Pro Chef Reacts... To Uncle Roger HATE Jamie Oliver Egg Fried Rice
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- čas přidán 30. 07. 2022
- This is the video that I have been wanting to review! Uncle Roger Hating Jamie Oliver's Egg Fried Rice! I have to admit I was not quite what I was expecting. Let me know what you guys think in the comments but take it easy!
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I have been waiting for this video. 😂😂😂😂😂
I have been waiting for this video, thanks :) Also, finally someone pointed out that "packaged precooked rice". I was wondering wtf it is, because i have never seen something like this in my entire life here in Poland, very big no no.
that confused expression you made when he got the tofu is pure gold
and the coments/critics are top notch, se ve que trabajaste en cocina desde hace mucho
The precooked rice is not a nee thing they have it alot in asian markets its for mostly on the go type like u forgot to cook rice the night b4 or don't wanna have to wash a container after eating during lunch type a thing but even so when heating the rice it does get very wet not appropriate for fried rice.
the fury that crept across your face with the ready rice reveal was amazing.
Yeah something that I've never seen before! Haha
I think that was lazy, but if I’m giving Jamie the benefit of the doubt, I would say that making fried rice requires planning because you have to have cooked cold rice and this video seems to be part of a “quick meal” type of series. Also he did say it was a cheat. That said this is a video from a professional so it’s not a good look.
@@torrick00 I feel this video is aimed toward the kind of stereotypical british family that doesn't get very adventurous with their food and so he is trying to cater towards those type of people with his ingredients and method of cooking
@@ChefJamesMakinson I'm sure you're aware of it, but I want you to share the joy of the "Paella Burrito Outrage" committed by Sorted. B/c reasons. ^_^
@@ChefJamesMakinson He did a series where the Meals were cooked from start to finish in 15 minutes. Is this one of those? In that series he also used things like premade pastry as well.
"I don't think even MSG can save this now"
I think this is now my new favorite quote for cooking
Imagine if you were in Italy and a chef showed you how to make lasagna from scratch and he pulled out a package of frozen lasagna to put in the oven. That's how I feel about Jamie Oliver's attempt to make fried rice.
😂 hahaha
But this didn't happen in China. This happened in Bri'ain.
This is all to be expected from a nation that has the worst cuisine on the continent.
I find this to be an improvement actually!
I say this as someone who is from Serbia and who's casually preparing dishes with my wife that are typically on par with what you can get in a really good restaurant. And if you're not acquainted with my country, foreigners flock here mostly for the quality of food and hospitality, good night life, and good looking women. You can confirm this by clicking on literally any video about Serbia. The other night I've made a pretty good penne arrabbiata and a night before a solid beef quesadilla. Imagine what we can do with our standard repertoire like stews, goulash, or sarma. I can also do excellent cauldron specialties, outdoor grilling and awesome pan pizzas, the latter I learned from the actual internet. It's that easy to cook nowadays! But the recipe alone is nothing if you don't know what you're doing and why, you need to get a feel for the cooking principles, to be patient, and occasionally to know how to improvise without sacrificing the quality of the ingredients.
When I'm watching English cooking videos (which is rare, except perhaps Ramsay, I just like his TV persona), I tend to look through the lens of their geographic insulation, and knowing their traditional cuisine of the hyper-bland variety such as spam, porridge or beans combined with stuff that's borderline disgusting like blood puddings and weird jams, I'm almost rooting for them for being daring enough to even attempt to use spices or imitate a well-known international dish.
If there is anything like cooking talent in this world, then it is simply extinct in places such as UK and North America, or it flew away in terror, can't tell. There is a reason why hot dogs, pb&j, and donuts are the pinnacle of the American cuisine, and that reason is the UK heritage. In fact, hot dogs got imported with German immigration, ketchup is literally a Chinese word for tomato sauce, every other thing is prefixed with "French" just to make it sound edible (even though it's not French, i.e. French fries are from Belgium, La Croix is a dishwasher brand or sth like that), and Hershey bars are based on a milk byproduct that smells like vomit, but for some reason the vomit smells like nostalgia to the Americans, which just highlights the irreparable state of their relationship with refined taste. At least the people from UK aren't as wasteful.
So when I see Jamie Oliver struggling to build an Asian dish, this is not a sign of him not appreciating the flavors or doing a bad job, he's merely toning it down for the palate of people who have been eating styrofoam for the last two thousand years and thought it was really good. Many Serbians have been to the UK you know. Everything else we can get used to, we're Europeans after all and the differences are not that great across the table, but for the people from the Balkan, the food there is like a curse, even Germans are majestically better in every regard (though I'm still more likely to recommend Turk and Bosnian cuisine you'll find all over the Central Europe).
@milanstevic8424 what an arrogant, close-minded comment. Disgusting.
or using US made parmesan while lack flavor
If how you feel is that you're watching an idiot, then I agree. I how you feel is violent rage then you're seriously overreacting. I'm from Texas, we grill and BBQ like no one's business, if you came here with some goofy BBQ method or weird oven cooked steak, I'd just think you have no idea what you're doing. Getting mad over food is insane. Getting as mad as people do at Oliver for anything less than a personal physical attack is batsh!t insane.
As a Filipino when I saw the pre-package rice my soul left my body. It came back after the video was over.
lmao!
Same, I had to be sent to the hospital
Almost died too
We different asians might disagree on a lot of things. However, when it comes to the rice or fried rice to be specific, we are all in agreement instantly. We would rather have someone insults us directly than getting served with Jamie's fried rice.
I like how uncle Roger is animated and you are calm. It's like watching the Jamie Oliver video with 2 of your friends who are poles apart but been friends for a long time
That’s the two different types of anger: the primal rage vs the tranquil fury
and then he saw the packaged rice. and all hell broke loose (quietly)
That's his skit. I'm sure uncle roger isn't like that as much. But you have to understand and respect the culture of others. I mean if Italians get too animated for chefs butchering their food, what more with Asians. If you look at history, most of the style of cooking in Asia has been there far longer than any other cuisine. It's even said that it's the birth of cuisine in general. So you can't blame them that they get animated when people try to pass bad knockoffs of their food.
I'd understand if Jamie, as chef James said, that it was his own personal preference or just pass his CZcams channel not as informational, but vlogs of his personal dishes from recipes with his own twist and not the natural dish, but no.
I know fried rice has different styles and ingredients. Japan has their chahan, china has egg fried rice, Philippines has their sinangag, and so on. But most have their base.
1st start off with chilled rice or day old rice, then garlic, onion/shallots, then any other local asian ingredient. Egg,then you can add carrots, peas, etc. You can also add any meat like bacon, hotdogs, or in the Phillipines they have adobo (pork stewed in vinegar and soy sauce with a bit of sugar).
But the basic is still there. Jamie butchered it.
Yes you can add tofu, but not wet tofu. Fry the tofu first then add it on top, not as part of the rice. Use it as toppings.
@@romeomonteverde No one was saying it like it was a bad thing. Nigel Ng (the man who plays Uncle Rogers) has actually done interviews about Uncle Rogers lol.
@@romeomonteverde thats a lot of words
too bad i aint readin em
James is normally calm. Even his face changed when Jamie Oliver used packaged rice.
Haha 😂
It brings to mind the old Simpsons/Shining episode clip, “Urge to kill… rising…”
Mind blown 🤯
@@ChefJamesMakinson The face of horror as he remembers "packaged rice" never fails to make me laugh
nah I saw his soul leave the body for just a moment
I married a Japanese woman in the 90s, so one of her first acts was to get her grandparents to send me a cook book so I could cook authentic Japanese food. I did have to substitute some items because at that time some things were just hard to find in my area. The closest Asian market was 400 miles away, literally. Anyway, when I watched this video myself I was grinding my teeth. Mai would've jumped through the screen and taken' the pan away from Jamie and told him to gtfo out of the kitchen lol. Anyway, her forcing me to learn,, well not really forcing me I loved cooking, anyway her encouragement landed me a job at a really nice restaurant many years later. No tie no service.
Now that she's no longer with us, and the kid is grown and gone the sum total of my cooking is throwing chunks of chicken in my air fryer. I live off of air fried chicken and rice.
I'm sorry for your loss.
@@ChefJamesMakinson Thanks, but it's long done and gone. Thanks none the less.
That is so sad to read, I hope you regain your passion for cooking and no longer live off of air fried chicken and rice.
Can you not invent a life please
I hope u one day grow to love cooking again! U seems to enjoy it in the memory of her
That splash of water straight from the tap is what irked me the most. You can see his chilli jam plan didn't work as intended and jam is clumping with rice and not distributing evenly so he realized he effed up and went to the tap hoping water will liquify the jam and spread it around.
I agree with you random pretty girl on CZcams.
I never ate at any of Jamie’s restaurants but the fact they all lost tons of money and had to shut down speaks for itself really
I cant say as I never tried but a lot of people say that
@@ChefJamesMakinson Well we have tried 3 restaurants and they were as bad as his cookware.
@@ChefJamesMakinson I tried a few as well, & they are horrible, better spend your bucks for something better
If i had to try a restaurant, id go with Gordon Ramsay
Tried one, I didn’t think it was bad so much as mediocre, dishes on a par with the pasta dishes at a dominoes or a Pizza Hut. I was hungry so it was okay but okay isn’t really good enough.
"People may mistake it for the traditional way of doing it."
FINALLY SOMEONE WHO UNDERSTANDS WHY THIS STUFF IS SUCH A PROBLEM
Way too many influencers throw this kinda stuff around without thinking about how people may view and absorb this kind of media.
Yeah, it's all well and good if you say "this is my spin on it I know this is not traditional and all" But there is a very sadly non-zero amount of people (like Jamie) who just... Don't even do that... They just go off and put this stuff out there as if THAT is the way to do it.
Yesss i mean me too is the same as Jamie, i will mostly cook with my own style because I ate it for MYSELF. It's not meant to be shared because only us who likes it and it's never the authentic traditional thing 😭 but this guy jamie share it as if it's the proper way
@@naya4050 you are right sharing your "own spin and modifying the whole recipe" and then sharing it on international platform is not acceptable for whole a culture and then Mr. @M5 want us to understand it is OK to do such thing and mess with whole recipe and then recording it and then uploading it on public platforms for everyone to watch.
Tbh it's really fucking annoying for someone who wants to actually cook the traditional recipe.
I often don't trust asian dishes recipes online, bcs a lot of it, is bullshit or a really westernized version of it. I want the original damnit!
@@dio_hoestar_4204 IKR
@@dio_hoestar_4204 But, what is the traditional recipe? Who determines that? I have great Cantonese woks, cleavers, and utensils, and can cook Asian dishes very well with them… They came with my Cantonese wife! I lived with her in Hong Kong until 2017 (we moved to the US after she retired), whose mother would cook for 100+ people at her church, and learned from both of them… Point is, my Cantonese wife would disagree with many of Uncle Roger’s comments from just the few videos I have seen… However, he is pretty damn funny nonetheless! Frankly, I think people are taking cooking too serious, I think I saw some very negative comments about another video on a Carbonara sauce despite such a sauce not even being around for more than a few decades (so how can it be “traditional” if it wasn’t even more standardized until 30 years ago)?
Noticed when Jamie took his bite of rice he commented on how "fun" it was to prepare it. No exclamation of great taste! 🤣
I noticed that too
Uncle Roger is the chaotic uncle, while James is the calm uncle that explains things kindly
Well, Uncle Roger is a comedian, maybe that's the difference 😄😆
Explaining how not to cook egg fried rice. I mean he fucked it up, you can explain all you want but if you fucked it up from the start and keep fucking up. You're just showing others how to fuck it up too.
And he makes it right-Uncle Roger
Perfect comment. 👍
The good cop and the bad cop
Some context: Jamie Oliver has never actually been for "healthier" food. He likes to keep quieter about it today than he used to, but he has some _wild_ ideas of "clean" versus "dirty" foods that all this is based on instead. I've never been able to figure out a reliable way to predict which one he thinks a food is... except for how expensive it its. Even that's not perfect, but if anyone else has found a better predictor I've never seen it.
For an example of this, the biggest exposure myself and a lot of other Americans have to Jamie Oliver is when he flew over here, sought out one of the poorest regions in the country, and tried to "teach the kids to eat better". This is the infamous chicken nugget video, where he took the "bad/gross/dirty" parts of the chicken and used them to make chicken nuggets. To his shock, his display didn't cause the poor kids (who, by the simple economics of the area, all knew how farms work...) to refuse the supposedly "dirty" chicken nuggets. Of course, the TV show he was filming this all for spun this as the kids _tragically_ being brainwashed or whatever into not caring what their food was made of.
This mentality of his is everywhere once you start looking closer at how he puts together recipes. Chicken breast shows up everywhere even when something like chicken thighs would work better (and there's _zero_ chance of anything interesting like chicken liver being used - after all, they're not "worth quite a lot of money"). Olive oil gets thrown on _everything_ because he thinks it's a "clean" oil and therefore "healthy" (no, really, not just "doesn't have some of the same risks as other oils" which is a common-but-somewhat-wrong view... he thinks people need to actively consume more olive oil). Most greases are almost totally absent unless he can hide it in the form of "using the same pan", "drippings", or "olive oil"... in which case he loads up on it because otherwise his dishes fall apart the rest of the way. Bones and skin have to be thrown out, not reprocessed in any way... even to make broth.
I genuinely don't know how or why he became a chef. His utter obsession with avoiding ingredients that "look" gross seems to be at complete odds with... the majority of what goes on in a kitchen? Even chicken breast looks unappetizing until it's cooked...
Here's a quote from the comments section of another video, one which covers this topic specifically ("Jamie Oliver's War on Nuggets", which has been mentioned elsewhere in this comment section). Credit to the user who wrote it, "Second Saint", since it's an incredibly important point to make. "The inventor of chicken nuggets, Cornell Professor Robert C. Baker, grew up during the Great Depression and squeezing every last calorie out of a chicken genuinely was one of his motivations. He didn't start a chicken processing empire, even though he invented nuggets, chicken/turkey dogs, turkey ham, etc. He published his research academically and widely distributed his recipes for anyone to use and refine."
Jamie Oliver doesn't care about health, or kids, or getting people to actually eat healthier. He's just a rich dude who looks at people eating anything other than the exact same food he does and is utterly grossed out. Spice is a sin to him, and authenticity just means a refusal to "improve".
He has ruined food in the UK. Passing the healthy eating law but then the schools don't get any sandwiches provided for them. 10 for the whole school maybe. Look up Dyffryn taf canteen food and that will show you what his food has done. The school had to change suppliers which were 'Healthy' which was too expensive and then they went with a cheap supplier. The foods shit and still not super healthy. Processed meats no carb free options and lots of saturates. I fucking hate him. Everyone's like why I'm like look what I'm fucking eating you degenerate bastard you venerate savagery for your own well being. Fuck you. Your name also sounds fake fucking Jamie Oliver. Get your head out your arse you inbred cunt.
A total wannabe then
@@kiloklavdi1185 Sorta? It's honestly more like he's a wannabe that doesn't actually want to be the thing he's a wannabe of. So Jamie Oliver is a wannabe chef who doesn't actually want to be a chef in any discernible way.
This! I was about to write an essay of a comment but you did it for me, thanks...I live In London and at the time had friends children that went to the actual school where he was filming all that BS...It was all just for Clout!
He's just a face to promote...What he did with the jerk rice was actually offensive...He has no idea 💯
He has a *lot* of unresolved classism in how he approaches food.
As an Indonesian, who eat and cooks fried rice at least once or twice a week, I sort of understand that Jamie is trying to make his own 'style' of fried rice. I don't think I've ever made an 'authentic' egg fried rice the way uncle roger does and just simply throw whatever I got into the pan (yes a frying pan, not a wok because I don't have them either at the moment). However, Jamie's ingredients are really weird and uncommon, especially for an Asian's kitchen. He could've easily use common and basic ingredients and yet he threw some curveball like packaged rice and chili jam in there lol.
No kidding. Whitest of white guys here. If you told me to make egg fried rice from my kitchen, I'd probably dice a regular onion, boil up some jasmine rice (cause it's what I have), sautee the onion in a frying pan with a chopped clove of garlic, add the rice, a bit of fish sauce or soy sauce or both, some red pepper flakes (because I have that), and then throw in a couple of eggs at the end.
uncle roger sticks to the authentic recipes so obv sometimes like in my house we don’t have a real wok but it’s more about the essence of what is being made and jamie botches that hard
Paling enak nasgor jawa lah... Terbaeeekkk..
Uncle roger tau nasgor jawa ko bang sans aja
It probably is product placement.
5:57 when he said "pre-cooked rice" both uncle Roger and James' face turn to confusion and disgust at the same time, that was hilarious 😂
In and of itself it's not bad. When you're hungry and in a hurry / too tired to wait on your dish, it's a good cheat. Uncle Ben's is the one I use, comes in a variety of nice flavours and it absolutely works when done as per the instruction - heat only with a tbsp of water for a couple minutes. It's prepared just very slightly underdone so that will make it turn out just right. But it's totally the wrong type if you want to be making fried rice.
@diarmuidkuhle8181 yes, of course it's alright to use when you don't have much time ! And indeed, it's not what you want to use to make egg-fried rice but to me it's worse when you consider yourself a chef and make recipes for everyone to follow ! And it applies to all sorts of pre-cooked food especially those that are so common and simple to make by yourself !
I love that your reactions matched Uncle Roger's so often. The onions, the rice. 😂 But I love how diplomatic and kind you are, letting everyone know that they can use what they need though there are better ways
I really enjoy the way you present the cons, non judgemental towards your average cook, but you also acknowledge that someone like Jamie Oliver has the money and knowledge to educate the meal properly and explain alternatives.
thank you for noticing!
I thank you so much because I as an indian and visited 16 this different countries have never come upon a dish this shit
Watching Jamie Oliver for cooking advice is like watching porn for the romantic delevopment. If you get any it will most likely be bad. Also exaggerated moaning but good lighting.
somehow Jamie managed to turn a fried rice dish into a vegan risotto without even trying, that's kind of impressive
But he added two eggs..?
@@Sumire_Extras Don't worry he killed the parents beforehand so they won't miss the egg ☺️
@@hazeltree7738 oof 🤣
While not vegan, it stil counts as ovo vegetarian.
@@hazeltree7738 as if chicken would miss their eggs by default 😂
The one element in this dish that upsets me the most is how Jamie cooked the eggs. It appears the albumin and the yolks are cooking separately, so when you eat the egg fried rice, you’re gonna get bits of white and yolk separately. He Should’ve whisked the eggs in a separate bowl and incorporated the yolks and the whites.
Chef Wang cook them separately
Yeahhhhh, in Asia people tend to cook them more (like Chef Wang did) but they're definitely scrambled together
It’s true, however for some reason I sometimes like the two different flavours of the egg, like 80% of the time I whisk before but the other 20 I feel like I want the two separate ones, I’m weird I know that, but it’s funny how taste plays with you sometimes
I've got chronic fatigue syndrome and there is no way I'd ever use packaged rice. Great video James. I love Uncle Roger for the humor but I come here to learn about cooking. Put the two of you together and it;s the best of both worlds.
As an Asian I never seen silken tofu for fried dishes. Its either fried or dried ones and the silken tofu is used for soups or steamed dishes and sometimes stir fry. The fried rice is too wet and soggy to be fried rice and can't even be considered as "stir fry".
I can't help myself, I totally agree it's not a stir fry, it's a stir simmer if you can believe that.😂
as a world renowned 'chef'... at least know the ingredients first before using them
@@jomsies mapo tofu isnt fried bruh
@@jomsies I think mapo tofu is not considered a stir fry dish but a braised one. It’s a fairly wet dish and when making it you want to keep the tofu shape intact. Seeing Jaime put the soft tofu in with the mostly uncooked egg was really unappetizing.
agree. I was born in Asia and grow up in here living for my whole life and I never ever had fried rice with tofu as one of the ingredients. so strange
The way your face fell at the pre-cooked rice... I'm sorry, I shouldn't laugh but the way the smile _slowly_ left your face as you processed what you were hearing was really funny 😭
I love the contrast between Uncle Rogers' more upbeat, out there commentary and your calm, soft reactions, and the fact that I'm learning from both of you because you're actually ADDING useful information. Very well done. I hope you were able to recover from the pre-cooked rice.
thank you!
Hehe, it's funny how a guy with the "chef" title starts to use packet rice in his cooking
@@sussyb1471 he's not a chef, he is called Mister Chili Jam
I see basmati or jasmine rice in a zip-up bag, or that stuff in boxes or Uncle Ben (now Ben's Originals due to Black Lives Matter name change)
@@kurtanims1216yep
I was dying from laughter when at the end of the vid, you were listing, in order of egregiousness, Jamie's mistakes. You obviously meant to just point out a few of his worst choices... but then the list just kept on going as you recalled more more. 🤣🤣 I really appreciate the you try to be fair with your reactions, which is why your list trailed off and you ended the segment. There's no need to pile on. But also love that you explain why's of what's going on and your opinion about something that's happening in the vid.
Thank you!
Great video!
I think the pre-packaged rice was because the episode is from one of Jamie's 'make dinner in 15 minutes'-series he made. So he was trying to help find 'shortcuts' for people so they could cook food and still feel like they had time for other things. :D But it wasn't egg fried rice at the end, at all :|
Thank you! I think take out would be better and easier then this.
@@ChefJamesMakinson Most likely much more tasty as well.
I think it is worth to mention that 'Egg fried rice' is like 'Chinese food 101'. My 10-year-old nephew can make a dish of egg fried rice (with minor supervision) much better than Jamie. At least edible.
When Uncle Roger said 'You hear sizzling, I hear my ancestors crying.', he was probably serious, in a way.
All asian ancestors cried at that moment...
Jaime Oliver needs minor adult supervision to make it. 😂
I loved when he circled back to the pre-cooked packaged rice at the end for the third time because he was just that offended😂
I love your videos! You really go into the details and reflect what's wrong, but at the same time, you're being so nice and respectful by also mentioning the positive aspects one might couldn't even think of, distracted by the things that horribly go wrong
Thank you so much!
The only thing I can say in Jaime's defense regarding packaged rice is that Jaime's entire career he's marketed himself as a man of the people, a working class hero. Using the pre-cooked packaged rise is absolutely on brand for him in that he wants people to see his recipes and say yes I can make that, easy, simple, and cheap. People that love Jaime Oliver don't own a rice cooker, they don't want to spend time preparing rice properly - they will hear preparing something the day before or using left over rice (almost no one in the UK making egg friend rice will have had another meal with rice the day or so before) chilling rice etc and their eyes will glaze over. It's unfortunate but that's how it is. Could he do better and show how to make rice properly, absolutely.
Yeah it’s a nice little view he has
Too bad it’s bullshit
He doesn’t care about poorer people
Just ask the people who use 2 for 1 pizza deals to save sone cash
Or alternatively compare his school diner plans to the budgets
And all of this would be ok if he wouldn't call own creation with name of existing dish which belongs to specific culture.
Not from the UK, but it’s kinda hard to imagine not eating a single meal with rice throughly the day. I eat rice at least twice a day, wether it be in soups or as a side.
Yeah that’s really uncommon here I don’t think I had rice until I was in my teens and currently don’t eat any at all @@walkermorales337
The "Oh my god is he serious" look on your face when he whipped out the pre cooked rice was gold.
My favorite part of this video is when he figures out he is actually going to use the prepackaged rice. At first it appears he assumes he is just going to show it and then use some homemade day old rice.
Jamie is an example of someone that sees but never listens.
This is the first reaction video I've ever seen by a person seriously reacting, with information, rather than over the top exclamations etc. I really appreciate it.
Appreciate that!
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You can easily find pre-made rice packets in supermarkets. One popular brand is "Ben's Original Ready Rice." These pre-packaged rice options are convenient for those who are looking for a quick and effortless meal. They come in various flavors and variations, eliminating the need to cook rice from scratch.
While making rice from scratch is relatively simple and doesn't take much time, I occasionally opt for pre-made packets when I'm feeling lazy or want to try different flavors. However, as a professional cook with a food channel, using pre-made rice packets is generally frowned upon. It's considered a sign of taking shortcuts and not putting in the effort to prepare the dish properly.
As a professional, it's important to showcase cooking skills and techniques by preparing dishes from scratch. This allows for more control over the flavors, textures, and overall quality of the final dish. While pre-made rice packets can be a convenient option for some, they might not meet the standards expected in a professional cooking setting.
It's worth noting that pre-made rice packets can be a time-saving option for busy individuals or those who are less experienced in the kitchen. However, for those aiming for a professional approach or seeking a higher level of culinary excellence, preparing rice from scratch is the preferred method.
Overall, the choice between pre-made rice packets and homemade rice depends on personal preferences, time constraints, and the desired level of culinary expertise. It's essential to consider these factors when deciding which option is most suitable for your cooking endeavors.
An equivalent for the chili jam in fried rice for me, is adding strawberry jam to a good cup of earl grey in front of the British saying it adds more sweetness and fruity flavour. In fact maybe we should dilute the tea with more water too while we're at it.
Maybe make sure to tell them the tea wasn't steeped in house, it was bought from a can down at the supermarket
A more apt analogy would be to add soy sauce to your can of tea.
Eh not really. All those flavors are common in Asian cooking. Use the Chili Jam to Marinate Chicken for Fried Rice. Or use 1/3 Jam, Soy, Honey and some other random stuff to make a Glaze for Pork or Chicken. Or Fish Sauce, Chili Jam, Soy and Glaze some seared tofu.
Jamie's technique here is dogs**t not his choice of flavors or ingredients. Go to any Asian Grocery store. You will find at least 12 different Chili sauces with sugar. You'll find like 6+ different types of sugar itself.
Chilli jam is interesting, but not dessert like. It goes well with cheese on a cheese board.
I would drink that. Sounds tasty.
What's sad about this video isn't that Jamie Oliver gets so many things wrong, it's that he gets so many BASIC things wrong. This is stuff that you learn being waitstaff and watching actual chefs cook. There is absolutely zero excuse.
Hello there! I watched some of your videos and I'm truly impressed by the level of detail you go into. Uncle Roger's jokes and your in-depth explanation, both in the end hating the dish gives a new subscriber here. Keep up your amazing content!
As a Jamaican I was quite shocked at how Jamie messed up egg fried rice. Even my mom was crying. My mom is not a professional chef but she can cook good food when making egg fried rice my mom would use leftover chicken and rice to make it.
This is not apart of the discussion but if I see Jamie making ackee and salt fish I know he will mess up
I love Uncle Roger’s blunt, honest yet comedic approach. Love how he calls out established chefs on their misguided “recipes” well done Uncle Roger.
Chef James, you're usually really cool and you give people the benefit of the doubt. I love how Jamie lost you completely with this recipe 😂😂
Well pre-cooked rice is not something that you see all the time!
@@ChefJamesMakinson It's absolutely shocking. It's so easy to cook rice that it doesn't make sense to pay for the additional packaging.
@@ChefJamesMakinson ye. That is the last thing I would add. Even I would rather use a newly cooked rice from rice cooker. At least with the right amount of oil and condiments it would dried the rice out even if you only let it warmed up inside the rice cooker for 15 mins or so. Cause usually a fluffy cooked rice dried out a bit more when you let it sit still and warmed up inside the rice cooker after it is just finished cooking.
@@ShiroKage009 It's basically an "I need to eat before I fall over in bed" food - stick it in the microwave for like a minute, throw something on it for flavor or heat up a packet Indian meal (note that all packet Indian I've ever tried has a weird flavor that I have yet to encounter in an actual Indian restaurant or from a meal cooked by an Indian home cook, and that's a bunch of meals and restaurants) and you have a very quick dinner.
Also good for if you're traveling and you have one of those hotel rooms that has a tiny microwave and a fridge - my SO hates paying for restaurant food if it's just because he needs to eat SOMETHING (as opposed to because you're going there intentionally to try the food) so he usually buys a few of those things plus some stuff like yogurt to have for breakfast and those are his meals when he doesn't want to take the time or spend the money to go out. We keep a stash in our RV now, too - if you have power (we have a generator if we aren't at a campground with power) you can have a hot meal with no prep and pretty much only a bowl and a spoon to clean, so while it's not our preferred option, it at least means no one starves. And it's way less salty and less expensive than freeze dried camping food.
(We recently got a tiny travel rice cooker that can run off 12V, though, so if we have a little bit more time we tend to use that - the quality of rice is much nicer. Packet rice has a distinct texture ime.)
@@TrappedinSLC CONTEXT! Which Jamie program is it? What is he trying to do...spend an hour cooking or making a cheat meal after work? That's WHAT HE DOES!
Hey James - love your videos. I'd love to hear a little more from you on the "why" of things. E.g. you said that using packaged rice is a "no no" but I'd love to understand what difference that might make. As a home cook, using what might be left over, or being limited in time it's super useful to understand which shortcuts are ok and more specifically what the impacts are. I shortcut a lot of things, but some things are non-negotiable.
Noted!
Uncle James said that if you're cooking for yourself then you can use a packaged rice or jam or any ingredients you have at home. However, if you're cooking for students or the world to show some recipe, packaged foods will retain absolutely no flavour. For simpler recepies? Sure, batchelor living by yourself? Sure. Home main cook? No. Professional chef ? Hell naw.
I was trying to think of what the resulting dish looked like in terms of how wet it is. The worst ingredient about this video for me was the silken tofu. Silken tofu has so much water in it; that plus adding extra water in there turned the dish into a quasi porridge. He should have used firm tofu, cut into cubes, if he wanted to use tofu.
yeah, you do not add silken tofu to dishes you want to be relatively dry. Tofu pudding, making sauces with it for vegan dishes or whatever. But I like silken tofu as a cooling dish for the summer. With chopped spring onions and other greeens and soy sauce and a bit of sesame or sesame oil/tahin over it, and scoop chunks of the tofu with the other ingredients. Basically like a salad, but the main point is to appreciate the texture and smooth taste of the silken tofu
As a South east asian, Jamie putting tap water on an Egg Fried Rice just made my ancestors cry hard.
The thing I hated the most was actually the silken tofu. That looks like a horrid thing to add to a fried rice dish.
No It didn't look that nice
If you want to add silken tofu you can fry it first and add it on top of the rice or in a separate plate, mixing uncooked tofu with the fried rice only adds unnecessary moisture and turn it to mush
@@manusiabumi7673 still no. You're thinking of firm tofu. There is fried silken tofo out there but it's usually served as its own dish,it would still just break into mush if you mix it into fried rice.
@@Kurry34 the previous comment said "on top" So i assume not mixed.
Like, cooked separately, put the fried rice in a bowl, and put fried silken tofu on top.
@@manusiabumi7673 simple D O N O T ADD TOFU to fried rice, haiyaaa that doesnt sound good, crushed tofu with fried rice? disgusting
Uncle Roger and your face when the pre-packet rice came out was priceless! Recently subscribed, love the content and recipes!
Thank you so much!
There's eggs I read about and cooked at home, I think they were called "Spanish eggs" They were put into hot olive oil and then based with it and removed pretty quickly. So good!
I think Chef Brian Tsao got it right when he guessed the sugar in the chili jam was starting to burn or stick. Like you said, hitting it with water was meant to cool the pan and stop that.
Can we just appreciate calm he is through the whole video and how he is explaining everything
super kind and good explainer, love him!
@ChefJamesMakinson I love how you review your videos so calmly. It’s really refreshing.
I appreciate that!
It's crazy to see how Roger's personality has developed over the years. He's gotten so smooth
As a Chinese, seeing the tofu getting torn like that made me cringe so hard inside.
Also, wet silky tofu? I can get behind cubed fried tofu, but silky tofu? Unless he had pressed out the liquid from the tofu, won't it add even more liquid into the rice as it cooks?
Same. Never seen any sliken tofu used in fried dishes at all. How Jamie just smushed that silken tofu into the fried rice just makes the entire dish a soggy mess that can't even consider as "stir fry".
@@playedit0ut290 turning stir fry into braised
Dude, I'm Korean and I was insulted. He even used the worst firmness of tofu for pan frying!
But I did not even know about the paella video...with chorizo??? Seriously??
@@playedit0ut290 What I more commonly saw growing up eating my mother's cooking was cubed frozen carrots & peas in fried rice
ikr? I may be American, but I can discern the wet, juicy texture of silken tofu...and, conversely, the dense, meaty quality of firm tofu.
Just a question. Even with fried rice, would it be appropriate to lightly fry the tofu first? I don't know so this is an honest inquiry
as an asian, for me oliver didnt even do a research on everything.
when i was a kid, what i understand fried rice is only "frying the rice" and adding whatever that i feel nice to add in the fried rice. so often i will cook it randomly like jamie did.
but as i grow older, there is some rule to it to make it proper meal.
and after 1st time i saw jamie video, i think he just did what i do when i was 10 years old.
putting whatever when i fry the rice just by feeling and not knowing anything.
and i even dont identify myself as a chef or cook.
for me putting package rice isnt a big thing to comment, because in asia if there is these kinds of things exist we wouldnt even care.
but that chilly jam and tofu is really triggers me tbh.
especially that tofu, it looks terrible.
I bet Jamie thought the chilli jam was like _sambal/belachan_ which seems more fitting in Asian cuisine, though not so commonly mixed into fried rice, but more commonly added on the side so the eater can choose how much he/she wants to put depending on how spicy you want it
@@lzh4950 Thailand has its equivalent of sambal called "namprik" and, Thai cook adds the namprik while frying, not after.
@@Zzz-tf5mw i thought it was called "nam prik pao"
@@possiblyconfused5365 Namprikpao is a variety of namprik family. Namprik is chili-based dipping. Recipes under namprik blanket includes
- namprikpao (which indeed is the Thai adaptation of Sichuan chili oil)
- namprikkapi
- nampriknoom
- nampriktadaeng
- nampriklongrua
- namprikplayang
- namprikong
etc.
They are over 20 varieties of namprik. Namprik which are commonly used for fried rice dish are namprikpao, namprikkapi and nampriklongrua.
@@Zzz-tf5mw ohh ok
Hello James, new subscriber who's going through your many videos! Love it! Just wanted to say you're right on this one, it happens we "use" rice" often as a side dish like it was smashed potatoes or pastas... some kind of fulling the plate I guess, with vegetables and meat... funny, when I think of it. (I live in Canada) But we also cook rice as the main meal. For me, it's simply that I adore rice, main or side. LOL By the way, I was wandering what is your speciality?
Thank you! my specialties are French, Spanish ,and modern British cuisine.
Even the most basic Asian restaurants all over, you’ll see several giant rice cookers going all the time. It’s not a step any restaurants would choose to skip. There IS a big difference in terms of taste and texture between freshly cooked and packaged rice. Packaged rice relies on almost all moisture being pulled and stabilizers to sit on a shelf for a long time.
I've never seen a chef be so offended by a food. Ever. Awesome
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It's not the food itself but the lack of awareness and erasing the culture and history. If you're going to make something, respect the culture it comes from. And don't call it egg fried rice when it's Not egg fried rice. It's your fried rice dish. But it's not egg fried rice.
Jamie talks like he's an authority on this when he gets the recipe SO wrong. If these people like him and Rachael wouldn't do that, there wouldn't be as much of an issue
Should check out Brain Tsao
yes he really should be offended cuz this is our(asian) culture food.....what will happen if we as asian cook western food wrongly...😶
@@madisjustafeeling Asian? More like east Asian (southeast and sinosphere)
Chef James, you are one classy guy. You may disagree with some of the chefs' techniques or choices of ingredients but you say it in a constructive way without demeaning anyone. Big salute!
I really appreciate that, thank you Jorge! 😉
I used leftover ingredients for my fried rice...it's my comfort food that is easy and cheap. So yeah...sometimes I used tofu. But I used firm tofu, break it and stir fry it until it crumbles and dry...
You can use it as topping or just mix it into your fried rice...
Easy to get and cheap ingredients are the key for my fried rice 😁
If you are going to throw spring onion into the pan first it has to be the whites of the onion. The green parts get nasty really quick. As for the chili jam, its goes great with a baked brie, with some pesto.
Reaction videos are a guilty pleasure since they are often primarily an entertainment device, so thank you for making it a proper learning experience as well! Also, absolutely love the progressing shock and confusion from 5:58 onwards when you got to the "packet pre-cooked rice" bit. Didn't know that existed either!
Jamie's recipe is like something a college student would make in their dorm if they wanted a version of fried rice. But as an Asian it's horrifying. That consternation as you saw the packet rice is hilarious. I can understand simplifying a recipe for a beginner cook but teach a good basic recipe and advise if they can't get the proper equipment or ingredients.
My egg fried rice is just rice, egg, and salt. I cannot cook aside from pasta.
"as an Asian" is almost patronizing, considering, say, Chinese cuisine and eating culture is very much conceived around scrappiness and improvising with what you have. Most cuisines in the world are, in fact, and if you can make it work, there is nothing wrong with packet rice. It's still just freaking rice, except the parboiled kind has a lower glycemic index and might in certain cases benefit dishes on account of variance in amylose/amylopectin contents. It tends to be very different from the rigidity Italian YT cooks display about strictly following recipes, experimentation and changing things is encouraged and it led to plenty of fantastic accidents over the years.
Jamie Oliver might not be my favorite personality, but the criticism he gets is ridiculous on so many counts, including Uncle Roger's mostly exaggerated issues with all his stuff.
@@krysylleangelica992 Fry some garlic first on the pan. THEN do it.
It's way too overcomplicated for a college student, the packet rice maybe but any random college student could tell you that a few dashes of soy sauce is going to turn out better than what he made
@@minhuang8848 "there is nothing wrong with packet rice. It's still just freaking rice" you are wrong, pal. They use a worse, cheaper breed of rice to make all these kinds "pre-packaged rices". It's sticky, gooey and really subpar to just any rice you can buy
I was recommended one of your video by YT, ever since I have been binge watching your videos. Love how you explain things. Are you this patient when you are cooking ? :)
On side note, I am curious of you following one of these recipes in your video and giving your reaction. Try this one for example.
haha most of the time yes!
Happened to chance upon your videos and enjoy it!. Love it that a actual chef sharing factual views about cooking reaction video
Thank you so much! :)
About smashed tofu, my mom has a stir-fried smashed tofu recipe with eggs, shallot, onion, usual spices, and chicken broth stir fried until the excess liquid evaporates. It's one of my favorite recipes of her. What she doesn't use, however, is silken tofu. She uses firmer tofu for that one.
The worst offense I see from this is the packaged rice.
Very good point!
Honestly if he just put either the rice or the tofu on the side it would have been decent imo. Also bonus points if he used sesame oil instead of olive oil.
As a Malaysian Chinese, I'll call this 黑暗料理, which you may pronounce as "Hey Arn Liao Lee" which means "Dark Cuisine" and obviously it will taste "dark" 😂
But I have to say I've tried fried rice with tofu before its not bad, just the tofu they use is not soft silken tofu like this, they use fried tofu which the tofu is dried and seasoned, so it will not add extra moisture to the fried rice but instead add more taste and texture.
Yea, in a fried rice dish, no way in hell I would want to use silken tofu. Fried bean curds aren't even that hard to find or make either.
Lol. I am Japanese, but I could read what you wrote in Chinese, and I burst out laughing. 😂
I use boil-in-bag rice, which just means regular white rice varieties in a plastic bag that withstands high temperatures. The reason for this is that I used to always burn my rice, it would stick to the pot. That stopped happening with boil-in-bags. I have decided for multiple reasons, however, to take Roger's advice and just invest in a rice cooker. Perfect every time, and it will end the risk of inevitably eating micro-plastics from the crumbling bags. I will go the extra mile and ask a local Asian lady which cooker she recommends, no two brands are the same quality. It's time to leave the old life behind. Washing the rice will become a common ritual in my kitchen.
Hi James. I love your reviews of other chefs and I was wondering, is there any chance of you reviewing the video of Uncle Roger, Joshua Weissman and Guga doing Flavour vs Texture video? I'd live to hear your thoughts on it. 😊
I can take a look!
I was raised in Guam, fried rice for breakfast on most days and a lot of dinners. That fried rice episode qualifies as food horror, in my opinion. I let out a shout of terror when he added the extra water. And, yes, I was already set on edge by the packaged rice and chili jam.
Love your videos. I especially loved the small section at the end where you gave your overall view of the recipe you just watched. It would be great if more of your reaction videos included a section like this!
I'll keep it in mind! :)
This is what I am taught by my mom: 1: Aromatic First like garlic, shallots, ginger 2: once oil is fragrant, meat/seafood/eggs and seasoning and veggie if you want, then 3: leftover rice & mix well, 4: if done, heat off, the garnish: spring onion
So simple: this is a dish that we make when we have nothing to eat at home or mom is not around to cook. One dish lunch/dinner
major respect for chef james not only has he down an amazing review he has LIKED almost every single comment
not all! haha
To be fair, the reason he used pre-packaged rice was because this recipe is from a series called 'Quick & Easy', where you make things as simple as possible and using only 5 ingredients. But still olive oil and chili jam is a no go.
The paella isn’t the worst thing he did (so far). He made Ramen without using ramen and Butter Chicken without using butter. Honestly, the recipe itself wasn’t that bad, but when the key ingredient is missing, just called it different.
If he’s only got 5 ingredients to play with that’s even less of a reason to put the chili jam and tofu in, or to use olive oil
honestly... using leftover rice is more easy than buying a pre packaged rice
Fair point
this fried rice is the worst. I can only imagine a bland and soggy rice with this.. no garlic or soy sauce.. I mean, even though the most traditional chinese style fried rice (forgot the name) don't use garlic, it uses other things like char siu etc to build the taste..
But cooking ramen without using ramen is next off course
a delicious fried rice can be cooked with 1. rice (cooled freshly cooked rice not overnight staled rice) 2. egg 3. shallot 4. salt 5. oil...... if you want to add protein that's optional but that's the foundation of a fried rice....
I've thought about this video way too much.
No Wok: Yes a Wok is ideal, but if you are going to substitute a pan, he could at least have used cast iron. I understand using a substitution, but he went with a bad substitution. I refuse to believe he had no cast iron.
Olive Oil: I'm torn on this. I suspect that a pure olive oil, something far from extra virgin that is actually fairly neutral with a higher smoke point, could be okay. But it could be okay, as in, if this is the only oil that you have, it will work. Does he not have like...vegetable oil? is that beyond his grasp as a professional chef making a cooking video? Maybe he is pretending like the olive oil is healthier.
Pre-packaged rice: Insane that he would use pre-packaged rice in a cooking demonstration. However, pre-packaged rice is common in some areas, and I think you could argue that it is similar to day old rice, which you do want for fried rice. I'm not convinced that if you suddenly want to make fried rice, you aren't better off buying packaged rice then cooking and using fresh rice. If he clarified that you can use this in a pinch, I think he could get a pass.
Green Onion: ive always been a fan of cooking the whites of the onion like an aromatic along with that missing garlic, and using the greens for garnish. Including the greens as first thing in the pan...no.
Chili jam: Certainly a weird ingredient, but not automatically bad...HOWEVER...its a jam, therefore filled with sticky sugar. Which will burn at the high temperatures you want to fry rice at. If he added it at the very end with the green onion, I would be less critical (Though a weird, sticky coating is not a great match for fried rice). If he added it as a condiment after cooking, I would say it is untraditional, but I can't fault him, and I would probably like it I must confess. But it is wrong, especially how he used it. And the sneaky part is that that sugar burning problem...is probably why he had to add water. To prevent the jam from burning.
Adding water: This actually bothers me more then anything else. Sometimes, you use the ingredients you have or that really appeal to you, its not the worst thing. Adding water to something you are trying to cook quickly and with a lot of heat like fried rice is the worst technique imaginable. No argument about it being his own take, this is just wrong.
Egg: The slow rate of cooking of that eggs shows me that his pan is way, way too low. Borderline making rice pudding.
Tofu: Those crumbles are just so inconsistent, unevenly cooking, and that Tofu...Ive gotten Tofu in that kind of packaging, it is super wet and needs to be pressed and drained. That probably added even more water to the dish, and must have been unbelievably bland. If it was pressed and cut into cubes, I could forgive it, but this is awful.
The only defense I will give to Jamie is that instead of, "Random" he should have said, "Not homogenous". If he described it as having a variety of shapes and sized, it would have been fine.
And lastly, no MSG. I think this speaks to a deeper problem. Jamie talks a lot about health, and MSG developed a reputation for being unhealthy because of racist attitudes towards American Chinese restaurants. It's actually fine, probably better for you then the sugar in that Chili jam actually, but I bet Jamie is avoiding it because of the stereotype. It would make sense because so much of Jamies health crusade seems to be rooted not in health, but classism. His famous crusade against chicken nuggets describes chicken nuggets as bad not because of the oil and deep frying so much, but because it uses the bad, dirty, CHEAP parts of the chicken that "The poor's" use, and shames people out of using ingredients that would be accessible to the lower, inferior classes. His recommendations aren't completely wrong, but he sure imagines that any food item has about 50% more calories if he can more easily picture in the fridge of someone who had problems paying rent.
Excellent comment Adam! Yes the precooked packaged rice could be good if people don't have time but cooking your own rice is cheaper than buying less than a kilo of already precooked rice. But it is what it is.
Excellent comments about the Racist and Classist attitudes inherent in the dismissal of certain ingredients, types of oil and cuts of meat! I certainly suspect that Jamie Oliver harbours some of the worst Imperialist attitudes inherent in sadly far too many Brits.
Not to make this too political or anything, but I have a dear friend who's British and lives in England, and who is a wonderful woman in nearly all possible aspects (she's also an amazing professional Opera Singer!), but who also voted for Brexit because somewhere she still believes that Britain can reattain that former Imperial glory. I think that Jamie Oliver suffers from much the same problems, except with cooking instead of Economics and Politics.
@@AhsimNreiziev The channel, "Folding Ideas" does a good look at this in his video, "Jamie Oliver's War on Nuggets" if you're interested.
So you are very right except for the olive oil thing. It is actually healthier. As long as you don't burn your oil and create a whole bunch off carcinogens.
Cell walls are made off fat and vegetable oils are a type off fat that oxidizes very easely, that still applies even after they enter the body. This often leads to cells breaking and dying and other inhibited cell function. Olive oil is not only lower in this fat type but also contains significant amounts off antioxidants to help prevent oxidative stress in the body. I'm not a cook so it's not up to me to recommend what oils or fats to use, I don't know their smoke points so recommending something for each recipe is not something I should do. If you have to choose between olive oil, tallow, butter or vegetable oil it's probably in that order.
@@mayastic9570 fair, but I would argue that it is not significant in those quantities, in that dish, when comparing with the pure, refined, non-virgin olive oil he is likely useing.
Then again, his pan looked so cold, maybe he could safely use EVOO. But if true, I'm even angrier now.
I really love this guy he is so calming and such a cool smooth voice you earn my subscribe
When i do egg fried rice i love using sesame oil it just adds such a wonderful flavor...no clue if its correct but i just enjoy the taste
loved watching your reaction lol, especially the emotions that flashed across your face as you saw the pre-packaged rice lmao. I honestly have never seen pre-packaged rice in any grocery store here in Southeast Asia, I guess that's more of a Western thing as I guess not as many households are cooking rice on the daily like we do or maybe they're for families without rice cookers?
Oh but if you wanna know the video that really made Uncle Roger super popular, it was actually the reaction video that he made to the BBC Egg Fried Rice video with Hersha Patel, before he made this one. You should check that one out as well lol, I'd say that one was just as much of a disaster, if not more.
Thank you Shirley! rice is not as common in the west but rice was introduced many centuries ago into Spain by the Moors and here it is a very popular ingredient, England not so much. I will have a look!! :)
Here in Brazil it is extremely common, most households eat it at least once every day
Mate you are so chill all the time. The way your face changed when you saw the packaged rice was hilarious 😂
Really loving your videos. I like seeing a chefs opinion on all this internet stuff with Uncle Roger. Great character, funny comedian. I'd say in my opinion, the pre cooked packaged rice is pretty gnarly. I would NEVER do that, let alone for a video. I think it must have been someone else shopping for him or he doesn't care too much about rice in general, maybe? Hard to imagine for a chef. I know the video is a year old but the content is very engaging. I rarely comment.
Thanks! someone else is shopping for him and who knows I think he is a bit tired of coming up with new ideas for every show
The explanatin about the smoke points of oils is interesting. I would just add that an additional reason against using olive oil is just its unique and very strong flavor which just doesn't work in this dish. I like your approach of: 'if you're cooking at home and you only have one oil on hand you can just use what you have, but if you're someone with resources and a team making a video, you can and should get the right oil to show people what choice is best.'
I'm going to be making my own chili jam this fall with those Thai Dragon chilis that I was telling you about. We normally make the pepper gel (name is location dependant) with red shepherd peppers which are a little sweet. It's a great compliment for things like pork or turkey. Basically the homemade recipe is just gently cooked down peppers in a little bit of water, sugar, and pectin at the end to set it. Jar it and water bath it and it can sit unopened on a shelf for 2 - 3 years.
That sounds much more what I would like! I have a few Thai Burapa Chili's growing so hope you have some by the end of the year!
A Thai celebrity chef reacted to this video as well, and she recommended that if you wanted to use some kind of “Chili Jam” try using “Nam Prick Poa”. It’s burn easily though so be careful.
Just came on your channel through this reaction and really like your calm, polite style. Will follow and check out a lot of stuff since I wanted to cook much more at home in the future. :)
Awesome! Thank you!
I feel good about my fried rice now. I use canola oil because that’s what I have and I’m not gonna buy peanut oil for one recipe. I put bacon and prawns in mine because that’s what I like. Special fried rice. I also don’t use msg but I do use soy sauce and oyster sauce.
I have one white girl confession. Sometimes if I’m out of oyster sauce I use Worcestershire instead. It’s actually a pretty decent substitute.
Chili jam as far as I know is used like oignon jam a little on top of your foie gras toast (personnaly I put neither)
If there are other uses I haven’t heard of them
The funny thing about this video is that even for us non-chefs, every time Uncle Roger finds something wrong, he makes it seem obvious and like mistakes we would make in our homes. There's another video I love he did where the mom makes fried rice for her son but she uses unboiled rice.
yeah Kays cooking! that's something different. haha
Growing up in a asian household the stuff Uncle Roger makes seem obvious feels pretty obvious. My family has made egg fried rice since I can remember. Not saying it is objectively obvious but at least to me and my family we thought it was obvious
the way you and nigel’s responses mirror each other is priceless
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I was thinking of avoiding react channels but im glad i didnt, your insights are great!
I appreciate that!
Excellent review Chef. I enjoy your insight and how you educate your viewers on the dish and the correct way of preparing it. Now your always cool, calm and collective in your reactions, but your stunned reaction and disbelief to Jamie using pre-made rice was priceless!
I normally hate to be a Grammar Nazi (no really, I honestly do), but just this once: it's "collected", not "collective".
Thank you very much!!
Hi James, greetings from Chile! I just discovered your channel, and I can say you are more than an amazing chef, you're a really cool and knowledgeable guy, so nice and calm, and yet so funny. It's like you would be an amazing person to know and hang out, I think. I'm so surprised you don't have over +1M suscribers, that's a crime. Please continue to review Uncle Roger videos, I love him, I fall down laughing, and I see he's funny to you too. Be well, hoping to see more of you! (and sorry for the bad English 🥲)
Thank you!
I'm not sure if chili jam is the same thing (except for the usual difference between jam and jelly), but American pepper jelly is literally just a fruit preserve made with hot peppers like jalapeños and habaneros instead of sweet fruits. It's most popular in the South. I legitimately don't know what would possess someone to use it in fried rice, though. The whole point is it gives you a nice sweet, spicy, subtly fruity flavor that goes really well with extremely savory foods as well as stuff like cream cheese spreads.
I do my egg fried rice random, but its like a composition of random items I have at hand, I look in the fridge to see what I have to put in, make a selection and then think about what wok-sauce I want to use. Sometimes I make normal standard egg-fried rice when I have nothing to build the dish around, but rarely.
Really loved watching this, thank you :) glad you had actual things to say unlike many other reaction videos
I appreciate that!
The look of utter disturb on your face when you saw the packaged rice was priceless. I was ready for the chili jam, but the water and rice caught me off guard too
Chili jam is a mixture of chilies and garlic; it's a shortcut. (I've never tried it that I'm aware of.)
Pepper/Chili Jam is a Southern thing here in the states, I have seen it here in Kentucky! The premade rice packet I have never seen before! I have seen packets of rice (Uncle Bens) that you can boil! I love Sriracha on allot of things! Great vid, keep up the good work!
I have to say this is a great reaction video. Usually the person reacting says some stuff and laughs but usually does not add to the video which you did very well with the information on the paella and the cooking advice
I appreciate that! I try to add something that can be useful to know. there is so much to learn with cooking!
Oh wow! You are so respectful and mannered, trying your best not to offend and also informing everyone.
So well mannered 👌🏻
You got a new subscriber for having such impeccable manners👍🏻
Thank you so much!
I use chilli jam on roast meats, and also on some aged cheese platters
depends on the taste of the chili jam. If it's only sweet + fire, then it might be passable even though non-Chinese. But, I'm worried about the sweetness level. I really don't want sweet fried rice. Of course, it would be best to use fresh chilis.....
Re: the pre-cooked rice packet: I think this is something that is more common to find in the UK, and a lot of UK home cooks are more familiar with. I also think this is why Jamie is using it, is because he is trying to tailor this recipe to UK home cooks and trying to give them a "quick recipe" they can do with minimal effort. In that context, I don't think it's necessarily the end of the world (several of the other issues are worse, IMHO). It would have been good if he had at least explained that was what he was doing, though, and that it would be better with rice you cook yourself, if you can afford to...
(Personally, I think pre-cooked rice is an abomination in general, but to be honest, if you're going to use it for something, I suspect fried rice is probably a better application for it than most other dishes, because after it has been chilled, re-warmed and fried up you're less likely to notice the texture problems it always inevitably has out of the packet, than if you're trying to use it "fresh" for something.)
You are right, I didnt double check, but i think this video come from a series specifically advertised as a 15min cooking meals or a similar concept !
We have the pre-cooked rice in the US and it's full of chemicals you don't need and they are super expensive versus a bag of rice. Most people these days own rice cookers and/or some form of pressure cooker ie InstaPot which makes rice in 5 minutes, even coconut rice. Also, you could just go to any Asian restaurant and buy just a large order of steamed rice and throw it in the fridge. Oliver was ok years back as the Naked Chef, now he's a little too arrogant and possibly one of several reasons why he lost most of his restaurants. The reviews for the Italian ones are awful. It's a shame really. 😊
Actually fried rice is a dish where rice texture matters a lot. using prepackaged rice would just make it taste off and not as good.
@@vang-toulee8351 I didn't say rice texture didn't matter, or that it would be as good. What I said is just that _if you must use prepackaged rice in something,_ fried rice is probably a better use for it than most other things you could do with it.
I was going to write something similar - Jamie's history goes back to a tiem when he was doing shows for "single blokes" who just wanted food but without all the 3 hrs prep time and nonsense, and this is where the packaged rice comes from.
There are already PLENTY of cooking programs for food elitest afficionados who have all the "right" ingrediants and who will happily spend 20 minutes cooking rice before spending 10 more minutes makign egg fried rice only to have eaten it 5 minutes after that.
It's not "authentic" sure, but it gets the job done and is STILL better than buying a macdonalds or other junk food
Your expressions when he called it a side dish and when he used the packet rice were great! Definitely had me laughing.
And I get that Jamie is trying to promote healthier cooking and is trying to make these types of dishes easier and more "accessible" to people, but if that's the case just promote it that way.
He would get so much less hate if he would just say "I know that a lot of these steps and ingredients aren't traditional and you're not going to get an authentic dish with this recipe, but this is my healthier and easier take on it"
I'm glad that you enjoyed it!
I'm not sure if packet rice and chilli jam are more "accessible" to common folk
I take fried rice with just salt, pepper, garlic and soy sauce any day
When I had fried rice for a meal, it was typically the *only* dish, probably as itself is a mix of many types of food e.g. you could add scrambled eggs (chopped up), small chicken chunks, cubed carrots, peas etc.
Too much oil. Definitely not healthier than just traditional fried rice.
People who "need" to learn cooking most of the time don't have much money and just go for fast food. Pre-cooked rice is the worst way to throw away your money, they charge you 4-5x the price of dry one. It's also bad for nature since it needs more packaging, is heavier and makes the use of water a central thing, using up ressources for people living there. Cooking rice literally takes 10-15 minutes without need of supervising.
Jamie does not think about health nor about actual accessibility or prices, this boy obviously never had to care about money.
I, personally, love chili jam but would never think to add it to fried rice!! I must admit, I also use MSG (we call it zeal) rather than salt!! It's the "umami"!! Excellent show!! Am binge-watching right now!! Thank you!!
Thanks for sharing!!
James you are doing a great job.
Thank you!