THE MCGRIDDLE FROM MCDONALD'S...BUT HOMEMADE & WAY BETTER! | SAM THE COOKING GUY

Dear McDonald's, we are all fans of your McDonald's, but we think it could use a couple of small improvements and that's what we're doing today. We are making

mcgriddle

, the

cooking

guide. A couple of small changes to

mcgriddle

, we're going to use buttermilk pancakes because why would they? It is not like this? We're going to make a bacon version and a sausage version and the bacon I'll show you in a second. As Emerald would say, for those of you who are old enough to know Emerald, come on. To turn the bacon up a couple notches and our eggs will be fantastic, everyone will be happy when we get home, we will be fat and happy.

I'm already fat and, in fact, I'm almost always happy. We have to get the bacon going because that has to go in the oven, how did Esmeralda used to do the band or bam so bam says he did that because it would help wake up his audience apparently his stuff was boring at first and he? He saw people falling asleep and one day he had some salt in his hand and he looked at this lady in the front row and she was like starting to fall asleep and he went and put some salt in her bam and she It just went and became a thing and people loved it, it became their catchphrase bam, I know our version of that is what's not wob, that's how we started, this will apply to bacon with equal amounts of brown sugar and Maple syrup. mmm, good start, yes, good start, one more ingredient at most, you know what it is, you can look and see, ladies and gentlemen, it's bourbon, not too much, I mean, you don't want it to be too watery and then we mix it and then once you.

We've already mixed it up, we're going to add our bacon right there, so I've got, I don't know, five or six pieces here, we don't need that much, but we do need everyone to want to try some, right? Oh yes, yes, please, how can it be bad? It can't be bad, bacon good, but bacon with maple syrup and brown sugar and jack daniels, very good, listen to that sound, you know what it is, give a chance I'm too young to see that max, okay . now our rack to cook it and now we'll just lay the pieces out here now they're well covered and super stretched oh boy the smell is delicious and they go on and on this is it oh god it's my phone usually Sorry I've been Busy today, this is going to be good, a couple more pieces.

Wow, it's like ringing clothes. I couldn't have predicted that no, if it

better

be someone good, oh no, I missed the last piece and we ended up with the oven cold. at 400 degrees, these will go in until they're okay, frankly, just beautiful, which I think will be about 25 minutes, we'll keep an eye on it, we don't want anything to burn, I'll be right back, okay? I'm going to set the timer on my phone because what I don't want to happen is that you let it go too long and then it burns out. You can't help it once it's too late when I need to time something, it always falls back. turn it off for five minutes and then check it, you can always let it go longer, but once you do, you have no hope, you know what I'm saying and that's why he never burns anything, he never burns anything, it's okay , so let's go. 20 minutes left, okay, now buttermilk pancakes, we start with the dry ingredients and we start with two cups of all-purpose flour, followed by two tablespoons of sugar, one two, sorry it's so annoying, a teaspoon of baking powder looks like half a teaspoon. of baking soda that looks like that half a teaspoon of kosher salt looks like this and we whisk these dry ingredients to combine well then the wet ingredients okay the wet ingredients start with like I said buttermilk pancakes get buttermilk of milk, I think they should make this at McDonald's, it just has more flavor in buttermilk pancakes, right? two eggs, one per dose, three tablespoons of melted butter not too hot and beat and mix just to incorporate, okay, the other thing we would add at this point would be a little vanilla, but you know what I say, forget about the vanilla , we'll get the same caramel type notes with a little bit of jack daniels, a little bit to the max, just a little bit and mix it in, okay, there's an important part that comes out, one of the hallmarks of a McDonald's.

McGriddle are pancakes that have this distinctive maple flavor. Rumor has it that what they do is somehow crystallize the maple syrup and those little bits go into the batter that makes up your pancakes. It's a long and complicated process that I really don't know how. do it, I'm certainly not Elton Brown or Babish who probably do that stuff. I'm just the guy who likes to cook easy and simply and I think you want the same thing, so instead of me teaching you chemistry 101 or 201 or 301 to get it that way, I'm going to take a shortcut with a little maple syrup because really, if you take a bite and you get maple syrup on the pancake, aren't we pretty much achieving the same thing? and a half or so in one, okay, two, so let's mix this up and then taste it a little bit and see if you can taste the maple, if you can't taste it here, you won't taste it later, a little bit finer.

I've never made this it's not really a problem what matters what matters is that you can eat this and it's incredibly delicious I'm your guinea pig that makes sense now that we mix the two together we always add the wet to the dry just do a little right here start pouring this ah heck we can do this and we'll just mix it all together beautiful it doesn't have to be absolutely perfectly smooth unlike potatoes lumps are not bad in pancakes now we let it sit discover our sausage, this is the breakfast sausage , this is a circular mold and this is the mold that the burger will go in, so a little bit of grease in the small mold just because we don't want it to stick when it comes down, sure, thank you.

Take our son down and I don't know how much we need. I know the burger doesn't look very big on the grill, right? She's definitely thin. We tried to order one, but apparently all-day breakfast is no longer a thing or certainly not a thing here in San Diego, so when it's where you want it, which I think is fine, pick it up, oh, I should have greased the side This is what we are talking about now, now we take more, crush it and make a little bit. patty a voilá simple like this beautiful okay I think we can start making some magic here maximum this is our bacon, isn't it?

It's our baking come on let's see I think it's going to be perfect okay I'm going to start my timer on my phone because what I don't want to happen is wait I think we can salvage some really good pieces here damn you son of a bitch I am very angry. Hello, my name is Sam, the kitchen boy, and I have a confession to make. the bacon isn't completely there, there are definitely usable pieces in there that will make a great mcgriddle, but that's what you want in the usable youtube video. I don't know what happened, the timer hadn't gone off yet, I checked and it's just the oven. bad is what it is your oven is just not calibrated correctly meanwhile let's get on with our other things come on forget it's all behind us it's all water under the bridge first there's pretty sausages and two pretty ones can I show you something?

This is what happened to my bacon. I'm going to take a bite, though, it's delicious, so while this is happening, I think we'll start on some pancakes. Wow, the bacon is very good. Well, this is my opinion, considering that today is going so well. I'm going to spread butter. At my place the pancake is going to go there so we butter it and we also butter the inside of our ring mold because if we don't do it to the max it's going to get stuck there and who wants someone to want that please , no I do not.

I don't think so, so I'll add some batter and let it cook, nothing too exciting is happening, but I get it and everything will be fine, let's cook pancakes, the sausages look like I can turn them in a minute or two, astro sister. apparently now he's taking the clarinet, okay let's flip our sausages, I like that little bit of crunch in there, that'll make me happy, it'll add texture and flavor and it'll be a great thing. The sausages are ready, let's remove them and we can. Let's start thinking about our eggs, I think we're ready for this guy to turn, here we go and flip, oh come on, someone tell me that's not beautiful because it is and with our last pancake finishing on the second side, let's go. add a little butter to our pan for our egg we really don't want it to stick so grease it well that's what you probably said and then beat the egg again one more time, just one egg, nothing but salt and pepper and then let's go and then Right away, start rolling it trying to make a smooth, even layer that fills all the spots and now let it start doing its job, but we're going to add one thing to it so there's a little surprise in the middle and that. it's gonna be what's my favorite vegetable yeah green onion I'm a fan of green onions and eggs ladies and gentlemen look I'm a fan of green onions and everything but we're gonna keep it away from the edges so it's a surprise of course.

I know it's there, but if you're

cooking

for anyone except my friend Greg, who can't stand any kind of onion, what's four years old? He's four years old, right, that's exactly what's ridiculous, we'll give you a nice burger with cheese and ketchup. he lives in cleveland so i think that might be what they do there throwing some shade on cleveland sorry ohioers it's okay when it's like that all we want to do is take sides and if he hasn't gone today okay, I don't anticipate this happening, but fold it real good just the same on this side, the kids spread it out a little bit and then we take it, we fold it, we go up, ow, up there and then this guy bends like a piece of shit , kids, I'm sorry for swearing, but it's been that kind of day and this comes like this, there's your little bundle, now just let it finish cooking so the eggs cook completely and fully, if you're going On the other side of the counter, we can build what is said to be beautiful. you I could do it in a pen max max doubted me and here we go we have our two bottom pancakes buttermilk I might add and now our cheese and of course you know what

mcdonald

's does

mcdonald

's is really a fan of the American cheese.

In the United States restaurant, isn't it a maximum of one? Let's go in with the sausage. Remember the bacon problem we had. Look what I did. I have redone two pieces. Oh my God, look, it's shiny, it's beautiful, so let me. Cut this out, we'll put one in this way and our second guy goes here, well we're discussing how to make the egg

better

, so we made one with the green onion and then because Max is a boy, I can't stand it, I made one. without green onion so it's less bloated this is the one we could send to greg two more things ready don't worry little greggy this one doesn't have onion comes our tapas which are perfect there's only one more thing left to do someone guess and it's not cleaning the counter because I'm being anal oh I have to put my brand on it oh yeah so what we have to do now is put a brand on it and I don't know if you can see it's my logo upside down so if you're ready I'm ready let's go like this sweet and one more here we go how great those are that make me happy by the way it is an iron to mark as it is not the best gift for someone I mean they really think it is for someone who likes to cook, like saying oh, as if we had made a good job here, let's try just one of them.

Anyone want to guess the guys bacon because of the green onions, yeah, and because I'm really digging what I think this bacon is like. I'm going to be, I think it looks great, uh mcgriddle, no, a good-looking mcgriddle, that's for sure, we'll decide if it's delicious or not, this bacon cheese bite that starts to melt this beautiful maple egg corner mmm, This is fantastic, it's a bit of work making your own baby pancakes, but in the end, is it worth it? Is it better than a regular mcgriddle iron? Oh hell yes, I like to eat myself from top to bottom, that's what she said.

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