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Only Cooking Our Subscribers' Struggle Meals For 24 Hours

2025-10-07 Entertainment
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Rating Subscriber-Submitted Struggle Meals for a Full Day

Discover which absurd, low-effort, and heartfelt comfort meals submitted by viewers tasted surprisingly incredible and which ones failed spectacularly when tested for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

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  • Evaluate three extreme meals from breakfast, lunch, and dinner, including canned meat hashes, instant potatoes, and coffee-cheese combos.
  • The "Mix Struggle" (French Toast Eggos sandwich) earned near-perfect scores for mastering cheap comfort.
  • The "handful of shredded cheese and coffee" was unanimously rated the worst culinary combination of the day (approx. 2.8/10).
  • Chefs struggled with basic cooking tasks and equipment failures while sticking to the limitation of eating only these submitted meals.

This video documents a full day challenging cooking hosts to prepare and consume only user-submitted "struggle meals." Readers gain insight into the best (and worst) low-effort recipes to survive on, based on expert panel ratings and personal anecdotes.

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We are making more of our subscribers struggle meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner Check out the original: https://youtu.be/Vd1pwpjuC-g Want more Mythical Kitchen? Check out these playlists: Last Meals - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW8XZTagL0oLPu4rowq_WOqg6nJ_oToRN Food Battles - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW8XZTagL0oKvNweUd0NzXBTUgmVDXbTe Meals of History - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW8XZTagL0oJzDtzkhoE_KeH_macdrpHJ Check out our podcast, A Hot Dog Is A Sandwich! Apple Podcasts: https://mythic.al/ahdias Spotify: https://mythic.al/hotdog Pick up official Mythical Kitchen merch at https://mythical.com/collections/mythical-kitchen Check out Sporked, Mythical's new website dedicated to helping you find the best food on the shelves! - http://www.sporked.com Submit your Dreams Become Food photos here: https://forms.gle/cBopySaTXdzG7RFr5 Join the Mythical Society: https://www.mythicalsociety.com Follow Mythical Kitchen: Instagram: https://instagram.com/mythicalkitchen Facebook: https://facebook.com/mythicalkitchen Mythical Chef Josh's Instagram: https://instagram.com/mythicalchefjosh Check Out Our Other Mythical Channels: Good Mythical Morning: https://youtube.com/goodmythicalmorning Rhett & Link: https://youtube.com/rhettandlink Ear Biscuits: https://applepodcasts.com/earbiscuits Good Mythical MORE: https://youtube.com/goodmythicalmore In the spirit of minimizing food waste associated with the filming of this series, Mythical is donating to the Hollywood Food Coalition who provide daily, nourishing meals to underserved communities in the Los Angeles area.

Top Comments (10)

@cartman1675 2025-10-07

It's good to see Smosh finally let Trevor out of their studio to rejoin his original family.

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@arjc5714 2025-10-07

I think the difference between mental health struggle meals and poverty struggle meals is interesting. Depression meals can have nicer ingredients but must take -5 effort and look/taste like how you feel (vaguely offputting slop). Meanwhile the budget struggle meals can be inventive and take some effort (multiple steps, etc) and look/taste good, but each ingredient needs to be like max 20c. Two completely different intents and results.

4.8k 37 replies
@gilliannicsmith 2025-10-07

trevor’s hair looks INCREDIBLE. it’s got so much volume and shape

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@chuckgeither174 2025-10-07

This episode feels 35% more unhinged than normal and I'm so here for it.

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@KrillinInTheNameOf 2025-10-07

Man, I love it when people are casually open about their depression haha. Trevor just dropping "when I didn't want to be alive" really hits.

872 5 replies
@edwardnewtonLA 2025-10-08

The thing I love about YouTube is there's no universe where a network cooking show says "listen, we were going to get an overhead cam, but it's cheaper if you just put this thing on your head."

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@jadynaryn 2025-10-08

Watching Trevor cook reminds me so much of drinking while making dinner and just slowly becoming a little bit goofier as the meal progresses

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@zivenbello644 2026-01-13

Josh scrounging up the bread crusts off of the floor and eating them in a dark corner is the truest struggle meal here

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@PinkAion_Storm 2025-10-12

Mcstruggle is a struggle meal if your poor and the shredded cheese and coffee is when your depressed

346 1 replies
@JmeB-so3fd 2025-10-09

Trevor is so fast now with his jokes after Smosh university

214 1 replies

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