$404 vs $14 Pancakes: Pro Chef & Home Cook Swap Ingredients | Epicurious

Pro chef Bill Clark and home cook Emily are swapping recipes and hitting the kitchen to make pancakes. We set Emily up with all the ingredients necessary to make Chef Bill’s mouthwatering $404 pancake recipe, sending only $14 worth of your typical, store-bought stuff back the other way. Will Bill be able to create a gourmet brunch from Emily’s humble ingredients? Will Emily be able to keep up with Bill’s restaurant-quality recipe?
Director: Chris Principe
Director of Photography: Ben Dewey
Editor: Micah Phillips
Talent: Bill Clark
Talent: Emily Duncan
Director of Culinary Production: Kelly Janke
Producer: Isabel Alcantara
Culinary Producer: Mallary Santucci
Culinary Associate Producer: Leslie Raney
Line Producer: Jen McGinity
Associate Producer: Amanda Broll
Production Manager: Janine Dispensa
Production Coordinator: Elizabeth Hymes
Camera Operator: Caleb Weiss
Audio Engineer: Z Jadwick
Production Assistant: Alex Mitchell
Researcher: Vivian Jao
Post Production Supervisor: Andrea Farr
Post Production Coordinator: Scout Alter
Supervising Editor: Eduardo Araujo
Assistant Editor: Billy Ward
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[@chicken2jail545]

I was hoping Frank was the chef so we could see Emily forge her own pan and grow her own buckwheat.

[@brynnashcroft3734]

Lol

[@lonelysith66]

🤣🤣🤣

[@negate3]

Bold of you to assume she would get iron ore instead of a pick axe.

[@jai_the_guy]

Love these comments

[@anarchist_parable]

"First we're going to build a Time Machine to travel back in time and collect the heirloom buckwheat seed" 😂

[@TheRockerX]

Emily is such a fun personality on this channel. Her development as a cook is top tier character development.

[@EmilyDuncan]

Thanks!! 😄

[@defaultuser1447]

@@EmilyDuncan Hey Emily, I heard you have a channel of your own with fun videos and guests.

[@EmilyDuncan]

@@defaultuser1447I’ve heard that rumor! 😄

[@MamatMahdly]

couldn't agree more with this

[@NeonDarkness]

I have to say, I really liked Bill's spin on the ingredients. Its just so creative

[@noneednoname]

The fact that he even asked for syrup for HIS pancakes shows he's a real one tbh

[@raidcrhonos]

"I've been training snapping turtles for the circus" Why do i believe that completely 😂

yeah I was about to say that. I completely believe that lol

[@Todd94]

Emily's new hair looks fantastic

[@EmilyDuncan]

Thank you!!

[@henrypinos2946]

I love seeing how confident Emily is in tackling the professional's recipe compared to when she was in level 1. Love to see the growth. Rooting for you Emily!

[@SouthPaw1805]

05:50 Emily's reaction to the strawberries is great, and not that surprising given her Canadian heritage. (Though English ones are even better when they're in season!)

[@NMN_CP]

greek ones are even better than english ones

[@99leadpencils]

I was thinking the same thing. Given the colour and perceived firmness, I totally understand how those would NOT be the best strawberries she has had in her life. The tiny strawberries in Ontario are just bursts of soft juicy goodness.

[@Muddledmuse]

Emily is just absolutely delightful. It's interesting watching these cooking lessons but she makes it fun too.

[@GaryT1952]

❤Emily...such a transformation in her persona over the years

[@tetepeb]

I love Emily for keeping it real about the overpriced Strawberrys

[@luxcovers6143]

it does taste amazing, however hard to describe, especially when the texture is the most important part. It's amazing even on its own, however I loved to put some in a plain natural yoghurt

[@tetepeb]

@@luxcovers6143 So it's more texture then taste so you should be able to use something cheaper then 26 bucks...

[@DA_9219]

​@tetepeb why would a chef in a high-end restaurant care about using something cheaper?

[@tetepeb]

@@DA_9219 They don't off course.

[@Pizza-gb1ch]

@tetepeb, @15:07 he admitted it.

[@hansidso2534]

Her $225 guess didn’t even buy the first 4 ingredients 😭

[@_DaemonCleaner]

I love Emily

[@jaconni]

Pleasantly surprised by Chef Bill's ingredients and would try his both versions any day! 😋

[@keacey7510]

I was so screaming "you forgot the maple syrup!!!"🤣🤣 I was relieved 😅

[@guro4679]

More Chef Bill X Emily!!!

[@blueblue5752]

the best

[@francisblake434]

bill and emily are the best! would love to see them both again together

[@anarchist_parable]

It's been really wholesome watching Emily improve her cooking on this show

[@VerhoevenSimon]

Both interesting results, and it's always fun to see Emily having fun.

[@russh6414]

Very entertaining, educational, and now I am hungry!

[@Phaios95]

Always happy to see Bill ❤

[@daroboff]

Emily is always the best 😍😍😍

[@bashayerfatima3592]

I love chef Bill! More of him please.

[@MayuraVyamsaka]

CHEF BILL 💙💙💙 GLAD TO SEE HIM BACK

[@elnemo1749]

Can we all just remember emily said. " I train snapping turtles for the circus. " Can we get an I love turtles next emily. :)

[@Douchenut]

Bill is back! Long time no see! And Emily here!

[@johnpunchradio]

No, no, no, no. You don't just get to say, "Training snapple turtles for the circus" and not elaborate

[@allisynstewart90]

😂

[@blueblue5752]

Emily is my favorite person in this chanel, love chef bill too

[@SaddestSocks]

This was so wholesome

[@MVZ333]

That greeting lol, do they secretly hate each other? 🤭🤣

[@ajsepti5827]

I know the chefs are probably told to make it as expensive as possible by epicurious, but this is honestly ridiculous. It's become instead of trying to get the non chefs to try new techniques or things they've never seen/done before to just throwing as much money as possible

[@XBluDiamondX]

The price is also inflacted, though. For instance, nobody's going to use that entire bottle of Cognac for these pancakes. I wish they'd take that into account.

[@jarred267]

They do that for every single one of these videos. There are multiple ones where they buy $50 blocks of cheese, and grate a tiny bit of it as a topping, or $30+ dollars of olive oil to use a few teaspoons as dressing. The $628 omelet video, the had a $120 abalone they used one bite of, a $200 box of uni they used one piece, and a $65 bottle of Sake, the used a spoonfull. It's all nothing but click bait

[@heeroyuymitedu]

@@XBluDiamondX You know the cognac bottle isn't even the most expensive .. it was like 200 dollars for yuzu peels and juice?! I think that was the most ridiculously overpriced ingredient

[@GNdynames]

The cognac is probably the most reasonably priced item in there

[@TheAwesome45]

⁠@@XBluDiamondX That’s not inflation. You can’t buy a few tablespoons of cognac.

[@Shimmerin]

Wonderful episode!

[@chaosgirleva]

I love Emily's honesty with the Strawberries lol

[@Mammutidae]

I love them both so much.

[@samanthat.2633]

Such a cute cook off. Chef Bill is so serious and sophisticatedly cooks while Emily is cheerful and pleasantly cooks!

[@andretb494]

I love chef Bill´s recipes because they´re soooooo fancy!!!!

[@interchris]

Love Emily! Getting more hilarious every time.

[@Hope12Grace90]

Emily's 404 pancake became Error 404 pancake in my mind

[@nospoonwriter]

If you get rid of the Yuzu and the Cognac you can just see how expensive groceries are.

[@kyrectx2]

most of his ingredients that she also has are 5x expensive as hers $8 sugar v $2 $20 APF vs $2

[@GNdynames]

Funny thing is $65 is actually not that much for cognac

[@colleengallo4831]

It’s misleading. You’re not going to use an entire bottle of cognac for one recipe of pancakes.

[@Tarooo89]

@@colleengallo4831no but I’ll drink it alongside them

[@mashed._.potato5459]

I strive to be Emily in the kitchen 🙌

[@DRaGZ141]

I love Emily, but it's also fantastic to see Bill back

[@emma.l]

Cool to see Heilala vanilla in one of these videos! I'm in New Zealand and it's in our local supermarkets :)

[@ElaBlu3]

Why would you buy expensive strawberries to then just cook it down for a flambé. Doesnt that just defeat the purpose?

[@Kej1m]

I think the purpose was to find something to spend $400 on

[@xjzjdxnxn1898]

It's nice to see them try each others dishies

[@feralworm]

Love you Emily, fellow Canuck, congrats for alllll the things :)

[@sanuvithanage]

i really love Emily's look in this episode

[@brandonsumner6968]

Emily made me chuckle about those strawberries 🤣🤣🤣

[@MinnieOnCam]

I have a lot of flour wanted to make pancakes this is very helpful.

[@PegR38]

I really love Emily

[@JP-jd8wr]

Chef Bill is awesome!

[@demenion3521]

remove the yuzu and emily's guess for the price was spot on

[@nyangsteefies]

i loveee emily's sense of humor

[@May8Day]

It look so yummy, it got me watering

[@ponypoopa865]

I love Emily so much

[@lastnamefirstname2390]

We love our girl Emily ❤

[@stevewoodyt]

I’d where y’all shopping at but that ain’t no $14 where I live. That’s at least $25 if not more.

[@XBluDiamondX]

Here in the UK, those ingredients come around to about the same price, depending on what sort of maple syrup you get.

[@the0neskater]

$90 each for yuzu peel and juice? what the heck, I've never had it but it can't possibly be that great haha

[@bethhelminiak5063]

Emily is my spirit animal!😂

[@michaelrafferty660]

Too fun!

[@the-chow-hall]

Yayyy Emily, we love you!!! Love the new hair!!

[@davimaykaeba]

I would one day like to see what a pro chefs make for them/their families at leasure time. The pro cook in this series is always flexing with ingredients and it's a bit over the top for me...

[@peterlosee4606]

I don’t know about Chef Bill, but another chef on this channel, Chef Frank, has a channel(Proto Cooks, I think?) that might answer your question.

[@pattybear91]

The most impressive part was seeing someone make up enough bs to make Pancakes cost 404$

[@mias8667]

I'd love the recipe for this

[@TheLandscaper0115]

Super cute video .. great cooks.

[@SledDog5678]

His soufflé pancakes process are how my family makes waffle batter.

[@ChiliPepperMadness]

Soudsn like great recipes!

[@Beckybeckyxoxo]

Wait I’m confused those ingredients added to 116.72$

[@bobastraws]

I was confused too! But they didn't mention yuzu which is $180, the cognac which is about $50, and maple syrup which idk the prices of! 😂 Hope that helps have a great day babe 🩷🌸

[@pandurial]

Bruh even the chef got it wrong, its omakaese strawberries, oishii is the brand

[@davidbenji1]

So can I get the recipe by subscribing to the recipe database? I'd really like to make the $14 version but I don't think the recipe was disclosed in the episode. Does anyone have any insight on this?

[@peterlosee4606]

I don’t think he used a recipe. He just based what he did on what his senses said. I would just guess on the amounts.

[@luisdeleon4074]

Does anyone know where to find the actual recipes used (with measurements)? I am having trouble finding it on their website and the video does not mention measurements

[@ColombianLNP]

This was so wholesome!!! Loved the video. But 400 dollars for pancakes??? Nooo lol little bit too much in my opinion cheers amigos!

[@Sunflowerlover1404]

Bill is so talented! I loved what he did ❤️

[@nisv1679]

just wow

[@forceofwillgaming8475]

Hey it’s full circle. Bill had to wear a glove in a dish swap video and now Emily who is cooking with bill has to wear a glove

[@peterlosee4606]

And in the Mac and cheese video with the two!

[@jfcfanfic]

I love Emily.

[@thomascreates9643]

$14 for one meal is why im in debt

[@halalnews]

it's like seeing my two personalities meet each other

[@derekkee5588]

I so appreciate how Chef Bill always sticks with just the original ingredients and elevates it with technique alone!! And he’s a cutie patootie to boot, more Chef Bill please 🩵🏳️‍🌈

[@0ceanicify]

If you go round to Emily's house, the most expensive stuff is probably in the fridge. $404...

[@seastormsinger]

I 100% believe Emily was training snapping turtles for the circus

[@KariThomasMiller]

Something tells me that Bill loves that blowtorch.

[@m.janski]

Why on earth is yuzu peel and juice both $90? I tried googling those prices, but even the yuzu gin that showed up wasn't even anywhere near $90

[@dominiques8884]

Because they like to go over the top with prices, I can buy a whole tree for 74 dollars in the Netherlands apparently 🤣 definitely doing that before spending this insane amount of money on juice and a peek

[@Inexelkor]

It's always a treat to see Emily cooking, Chef Bill was fun too, *BLOWTORCH* XD

[@L.poke3521]

emily's hair is a vibe

[@Rickflairshair]

I once seen a snapping turtle jump through a ring of fire to get to a bowl of KETCHUP

[@purushotham20]

Bill’s take on the pancakes look godtier.

[@badmaryi6218]

Emily has the attitude of a Disney character. Watch out if she get angry . . .

[@TTM1895]

When I was younger, my mom would make a stack of pancakes and put candles on the top for my birthday.

[@konstantinradislov4150]

Chef Bill's ingredients price : Not Found... 🤣🤣🤣

[@chachaNJ]

3:42 yes feastables

[@IgnacDvorsky]

Finally Bill! 😍

[@Lothomiras]

Chef Bill yes daddy 😍😍

[@victorix30]

16:36 I thought he was gonna say 'ketchup' :D

[@InRealTime769]

Maybe im high, but Emily's shirt makes her look pixilated

[@SledDog5678]

Chef Emily personality reminds me of Zoe Deschnel in New Girl.👍

[@Ben-Carr]

I think the first batch of pancakes is the best.

[@savaunbrown]

crash bandicoot in the intro

[@bendierking6986]

Overcooked pancakes are bad. Undercooked pancakes are badder.

[@mimosveta]

he should have added few drops of water into the pan, to get them to steam more, cause being so thick, they are gonna burn on the outside before they cook on the inside

[@ParaNozek]

11:01 chef Bill this is not stiff peaks it's overwhiped 😢

[@deanc8458]

I’m sorry, training snapping turtles for the circus???