Trying to Make Better Spaghetti Than The Most Expensive Restaurant in LA
Comparing Homemade Spaghetti and Meatballs Against Restaurant Extremes
Discover expert techniques—like using a panade and smart searing—that maximize flavor to potentially beat both cheap deli classics and expensive $62 restaurant plates.
Short Summary
- Structured a comparison taste test between homemade, the city's cheapest ($13), and most expensive ($62) spaghetti and meatballs.
- Detailed the process for creating superior sauce starting with whole San Marzano tomatoes, low-heat garlic infusion, and simmering for hours.
- Highlighted the critical technique of making a panade (bread soaked in milk) instead of breadcrumbs for achieving tender meatballs.
- The judge ultimately preferred the complexity of the expensive dish, ranking the homemade version as the cheapest option.
This exploration breaks down high/low-end expectations for Italian staples, revealing that nuanced cooking techniques can bridge significant price gaps, even if the final judge preferred the most complex profile.
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Top Comments (10)
Scrappy-Doo is the nephew of Scooby-Doo not his cousin. He is the son of Scooby's sister Ruby-Doo. He literally called him Uncle Scooby in almost every episode he was in.
Surprised Josh didn't lecture us about how there is no legal standard preventing restaurants from just calling their beef Wagyu beef, and that in america the phrase functionally means nothing other than an indication they are going to charge you more. It seems exactly like the kind of fact Josh would know and interrupt the show to tell us about.
A BOXCAR CHILDREN reference?! That instantly gave me a ratatouille moment, scent memory included.
God bless Nicole absolutely CHEERING for balls every time she was asked in the background. Along with nobody else. At all 😂
23:35 Josh making red-tailed hawk noises when imagining Trevor as an eagle is proof of the sickness perpetrated by this country's media. LET EAGLES MAKE EAGLE NOISES IN MOVIES!!!!!
17:00 - Mathematician here, unfortunately the definition of "side" doesn't really apply to a sphere, since it has no "faces" or "planes" (every point is equidistant from the center, so it's constant curvature). You could say it has zero, one, or an infinite number of sides depending on how you think of it. As for what you fried off... well I'd call that just not a sphere :P
Trevor finally validating to me that the Sporked judges are actually waaaaay above how normal people experience food and that these competitions are not necessarily as open/shut as they make them seem. Though I suppose R+L already prove this with the naked foods series
the unpredictability of the mythical burners is one of favorite plot tools of the show
HE WASHED HIS HANDS TWICE AND WE DIDN'T GET A SINGLE WASH JOSH??????? TAYLOR!!!!!!!!
DOCTORS HATE HIM BECAUSE OF THE WORLDS BEST SPAGHETTI SAUCE THAT CHANGES LIVES
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Top Comments (10)
Scrappy-Doo is the nephew of Scooby-Doo not his cousin. He is the son of Scooby's sister Ruby-Doo. He literally called him Uncle Scooby in almost every episode he was in.
Surprised Josh didn't lecture us about how there is no legal standard preventing restaurants from just calling their beef Wagyu beef, and that in america the phrase functionally means nothing other than an indication they are going to charge you more. It seems exactly like the kind of fact Josh would know and interrupt the show to tell us about.
A BOXCAR CHILDREN reference?! That instantly gave me a ratatouille moment, scent memory included.
God bless Nicole absolutely CHEERING for balls every time she was asked in the background. Along with nobody else. At all 😂
23:35 Josh making red-tailed hawk noises when imagining Trevor as an eagle is proof of the sickness perpetrated by this country's media. LET EAGLES MAKE EAGLE NOISES IN MOVIES!!!!!
17:00 - Mathematician here, unfortunately the definition of "side" doesn't really apply to a sphere, since it has no "faces" or "planes" (every point is equidistant from the center, so it's constant curvature). You could say it has zero, one, or an infinite number of sides depending on how you think of it. As for what you fried off... well I'd call that just not a sphere :P
Trevor finally validating to me that the Sporked judges are actually waaaaay above how normal people experience food and that these competitions are not necessarily as open/shut as they make them seem. Though I suppose R+L already prove this with the naked foods series
the unpredictability of the mythical burners is one of favorite plot tools of the show
HE WASHED HIS HANDS TWICE AND WE DIDN'T GET A SINGLE WASH JOSH??????? TAYLOR!!!!!!!!
DOCTORS HATE HIM BECAUSE OF THE WORLDS BEST SPAGHETTI SAUCE THAT CHANGES LIVES