes, I'm worried. (laughing)
I'm just gonna tell you right now,
no matter how hard I'm gonna try,
it's probably gonna be a little crooked,
and everyone's gonna have to be fine with that, okay?
- [Andrew] Should we steal a little bit?
- Yeah.
Kitchen mice.
Mm. - Oh yeah.
- This is just not-- - Holy (beep).
We made a good ass bread.
- This should not be a burger bun.
- No.
This is a straight up cake.
- [Camera Man] Oh my God.
- [Adam] I'm just pulling chunks, though.
- This is just-- - Oh!
- Yeah.
That's enough cheese.
We're gonna go put this on the patties.
- [Niki] Look at all that oil.
- Oh.
I mean, it's not exciting looking.
- [Niki] Does it have to be exciting looking?
Did we maybe overcook it?
It's upsetting. - Throw some cheese on, yeah.
Nice even distribution.
- I don't want anyone to see me like this, you know?
- Yeah.
- Like I'm upset by a lot of this.
- [Andrew] Oh, you gotta get way more
cheese than that, Niki.
- [Niki] Don't, leave me alone.
(intense string music)
- So we think our brioche is a little too fragile
to be toasted, so we're gonna--
- Also, and it's so delicious as is.
- Yeah, we're gonna skip toasting.
- The bottom? - Let's sauce the bottom.
- [Niki] It's gonna be a light saucing.
- [Andrew] This is silly now.
- What's silly?
All of this?
All of the above?
Everything we've done today? - Yeah.
Everything is silly.
It has a very suctiony effect.
- Like I wish I didn't know this wasn't meat.
- All right, I'm going for it.
It feels like it's ready to go.
(dramatic string music)
It's too big!
- It doesn't shrink up like regular meat.
Cut it all the way, oh, okay. - Next one.
- Yep. - Here it comes.
- [Adam] Oh.
- There's cheese squirting out the front right now.
- We're just gonna keep going, yeah?
Onions? - Yeah, onions, plop 'em on.
(onions squelching) - I hate this.
- This top patty is sliding off the bottom patty.
- [Andrew] Shove it back on.
Hold it in place.
- Oh, no!
Stop, too far, too far!
- [Andrew] It's gonna have to be, it needs to be--
- We gotta move faster. - Yeah.
- Go, lettuce!
No, there's no time, keep moving.
- Doesn't that look good?
- Stop putting lettuce on there.
Andrew, stop.
It looks really horrific.
- [Andrew] I'm gonna start shmearing sauce
on the top bun, okay? - All right.
I think this burger looks the way that I feel on the inside
about this burger.
- Okay, should we put its hat on?
(both laughing) (intense violin music)
It's gonna have to fall to a certain degree.
- Well, I can help that problem.
(bun thwacking) (laughing) Oh no!
That looks terrible.
(melancholy guitar music)
(laughing) I can't look at it.
- I don't know, guys.
I think it looks pretty good. - I can't look at it.
- I'm not mad at this. (production team laughing)
This is Instagram versus reality right here.
- How are you so okay with this?
Like it barely looks like a food.
I can't wait for Rie to see this.
She's gonna never be friends with any of us ever again.
- She's not coming back. - She's gonna quit, for sure.
Rie! (laughing)
(beep) Sorry. - Approach very slowly.
- Come closer to me-- - Why?
- [Niki] But look away.
- Okay. - Okay.
And. (laughing) - Can I look?
- Yeah. (all laughing)
- Is it bigger? - I don't know.
- What?
It's not bad. - What?
Aren't you always the one who's like,
you eat with your eyes?
- But it's like--
- What are your eyes eating now?
- I mean, like giant burger, this is giant burger.
If you made too small, I would be disappointed,
but this is giant burger.
- Oh, okay, so if your expectations were just large.
- Yeah, I wasn't expecting like gourmet.
Oh, wait, are we gonna do just--
- It smells like a burger, it's crazy.
- It's burger.
(all yelling)
- Are we gonna eat it? - Yeah.
- Okay.
(all laughing)
All I got was lettuce.
- Well, I got meat. - How's the meat?
Really? - Yeah.
- I thought, it's fake meat.
I don't know.
- It's actually not bad. - Here we come.
Boom!
Holy crap!
Oh my God! - Cheese full!
- Look at all the-- - Why are you guys
are so surprised? - Listen.
- I don't know. - When we were assembling it,
when we put the top on top,
everyone in this room starting crying.
(Rie laughing)
- [Andrew] That looks incredible, though, right?
- [Rie] Yeah.
- Listen, it smelled real weird while we were cooking it.
- Is it good? - Oh, yeah.
- Really?
All right, I'm gonna get a slice.
Okay, so Rie's crying because she can't believe
how good it is, and I can't, either,
but I think this maybe proves the idea
that a sloppier burger is a better burger.
So it doesn't quite look as clean as Alvin's,
but I'm actually shocked how good it tastes.
It tastes like an actual burger.
- We're just weeping. - What's wrong?
- I don't know. (laughing)
- Look, it's been a roller coaster of emotion today.
Adam's shaking the camera, 'cause he's laughing.
(whimsical music)
- Ready, three, two, one!
(group gasping) (group laughing)
- Hold your hands like this in front.
(group laughing) - Are you kidding?
- Right?
I don't know. - Oh, ho, ho.
- Dude, it's so big!
- [Woman] Can I have a small piece?
- Mm. - Wow.
- [Rie] Sounds like you're eating noodles.
- Oh my God, wow!
- I said at the start of this, I hated that Adam
was making me do this challenge,
but now I'm kind of-- - No, I still hated it.
- Now I'm pretty pleased with it.
Oh. (whimsical music)
♪ Ooh, dum, bah, bee, ah, bah, doo ♪
♪ Ooh, da, bop, bah, bah ♪
♪ Ba dum, da, doo ♪
♪ Ba dum, doo, da ♪