Unhealthy Choice

[@twsx]

There's something about the combination of the microwave and that outfit that. Just. Feels. Right.

[@NatsWhatIReckon]

It's a delicate balance

[@joshacollins84]

It's the headband that seals it!

[@jadeanderson6514]

I grew up in a home where my parents thought they were being trendy by removing the stove/oven and replacing it with 2 convection microwaves. We used those cook books very regularly. No wonder I'm a rubbish cook, that shit is fucked.

[@jothamread]

Man that sounds outrageous

[@jadeanderson6514]

@@jothamread I didn't know what a stove was until I hit about grade 10 when we started home economics. 25 years later I'm still learning how to use the damn things properly!

[@sugoruyo]

I'm so sorry for your loss.

[@waywardangel6356]

@@sugoruyo 🤭🤣

[@orchid9173]

You poor bastard

[@SD-oi9gr]

I swear for me personally the people of Australia are single handedly dragging me out of this pandemic and back to a happier way of life. I’ve said it many times, Australians are just in general the funniest people alive just by existing. This U.K. citizen wished his bloodline made the swim back then.

[@SD-oi9gr]

@Orion grass is always greener and all that jazz. Thank god for KZbin connecting people like Nat to us.

[@sanyr80]

+1, I hung out with Australian exchange students during my college years. They made every party better.

[@DustyBallbags]

Yeah we're a bit fucken loose down here but we're good

[@vjc2270]

It’s never too late, champ! Come on down! 😃

[@richnegs5828]

Well I’m guessing you’ve never hung out with North Koreans…. In North Korea… they’re fkn hilarious!!

[@steeler.s6457]

Fuck yeah bud since I got your book I’ve cooked all the recipes and I must say they’ve been great. The pumpkin soup was a massive hit with the fam. For once they think I’ve got my shit together. Truly uncooked. Cheers mate!

[@NatsWhatIReckon]

Way to go legend :)

[@Jabjabs]

I did the pumpkin soup last week. That stuff was awesome!

[@jaredandrews6133]

@@Jabjabs so did I! so bloody good

[@3sonscider907]

instead of boiling the pumpkin, try roasting the chopped pieces in the oven for about 40min at 180 with some rosemary, garlic and salt. Then add it to everything else and blitz. You'll get another level of flavour you won't regret

[@magdalenpowers1431]

Vegetarian Pasta with Chicken Stock, LOL! Gotta love the '80s-and your sweatband is [chef kiss]! 🤣

[@NatsWhatIReckon]

It's a very confusing recipe to say the least

[@Zonks666]

those lovely vegetable chickens

[@TheRguru1]

Unless the chicken stock doesn't have any chicken in it lmao.

[@cronos1911]

The 80's... Maybe this is why the only microwave food that I enjoyed was popcorn.

[@NatsWhatIReckon]

hahaha

[@CaffHCloudlow]

Microwave popcorn is fucked too! That plastic butter flavour is disturbing

[@mister_meagle]

Man, the highest wattage for microwaves in the 80s was like 700. Of course it looks super nuked when you use a 1500 watt microwave, lmao. Funny videos and all

[@maskedowl501]

Loving Nat's Ariana Grande-style ponytail.

[@GaraksApprentice]

Nat experiences the 80s all over again, so we don't have to. What a champion.

[@NatsWhatIReckon]

hahaha

[@Funkengr00ven]

Taking one for the team

[@DaCheat100]

Just curios though, was Nat even alive during the 80s?

[@Rainbowgrrl]

@@DaCheat100 pretty sure yep

[@Christina-cm9wg]

You will probably never see this, but I suffer from anxiety and depression, and your videos never fail to make me smile and laugh on the days when I don't think I ever will again. It sounds dumb, but you really have made a difference in my life.

[@sashawolf8432]

I know this was commented 8 months ago, but you're a fuckin champion and I hope you're doing well. :)

[@japancamerahunter]

I feel this.

[@peternielsen6510]

@Nat´s What I Reckon

[@dickwilloughby]

He might not have but I did and I think you're a fucking legend. Nat's in the same boat, I'm in the same boat - we've probably all got one foot in that boat whether we know it or not. And I fucken back ya - you got this. If I've got this, you've got this - and I've fkn got this by the nosehairs cobba

[@jadebass-qc6of]

Same as I have various diagnoses to the point I’m not allowed to be diagnosed with any more 😂😂 He makes my day In regards to the microwave cooking it was designed to make women’s life easier and encourage men to cook 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 ffs 🤦‍♀️ I’m from the uk and I do use it for baked beans I like how they turn out in jus I have fibromyalgia and FND so standing to cook is hard af I do my best. Love cooking from scratch but the microwave has come in handy for beans lol 😂 🎉 gray comment live the channel

[@margottago]

these tucka fucka videos hit kinda different since i learned that microwaves were invented as a way to thaw out frozen rats and bring them back to life

[@NatsWhatIReckon]

Phwoooar

[@coiLz0r911]

Was it not hamsters, though? Coulda sworn it was hamsters.

[@sunnuld]

I too watched that Tom Scott Video

[@AlfredLoo]

@@coiLz0r911 rats. They were testing on the methods of reviving from hypothermia

[@sarahartz1721]

Oh my god, does it matter? Rats, hamsters, turtles, parakeets....Tucka Fucka is only good for making popcorn and melting butter for shit you're actually cooking.

[@danielemmanuel6261]

My brothers mate is a professional chef, and Nat is his favourite chef

[@tardigraded6518]

Yep, I believe it. My mate that is a chef showed me a trick. . . nuked sausages. . . We munged out . . . I reckon he would rate nate

[@thekaotikangel561]

I like how the "QUICK and HEALTHY" meal still took 45 minutes of microwave time (not including non-microwave time) and a heap of cheese and mayo. I figure you can make this better and faster using the stove and oven.

[@strangeonexd4776]

This woke me up out of a dead sleep and I’m not even mad.

[@bethvansoup]

“You can speed this along by practicing in your imagination.”

[@tobarstep]

Back when "healthy" meant eliminate all fat and just be happy with your sky high insulin levels.

[@robertnewman1499]

I want to tell you that you may need to adjust the wattage to whatever the cookbook uses, but I also enjoy watching these hellish creations come to life. Great job bud

[@iraplayz5401]

Yesssss The reason why he uploads at such good times is because he's Aussie / Australian it's only 5:40pm here in australia

[@bobsaget6720]

its 1 am in my part of the world fwiw

[@Southlakesown]

Wow he's Australian? What makes you so sure kent?

[@ashleejacobsen7614]

@@Southlakesown he is definitely Australian

[@Southlakesown]

@@ashleejacobsen7614 You sure maht?

[@GeoffRichards_GP]

it's my Friday morning tradition here in London: Nats What I Reckon and brekkie

[@exaltedinshadow]

I gotta say I absolutely love when you make Jules laugh. Its the cutest, most genuine thing ever and it warms the cockles of my heart...whatever the fuck those are. ♡

[@taithompson3817]

Maybe in the liver, maybe in the kidneys. Maybe even in the colon, we don't know

[@Angelina14799]

Jules laughing I the background is something I look forward to in every video.

[@loopsruby]

Me too☮️💕

[@agnesmach2485]

I r3ckon its a bit overdone. But whatever tickles your fanny eh Jules?

[@FlipFlopMom]

SAME. She's the best.

[@ThePatwheel]

Jesus, that salad looked grim. Never in my life have I looked at rockmelon, ham and mayo and thought about putting them together.

[@NatsWhatIReckon]

never should it have ever happened

[@taravenn3474]

Better, betta bring a bucket! 🤢🪣

[@lettuce984]

@@taravenn3474 *YOCK BARREL!*

[@teefarox92]

I have always hated microwave cooking, and as a recently diagnosed Coeliac, I have now begun to actually pay attention to what I cook, and how I cook it. Nat gives me the inspiration to cook things that actually have flavour and are not shit out of a packet. He also lets me know that it is Fucking easy af to cook, a lot easier than I thought it was.

[@jimmythehand4248]

Really brightened my day. It was a rough one. Thank you.

[@NatsWhatIReckon]

No sweat champion, hope you're doing ok.

[@sharonsolomos4461]

Reenactment of when the Microwave tribe declared The War on Food, allowing the murder of perfectly good ingredients..

[@robynuwu1631]

That is some of the most fucked food ever conceived- I know the 80s were wild, but someone legit had to write that cookbook and think "oh yeah, this is a good idea!" Fuck that

[@micaela711]

I'm starting to think whoever wrote these recipes was taking the piss and it got out of hand

[@petenstein247]

and someone, I assume, tested out these recipes, and thought "fuck, yep, whack it in the book ""

[@diplomasaurus4232]

It kills me the pasta dish takes over 30 mins in the tucka fucka, where cooking on stove would be half that time🤣🤣 the irony

[@CynicalMartian]

They were on a CIA cocaine and quaalude binge

[@simonwhitlock9189]

I worked in a restaurant where the boss thought the microwave was the future he said we could put a steak in it and halve the cooking time, first time we tried it the steak came out of the fucker looking pale and watery so slapped it on the grill for a couple of minutes per side and you know what?,....... it tasted like shit.

[@TheMidlifeIntrovert]

This is taking me back to the 80’s… I was 6 years old, my mum borrowed my Grandmothers microwave and attempted to cook Chestnuts which blew up.. Australia in the 80’s..

[@stykytte]

A grim, wet and cold holiday camp in the south of England some time in the early 1990s was when my dad decided he couldn't be arsed to BBQ anything, so we bought a Microwave and set it up in the caravan, nuked some sausages on Bakelite plates that promptly exploded along with the sausages. Not trusted anything out of them since tbh.

[@MagnusQuake]

that was the best break to fast track 15 minutes ive ever seen, twice! love it dawg

[@brucesnz]

I remember (it might be a fake memory, but it makes sense) when we first got a microwave in 198X or maybe early 199X and my mother used it to make some kind of bizarre donut shaped, herbed-base pizza. It blew my fragile eggshell mind. As a poor antipodean boy I wasn't used to such exotic things as dried mixed herbs or donut shapes. Still chasing that high decades later.

[@MrAdomus]

Nice nod to Jim Morrison there. Just letting you know that wasn't wasted

[@AestheticWaif]

@@MrAdomus darn, I came to comment that lol; old stoned immaculate goths unite, I guess... Edit: are your shoulders smooth as ravens claws?

[@grimbles1234]

Chap - hilarious. Funniest thing is watching you try to hold your sh1t together with Jules cracking up out of shot.

[@jeepnutscotty]

I used to watch each episode for your comedic talent... now I’m here for Jules’ hysterical laugh as well!! 🤣 Champions!!

[@Beaut_Beau]

Nat may be Australia's greatest national treasure since Steve Irwin, on ya champ!

[@zandru1950]

Oh please - comparisons are always odious, and in this instance there is no comparison at all. Let’s just say that Nat is a champion AND a National Treasure and he is beyond compare.

[@MA-nm4uv]

I can't even imagine what that salad would taste like, guess there's only one way to find out.

[@NatsWhatIReckon]

I don't recommend it

[@andywhelan8608]

When prosciutto and cantaloupe goes horribly, horribly wrong.

[@mattwilcoxuk]

At no point did the Microwave Scientists remember to consult Food Combination Experts before putting out their books...

[@wombamatic]

two cook books to recommend - Nats one and "Day to Day Cookery" from high school days. Both don't have microwave cooking in them!

[@MichaNovako]

You are literally the first person in my 30 years who has me actually interested and caring about cooking. Keep kickin ass man

[@MyLifeMyWay]

Seriously, you take one for the team when you put that crap in your mouth and actually eat it lol. Love these videos. Miss the ones where you teach me to cook actual stuff though. I absolutely love the mushroom risotto 🥰🥰

[@grantosjones]

Nexercise with Jim should get its own show, and an Energy Tea drink (Tirameezu flavour) to go alongside Roger and Ian's Boating Wine

[@randelmatt]

Fucken oath

[@logannewman4532]

When Alton Brown was on "Hot Ones" he told how he prefers to do his grocery shopping late at night because he doesn't have to watch people check out with carts full of garbage food. He said he gets really depressed over the things people feed themselves. I'm one of the lucky ones. My mom has always properly cooked for us and I made a point of learning and then expanding my own abilities. Thanks for being a champion of this particular ideal. It's an important one. Corporations and their boxed crap are enslaving people who don't understand how easy and rewarding it is to prepare your own meals.

[@LightSwiiftWolf]

I don’t know what I love more, The edits, the cookbook and cheery music, or the fact he commits to making it regardless AND tries it 🤣🤣👌🏻 Jim’s whistle when he talks and his counting floored me ahaha 🤣🤣🤣

[@jordanpearson1932]

You're microwave videos litterally have me in tears laughing mate please keep making these!

[@BahjatAlaadel]

The dedication to the precise level of detail in executing every step of the recipe has me suspense-meter pegged

[@KeirinPearse]

"I suppose it's been long enough to get along with the tranquilizers" HAHAHAHA

[@OhhWeOhh]

Your Mrs has literally the best laugh!

[@wanjina618]

"There's a reason that the 80's are back that way..." I died. 😂😂🤣 He's not wrong!

[@coiLz0r911]

The Jim in the gym bit had me screaming tho

[@NatsWhatIReckon]

He's chasing those gains

[@coiLz0r911]

@@NatsWhatIReckon Fucken oath, with his neck being that impressive already, I'm not too sure the world can handle many more Jim-gym-gains.

[@timothyhill1461]

Hello from Victoria Canada. This brings me back to the 1980s where my mom dragged me to microwave cooking classes. I swear they were just like this hahaha.

[@KarenFuchsbichler]

I love the prolific use of my favourite curse word, oh yeah, and the sarcasm. Love it!

[@keanawilliams4052]

When I’m hungry at night before bed I watch this stuff and I tell you I lose my appetite real quick! 😂 love your work Nat!!

[@kixmcdaid4222]

dude the part with Jim in the gym was classic! "and one, and two...an fuckin fourteen" followed by jules's laugh just about killed me.

[@neversaw]

That ponytail just accentuates how gorgeous that hair is

[@breemidge8660]

I finally got your book and OMG it’s better than I expected!

[@mummifiedgoose]

I love the intercut VHS clips in this one talking about tranquillisers lol best so far

[@LythonV66]

Every one of these microwave episodes are pure comedy gold. Stay awesome!

[@passiertwas3888]

This makes my so happy with (and grateful for) my ability to cook actual food, with real ingredients, in my classic oven - eating is just so much more fun when you know it's not just chemicals, cooked by microwave-rays :D Also thanks for all those vids, really great stuff!

[@hanumanvaya]

This microwave series is my favourite thing evah. If you sold season's tickets I'd be in the front row with my microwaved peanuts and Cracker Jack.

[@elcasho]

Legendary 80's vibe. Especially the orange slice and parsley at the end

[@Turkeyinthehay]

Watching these vids automatically makes one healthier. Laughter is nourishment!

[@Kirastar84]

Literally u get me through anxiety while going through all this moving and financial stress. Thank you soooo 🤘🖤🤘🖤much

[@marieconway4286]

We are back in lockdown in Victoria (again!) but watching your videos always make me laugh and smile 😃. All the very best for your continued and much deserved success! Keep spreading the love and laughter! You and Julie are beautiful rays of sunshine during the gloomy weather. My heartfelt thanks! 🥰🥰🥰

[@knobrush]

I love how the microwave flashes "Enjoy your meal" in the display when it's done cooking.

[@princesssookeh]

The parsley and orange slices on everything sent me straight to hell. XD

[@l.michelle3497]

Double Sadness bro 😅 Spot on garnishing tho 🤣🤣 I hated the 80's. That garnish brought back terrible teenage angst . Love the outfit 👍👍

[@MisterAzizo]

I've really been enjoying these Microwave videos lately LOL. Thanks for the quality content champion ❤️

[@zoemarie1684]

The Tucka-Fucka/cookbook videos are fkn hilarious. Please make more!

[@MasterAlt]

I love that Nat, the long haired, tattooed, swearing Australian is the best motivational speaker I'ver ever heard.

[@DAipom1997]

The best ever, wth were people thinking back in the 80’s😬😂 Also, “This looks like fucking Sesame Street, with pasta”. I didn’t know I needed that quote till I heard it🙏🏼🤟🏼

[@lonnie224]

Love the garnish...nice 80’s touch 😂

[@luurchify]

"I suppose it's been long enough that I should get along without the tranquilizers" 😂

[@3kingsadventures]

Really really look forward to your videos. Super funny. Always teach me something and I enjoy seeing if you turn the correct gas burner on when cooking. Champion

[@petenstein247]

Our microwave growing up had all these different meals next to the timer, one of the meals was "Brains in Pars(z)ley Sauce", as if that's a common meal everyone in Australia made. Can you imagine eating that, with the added bonus of being made in the microwave!

[@saviom01]

Nice decision on the orange slice garnish. Very considerate to the era...and Denny’s tradition.

[@nealdavis7317]

What a Champion! Never fails to make my day better!! Your a legend Nat! Have introduced you to some many of my friends overseas and they love it! Keep em coming mate.

[@joew4962]

Another awesome episode! Even if it is filled with horrifying food this time.

[@badjuju6563]

For the full 80s flavour it needsa cup of that dried parmasean cheese out of the green tin. Champion 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

[@SimonTAMG]

3 words, you absolute legend! That gag at 3:29 says everything we need to know about this haha

[@belaclaen]

I get that the high ponytail is part of the fitness outfit......but I love it! Keep the high ponytail you handsome devil!

[@stephenmoore6472]

Parsley n'orange. A classic of garnish if ever there was one!

[@sharontaylor5498]

The slamming of the microwave each time raised my anxiety level 🤣

[@joshhayes1750]

I wonder if you could do a video where you time the microwave version of one these meals & do a stovetop equivalent just to see which one is more efficient on time (microwaves were supposed to be the great time saver, as we of a certain age have grown to know how BS that turned out to be) and which yields the better product.

[@Stonehead52]

Argh! I’m having a horrific flashback. That Vegetarian Pasta is the exact one a wannabe girlfriend cooked for me back in the ‘80s. It looked like a Saturday morning vomit comet. She over-did the mustard powder so it was a mouth burner, too. She was furious as I left to get a pie and chips. I learned my lesson: women who cook healthy food are best avoided!

[@bennybfishn]

Been hanging for a new installment... Keep em coming champion!!!

[@beeranade]

The orange twist n curly parsley combo... been chef'n for donks, that one brings me back bother.

[@fionaclaphamhoward5876]

8:14 that really moved me Nat, thank you for that mate

[@BuffordTJustic3]

The plating was comedy GOLD!

[@mackdog3270]

Ahhhh the orange slice and curly parsley. The garnish of my childhood.

[@micah_noel]

Get you someone who laughs at your jokes like Jules does ❤️

[@DragonLady465]

These episodes make me feel better about my own cooking. I've made some bad shit but never like this lmao

[@alexwood5026]

“LOOKS LIKE SESAME STREET, WITH PASTA”!!! FKING LOL!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@clarebrown1603]

The orange and parsley garnish is a nice touch.

[@smlfri2002]

it's the orange slice and parsley at the end that makes it so classy

[@SchoolProjects54]

Jules is the gift that keeps on giving!

[@kzpattinson]

Oh that orange wheel garnish took me right back!

[@gregoryjones1473]

Fuck me, looks like someone passed the Telly Tubbies through a jet engine, and slapped that shit in some tupperware. Fukken oath mate.

[@jacobpage3865]

Id actually love to see if he could make one of these book meals on the stove and proper methods. And see if anything actually tastes decent hahaha ? Please anybody agree

[@Rainbowgrrl]

Yep!

[@mayabotti2450]

That salad looks rough. As my dad is Italian, he is the one that founded your videos and when he saw that you think putting cream in carbonara is fucked, he couldn't have agreed more. Also, that pasta looked like a pile of shit when you were putting it into the bowl. Your videos are gold, and the comedy is gold - expecially Jule's laugh - but the salad is rough. :) 🥗🤢😶

[@fyiaustralia9686]

At the end of all that cooking I thought you said "Let's taste it" with a bit too much gusto. Should've been "Do we really need to taste it?" LOL!

[@peterdawson8180]

Welcome to my upbringing, we even had the same.cookbook. luv ya mum.

[@twistandgo3414]

😂😂 I believe your term for such delicacy is " CHAT". Great video as always! Keep em coming and you deserve every bit of success! 👍👌 You're a bloody champion! 😎

[@adambarker2775]

I really wanna know where you got that chopping board from! It's a beast!! 🤣