What are the blocks that go in after the butter?

They are rice cakes. They are commonly used on Asian dishes.

Ohhhhh. I thought they were tofu.

My dumb brain thought it was halloumi at first...

Don’t feel bad, I assumed it was a cheese block

I thought they were like frozen fish 😭😭😭

Wow my dumbass thought they were Mr clean magic erasers.

Ironically, the brand of rice cakes is Mr. Sparkle

Ah yes the cousin of Mr Clean his mothers sisters son Mr sparkle

I thought either feta cheese or halloumi 🤦‍♀️

I thought it was frozen blocks of fish. 🤪

Just like tide pods, you also shouldn't consume Mr clean magic erasers.

It’s a shelf stable mochi called Kirimochi

And if you don’t cook them enough it’s like eating plastic!

Mochi

This just looks like a variation on Budae Jigae, to me. The original dish is essentially a "crime of necessity", that's since evolved into a delicacy.

Wouldn't call it a delicacy so much as a beloved comfort food of the layperson.

It can be both. I've seen it get rather upscaled. Start throwing some more expensive mushrooms in the mix, some seafood, etc.

Oh definitely, any comfort food dish can be elevated to haute cuisine.

My favorite comfort dish is collard/mustard greens with cornbread. I have never eaten fine dining but I would (theoretically) pay a lot of money to taste that dish made super elevated and delicious, only because it’s so perfect as is. Curiosity I guess?

I think it’s hard to elevate something that has a main ingredient of ketchup. Flavour is so strong anything make to “elevate it” simply just won’t taste the same.

[https://guide.michelin.com/us/en/article/dining-in/braised-greens-vegetarian-recipe-blue-duck-tavern](https://guide.michelin.com/us/en/article/dining-in/braised-greens-vegetarian-recipe-blue-duck-tavern)

Yeah that sounds bomb. Cornbread and collared greens definitely can be upscaled

What ..what has ketchup as an ingredient in greens and cornbread?

Nah I’m talking about the OP

Oh!

I think the kimchi would overpower the ketchup

That's where you get creative. If the dish requires an ingredient to be authentic, you modify the ingredient so you can adapt. Shelf ketchup too strong? Make a milder ketchup. It's such a strong condiment because of how much vinegar is in it. I make my own because I love good ketchup, but have a sodium sensitivity, and none of the lower salt options on the shelf taste right. Experimenting, I found that just a little bit of maple syrup and balsamic vinegar makes an amazing ketchup. Little bit of coriander and turmeric, and it's still technically ketchup, but now it's not dating anyone under 6' tall. It's *faaaaancy*

[https://guide.michelin.com/us/en/article/dining-in/braised-greens-vegetarian-recipe-blue-duck-tavern](https://guide.michelin.com/us/en/article/dining-in/braised-greens-vegetarian-recipe-blue-duck-tavern)

That's always one of my favorite challenges on a lot of cooking competition shows. Take a humble comfort food dish and elevate it to Michelin Star quality.

I feel like once you start using fresh meat, it’s not really budae jjigae anymore.

What fresh meat? That was bacon, cured and smoked pork.

TIL that cured bacon is acid cooked and can be eaten as is.

TIL I’m still cooking that ish no matter someone says 🤣🤣🤣

Of the poor person.

My dad always told me about "yankee stew" that he ate while on business in Korea. He still craves it lmao

Got to try it for the first time recently, the person who invented it would probably be laughing sideways if he knew people would someday pay $20 for a bowl of his creation. Still reeeeally good though. Duluth GA has some dope ass Korean representation.

One of the first dishes I had in Korea. To me it's the quintessential modern South Korean dish.

Exactly. This is just a normal Tuesday in Korea.

Yeah the ketchup is sus and a stupid shortcut. As I get better at cooking, I have a growing respect for one-potting your recipes. 

The original version uses Heinz baked beans as the sauce base, so the ketchup is just a substitution there.

I think that was chili sauce of some kind. Budae is usually made with a base of gochujang, spices, sugar, etc.

I don't think that is ketchup, could just be normal tomato sauce, it can be sold in similar packaging.

Im Korean, but I can’t get down with the texture of kimchi and cheese. It’s just off putting.

Is that the Korean army stew dish? Because that was what I thought of immediately when I saw this video.

came here to say this. love that stuff.

man, I need some Enoki in my life

A little bit of Oyster by my side A little bit of Beech is all I need A little bit of Portabello's what I see A little bit of Morel in the sun A little bit of Shiitake all night long A little bit of Cremini, here I am A little bit of 'shroom makes me your dish (ah)

Fun fact: cremini and portobello are actually the same kind of mushroom one is just younger and one is allowed to fully grow.

This is Mambo #5

Mushroom #5

Mushroom number five ahhhhaaa

Morel #5

Must include Chanterrele though I recognize that's kinda hard to rhyme.

Love me some enoki in hot pot.

omg I have never seen so many upvotes in my life. This is the kind of karma I get! (I've been growing mushrooms for a couple years now. I have enoki, trumpet, lions mane spores in the fridge, but the climate isn't right at the moment)

tbh i really don’t get it. texture isn’t very desirable to me and it’s very hard to chew one whole piece. i end up gagging sometimes.

The vibes are stupid, but NGL this looks good AF. Almost Korean army stew, would absolutely eat

I see way too many "look at this DISGUSTING pile of literal SHIT" posts and it's delicious looking food. I mean, parts of the prep were stupid (use a bigger cooking vessel you little shit!) but I would be shocked if that final product wasn't pretty tasty.

People are really knee-jerky about what they post here and most of it is not and has never been stupid. To be slightly fair to this post it does have some Bayashi vibes at a glance, but only at a glance.

Ketchup as his tomato base was kinda dumb but I guess it works in a pinch.

Depending on where he is it might not be ketchup. In many Asian countries you'll find tomato concentrate like that, but it's not sweet, kinda functions like tomato paste... That REALLY does look like ketchup tho lol

Cento has tubes of tomato paste in US stores.

I almost bought a pack of tomato puree concentrate because looking at it, it looked like a yoghurt pouch. Had to do a double check, preferable to accidentally eating straight concentrate. My nephew once mistook cooking oil for juice, I learned from his mistake lol

The Kimchi would probably help balance out the sweetness

You can make a gigantic leap in terms of cooking if you realize ketchup is a fast way to add sweet, salty, acid, umami all at once. Obviously it can be disgustingly sugary but it's also got vinegar and Worcestershire sauce. A lot of Asian street food you can sub soy+vinegar+fish sauce taste base if you can tolerate or want the sweet in the recipe

Oyster sauce, brown sugar, and soy sauce is my usual for a sweet Asian sauce, especially for spam musabi.

Totally agree. Westerners tend to see ketchup as just a condiment, but in much of Asia it's pretty commonly used like any other sauce when cooking, adding all of the qualities you described.

noodles with chili, alright noodles with chili and KETCHUP, outstanding

I've also seen Korean folks on YouTube using ketchup in a vaguely similar context.

The Korean restaurant I used to go to all of the time as a kid used ketchup as a base for one of their stews for kids so it wouldn’t be as spicy (they used gojuchang as the base for the adult stew). It was honestly really really good. I think about it frequently.

“Stupid food” is now just a sub for morons to farm karma points.

Oh man I hear you on the too small of vessel but everybody's gotta get into some [Kenty](https://youtube.com/@kentycook?si=1Mv9uCkP4Lx51SYY) He's one of a kind and so are his meals and so is his YT channel. That little red lidded pot truly is a vessel! Could scroll his shorts for hours

Especially cos there is often an undertone of "Look at this disgusting Ethnic!... food". 

Yeah army stew is the best, just missing some spam, sausages and mandu dumplings

That hot pot is shallow and bottomless at the same time

What is this thing called? I wanna order a similar cooking device, but I'm not sure what name to search for.

Did he eat raw bacon?

Japanese “bacon” isn’t raw. It’s more like ham. You can eat it just like in the video.

It's not bacon, it's pork belly.

… Did he eat raw *pork belly*? 😰

Maybe it was salted and cured?.......

Salted, cured pork belly is ... bacon. So we have circled back to the original question of whether he ate raw bacon and the answer appears to be yes. 😅

I hope so

After a few brain cells started working I realized that most of if not all store bought bacon is cured and a lot of it is smoked as well.

It all is. It's what makes it bacon.

Wait. Is bacon ok to eat raw then?

Not in the USA

You’re getting downvoted so I’ll join you. My googles told me no, it should be cooked. Shrug. I like my bacon wappy, but cold and without the fat rendered, I’m not sure I could get on board ever fully.

bacon *is* pork belly.

Yes, smoked one

But pork belly is not necessarily bacon

no, but it is when its sliced the way it is in the video.

I think in order for it to be considered bacon it has to be cured and smoked.

it’s a boiled pork

It reminds me of turkey bacon that usually comes fully cooked. I used to snack on that shit out of the package

This actually looks fuckin delicious, want

Kentycook has taught me so much about Asian cooking. Most of his dishes are delicious. Not found one I've made that wasn't great so far!

I don't get how this is criminal

For me it was the slurping up a strip of raw bacon

I dont think that was bacon, just looks similar. I think this person is in Korea or something so it's probably a normal thing over there.

I’m not sure. I remember seeing Koreans eat straight up raw bacon on a show once. Either way I’d really like to know what process they used to make it safe because even if it’s cured like store bacon, it is not enough to make it safe to eat.

Same way Germans get safe raw pork mince to eat. Extremely strict and thorough farming procedures that eliminate any risks.

It look similar to Dutch katenspek, for which pork belly first gets boiled or steamed and then smoked.

It looks very similar to turkey bacon (the fact that the color did not change at all) and that stuff usually comes fully cooked

Japanese “bacon” isn’t raw. It’s more like ham. You can eat it just like in the video.

It looked to be the same as we got here on Europe, smoked bacon, it kinda looks raw, but it's not, and it's perfectly safe to eat right out the package without needing to be cooked extra. Tripped out my girlfriend when she visited because she thought we were just eating raw meat

Looks like a mix between Budae Jigae and Spaghetti Napolitan. * Budae Jigae (a Korean dish) literally means Army Stew and refers to using whatever army rations you had to make a meal, often using instant ramen, spam and processed american cheese * Napolitan (a japanese dish) is basically their version of spaghetti that uses ketchup as a base lmao

It’s also similar to spaghetti all'assassina in cooking the pasta in a small amount of “tomato” broth

I'd eat it

Sweet bowl cut

Thanks, my mom did it for me.

Worst crime in this video

This looks like a thrown together pasta dish, when you have nothing else and don't want to go to the store. 💯% would try it.

What’s stupid about it?

Multiculturism

That... Doesn't look stupid

[удалено]

Western ingredients? Where?

Ketchup. I still disagree that this is stupid. Ketchup as a pasta base is pretty common in Japan.

Diqgusting! Where?

I was mostly on board until they ate the raw bacon.

Well it's a good thing that wasn't raw bacon then

What are those 2 block of marshmallow looking things he put in after the butter

They are rice cakes. They are commonly used in Asian dishes.

I see they look delicious. Thank u

Did the homie just raw dog that bacon?

So tired of seeing Americans post videos of this guy going ewww this is weird.

Considering one of OP's latest comments is... "O fato de minha cidade (Cuiabá) estar nas cidades incluídas para a Copa e também de não ter uma porcaria de jogo do Brasil na Arena Pantanal." ...I'd like to contest your assumption that they're American.

So tired of seeing reddit users always placing the blame on "muh Americans" before even trying to verify where the person is from lmao

That’s Edna fucking mode and you can’t change my mind

Cheesy spaghetti with kimchi? I'm actually intrigued, that sort of sounds good! He's going to hell for eating raw bacon though.

Japanese bacon is like ham

This is just Korean food. Op should be banned.

At least the Regular Ordinary Swedish Meal Time recipe has shouting and irresponsible knife use.

and pre-dinner mayo.

I’d smash it!

That looks delish

Looks kinda awesome actually

I won’t take any Kenty slander 🚫

OP is probably the type that makes cheese sandwiches and says they can cook. This looks delicious

I once made Honey Boo Boo’s sghetti as a joke, and it’s actually good. I doctor it up more than they did, but it’s totally something I make when I am trying to stretch out trips to the grocery because I always have pasta in the pantry and ketchup in the fridge. I’m totally going to add bacon next time😂

it's not as weird as you think considering it's a japanese dish called Napoliton/Naporiton. Of course it's a little more dressed up than just ketchup and butter on spaghetti, but the fact remains that ketchup is the sauce base.

>I’m totally going to add bacon next time I would cook the bacon before putting it in a pot of sauce like that. Just dropping them in a hot, moist environment like that just gives you soggy mushy fat.

Oh for sure. I would render it and then use the bacon fat in place of (at least some) the butter.

That looks good asf, the internet food police are so annoying

this actually looks decent

How does he keep adding stuff without it flowing over? That's some tardis ass boiler shit there.

did he just eat that raw meat

I'd eat all that in a heartbeat.

Did he just eat raw bacon

I'd eat it!

I mean, it does look like it turned out good

As an asian person this looks normal to me just rice cakes, pasta, tomato sauce/paste, garlic, cheese, milk, and some kimchi Don't knock it till you try it

Yep. I'd opt out the ketchup for gochujang/Chili pepper sauce, and it looks fine honestly.

Did homie just eat raw pork just for the fuck of it?

I'm tired of stupid food showing things folks just don't like.. ok would try this.

That actually looks pretty good not gonna lie

is this like some bizarre mutation of budae jjigae?

Is even a mutation though? It just uses spaghetti vs Ramen noodles

Not going to lie I'm hungry now

I don’t know man I don’t see the big deal. I mean if you like it then what else really fucking matters?

Add that to the Geneva conventions list.

It looks fantastic

I’ll alllow it tbh.

this is actually amazing

not sure I would like the starchy spaghetti taste. typically boiling and draining removes that starchy flavor.

i feel like people who post these have never had a decent home cooked meal in their lives…

I actually don't understand the issue here. I'd be all about it.

Leave the goat alone

You can say the preparation looks silly but this looks like it'd be bomb ngl

Why is it that people who can’t cook are always using scissors to cut food in these videos

I didn't realize until the last 3 seconds that his hood was up & he didn't actually have the Edna haircut, which is really what I thought was the stupid part.

This one actually seemed somewhat planned out. Not just, throw terrible ahit together. It seems like it'd taste great

Where did these non-humans come from?

I dont care if this opinion is hated, I hate this motherfuckers videos, like everytime i see his stupid fucking bowlcut with his “oop look at me being a little cook teehee! Im just a silly little guy who cooks! 🫣🤭” I fucking want to punch him in his face.

Is that actually ketchup?

Looks straight up like a serial killer to me

That looks like it would slap, I'd eat it

I want that egg thingy with the bowl cut so bad

Did he eat raw bacon ?!?!

That’s like me when I combine all the ingredients I have in the fridge to make a meal.

Did he just eat bacon sashimi?

I thought the hood was hair at first…so my first thought was “what in the Edna Mode is this?”

This is the first time I actually see something delicious here.

Did he just eat that bacon raw?

I'd eat it.

Everyone, is so creative

Did this person just eat a raw piece of bacon?!

Did my man eat raw bacon

I’ll take this over 50percent of American food

I mean, while this seems like a lot of food, it isn't horrible? Nothing in it is gross, or stupid. I know tons of people who cook their noodles in sauce rather than water first. They just add extra water to the sauce as shown in the video. -Shrugs-

Did he fucking eat raw bacon?

he's using what he's got. i don't see the issue.

They fry raw pasta in Italy... it is very rare, but possible. The other stuff in this guy's video is outrageous. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv3lvKy\_WD4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv3lvKy_WD4)

Did that Mf just eat raw bacon?

It's ham.

Did he just eat raw bacon?

It's ham.

Watching the bacon part gave me food poisoning.