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we need to get this man his food truck

While the "character diet" videos are more about exploring characterization, fitness, and meal prep, this (and its predecessor, the video comparing Yukihira and Nikumi's steak don) dives back into the culinary and restaurant expertise, explaining the reasoning behind recipe design. Always love to see the channel doing different things, sharing various aspects of your passions with us.

The gotcha pork roast inspired one of my go to cheap meals. I worked in a restaurant that made mashed potatoes daily, and would usually throw a good bit out at the end of the night. I started asking the kitchen to fill a to go container for me. At home, I'd press the potatoes onto a foil lined baking sheet, then cover with diced green peppers and a quarter pound of sliced bacon. Bake it in the oven until the potatoes are fully reheated, the bacon has cooked enough to eat and rendered some fat into the potatoes, and the exposed sections of mashed potato have browned nicely.

Not gonna lie I appreciate you talking about how Soma's original recipe for the Gotcha Pork Roast would've taken at least a couple of hours to make because I definitely thought that to myself when I first read the manga and it always bothered me. My thought for trying to make it somewhat feasible for a restaurant to serve would be to do it as you do, but to only parcook it in the oven to the point that the bacon is somewhat cooked and won't completely fall apart when you slice it. Then you can chill it, slice it, and then finish off the slices in a pan when it's ordered. The presentation wouldn't be as good though if you slice it, but also that entire thing for one entree feels like too much food, although a lot of restaurants do have a shareables menu so I suppose you could put it in that section.

What's really fun about this challenge is that it's not only "cheap vs expensive", you make the more expensive version under a time limit so it could actually be served in a real restaurant. Just adds more challenge and gives us insight into a restaurant's day to day.

The timing is insane, was literally just binging your videos before dinner lmao

Good lord, Chef knows both Instant Transmission and Boogie Woogie?! This man is too powerful

This just brings back the memories of watching your Food Wars reactions, keep the spirit alive as I hungrily reminisce those vids.

After watching some episodes of the original Iron Chef. I can't wait for the day we get an actual Food War. It will be glorious.

Having made this a few times, shitake mushrooms work best and i find making a bacon weave it the optimal approach for applying the bacon

This looks so good. Definitely going to try it! Also, when my roommate told me I had a package and I saw your name on it, I almost cried! The cookbook is so good! Thanks for sharing all of your good good recipes with us!

Gandalf knows you're talking to your invisible people again, so he wants to make sure they know he is the boss of the kitchen.

I love how Gandalf just sits on the fridge and watches

Go figure, just yesterday I was thinking "it's been a while since CPK did anything Shokugeki" - The fancy version looked bomb! though the sides would've probably benefitted from having a whole slice covering it, although it would've made it harder for the diner to "Dig In".

CHEFPK looks at the problems of an Anime Recipe to make it worthy in a restaurant setting IRL. Now that's dedication after reacting to an food anime.

Ive been waiting for a vid to compare this exact dish to expensive and cheap XD. Tysm for the vid chef!

my heart almost skipped a beat when I saw that metal spoons reaching in the non stick pot. Luckily, this chef is experienced and knows that every time it rains, the chefs in Heaven cry to other people scraping non stick pans. Edit: I thank you so much Chefpk for not scraping that pot, amateurs make that mistake often

Gandalf is just the perfect background actor for this video.

7:01 Gandalf reacted to you saying the word milk, this cat knows what's up.

I would love to see a reimagined version of the wyvren stew from campfire cooking. I’m not a huge fan of beef stew myself but I do value it as a winter kind of meal. Want insight of how to

Oh heck yeah,I use Sho Chiku Bai for cooking sake too. …it’s also really good on its own, warmed up…

I miss the Food Wars vids from back in the day. Your productivity now is so much better lol so revisiting some would be appreciated if you feel up to it. Also I like the idea of trying your hand at "one - upping" the show's recipe.

This is funny! I just made Gotcha Pork Roast for dinner! And now you have this video uploaded. Well... I gotta try this one next

Gandalf my favorite cat. It's aiming set and when he is not looking GOoooooo

CHEFPK making that push to 500K subs! Huzzah!

I love the term "french butter" and how it is something more for you bcs 82% "butter fat" is like the minimum amount that something must have to be even called "butter" in my country (czech republic) We have mixed (about 50-50 "butter fat" + "oil from plants" ) -not butter- stuff that's close to regular butter but it just can't be called butter by the law xD

dude this so cool. I really appreciate how you explain the method to your madness, not enough people do. and your ability to be resourceful is helpful to see. think you could cover your version of the gotcha pork roast if you had cooked the bacon a bit less, then put it in the ring mold before the potatoes so you could wrap it and cover the seams more.

My mouth was watering this entire video...

I’m gonna have to try this. Yukihiro no soma was one of my favorite anime’s and I loved watching you react to it years ago.

Soma !!! Give me your dish can make me say "YUMMYYYYYYYYY"

Flattening bacon with a rolling pin makes it much easier to make roulades and the such. Learned that in HS on my comp team.

I think you would really like this anime it's called "Nichijou" its one of the funniest anime of all time in my opinion but if you just want a glimpse look up principal fighting a deer

Hey Chef, I used to watch your Food Wars reaction videos in one period of my life where I was really down and (clinically) depressed, along with my watchthrough of the anime (real shame they got removed), and it was one of the shining moments of my life then. Just seeing you at Prof's Shuffle Up and Play after years I haven't visit the channel and learning that you're also into MTG really made me feel even more connected to you and realize how much you make me happy. Just seeing you again filled me with joy - on behalf of that very dark time. Thank you for the gifts given. You (and so is any other person) don't realize how much even the smallest and "insignificant" things you do mean to people. So I just wanted to drop by and say thank you.

you revisiting through and refining food wars' recipes would be interesting. you could all this the what if series. the idea is "what if yukihira and co were to remake their early dishes after graduating" or "what if i have to serve this dish in a restaurant". some of the dishes in the arc vs the elite ten could be fun to refine since it was a competition setting vs a restaurant setting

Gandalf eyeing and following that bacon!

I laughed way too much at that One Piece drop.😆

This bring back so memories

The cat at 3:50 eyeing the bacon strips made me laugh

In a kitchen setting you would pre Bake it, so it can start to roast and when its ordered you Just Put it in at 200°C for 15 Minutes

Make smaller (about half the size) ones and put in freezer till cold

What I love the most about your channel is that you don't shy away from showing that you're just like us viewers, living that parasocial life with your own favorite KZfaqrs 😅

I love that first episode on Shokugeki-no-Soma destroying that evil woman who ransacked their diner. *He's going to be Joichiro with that awesome hairband*

Instead of shingling the outer edge of the fancy gotcha pork roast with bacon, what if you had trimmed and cooked off a slice of bacon in the ring mold beforehand? Maybe toss a loose foil ball in to help hold the bacon against eh inner edge of the mold. This way when you added the potato it would already be inside of the bacon, the fat would help it to release easily, and you would only have to top it with the leftover bacon to conceal the potato.

I love your work and you make me want to be a chef

Dude I wanna watch this IT LOOKS SO DOPE

Gandalf: "It's the Me show now!"

Soma out here thinking outside the box, which is fun to watch.

Gandalf is the king of the fridge top.

the cat on the fridge did it for me

from the moment i saw Yukihira make the Gotcha Pork Roast, i was enthralled with the anime, i wanted to devour it. XD

Gandalf says "I have the High Ground Chef PK, prepare to feed me"

I've taken to doing my bacon in the air fryer, 10 min, 400 degrees, flip once, it's the done-ness we love. Then I can just pour off the bacon fat to save for other dishes ^_^

I have made this it so yummy.

I imagine as a "Plat du Jour", it wouldn't matter that it take so long to prepare.

The way Gandalf was looking at the bacon 😔😔😔 (The cat's name IS Gandalf, right? It's been a long time since i watched ChefPK)

I remember making this when the anime aired. Mine was a bit different from yours, probably because of the difference in potatoes and bacon used and available to me, but I can say, whatever bacon and potatoes and whatever else you use, his dish is still super super good. A tad much work for me personally though.

Okay let's goooo hell yeah fire 🔥 I have been praying 🙏 to God you would on day make this form food wars 🙏 😊😊❤❤

Chef please get a scraper to scoop chopped ingredient the knife will dull if you keep using the sharp edge

$5 roast vs $50 convoluted mashed potatoes. Lol

how about a hybrid version of the two the mold is nice

After thinking on it the food wars version might be more of a spin on a German potthucke than just a mashed potato loaf. Very similar, but the potthucke incorporates egg to bind the potato and is a mix of finely shredded and mashed potato, it usually incorporates bacon or sausage and onion, sometimes mushrooms. The texture would be more like a meatloaf and might fit the bill of being more of a "Gotcha" roast, especially if the roasts themselves were fully encased in foil so the bacon fat fries the outside of the potato, then air-fried uncovered to crisp and dry up. Using bacon fat or bacon fat and butter in a 50/50 mix along with the egg and potato would certainly help it taste "meatier" as well.

that luffy cameo in food wars

This looks delicious and I was really excited to see the four fats you said but I only saw two

Always fun to watch you son ❤❤😘😘

people in Hawaii looking at the 8$ milk thinking man that's cheap

do a berkshire pork belly and turn that into bacon. that could potentially make it increase in price. if the purpose is to make with more expensive ingredients

Kitten being vewwy naudy

Applewood is overrated. On cheap version onions aren't even slightly cooked before you add the mushrooms. In order to get color and not have water-logged mushrooms and not waste time, waiting to cook down the onions and remove most of the moisture from them before you add the mushrooms makes more sense. On any sauce reducing sauce fully before mounting avoids any issues with breaking the butter.

I always thought the gotcha pork roast would be really good if made into mini appetizer versions. Never got around to it but I think I might soon.

I dunno if you've ever reviewed those animes but try to watch Isekai Izakaya "Nobu" and Isekai Shokudo. Both are very very good food animes.

Gandalf is omnipresent

Great Video. Had to watch the first ten minutes a second time because the first I was paying attention to something else (🐱). *Cough* Gandalf *Cough* 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛

this video just made me really hungry despite just finishing some teriyaki noodles. also 1 of the purchases I made in preparation of moving (over a year ago at this point) is I purchased a dual drawer air fryer, because i had friends who swore by air fryers and they used them all the time, it got them to cook more. I have used my own air fryer I think 4 or 5 times in the year and 2 months I've had it, I will say, I regret buying that.

I assume this might have been recorded in the past a little bit. I already got my cook book that I ordered that was the combo of the first two.

Do you save all your meat drippings? We save our bacon fat and chicken schmaltz to use as cooking oil or to sauté vegetables for soups.

Why the five dollar one look so much better? Jeez, the rich are not gonna like that concept!

Man this Background Music sounds sooo familiar..

I've been wanting to make this and I just haven't for some reason. Especially since it's so damned cheap lol

My only question is if you're using the right "bacon" when you do this. Japanese bacon and American is pretty different.

i miss you reviewing food animes and reacting to them :(!!!!!!!

Hey chef...I know you're busy with your other ideas and stuff but I just finished watching romantic killer and I was thinking that some of the food there will make for an "eating like this for 24 hours" video

Now that is the real definition of fancy. No gold flakes and caviar needed to make it as such.

Beautifully crafted food, cute kitties, gorgeous lady, and (saying this a straight man) a handsome chef.

new seasons? this man lives in portland? small world

Chef, based on my experience as a professinal chef in germany, butter is around 80% fat, 18% water and 2% protein. Is that diffrent from the US?

the coppa is not a salame, it is a meat piece, the salame a grinded meet and fat with spice dried in a bowel

I would often just make pig and potatoes. It is just mashed potatoes with bacon and ham and on occasion cheese and onions. People loved it, mashed potatoes may be a weird breakfast but... statistically it is way better than a doughnut. You are going to crash way less on carbs and protein than would will on fat and sugar. Stop eating dessert or breakfast America.

me wondering if it is actual dutch gouda or just the stuff people call gouda in america because it is sort of alike 😮

But Better might be taken, however, But Fancy (or Extra) is still up for grabs!

Uncured bacon is called pork belly, chef.

I do wonder, have tou thought on making the Nato curry from the autum election preliminaries?

I wamt you to make the dinner from baldur's gate 3 where you intend to make 80 units of food and then auto select 1200 units of food

I wonder how he feels about the new Pokémon dlc uses a similar emblem that’s on his headband

Im just wondering do you chef do bakeries?

And I also store my bacon fat for other dishes 😊

Gandalf needs a go-pro for another video camera angle 💕

what if we call the serise amp it up?

do the true blue fin tuna recipe from one piece live action

Aw. No Food Wars reaction? 😂😂😂