YouTube series Epic Meal Time parodies traditional cooking shows by concocting extremely high-calorie recipes for nearly impossible-to-eat meals, typically involving large amounts of alcohol and bacon. It is hosted by Harley Morenstein, and features Morenstein's friends, many of whom work under psudonyms (such as "Muscles Glasses.") The show has been called "Jackass in the kitchen."
In 2011, Epic Meal Time signed on with Internet network Revision3. That same year, the show won the 2011 Shorty Award in the "Food" category.
One of the trademarks of Epic Meal Time is the inclusion of copious amounts of Jack Daniels in the food, and this episode is certainly no different. In the process of creating a giant Breakfast Fortress (which really does get you drunk), the group makes candied bacon, weaves together a bacon plate, fries a variety of meats and pancakes in a homemade beer batter, concocts a batch of bacon chocolate chip waffles, and pours a lot of Jack Daniels into pretty much everything.
Perhaps most impressive? Bacon Cream Cheese Stuffed French Toast Dumplings. SMART!
Ho ho ho, haters, it's a very Epic Meal Time Christmas with host Harley dressed up as St. Nick. But this time, the gingerbread house is primarily composed of bacon.
The house is composed of grilled steak walls, mortar made of sausage and pork, mashed potatoes (used for decorative snow), ham windows, Jack and Coke ribs, a puff pastry ceiling, a candied bacon rooftop and a floor of ground pork. It's then filled with Cheese Whiz.
Then they wash it all down with a tasty glass of Jack Daniels Bacon Grease Egg Nog. Just like Grandma used to make...after the nervous breakdown.
This episode opens with Harley stressing out his local fast food establishments by placing epic orders. He winds up with 15 Big Macs, a cup of Big Mac sauce, 15 Baconators, 15 Teen Burgers with no vegetables (a specialty of A&W restaurants in EMT's native Canada) and 7 orders of onion rings. Nice.
Next, bacon, onion, ground meat, tomato sauce and Jack Daniels are combined to create a meat sauce. The layers of the lasagna are actually created by entire cheeseburgers, strategically placed in a pan. Then bacon strips, meat sauce, Big Mac sauce and cheese are layered in between. The whole thing is topped with onion rings and cheese. Even Harley seems kind of grossed out at this one...
In this early episode, Morenstein introduces the rest of the cast as his "gaming friends" before getting down to the business of creating a Greasy Bacon Mayo sauce. They go on to roll a variety of different meats and cheeses together into an extended log, only to coat the meat log in fried cornmeal batter before deep-frying. Using a wooden spoon as the "stick," and the mayo as the dipping sauce, the group thus creates the world's most fattening corndog.
(WARNING: In this episode, Morenstein had not yet grown out his now-trademark beard. It's a little strange at first.)
This episode opens with some awkward sexual innuendo before the cooking begins. And who doesn't love that? Speaking of things everyone loves, this episode also features the liberal use of Patron in cooking. Delish!
First, the tequila is used to create guacamole and salsa garnishes. Then the tequila is poured into the simmering ground taco meat, and used to season marinated steaks and chicken. Also, the cooks just take tequila shots a lot while cooking.
Then they make tortillas out of bacon and lard and cook up a cheese sauce for a quesadilla. And make nachos with bacon in place of chips. You're silly for not having made this yourself...
OK, this is actually a parody of Epic Meal Time from Northern Virginia's JPstudios, but it's so well-done, nailing not only the sensibility of Epic Meal Time, but also the visual style and the graphics, it warrants inclusion on the list.
Here, the kids are making Mac n' Cheese Meat Lasagna. It includes bacon, 4 McDonald's kids meals (what? they're kids!), chicken nuggets, Cheese Whiz and Velveeta. As a side dish, they're making candy bar milkshakes. Only Dad gets Jack Daniels in his.
Taking a breather from the Jack Daniels love for a week, Epic Meal Time focuses its energy here on the controversial alcoholic energy drink Four Loko, turning it into a "dangerous" chili recipe. It also marks one of the first occasions when we venture outside of the kitchen, following our host as he amuses himself while shopping for bacon and ham products.
This also marks the rare appearance of vegetables in Epic Meal Time, though they're still extra-spicy peppers to give it a zing of epic-ness. Plus, they throw some Jalapeno potato chips-coated cheese sticks in, just to offset any healthiness that may have accidentally snuck into the stew.
For added fun, he also creates a bacon trough to serve the meal inside, and a bacon chalise for the Four Loko. I mean, these guys love epic meals, but they aren't savages.
Epic Meal Time travels to the gym to demonstrate some ideal post-workout snacks...if by "ideal" you mean "things you should never actually eat, ever." Harley also answers that burning question, "How do these guys stay in shape despite eating these gargantuan meals every week?" Yeah, you guessed it...lots and lots of sex...
The theme of this episode is cramming in extra protein to already protein-rich foods, to create an epic protein bar. Lots of peanut butter, protein supplements and nuts are layered in with the expected meat and bacon. Once cooked, the whole thing is covered in chocolate sauce. A "Seahorse Protein Sandwich" is also concocted out of a variety of different meats, including 2 kinds of tuna, horse and bacon. Plus energy drink batter, naturally. And to drink, Happy Meal bacon protein smoothies. Refreshing!
PROTEIN COUNTER: 29,173 calories 2,530 grams of protein
Harley and crew invade (at gunpoint) Restaurant Nupur of Montreal, Canada in this episode, more or less as an excuse to work with curry candy bacon. (It's sweet, spicy and dripping with curry!) It does mean that, inevitably, more vegetables will be included than in perhaps any other Epic Meal Time episode ever. At least they're combined with massive amounts of cheese sauce.
Specialties this time out include a triple-layer naan bread pizza, an epic samosa and bacon curry Jack Daniels shots. No Fat Counter on this episode...probably because you don't want to know.
(Honestly, this episode makes the list for the soundtrack alone.)
The "Meatball Deathstar" involves a good deal of pasta, crammed inside of a large ball of meat, and coated in cheese sauce. The video itself involves a good deal of hip-hop slang, "Star Wars" references and chainsaws.
Ground up pork, beef and veal and pounded into a bowl to create the massive meatball. They then fill it up with some vegetables (purely for aesthetic purposes, Harley explains), pancetta (Italian for "bacon") and tortellini. The ball is completed, placed inside a circle of garlic bread, and topped with meat sauce.
The EMT gang heads to Quebec and the home of featured player Muscles Glasses in this episode, focused on the native cuisine of French Canada. (We also get some important backstory filled in, discovering that Harley stole Muscles Glasses away from his home as a child.)
Specialties include a variety of different cuts of pork grilled in syrup, "lumberjack" pea soup, a mammoth manwich and meat pies. Muscles Glasses also chugs about 1800 calories worth of pure maple syrup at one point, either for comic effect or to impress his emotionally distant father. It's not quite clear which.
This ingenious collaboration with YouTube mainstay Freddie Wong replaces epic cooking with epic special effects rendering, teaching you all a little bit about video editing software. Other than that, it's a lot like any other episode of Epic Meal Time, complete with a "Render Time Counter," a lot of angry Harley narration and guns. (Not as much bacon as usual, though.)
An early example of the group's penchant for utilizing fast food favorites as starting ingredients. (What's more epic than cooking a meal out of the parts of other meals?)
In this case, fast food sushi is made by combining Big Macs, Baconators, Crunch Wrap Supremes, Popcorn Chicken, Chicken Nuggets, french fries and dipping sauces with, of course, bacon in place of the traditional sushi rice. Oh, and the wasabi is made of cole slaw.
This very special crossover episode finds the Epic Meal Time crew traveling to Georgia (the state, not the country) to visit firearms enthusiast and YouTube sensation FPSRussia. The delicacies include Vodka JD Beef Stroganoff, peeled grenades, chocolate liquor bacon and fast food bayonet kebabs. (What do you think of that, Shane Dawson?)
And of course, there's time for a quick trip to the gun range for some epic target practice.
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