Props to the cameraman for sitting on Kenji's head and filming the entire time

@mikejohnston8275

Жыл бұрын

Ratatouille got into directing

@eduardourdaneta4733

Жыл бұрын

@@mikejohnston8275 😂😂

@seanconti1696

Жыл бұрын

Guy it’s a head mount

@ratwasher.

Жыл бұрын

@@seanconti1696 rly????

@redmystica72

Жыл бұрын

@@ratwasher. 🤣

I'm going to miss seeing Shabu's cheerful face. Rest well sweet pup.

@daljedalje7079

8 ай бұрын

What, when? Omg... :(

It's basically Kenji's Sandwich Show at this point and I'm completely here for it

@swordsmike

Жыл бұрын

Wondering if his next book is about sandwiches :)

@GovenorMcLovin

Жыл бұрын

I was going to say I have absolutely no problems with all sandwiches all the time.

@TheGreektrojan

Жыл бұрын

@@swordsmike Honestly I'd love a real, actual deep dive on sandwiches in a full book. I feel like there is a lot there but its easy to gloss over.

@AForEh

Жыл бұрын

Haven’t heard “and I’m here for it” in a while. It was everywhere in 2020.

@gabrielvenske8387

Жыл бұрын

I would love to see a collab between Kenji and the roll for sandwich guy from tiktok

Kenji's dog has a seriously great gig over there.

@JeepWranglerIslander

Жыл бұрын

Knows exactly where the prime falling scraps positions are.

@trashAndNoStar

Жыл бұрын

🐶💭 Human starts talking to himself and strapping the thing on his head = food imminent

@entity9588

Жыл бұрын

@@trashAndNoStar LOL

@cr3dentialz-nw

Жыл бұрын

What kind of dog is it? Great looking.

Back in the day a place nearby had this on the menu as the American Dream. I tried to order one for delivery on an extremely hungover New Years Day, and after four hours I realized it was never arriving. That was the day the American Dream died

@gabagoul67

Жыл бұрын

that's honestly so fucking sad waiting for something like this to arrive and never getting it, I would have cried my heart out lol

@legoshi6531

Жыл бұрын

:c

@raviatm

Жыл бұрын

it didn't die. Someone else enjoyed it while you were drunk and waiting.

@studentism

Жыл бұрын

bye bye, miss american fry :(

@ethanjensen6802

Жыл бұрын

@@studentism drove my chevy to the bevy but the bevy was dry 😢

from "every night is pizza night" to pizza once a week...how the mighty have fallen (this is a joke)

As a dude born and raised in Philly there's just something so special about the combination of beef, onions, and cheese for me. Now I'm definitely craving one of these.

@jas7256

Жыл бұрын

This comment makes me wonder if a cheesesteak is really less unhealthy than what kenji made

@NerdMiGerd

Жыл бұрын

@@jas7256 I think the obscene amount of butter present in Kenji’s dish takes it over the edge. But it still looks damn tasty.

@joncarroll2040

11 ай бұрын

​@@jas7256i would say the cheesesteak is definitely "worse". Butter aside, there is less beef and cheese on this than the average cheesesteak.

i laughed so hard at the "yes, you can have a third grilled cheese in the middle" perfectly timed with the exact thought in my head

@robertinogochev3682

Жыл бұрын

lol

@iggywow

Жыл бұрын

would that make it a "fatty club"?

6:17~ In Japanese junior high schools(7~9th grade), the first two things we look at under the microscope are: onion skin(the thin, translucent film on the inside of onion peels) and human mouth cells(you gently rub off the inner lining of your mouth with a q-tip, so the surface cells can be placed on a microscope slide.)

Kenji is out here logically explaining anytime, sometime, and never food while other people are making sandwiches out of wagyu steaks with a whole pizza in the middle just because it's a Tuesday.

My boy Kenji is on an onion rampage and I'm so down for this.

*sees someone slicing onions* My brain: "Don't say it! Don't!" Me: "Did you know that slicing the onion pole to pole ruptures less cells leading to less pungent flavour?"

I cooked your smash burgers for the family this weekend and they were a huge hit. Thanks Kenji

@listentodave

Жыл бұрын

I was expecting this to be a mean spirited comment about somebody's mom at the end. Disappointed ; )

@TheWrongRighter

Жыл бұрын

Which video did you use as a guide?

@Tst1359

Жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/loWrltlyh8q-k7Q.html

Oh my god, this reminds me of a time a few years back when I visited a local restaurant with my grandpa and I saw a "double grilled cheese burger" on the menu, I thought that sounded good, a double cheeseburger but made like a grilled cheese, so ordered one. My grandpa decided to order one too. You should have seen the look on our face when it came out and it was a double cheeseburger like yours with a grilled cheese sandwich for each bun! It was exactly this but regular burgers and no onions! Oh my, I could only eat half, my poor grandpa could only muster a few bites! I was wondering why you were giving such a warning, I though "this is not bad for two burgers, doesn't seem much different", once I realized this was ONE serving... oh the memories came flooding back!

Saw the title and wondered how Kenji found out about my nickname

@Schmegvan13

Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

I’ve had this before as a Dead Texan. The “rub” being that the grilled cheese sandwiches had pickled jalapeño slices in the middle, and the cheese may have been some sort of pepper Jack.

@djdj216

Жыл бұрын

gotta try that...

@rudydsouza7432

Жыл бұрын

christ in heaven i would murder someone with my bare hands for that sandwich rn

@kamisc2865

Жыл бұрын

That sounds amazing

As someone who leaves butter out, you don't have to leave out a whole stick at once. You can just leave out enough for a couple slices of bread per person who uses it and replace the butter as it runs out. Just make sure to wash the dish regularly so that it doesn't get rancid butter on it That said I'm still in the butter the griddle gang

@coathanger_irenfell5131

Жыл бұрын

I am not in the butter the griddle gang. Look at what it does to the coverage. He has spots on his bread that aren't buttered and it's driving me nuts. I get those 4 oz half-sticks and leave them out for things like this.

@ileutur6863

Жыл бұрын

How tf do you leave butter out without it turning to rancid mush??

@michaeloconnor3865

Жыл бұрын

@@ileutur6863 By using a butter bell/butter crock. It's a vessel featuring a special lid. The underside of the lid has a bell or cup shaped attachment, opening downwards. You place your butter in the bell, making sure it sticks well to the sides, then fill your vessel with a little water. When you put the lid on the vessel, the lip of the bell submerges in the water, thereby sealing the butter off from the environment. They're really great for having soft, spreadable butter at the ready. You can fill the whole bell with butter, but I prefer to put enough in to last a few days. That way you can change out the water and clean out the bell when you run out, keeping your butter as fresh as possible. If you're unfamiliar, you should really check it out. I was well into adulthood before I realized these things even existed. It'll change your bread-buttering life.

@johnkozup9959

Жыл бұрын

@@michaeloconnor3865 I have a butter bell because I like soft butter that doesn't tear the bread like cold butter...my parents always had ice cold butter. I tried to get them to at least use whipped butter but it didn't last. If I bought it they are a lot more bread, toast, etc. Anyway I love my butter bell and I enjoy a couple slices of PBJ toast almost every night and a couple slices buttered toast with my morning eggs and other breakfast items.

@coathanger_irenfell5131

Жыл бұрын

I use so much butter it never has time to become rancid lol

I enjoyed the Ozersky story Kenji, thanks for that. I’ll be putting his hamburger book on my list of things to read this year.

Looks good and “almost never food” or not, I’m going to make it (and I’ll be thinking of Josh when I eat it! Thank you for remembering him here.

Your dog crying had me looking over my shoulder for mine :) Love the channel - and your way of being!!!

A wallpaper scraper! This is why I love your videos so much. Keeps me company while I eat my second dinner later at night lol

Seeing Shabu on the thumbnail made me want to cry. I'm seeing this after her passing. My condolences to you and family.

Thank you for the lovely quick meal ideas

I miss your late night cooking videos, your commentaries are fantastic but these fast videos were comfy to watch.

Always food. Sometimes food and almost never food. That's great parenting. All of my friends are starting to have kids now and the one thing I notice is how a lot of people don't know how to feed their kids properly. That's a fantastically simple breakdown of how you can relay that understanding to a child.

@LancelotTheLion417

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. Definitely adopting that phrasing to explain it to my own children.

@Steinborn24

Жыл бұрын

As a father of 3 under 3 its not that parents don't know how to feed kids, its that we choose our battles wisely

Every time I comeback it's another evolution of Kenji's mustache and I love it

I love the idea of very thin grilled cheese sandwiches on its own.

@AugustasKunc

Жыл бұрын

Agree, and virtually everything smaller and thinner is tastier

@SandraudigaVali

Жыл бұрын

Might wanna look up Adam Ragusea's video on smashed brioche grilled cheese then, quite interesting

Watching this while eating steel-cut oatmeal was an interesting situation.

Kenji knows what he's doing when he says it's an almost never burger, now I want it more!

Crazy cheeseburger party got out of hand Lucy, call an ambulance.

Yum! I grew up in Oklahoma and my grandmother was originally from El Reno so I grew up eating onion burgers and nothing compares to their flavor in my book. Adding the grilled cheese sounds incredible!

This was a classic at Friendly’s here in New England. Pretty sure that is the only place I’ve ever seen one of these on the menu.

@stephenroylance3958

Жыл бұрын

I had one of those for lunch at friendly's in Waltham MA sometime in like 2010. I don't think they've had it on the menu for a long time now though.

LMAO. You bastard. I lost a good portion of Guinness thru my nose when I heard you say "salt and pecker". And you KNOW you said it cause you were trying not to laugh afterwards. Keep rocking you, bud!

Watching this in bed, and you did the same whistle I do... my dog jumped on my face... she is much larger than Shabu, but anything patty melt related is so very worth it. Thanks for everything you do.

There are foods that I have once or twice a year. This will make it into that rotation. I melt butter in the pan and drop the bread in after too.

@znilf84

Жыл бұрын

What are some of the foods you only have once or twice a year??

@BakedandCooked

Жыл бұрын

@@znilf84 today I made potato salad, and baked beans. They tend to happen once or twice a year. Cherry pie usually happens once because I make it when the cherries are in season. Brownies probably happen 4 times a year. It is usually sweets, something very fatty or high in cholesterol. Chilled creme anglaise is incredible over warm chocolate cake or fresh berries, but my dairy choice is heavy cream with ½ & ½. It's delicious, but deadly in heavy rotation. Red meat is rare, chicken is not. I am often accidentally vegetarian and rarely accidentally vegan.

@znilf84

Жыл бұрын

@@BakedandCooked Thank you for sharing. I was just curious.

@ileutur6863

Жыл бұрын

@@BakedandCooked congratulations on the self control. If I didn't know better, I could easily eat stuff like this on a weekly basis

If I've learned anything from this channel, it's that triangles are the superior geometrical sandwich shape.

I cackled at the wallpaper scraper, such a ‘I’m gonna do this my way’ thing.

This looks really good.. a super treat..

Never seen this before. 10/10 will try to make it soon.

This is sort of a secret menu item at Five Guys. You can get their regular burger between two grilled cheese sandwiches if I remember

Looking good with the whiskers Kenji!

Butter the bread or butter the griddle? You'll see a lot of short order cooks in diners either buttering the bread with melted butter using a butter wheel or just putting some butter down on the griddle where they're going to cook. Both methods do a nice even job. In our house, the butter usually is out, so the bread gets buttered before it goes on the griddle. If all the butter is cold, the butter goes on the griddle. The point is to get it spread evenly. Do what works for you.

Loving how long the stache is getting Kenji

Hit me up with that almost always never ever, kill you but delicious food. I'm here for it Kenji.

I love that you feed your dogs. I do as well. I feel like when I love something they generally do as well ( at least as far as food goes).

This is one of the recipes/videos you can smell through the screen

If I had that for breakfast, it'd be burned off after a load day at the store, and when Holiday season hit's, I'll take two! with onion rings... Thank you, Kenji!

That looks delicious!

Came back to this after hearing of Shabu's passing. Rip to the og taste tester.

I was shocked when I realized you were making one of them.

@KatGlo

Жыл бұрын

Right

Ouf straight in the liver! As always your usage of hardware tools is unparalleled!

So good that the dog in the thumbnail is ready to steal it

Did I hear a pepper pepper pepper yousuckatcooking reference? You never cease to amaze me, Kenji!

This feels like it would be really great with brioche - grilled and pressed until it's nice and thin and crispy.

Been waiting for this since you uploaded the picture 😍 that's what I call a heart attack on a plate 🍔

I've always mandolined my onions pole to pole because I feel like it gets slimey as it cooks when cutting the other way. This may just be a mental thing, I've never tested side by side.

@PeopleR2sensitive

Жыл бұрын

It wont matter much. It’ll be a lil more weepy but you wont disrupt the cellular walls much if your mandolin is sharp.

@JustAnotherBuckyLover

Жыл бұрын

That might make sense if you burst more cells open slicing the other way, and less when slicing pole to pole. The inside of cells is mostly water so it'd make sense that it might end up wetter (or slimy) depending on what else is inside the cytoplasm of onion cells. It'd definitely be an interesting test, though, to cut the same onion, half one way, half the other, and then cook them both in the same way,

@pranay4232

Жыл бұрын

Ethan Chlebowski has a video discussing this exact topic, called Why I always slice Onions from root to stem, interesting to hear the varied perspectives kzread.info/dash/bejne/gImMrcR7dc25obg.html

@natmickan

Жыл бұрын

Helen Rennie did a side-by-side on her channel (highly recommend)

I thought this was for two people, then kenji put the patties on top of each other and the penny dropped...

There's a burger joint local to me with basically this sandwich, and I always assumed it was just a local invention. Who knew!

That was fun! And something I would never make. I have made some of your other recipes.

The Home Depot tool was the *chef's kiss* of this video.

this is... beautiful

I LOVE those Chef's Press weights!

When I make "patty" melts, I season the beef with doubanjiang, use kim chi instead of onions, and top it off with sriracha-mayo. Gonna have to step my version up with this version.

I'm having a laugh because the game you play with your daughter puts PIZZA into the 'Sometimes Food' Category.. but you literally published a book called 'Every Night Is Pizza Night"! 😂 Love you Kenji!

@papadankelson5480

Жыл бұрын

the book is literally about a girl who wants pizza every night and learns that there are other foods that are good too

They served something very similar at Texas A&M student center cafe, called the Good Bull Burger, two smashed patties with cheese and caramelized onions, in between two grilled cheese sandwiches. This was in 2013/14.

"We're just gonna season that with salt and pecker. Ahem, salt and PEPPER" 🤣

Grill 'Em All, an amazing burger spot in Alhambra, CA, has a similar offering with bacon called the Behemoth

I would watch Kenji peel a carrot....only. Not sure why I am so obsessed, but there are much worse obsessions than this one.

Should’ve named the video “Why I butter my pan, not my bread”🤣🤣🤣

I like to butter the griddle. Mainly because I saw my mother doing it while growing up. I prefer the memories of mom's grilled cheese over any "optimization".

@Sneakyboson

Жыл бұрын

Helps keep the pan in good nick too, to have it constantly slathered in fats

That is a burger I will make to mark the end of summer

Finnally, the subject of my dreams ever since that teaster was posted, it's a reality.

I first came across the Fatty Melt years ago at Buckeye Beer Engine in Lakewood, Ohio. Great place.

Had something like this (but bigger) in a small town bar and grill after a week of backpacking. The last 6 hours of hiking were though continuous rain and sleet. That was my "almost never" scenario, and a mega-calorie sandwich really hit the spot :-)

I have for about 40 years kept my butter on the counter. Never had butter go bad. Maybe because I use top notch butter or my butter is cosmically blessed.

There are two places in Portland, OR that serve these. Grilled Cheese Grill (Consolidated their food carts and reopened a brick and mortar during the pandemic. Their whole menu is grilled cheese sandwiches) and Brunch Box PDX (sadly closed down due to the pandemic. Also had many varieties of Grilled cheese burgers etc. Sadly missed)...if you're ever in PDX, stop by the Grilled Cheese Grill!

I have been known to ask the produce person if they have any onions I don't need an 18 wheeler to lug away. I also noticed that if you buy a small bag of the same onions they will be much smaller. At least that is what happens here. I like that you toast both sides of the bread. Some would toast one side resulting in the inside being very gummy. This sandwich definitely would have to be only once with a long window of time between each time it is made. I have to admit it looks positively delicious. Heart attach city.

This video just reaffirms that I need a griddle pan for my kitchen.

One triangle of that with a good side salad would make it a more often food. Portion makes the poison, I'd say. ;) Love it!

really digging the ‘stache, Kenji!

Patty melts are my favourite and you took it to another level. Amazing

@Electric.Spaghetti.Neon.Studio

Жыл бұрын

Me too, but it’s gotta be rye bread! And preferably Swiss cheese.

Currently recovering from an ulcerative colitis flare. Love watching your videos kenji!

The thickness of the bread slices resembles the bread slices how Dutchmen eat them. Our beloved “boterhammen”.

masha Allah… that looks amazing… insha Allah will try it soon brother… subbed 😉

Seems like a tasty way to check out. I approve.

I wonder if getting some Texas Toast style white bread and cutting it into thin slices would work....

I was watching this in my flat in London and a Bald Eagle flew onto my windowsill, looked me in the eye, nodded at me, then flew away.

One ice cream sundae a month? I’m calling CPS

Kenji must really looooove burgers. This is the 3rd cheeseburger vid in 3 months (and a bit) and this is a "literally never" food? 😉

I fast forwarded to watch Shabu and Jamon eat first, then watched the rest of the video. The old ice cream before dinner move.

The sandwich is amazing, but I’m thinking that cooking the grilled cheese sandwiches more well done and then wrapping the finished product in parchment paper for a couple minutes would yield an even better result.

Last time I did this a chunk of onion went flying. Never found it and it disturbs me to this day

Shabu being behind the gate explains the dog whining towards the end

I like to stand the triangular halves of the melts upright in the pan so the exposed cheese crisps up!

A good compromise is mayo for the outside and butter the inside. Mayo on grilled cheese gives it a slightly better crust than butter, but it does not give the flavor.

I’ve never heard it called a Fatty Melt, usually just a grilled-cheese burger. And yea, they’re wonderful and deplorable all in one horrendously delicious package. 🤤 Also, there’s a local place outside of Chicago that does this, but with fried chicken instead of a burger, just in case you wanted to force that quadruple bypass.

@jacksbyrne

Жыл бұрын

I'm delighted to discover that we've both got a crossover as a Kenji fan

i love these povs

Kenji more and more is transitioning into a chef-version of Danny Trejo

With butter in the pan vs on the bread and Mythical kitchen did a test and voted that in the pan caused a more even distribution of butter and browning. I forget what sandwich I remember from college having grilled cheeses as the buns. Thank God I had to walk everywhere.

2:55 would love to know more about this game, and the foods in each catagories.