Cooking lentil soup with Scott. Watch the disaster unfold. 7:20 ET

X. Who has the cutting board? Cutting board view. You'll probably all see the cutting board, but from a different view. Today we're going to be making some doll soup, or you could call it lentil soup or stew or God knows what's going to happen. I have no idea. But we're gonna have a good time. I'm gonna add some potatoes to it, and we're gonna figure out how to do this. There's a lot of measuring involved, which is definitely not my strong suit. I'm not. Not big on measuring, but I want to get my stuff ready here. I think there's three and a half of these. I. If you're on locals, I posted the. The recipe so you could follow along. Sorry. So basically, dull soup is lentils, onions, garlic, and 700 Chinese, 700 Indian spices and some vegetable broth, and blah, blah, blah. So we're going to saute the lentils first, but I want to make sure I have everything ready to dump it in there when the saute is already. So we got our. All right. Question for you. I'm told that I need a neutral oil to saute this, meaning no virgin olive oil. A neutral sauteing oil. What would you recommend? Avocado oil or the sunflower oil and coconut oil blend? Avocado. Avocado. Oh, a lot of avocado people. Sunflower, avocado. Avocado wins easily. Sorry. So we'll prep this. Oh, it's going to be one of these. Going to be one of these things where you can't really figure out, oh, there we go. And then one of these things that will fall apart when you do it. Kind of worked. Kind of worked a little bit. All right, so we got our oil. We're going to be sauteing up here in a minute, but not until I've got my tomatoes ready and cut some potatoes. I'm going to do those in the. How many of you have ever seen a convection oven at work? Convection oven? Anybody? They are quite awesome for a number of things. We've got our rice cooker back there. We'll fire that up in a minute, too. But first, every time I do the. The cutting board cam, it's the place I put down all my objects and block their view. It was kind of hilarious last time. That was so bad. So bad. All right, well, we're gonna cut up these potatoes, but not too much. I probably won't cut that one on the ground now. Got away. But we don't need to cut them up too much because they're pretty awesome. Take a look. Down. Down. There you go. But I did notice some of these are these big black spots in them. We don't need that, Dewey. So, did all of you see what Elon Musk said about his advertisers Today Legend? He had some choice words. You're trying to blackmail me. You can go do something which is anatomically challenging. That's what he said. So you said you can go do something anatomically challenging. I think this is dirt. Can't tell. So this has nothing to do with the dull soup, but I'm going to add it to it. Don't you think potatoes would go well with dull soup? No, no. No to no potatoes and dull soup. Well, maybe after 700 years of making dal soup in India, they know exactly what goes in there. And potatoes, not so much. Not so much. All right, well, if you insist, I'll eat them separately. They use rice. We'll be making rice. Oh, you're funny. All you colonizers, you're funny. How's everything doing over there? You can use potatoes. Oh, well, we're getting a dissenting view on the potato question. You know, it's kind of a trade off. You can either either see the board or see my face. And I'm pretty sure you've chosen correctly. What's that doing there? You know, I feel like our ancestors maybe would have just popped these in their mouths. That's what they would have done. Now, are they eyes? They don't look like it. Oh, you tell me. The spots I cut out, do those look like eyes or dirt? Eyes or dirt? What do you think? Eyes? Eyes or dirt? Eyes or dirt? No, I just know I'm gonna eat them. I hope that's right in the pan. All right, what do you say we make some. We'll chop up some tomatoes. I think I need a cup of these. They look like starving children. Is somebody bitching already? Somebody's already complaining. Do we have complainers here today? This is no. No place for complainers. We do not claim any cooking ability only. I'm just keeping you company. Is that okay? Switching to knife number two. I think I need a cup of these, guys. What's that cup look like? You know, honestly, I think I'm going to stop measuring and just start throwing stuff in. I'm already bored with measurings. I'm the only one here today bored with measuring. So let's do this. Maybe. Maybe another one of these. An immersion blender. Day before payday. That should be a thing. It should be called Day before payday soup. Don't you think somebody should call the fat? Yes, it's day before payday soup. It's basically whatever was in the refrigerator. Everybody still with me? All right, all right, you're there. X. 263 people on X. I love the fact that the most entertaining person on X is Musk himself. That's just so perfect that he can be his own marketing and all he needs. That feels like enough. All right, now we got to open up some cans. How much of this coconut milk do I need? All right, somebody's talking about their length. Yeah, he did use it perfectly. The F word. Coconut milk. Let's see. Oh, coconut milk. One cup. I need one of these. All right, then. All right, then. You're gonna have to relocate for a minute. X, you can be over here. Cover your ears. Come in with the heavy equipment. All right. The hell. Is. Is milk supposed to be a solid? It is. Exactly. I knew that. Totally knew that. All right, we're going to put in some oil. I'll give you the saute view in a little bit. Carefully measured oil. Then we've got onions. Oh, we've got to do this first. I believe I have a garlic press. Sorry. X. Sorry. I believe I have a garlic press. I'm off to find the garlic press. And I would put it in this drawer if I were. The garlic press. Yes, Garlic press in the house. Swig of coffee, important ingredient. Well, today the garlic is pre cut. But where is it? Oh, here. And then the all important kitchen scissors. I don't know how much garlic we need. What do you think? 25 cloves? Would that be enough? Watch me not. Remember how this works. It goes in there. Yep. Let's be neat. Now. How satisfying is this? Isn't that satisfying? Then I like to put the next one in before the other one's fully squeezed out. It's like teaching it a lesson. It's like you were supposed to get all the way out. No, no. A little bit more. Yeah. No company coming tonight. So there we go. All right, So we got our garlic ready. And you think that's enough? You don't know how much I'm making. Like you could tell. All right, I'm going to turn on the saute situation. I've already. I've already washed the lentils. Red lentils. So step number one, get the rice cooking. Your ex. You can watch. All right. You can all see. Oh, yes, you can. But this time I will actually wash the rice. Be right back. Wash the rice. Wash the Rice. Washing the rice. So much better. That's some good rice. I like this sound. Then two cups of water. Then. Boom. And that's rice. All right, I'm going to take you over to the sauteing area. Look at that setup. That's a setup right there. All right, X, you could be over there. It's not going to be a good view for you, but that's all I can do for now. All right, let's see. Onions go in here. First we got some diced onions. Yeah. Garlic. Last correcto. Put a bunch of onions in there. I don't have any onions, but I like onions. So we'll do a bunch of. So I think I'm gonna do sriracha. What do you think? Sriracha. Or. Wait, what goes in. Chopped onions. Then garlic and ginger. I get my ginger ready. Ginger. Oh. Oh, God. Is it gonna be one of these? One of these unopenables. Might need pliers. I need pliers. You'll be very unhappy. Let's see if any of that mattered. Oh, my God. I'm actually going to need a tool to open this. Oh, really? Can't break him. Wait, something's moving. Got it. No, no. Don't have time. Oh, God. There's another layer. Prepped. Prepped. God damn it. Ah, there. Good. Now I think we're almost translucent. What do you think? Lentils saute. Pour in the vegetable broth. When do you put in the tomatoes? The coconut milk and strained tomatoes. All right, looks like we're ready for garlic. We're ready for ginger. I hope it calls for a lot of ginger. And now it's lentil time. Lentil. My people go. Stick together if you do that. Apparently. For me, cooking in the salt are largely the same. Very inconvenient. Some of this in there. There we go. Now it's all working. Hold on. The lentils once washed, harden into a concrete like substance, which I am now rectifying. That's called resourcefulness. All right. Probably need a lot more of that. One of my pet peeves is when the. When it doesn't. Of 32 ounces. How many cups and 32 ounces. Four cups. Probably need more. That's four cups. Oh, that. Oh, wow. I guess those things the exact amount. That's pretty lucky. All right, cook covered rate sense. Alexa, set timer for eight minutes. Then we do coconut milk and tomatoes. I still haven't put any of the regular seasons. Onion. Okay. There's no step where you put any of the seasons in. You expect to see that. Oh, Last, Add the spices and saute. All right, the spices should already be in there, but it's not too late. Add them now. Anybody watching this? Looks like medium heat. Yeah, it's low heat now. All right, one teaspoon coriander. Now. Hold on. Turmeric. Ginger. Oh, I have way too much ginger, but that's okay. Turmeric. Turmeric is next. Is one teaspoon. That's one tablespoon. One teaspoon. Mary, your teaspoon. Oh, no. Tablespoons. Damn it. Okay, that's in. Cumin. What are you in for? Cumin. Talk to me. Cumin. One tablespoon. One tablespoon of cumin. Where are you? One tablespoon of cumin. That's a teaspoon. I mean teaspoon, not tablespoon. One teaspoon. God, if only that would fit. That would be so cool. Red paprika powder. Should probably stir that in. Ooh, starting to look delicious. Starting to look like I have too many onions. You're actually finding this entertaining. Surprise. Why are none of these big enough? Nope. We got curry. Now the curry. Every time I cook, I think to myself, I'm never going to do this again. Why would I ever cook? Crazy. All right, this is the good stuff there. And dry red lentils. What? Natural broth. Coconut milk. After all. Right, looks like the spices have been added. Now it's time. You got time to lean. You got time to clean. See if I can get the right tops on these. It is trash night. Thank you. Should have put it in earlier. I think you're right. Should have put it in earlier. They have a cooking robot now. I need a cooking robot so much. Oh, no. Got the wrong tops on the wrong things now. All right, I'm going to change your view a little bit. Ah, that's. Hey, that's better. Yeah. I always put a paper bag coated with butter on the inside. The hell are you talking about? Oh, should I add sriracha? I see. No, no, no. So how do you get it hot? I also have chili oil, chili oil, chili oil, cayenne only. Cayenne pepper. Do I have cayenne pepper or is it cayenne? Yeah, how about that? No cayenne pepper. Taste it first. Come on. Who do you think I am? I look like a taster. I'm not gonna lie. This. This really looks like it's going to be good. Looks like it's going to be really good. Maybe. All right. And. It is. I believe there's a little salt and pepper that needs to Go in here too. If I recall. Salt and pepper. You know, how much is the right amount of pepper? Too much. Too much is the right amount. Oh, looking good. Looking good. Ghost pepper. Did I set my alarm? I think it did. All right, I got these in here. Now if you want to see how convection oven works. Alexa, cancel. I think this is when you put in the other stuff, right? Like the coconut milk and tomatoes and whatnot. I got potholders. All right, so we cooked them and now add the coconut milk and strained tomatoes in five more minutes. How much of this coconut milk? One cup. One cup of coconut milk. There you go. One cup. Exactly. And then we add in our tomatoes. Sorry, sorry. X. We're back to this. We get all that in there already. Put in the salt. And how many of you are so nerdy on locals that you actually check the recipe and you're following along with the recipe? How many are actually following the recipe that I. I posted up there? I knew. I knew somebody would. All right, well, that's a lot of coconut oil. Now I'm supposed to have an a yogurt garnish. Think that's necessary? I don't know. It's optional. Optional. All right. I was going to make some. Make some potatoes in the meantime in my convection oven. So we're going to speed cook. We're going to go to potatoes, which is actually listed potatoes. We look through the potatoes. Not that. Not a bit. Well, they're like baked potatoes. They're small. Super small. It's like one potato worth four minutes, it says. We'll find out. All right, how we done? How are we doing so far? We're still in family hour. What about the yogurt? Yeah, it's used in the presentation. That is correct. It's not an ingredient per se. It's a garnish, incidentally. Garnish sounds like an Indian word. I call it the garnish. A little mango. If Ache were here, he'd have you order doordash. He probably would. I washed them. I didn't soak them. I rinsed them. You're so drunk. Good for you. You know, I don't want to make this about fashion, but I feel like. I feel like this apron is more fashionable than the white one. I feel this ensemble goes together pretty good. Look like head Dexter. Yeah, it's sort of a Santa's elf sort of a look. I feel like this needs to get used to get stirred again. It really doesn't. It gives me that feeling. Yeah. Looks like it was a little heavy. On the coconut, but I think it's going to settle in pretty nicely as a. It's looking perfect. Still a little runny. Here's a few minutes. Did I use the whole coconut? Seemed like. Needs to be a little drier. Just a little bit. I'm going to move you a little bit closer. Oh, way better. Way better. I'm not happy you said. Which one are you? I got. It's to grow shoes. Okay. Just looking at your comments while we're waiting for the cooking to be perfect. Can't see the lentils anymore. I don't know if it's a metaphor. All right, did anybody learn anything? Is there anybody here who's thinking I might try to make some of that lentil stuff? No, probably not. Nobody? Not a single person? Not. Not even one. All right, looks like our rice is ready and to perfect. Oh, yeah. Be right back. Rice is perfect. Two thumbs up if you don't know why I'm doing this. On the other platforms, on the locals, it reads your thumbs. If you have two thumbs up, it goes into fireworks, which is very cool. I've got fireworks going behind me now. I don't think I'll ever get tired of that. It's kind of cool. I'll let you see on. On X. Wait. Oh, I can't do it now because I can't do both thumbs. You do one thumb. All right, well, this isn't a good demonstration. I need an extra thumb, sort of. I need one more opposable thumb. Story of my life. Yeah, if I just had one more opposable thumb, things would be going a lot better for me. So we're gonna be putting stuff. Because. Because we must. Do the fireworks. Still rated G. Be nice. We're in a family hour. Well, it didn't say to soak them. They look plenty soft. All right, it looks like probably. Probably. I needed a lot more. It's more like a goulash than a soup. That's fine. I think it's done. I think my potatoes are done. Here's why you try not to kill yourself, because let me tell you, that's going to be hot. These are literally hot potatoes. All right, now. Well, what do you think? Should I. Should I try it? You ready for the taste test? Taste this. First some rice. Put it. We'll put down a little. A little better rice, then. Tell you. It's certainly got a smell. Put some of that on there. Okay. This might be terrible, actually. Then we garnish it. Then we dare. We dare to taste it. We dare. No, No, Actually, the. The flavor is actually excellent, but the, the lentils are too soft, overcooked, so they're actually overcome. But they're really, really tasty. If you look at it as a gravy, it works really well. All right. This is my cooking show for the day. I'm going to eat a little bit more of it. If you're on the local network, there's a good chance that I might be back or something that we don't call cooking. Well, it's kind of cooking. Thanks for joining YouTube. I hope you can cook better than I can. Bye for now.