I Made A Giant 100-Pound Boba Milk Tea • Tasty

Hi, I'm Alvin, welcome back to Delicious's Making Trial, where we make

giant

versions of some of America's most beloved foods. Today I'm making a

giant

boba

milk

tea drink, but the thing is, I've never

made

boba

from scratch. So I'm going to call my friend Inka, she was my co-host on the giant ramen episode and I think it's going to be really fun, so enough talking and let's get started. What's happening? Inka, how is she doing? Alvin Good, we're using. your bubble recipe today to make a giant boba. I'm going to start, so first thing is put the sugar in the water, okay, stir it until it dissolves, yeah, wait, what temperature should I cook this at?

Basically enough for sugar to melt, you don't want it on high heat, do you have it on high heat that was on high? Yeah, basically once it's warm you're going to want to take it off the heat, actually take the starch out of it, sorry table. tablespoon full that's a lot that's a little less good that's right yes of course that's fine she said it so if the recipe goes wrong it's not my fault you know I can only see so far from the zoo oh that's true it's 100 mi blame like You're stirring it well, it should form almost like a paste, that's great once it's all dissolved, you want to put it back on the heat and now just cook it until it's a little bit thicker, okay, go back on the heat.

Wow, it's like three ingredients. but the amount of similar technique is quite a bit, I think it's getting a little thick now as the rest of the starch goes in and then stirs quickly oh it's getting sticky oh boy like it's really clumpy it's really hard to scrape the bottom of the pan. How do I know when to take it out? You're supposed to get it out as soon as possible. Oh, okay, as soon as possible. So far things are going badly, my friend, that's very liquid. It's your recipe. Can you work with this? Do you think so?

I guess I can't feel it, so yeah, I mean, it feels like, oh God, okay, it looks really weird right now, so I won't do it. I don't know how to describe this texture, uh, it's a little sticky and it's a little warm. What the hell is it like he's alive the moment you put him on the ground? It does its thing, but when you try to move it it's like a rock, wait, okay, so I think there's something wrong. What's happening? It's not supposed to be like a rock. I don't think it's right when you put starch in it, remember it was like a liquid to you, it's supposed to be like a dough at that time, yes, no, it comes out right away, that's not right when you pull it, it should be stretchy at this point stretchy I think we need to remake it alvin oh no it's 100 my fault it's okay it's just a few ingredients it'll be fine we'll be right back uh try number two you were saying I

made

a mistake on the sauce like at the thick sauce stage we think that that's what you need to achieve the consistency of a thick mochi sauce and hopefully that's the problem. thick mochi sauce thick mochi sauce thick mochi sauce can you see this?

It's almost there, no it's not, oh, go on, that's where the problem was. I think the first time I didn't make the thick mochi sauce it was just sauce, oh yeah I think it's good, are you 100 sure? Blame you can, I'm like 85 80. oh that's a b 75 okay let's add the beginning okay out of the heat yeah okay are you worried? Oh, one hundred percent, let's go for it, okay, she said, please work, does it feel different oh? It feels so different, oh my god, like nothing is getting stuck. yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so now what you need to do is roll it out a little bit into an oval shape, divide it into three sections, okay, you need to wrap plastic around two of the doughs this is just to help retain their moisture, okay, what's next, what's next, roll this out into a long snake shape until it's about 0.5, you have a ruler with you, yes, I do. 0.5 is actually still too big, it should be a little bit smaller like a finger like a finger okay, yeah, look at that little ball, oh, it looks so cute, yeah, it looks cool, boba has a unique texture when cooked, how do you describe how it tastes or feels?

Well, the taste is slightly sweet, but the texture is q-q q-q so q-q is the term people in Taiwan use to describe the texture when it is a little chewy, has a slight bounce but is not rubbery. I feel like there's a misconception that mochi is some kind of qq, you know. it's that kind of situation and qq is my favorite word to describe everything noodles can also be qq when they are well cooked currently i have only rolled this up yeah oh my gosh thank you nina for helping me good luck alvin sorry. I can't be there to help.

I have a lot of work to do. I'll be here for a few hours. Jesus? Okay, we're back in the

tasty

kitchen with a huge pot, boiling water for tea, these are black tea bags. these are the ones I use and used to make and sell bubble

milk

tea. I'll tell you that story later, but essentially they would take these tea bags and leave them and we have 500 tea bags, sounds like a lot. because I think this might have enough caffeine to keep an elephant active for a long time, so this is all the tea that was cooled and brewed, as you can see, the color is super intense, it weighs like 22 liters or So I don't know how many cups of boba will be produced, but I think the answer is pretty cool.

After many hours and some culinary help, we were able to make many four trays of fresh boba, probably like a thousand of these little ones. Okay, here we go, oh, they're like little bullets, oh, wow, this is very hot, okay, let's stir this one more time, here we go, oh, this is hot, don't kill yourself, Alvin, come on, it was very good. Aninka's recipe. The goal is to cook them until the bobas rise to the surface. Goodbye, little boba balls. All of these little boobies are nice and plump, so I'm going to take these guys straight into some ice water.

I think I said this is really important. because it kind of impacts the outside of the boba and helps give it that texture qq she was talking about, they look great and they can't stay in ice water for too long. Wow, look at that, that's amazing, okay, I have a lot of boba balls to cook, so I'll see you in a pretty big part about boba, at least for me, if you have a good brown sugar syrup and start with five cups of water in this giant pot and seven and a half cups. of dark brown sugar, stir this until it all comes together, you have a kind of syrupy brown sugar that's really nice and I've prepared the outside of the cup and I make this striped pattern, probably my favorite part will be cooking the boba. in it, so here we're going to stir until it gets nice and sticky and sugary and delicious, oh my gosh, it smells oh, it smells amazing, I want to try one oh oh, that's good, okay, I'll let it cool and then I'm going to build the boba drink woohoo okay, so I found a vase that is apparently supposed to be used in hotel lobbies around the world, since my boba glass measures 10 inches by 30 inches tall, which in mathematical sense means it's too big, no alvin, there's no pressure, you just can't do it again if you screw it up, let's get the boba in first, oh my god, there's a no break, there's a lot of vertical distance this will have to travel , it will probably spill everywhere, but that's okay. this is really hot oh wow it's like fogging up glass you know no we don't have to use sound for that right we could just modify it so we can skip that part okay my dream was to have the Everything is one hundred percent fresh food, but unfortunately I don't have the manpower and I miscalculated a lot, so I asked our culinary team to get some boba quick and fast.

I still wanted it to have the look of a real bubble milk tea. So in this boba there is a mix, it's not entirely fresh but I still think it will taste great so please don't be too mean to me in the comments but that's what we end up doing in the stores where they get the color brown. sugar drizzle going down the sides like I want to emulate that so let's go to that's a spill let's do this wow this sound is really something else eh okay it looks cool I really like it oh I was going to tell you a story about how I used to sell boba when I was a high school kid, after lunch we would always go looking for boba, so I thought I could make a lot of money doing it too, so I dropped out of school. from Chinese school to my mother's dismay I discovered how to make boba at home I went to Costco I bought the big cups the recipe was exactly the same as this tea I set up a little table outside the classroom when the bell rang the kids came I sold it for 250 without boba, three dollars with boba, the kids would buy it.

I made a couple hundred dollars that summer, when I ran out of boba, my mom stayed home to cook the boba and drove up a couple batches each time I ran out but in exchange she asked for 50 of all the profits. I was like mom, that's a lot of money and she was like Alvin. I'm just trying to teach you that this is how life works. She told me that she was actually going to save the 50 and I put it in my bank account later. I never saw that money again in my life. She denies all accusations and does not remember the final amount of money I received for taking care of Mom.

She gave me all my money back. You can't make milk tea without milk. so thank you cows, look at that, that was great, this is bigger than my wildest dreams, please hold on, don't break, so I'm going to find a straw that's big enough on Amazon, so I ended up ordering a clear PVC pipe, I think. this is the only thing that will be usable for this boba. I'll be very careful with this, but here we go. Oh, it went to the bottom. Now we are going to stir slowly. It is moving? I can not say it. actually really hard oh my gosh this camera is pissing me off up here slow this is wild oh my gosh my shoulders are so tired okay I think that's all I can shake wow this is it the whole ending, this is a lot of bubbles.

I don't even know how much this weighs. I'll have to do some calculations later, but I want my friend Inka to see the final result, so I'll call her and show her what we have. What's happening? he's going to want to see the giant boba that we made yes, show me well one two three oh my God, wait, it's a straw, it's a PVC pipe oh my God, this is crazy, it's so much tea and so much boba, yes, they are six. gallons of milk uh 22 liters of black tea this is crazy I love it congratulations you made it you made it a giant boba tea I mean this is your recipe just multiplied by 500 you'll probably enjoy it okay hmm Wow, this tastes great, I think it definitely is. something you could serve in a boba shop and people would buy it, so you're probably wondering what's going to happen to all that boba.

I would have loved to share it with my friends, people I like to watch just because it's something I like. what to do with the show, but unfortunately that's not something I can do right now, so if you'll excuse me, I have a lot of things to drink, I had a lot of fun today and I hope you guys had fun watching it, so I'll see. you next time