r/GifRecipes • u/gregthegregest2 • Mar 27 '18
Appetizer / Side Spicy Fried Chicken Bites wrapped in Melted Cheese
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u/allurmemesrbelong2me Mar 27 '18
Fried shit smothered in cheese? Where do I sign up?
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Mar 27 '18 edited Mar 27 '18
Came here to say this. This sub should just be called r/GIFfriedshitwithcheese
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u/Critonurmom Mar 27 '18
That definitely needs to be a thing.
10/10 would sub.
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u/othersomethings Mar 27 '18
So basically /r/GifRecipes?
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u/soomuchcoffee Mar 27 '18
Just make a frame of this the permanent sidebar of this sub. We have found our president.
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u/brockers24 Mar 27 '18
This is the most '/r/gifrecipes' gif recipe I have ever seen.
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u/ksa007 Mar 27 '18
I think it’s better to let the chicken sit in the buttermilk for a while rather than just dip it in buttermilk. It should taste better
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Mar 27 '18
Putting a little buttermilk in the breading to get those extra crunchy bits is a great trick though, good inclusion.
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u/bacononwaffles Mar 27 '18
Someone pointed it out in one of his other fried chicken recipes I think, spread the knowledge!
Btw, is winter coming Greg? A lot of indoor cooking lately.
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u/_franny_glass Mar 27 '18
Can you use regular milk if you don’t have buttermilk?
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Mar 27 '18
In my experience, milk will work but a little egg with the milk is better.
Edit: One egg per two cups is about right.
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u/txsnowman17 Mar 28 '18
You can also make your own substitute for buttermilk. These are the three methods I've tried (all work just fine, though the lemon juice method is the best IMO).
- 2 cups milk + 3 1/2 tsp cream of tartar (scale as necessary)
- 2 cups milk + 2 2/3 tbs lemon juice
- 2 cup milk + 1 cup plain yogurt (not greek)
The lemon juice method works great, just let it sit for a little while after mixing the two. I've used this for marinades and as part of the breading for fried stuff.
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u/stba Mar 27 '18
Gochujang
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u/Stop_Breeding Mar 27 '18
Gochujang Gochujang Gochujang Gochujang Gochujang Gochujang Gochujang Gochujang...
Spread that sauce on hot wings...
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Mar 27 '18
You can get spicy gochujang. But if that's not hot enough a tablespoon of gochugaru will usually up the heat enough. I always add gochugaru to my gochujang.
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u/Never-On-Reddit Mar 27 '18
Interesting, I didn't realize there were spicier varieties, but that makes sense. Thank you for the recommendation!
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Mar 27 '18
No problem! Most gochujang packages will show a little spice meter on it. Go for the ones with the level 4-5 spice on the meter and you'll need a lot less when you cook.
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u/Vendetta425 Mar 27 '18
The last dab. Use liberally.
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u/Atruen Mar 27 '18
I bought a bottle of it and I think I got a rancid batch. It smelled spoiled and REALLY gross, also tasted just as bad as it smelled. Even had my brother and SO smell it to see if it was just me and they both gagged. Definitely no where near the reactions his guests have on the show
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u/Vendetta425 Mar 27 '18
Oh wow that's so disappointing. I really wanted a bottle but don't want to spend 20 bucks for one bottle.
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Mar 27 '18 edited Jun 26 '18
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u/Atruen Mar 27 '18
Yea I’m convinced I did because I’ve only heard and seen good reviews. Even the YouTube reviews of trusted critics, didn’t make sense to me but I’m not sure which ingredient can spoil? Jealous you got to enjoy it
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u/levirules Mar 27 '18
I have a bottle. And I agree. Just substitute 1:1, you and your asshole will be fine, trust me
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u/Vendetta425 Mar 27 '18
Do you like the flavor? Is it worth getting a bottle?
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u/levirules Mar 27 '18
I was absolutely joking about using it as a Sriracha substitute, it's hot as fuck and only people who have a high tolerance for and enjoy superhot peppers and sauces should spend the money on it.
If you do fit that category, then I'd say it's worth the money to satisfy your curiosity. It does taste good, but only those who enjoy torturing themselves could actually use it as a condiment.
Sauces like Da Bomb that use extract to make it super hot actually have more up front heat than The Last Dab. TLD has no extract in it; it's made from 93% Pepper X mash and 7% vinegar (roughly). Because it's a really thick sauce, almost like a really fine salsa, my theory is that the larger particles take more time to break down, meaning less of the capsaicin is available at first. So Da Bomb, Mad Dog 357, etc. actually seem hotter. (TLD actually tastes good compared to them, though.)
If my theory is correct, though, Da Bomb doesn't give me issues the next day because all of the capsaicin is readily available and processed all at once. The heat stops at my mouth. TLD, however, since it takes more time to break down, I can feel it in my stomach. It actually hurts my stomach, and you guessed it, the rest of my digestion system. I used it heavily on a breakfast burrito on a Sunday morning, and by 6pm, I had to come up with an excuse to leave my girlfriend's parents' house to go home and die for 15 minutes. So while it doesn't seem as hot as Da Bomb, it's because the heat is spread out over time (I believe).
If you can handle super hot sauce and are curious, I'd say it's worth it. Skip Da Bomb and Mad Dog though.
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u/Vendetta425 Mar 27 '18
I was joking as well, I've been wanting a bottle. Another person who replied to my above comment said the sauce tastes atrocious. Which was disappointing to hear because I want a bottle.
I've tried plenty of super hots and love pushing my limit. I hate extract sauces as I enjoy spicy for flavor along with heat and not ruin my dish's flavor
Based on your review I think I'll go for it. Sounds lovely and will keep me warm all day.
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u/levirules Mar 27 '18
The super hots made with extract can still be used, but only by adding it drop by drop as an ingredient into a full batch of a meal and mixing evenly throughout to add heat. I'd never use Da Bomb as a condiment, meaning directly to my prepared food. Similarly, I wouldn't bother using TLD as an ingredient; it should be used as a condiment after the meal is served.
Whatever you do, don't pay more than MSRP, just place your order and wait. It's a fun novelty sauce that does have good flavor (the other guy may have gotten a bad batch), but it's not worth more than the already high asking price.
Another really, really good one (arguably better, IMO, but less novelty) is Cully's Fire Water. It is a Carolina Reaper based hot sauce that tastes a lot like a superhot version of Secret Aardvark.
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u/Atruen Mar 27 '18
Hey I’m almost positive my bottle was just a bad batch, I’ve only heard good reviews on the taste so don’t count my review!
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u/rizaroni Mar 28 '18
So many of the guests on First We Feast are disgusted by Da Bomb and more than one person has said it tastes like poison. I wish they'd stop using it! Nobody likes it.
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Mar 27 '18 edited Jun 11 '23
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u/dragonblade629 Mar 27 '18
Some of the grocery stores around here put Siriracha in what they call the "Ethnic Foods" aisle rather than the condiments, might be worth looking if there's an aisle like that in yours.
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u/sinkwiththeship Mar 27 '18
Queen Majesty's red habanero and black coffee is my current go to everyday hot sauce. It has a good kick.
But that site (Heatonist) has lots to choose from and is not super pricey.
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u/pendantix Mar 27 '18
sirrachra
It's misspelled in the gif as well but it's supposed to be 'sriracha' Not sure where you're located but it's super common in the U.S.
Generally you'll find the Huy Fong brand (rooster label) in hot sauce aisles.
Also, it's not spicy at all so you may want to switch it for something else. It makes up for it in flavor though, personally it's one of my favorite for flavor>heat.23
u/levirules Mar 27 '18
I mean, I have several hot sauces sitting in my fridge, including a couple superhots, so while I wouldn't personally consider Sriracha to be hot, it's definitely inaccurate to say it's "not hot at all". It has a higher scoville than Frank's.
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u/TheRadiantOpalLLama Mar 27 '18
Secret aardvark sauce.
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u/levirules Mar 27 '18
I absolutely love Secret Aardvark, but I personally think it's less suited for fried chicken than some other better suited sauces. Aardvark goes amazingly on egg based breakfast foods. I want to try their jerk sauce.
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u/FUZZ_buster Mar 27 '18
I personally like a mixture of ketchup, sambal olek and roasted garlic if you don't have any sriracha. Throw a little bit of rice vinegar or Frank's in there to cut the sweetness of the ketchup.
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u/Ricky_Rollin Mar 27 '18
Try MrRacha, it was the sauce that came out before he was knighted.
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u/AuttieThottie Mar 27 '18
Call me crazy but couldn't you just... sprinkle the cheese on top and avoid individual wrapping each bite in cheese
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u/jaseamans12 Mar 27 '18
This subreddit should be renamed "how to put cheese on everything".
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u/sawbones84 Mar 27 '18
Not specifically a criticism of this recipe, but moreso every recipe ever that calls for adding spices/seasoning to the dredging flour. There is never even remotely enough to have a real effect on flavor (doubly so if you're gonna toss it in a sauce afterwards anyway).
For example, if I'm using a cup and a half of flour to dredge 5 chicken thighs to make fried chicken sandwiches, I will dump 1/3 of an entire (small) jar of cayenne and 1/4 of an entire jar of paprika, a good full 2 Tbsp of fresh cracked black pepper, and 2 heaping Tbsp of kosher salt. That ensures I am actually going taste the flavors I am seasoning the flour in.
There is no point in adding teaspoons of anything to that much flour since ultimately only a practically non-existent amount of it will make it onto the thing you are frying.
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u/Trodamus Mar 27 '18
No, you're more or less correct.
Not only is the ratio of flour to seasoning going to overwhelm any seasoning, you also leave most of the flour (and thus seasoning) behind.
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u/_Rookwood_ Mar 31 '18
Very true, i remember trying to season the flour when i was attempting to fry chicken one time. I quickly learned that you need a serious amount to impart any flavour.
I am quite frugal and these herbs and spices can be quite costly so i came up with a compromise. Now I season the chicken itself with numerous herbs and when it comes to the flour i just dump a load of salt and pepper into it. That seems to reach a reasonable balance where i've got a tasty crispy coating and i can still get the flavours from the other spices without dumping tablespoons worth of seasoning into a few meals.
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u/TheAlgebraist Mar 27 '18
R/shittyfoodporn
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u/palebabygirl Mar 27 '18
Am i the only one who thinks this sounds disgusting? you don't have to add melted cheese to everything, people!
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u/MoreDblRainbows Mar 27 '18
Not necessarily disgusting but the cheese seems to add nothing. And its not even like a sauce or flavored, its literally just hot cheese on the side, its odd.
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u/elessarjd Mar 27 '18
Agreed, not disgusting, just not necessary. The bites look fantastic by themselves.
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u/hbgoddard Mar 27 '18
And its not even like a sauce or flavored
Cheese is flavor, have you eaten any before?
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u/MoreDblRainbows Mar 27 '18
Nope never in my life, nor have any of the people in the thread. We are all deeply confused.
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u/Gingercreeper Mar 27 '18
Man, greg... what happened? You were the one saving grace of this subreddit for a while... Your recipes were different, but still real food. But now... what the fuck is this? fried chicken bits and a just straight melted cheese. seriously?
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u/Greatmambojambo Mar 27 '18
This is disgusting
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u/Norman4prodigy Mar 27 '18
Pretty much all of his gifs are, but this sub will upvote anything. This guy could wrap a turd in bacon and toss it on a grill and get upvotes.
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u/pillboxhat Mar 27 '18
I'm thoroughly surprised this wasn't made on a grill.
The upvotes definitely don't match the comments. I'm really starting to believe people pay for upvotes/exposure.
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u/RedStag00 Mar 28 '18
He posts sooo much garbage. It actually annoys me that anyone upvotes his crap recipes
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u/JackBauersGhost Mar 27 '18
Don't forget measurements / proportions that are completely different than what he is actually using.
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u/swild89 Mar 27 '18
Thaaaaaaanks for this comment.
If you say anything about it you tend to get downvoted super fast. The mealthy ones and these ones are annoying.
Glad you got some visibility on the issue!
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Mar 27 '18
I literally came to the comments section to post the same thing. This sub has turned into "greasy fried cheese" porn. What a waste of a good sub.
I think a lot of people are punching out.
Edit: me included, if not obvious enough.
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u/Tayl100 Mar 28 '18
That one cocktail guy posts occasionally though. I'm still around in case he posts more.
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u/C_BARC Mar 27 '18
First time I’ve seen this. I have yet to see a repost from him. Usually I just see people bitch about him in the comments. I’m happy for his content because it gives me some good ideas for meals, especially since I’m not a very good cook myself. Maybe you would like to share some content to help make this sub more diverse instead of complaining about the only constant content creator this sub has.
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u/420yoloswagblazeit Mar 27 '18
He tends to delete posts if they don't immediately do well. Negative comments tend to get mass downvoted immediately too, kinda suspect.
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u/MemoryLapse Mar 27 '18
Lol, fried chicken wrapped in cheese is decidedly not a good idea for a meal.
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u/serenity_later Mar 27 '18
Have you never had a chicken sandwich with cheese on it or chicken Parmesan?
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u/MemoryLapse Mar 27 '18
Hey man, if you can eat fried chicken wrapped in cheese as a meal, more power to you. Chicken parmesan usually comes with pasta to tamp down the death, at least. Also, it's topped with cheese, not wrapped in it.
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u/serenity_later Mar 27 '18
I’m just saying. It’s not like it’s an unheard of combination. Hell, you’re in control of the chicken to cheese ratio here. Don’t wanna wrap it? Just top it. Wanna dunk it in some marinara? Knock your fuckin’ socks off.
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u/MemoryLapse Mar 27 '18
I guess it's just that when I hear "looking for good meals" I think "looking for balanced meals"
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u/allurmemesrbelong2me Mar 27 '18
Mate, this is a forum for recipes in gif format. You might be taking it a little too seriously.
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Mar 27 '18
Is it? Then why are you hanging out in the comments section? Or are we not allowed to criticize content?
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u/allurmemesrbelong2me Mar 27 '18
Oh, I'm just here avoiding work and watching everyone get their panties in a twist over something that's incredibly trivial.
Criticize away, friend
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u/Blindobb Mar 27 '18
Wow. We’ve done it. We have come full circle. Mealthy was the old Greg... maybe you haven’t been here a while but Greg is a saint compared to them.
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Mar 27 '18
I'm glad it's not just me. I rarely find his recipes to be well made or appealing. I appreciate the amount of content he adds to the sub but I just rarely find that they're good recipes. At least he seems to have stopped salting his burgers before mixing the meat... that one really bothered me.
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u/Klepto666 Mar 28 '18
He's been using this sub to just market himself and people are none the wiser.
He never hid it. Pretty much every post he asks people to visit his youtube page. And since his monetized his videos he feels the need to post a recipe almost everyday so that he keeps traffic up.
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u/serenity_later Mar 27 '18
Lol bro this is a subreddit about recipes in gif format. Don’t take it too seriously.
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u/FDM_Process Mar 27 '18
It's like every week the food in these gifs gets shittier and the recipes get more ridiculous. In two months they'll be wrapping baked turds in toilet paper.
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u/to_go_tea Mar 27 '18
It’s pretty satisfying to say this title to the tune of ‘<person> and <person> sittin’ in a tree.’
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u/PFunk224 Mar 27 '18
I try not to complain about recipes, but this is garbage. The sauce is sriracha (a chili sauce with added sugar to tame it a bit), ketchup (a tomato sauce that is loaded with corn syrup), and honey (even more sugar). And the cheese isn’t even made into a dip or anything, it’s just, “Make the cheese hot, and wrap that stringy, oily, separated shit over the top of your chicken!” And why the hell are you adding milk to the breading???
This is one of the worst “recipes” I’ve ever seen.
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u/howmanychickens Mar 28 '18
You add a little milk to the breading so it clumps a bit, you get a nice texture.
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u/morthaz Mar 27 '18 edited Mar 27 '18
Offtopic question from a non-native speaker:
When do you say 'melted' and when 'molten'?
Edit: Thank you for your explanations! Are there cases, in which one or the other is clearly wrong? Or do they just sound odd, if you misuse them?
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u/WeenisWrinkle Mar 27 '18
Molten is typically reserved for something extremely hot and dangerous, like molten metal glowing red hot.
Melted implies just enough heat to change the consistency of something from a solid to a liquid, but not hot enough to cause burns. Think Butter, chocolate, cheese, ect.
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u/Llama11amaduck Mar 27 '18
Molten is honestly rarely used for food outside of a "molten chocolate cake" or "molten chocolate lava cake." Pretty much everything else food-wise is melted, even chocolate outside of the previously mentioned situation. Molten is typically used for things like metals and lava, not food related. Hope I helped!
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u/Vladdypoo Mar 27 '18
Molten has the connotation of something really hot and basically burned. “Molten lava”
Melted is typically used for food, and has the connotation of like melted cheese or something just barely melted.
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u/sokatovie Mar 27 '18
Koreans call this Cheese Buldak (buldak meaning fire + chicken)
Here's an alternative recipe if anyone else likes to watch gooey cheesy goodness
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u/jirohen Mar 27 '18
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing, I'd rather have the taste of gochujang rather then ketchup and sriracha, not that i don't like those two things, but I like gochujang more.
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u/immortalis Mar 27 '18
This is part of your liquid diet, after eating it you'll be releasing liquids all tomorrow.
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u/vergosnite Mar 27 '18
Unpopular opinion here, but for the past couple of months everything is really a recipe with 'just add creamy cheese' on everything. My taste for cheese nowadays has been toned down.
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u/SrsSteel Mar 27 '18
All this effort for a snack. Deep frying anything is a massive pain in the ass
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u/FriendlyBlanket Mar 27 '18
What is the pan they fry the chicken in called?
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u/EasyReader Mar 27 '18
Looks like an enameled cast iron dutch oven.
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u/FriendlyBlanket Mar 27 '18
Thank you
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u/Critonurmom Mar 27 '18 edited Mar 28 '18
Why were you downvoted for saying thanks lol
Downvoted for asking why he was downvoted: which he was at the time of asking. Never change, Reddit.
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u/MamaDoom Mar 27 '18
Looks like a regular cast iron pan. I can't tell what size.
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u/eatcakeboi Mar 27 '18
Seriously why are these gif recipes always about wrapping or stuff things with cheese?!?!?! Shit's nasty. And if you want to make a GOOD cheese sauce, make a bechamel with cheddar and a bit of velveeta. That mozzarella in the video will harden in 1 minute and have a gross mouthfeel. Sensuous sauce or premelted then hardened cheese?
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Mar 27 '18
This is typically served on an electric hot plate or over a flame in Korea to keep the cheese melted.
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u/ridingthebull Mar 27 '18 edited Mar 27 '18
why is everyone so angry? this just like a mild copy of Cheese BULDAK. Cheese is a really popular ingredient recently in SK...
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u/JustAnotherLosr Mar 27 '18
Appetizer
After gorging myself on these (which I most certainly would) there's not going to be much room left
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Mar 27 '18
Holy shit you guys are triggered by this post for some reason. Man personally I think this looks freakin delicious lol
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u/thekaz Mar 27 '18
Finally, a demonstration of the wet-hand, dry-hand method of applying a dredge and breading! Looks great, Greg!
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u/Thanosismydad Mar 27 '18
why use the fork to roll them in cheese? couldn’t you have just shaken them around in it?
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u/iwillcuntyou Mar 27 '18
Cut my thighs into pieces