Nashville Hot Brains Sandwich Taste Test | FOOD FEARS

nice feeling, oh, do you like it? No, I hate it, man, okay, welcome to Food Fears, where I make something you hate, it

taste

s really good. You might recognize my first guest from Breaking Bad, the high school musical. I'm Rhett McLaughlin, welcome Rhett, thanks for having me. Can. I'm not saying I'm glad to be here, you probably shouldn't be and if you had any

brains

you probably wouldn't be here right now, but since you guess what we're going to eat today, I think you're making a brain pun, so I'm going to say

brains

, it was a cerebral pun, this is a very advanced event, it is really necessary, it is, so I will try to do this as best as possible, but first really get the pure. essence of the brain we need to eat this plan and I will even eat it with you as a show of respect and gratitude is that the raw brain is not real it has been boiled for safety it is not seasoned it is not seasoned yes, no salt, no pepper, no pepper It looks like you are Stalin, is this human?

No, my childish brain. It wasn't available so I had to go with my lamb brain. These are lamb brains. Alright. That does it. Yeah. I think it's actually the core and I hate that. I know this is the language center, that's the language center, that's where the lamb gets his degree from, there's not much there underdeveloped, yes, underdeveloped, thanks to your ears, hmm, it's got just the right creaminess, oh, you've got a bucket, mm-hmm, why? you're using it I think I'm fine, that was for you, do you like it? No, okay, I couldn't God, why does it really cover your entire system?

So what specifically is it about this that you hate? Well, everything is fine, start well. the texture the flavor the idea I too love the school of thought that the more fundamental and vital the organ is, the worse it is to eat. Okay, you think of a chicken leg. I mean, a chicken can have more legs. I think the chicken might disagree, but. I see where you're coming from saying yes, but a chicken can't have one, well chickens only have one brain, fair enough, so you're saying the road ahead of me is pretty big, this isn't a leg of chicken, that's not it. a chicken leg I think I can do it, although I think I have a plan in my head of what I'm going to do.

You hate literally everything, so I might try changing literally everything, so I'll be back in about an hour. and I love the ready dish and I think you're going to love it, okay, I trust you, I like you, but I don't know if I believe you now, you sound like my mom, the first thing we have to do is get these lamb brains. to Brian, we're making a very simple buttermilk Brian, we have our buttermilk here, we're just going to use salt, pepper and then vinegar based hot sauce, something like Frank's Red Hot, something simple that will whip that up, the author of modernist cuisine, Nathan Myhrvold, an absolute.

My hero and a big name in the culinary world did a really extensive

test

on soaking organ meats in milk versus not soaking them and found that there was almost no difference, so a lot of this is really just

food

myths and so I'm going to cook this like you would chicken and then we'll have our beautiful lamb brains and then they'll go right into the Brian with no prep required and then they'll sit there for 12 hours in the refrigerator. Take it out and go, so the

sandwich

es are only as good as their condiments. I'm a fan of condiments, so let's make a blue cheese aioli.

Every aioli starts with egg yolks that you have to beat with some type. of acid, in this case we are using vinegar instead of lemon juice. I think lemon is too acidic, so you beat the egg yolks and then slowly drip them into oil and then it will gradually emulsify. and honestly, it's very easy to fail and get it wrong, so like buying store-bought mayonnaise at home, I absolutely support and respect that decision, which is why the next step of this recipe is very important: go ahead and take off your Fitbit because sometimes you cover your Fitbit in mayonnaise and that has happened before and that was a gift, so I don't want to ruin that grandma thank you for the Fitbit.

There are two strategies when trying to really neutralize the funky flavor that you can try. and tame it and get away from it, we can try to lean on it as hard as possible and add as many other original flavors to it, so we add a ton of blue cheese to it and we add a ton of dill to it, that's really aggressive, okay, so we got a nice blue cheese spread, we're just going to add a lot of funk right into that sauce and then add a little bit of black pepper. People are always like Josh Ranch or blue cheese, it's like dude, you can both just mix it up right, the blue cheese aioli is ready, the pickles are super super classic with Nashville hot chicken.

Every place you order it, they throw the pickles right on top of the chicken and I wanted to try something a little sweet, a little complex and rounds everything out so we're actually making a Moscow mule pickle and that's going to start with ginger beer which we are going to reduce. I'm just going to pour it right into the pot and then it's going to boil and you're just going to reduce that until it's about half power, you're going to take regular greenhouse cucumbers and you're going to put about a teaspoon and a half of salt in it and then you want to massage it in because the salt is It's going to start to break down the cell walls of the vegetable and it'll make them nice and pliable, also if you don't want pickles, like if you're making a cocktail, cooking is hard, you know, removing the edge, you've really earned it, so in our mason. jar, we're going to put fresh ginger in, this will serve as an aromatic, there's a lot of ginger in a Moscow Mule, same with lime and you don't want your vodka to reduce in there because you really just want to drink it and Psyche, you're going to pour it right in in your glass jar, if you get a reduction, you cook off all the alcohol and you want that little bit of bitterness in there, you can tell your cucumbers are done when you can take one and fold it in.

We split it in half like this without it breaking, that means all the water leaked out, it has a super quick crunch so go ahead and just cram as many of them into your jar as possible. Great, they're a good impact and then the last step. You need about a quarter cup of vinegar and you'll pour that into your reduced ginger beer. You don't want it to reduce too much with the sugar as the acids will really intensify and then just let them sit for at least a day. or even, I don't know, two weeks, maybe three months, maybe 35 years, maybe this is what helps you get through the apocalypse, we'll see.

I'm going to be dorito, frying the brains, which I realized is a very common verb for I to the Dorito crust, so I cook it very similar to fried chicken, where we brine it with buttermilk and then I take the brains, put them in flour, again in the buttermilk brine, and then in hot Doritos sprinkled with flamin. add good tasting things to something, it becomes something better tasting and then we fry it and then we soak it in lard and Nashville hot spices. Wow, that's a lot, I'm even impressed, it's good to accompany a finished

sandwich

.

It looks like one of the first coins, you know, before he really got into the whole Expressionist movement, he was just painting from his heart, I think that's what it is, it's me, it comes from my heart onto a plate, it's like a sunrise in the morning. like a dog you already know that made friends with the goat when it comes to finally putting together the architecture of the sandwich is absolutely key, so you will spread blue cheese aioli on both buns and then on the bottom bun you will place cole slaw that acts as base. to hold the fried lamb brains that go on top, then you're going to put pickles on it and now, super, super important, you have to flip the top bun super super dramatically, very, very, slowly, lower it onto the sandwich, this is how people know it.

It's a dramatic sandwich that deserves respect cut to the red reveal welcome back I hope you're hungry. I have it. I just like to cover the flavors in my mouth right now. That's fair enough, so I present to you the Dorito Crusted Nashville Hot Brain Sandwich. so we have Dorito crusted lamb strains, blue cheese, aioli, sumac salad and then Moscow Mule pickles. Wow, this is you because you know I've been crazy about hot chicken. I follow you on Instagram, you don't follow me, but that's okay, well, we can. remedy that maybe he's up to us I'm stalling, I still know, you've been selling something How high are we talking there's a little ghost pepper in there, but enough to tickle your throat, not enough to hit you in the back of your throat, if you know what I'm saying, would you like to share this with me since we share the raw brain or would I love the boiled brain?

Of course, we have to get a good cross section. Aren't you making a sandwich? You have to have some cross action. Oh, God, what is that juice coming out of the brain? It's probably the brain that is brain juice. Ah, as you can see, we're not running away from the fact that these are brains, they're still a good amount, but I think all the flavors should work together. Well, let's find out that I'm having a great time. I don't know how you did this. I would think I was eating a hot chicken sandwich, texture aside, yes.

It would be like that chicken gave a little extra if you ever had a chicken sandwich and thought that chicken might be a little Robin. I'm going to give you energy, that's exactly what it is. I'm tempted to go for a second bite if you don't finish that I'm finishing a lean um the quality of the brain hmm is what I don't experience anymore, which is what I didn't like about the brain, my goal was to try to confuse your palate and make you hit with as many flavors as possible so you get the crunch of the Doritos, even if you get distracted by the sight of the color and they get all the spice, that funky blue cheese, a little bit of bitterness from the salad, so, bite that I just had there was some kind of brain that stayed for a while, you know, and it was alone and there's a little bit of gay nastiness in it, but then I think this squirrel knows it and the squirrels don't. bad: North Carolina, you would be happy with everyone else and everyone needs a squirrel, that's what you have to do when you turn seven, you have to kill and eat your own squirrel.

I love being able to learn about your culture. Yes, that's really beautiful. I know what you did, something excellent here. I can't say that if I was presented with this or hot chicken that I would choose this, but if I was presented with boiled brains or this, I will choose this every time it's good enough for me, I'll call you. that was a hit yeah thank you all so much for watching and come back next week to see if I can make Link fall in love with a bull penis and let me know in the comments what your biggest fear of

food

is.