- Can cheesecake stay good in the freezer for over a year?
- Let's talk about that.
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Good Mythical Morning.
- Coming in cold with- (imitating satellites beeping)
Freezer research!
Yeah, freezer research.
Now, according to the USDA, or the USDA,
as we say in the McLaughlin household,
if a food is kept frozen at zero degrees Fahrenheit,
then it is safe to eat indefinitely.
- Indefinitely.
- It doesn't sound very definitive.
And just because it's safe,
that doesn't mean it's gonna actually taste good.
After a certain amount of time,
frozen food then it's prepared.
- Then it's prepared.
- Loses some of its tastiness, right?
- I don't know, that's what we're gonna find out.
- All right, well, in the name of science,
we're gonna find, we're gonna try some foods.
They've already been found.
- Yeah. (laughs)
- And they've been frozen for various lengths of time
and we're gonna see if they're still up to part.
It's time for How Bad Can Food Taste
That's Been in the Freezer for a Year?
It's Not Like We're Eating
Walt Disney's Cryogenically Frozen Ear.
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As you can see, we can't.
- [Stevie] Okay, boys, in front of you
are three versions of the same food, one frozen a year ago,
one frozen a month ago, and one that's fresh.
In each round, you will place your hand
over the one year frozen item, so the oldest item,
and the points will escalate as we move forward.
The winner will be crowned the Frozen One
and shout out to our Mythical crew members
for never cleaning out their freezers
so we could try some old as heck food today.
- Yeah, for real.
- [Stevie] Our first item is filet mignon
and the one year old filet was brought to you by Silaine.
- Oh, Silaine!
- Silaine, why you sitting on a filet for a year?
Treat yourself!
(crew laughing)
- I like a good filet.
Who knows? Maybe it gets better over time.
Maybe that breaks down.
- I got a big old piece for my number one.
I'm gonna just put that.
- [Rhett] I like this eating meat with my hands.
- [Link] Oh, gosh.
- What is he doing?
(crew laughing)
He's doing something Link-ish, right?
- Is this a bite?
- [Stevie] No, no.
You're grabbing the large piece
that's not a bite every time.
- I was wondering why the bites we're so big.
- [Stevie] Yeah.
- I'm grabbing the whole steak?
- Hold on. - [Stevie] Yeah.
- You grabbed the whole steak as the first one?
- [Stevie] Yeah, for both of them.
- And I'm kind of hoarding it over here.
(crew laughing)
- Okay, there's a very distinct difference
between the number one steak and the number two steak,
but I'm not gonna say what the distinct difference is.
- One of them tastes a lot better.
One of them tastes nastier than the other one,
which tastes better.
- Hold on, is this the piece of steak that Link has on?
- [Stevie] Yes, do not touch that.
- Don't touch my steaks! I'm hoarding those.
- [Rhett] This is unfair. You get an unfair advantage.
- So one of these, fresh, one month, and one year?
- [Stevie] Yeah.
- Okay. - Hold on.
- All right. - Hold on.
- All right.
- [Stevie] And you're trying to guess
the one year frozen steak.
Oh, now you're putting them back. Okay.
- I don't want Rhett to know what I did.
- Okay, I gotta guess.
- [Stevie] Hand over the one year. Three, two, one.
- It's gotta be number two.
- It's either two or three.
Three ended up just being a bad.
- I was sure it was two after I tasted it,
but then I had three twice again
and I was like, it's getting worse.
- I made a mess.
- [Stevie] The one year old filet mignon is in the middle.
- Okay. Yeah.
This one's good. This the fresh one?
- [Stevie] Yeah, that's the fresh one.
So Link kind of correctly guessed.
- Well, not kinda. Total correctly.
- [Stevie] Oh, wait, no.
The one in front of Rhett is the one month old
and the one on Link's side is the fresh one.
So yeah, kinda.
- The fresh one tasted, by far, the worst to me.
I think it just might be a weird piece of meat.
I don't know what.
- Yeah, I thought that one was the best.
- And it might be that it's maybe just a little undercooked.
- But definitively, Silaine-
- This is bad.
- At a certain point, yeah.
It was good to just feed it to your dogs.
I'm talking about us.
- Yeah, but the one month old was my favorite.
- Was that your favorite, too?
- Yeah, yeah.
- Yeah, so one month old is getting into a sweet spot.
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- [Stevie] And we're going from steak to fresh fruit salad,
one month old frozen salad,
and one year old frozen fruit salad.
Fruit salad, apparently, is difficult to say.
- (stuttering) Fruit salad!
- [Stevie] All of the one year old fruits
came from individual team members, so Chappie, Jasmine,
and Hot Dog on a Stick employee, Matt Carney,
provided our one year old fruit.
- Okay. Oh, one.
Is there anything on there?
- [Stevie] Yeah.
- Two grapes.
- Two grapes, huh?
- Two shriveled up grapes.
Like an old man taking a whizz in a park.
- The grunt or two grapes?
Two grapes?
- [Link] Two grapes. What is this?
- [Rhett] I don't understand how the euphemism works.
- Those are some shriveled up grapes, man.
- Two grapes.
- Oh, and in the last round,
I don't know if we gave you enough descriptors
about why that the one year old steak tasted bad.
Help them out, Rhett.
(crew laughing)
I can't. You're more of the steak man.
I just thought it tasted bad.
- Again-
- It was an aftertaste thing.
- Oh, wow.
There's a little differentiation
because we're dealing with the same cut of meat,
but we're not dealing
with the exact same brand of meat, right?
And so I actually thought the fresh one
was just an outlier for me
because I just didn't like that meat,
but the difference between the one month and the one year-
- Dang it, I just got two more grapes.
(crew laughing)
- The one year had a blandness
that felt like something had turnt in it a little bit.
It's the only way I can explain it
and the one month old actually had sort of an aged flavor.
- Ew.
- But like a good aged flavor.
You know what I'm saying?
Like it was the level of flavor. That answers your question.
- Now for this one, this third one, mushy alert.
(crew laughing)
- Oh, my God.
Oh!
- What is this?
- I think this might be alcoholic.
(crew laughing)
- [Link] Is that a peach?
- I don't know why I keep going back in.
- Ew.
- [Rhett] Okay, well.
- I don't wanna go back in.
- I don't know exactly.
- That's horrible.
- I have a guess.
- That's scary. So that has to be it, right?
- [Stevie] Okay, this is worth two points.
Put your hand over the one year frozen.
Three, two, one.
- It's gotta be this one.
- [Stevie] (laughs) Yeah.
- And this is the fresh, right?
- [Stevie] Yeah, take your blindfolds off.
- (yelling) What did you do to us?
Ew!
- [Stevie] Obviously, this is the easiest one to tell that-
- [Link] What is it, a banana?
- [Stevie] The fresh one's in the middle.
- Now, I will say-
- Bananas and strawberries.
- What happened to the year old was beginning to happen
to the month old, but it was kinda nice.
- Yeah, I thought that was bad until this.
- It had an acidity to it,
which was almost getting to, I don't know.
Like I said, it was heading towards alcohol,
but this is too far.
This has gone too far.
- Good gracious, Carney.
- Carney, you dirty dog.
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- [Stevie] Okay, guys, it's the chicken breast round.
Again, there's a one month old,
a fresh, and a frozen for one year.
- Frozen for one year chicken.
Okay.
- Okay.
- [Stevie] Sorry, I forgot the most important part.
The one year frozen version came from Matt Carney again.
- What is he doing?
What's he preparing for?
- He's preparing for that baby that came.
- Oh, yeah, he's feeding that baby old food.
- Got a newborn baby.
He's at home with his baby today and feeding us instead
with all the crap that is not suitable for a child.
- Yeah, you can't feed that baby old chicken.
- [Link] Okay.
- They really can't even have chicken for awhile.
Gotta be at least a week old. (laughs)
- He was saving it all this time.
Now that he's procreated, he's giving up all his chicken.
Neither one of these are stellar.
- They're not great. They're not great.
- (clearing throat) Bad.
- [Rhett] (laughs) Okay.
- Ew! Ew!
(Rhett laughing)
- You having trouble?
(Link spitting)
See how you feel about that one.
- One of them is, it just keeps getting nastier
and I hope that's as nasty as it gets.
- Once you kinda get that old taste in your mouth-
- [Link] Okay.
- You keep thinking you're tasting it.
- Yeah.
Sorry.
- Okay.
- Putting these back.
- [Stevie] Okay. All right.
Three, two, one.
- That second one. - Yeah.
- Is so nasty tasting.
- I'm not a hundred percent sure we're right, though.
- [Stevie] Yeah. - We have to be.
- [Stevie] No, you're both right, yeah.
- Okay.
- [Stevie] That's the one year frozen.
The one in front of Rhett is the fresh one.
- The fresh one.
- [Stevie] And then in front of Link is the month old.
- Yeah, I couldn't tell if I was tasting residual.
- I thought this was fine.
- No, I thought this was getting to be like this,
but I was smelling-
- It really makes a difference.
- You can smell the oldness coming off of this one-
- [Link] Yeah. - And it was influencing
even the first bite of this chicken.
- The USDA needs to get our memo
that things don't last forever.
- Oh, they're just worried about safety, not taste.
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Eating all this food just reminds me
about the Mythical Kitchen.
- Oh, yeah.
- When I think about the Mythical Kitchen,
you know what I think?
They're not just having fun over there.
Tire teaching things. There's information.
- They know better than this.
- Yes!
In one of Josh's latest videos,
he's talking about how he makes his meal prep interesting,
for those of you who are prepping your meals.
- Oh, nice.
- There's no bland year old chicken breast for Josh!
He wouldn't be caught dead with it!
- Mythical Kitchen channel.
- [Stevie] Okay, for this last round,
we've got strawberry cheesecake, but before we dive in,
I have to mention that our oldest cheesecake comes from
a member of our resident freezer boy Kevin's family.
You would think that freezer boy would be Matt Carney.
- Yeah.
- [Stevie] But I'm giving that title to Kevin
because if you remember, Kevin previously gifted us
his grandma's three year old frozen nut roll that we tried.
- Yes! - Yes.
- With Duff Goldman.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- You wanna tell my grandma Leigh
that it's the best nut roll you've ever had?
- I'll have to taste. Leigh, I gotta have to taste it first.
- Smells kinda like a thrift store to me.
(crew laughing)
- It's amazing that it tastes exactly like it smells.
(Rhett laughing)
- Like an old baseball card.
- I'm sorry, Leigh.
(Rhett laughing)
- It was not good.
- Memories.
- [Stevie] Okay-
- [Rhett] So is this a year or three years?
- We got a fresh, a month, and a year,
and I'm keeping the identity of Kevin's family member secret
and I've been told to reveal it,
only if you like the cheesecake.
- How much do I?
- Are you using your finger?
- I'm trying to just get.
I think I got a lot.
Oh, that's a lot.
- I got a little.
- I don't know what would happen to cheesecake after time.
- My recollection.
You know what? I'm having a recollection.
Early on in my marriage, Christy's parent's neighbor
would make all these cheesecakes
and then she would always give them to us.
Like, "I'm famous for my cheesecakes,"
and we'd get them and we would freeze them
and forget about them and never eat it
because then we'd be afraid to eat it years later.
- I'm afraid to eat it, too,
because I'm getting such big bites.
Usually, you don't get huge bites when you just.
- And my bites are so little.
(crew laughing)
Okay, so far, so good.
- I got a lot of crust on that one.
(crew laughing)
- Nothing.
- You came back with nothing?
I still have a lot on my fork, if you want it.
- Are you using your finger?
I don't want you to be touching the cheesecake.
- No, but I have a whole lot on my fork.
- No.
- You want?
My fork's coming in.
- No.
- My fork's coming in real slow.
- I got some now.
- [Stevie] Link's on the third one already.
- [Rhett] Oh.
- [Stevie] It's funny because if you look at the closeups
and you don't realize that somebody's blindfolded
who's cutting pieces, it's just like chaos.
It's just like, why would you ever do that?
- Okay.
Now I see why you're having trouble
because reaching is really difficult.
- Yeah.
(crew laughing)
- Okay.
All right, I'm coming back in
because I still got nothing over here.
- You might get my fork offage.
- But what are you doing?
- Gonna stab myself in the gums.
None of these are horrible.
- Okay. Okay.
- [Stevie] Okay, reminder. This is worth four points.
- Any man's game.
- [Stevie] So this is, yeah. This is it.
You ready?
- It comes down to two of them.
It's hard to say, though. Dang.
- [Rhett] Okay. - [Stevie] Okay.
- Is this difficult for you, Rhett?
- No, but I have a very strong guess.
I don't know if I'm right, though.
- Yeah. Okay.
- [Stevie] Hand over the one year
frozen strawberry cheesecake in three, two, one.
(Link whooping)
- Oh, you think it's over here?
- [Stevie] Wait, before you take off your blindfolds,
stretch over.
I can't tell, Link, what your.
- I'm on the middle one.
- [Stevie] You're on the middle one. Okay.
Go ahead and take off your blindfolds.
- Stretch over. Okay.
- I didn't get much of that one, this one was great.
- This one looks the driest.
- The first one was excellent.
- I thought this one was good.
- [Stevie] I gotta tell you,
it was made by Kevin's mother-in-law, Carolyn.
- The first one? It got better with age.
- [Stevie] Yeah, that was the one year old frozen one.
It was right in front of you that you liked the best.
- Better with age.
- [Stevie] The middle one is the fresh one
and then the one in front of Link
is the one month frozen cheesecake,
so you both we're incorrect for this round.
- Cheesecakes keep. They really do.
- Cheesecakes get better, as a matter of fact.
- You know what?
I'm gonna dig up that one from Christy's parent's neighbor
that we've had for 40 years.
(Rhett laughing)
- 40 years. Okay.
- [Stevie] I do have good news.
- I guess we've been married for like, 20 years.
- [Stevie] Link, you are-
- 22.
- [Stevie] Now the Frozen One.
- Oh, yeah.
- I am the Frozen One.
- You got six to five.
- What do I get? I get a jacket? Okay.
- You can take home all the cheesecake you want.
- I don't have to do all the work.
I'm the freaking Frozen One!
- I'll put it on you.
- Oh, yeah.
- (laughs) Here. Put those on, too.
(crew laughing)
I gotta say, I'm jealous.
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- But these are not the same.
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