I Cooked Against Uncle Roger
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What is the cooking challenge between Uncle Roger and Chef Nick?
Today, I'll be competing against Uncle Roger. We'll be cooking each other's most famous hometown dishes. The challenge will be judged by the toughest chef on the internet, Chef Rush. The stakes are high. If I lose, Uncle Roger will take away my Uncle title.
What famous dishes are they preparing for the competition?
If Uncle Roger lose, I won't have MSG for one week.
Who is judging the cooking challenge and what are the stakes?
Chef Nick, Uncle Roger, you have 30 minutes to prepare the dish of your dreams, and your time starts now.
Lobster!
So what's happened here is Uncle Roger's giving me everything I need to make one of his favorite home-found dishes. I've done the same, giving him all the ingredients he needs to make a lobster roll. Ah, New England lobster roll. Nice. Uncle Roger's... Char Kuey Teow.
Yeah, Char Kuey Teow, not bad. The pronunciation, not bad. This is exactly, this is the first time a white guy ever made Char Kuey Teow on YouTube. Historic moment.
Okay, so this here is basically the Malaysian version of Pad Thai, so I'm not shooting completely in the dark here, but I have never tasted nor made this dish.
Gonna treat Lobster like my ex-wife. Okay, Lobster, thank you for your service. And now eat that. What is this?
That Chinese sausage. It smells very strong. I'll just slice on a nice angle like this. Now that my sausages are prepped out, I want to start cooking my cockles. These are beautiful small clams from New Zealand.
That hard to get ingredient. Good job. It's been five minutes and no cooking yet. Relax, Chef Rush. Cooking about preparation. You don't want premature cooking. You know what I mean? Okay, now the water boiling. Gonna put lobster in there, put lid back on, steam for maybe six to eight minutes.
Six to eight minutes doesn't sound like enough time to me.
What ingredients are used in Uncle Roger's Char Kuey Teow?
Steam for 10 minutes.
These cockles are going to cook very quickly, so I don't want to fully cook them through now. I just want them to begin to open up, and I'll finish cooking them in the wok.
While lobster cooking, we're going to make the brown butter.
The brown butter is a very difficult part of this lobster roll recipe, and one that I'm wondering whether or not Uncle Roger will struggle with.
I know he's an uncle, but making brown butter takes precision. Brown butter, just been buttered that brown. Very easy. Put a bit of MSG in there. Put some milk powder in there. 10 minutes down. You need to hurry up. 20 minutes left. Don't worry, Chef Rush. This lobster roll I made, I'm going to put protein powder in there. Your favorite.
You got 20 minutes left.
My cockles have already opened up, so I'm going to take these off the heat right now. We'll finish cooking them later.
Let's check in on Uncle Roger's lobster. The one thing I'll say is he's put way too much water in the pot, and the lobster is not looking good. He also left the rubber bands on, which is going to give terrible flavor to the lobster roll.
What you doing? You left the bands. Oh sh**. The lobster gonna taste like rubber. Uncle Roger really f***ed up this time.
That is a technique that I have never seen before. It's not technique. Don't learn from this. Because I don't have very much time right now, I am gonna cook both of my noodles in the same pot. I don't know if Uncle Roger's gonna be upset at me for this, but I think the rice noodles might take just a moment longer to cook, so I'm gonna put those in first. Now for the chow mein noodles. With this system I'm using, I'm gonna cover the top with a strainer, then in go my chow mein noodles. I think butter nice and brown now.
Tasting the brown butter. you Uncle Roger up again. Uncle Roger, you okay? Yeah, I undercooked the brown butter.
How does Chef Nick prepare the lobster for his dish?
The lobster gonna taste horrible. Sorry, Uncle Nick. This is the most famous dish from all of New England. You have to do it properly. The New England ancestor crying. Oh no, Uncle Nick, do you have another lobster? What? This one overcooked. No, it's not. What? That's not done. How you tell?
When it's all the way nice and red, like this color here, the kind of lighter red color, then it's done.
But you want to leave it slightly undercooked because you're gonna cook a bit longer in brown butter.
No.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the cooking challenge between Uncle Roger and Chef Nick?
0:00–0:13
2
What famous dishes are they preparing for the competition?
0:13–0:17
3
Who is judging the cooking challenge and what are the stakes?
0:17–1:31
4
What ingredients are used in Uncle Roger's Char Kuey Teow?
1:31–2:56
5
How does Chef Nick prepare the lobster for his dish?
2:56–3:33
6
What techniques are discussed for making brown butter?
3:33–13:02