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Trying to Make Better Spaghetti Than The Most Expensive Restaurant in LA

2025-09-30 Entertainment
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Mythical Kitchen
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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.

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  • 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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Today, we're making spaghetti and meatballs and comparing them against their cheap and expensive restaurant counterpart! Thank you to Vuori for sponsoring this video - performance apparel that’s built to move in and styled for life. Head to https://vuori.yt.link/Btapqv3 Good Mythical Evening is blasting off October 23rd at 10PM EST / 7PM PST. Get your tickets NOW at https://mythic.al/GME Check out more episodes like this: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW8XZTagL0oKvfY3_MsqnLRsWY2hcuRQp 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)

@supermanofky 2025-09-30

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.

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@Karragh 2025-09-30

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.

1.1k 12 replies
@chronicallynerdy4742 2025-09-30

A BOXCAR CHILDREN reference?! That instantly gave me a ratatouille moment, scent memory included.

267 4 replies
@daxitron 2025-09-30

God bless Nicole absolutely CHEERING for balls every time she was asked in the background. Along with nobody else. At all 😂

251 1 replies
@gauchegreyhound 2025-09-30

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!!!!!

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@joshwilliams8863 2025-09-30

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

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@Mattcantthinkofahandle 2025-10-01

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

134 1 replies
@emeebee3827 2025-10-01

the unpredictability of the mythical burners is one of favorite plot tools of the show

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@haven1266 2025-10-01

HE WASHED HIS HANDS TWICE AND WE DIDN'T GET A SINGLE WASH JOSH??????? TAYLOR!!!!!!!!

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@mschro626 2025-09-30

DOCTORS HATE HIM BECAUSE OF THE WORLDS BEST SPAGHETTI SAUCE THAT CHANGES LIVES

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