- And think about your
life choices for a minute.
00:00
They haven't worked.
00:02
It's gonna be dangerous.
00:03
Insanely stupid and lethal.
00:04
(triumphant music chime)
00:10
Hello, hope you're well.
00:14
Today is a very murky
day here in the kitchen.
00:15
It's very, very dark indeed.
00:19
The kids have just gone to school.
00:20
It's their first day back since Christmas.
00:22
They've had, like, two weeks off,
00:23
and everything's just (grunting).
00:25
But anyhow, it's all good here.
00:26
I'm nice and bright
and cheerful and happy,
00:30
and ready to serve up another
dose of video for you.
00:32
Let's roll back to 2018.
00:36
How weird does that sound?
00:40
It's actually only a week
ago as I film this right now,
00:41
but last year we attempted to make
00:43
our very own homemade cornflakes.
00:46
We did a project on it.
00:48
I had three different methods.
00:49
It was kinda crazy.
00:51
And I found one that worked a charm.
00:52
There's an innocence to it.
00:55
Yeah, some of you guys were
00:57
really loving that and trying it.
00:59
So thanks to everyone that's
tried any of my recipes.
01:00
I love it when you do that.
01:02
Remember to tag me on social media.
01:03
Absolutely adore it,
01:04
and it's the main reason why I do this,
01:06
but you were like, Barry,
you're the cereal killer.
01:07
Show us some more cereal.
01:11
So there's things like honey
nut cornflakes you wanna see.
01:12
Cheerios, all that.
01:15
But today, it's time for some
snap, crackle and pop action.
01:16
We're gonna make some homemade,
01:20
or we're gonna try, Rice Krispies.
01:22
Rice Krispies are one
of my favourite cereals.
01:25
It's something like a nice
light innocence about them.
01:28
But by my research so far,
01:32
I've got three different methods to try.
01:33
Only downside is it does take quite
01:35
a long old time, doesn't it, folks?
01:37
So we need to get cracking right away.
01:38
It's the early bird catches the worm.
01:40
The early bird catches the Rice Krispie.
01:42
Alright, if you Google how
Rice Krispies are made,
01:44
Kellogg's themselves have actually
01:47
quite a nice video online.
01:48
This is a rice farmer.
01:50
That's quite a cool job, isn't it?
01:52
But Kellogg's, like,
they sort of tell you,
01:54
they tell you roughly how they're done.
01:56
- [Voice On Phone] Cereals that
have been family favourites
02:00
for generations.
This is crazy, right?
02:02
- [Voice On Phone] Using simple methods.
02:03
In fact, the way we make Rice Krispies
02:04
could be envisioned in your own kitchen.
02:06
- It starts to tell you
how you can do that,
02:09
but if I was snap, crackle or pop,
02:11
I wouldn't tell you how to make it.
02:12
Like, yeah, sure, here's
our secret recipe,
02:14
because I've seen blog posts of that.
02:16
Everyone's tried it, and it's rubbish.
02:18
So I'm gonna take my own kind of
02:19
inspiration of what they've done,
02:22
but then we've got two other versions.
02:23
So let's try their version first.
02:24
For that we need a saucepan.
02:27
Gonna need the big one later.
02:29
200 grammes of rice.
02:35
(jaunty instrumental music)
02:37
Alright, Rice Krispies on the way.
02:40
- [Voice On Phone] Could be
envisioned in your own kitchen.
02:42
- Right, so it's just rice at the moment,
02:43
but remember what they said.
02:45
- [Voice On Phone] Cook it with sugar,
02:46
salt and malt flavouring.
02:47
- We're gonna put malt flavouring, sugar,
02:49
and salt in with this now and cook it.
02:51
The only problem is I
don't really know how much.
02:54
A good sprinkle of salt.
02:56
A tablespoon of sugar.
03:00
And this is the malt powder,
03:01
which, I'm trying to
crack homemade Maltesers.
03:03
But that is all the ingredients
they say go in there.
03:07
Obviously, there's no quantities to go by.
03:09
So let's just keep cooking this up.
03:11
Okay, so whilst that rice is down there
03:13
just cooking away, this
is the second version,
03:14
which, again, is gonna take a long time.
03:18
This is just a genuine blog
post paragraph that I found.
03:19
I'll put it right here.
03:22
and as you might have guessed,
03:24
Kellogg's isn't going to
divulge all the details
03:25
of the production process
in press materials,
03:27
just like I said a moment ago.
03:29
Even though Rice Krispies
start out as rice,
03:31
you aren't actually eating
individual popped rice grains.
03:33
The first step is to grind
the rice into a paste
03:35
with water, salt, sugar,
malt and vitamins.
03:39
I ain't putting vitamins in.
03:42
This slurry is even moulded
back into rice-shaped grains,
03:43
which are rolled out and then
cooked, dried and toasted.
03:47
Okay, so same amount of rice,
03:54
and apparently adding the
moisture by doing it this way,
03:55
I have no idea how I'm gonna shape them,
03:57
actually helps steam it so
they pop more when we fry them.
03:59
So, gonna get quite a
high-powered blender thing
04:04
(uplifting instrumental music)
04:08
That worked really well.
04:23
We now add water, I don't know
how much, to make a paste.
04:24
It's clumped together.
04:28
What is what we want.
04:31
Feels a little bit like playing with sand
04:31
on the beach at the moment.
04:33
Yeah, that's a bit more
pasty, but can I shape it?
04:36
(laughing) That ain't shaping at all.
04:38
So apparently now it's a paste.
04:43
I should be able to pick one up.
04:45
It's holding its shape a little better.
04:47
Is that a Rice Krispie?
04:50
Should we class that as a Rice Krispie?
04:53
So you don't need to see this step.
04:54
Basically what I'm gonna do
is shape a fair few amount
04:56
of Rice Krispie shapes out
of this putty paste thing.
04:59
The steps of rolling the
paste stuff is really tricky.
05:04
It kinda holds together,
05:10
but it's just so light,
05:11
and wants to fall apart.
05:12
I've done one though.
05:13
Lined tray because we're gonna dry it.
05:15
I preheated my oven to 100
degrees C, so really low,
05:17
'cause it's gonna dry out over two hours.
05:20
But before that, this rice is cooked.
05:22
Wow, that is a lot of rice.
05:27
Just for my own curiosity,
05:30
here's the pasty one and just some water.
05:31
This is why I'm probably
not gonna boil it.
05:33
I think it's just gonna perish.
05:35
I don't think this method's gonna work.
05:45
I mean, that and the fact that
05:47
I don't actually have a rice mould.
05:48
Who has a rice mould?
05:51
So there's our rice.
05:52
There's actually loads of it.
05:55
I was worried that I
wouldn't have that much.
05:57
The important thing is to get it level.
05:58
You know, if you cook things
in the oven like vegetables,
06:00
if you pile them on top of each other,
06:01
they won't cook evenly and get charred.
06:03
You want a nice even, ideally flat, level.
06:05
I love how I'm talking about this
06:09
as if I know what I'm doing.
06:10
I'm gonna leave this while I try to
06:12
make a few more of the pasty ones.
06:13
There are some random chunks
just in the tray though,
06:15
so maybe I'll just scoop those out.
06:18
Not bother with it.
06:19
Alright, so I've already
put the pasty blog tray,
06:22
that's the technical
term, you see, in there.
06:25
But there is our other rice going in.
06:30
Alright, do your thing.
06:36
You know what else
takes two hours, Boston?
06:39
Homemade marshmallows take
roughly two hours, folks.
06:41
And I was hoping, if we can pull this off,
06:44
we can then make completely
fresh from scratch
06:47
Rice Krispie treat square things.
06:51
Let's make marshmallows.
06:52
This is how you do it.
06:54
Grab yourself a jug,
200 mils of cold water.
06:55
These are some gelatin leaves.
06:56
This is just gonna soften, okay?
06:58
Three eggs, egg whites.
07:00
300 mils of water, liquid glucose.
07:08
A drop of vanilla extract.
07:10
Just stir it together
so the sugar dissolves.
07:11
Candy thermometer; one of the
best things for making sweets,
07:15
caramels, jams, all that stuff,
07:17
got the temperatures at the side.
07:19
We're taking it to 130C.
07:20
Which basically does translate to,
07:23
especially in the world of hot sugar,
07:24
which I think used to be
a mediaeval torture thing.
07:25
Like, do not touch it.
07:28
Like, be very careful
with this stuff, okay?
07:30
It's getting there.
07:32
You can see how hot that is already.
07:34
Right, take this off the heat
07:38
and think about your life
choices for a minute.
07:44
In all serious, look
how dangerous that is.
07:46
It wants to hurt you.
07:49
I'm chucking in the water and the gelatin.
07:50
It will bubble, so
please be careful again.
07:53
And then we'll just gently stir.
07:55
And the heat that's in
there, oh wow, look at that.
07:57
It's gonna dissolve that gelatin.
08:00
Just stir it through.
08:03
It will calm down eventually.
08:04
Where have you gone?
08:08
Just for a minute, get yourself the dish
08:09
that your marshmallows are
gonna set and cool into.
08:10
We need to line it.
08:13
Wrap Master 300 time, aka, cling film.
08:14
Oh, I actually ended up
putting another layer on there,
08:21
So grab yourself a little
bit of sunflower oil.
08:24
We're gonna need a lot of that later on.
08:26
So here is a mix of icing
sugar and corn flour.
08:27
We're gonna need the rest for the top,
08:32
but we're just gonna, what the heck?
08:34
The really hot sugar gelatin mix.
08:37
It's gonna bring it together.
08:39
I've put it into a jug to make
it easier for this next step.
08:40
Get that out the way.
08:42
Eggs with soft peaks, you want
'em hard peaks, stiff peaks.
08:43
(upbeat instrumental music)
08:48
Right, now I've taken that
down to the lowest setting
08:51
because we're gonna carefully
add in that mixture,
08:53
which does look a little bit like a beer.
08:57
Trust me, you don't wanna
drink that; it's hot.
08:58
(upbeat instrumental music)
09:00
And now I'm just gonna keep
whisking for about eight minutes
09:07
and as we do that, the gelatin
mixture is gonna cool down
09:10
and start to firm to begin
09:12
the cooling process for the marshmallows.
09:14
(upbeat instrumental music)
09:18
Alright, hopefully you can
see the trails it was leaving.
09:20
It was noticeably thicker.
09:23
Now, that has been actually 10 minutes.
09:24
Now we leave this for two hours.
09:29
Ladies and gents, it's time.
09:32
Let's turn this oven off;
two hours on a nice low heat.
09:34
Hopefully you can get a feel
for what that's looking like.
09:42
This bit's really crispy,
09:45
and that's what we want.
09:47
We really wanted to dry it out.
09:48
As for this, don't really know.
09:49
No, that's just, like, a rock hard powder.
09:56
They haven't worked.
10:01
Now, with this one, I've
actually scattered them around,
10:02
so there are slightly more dry ones.
10:06
I think I'll go for these.
10:07
They must have been stacked on top
10:08
of each other a little bit.
10:09
The white bits, I don't know.
10:10
They're still just like normal rice.
10:11
So you want these toasty ones.
10:12
That needs to cool down.
10:14
So I'm going to stick it
in my garage for 10 minutes
10:15
whilst I tell you about the last option.
10:17
So the last one I'm gonna
try is the quickest of all.
10:19
This is from a guy called The
Fast Chef from two years ago.
10:23
It's quite an old school style video.
10:26
And he basically chucks sushi rice,
10:27
which is like a short grain rice,
10:30
into really, really hot oil.
10:32
Like, 230 degrees C.
10:34
And then basically he's got puffed rice.
10:35
So if this works versus the other methods,
10:38
I'm gonna be like, wow, okay.
10:40
There's no flavouring in
there; it's just the rice.
10:41
It's the comments in this video
that are the worst though.
10:44
People are saying didn't work,
burnt house down as a joke,
10:46
but then someone is
actually saying that they
10:49
actually literally did
nearly burn their house down
10:50
because if you watch that video,
10:53
you'll see when we adds the rice in,
10:55
the actual oil level with
it being 230C goes so high
10:56
it's gonna be dangerous,
so we'll do that last.
11:00
We're gonna build up to
that oil temperature.
11:03
Alright, so this is sunflower oil
11:07
about an inch high of that,
which is plenty enough.
11:08
It's quite a deep pan so it should give us
11:11
some allowance for that
sushi rice in a bit.
11:13
But the other ones, they
use the sunflower oil too,
11:15
but they're literally just you drop it in
11:18
and you see it sizzle
for five, 10 minutes.
11:20
That should create the puff.
11:22
Just going back to that sushi rice method
11:23
where it's five seconds
in 230C degrees oil,
11:25
I just checked the smoke
point of sunflower oil,
11:29
and that's 227 degrees.
11:31
So it wants me to take it
beyond the smoke point,
11:33
which is insanely stupid and lethal.
11:35
I'm not gonna do that.
11:37
So I'll probably cook that
11:38
sushi rice method in the same oil lower,
11:40
but obviously for longer than five seconds
11:42
and we'll just see if it works.
11:45
Okay, so this is one of those ones
11:48
that we made from the paste.
11:49
It feels more like a crouton now.
11:51
Let's hope it doesn't dissolve.
11:52
Why'd you have to go Titanic on me?
11:59
It might brown quite quickly.
12:02
Hang on, let's have a look.
12:03
It's staying in one shape there.
12:04
Definitely, definitely not a Rice Krispie.
12:06
Alright, here is my nice and
cold tray of dried out rice.
12:08
It's hard to explain
but the dried out rice
12:14
reminds me of when I was a teenager
12:16
and you get Chinese takeaway,
12:17
and you kinda leave it out overnight.
12:19
Next morning, yeah, you got dried rice.
12:21
That's basically what it's like.
12:24
Let's see what happens.
12:25
Ooh, ooh, it's risen to the surface.
12:27
Look, they're like little maggots.
12:32
I'm gonna lower a load in,
12:35
but I'm gonna keep it in
the sieve like that, okay?
12:36
I think I have to break it
all up into individual clumps,
12:57
because it was much better
when it was on its own.
12:59
Whereas that's a big caterpillar of rice.
13:02
This time I've broke them up individually.
13:04
What the heck is that?
13:09
This isn't working.
13:12
So, yeah, that didn't
turn out too good either.
13:19
It's basically like egg fried rice.
13:23
The only chance we've
got now is the sushi rice
13:24
with that fairly dangerous
straight in the pan method.
13:26
'Cause I don't like how
dangerous this is gonna get,
13:29
I'm gonna take it and
pour the oil straight out
13:32
into a new pan with a sieve on.
13:34
So the oil will go in there
13:36
and the Rice Krispies will
hopefully sit in there.
13:37
We've got nothing to lose.
13:42
Okay, okay, come on, guys.
13:44
That's getting bigger.
13:46
Oh, it's starting to brown.
13:48
Oh, come on, come on, this has gotta work.
13:50
No, that's not working, is it?
13:54
Yup, they look more like sesame seeds.
13:56
No, no, not nice at all.
14:02
The boiled, dried and fried.
14:03
And the extremely dangerous sushi one.
14:09
The colour looks good.
14:11
It's been a heck of a shift so far.
14:16
Marshmallows are set.
14:17
Some more of that corn
flour icing sugar mix.
14:19
If you get a little bit on your knife,
14:23
'cause it will get wet and sticky as you
14:26
slice into it, keep adding it,
14:28
but you can now slice this.
14:29
Random shaped marshmallows.
14:33
I'm gonna use these to make
the Rice Krispie Treats.
14:34
We have no more Rice Krispies.
14:36
Three tablespoons of butter.
14:37
300 grammes of our homemade marshmallow.
14:39
And I hope, notice that is
the keyword after today,
14:43
that our homemade marshmallow will
14:47
melt just like normal marshmallow.
14:49
Alright, here we go.
14:53
And these things are called Rice Krispies.
14:55
Let that marshmallow
and butter mixture coat.
15:01
Oh my gosh, this could have been us.
15:04
Push it straight into a lined tin.
15:08
And my kids are gonna love me for this.
15:13
Okay, the Rice Krispies
aren't homemade yet.
15:15
I don't trust myself.
15:19
But that's homemade marshmallow, okay?
15:20
- Alright, cool, right.
15:24
The marshmallow is nailed.
15:25
Tomorrow we'll have one last
little go making this work.
15:27
Well, a graph of my success.
15:33
Good morning, folks.
15:36
Last night, I'm not gonna lie,
15:38
I dreamt I was a Rice Krispie.
15:39
I've cooked so much rice,
15:41
and this morning, 6:00 a.m.,
15:43
I've cooked up a batch of three more.
15:45
We're gonna give this one more shot.
15:47
So down here we have some long grain rice.
15:50
We have some basmati rice.
15:52
And we have some sushi rice,
15:54
which I've cooked after washing it,
15:56
and once it's cooked again,
I've washed it again,
15:58
but this is very, very sticky.
16:01
It wants to hold its shape together.
16:03
I don't think that it's even
worth proceeding with this.
16:05
'Cause it just goes gummy like that.
16:09
We're gonna end up with massive
Rice Krispies like this.
16:10
I'm going for a non-fan oven,
slightly lower temperature,
16:12
and I'm gonna keep my
eye on it a little bit.
16:17
We're gonna spread the rice
out just a teeny weeny bit.
16:20
Make sure it's a single row,
16:23
and we'll see what happens.
16:25
We're having curries for
the rest of the week.
16:28
So that's going in normal, non-fan oven.
16:30
See the fans not spinning?
16:33
Alright, see you in two hours.
16:37
Okay, that has actually been three hours.
16:39
The two hour bake with the fan off
16:42
has actually helped a lot.
16:44
You can see that both the rice,
16:46
in fact, they've merged a
teeny bit; it's all good,
16:47
but the colour, it's still what it was.
16:50
It is hard still, but it's not
browned and toasted too much.
16:52
For one last time, let's
try and make Rice Krispies.
16:59
I think the sieve is
the best way to keep it
17:04
sort of within the vicinity.
17:08
Actually, just put a couple in.
17:09
Just see what happens.
17:13
This is the long grain.
17:14
Not much happening.
17:19
Move it about a bit.
17:27
Ooh, it does look a bit puffed, actually.
17:31
I can hear a popping.
17:35
Just a couple of them.
17:38
Oh, actually, it looks just like rice.
17:40
I'm gonna keep warming it until
17:44
we get to about 225, I think.
17:45
I've gone up to the smoking point
17:48
because maybe it is that
initial hit that goes (blowing),
17:50
that makes it explode,
because all it's doing
17:53
is basically making homemade
17:55
Chinese egg fried rice all the time.
17:57
Alright, so this oil with
the sieve in it is at 220.
17:58
I'm expecting some craziness.
18:08
I want some excitement in my rice.
18:09
Nothing's happening.
18:12
(gasping) Oh my gosh, forget the rice.
18:14
Look, there's little
things swimming around.
18:23
I think that Fast Chef
guy might've been right.
18:28
But with the good ones,
there's a lot of brown,
18:31
because I was too busy talking to you.
18:36
But I think we've got two Rice Krispies.
18:38
Small wins, people.
18:42
I'm gonna keep doing this for a bit.
18:43
And if I can get a few,
18:46
I think the long grain was better.
18:47
There you go, look.
18:52
It's actually popping.
18:53
There's loads in there now.
18:56
Dangerous but awesome.
18:57
Look, you don't leave it in too long.
19:00
The ones at the bottom, they're
like, no, save yourself.
19:01
Women and children first.
19:04
We're gonna get brown and burnt,
19:06
but there's a couple there.
19:08
A question I've been asking
myself for a few days now.
19:12
I've gone through hell for this thing.
19:16
I'm shoving it all in my sieve.
19:18
I'm gonna leave the oil to cool down.
19:19
Let's try and get some more out.
19:21
We're going long grain
and basmati, all in.
19:22
Just want a few more Rice Krispies.
19:28
If I can get, like, six,
then that is good for a diet.
19:29
I mean, it's January;
everyone's having a diet,
19:33
so, you know, just six Rice
Krispies for breakfast.
19:35
Come on, let's get some puffage.
19:39
I really wanna see that puffage.
19:40
Guys, look at that.
19:45
(angelic vocal music)
19:46
This is exceptional.
19:50
I'm going out, I'm going
out, that's too much.
19:51
(laughing) We have done it.
19:55
There's my excited face.
19:58
Like, no joke, I was so prepared to say
20:01
this is one of my first
ever proper fail videos.
20:04
And I was gonna ask you guys to make it.
20:07
So here we are then, folks.
20:10
This is a standard looking Rice Krispie.
20:12
All puffed up and looking gorgeous.
20:15
This is the batch that we first used
20:16
when we fried it on a lower temperature.
20:18
You can see it's got
brown outer sides on it.
20:20
But this is our puffed goodness.
20:24
Of course, there's brown within it,
20:27
but when you dig deep,
you rummage through,
20:29
have a little forage, you
find some absolute gold.
20:31
The only way to serve it up
20:34
is in my little ketchup dipping pot.
20:35
Some milk from my jug from Mini Food.
20:38
Sprinkle in some sugar on
20:41
with an eighth of a teaspoon measure.
20:42
I just like sugar on my Rice Krispies,
20:44
and also, that eighth
of a teaspoon measure,
20:45
yeah, we used that for the paste.
20:47
That seems like only yesterday.
20:50
That's because it was.
20:51
The smell, the malt particular,
20:53
and the sweetness from
the sugar from where we've
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driven that in when we
boiled it up is awesome.
20:57
And I am just relieved and happy
20:59
and excited that we got it to work.
21:01
Looks like Rice Krispies.
21:04
Whoops, I dropped one.
21:09
I've got like 10; I
dropped one on the floor.
21:10
A little bit more crunchier,
a teeny bit sweeter,
21:14
and they've got a real
nice malt twang to it.
21:17
It's almost like a sort of
21:19
subtle popcorny vibe to it as well.
21:21
Yeah, so, in conclusion,
I've gotta be honest, guys,
21:22
I don't really wanna be
doing that again in a hurry.
21:28
But you guys all wanna see Cheerios
21:30
and Cocoa Pops and stuff.
21:31
Alright, just buy some
Rice Krispies, okay?
21:34
It's a fun project.
21:37
If you wanna do the
homemade Rice Krispie Treats
21:39
with that, it's gonna
take a long, long time.
21:41
But thanks for watching.
21:43
A lesson in persistence,
ladies and gentlemen.
21:44
Alright, gonna have some cornflakes.
21:47
♪ Check your level, playa ♪
21:49
♪ No matter what your style,
the kitchen's for me ♪
21:50
♪ Sideburns, moustache,
goatee, maybe all three ♪
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