SAME Recipe: Is Cheesecake Better with Expensive Ingredients??

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[TheJeracuda]

lol who'd have thought Nate would go from TKOR to basically having his own cooking show

[docschro]

Over 26 years of helping my mom make my gandma's cheese cake recipe, one thing I've learned is that the Phili cream cheese and dasiy sour cream get the best results. Everything else can be the non-brand name stuff

[RKBrumbelow]

When baking, especially when trying to compare ingredients, it is important to go by the mass of the ingredient rather than the volume. Dairy products have different fat to water ratios, baked goods have different air to weight ratios, etc etc.

[jonathanbost]

As soon as you said you'd be using the "recognizable" brands instead of merely the most expensive ones, I immediately thought of Land O Lakes for butter, so I think you made the right choice there. It's not the most premium but perhaps the most recognizable.

[BPBomber]

Really enjoying the 80s cruise ship jazz during the montages!!!

[thundercracker]

i think the biggest defining factor of cheesecake is the time you spend regretting not having any more of it the day after

[LockeCole]

I'd love to see a Brand vs. Kirkland challenge sometime. See how the Costco ingredients stack up.

[OpalholicsAnonymous]

Order is to whip cream cheese slowly add sugar until incorporated then slowly add egg and vanila and lemon to finish. You get a more luscious mouthfeel on the cake. The smoother finish on the cream cheese makes it much easier to get rid of all the lumps and its a little lighter and fluffier to.

[aimsftw]

Haven't watched yet, but I'd definitely "splurge" on the Philadelphia cream cheese, but I think all the other ingredients are ok to be cheap/store brand.

[BPBomber]

fwiw, my wife makes some amazing cheesecakes and she lets all ingredients come to room temp before starting. And she bakes them in a pan water-bath which allows them to cook very evenly. When the pie is ready to go in the oven, she lays a fabric towel in the bottom of a roasting pan, sets the pie in, and adds boiling water, filling to about 1/4” below the lip of the pie pan, puts the whole thing in the oven and bakes normally. She’s got it down to a science.

[my_granny]

The shot of all the Kroger brand things at the beginning made me think it would be interesting to also do basic-vs-basic with different store brands. Kroger in particular tends to have pretty good quality store-brand food; I prefer their seltzer water to Polar and their box mac-and-cheese to Kraft.

I don't know what grocery stores you have near you or how widespread they are, so it might have more niche appeal than this series, but it could still be fun to compare the price and quality of different store brand products.

[vidhoard]

I prefer when you got the actual most expensive ingredients rather than the most recognizable ingredients. Maybe that's just me? Either way, love this series!

[Nevir]

6:55 Ah, to be back in those times when that was the MOST expensive eggs anyone could find lol

[misinformationwithrandy]

I think this was a less than stellar cheesecake recipe, and Good Culture or Nancy's sour cream are the premium, natural tangy sour creams you're looking for.

Spring form pans with water to steam the cheesecakes is the way to go!

[terryenby]

Aww man, now I want cheesecake! Can’t wait to see this!

[The-Grateful-Hippie]

As butter goes, the Land O Lakes is probably the standard baking butter. It's what I grew up on. For a higher quality butter go for KerryGold

[KngfWnd]

My mother has been making cheesecake just like that except she mixes the cream cheese and sour cream it's totally worth it

[vidhoard]

Can you assign each side a number, name, or color so that when the taste testers refer to each dish they can say things like "I like blue better" or "red has better flavor" so we can follow better?

[PaulLoh]

This is such a valuable service you provide for us, especially in these times. I love your new content even moreso than when you were on that other channel. I'd love to see more collaborations with Calli.

[notbryce]

I can tell you from experience just switching out the vanilla extract for a vanilla bean alone will make your cheesecake taste better