MIDNIGHT GOURMAND: a cooking video

[@stllr_]

you *could* say "i was eating lunch meat and shredded cheese out of the fridge at 3am" OR "last night i enjoyed some late-night charcuterie". the choice is yours

[@confusedwhale]

Put the cheese in the lunch meat, add some mustard, then roll it up, and now you have some *_new wave sushi._*

[@cupoftea273]

Thanks, Cap. Price

[@katethegoat7507]

You mean "early morning"

[@Ruggedjellyfishing]

Dr. Oz moment

[@ic236]

Before the sun arose, I enjoyed charcuterie in my own presence

[@DRAGONS1RE]

It’s been fun watching BDG’s look go from “scared substitute on his first day” to “that man in the neighborhood who’s everyone’s uncle basically-the fun uncle your parents don’t totally trust”

[@Nehu_22]

Sometimes I feel I'm that uncle

[@jakkaljakobie8774]

He really went through at least 3 separate lives since unraveled started. Substitute, 70s dad, now the dealer from pulp fiction...

[@BennyFlaps]

@Eye I physically recoiled at ya boi pouring a pip into the sauce.... kzbin.info/www/bejne/kKiTYZWBlpqDY80 so much effort was expended only to completely throw it in the home stretch

[@ArcadianFBC]

He’s rapidly approaching a “hipster jesus” look, no?

[@madeofcastiron]

i honestly thought he was cosplaying as a bee gees member

[@jeffreyferguson5076]

I just want to let you know that everytime you said "a tablespoon" you added approximately 4 tablespoons of ingredients. The sign of a true gourmand

[@andrwhopkns]

Fun fact: any spoon that you find on a table is a tablespoon

[@MCAndyT]

@Eye yesssss

[@awbeans982]

"add ~2~ shots of vodka" - he's truly a prodigy of the master

[@tortus333]

My chemistry teacher used to call it "bucket science" whenever we used approximate amounts of chemicals instead of measured amounts. I'm trying to make "bucket cooking" a household phrase.

[@methyod]

@@tortus333 when i first started working in kitchens i would ask things like "how much of that do you use" or "how long does that cook for" and my boss got increasingly annoyed at me every time lol. "enough for it to taste good", and "until it's done" were always the answers. i miss that lady very much, she taught me a lot lol

[@fynn2350]

I like how he makes the weirdest "pizza" from junk and points out spam as one of his staples but also has home made kimchi jigae in the fridge.

[@KWBR1123]

miidniiiiiiiiiight gooouuuuurrrrrrmmmmmmaaaaaaaaaannnnnnd

[@bkaneshiro14]

I mean... His partner is Korean, and every single Korean person i know has some variant of kimchi in their fridge.

[@PenguinsAreNeat]

@@bkaneshiro14 is Karen his partner? I thought they were roommates lol

[@knicknacknat]

@@PenguinsAreNeatthey are engaged!!

[@PenguinsAreNeat]

@@knicknacknat Woah! I never knew. Good on them, lol

[@DRida64]

I appreciate Jeremy for never listening to BDG's requests for cuts. Jeremy just doin' cuts that feel right, like a midnight editour.

[@loglorn]

editeur*

[@StraveTube]

In addition, I appreciate BDG desperately and repeatedly screaming for those cuts and edits, as though the edit is happening live in the room.

[@croissantfromage7289]

éditeur**

[@matheusbindercavalheiro6678]

@@loglorn ⁰000⁰⁰

[@BernardoPatino]

@@croissantfromage7289 actually the French language should be disrespected,

[@TryToEat]

WOW Thank you for introducing my channel :) I will try to cook more interesting things 🔥감사합니다!!

[@LunizIsGlacey]

It sounds like you are a leader in this field!

[@briandavidgilbert]

당신의 채널이 너무 좋아요! 당신처럼 잘 할 수 있도록 노력할게요. 고맙습니다!!

[@metallsnubben]

I just watched one of your videos... it's like a champion driver narrowly avoiding crashes at every turn. Truly magnificent

[@RoniCarter12]

Just watched both this video and your channel, no longer wasting money on take out when I have so much to use in my house already! Thank you for the inspiration!

[@Sorin2120]

For the lazy and non-Korean, BDG's comment translated by google: "I love your channel! I will try to do well like you. Thank you!!"

[@dryd943]

Brian does a worryingly decent Hozier look

[@milktea6676]

Hozier does a worryingly decent brian look

[@licethelouse5618]

hozier if he were a quirky earthbound inspired rpg

[@letsalldont]

hoziest

[@lane9215]

I detest how correct u are

[@shortseater9379]

the handsome and smart edit is what hit it for me

[@chrisheartman9263]

Also: in these ten months I discovered ancient forbidden knowledge: THE DEPRESSION TRAY! You put easily edible things in the tray and then when you're hungry, you just eat from there.

[@Mangaka718]

all my groceries are Depression Foodᵀᴹ fr fr

[@zacharynguyen7286]

Hope everyone doing good and staying safe. If you need to talk to someone or need help, there are people who care. Sending support and hearts. ❤️❤️❤️

[@littleblu33]

my college Midnight Gourmand experiences taught me 2 things so far 1. any sauce can become an aioli if you're bored enough 2. making fried rice should qualify as a kind of alchemy

[@merlinm.4387]

I felt that fried rice statement lmaooo

[@awes5893]

Fried rice is like 5% of my being. It doesn't even feel like a joke to say that.

[@Moircuus]

The anything aioli pairs perfectly with an anything sandwhich

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

I pour my soul into fried rice. It adds a nice flavor.

[@autecology]

I’ve found that with enough determination, any sauce is pasta sauce if you put it on pasta.

[@camilleosborn5314]

BDG in his pepcorn video: I'm probably never gonna do another cooking video. Also BDG: *makes like five more cooking videos and will likely make even more*

[@rowdyriolu1]

this is my favorite bdg content

[@Lem_On_Lime]

I truly hope he does.

[@Ric_Vicious]

Honestly, I think he's got a fantastic Chef persona! Let's hope to more cookin' vidz.

[@allykapowmah1086]

Karen is so enthusiastic and supportive to everything he does and it’s so sweet

[@babyleafsaladd5322]

did you see that they got engaged???? it's always so lovely when two silly people find eachother and get to be silly together

[@libraryphantom]

@@babyleafsaladd5322 that's awesome for them! i had been wondering about the nature of their relationship, I didn't know if they were a couple or just friends/collaborators/roommates

[@Radio4Ever]

@@libraryphantom Me too. Really happy for them. They're a perfectly chaotic duo.

[@legatelaurie]

a shame about the laptop though

[@sokkyu]

@@legatelaurie what's a laptop?

[@alexsturbaum]

Our household has recently gotten into "Lao Gan Ma-chos" - nachos made with cheddar and mozzarella, healthy scoops of fried chili crisp, and fresh green onions. It rules.

[@bigmclargehuge8219]

Oh my god that sounds incredible

[@jacoblynd2808]

That sounds amazing

[@nutbutter88]

I'm going to try this at some point now that I have some lao gan ma

[@CasperClawell]

That sounds really good I might have to give that a try 👀

[@yaboicolleen]

Maybe it's the millennial in me, but this feels like slightly higher effort than a good ol fashioned "depression meal" and you know what, I am HERE for it

[@tticusFinch]

Honestly my family regularly eats the depression-era recipe my grandmother used. They are simple, cheap, few ingredients that make a lot. A few pounds of ground meat, an onion, tomato sauce, and any salt and pepper you want will make a big pot of moist taco meat. Put in more tomato sauce and you've got a meat sauce for spaghetti. Stick it in a corn tortilla and pour red sauce over it plus some cheese, you've got an enchilada. Super versatile base recipe.

[@madeniquevanwyk]

as a recent college graduate a lot of these hit a liiitle close to home, especially the Mixture of a Thousand Sauces Because That's All That's in My Fridge(tm) 😅

[@flurgerbla7609]

The only difference between a depression meal and a midnight gourmand experience is Vision

[@zacharynguyen7286]

Hope everyone doing good and staying safe. If you need to talk to someone or need help, there are people who care. Sending support and hearts. ❤️❤️❤️

[@saintcomus]

BDG's pizzamagedon has the same chaotic energy as my dad taking literally every leftover in the fridge, frying them together in the pan, and saying "don't worry, I'm just making bubble and squeak"

[@Scorpio7500]

Ok but is he wrong tho

[@steegen101]

bubble and squeak?

[@skep2923]

@@steegen101 British food

[@saintcomus]

@@Scorpio7500 Not at *all*. I'm always the one joining him and getting side eye from the rest of the family 😂

[@2clam4jam]

The “don’t worry” is what’s really makes this

[@LivingTar]

Jeremy did an incredible job, give him a gentle gourmand kiss for being a great editor

[@DigiDuncan]

Yo, if you want to, you could you get your clown on!

[@Locane256]

He really did!

[@mickyj300x]

His channel is also hilarious

[@agjakku]

As a vegetarian, if you just replace spam with tofu and add some soy sauce, the triumvirate works just as well!

[@siremestir]

THANK YOU I was wondering how to substitute it

[@g.i.e]

For a vegan option you can also make sushi rice instead of golden rice. It's actually comically simple. Just mix together 1 tbsp each of rice vinegar and sugar per cup of dry rice, then gently fold into the warm rice.

[@ohnotagainplease]

"Congrats, you're ramen now" is my version of your pizza restoration. In a boiling pot with instant noodles and an egg, everything (even soup) can become ramen.

[@Silverwind87]

Boiling noodles in soup? That's... that's brilliant. The starch from the noodles will enhance the soup's texture, and the soup will flavor the noodles!

[@bruhzzer]

pizza

[@eligah1843]

Bread in it…

[@GrandHighGamer]

*turns soup into a pizza and then turns the pizza into ramen*

[@artistwithouttalent]

Chicken ramen prepped as normal (siphon off broth with the lip of the cooking vessel so you don't need a colander)+Thai Sweet Chili sauce+ Chicken Nuggets. Sweet Chili Chicken ramen.

[@justagou0987]

One variation on the pizza rule is if you have no sauce, and you have chips instead of bread, you can make nachos. You can turn almost every kind of leftover into nachos, especially if you keep nacho seasonings around like onion powder, garlic powder, chili/chipotle powder, paprika, cumin, and cayenne powder

[@idontwantahandlethough]

If you're high, plz sit down before you continue reading.... You can make pizza nachos. You can also make nacho pizza.

[@annaluisa3933]

Beautiful addition to this video, thank you

[@CRneu]

this is my version of meal prep for the week. I prep a variety of ingredients that could go on nachos, burrito, sandwich, tacos, etc. It's surprising how many dishes can basically have the same 5 or so ingredients. Then all I have to do is toss some stuff together, maybe heat it up, presto! i'm eating something tasty.

[@rudebega1494]

I feel like a corollary of this rule is that leftover soup can be turned into a pancake-thicken with flour and/or another starch and fry in a pan. I’ve done it w leftover kimchi soup to make kimchi pancakes. I feel like it would probably work with other soups, although I’ve never tried lol.

[@ozkey1558]

The rules I live by are that any leftover can get into an omelette and anything can be fried rice.

[@theeth3242]

So all these years of me slapping together random crap from my fridge at 2 in the morning wasn't me being a filthy little goblin, but instead I was a MIDNIGHT GOURMAND. Thank you for this correction

[@chrisvisser-fee2631]

Another important rule is "definitely won't set the fire alarm off" I forgot this one while frying an onion at 2 AM yesterday and probably pissed my neighbors off.

[@cinnabard955]

I like how BDG’s journey went from 12 year old child, to father, to Victorian scholar, to 1960s radio show host, to 80’s workout leader, to actor lookalike you found in the middle of the Amazon rainforest who seems to have time traveled but is denying it as much as possible.

[@BillNyeTheBountyGuy]

How I became a Midnight Gourmont was the classic 'What's in the fridge' borrito. Where you combine any number of items imminently visible in a tortia, oil it, air fry it, enjoy it.

[@louisknudsen2535]

I do this but with pita bread. Just throw it in the toaster, cut open one side of it, dump every edible thing in the fridge into it, monch

[@Xael2nd]

I do this with pasta, you take whatever pasta you have in the fridge, any sauce you've got lying around, cheese and whatever meat you have, can be bacon, can be chicken, can be shredded ham, voila, midnight carbonara.

[@louisknudsen2535]

@@Xael2nd Ladies, gentlemen and others, I believe what we have discovered here is that if you take a starchy substance, and add pretty much any kind of fatty things and any kind of sauce, it's probably gonna be pretty good

[@jlpz24]

Damn literally just commented the same thing. The number of times I have turned leftovers into a prize winning burrito is astounding.

[@pompadorbz9168]

3:04 Karen admitting she saw Brian eat the whole thing implies that not once did she ever try to convince him to stop

[@evalcat1]

There is also the possiblity that maybe she tried to convince him to stop but couldn't

[@CRneu]

there's also the possibility that she was on board with it the entire time.

[@finn596]

There's also the possibility she tried it

[@davidfernelz]

I don't think that's how they works

[@JonathonSwinney2814]

There's also the possibility BDG begged to stop and Karen held him accountable. "No. You will eat it.*

[@krisdabrowski5420]

I'm a daywalker gourmand - my midnight gourmand energy goes to my breakfasts. However, rather than make it a pizza (which I may start doing now), I make it an omelette. instant noodles? Cook it up, cake it in egg, then fry that. Leftover stew? Egg it, omel it. Leftover rice tends to make the best omelette material. You can even salvage over-spiced food by making it into an omelette, since it softens the spice.

[@flowerheit4512]

Omel-it is an incredibly powerful verb phrase

[@Pseud0nymTXT]

Chip omelette is god tier 10/10 Tanzanian Stree food

[@norawojchouski746]

Ah yes, the mid morning gourmand

[@agneebags]

leftover french fry omelette is my fav version of this

[@iggykidd]

Tomorrow morning, by your inspiration, I will omel the hell out of it

[@demolisherman1763]

I cherish any and all BDG video but the cooking ones are particularly nice

[@somerandomgoblin2583]

i really like them since it makes some things feel a lot more platable to me, as someone who has a lot of issues with food because i'm autistic

[@scarfbandit177]

rice*

[@Im_1n_The_House]

The cooking videos are particularly … He Nice

[@motleythewild]

I love cooking but never have the energy so these are life blood for me

[@madeline6951]

he nice

[@jackwerner1276]

Brian: “rice, egg, and spam” Me: “that’s literally musubi” Brian: “we’re making musubi” Me: *validated smile*

[@goblinteehee]

@Eye no one enjoys your company Im sorry you had that, jack werner . . .

[@punkdigerati]

The egg isn't necessary for it to be musubi, but certainly doesn't detract. I see it pretty often at convenience stores with their breakfast stuff.

[@thelemon5069]

I love musubi so much

[@LukaelPlays]

Between pepcorn, ice creams, cookies, and now this, this really has become a full fledged cooking channel huh

[@benjisaac]

Wouldn’t have it any other way

[@Nehu_22]

I'm planning on doing the sesame icecream soon, so I can't complain either

[@chastermief839]

he's giving the people what they want

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

It's the one cooing channel where I can really follow the recipes.

[@BensRightBrain]

Not even kidding, this inspired me to push myself in the kitchen and I've been stepping my game up for the past week, so thank you, Horses Trident.

[@BensRightBrain]

More specifically, getting creative with leftovers. A veggie rice bowl had extra rice, so I made chicken wings and fried rice. Leftover wings made a chicken stock for a bolognese. A chain reaction of great dinners made with leftovers. So for real, thanks!

[@jonnnnniej]

​@BensRightBrain that's awesome and inspirational!

[@zeomora3512]

Ramen + whatever hodpoodge of sauces and vegetables and leftovers you have = perfection. Everything is a pizza and everything is noodles.

[@fishlordusername891]

Ok mood actually, noodles are ridiculously versatile and a lot of my lunches are basically just fucked up noodles.

[@herowither12354]

Ramen with a couple slices of individually wrapped cheese and a quarter cup of salsa. The cheese melts so well, it incorporates perfectly into the broth.

[@Romanticoutlaw]

you can also poach an egg into ramen, it's easier than you'd expect and delicious. Egg, cheese, a pat of butter, some green onion, and you're in business

[@benjaminborhart3321]

“Hamburger Soup” Ramen + hamburger seasoning + crackers

[@imp_lux]

This! I was literally coming into the comments to say the same thing, ramen noodles combined with almost anything you've got on hand is always gonna be a banging midnight meal

[@Rc3651]

"Midnight gourmand" is such a positive spin on what dinner looks like for me when I'm depressed. This was unsettlingly relatable, I feel like I looked too far behind the curtain somehow. Like I was seeing how others see me when I'm high. Minus stuff like cracking eggs into my mouth, I hope you're not doing that when the cameras aren't rolling 😛

[@spookysomeone]

yeah! this video helped me realize that dinner doesn't have to be fancy, it just has to feed you. im going to college soon and im gonna have to feed myself so im saving this video for future reference.

[@averynerdybookworm972]

The best thing i ever learned is that im not required to “make” something. if i want to eat two slices of bread and handfuls of sandwich insides I dont have to assemble it

[@Walkmp5]

As someone who cooks for a living, thank you for eating something probably overpriced and thought "I could just do this at home." You raise the standard for the industry.

[@renoia3067]

I think that... every time I eat outside my house

[@gooddaytoyou5256]

The bastard will make my salary drop again. Industry is survival simulator for most, and he's raising standarts! The gall!

[@spinaltap526]

BDG is 2020: The only food video I'm qualified to make is about making special popcorn, I'll probably never do another one. BDG now: I AM A MIDNIGHT GOURMAND! EVERYTHING CAN BE A PIZZA!!!

[@alisathemushroom9923]

The "play that funky music" bit really solidified the relatability of this video's vibe. I too have sung that song while running around, feral in the night, collecting food to eat. Dancing as well.

[@leealdous6489]

My wife and I have a long running practice we refer to as "quesadillas". Originally I would actually just make quesadillas for us vv late at night, but as I became hopelessly addicted to omelettes (by which I mean scrambled eggs) it quickly evolved to mean "a combination of whatever very thin bread we have, any flavorful cheese, hot sauce, eggs, and vegeble". 10/10 easy, has all your food groups, doesn't make my tummy hurt, waarm.

[@leealdous6489]

I also recommend: buy the totinos pizzas and cut them into fun shapes. Not technically cooking but trapezoid pizza hits different. (And the "leftover" triangles feel like fun little bonuses.)

[@thesleepystrawberry3620]

I have so many things to share because my household has accidentally made a culture out of Midnight Snacks. First off, any meal past midnight that has more than one course to it is what we call "The Dark Feast" in our household. We have a holiday in our house called "Gooben Knoct" or "Goblin Night". A holiday that falls on a different random night every year and you celebrate it by eating a feast of snacks you find in your fridge (like shredded cheese from the bag) and you eat them while sitting on your kitchen floor with your housemates. Channeling Goblin Energy! And Finally welcome to the "anything food either a soup or a salad" philosophy. A debate that goes beyond "is a taco a sandwich". A pizza is just a salad in an organized order. Happy Snacking!

[@molls2512]

I LOVE the idea of Gooben Knoct omg, that’s so fun!!

[@ricochet4674]

Why cant my family be that both functional and goblin-like.

[@marachime]

thank you, fellow goblin, for sharing your wisdoms

[@DestinyCalls26]

This is amazing, I love this!

[@adilrahman6881]

The Dark Feast...I love that!! Brilliant!!

[@bifirobin]

I just want to say that the bit in the kitchen where it goes all cramped and chaotic really spoke to me and my partners as what it looks like when we get overwhelmed. We check in with each other now by asking "wrong rice?" so thank you so much for that genuinely helpful shorthand

[@zachariahboss]

I love "Jeremy, make me handsome" and then Jeremy's edit makes him look like a "we have Hozier at home" version of the Irish lad

[@qwitchyy]

I thought it was literally just Handsome Squidward’s bone structure used as a template ahaha

[@KaldwinUnderscore]

Jeremy turned this boi into a man in desperate need of one's strongest potions

[@achturn5979]

​@@qwitchyy😊

[@cryptidrecording]

Adore Karen giving lil support backstory to Brian and also this late night drip.

[@kevinwillems8720]

@Chad 007 no it isn't Chad. No one knows what you're talking about Chad.

[@soimless]

I was once like you. Espousing hubris towards the pizza gods. At first I thought I was free from the rigid crust of society. No longer bounded by a pan or stretched so thin I cracked. But, little did I know that the beauty in front of me was nothing more than a cheap siren's song. Now I know how quick that beauty turns into nightmare. For you see, when you put pizza on a bagel, you can have pizza anytime.

[@AbramDemski]

"When everything is a pizza... nothing is."

[@redpepper74]

@@AbramDemski "Pizza" is merely a label. But when the same label is applied to everything, what good is it?

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

I'm gonna need a dramatic narration voiceover of this.

[@woopsallberries4969]

And if you can have pizza any time, you will.

[@erinaa9486]

But pizza bagels are a real thing. You can get them frozen at a grocery store

[@aprokhozhy]

"Midnight gourmand" sounds a whole lot better than "i'm high and want an indulgent snack". Thank you, Brian!

[@yllwtoast]

I adore the idea of becoming a midnight gourmand. I just made some fried rice at 1am and I have never felt so decadent. Thank you for your wisdom Brian David Gilbert

[@jomos6366]

His comedy? Perfect. His smile? Perfect. His pizza? Perfect. Never change BDG never change.

[@joshualindsay8806]

His beard? Perfect.

[@Corbomite_Meatballs]

His hair clipping? Perfect.

[@CityState_of_Valletta]

@@joshualindsay8806 ... questionable ...

[@Dragoneth]

His Hotel? Trivago.

[@algorithmdisciple9456]

but me? me? im wack AS FUCK

[@sandrotozzetti463]

On behalf of the Italian people I deem this pizza cooking acceptable under the rules of the midnight gourmand and, on a personal note, commend you for your efforts in soup pizzafication. Bravo!

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Yes, it is acceptable as long as the Italian pizza gods are asleep.

[@41-Haiku]

@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 They haven't been the same since they lost the war to keep tomatoes off of pizza. I mean, they were _really_ routed.

[@sandrotozzetti463]

@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 and that’s why you do it on midnight

[@sandrotozzetti463]

@@41-Haiku I do hate tomato on pizza

[@rancidkippa4589]

I would further posit that Brian's bold exploration in pizza-craft harkens to the beginnings of pizza, when in the Aeneid Virgil described possibly the first pizza - a flatbread with fruits piled on top: Aeneas, handsome Iulus, and the foremost leaders, settled their limbs under the branches of a tall tree, and spread a meal: they set wheat cakes for a base under the food (as Jupiter himself inspired them) and added wild fruits to these tables of Ceres. When the poor fare drove them to set their teeth into the thin discs, the rest being eaten, and to break the fateful circles of bread boldly with hands and jaws, not sparing the quartered cakes, Iulus, jokingly, said no more than: ‘Ha! Are we eating the tables too?’

[@legolasnosense5746]

Brian with beard actually seems chill asf, like i wanna just hang out with him and make gross lemon-mint soup

[@cecilofthesea]

brian is very correct in his assumption that a lot of college students would be watching this. thank you for your food advice so i don't starve

[@shortinsomniac76]

Yeah this is a legit godsend and reinforces my fuck it we ball actitude towards cooking

[@caionapoli3434]

I was at first like "Ha! I finished college 5 years ago! You're wrong Brian" and then I remembered I actually got back to school two years ago and now I feel stupid

[@yourfavoritehouseplant]

Literally watched this while making a strange little college student pasta with all my leftovers

[@caseyjones-esque]

Literally avoiding the last of my work as I watch this

[@sophiespeliopoulos2851]

I literally finished college today but I still really needed this 😂

[@IanZWhite00]

It’s very BDG that the reveal of him apparently always being able to grow a beard like this comes during like his 7th radically different Bowie-esque incarnation

[@tatertot2948]

In college I made "fried eggy ramen" and it was a hit for my roomies that woke up to the smell at 2am lol! Just cook some instant ramen, then drain, and add in some soy, teriyaki, ginger, and a touch of honey. crack an egg or three in there, salt, pepper, garlic, and agitate it while frying. it creats a crispy, savory, eggy coating on the noodles and tastes really good! A nice change from fancied up soup ramen

[@Defectivania]

ooooo I will absolutely be trying this

[@lue64]

oh wow we have the same braincells. i've done this too

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Instant ramen is a type of magic.

[@ShawnBird]

For thousands of years humanity was forced to midnight gourmand in darkness or candlelight, with minimal spices. We are truly enjoying the golden age of the midnight snack.

[@Signedcentaur]

The dawning realization of making garlic bread from just toasting bread, butter, and crushed garlic. Thank you, O wise Midnight Gourmand

[@samsherwood8332]

I do this all the time, sprinkle some Italian seasoning on top and it’s divine

[@griffinrice8685]

add some parm and mozzarella on that and you’ve made yourself garlic bread pizza, S tier midnight snack

[@ToastyJunebugs]

Bonus points: Use garlic naan bread as the base and add parmesan cheese.

[@Parker-nm9cg]

two 3-ingredient recipes that will unlock feelings of joy you never knew you had: 1. sourdough bread. butter. crushed garlic. _use broil setting on toaster oven until it begins to brown._ 2. sourdough bread. ranch dressing. the sharpest cheddar you can get your hands on. broil in toaster oven until cheese is melted and bubbly.

[@Parker-nm9cg]

bonus: spread Nutella on a warm, toasted English muffin. pretty dang good

[@quartzintherough]

Shout out to Jeremy Nativebirds for going absolutely HAM on this video

[@TheMadsC]

I was just about to make a similar comment! Man am I impressed with the editing in this video. So much, that I didn't even think it was edited by someone else until halfway through, when he mentioned Jeremy, and I looked at the description. It's almost identical to how Brian edits videos himself, but I'd say it might even be a bit better. Like there were so many gags that were enhanced from the editing. Hope to see Jeremy editing more on this channel, even though I love Brian's style too.

[@soupwizard4150]

more like going SPAM on this video eyyyyyyy

[@sarahhowell3368]

20:21 I audibly gasped and said "BRIAN" as if I were his mother watching this

[@saxninja8464]

that’s not brian, that’s his alter ego Sal Manella. he loves eggs :]

[@vl5008]

Me too!!! XD I was just like "don't do that!" >;0

[@mollymauktealeaf]

ik US eggs have to be refrigerated but can you also not eat them raw?

[@Roswend]

@@mollymauktealeaf It's not as bad as it used to be, but there is still a reasonable salmonella risk from raw eggs in north america. People still do it though.

[@czardeaner7713]

@@Roswend It's okay, he's got health insurance lol

[@beepbopp54]

I actually loved the dramatic reenactment of the lemon-peppermint conundrum, thanks BDG

[@SpacedOutAlpaca]

I cannot explain how happy I am that these videos are regularly 15+ minutes now (the shorter ones are also great, but the more bdg the better, ya know?)

[@owenmeier]

@beyond your imagination why did I think the pfp was jerma

[@Siennarchist]

@@owenmeier sadly its brett cooper, who is infinitely less interesting

[@abadira]

Jeremy didn't gave to go so hard with the spam in oven animation but I appreciate him so much for it

[@benjamindesjarlais5713]

(Drawfee voice) Jeremy... is this Blender?

[@one1virtuoso]

An English muffin, tteokbokki, and a slice of American cheese has to be the most deranged food combo I have heard of in my life. Literally the Frankenstein's Monster of food. You're a madman BDG, your wax wings have taken you too high. I would also like to try it.

[@SlavicCelery]

To be fair, american cheese slices have a way of showing up frequently in Korean instant noodles. So it is part of the customary diet.

[@Leto_0]

@@SlavicCelery The army brought over cheese slices and spam during the war and they became a staple

[@ScarfAlliance]

Watched this with my wife. She hasn't been sold on your content in the past, but she really enjoyed this one and was ready to give you another chance. And then the egg. 10/10

[@2smallbirds]

seeing Brian in that robe has fully cemented the idea into my brain that he snores like snork mimimi

[@mistermangoman69]

I imagine him sleeping in one of them little hats with a ball on it

[@moonbasket]

Yes

[@rosly_yt]

The fact that brian is both embracing Karen's cultural food and learning Korean fills me with joy.

[@Psycholornie]

Every time he does something funny he looks over at Karen to see how she reacts...

[@mrpengoat]

Why

[@vulixirus]

@@mrpengoat because people being kind of each other makes them happy, i dunno why this is weird lol.

[@amoureux6502]

There's some pics on his Instagram from a while back where they went to Korea together and Karen wanted to rent hanboks and Brian "didn't want to look like a disrespectful tourist" so Karen stood in the background of his photos and gave a thumbs up for him

[@gankt]

parasocial weirdo

[@ryantrumpler1894]

8:45 i hold the inexorable belief that no human being with a beating heart can resist the primal impulse to do a little dance to the rice cooker song

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

I think the rice cooker song is some kind of secret hypnotic message that Zojirushi uses in its plan for domination of all the rice in the world.

[@lucasrobin2788]

@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721you guys know it’s the alphabet song right? Or twinkle twinkle little star? The nursery rhymes? Every single kid learns them? (At least in the UK)

[@honeybunbadger]

@@lucasrobin2788 we all know. doesn't matter. we must dance!

[@Seypenni]

I'm sad because all mine does is shriek really loudly at the start and finish. One day I gotta get a fancy machine that'll do a little song for me.

[@glitchvomit]

Brian declaring "I should use tools" while wielding an air fryer basket containing a chicken korma pizza(?) reeks of something ancient and primal. I love it.

[@HilliBilliBob]

Love the concept of calling it midnight gourmant instead of depression meal. Some of my favs are elevated ramen (adding miso, egg, and veggies), Fast egg sandwich (fried egg, cheese slice, toast), and cheesy tuna noodle (egg noodles, canned tuna, cheddar cheese, maybe a little alfredo if you have leftover in the fridge)

[@skeetsmcgrew3282]

Ok, hear me out. Next time you do the egg sandwich (this requires a non-stick pan), you rip the slice of cheese up into a few strips and put them in a circular configuration in the pan before you turn it on. Then as the pan is heating up, you put the eggs in the middle of the cheese. The cheese is now melted and the egg is partially cooked, then as the egg finishes cooking the cheese turns into a chewy, toasty, slightly crispy base to your egg. The oil from the cheese also makes it so you don't really need to use additional oil. Honestly life changing

[@flooboo1502]

For the perfect egg sandwich, put about a quarter teaspoon of (minced or chopped) garlic in the pan, get that aroma goin, put some onion on that garlic with a lil butter (or ghee if you're feelin fancy), then plop that egg right on the garlic onion mix, let it cook about 1/2 of the way, while thats goin get some bread toasting in the pan, with a lil cheese on there for some melty goodness, once the egg is that good kinda soft half cooked mess, plop that on the bread, finish toasting it and melting that cheese, and you got yourself a perfectly soft but also crunchy sammich. That and rice with egg are for sure my favorite "i have zero energy but im hungry" meals.

[@MacSalterson]

@@flooboo1502 Very related idea but I saw from Alvin Cailan (over on First We Feast) an apparently Filipino thing where you fry an egg (I usually go over easy) and sprinkle finely sliced green onions/scallions onto it before you flip it. When you flip it the still runny whites will act as a glue for the scallions so they fuse to the egg and you get that nice combo flavor. You can also do this with diced onions.

[@TheJared38]

A depression meal is like a hot dog, a block of cheese, and a roll of crackers, where you just take bites out of each one. The stuff BDG made is waaaaay too much effort for depression meals.

[@HilliBilliBob]

@@TheJared38 I mean it's about the same amount of energy I put into my depression meals. Yea on really bad days I'll just eat string cheese or a gogurt tube or a TV dinner, but a lot if the time, the things bdg did are low effort enough to be considered depression meals to me. I mean sauce? Easy. No heat required. Air fryer leftover pizza? Easy. I will say rice is a bit too much effort for me personally unless it's leftover rice. But yea solid depression meal at midnight shenanigans

[@gaymergoose]

as someone whos adhd meds suppress my appetite throughout the day and leave me ravenous at night when they wear off, this video is a lifesaver. i dont have most of the ingredients in this video, but now i know what to stock up on next grocery run

[@Min-ke6zc]

also surprisingly good: carrots. if you cut them thin enough, they cook impressively fast, and can taste like almost anything if depending on the spices you add!

[@katebradley9306]

@@Min-ke6zc FUCKING LOVE CARROTS, somehow i got arfid with my array of adhd meds and such so just cooked carrots with salt MHHMMMM so tasty.

[@spookysomeone]

@@Min-ke6zc also if you don't want to/don't have the energy to cut cucumbers, baby carrots work pretty well for the first recipe !!

[@RaptorMother]

So THAT'S why I'm hungry in the evening?!?!

[@gaymergoose]

@@RaptorMother yeah not a lot of ppl know but a common side effect of some of the most popular adhd meds is suppressed appetite and if you take em when you wake up like i do theyll wear off right around 8-9pm or later depending on how late you wake up, and youll suddenly feel super hungry because your body hasnt been eating enough all day

[@Jed_Rock]

Taking off the robe was giving me "Anime protagonist removes his weighted training gear" energy and I'm here for it

[@khadeejakira775]

My go-to midnight snack would be a "lazy pokè bowl". All you need is sushi/any sticky rice, smoked salmon (preferably the pack from Costco since it's cheaper, mayo, and siracha. You take 1 1/2 parts of mayo to 1 part of siracha to make the spicy mayo. All you do now is assemble it together. If you want to be a bit fancier then you can make it into onigiri and store it in the fridge for later. The best part about this is that you can put anything in it such as kimchi, canned tuna, egg, etc. Similar to bibimbap, any leftover side dishes; throw that shit in there! I hope this is enough to qualify me as a midnight gourmand!!!

[@applebard]

There are currently 4,759 comments, but I want someone to know that I made butter chicken pizza with leftover butter chicken and it was incredible. I had butter chicken pizza at a buffet years ago, and I remember it being pretty good, so I had been thinking about pizzafying my leftovers. When I saw Brian making his pizzas with (what I believe to be) the same Costco naan and mozz that I have at my house, it felt like the gentle hand of fate pulling back the curtain of time to show me my future. It opened the curtain, and I stepped through.

[@stringinstrumentssuck3034]

pizzafying leftovers is the secret key to everything

[@Torien0]

The curtain was delicately pulled back by BDGs hair clips.

[@applebard]

Does that make the curtain of time bdg's hair? Because that... feels right.

[@io_est]

You know as soon as I saw that part of the vid I was thinking....hey, I have some homemmade butter sauce in the freezer that I have no plans for...

[@applebard]

@@io_est let us know how it goes!

[@salt-emoji]

In my mind Brian still only has 200k subs, and I'm constantly surprised he has the audacity to be original after all these years

[@stardusty]

Right?! He should be doing cringey skits with minor celebrities in a studio kitchen somewhere.

[@Sednethal]

I was so thrown by this comment I had to go check his subscriber count. Wow.

[@adamweinberg2532]

@@Sednethal I know right? I've followed him since the polygon days, and I didn't realize he had grown so much

[@moara4144]

Thanks for the reminder. I didn't realise I wasn't subscribed yet.

[@simsamsammie]

“Midnight gour-mindset” is a joke that hits me like a train EVERY TIME

[@brianoestreich]

Cucumbers with your decadent sauce has pretty much become my go-to snack since I saw this last month. Literally make it like every other day.

[@skullytheskully]

You can really feel the love in this video--the love of food, the love of education, and the love of giving your editor absolutely golden raw footage with which to forge a truly magnificent video. Well done Brian, well done Jeremy!

[@werbnaright5012]

Karen, well, you need to step it up a bit.

[@MarioDiNicola]

The love of gochujang.

[@MCAndyT]

and well done Karen!

[@recon441]

As a Filipino, the Triumvirate of Endless Possibilities really spoke to me

[@kap79]

As a fellow filipino, I nodded and smiled. Meals, snacks, musubi, a holy trinity of opportunity.

[@KiwiiCat8]

BDG absolutely makes the most high budget, high quality videos about the silliest topics, and is hilarious while doing it.

[@vomerconch9795]

pizza was originally recognised as a food for peasants so putting random shit that you already have together so that you don't have to buy more is oddly paying tribute to its origins

[@sealriously-sealrious9768]

“Play that funky music, rice cooker” is something that will live in my mind Forever now each time I make rice

[@chickenskink1]

I wish my rice cooker had a fun jingle :(

[@CommieRotten]

Can we all just appreciate the immense amount of editing on these videos, with the graphics and the like? Constantly keeps me entertained.

[@besupaaa]

I'm absolutely impressed. The confetti mouth.

[@sledgen.]

can we appreciate how great of a job editor Jeremy did here

[@flowerheit4512]

He made Brian look so smart and handsome!

[@subrisubrika5652]

1:47 The scream after this internal conversation is the most real thing on youtube I've seen in a long time.

[@CaptainConfuzion]

Brian taking the time to perform the Zojirushi rice rinsing technique despite his Very Stressful Kitchen Experience is the mood i'm here for. Play that funky music, rice cooker.

[@austinbaker3596]

The Italians actually used pizza as a way to deal with leftovers, so your late night pizza is actually truly in the spirit of pizza

[@pyuraii]

midnight gourmanding seems to satiate all of my midnight desires, just like all of your other cooking videos. sincerely, thank you, Brian, for solving all of my economic and culinary problems. now i can make $20K a month being my own boss AND live a healthy lifestyle. wonderful!

[@pikksen7905]

the man's a life advice miracle

[@pyuraii]

@@pikksen7905 oh great heavens it is the sometimes semi-competent artist

[@pikksen7905]

yes hello

[@synthetichumangaming4634]

Going from "My Weird Ice Creams" to this is hilarious. He either went insane or achieved enlightenment.

[@Crimser3]

I love the moment when he feels like he’s explaining it to college kids, then immediately remembers what a large percentage of his audience is

[@pezgurl]

As someone who makes terrible snack decisions while high, this video is going to change my life. I watched it while eating hot dogs for dinner and somehow became even hungrier. A+ editing, Jeremy. I laughed so hard I choked on my hot dog and died.

[@razagan1343]

Fried tomato with onion is also a great quick food (and butt cheap if you buy those big onions bags and cheaper tomatoes) , even more so with it placed on a cheese sandwich

[@daz184o_o6]

RIP, hope you get better from dying soon

[@razagan1343]

Ow shit is this just a proto pizza?

[@CostcoRep]

That raw egg crack directly into the mouth was unhinged, but also exhilarating! The fact that it happens at @20:20 also seems symbolic somehow

[@ForestGreenSharpie]

he did it without any hesitation as well that was so beautiful to watch

[@astrophysiciann]

i read this comment at about 20:15 and it filled me with apprehension

[@aj-the-crawfish]

god everything brian comes out with is a banger. food? horror? music? who else can do it all and with such incredible vibes

[@danielblair5970]

Watching BDG's videos is like watching someone manifest my ADHD into the physical world

[@noonie6872]

Wouldn't/shouldn't you be the physical manifestation of your ADHD? The body is just a meat shell for the mind after all. 🤔

[@dylansickinger545]

@@noonie6872nah, I like to say that my adhd makes it so my mind, my body, and my consciousness are three separate entities inhabiting the same physical form.

[@BlameSnowy]

@@dylansickinger545 And sometimes, only sometimes, they're in sync. And the only thing they do when they're in sync is scream.

[@isaacbear7115]

My dad and I used to make egg scramble surprise where you scramble like 8 eggs and toss in all of the left over meat and cheese from other meals and it is incredible. Don't skip out on the pepper. It is perfection. My favorite variation was kielbasa, Swiss, green pepper, and onions.

[@loganl3746]

My Dad makes this every Sunday morning! Warm up the leftovers in the pan, crack over your eggs, scramble, then plenty of pepper as the only spice. Usually it included roasted potatoes and whatever meat is left. If it was meatloaf, extra points

[@enzopalmer4745]

As somebody from Hawaii, I absolutely love spam eggs and rice. I eat it all the time in a million different ways.

[@nemmiril]

As soon as I saw the musubi press I got really excited

[@the808songbird]

Literally that whole section made me so happy

[@noahmancer9629]

I live in hawaii and I eat at least one musubi from 7/11 every week. Maybe i need to start making them at home!

[@ThatCrazyBookWyrm]

I made a delicious dip recently (yogurt, lime, garlic, salt, unidentified Japanese spicy paste) to be enjoyed with cucumber as a direct result of watching this video, and my life has been officially transformed. The flavor! The experience!! And it was healthy?? Truly one of the greatest late night snacks I've made, 11/10 gourmanding

[@MrBobogoa]

in my college years, when i was trying to pack as much protein as possible into the day for the purpose of gains, i would mix pesto, garlic dip, sun-dried tomatoes, shredded roast chicken, shredded mozzarella, and half a sliced red onion in a bowl. sometimes i would mix it up and replace the pesto with bbq sauce and sour cream. surprisingly tasty i cant lie

[@TheVader2]

Hm

[@adewilliam9047]

You forgot to put the whey in it 3:)

[@K_i_t_t_y84]

I've heard of everything BUT garlic dip, and this sounds delicious! My husband and I would both devour this.

[@madeniquevanwyk]

sometimes I think the depression is gonna get me, but then I see Brian dance to his rice cooker's funky rendition of twinkle twinkle little star and I am saved

[@TheDude4077]

My classic favorite midnight gourmand is like an egg ramen thing. 1. take a pack of ramen and while it is still in the package smash up the noodles until they're in rice sized pieces. 2. put ramen in bowl and fill with just enough water to cover the top of the noodles 3. microwave for three minutes, at the end there should be no residual water but the noodles are nice and cooked 4. whisk in an egg exactly the way Brian does with the rice in this video 5. season generously with onion powder, garlic powder, salt, pepper, parsley flakes and the ramen seasoning packet It's extremely good, has more protein than plain ramen, and takes 4 minutes to cook and only uses one bowl

[@juniperjames718]

Screenshotting this

[@meiguess6765]

tysm for this

[@quadrupleheart]

brilliant

[@nojustno2526]

this is literally genius

[@WittelMeThis]

This +reheated frozen corn and peas kept me alive in 2017

[@AlabastreAizo]

Thank you, Jeremy. Some of the biggest laughs I had were wild edits like the confetti.

[@jules3770]

Midnight gourmand would make a great series tbh. Getting so many ideas for late night munchies from this video. I wouldn't be mad if this became a cooking channel

[@EmmaEmbla]

I didn't realize I have been a "Midnight Gourmand" all this time, this is just too relatable down to the putting ingredients on the table because why use plates when table is a perfectly flat surface that can hold items.

[@elfishawol4506]

I feel like I'm a lunch time gourmand and not a midnight one. I come up with the weirdest ideas at lunch when I'm by myself and refusing to go anywhere

[@nicolersands]

For a healthy lunch/snack, cut an avacado into slices, put it over some hot rice, and top it with peanut sauce and peanuts. That’s it. You can switch out the peanut sauce and peanuts for spicy mayo and Panko flakes if you want a lil kick.

[@michael_17213]

My go to midnight gourmand meal is what I call “can soup” which is not just canned soup, it’s a can of beans, a can of tomatoes, a can of some sort of vegetables, and some frozen peas and corn. Delightful really

[@brujua7]

A post-apocalyptic delight

[@orenjaffe599]

I feel really called out by this

[@CollinWootan]

Add some chili powder and cumin and you basically have chili.

[@Filbie]

Wait…do you just eat them straight out of the can? Or do you cook them? 🙈 /gen

[@Romanticoutlaw]

that's what I like to call the Project Zomboid Special

[@spacequeen2046]

Recently I was up late rushing to grade all the papers before the deadline & I made a very cursed, yet fairly tasty, portion of fried noodles. Use this recipe whenever you need a way to put carbs & protein into your body at 11:30 pm and no one is awake to see what you're doing or judge you for the culinary choices you are making. First, take a handful of fettucine & snap it in half to fit into the only clean pot. Boil until about half-cooked. Next, take the leftover disappointing salmon egg scramble you had at brunch with your dad, add a big scoop of kimchi, and fry in oil until it starts to brown, breaking up the pieces all small. While you do that, drain the pasta and dump 1 small container of leftover homemade beef & eggplant ragu sauce in the pot, bringing to a simmer until the pasta absorbs most of the sauce. Add the sauced pasta to the brown egg bits and fry. Add 1 dash fish sauce and soy sauce to taste. You're pretty much out of kimchi at this point so just pour the rest of the kimchi juice right in there. Also, you're not sure if you're frying or simmering it, because there's actually a lot of liquid in there now, so it's hard to say. What's important is that the noodles are getting cooked. Add some MSG because that'll probably help whatever is happening right now. Plate and top your cursed creation with the last dregs of the kimchi, and a little sesame oil, to be fancy. "These noodles look like they could be regular fried noodles," you'll think. "The flavors are very confusing. Mostly I'm getting chinese egg fried noodles, but there's also a strong smack of italian ragu in there. The kimchi is definitely the star of this dish," you'll think, "because it covers up most of the strong oregano flavor, which I'm grateful for. I can't be the first person to do this," you'll think. "There are billions of people on the planet and someone, somewhere has to have done this before me. It's fine," you'll think. "I bet somewhere in the world there's an old lady and she's like, 'my secret homemade family recipe for fried noodles is fettucini, salmon, kimchi, and ragu!' and she's the best cook in town, probably. This one's for you, old lady. It's fine." It's fine!

[@em01455]

This was a ride😂

[@abel_babel]

if you wrote a cook book i would probably not make the recipes but i would read it like the finest poetry ever put to paper

[@noonespecial9233]

This is the purest, most engaging KZbin comment I've ever seen

[@graceann444]

This maybe was the greatest comment I have ever read

[@beabratton]

A midnight gourmand-ing of my own that falls into the “decadent sauces” category and also includes tahini: do you like the vibes of the sauce in this video, but you’re snacking on fruits instead of veggies??? Try this! 2 tbsps of tahini to every 1 tbsp of cocoa powder, a pinch of salt, and a dash of honey if you like it a bit sweet! Dip honey crisp apples in it, or whatever. It’s basically homemade Nutella but w/ sesame instead of hazelnut

[@wormfriend9200]

made it, it;s good =) i added a bit too much honey but there's always next time..

[@TotosTales]

Sesamella

[@loreleihayden454]

You're a culinary genius, sir

[@bucketmonkeys]

You need to stop

[@MrSignman65]

@@bucketmonkeys do not stop the Midnight Gourmanding. you cannot comprehend the consequences.

[@ahmado9191]

7:48 I do a very similar dance whenever I cook. Essential for Midnight Gourmands.