$5 Fried Chicken Sandwich Vs. $20 Fried Chicken Sandwich

Alright, Steven, this will be our final value in Episode Four of 2019. Today I'm worth it. We're going to try three

fried

chicken

sandwich

es at three drastically different prices to find out which one is worth the most and what it costs. I think we're experiencing a bit of a

fried

chicken

sandwich

craze right now, we thought we'd look into the problem and make fried chicken sandwiches ourselves. I like what you said, do your research, oh, look at that fresh asphalt, the way you say the words, it looks. golden and delicious like fresh fried chicken does, doesn't it look delicious?

So the first place we head to is the American Beauty window. Chef Alicia will show us her fried chicken sandwich. American Beauty is a steakhouse and during the day they have a takeout window that does things like burgers fries fried chicken sandwiches obviously I really like that that feels very New York I don't know I'm going to go that I just like I just like New York what is it La Ventana So La Ventana is our daytime operation where we serve delicious food at a very affordable price. I understand that the chicken sandwich costs less than six dollars, it has five dollars and fifty cents.

Wow, that's crazy, I don't know if I would say we compete with fast food, but we are trying to match the price of the usual fast food chains. We are doing everything in-house. The idea is to provide hospitality to our guests, whether they're ordering a fried chicken sandwich at the window or they're ordering our steaks at night, so we butterfly the chicken so it spreads, you pound it so it's the same thickness . I saw that you are also marking the meat before hitting it, we are both helping. the buttermilk and seasoning soak in well, so we're giving it a little more space on the surface to get a little more crunchy bits and then we just fry it.

We have the amazing Martin's potato rolls, the jalapeño aioli, which gives it a little more fat and some spice. and then we have this very simple slaw that adds a little freshness just cabbage, some carrots, red onion and a very simple red wine vinaigrette. What you would say is a perfect fried chicken sandwich, is it the balance of all those things together for me? I think it's really a combination of everything, it's an evolution as you eat it and as it progresses it all complements each other. I think that really makes the dining experience better and more enjoyable, that's our request, thank you, thank you. it smells oh it's okay that was a hard blow there's something about food in a box like this I love it every time mmm it's like the American bento box cute you catch up with your fry I'm fine wait I'm fine let's go fry I mean, what, okay, I'm not throwing this ketchup on your head, do it, I dare you, fries mmm, amazing fries, it's crunchy like cereal is crunchy, okay, come on, Sando time, oh look at that, It feels richer than I thought, it's that potato butter.

Regards, Jarett, mm-hmm, yes, a really good first bite. Wow, mmm, looking at it. I have felt that everyone will behave well. What I'm getting about this bun is so soft and fluffy that it's doing its job like fried chicken. the real star of the show, so this is the question why we eat fried chicken as a sandwich. You know, because we've made fried chicken before. mm-hmm, the bread just dials everything back into bland, huge donut territory. or since you know what this does, it reminds me of the city. I think you'll be mad because you didn't think about no.

I think it will be a lot more atmospheric than I thought. The Peking duck bun we had in New York. that soft, squishy bun with delicious seasoned meat and crunchy vegetables plus the cucumber and the sweetness, you're right, okay, yeah, yeah, American Beauty, what a beautiful time in America, that's too easy for you. I'm disappointed, okay, so before our next proper fry. chicken sandwich, we're actually going to have an extra piece of fried chicken, friend of the show, David Chang has several fried chicken sandwich shops called fuku, they have an off-menu mega spicy fried chicken designed to taste better as a cold item. a play on food, but in the language of flavor and temperature it's more like an oxymoron, it's funny, you have to be an oxymoron to eat this, okay, you know, it's terrifying.

The black gloves that come with your food here are, oh, put the gloves on. this guy is walking his dog and he's just looking at three guys, he probably has black gloves on, oh my gosh, he looks upset, oh he looks mummified to me, why is it so dark? I wish you had that bottle of ranch back, I know you're just different This is so weird as applause oh oh oh it's like cinnamon sugar e200 it's bad there are pickles you can eat on the side hey ah no, I don't like this, give it back okay, hot and cold fried chicken, done, I'm hmm well, that's good, an ice cold drink, talking about worse things, you say, hot, cold, chicken time, cold, made on time, oh wow, chemical and spicy foods What makes something spicy is capsaicin.

Capsaicin is known to increase energy, reduce appetite, increase salvation and release endorphins, the ability to taste produces in higher temperatures above 80 degrees Fahrenheit as well as in lower temperaments below 60 degrees Fahrenheit oh I think this chicken might be right in the center it's still working oh my gosh so let's go to the center to be Kuniko let's go see the chef. koneko and eat your fried chicken sandwich okay it's spicy no it's okay yeah teeny means picnic more clinical oh so it's all a to go box that you can eat outside the restaurant like a picnic why You chose fried chicken as the cornerstone of the menu I grew up with.

My grandmother never liked to cook, so we always used it when I came here. I had southern style fried chicken with a thick thick crust and I loved it so I made a light hybrid like Japanese but also crunchy normally, it's a wheat flour but we do brown rice and potato starch which is maybe the part most special of our fried chicken. Our fryer does not have Goodison. A lot of my friends, the kids, have bad allergies and they've never had fried chicken, so I was like, "Okay." Can you come here? Why did you want to offer a sandwich option for your fried chicken?

I'm trying to belong here. Do you ever find them in Japan? I don't think it's a popular thing. The Japanese just pack rice balls, fried chicken, pickles and that's our picnic, but a lot of people said clinical, come on, like you live in America, like everyone loves the sandwich. Make up a cool one. I wanted to make that sound. It's as special as it gets. We created a golden button that contains turmeric. turmeric is like anti-family so you can listen to your feelings about our meeting fried chicken come to me the sandwich is about a combination of the soft and crispy bun the tangy chicken the lemon vinaigrette I wanted to have everything in one bite, I want say, you say one bite, but I have seen the sandwich and it is quite high, yes, how can I eat it with one bite?

We came for the sandwiches, but we also have a salad. No, the first. I like my seaweed and cucumber salad, our cvd from Japan and it is very cured. The texture is not dehydrated, it is cozy like a paper thing, it is very meaty and satisfying. I eat my salad every day. Greetings, hmm. Wow, I'm not sure I've ever eaten this type of seaweed before it's denser on the meteor pause button. back to the sandwich that gave us a good tip to crush oh look how juicy the juices come out of the triviality is the hidden benefit of the crush Cheers, that's amazing Wow, that's a facial cleanser, it sure is a very good sandwich, my friend, the star of this fried chicken sandwich, say it in three one two three the branch ah defend your case because I think you're wrong it's the acidity that makes you want everything else true but come on look this bread is soft it has a good bite no it's completely apart it's beautiful sandwich the texture of these things almost like moss like they're moss and I think I bet it's tasty Valley they can have a fresh texture to eat it's like a hanging garden it's like that plant up there I think this is Potentially the perfect sandwich You have this fried chicken that's delicious, but then things are rounded so you don't feel like an easy son, not easy at all, fried chicken on this side, right, she's like, okay, what do I put on it? this side to balance it?

She spreads miso jam on herself. pickles too far, oh okay the jalapeño is on this side, boom you like it, we said some good things, dirty move Adam, it's a dirty dirty move, they're eating the one you didn't steal a piece of chicken yet. I see, I know. how do you work pika Nico, what do you think the brat is so good? I feel like a picnic since before we go to our next place, fried chicken sandwich, pot time, fried chicken sandwich, although it's currently not on the menu for a while, KFC offered double down. sandwich I remember the one that consisted of two fried chicken tenders that served as a bun and the filling was bacon, cheese and sauce.

In fact, I have a very good memory of this. You actually ate this. I tried it. It was as amazing as it sounds. Remember that was crazy, it's like just eating food, guys, what are you doing? Is it even a sandwich at that point? or they are just picking up food, like if I took a steak and ate it with my hand. Started this video at a steakhouse mm-hmm now we're going to a seafood restaurant oh okay we're on our way to Son-of-a-gun where chef Greg will show us his fried chicken sandwich and probably a Un A couple more seafood delights are modeled after a certain style or genre of seafood, definitely Jon and Vinny, the owners are from Florida, the atmosphere is a Florida fish shack.

I wonder why you put a fried chicken sandwich on the menu at a secret restaurant. Well, our menu is really diverse, which is how we like to eat living in Los Angeles. You have so much diversity as well as amazing food and the amazing Chinese food from Koreatown in San Gabriel, you name it, we have it here, so this is what influences our menu. We are not an Italian restaurant, we are not a French restaurant, we just take something that we like at that moment and try to develop a dish for the tuna dish, for example, exactly, yes, that tuna dish is influenced by Peruvian cuisine , first we took avocado market, red onion, cilantro and some tortilla chips, mixed all that together and then the tuna was mashed into carpaccio so the texture of the fish is really nice so it wraps around the mikado mixture and then assume the bottom of the bowl. in grace tea so you eat it with a spoon and you get some tuna and avocado tortilla chips all together delicious this reminds me of our time at Pacific Seas remember I don't exist in this bar as you know me. shared like a donut, wait, okay, these are the best ones you've ever seen.

This is a drink that is not necessary. Greetings, because how would you like this? I'm worried because I don't taste alcohol there, but I'm definitely looking forward to it. ok, uh, here, okay. Oh, time to stir, hmm, yeah, I mean, you met me and then you were hoarse, ready for you. Good yes. Greetings. Oh, mmm, hell yeah. Okay, turn it on. I think the moistest czar is the most Disney princess food. It's like a spoon made. of a fish from the ocean and it makes me feel like I'm in a Little Mermaid, you know what I mean, no, I'm not going to pick up what you're putting out, people shake their heads, but those people haven't been having scorpion. balls, what a wild thing I've ever seen, it looks like a whole brain on a plate, wow, damn, that spoon, oh my god, that's good, look how much avocado is in this juice at the bottom, it's like juice spicy orange, this is more of a cocktail than this yeah, wait, no, Steven, you're crazy.

I was saying it tastes more like a cocktail with the squirt. I said no, we take a free range chicken breast brined overnight in a little lemon and herbs, read it with a three step breading process, seasoned flour in buttermilk and then make crumbs with the flour and buttermilk of milk to give it a crispy texture when we fry the chicken and let it rest so the juices are reabsorbed and then we use a Gallo Rojo aioli which is Red Rooster hot sauce from Louisiana, I'm not sure Aceh is more like Tabasco and then we make a salad with greens from the market, we make some bread and butter pickles here, so we'll make the dressing for the coleslaw with vinegar that comes from the pickles, thanks, okay, this shouldn't be what we do at all.

I was hoping to see, there are pickles embedded in the salad, it's my kind of salad, have you ever seen a more beautiful chicken sandwich commercial? Perfect, okay, I'll split it up for us. You're going to love the feel of this, but I can already tell that yeah, yeah, you're a big bagel guy, oh, these dishes are actually very similar, there's like the fattiness and the sourness, yeah, fatness, sourness, thank you , acidity, fat, this acidity, fatness, acidity, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You're going to prepare me like this when I make a strong mate. How's that for a sport?

Greetings mmm. You know you had a good time when the sandwich is a mess.What do you think of the texture of the fried crust? Sounds like you. I want to talk about the texture of the fried crust Andrew, yes, no, there are different levels of crunch, a crunch, your crunch would be like leaves, a high pitch crunch and then also a lower pitch crunch, like stepping on snow. I think this is more like a snow crunch, the other chicken. what we've had is more like leaf crunching I want spinach in a day I want to spend a day in your head like what are you thinking?

Okay Stephen, we do yin, that we only had three fried chicken sandwiches, but this also concludes a three The episode prepared for us, the first one had buns, the last one had buns, indeed, it was a sandwich itself, which one was Your favorite thing in this episode that wasn't a fried chicken sandwich, the giant ropes that held up the hanging light bulbs in Key Kuniko yeah, we don't usually talk about restaurant decor. I have a similar favorite thing that wasn't a fried chicken sandwich. Oh, the bathroom faucets at American Beauty looked like a swan squirting water. inside, okay, which fried chicken sandwich was worth the price given, why does that winner come through the window at American Beauty?

That fried chicken sandwich is everything I wanted in a Martin's potato roll that's near and dear to my heart, you know? You often get it wrong on the show, but today you get it wrong, oh I assure you the winner will be good, that fried chicken sandwich was so special, yeah, today's smash was pretty excellent Adam, who's worth your value? Winner Adam picks B Kuniko, a good Pete Kuniko. and that will be available for 2019 thank you to everyone working on this show to make this happen most of them are not here and thank you all for watching I appreciate it we will be back if you want to suggest the food we make check out our Instagram . page instagram.com slash BuzzFeed worth it in the comments of this video comments video you're probably reading them right now while watching this I'm watching too oh yeah, what have we learned about fried chicken?

You can still eat delicious fried chicken sandwiches. At least the world will know that they taste good.