4 Levels of Cupcakes: Amateur to Food Scientist | Epicurious
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- We challenged chefs of three different levels - an amateur, a home cook and a professional chef - to make their versions of cupcakes. And then we brought in a food scientist to review their work. Whose cupcakes came out on top?
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Penny: alcohol
Gabrielle: espresso
Stephen: cheese
Cake. Cheesecake
More like half a cheesecake
My levels of depression.
Hi kakaman 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Luckily no ketchup
What I learned
Stephen: Doesn’t like regular frosting
Gabrielle: isn’t fancy schmancy
Penny: Borderline alcoholic
Jplayzgamez 😅👌🏼
Done. Don't have to read any more comments. Winner!
TWO SHOTS OF VODKA
Im penny
I love piña colada
She's a chef of course she's alcoholic
4 levels of Chefs is basically
1: I can cook
2: I love to cook
3: I cook to live
4: I'm a scientist
TheMaestro I live to cook might be more suitable
I'm a level 0 chef
Level 4 : I explore the Cake pixel
Lol ueah
Level 0: I love to eat
Everybody gangsta ‘til Stephen starts icing the cupcakes with a spoon
Hahahaha🤣🤣🤣
And says it looks professional
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Officer pulls me over:
Sir, have you been drinking?
No sir. I just had a lvl3 cupcake.
O
LOL 😂
SarahBear It would have to be quite a lot since the amount of alcohol is extremely low
Meanwhile lvl2 cupcake speeds on by. 😂
Officer pulls me over:
Sir, are you on high?
No sir. I just had a lvl2 cupcake.
I was like “wow this level 3 chef is making a time friendly cupca-...”
Her: “now this will take 9-12 hours to brown”
Me: “oh..”
Don't forget the 4-day-old cherries
Here in Brazil we usually cook the can of sweetened condensed milk in the pressure for 1+ hour and get our own dulce de leche. You could try it! (Without the vanilla beans I'm so sorry)
Dulce le leche you can buy at store
Hahahha you can find 'dulce de leche' at the store, look for more recepies, if you like sweet food it's great!
FWIW, the old school method of cooking condensed milk that way is to just put the unopened can into a big pot of boiling water for an hour or two. (At least that's how my grandmother used to do it. It worked fine.)
Man I love that level 1 cook. He's so goofy and happy. He's the kind of guy you want to be best friends with.
I agree, he’s like a mama boy
Yea
Wait i didnt know i can reply to my reply
His name is steven/Stephen and he is the BEST
or eat lunch with him at his place
I feel like as time went on Penny has become more casual and funny. She’s one of my favourite level 3’s now!
Not a good one tho. She is worse than the lvl 2 grandma in the pancake video
Emporer Relinquish She is literally a professional chef with a distinguished education and cooking background.
Na b frank is the man. This comment was made by the frank gang
My new favorite Level 3 is Saul, the mexican burrito chef!!
Frank me like: am i a joke to you
I’m surprised Steven didn’t put half a cheesecake into the batter
Creeping on level 2 territory yo
Cheesecake batter in a cupcake would not be a bad thing.
Regina Billotti cheesecake cupcakes are great tbh
He added the other half, you didn’t pay attention
Yo they liked it
Stephen is overqualified he didn’t use cake mix and store bought frosting.
dont lie to u
Emily would have used sale picked up Duncan Hines and ketchup.
A.E. Madison emily graduated to level 1.5 okaayyyy see her latest video haahaha
That’s what he wants you think but he actually removed everything from their original packaging off camera and prepared them into bowls at the ready just like any other ingredients sitting out waiting to be incorporated into the mixture.
@@wan3349 do I have to?!
Frank making cupcakes: First, we're gonna start with short ribs.
Sounds delicious
I’m gonna make fresh pasta
I heard Frank's voice saying this is swear to god
Most accurate comment I’ve read here😂😭😩
I’m just surprised that Penny didn’t grow her her own coconut and pineapple
lol
grown especially 5 years ago, on a special island that youve never heard of, and watered with melted glaciers.
She made her own dulce de leche, she could just buy It you know, its call arequipe
ok we will start by making our own caribbean island
Penny is the alcohol one, you're talking about Frank lol
“ Just like a caterpillar, this batter will turn into something new”- Steven, 2019.
*Inspiring*
He said turn into something NEW
Batterfly
TheEnderAnimations lmao😂
🖤 we love him
TheEnderAnimations “I love your creativity...how about a raise!?”
I wonder what pro chefs make when they’re actually hungry and dont want to wait for their cow to grow
You'd be surprised to know how lazy and borderline disgusting they are...
@@mattcarney9263 well, from my experience with a number of them, you'd believe me
I am working in a restaurant and i can tell you: After 5 days a week 10hrs daily cooking, you just dont want to cook anymore
so usually the will do level 1 food, order something, buy something you just have to warm, and 2 of us do have a wife that is cooking.
u usually only see an cook cooking when they are on vacation
hahahahaha i love you XDDD
Savant OW most go for fast food...Cheeseburgers were high on the list.
Gabrielle :caffeine addict.
Penny: alcoholic.
Stephen: Normal person
No, cheese person 😎
Nah.. Cheesecake addict.
*cream cheese lover
Frosting despiser
Ah yes, “normal”
Level 1 chef: Put two sticks of butter in the batter.
Level 2 chef: Take some organic butter and put two sliced pieces into the batter.
Level 3 chef: Saturate the oils to counterbalance the zesty lime flavor and use fresh olive oil imported from France with some lemon zest and then begin to create your butter, after you create your butter, slice it into cubes to make the batter fluffy after that sprinkle your butter cubes in cinnamon, and a four spice blend, then use coconut butter with a certain texture, after that slice open a coconut and drain the juices with the coconut butter, add the coconut butter with the butter cubes then fry with freshly made sunflower oil, made from my own sunflower garden, after two hours of frying, put some white white in the mix, and don't forget the molasses and sugar, after that refrigerate for two days, then add six cups of organics butter I got from the farmers market, add it with your own made butter, and then add some full-fat milk that I milked from my own cow with my bare hands.
I wish I could like this comment multiple times
I-
The commitment to making people laugh their ive gotta hand it to ya 😂
Uhh
Can i say im proud of the effort you put in😂😂😂describes them well
Cream cheese
Instant flashbacks to “half a cheesecake”
Crap Crab Noni
I don’t wanna like it cause it’s at 666 but I still wanna like it
Lmao that dude
oh god.
Haha love it
Steven: "that looks professionally done"
Epicurious: *instantly shows the professional chef*
😭🤣🤣🤣
Jin loves Namjoon's sexy brain was that a DAD JOKE???
@@lunairekim1990 it wasn't
Jin loves Namjoon's sexy brain yup... shade
@@Nanoubonbon Well Steven was clearly joking, so more like an inside joke.
Penny: They're soaked in rum, aperol, some sugar and some vanilla bean.
me: ... more rum?
Penny: Yep, more vanilla bean!
Same I was your you forgot to say more rum🤣🤣
Saaaaame
Steven: Machines can’t take the jobs of humans. Uses a hand mixer
Lakshay Bedi 😂😂😂
I love Penny's fascination for alcohol. She's like the embodiment of "two shots of vodka".
Penny's one of my favorite Level 3s so far
I got drunk just from watching
She's here for a good time and she's gonna get it
Seán yas. She’s having a good time owo
Her last name is Polish - "Stankiewicz" - so yeah, vodka is her drink of choice
I feel like this is Chef Penny's personal "feel good, treat yourself" cupcake.
I also feel like she would have added more rum if it wasn't being filmed 😂
I feel like she drank the rest of that rum shot...
My favorite lv.3 chef
LOL ikr
I would drink that liquid from the cherry jar. So much flavour
Penny's my second favorite level 3 chef
I am assured that wherever she appears, she'll add some form of alcohol into her recipe, and she's proud of it.
Who’s the first?
@@sandy3655 probably Frank
@@stormwright8300 Frank is a god
@@neithan_ and a Salt Master
@@stormwright8300 and spices too HECK YEAH
I know this might not be weird but I actually am so proud of Steven and I really don't know why...
he didn't add half a cheesecake in the batter this time
Because he didn’t use a box mix
Honestly I’m impressed that the level 1 chef didn’t use box cake
I’m surprised he didn’t add half a cheese cake
@@renzsalazar2917 he was in the 4 levels pancakes, he just put half a cheesecake in his batter
@@schemadinberceni no, mate.
I'm shocked level 2 was equal to level 1. Even i know how important icing tips are.
Thats level 0
Stephen then: * literally mixing brownies into store baught ice cream by hand *
Stephen now: *homemade cake batter*
There's some big improvement going on around here.
HyperCharged his looked pretty good
I FORGOT he added a half mf cheesecake to batter
HyperCharged
Character development
HyperCharged
Character development
Brought *
10:34 *and this was the day that stephen became a level 2 chef
Noice
Stephen: I don't like regular icing
You mean cream cheese?
@@generaldefenseyt6517 watch the pancake video :)
I wish they would eat each other's cupcakes.
that sounds very wrong
@OnceUponAVideo 😳 I hope your still talking about the desserts 😂
OnceUponAVideo same
Same
666 likes
Y’ALL SLEEPING ON STEPHEN’S PURENESS
Miss Keisha exactly HE IS SSOO CUTE
Its ya'll bte
neot no it's y'all because "you all" lmao
erin caffrey 😚
Stephen is adorable
10:12 Level 1: what the teacher taught in class.
Level 2: what the homework expects you to understand
Level 3: What shows up on the test.
Stephen’s Cupcake: Cupcakes you get at Vons; for Kids’ Birthday Parties
Gabrielle’s Cupcake: Cupcakes you get at specialty cupcake places; for Parent Mixers
Penny’s Cupcake: Cupcakes you get at a fancy restaurant; for drunk uncles (and aunties) and their parties.
Penny totally missed the opportunity to say, “And this is my PENNYcolada Cake.” 😂
Marife Marcelo that is the worst dad joke I have ever seen😂
@@pkwaripkwari8177 *cracks knuckels* oh you poor thing, let me introduce you to one of the worst: Boomstick from Deathbattle.... everyone loves him but hates him at the end
Marife Marcelo ABAHAHAHHA
@@zukushi2533 rrfrrb
This pun hurts me
She said “yep more vanilla bean” nah I was thinking about the damn rum
So was she
I know lmao I was damm more rum?
O Riskii same. Penny is so precious though.
She added so much sugar, I wonder how sweet that cupcake was
Same
You ain’t ever going to sleep after eating that level 2 cupcake
3:11 If that wasn’t the purest moment Idk what is.
One day Steven will become a level 3 chef and he will slaughter his own cheesecake
He will make his own cheesecake before adding it to his dishes
So he can then add it to his pancakes
@@nikazadnek6299 now that is something that a level 3 chef would do
He would probably add half a cheesecake to his cheesecake mix.
@@PhoniexStudio Naw mate I wasnt ready🤣🤣🤣
Penny: “Yep more vanilla bean”
The 3 litres of alcohol used: “Am I a joke to you?”
I would love to try that cupcake of hers. Gabrielle, not so much as it's too chocolatey for me. Stephen actually looks good too.
*2 shots of vodka*
Frankly I really am not impressed with Penny. If you need that much booze to enjoy it...
Isaac Graff well I mean, when your cooking with certain alcohols and depending on how you’re using it, you’d probably use a lot or else none of the alcohols flavor will come through. What’s the point of including alcohol if you’re not gonna taste it (besides vodka, which is commonly used because of its fast evaporation).
Se should use the bay leaf to make these cupcakes more slav xDDDD
I breaks my heart people skip the food science section! Rose is one of the main reasons I watch these!
I never skip the food science portion although i have skipped the cooking portion
Lvl1: Plain
Lvl2: Caffeine
Lvl3: Alcohol
Lvl4: Weed
Lvl5: Cocaine
Lvl6: Heroine
Joe Rogan: Have you tried DMT?
Lol 🤣🤣☠️
YES
FUNNY 😆
Penny mouthing “I love rum.” Made me chuckle.
@@aldohorn1704 it definitely is, which is ok because rum is great
Carpeted Shower one more like and your at 1000 my OCD
Lauren Rodger no need to thank me👌
Magnus er Deilig 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
Dulce de leche = heart react from me!
If Emily was there she would disguise her ketchup as red icing
Noice
ddm 😂🤦🏾♀️
Naruto fan ayeee!!!!
I didn't know that Kakashi love cup cake
Kakashi Hatake She would be disguising the ketchup as icing, not the other way around
My favorite part of every one of these videos is when the chefs try their food and they're all so happy with it. It's not always about the skill, it's about whether you love what you make.
Gabrielle's face is so priceless when she's covered in chocolate LOL
Gabrielle is so wholesome and she obviously is just having a lot of fun. She and Lorenzo are my faves
Where's granma Beth!
Lols, those 3 are the sweetest.
@puca who?
Oh I agree
Alvin?
@@r1ft_lucide595 who?
No one:
Penny in every video:
And 2 shots of vodka
Why is the rum gone? Penny made cupcakes.
Gluglugluglugluggluglug
Basically
Shes russian
@@glowingcrystal159 this explain everything!
Penny looked so thrilled when she said "and this is my pina colada cupcake"
The real question is... How does Gabrielle maintain that physique
Frrr
er, a crap load of caffeine, she runs everywhere :P
Isnt it obvious?... Its the espresso.
Real talk: We need the scientists to really make their own versions of the food.
Lmaoo that would be epic!!
yes that would actually be 4 levels
I don't think they would to better than the level 3, that's why I think that's a great idea
Aren't food scientists chemists? 😶 I don't think she can top level 3
@Greg Fakerson Rose Trout happens to be an excellent cook.
Food Scientist: *taps* board
Everyone: Cool time to read the comment section
I can't be the only interested in the science behind their meals.
@@Barde_Jaune You might be
John C I love the science behind it!
Legit the realist comment I've read today lmao
omg I do the same
penny: alcohol & dulce de leche
Gabrielle: espresso
Stephen: cream cheese
*Emily: ketchup*
😂😭
level 3 chefs are amazingly impressive. like can you imagine waiting for days to make a recipe and then fail and have to do it again or of it was great then u would do it endless times cause its a success? i feel like people under appreciate their work because we all eat at restaurants and finish our plates in less than an hour but never acknowledge the hatd work behind it
Penny has got to be like the most informal, the most casual and the most optimistic Level 3 chef in the history of the 4 Levels challenge.
She's my favorite one
Frank aswell.
@@hac3359 yeah I like frank
I love Penny. I made her ultimate chocolate chip cookies atleast 50 times so far, but only realised americans used "double acting" baking powder after my 37th batch. Cookies were flattened 'cause in Canada we have a baking powder named after what david blaine does which is "single acting." I'd explain the science further, but basically, for anyone else who loves Penny's recipes, and you don't use "double acting" baking powder, you're gonna have a bad time.
I love penny so much but this recipe is so extra 😂
Steven: “the only thing I would do different is add half a cheesecake.”
Haha lol but he has improved since before
3:25 They did him so dirty! Even the music stop is so well-timed.
Agreed 😂😂
I felt that way here too. 13:18 We interrupt this science with Steven, making a mess. Rude, editors.
I'm drooling for Penny's cupcake. They look majestic
Steven says he's sick of the "traditional" and "monotonous" but really, he just wants to put some form of cheesecake in everything.
I can respect that, though.
That's my basic frosting for almost everything is the cream cheese frosting. Unless I'm going for fancy, mine consists of one stick of unsalted butter, 1 C powdered sugar, 1 tsp vanilla extract and a stick of cream cheese. If I'm going fancy, I add sour cream or heavy cream to it.
We need 4 levels of cheesecake, brought to you by Steven.
Steven: machines can't replace the human touch
*Uses a machine like everyone else anyways
airreaper1 that’s why he said “sometimes” 😈
It immediately cut to the level 3 chef's mixer lol
Can we appreciate how Gabrielle used environment-friendly cake liners 💖💖
Food scientist: *Aggressively hits board*
Me: why she look like she about to beat someone?
because it adds to her SEXINESS!
I just love how always the level 1 and level 2 mention their levels while the level 3 just goes *I have been a chef since the revolutionary war*
I thought our homeboi here was gonna pull out another cheesecake for this
I am sad he didn't TBH
He did cream cheese though
Close as it gets 😹
@@starcherry6814 tho truth, creamchesse icing is the best.
@@Zarsla IKR it's my alltime favourite frosting
@Phil Stehle you must be a fun at parties, eh?
Gabrielle is cute and seems like a fun person
somebody give Penny a vacation, cupcakes arent a good enough substitute for her, she deserves so much more.
The way they cut him off when he was talking about icing
The part of the cream cheese? Could u use a time stamp?
UGGH he was going for the rusty look, which the food scientist is too blind to appreciate xDDDD
10:35
Maybe he cursed ir said something non family friendly xd
SoarinUpHigh lol
Did Steven really just tell his cupcakes "no offense" when he picked the pretty one 😂
#CupcakeEquality
@@AxcelGamer97 That was funny XD Equality for Everybody, Everywhere, Every time!!!
mood
The man respects his food, so what.
Hes so pure
I liked that little talk after everyone finished cooking, as a home chef I find it really useful!
10:04 she looks so happy. Look at her smile 😊
Stephen isn’t a lvl1 chef, he’s just a lvl2 who is lacking in self confidence
See, after the ice cream situation I don't know about that
@@dalylag8741 that was ages ago and he's improved
But he didn’t the half of the cheese cake
actually he is a level one cause anybody who is level two and up would know you mix wet ingredients and dry ingredients separate then put it together its a basic mistake most who haven't been baking for a long time would make just cause he has a recipe don't mean nothing his recipe was basic and he made alotta classic newbie baking mistakes
I agree, he made a cream cheese frosting for crying out loud!
Steven: *uses half of a cheesecake in his pancake but doesn’t use half a cheesecake in his cream cheese cupcake.* Cream CHEESE and CHEESEcake.
He's evolving!
He said he wanted that level 2. He's getting closer.
It's Stephen.
Penny: so anyway I started adding rum
Level 1, is a mood through out the whole vid, “oh no, yay!” “I was completely unprepared for this”
“Every time I have a Pina Colada, I feel like I’m on vacation”
Mood right there
Steven is making his own frosting... that's Level 1.5 at least!
i know right?😂
Own frosting and own cupcake batter like wtf! Level one should be box cake and maybe homemade frosting hahaa
Then he tops it with strawberries and truffles that man can bake 😭😭
@@ohjeezitskim and Fran: I said the exact same thing. the cake and frosting from scratch is above level 1. i agree with 1.5
Nah, level one. Buying the mix or buying a cake is a level 0. Frosting is one of the most simple things you could make....
Although Steven seems to have been amping up his skill
It’s a miracle
A level 3 chef smiled for the first time
Sometimes I randomly have flashbacks to Stephen mixing m&ms into ice cream as it melted all over the cutting board.... our boy has come a long way!
to be honest penny's smile at the end when she said "this is my cupcake" was heart warming
Hasan Al-Sulaimani YESSS I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS COMMENT
@@juliemaelle1287 I was too
"Hey chef, what size scoop do you need?" "Yellow."
Yea what does that even mean? Is that a specific brand
Baking scoops are standardized, so a yellow handled scoop will be the same across multiple brands.
thats literally what you'd say in a professional kitchen. "hand me the green scoop" "what happened to the purple scoop"
yellow is size 20 or 2 1/8th oz. Look up "disher scoop sizes"
@@yeeaahhzz Wow, that's very helpful. Didn't know that scoops are color coded.
Stephen will forever be cheesecake boy, but I love him so much lol. And he's been making a few really good recipes. All of these cupcakes look so good 🤤 level 2's cupcakes are right up my alley and level 3's also look like pure heaven
Stephen is a lvl 1 chef but his awesomeness is lvl 100
I like how the scientists do not criticize the other chefs
If I remember correctly, the food scientist in the French Toast episode completely roasted the Level 1 chef, which of course was Emily lol
@@missyvampire4123 the infamous "ketchup-gate" scandal
Mauve If I’m correct too, she criticized Emily’s process of seasoning burger patties in the hamburger episode
Actually, this scientist did one time during the brownie episode when the level 3 chef added whole cream(?) to her caramel.
Emily is us and we are Emily
Stephen with frosting all over his face “PUT FROSTING INSIDE OUUU”
Stephen, you are a treasure. Never change.
This is honestly the first time i saw penny smile.
Shows the old food scientist again.
Everyone: YAY
I liked that she looked happy to be there this time, in contrast to some of her past appearances.
I guess it was because the other one was too busy with school
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽😂
Potato Man 🤦🏻♂️
Screw both of them, *WHERE'S MY MAN LORENZO?!*
The people still want to see the different levels try each other's food.
They can probably only get these people in on different days
This is the first one of these I'd watched and that's what I thought was gonna happen!
@@mercynamikoye9084 yeah but say chef 3 made their stuff days after the other two, how are they going to get it to the other chefs if they aren't there? It just might be a conflict of schedules and stuff y'know
Get 1 person to try all of them and say which 1 they think is home cook, amateur and professional
Thank you
Stephen: And we’re almost done with the cupcake, let me just bring over this cheesecake.
I love the breakdown at the end, and how the food scientist goes through what was successful and effective at not just the higher levels, but for all the chefs
I feel like level one chefs are evolving into almost level two chefs
I don’t know about Emile though
Midnight Mighty lmao, right?!
Midnight Mighty
KeTcHuP
Steven is still pretty rough. I mean he just threw an entire truffle on top of his cupcake like it was a garnish. And then everything fell off his cupcake on his first bit.
Midnight Mighty i mean, emily’s steak Was pretty Alright. You’ve gotta give her that.
"I love rum" mouths enthusiastically
You noticed she didn't pour the rest in...?🤔
I have never related to her more
Penny seems just so nice and professional! I'm sure she's a wonderful teacher and friend
Gabrielle is so pretty tho- she looks like an actress
Y'all need to learn Rose's name, she is not dropping all this knowledge to be called the old lady 😆😆😆
Rosemary *
That's Beth's job
Rosemary Trout ♥️ Beloved food scientist, fountain of knowledge
I call her the mean schoolmistress lady. She is my favorite.
Rose the fountain of culinary knowledge 💧☄️
Idk why but I find Steven very wholesome, He seems like a nice person
Melanie Montania yes, I love his optimism
He looks like he loves what he is doing and its so cute
Level 0 chef: HEY ROOMATE CAN YOU GET ME CUPCAKES FROM WALMART!
Gabrielle is so beautiful, I can't even
Did y’all realize that Stephen doesn’t have one of his “no. absolutely not.“ stories for cupcakes?
“My friends wanted to buy some cupcakes but I said absolutely not, we’re gonna make some at home and it’s gonna cost less than 10 dollars” I bet there is one and it went something like this
My girlfriend wanted gourmet cupcakes for her birthday and they cost like 80 bucks so I said no, absolutely not, we’re gonna make our own cupcakes and it’s gonna be less than 10 dollars
Now she’s my wife
Level 3: "It's important not to do X or it'll ruin everything"
Jump cut to level 1 doing X
WHEN STEPHEN SAID ALL DONE AND SMILED, I DIED. HEEESSS SSSOOOO CCUUUUUTTEEEE🥺🥺
The level 3 chef in this video didn’t go really overboard/abstract with their food item and honestly that’s all I’ve ever wanted