As someone who’s eaten a durian (yes, they smell as volatile as Alvin describes them as) they are extremely sweet, I was so worried it would have messed up that savory stew but I’m surprised it didn’t.
He did say that it was not totally ripe, so there's probably that, and also I don't think a little it of sweetness will mess the whole stew. There's actualle some traditionnal stew that use a little bit of sweetness, like Carbonnade, a stew from north of France, where you traditionally put soft gingerbread on top of the stew ^^
There are over 100 cultivated durian varieties and they vary a lot in sweetness and funkiness. Some of them taste a lot like onions, so I guess it makes sense to put one of those in a savoury stew. Given that Alvin lives in New York he probably doesnt have a lot of varieties to choose from though.
Sweetness is great in a stew. Tomato, carrots, and corn are all great ways to add sweet to a braise or stew. So is wine, which, like the tomato, will bring acidity as well. My favorite, though, is to caramelize my onions.
I tried a durian moon cake once and the smell was so vile that i was gagging as soon as I smelled it. I couldn't eat more than a bite just because of the smell and I nearly threw up while it was in my mouth because of it.
There is a whole group of durian that dont taste sweet at all, and literally taste like garlic chicken, so a variety like that would be awesome in a stew
You could put all the durian in a jar and let it ferment in room temp for a couple of days. It becomes a pungent, savoury, sweet, fermenty paste called tempoyak. It could be used in a stew dish, or mixed in with sambal. For stewed dish using tempoyak, you could check gulai tempoyak ikan patin. Curried freshwater fish with tempoyak to enhance the flavour.
Now that we have a dedicated video game series for the BCU, I must humbly ask: Please, a Don't Starve video! Cooking's a major part of the game, and there are so many famous dishes from the base games, the DLCs, and even the multiplayer game Don't Starve Together! Also, maybe some dishes from the Paper Mario series?
Mate don’t make him eat monster meatballs seriously that recipie is incredibly broken, like who’s out here making meatballs with a spider and 3 ice cubes
You definitely *didn't* get them from shooting a pigeon with your ancient arrows, because those vaporize creatures and keep them from dropping items :p
Ive never seen this series. I love Alvin- he uses similar humor as Andrew... but clearly gets the references and the personality feels genuine. I'm going to have to see some other stuff from this show.
Alvin is really coming into his own as a second series for this channel. His first few "Anime with Alvin" honestly felt like filler at first, but he's really becoming his own thing. I love the repeated references so those of us in the know can enjoy it (Seriously, Lionels have no business being that hard to take down).
This was probably made a while ago and they just waited to upload it since there had been rumors for months that a BOTW2 update was going to happen soon.
@@Nephritesword the way your comment is worded implies they made the video waiting for the announcement to upload it. I contend it was uploaded with no regard to the announcement.
THIS IS MY FAVORITE THING EVER. I have been looking for BotW food cooked in real life the past couple of weeks and here comes Alvin with this awesomeness. More please!!!
I like how Alvin is just slowly taking over the channel through matching his name with random things to make it fit. Eventually it's going to be "animation with Alvin" and then any movie that coincidentally starts with "A"
How about an episode about Cup Noodles, inspired by the "Perfect Cup" mission from Final Fantasy XV? I'm thinking, like, buffalo meat and ostrich egg. Something like that.
i know it was sponsor, but it was really funny having a guy go "oh what will make my cup noodles perfect? a gigantic egg!" like its just chawanmushi at that point.
Since next week is National Pepperoni Pizza Day, make either Literally All Toppings Pizza from Steven Universe or Ultimate Slumber Party Pizza from The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron
i love his enthusiasm when he tried the stew. i tend to only eat durian by itself since i don't like it mixed in dishes, sweet or savoury, but this made me curious!
This video came at the perfect time what with the trailer for BotW 2 aka Tears of the Kingdom trailer dropping the other day. The thought of cooking and tucking into a bowl of this recipe while booting up the sequel to BotW in a few months has me very excited :)
This is making me wanna see an episode on some of the curry variations from Pokémon Sword and Shield. It would be another opportunity to do some fun outdoor cooking, and there are a lot of different special ingredients to choose from to show off different flavor profiles and such. Obviously I don’t expect Alvin to fill out an entire Curry Dex in one episode, but I think it would be neat to see a selection of his favorite special ingredients, maybe one to pair with each of the basic flavor profiles in the game (sweet, sour, spicy, dry, bitter, and if one is feeling ambitious, mild).
I love how you described durian because that is exactly what it smelled like to me. Only my bf (now ex) and I at the time were not bothered by the smell, but the rest of my family couldn't deal with it, and it was only small pieces inside of some mooncakes.
So, there's a soup in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess that the player helps a yeti make. It's made of the fictional "Reekfish," pumpkin, and goat cheese. I've perfected my own version over the years, but I'd love to see what you guys come up with. This channel has cranked up my cooking game, and I'm truly glad for it.
I've actually made this soup! My family absolutely love it and they can't believe that it came from Twilight Princess at all. They thought I made it up with random ingredients. I mostly make it during the Fall/Winter to warm ourselves up and it's so delicious!
@@NeoTheHumalien :) I make mine once or twice a year (last fall, I cut up a carving pumpkin and went crazy with experimental recipes, making the soup as well). Most recently, I made it for a potluck at work and it was a huge success.
@@adamparsonsonline That's amazing! I should make the soup again for my friends. They always find it weird since it has pumpkin and fish which is a weird combo bit it tastes magnificent! Haha you actually made me hungry, I should make some but I can wait until October or November just to make it
Really loving this series of food from video games :D I'd love to see you make one of the Suspicious Stews from Minecraft :P I'd be interested in how you interpret the status effect as a flavour :D
@@EmilyMarais ur supposed to "rip" it open. Something like an orange. The way he cut it open, he basically didn't get the durian flesh out in one piece
Waheed Abdulla, Silver Slasher, Corviknight Pokemon, Nebraska Storm, and Sassy Cat are all the same person on multiple accounts that literally have recipes ready in advance to upload and like their own comments on specifically videos staring babish and only babish.
clearly you didn't shot ancient arrows at Pidgeon's because then you'd know that using them on non ancient units causes them to not drop anything since it deletes them essentialy
yeah i feel like some people don't get the difference between "do it like they did in the source material" and "follow the literal ingredients from a crafting table in a video game" because those are very different. The graphics at the result of cooking have special stuff in them that weren't in the recipe..
i know... like i get he was doing a bit, he said himself he was not going for accuracy but that vid hurt my soul even as i laughed. on the other hand, link does wax rhapsodic about unsalted meat....
@@KairuHakubi I agree with the sentiment generally but in the case of unraveled it was less focused on the cooking and recipes, and more focused on comedy. And the spirit of unraveled was all about taking video games unnecessarily seriously
I like Alvin and everyone on the team, but I do miss consistent Babish episodes every week. He was, and remains, one of my favorite people on the platform.
This was almost perfect! Great job, great presentation, and great video. Thank you for sharing! Only nitpick I have for accuracy was that nothing drops when you use ancient arrows, but the image of you completely obliterating a pigeon by opening a small worm hole was worth the squabble!
At 1:01, Alvin mentions using ancient arrows on chickens. In every game where they appear, using an ancient arrow on an enemy does not give any drops or loot.
This is really starting to become the Alvin culinary universe
True, true, that's pretty true.
I'm not even mad at it.
And his new channel that just posted about the Texas BBQ restaurant was awesome too.
@@exezelot I sent that around to a few people this week. That was an awesome video.
Yea, carrying the channel
As someone who’s eaten a durian (yes, they smell as volatile as Alvin describes them as) they are extremely sweet, I was so worried it would have messed up that savory stew but I’m surprised it didn’t.
He did say that it was not totally ripe, so there's probably that, and also I don't think a little it of sweetness will mess the whole stew. There's actualle some traditionnal stew that use a little bit of sweetness, like Carbonnade, a stew from north of France, where you traditionally put soft gingerbread on top of the stew ^^
There are over 100 cultivated durian varieties and they vary a lot in sweetness and funkiness. Some of them taste a lot like onions, so I guess it makes sense to put one of those in a savoury stew.
Given that Alvin lives in New York he probably doesnt have a lot of varieties to choose from though.
Sweetness is great in a stew. Tomato, carrots, and corn are all great ways to add sweet to a braise or stew. So is wine, which, like the tomato, will bring acidity as well. My favorite, though, is to caramelize my onions.
I tried a durian moon cake once and the smell was so vile that i was gagging as soon as I smelled it. I couldn't eat more than a bite just because of the smell and I nearly threw up while it was in my mouth because of it.
There is a whole group of durian that dont taste sweet at all, and literally taste like garlic chicken, so a variety like that would be awesome in a stew
I'm really digging this series. Might I suggest something from Stardew Valley like the strange bun or seafoam pudding?
would love these
Anything from Stardew Valley 😍
I love this idea!
Y E S
Ohhh, either of those would be a really fun episode!
You could put all the durian in a jar and let it ferment in room temp for a couple of days. It becomes a pungent, savoury, sweet, fermenty paste called tempoyak. It could be used in a stew dish, or mixed in with sambal. For stewed dish using tempoyak, you could check gulai tempoyak ikan patin. Curried freshwater fish with tempoyak to enhance the flavour.
that sounds delicious
Ayyy fellow Malaysian(?) I didn’t expect to see someone talk about tempoyak here
Sounds like a tasty bioweapon
Gulai tempoyak ikan patin
The smell alone would be considered a bio weapon
This looks wonderful and I love outdoor cooking. Can we have more BoTW recipes?
yes outdoor cooking does something
If you want to see more recipes(but less serious) there's the Polygon Unravelled episode on BOTW recipes
@@jojoslameerrand9305 I’ve seen it but it doesn’t do it for me.
I agree with this statement
Could just dedicate a whole series to them imo
Now that we have a dedicated video game series for the BCU, I must humbly ask: Please, a Don't Starve video! Cooking's a major part of the game, and there are so many famous dishes from the base games, the DLCs, and even the multiplayer game Don't Starve Together!
Also, maybe some dishes from the Paper Mario series?
monster lasagna! but also the meatballs!
Oh man, Paper Mario recipes would be the bomb!
BCU = Babish Culinary Universe?
Mate don’t make him eat monster meatballs seriously that recipie is incredibly broken, like who’s out here making meatballs with a spider and 3 ice cubes
lol BCU = babish culinary universe?
I have not heard that cooking jingle in For years. Thanks for the nostalgia. Such a great game
It Feels like yesterday when it was released
@@prod.sloppy03 cause its still a new game lol. The last zelda gamevi played was from 87
@@Grimm-Gaming it released 3-4 yrs ago to my memory
@@prod.sloppy03 yeah that's pretty new still lol
Haha it's my ringtone
This stew looks phenomenal, I'm gonna have to try this some day
seconded, except I'm lazy af so more like I'm gonna have to send this to one of my cooking-enthusiast friends to try someday lol
@@Mangaka718 make sure they invite you over lol
You definitely didn't shoot a bird with ancient arrows to get that meat because you wouldn't have been left with any meat if you used ancient arrows
FAKE GAMER *EXPOSED*
Thank you! 😂 was looking for this exact comment
Exactly what i was thinking too lol
@@michaelwilson9263 I wasn't even able to finish the video. I had to stop and comment because that annoyed me too much.
Cosigned to oblivion
The timing of this video is incredible. Bravo!
Yeah, it's almost like they looked at Google to see what was trending and did an episode based on that. Wow 😲
@@Filthy_Casual5 Doing one of these videos takes significantly longer than that.
@@Filthy_Casual5 Yeah this would have been recorded before the announcement but they could have seen that a Direct was coming and hedged their bets.
@@WisakJ one day of recording, one day of editing and voiceover
Doesn't seem that long tbh, and it fits the hypothetical schedule perfectly
You definitely *didn't* get them from shooting a pigeon with your ancient arrows, because those vaporize creatures and keep them from dropping items :p
was going to comment something similar, but its been so long that i wasnt sure if memory served me correctly.
I accidentally shot a deer with a ancient arrow and stare sadly where it used to be. :(
Ive never seen this series. I love Alvin- he uses similar humor as Andrew... but clearly gets the references and the personality feels genuine. I'm going to have to see some other stuff from this show.
I grew up in the chilly midwest so stews were a huge part of my diet. This is fabulous.
I wonder how long you were holding onto this waiting for the name of Tears of the Kingdom to be revealed.
Alvin is really coming into his own as a second series for this channel. His first few "Anime with Alvin" honestly felt like filler at first, but he's really becoming his own thing. I love the repeated references so those of us in the know can enjoy it (Seriously, Lionels have no business being that hard to take down).
I don't know how you got the timing of this release around the time of more BOTW2 announcements, but I'm sure glad you did!
Don’t you mean TotK? 😁
This was probably made a while ago and they just waited to upload it since there had been rumors for months that a BOTW2 update was going to happen soon.
@@Nephritesword I doubt it was planned. Probably coincidence.
@@chronic_daydreamer did...did you even read my comment
@@Nephritesword the way your comment is worded implies they made the video waiting for the announcement to upload it. I contend it was uploaded with no regard to the announcement.
THIS IS MY FAVORITE THING EVER. I have been looking for BotW food cooked in real life the past couple of weeks and here comes Alvin with this awesomeness. More please!!!
Oooh there should be a series of just BOTW food, there's so many!!
I'm so happy Alvin is a permanent fixture in the BCU.
Pretty much the main squeeze now..lol Andrew isn't a reoccurring feature anymore.
Seems like he's basically taken over, really missing Babish rn.
I’d LOVE to see how to make some RDR2 dishes like Abigail Marston’s coveted rat meat stew, or St. Denis’ lobster bisque
Babish made a bear stew video
@@konray2850 yeah i know but m o a r
Bruh RAT meat??!
@@Whitephoenix98 It was a joke in RDR1
I get so excited to see more videos from Alvin, he's such a delight. Keep up the fantastic work! 💖💖
I have this working right now. Cooking this over an open flame. The scent is fantastic. Still two hours to go.
Beautiful!! Well done!! Thank you for all the wonderful content to you and all the crew.. 🖤
Can‘t wait for more recipes in Tears of the Kingdom!
I like how Alvin is just slowly taking over the channel through matching his name with random things to make it fit. Eventually it's going to be "animation with Alvin" and then any movie that coincidentally starts with "A"
Alvin is such a great guy to watch, i love his recipes and his narration!
I love all the references to the game. The cooking aspect of BotW is a whole adventure in itself.
I waited for this for over 4 years man... tysm, ily.
YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW LONG IVE WAITED FOR THIS (so glad Arcade Alvin is a thing)
Love a bit of mid-week Alvin to get me through!
Closing in on 10 mil!!!
I’m really loving this series!
How about an episode about Cup Noodles, inspired by the "Perfect Cup" mission from Final Fantasy XV? I'm thinking, like, buffalo meat and ostrich egg. Something like that.
i know it was sponsor, but it was really funny having a guy go "oh what will make my cup noodles perfect? a gigantic egg!" like its just chawanmushi at that point.
Now I am going to need the recipe for Hyoi Pear moon pearl stew.
It's the stew that will save Marin from being trapped as a seagull forever !
I’m really liking these arcade with Alvin videos.
I love how fun these videos are
I’d love to see the Gourmet Meat Pilaf. Or your own take on the Noble Pursuit.
I thought I saw "Government Cheese" and I got super excited
This video made me smile. I was smiling almost the whole video😂 Please make
more of these
Since next week is National Pepperoni Pizza Day, make either
Literally All Toppings Pizza from Steven Universe
or Ultimate Slumber Party Pizza from The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron
Idk but there's something really calming about Alvin's videos, and this is no exception. The dish looks amazing! :)
This is the content I'm living for!!! Botw food has always made me hungry guaranteed 🤩
I loved this! Haven't watched babbish in years but loved this
this looks absolutely amazing well done!
i love his enthusiasm when he tried the stew. i tend to only eat durian by itself since i don't like it mixed in dishes, sweet or savoury, but this made me curious!
So when’s the Goron Rock Roast?
Do you think you could do any of the foods from Stardew Valley?
This is such perfect timing wow
This video came at the perfect time what with the trailer for BotW 2 aka Tears of the Kingdom trailer dropping the other day. The thought of cooking and tucking into a bowl of this recipe while booting up the sequel to BotW in a few months has me very excited :)
They probably timed the video with the Nintendo Direct, knowing that Zelda would likely be talked about. Pretty clever of them!
I’ve really been enjoying all of the content with Alvin recently, especially the food wars! ( cough* please do joichiros breakfast ramen * cough )
That legitimately looks like the best stew I have ever seen. I want.
You have no idea how long I've waited for you to do more breath of the wild
Maybe you could try making Alarm Pepper Churros from Victor and Valentino
A fellow Victor and Valentino enjoyer 👁👁
This is making me wanna see an episode on some of the curry variations from Pokémon Sword and Shield. It would be another opportunity to do some fun outdoor cooking, and there are a lot of different special ingredients to choose from to show off different flavor profiles and such. Obviously I don’t expect Alvin to fill out an entire Curry Dex in one episode, but I think it would be neat to see a selection of his favorite special ingredients, maybe one to pair with each of the basic flavor profiles in the game (sweet, sour, spicy, dry, bitter, and if one is feeling ambitious, mild).
this was great! I really liked this one, thanks for putting in the effort to bring us a great vid
Love it, Alvin! Thanks for the wicked fun video!
I am really loving all the Alvin content lately!
He's a great narrator, perfect for the format
ugh and just in time for the sequel's announcement
The sequel was announced in 2019 :/
@@madsssssssssssssss ur right, im just talkin about yesterday's direct reveal of the title and release date!
Next episode should be the Sandvich from Team Fortress 2.
tears of the kingdom: announced, teased even
alvin:
I love how you described durian because that is exactly what it smelled like to me. Only my bf (now ex) and I at the time were not bothered by the smell, but the rest of my family couldn't deal with it, and it was only small pieces inside of some mooncakes.
So, there's a soup in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess that the player helps a yeti make. It's made of the fictional "Reekfish," pumpkin, and goat cheese. I've perfected my own version over the years, but I'd love to see what you guys come up with.
This channel has cranked up my cooking game, and I'm truly glad for it.
reekfish appeared to be a sockeye salmon, is that what you used?
@@KairuHakubi I did use salmon. Which kind usually depends on my budget at the time.
I've actually made this soup! My family absolutely love it and they can't believe that it came from Twilight Princess at all. They thought I made it up with random ingredients. I mostly make it during the Fall/Winter to warm ourselves up and it's so delicious!
@@NeoTheHumalien :) I make mine once or twice a year (last fall, I cut up a carving pumpkin and went crazy with experimental recipes, making the soup as well). Most recently, I made it for a potluck at work and it was a huge success.
@@adamparsonsonline That's amazing! I should make the soup again for my friends. They always find it weird since it has pumpkin and fish which is a weird combo bit it tastes magnificent! Haha you actually made me hungry, I should make some but I can wait until October or November just to make it
I'm saving this and maaaayybe try this for winter
My favorite babish video so far ever
Really loving this series of food from video games :D
I'd love to see you make one of the Suspicious Stews from Minecraft :P I'd be interested in how you interpret the status effect as a flavour :D
The way you opened that durian literally gave me sheer heart attack.
I can already hear my entire line of ancestors groaning in pure agony
Why?
hi, nobody cares!
@@EmilyMarais ur supposed to "rip" it open. Something like an orange. The way he cut it open, he basically didn't get the durian flesh out in one piece
You really got a smile out of me, insane video I love it !
I genuinely wish I could try this, it looks amazing
You should make Fluffy Bunny Dango! Crazy flavours included!
Watching alvin slicing a durian makes me understand what Italians feels like when people put pineapple on pizzas
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SO here for Arcade with Alvin, super funny
Looks super simple and delicious, thanks Alvin!
What if you make a note to bake the Halloween Cake from OK KO Let's Be Heroes episode, "Monster Party"
Waheed Abdulla, Silver Slasher, Corviknight Pokemon, Nebraska Storm, and Sassy Cat are all the same person on multiple accounts that literally have recipes ready in advance to upload and like their own comments on specifically videos staring babish and only babish.
clearly you didn't shot ancient arrows at Pidgeon's because then you'd know that using them on non ancient units causes them to not drop anything since it deletes them essentialy
It's always nice to have a change in scenery
New videos always remind my, that making a cooking channel with game food was brillant!
Those were clearly swift carrots!
My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
I like the idea of herbs- I think that when BDG recreated these recipes, he purposely made them awful by not adding salt or seasoning
yeah i feel like some people don't get the difference between "do it like they did in the source material" and "follow the literal ingredients from a crafting table in a video game" because those are very different. The graphics at the result of cooking have special stuff in them that weren't in the recipe..
i know... like i get he was doing a bit, he said himself he was not going for accuracy but that vid hurt my soul even as i laughed.
on the other hand, link does wax rhapsodic about unsalted meat....
Well, he did add salt only when it was mentioned in the recipe.
@@KairuHakubi I agree with the sentiment generally but in the case of unraveled it was less focused on the cooking and recipes, and more focused on comedy. And the spirit of unraveled was all about taking video games unnecessarily seriously
@@ymous9109 heh yeah and it was funny. just ooh dear, from a cooking standpoint it hurt.
My favourite game ever, and my favourite channel ever, featuring Alvin no less! I love seeing you on here :] this is so cool.
Great timing with the title drop for the sequel
I love how endlessly he jokes with the game 😂
I like Alvin and everyone on the team, but I do miss consistent Babish episodes every week. He was, and remains, one of my favorite people on the platform.
Seriously
I actually like this series a bit more tbh
It's more down to earth than Babish's and I recognize more of the shows and games from here
awesome as always alvin!
I may just be hungry, but my mouth is salivating
Respectfully requesting the Lucky Lunch from Stardew Valley!
Oh yes, anything from stardew would be a godsend
Please make Trout yogurt from earthbound
“This is a single player game I will eat what I want” greatest quote I’ve ever heard
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We need more Sopranos food! You always had the makings of a varsity chef!
This was almost perfect! Great job, great presentation, and great video. Thank you for sharing!
Only nitpick I have for accuracy was that nothing drops when you use ancient arrows, but the image of you completely obliterating a pigeon by opening a small worm hole was worth the squabble!
Sandwich from Team Fortress 2
Would love to see Alvin tackle the Elixir Soup from The Wind Waker next!
This channel satiates my love for culinary art
Alvin’s back must be hurting from carrying this channel
Could you do heavies sandwich from team fortress 2?
Hey i sayed that in the last episode
When I look at the image of the stew in the game, I always imagined a bunch of browning in the recipe, but this is such a fun iteration!
Always nice to see video game foods
At 1:01, Alvin mentions using ancient arrows on chickens. In every game where they appear, using an ancient arrow on an enemy does not give any drops or loot.
Also do you think you can make the MH World Iceborn meal? That would be awesome!!!
What a great video to wake up to. Now I'm hungry!
Alvin's got that classic uncle squat while he eats. I love it.