Why is TikTok OBSESSED with These Recipes?

I've found a batch of recipes on TikTok that seem to be extremely popular - including a cucmber salad in a jar & something called a 'crickle!', let's try them out & see how they taste!
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Ingredients:
Breakfast cereal latte
Cereal of your choice
Milk to infuse
Brewed coffee, cold
Ice cubes
Chickle
Slices of cheddar cheese
Large pickle slices, halved & dried
Mixed herbs (optional)
Tanghulu (Chinese Candied Fruit)
Fruit of your choice - strawberries & grapes
300ml Water
500g Sugar
Cucumber salad in a jar
1 Cucumber, sliced very thin
1.5tbsp soy sauce
1tsbp sesame oil
1tsp fish sauce
1tsp sugar
½ tsp MSG (optional)
1 garlic clove, minced
2 spring onions, chopped
1tbsp sesame seeds
Marry me chicken
4 chicken breasts
Pinch of salt and black pepper
2 garlic cloves, minced
1tbsp thyme
1tsp. chilli flakes
200ml chicken stock
150g sun-dried tomatoes, chopped
100ml double cream
60g parmesan, grated
Fresh basil, torn to serve
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[@mrbarrylewis]

More Videos Like This kzbin.info/aero/PLfItiEY3o1msmCdkx49hQcmgh39L02lf5 I've written up all the recipes here with some notes barrylewis.net/recipe/popular-tiktok-recipes/

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

You always make My day Barry! Thanks For this ❤❤❤

[@CricketEngland]

Glad you do these Barry so we don’t have to.

[@EdHadder]

I love your videos and channel barry

[@brianm6337]

Did you know that if you cook sliced cucumber, it turns into a sort of pickle? Just keep in mind- if you do try it, it's lava. 🥵

[@alexdavis5766]

“It’s like eating a bouncy castle” is an amazing way to describe something 😂

[@mrbarrylewis]

haha sorry, I should keep a note of these

[@alexdavis5766]

@@mrbarrylewisit’s a great description- not that I’ve eaten a bouncy castle but I got what you meant straight away

[@becki_booo]

Right I'm dying laughing 😂😂

[@gazwj]

Uncle roger will finally approve of nephew barry now he’s used MSG

[@Mack_The_Engineer]

Can we appreciate Barry is nearly at 1 million subscribers? Absolutely love your videos Barry

[@elizabethtraynham6840]

We love the “Marry Me” chicken in our house, but we’ve been making it for over 10 years now. If you like mushrooms, you can add morels, or any mushroom of your choice. It’s unbelievable!

[@kikop123]

Just a remainder that if you take any pickled/fermented thing out of a jar, better to do it with a clean fork or something like that. Because doing it by hands, you introduce another bacteria into the brine, and you will make rest of pickles in jar soggy instead of crispy :)

[@simonwood1260]

which specific bacteria did you mean that survives the acidity of the picking solution? Lemon juice and household vinegar bring bacterial levels to negligible.

[@dataterminal]

@@simonwood1260 Good question. Pickling doesn't kill all bateria unfortunately. There are a lot that will still survive, but thankfully they're usually harmless to eat. However, they are known as lactic acid bacteria, and certain types (mainly yeast based bacteria) produce CO2 as they ferment (the same way a beer does, for example). It's this CO2 in the water that breaks down the cells of things like vegetables, and it happens quite quickly in a matter of hours in some cases for soft veg like a cucumber. Lookup hetrofermentative of kimchi for excellent examples of how it can be put to good use.

[@dutchdykefinger]

@@dataterminal thanks for the scientific explanation for the "phenomenon" :D

[@lockonandfire]

Ooo, a wild MorganDrinksCoffee appearance in the latte section!

[@jenniferrue7929]

Love her! I live in Portland, OR as does she. I tried going to the coffee shop where she worked no less than 6 times even though it was 40 minutes from my house, and I never managed to get a coffee pulled by the one time American Barista Champion who also placed at Worlds. Still bummed.

[@glitchvariable5336]

Barry Lewis thanks for what you do. You may be just talking to glass in the kitchen but imo what I adore is how sincere your responses are and how genuine you are in your excitement to find and experience new things. Some on youtube I have to wonder if they scripted it all but you I never have to wonder this is all you and We love it.

[@TappedWalnut]

Also glad you pushed the Chickle further. That's the trick with those. Really push the cheese to almost burning. Fully melted but hardening and binding again cause it's still on the heat. Kinda making that crusty cheese layer on top of stuff. It gets exposed to open heat for a long time too. And is formed after it has first melted down.

[@opalhensley7566]

You are so talented, don't stop creating content!

[@DOOMHOOD]

'By the paws of Boston!' Get that on a t-shirt right now👍

[@rydactyl]

I've gotten out of watching KZbin a lot (life got so... lifey...) but i used to watch the channel obsessively. I decided to watch this while I had dinner and was hit with this wave of comfort and nostalgia??? Kind of reminded me of better times. You're a very comforting dude, Barry 😂 Thanks for making my night cozy!

[@alexdavis5766]

I downloaded TikTok to watch something and I felt so old scrolling through (mainly the comments) I gave up and went back to my millennial social media apps 😂😂

[@sassafrasandscraps]

Adding chili flakes or a chili flake crunchy sauce to the cucumbers is delicious!

[@visittocharlie919]

I Love Your Videos Barry!

[@mrbarrylewis]

Thankyou, much appreciated

[@Rick-zv4hg]

For the first one, save yourself some time, and just buy McCormick's Cinnamon sugar and add it to milk.

[@EliskaMM]

Morgan's coffee videos are amazing, I am not surprised, hers works :)

[@Silentgrace11]

Gotta love me a good quickle ;) I love making fresh pickles for a dish I’m making and only let it set for however long it takes me to cook everything else.

[@scottneil1187]

Not pickled then is it?, you've just made cucumbers and vinegar.

[@ListenerMustard]

I think the "chickle" is supposed to be with shredded cheese not American. The candied fruit the sugar syrup is supposed to be clear.

[@mrbarrylewis]

I think you can probably do it with lots of different ones! I like the idea of melting down a big old mozzarella ball and rolling something into it!

[@RedstonerD]

Bazza didn't use American cheese, he used a slice of cheddar

[@scottneil1187]

​@@RedstonerDHe used mild cheddar which is tasteless and pointless.

[@MarkDotExe]

Hi Barry! I hope you're having a good day! Thank you for the positive content! Stay well! Cheers!

[@EdHadder]

I Love Barry Lewis Videos 😍😍😍

[@lilliputmoss]

MSG is the greatest thing ever created.

[@mrbarrylewis]

What does it taste like to you? Why do you like adding it?

[@lilliputmoss]

@@mrbarrylewis I think the best way to describe it is just "savoury", find it very moreish and adds really well with noodles.

[@RedstonerD]

​@@mrbarrylewis a subtle warm salty sweet

[@48pluto]

@@mrbarrylewis MSG does nothing else then elevating the already existent flavors. It makes it better. And the taste lingers longer in your'e mouth. Don't use too much of it. Just a little bit.

[@meggerz5687]

Msg is from seaweed and it is pure Unami

[@lorawiese5897]

We used to eat pickle sandwiches. Toast bread, put on mao, add dill pickles. So I think chickles could be really good.

[@kimbahrlee]

You took that sugar syrup a tad too far as it's gotta be clear, plus saucepan is def the way to go, plus a bit less fruit on the sticks to dunk it easier. The cucumber salad and chickle look interesting though, been seeing a bunch of those on TikTok as well!

[@safiremorningstar]

By the way Mr Berry I don't know if you know this or not but if you put salt on tomatoes congratulations you've made a natural form of monosodium glutamate otherwise known as MSG...

[@annother3350]

Tomatoes have glutamates not monosodium glutamate. Thats like saying if youve eaten poppy seeds youve had heroin

[@PureMetalNS]

That marry me chicken is almost exactly the same as one we make, originally from gousto or hello fresh, called Tuscan Chicken. First time we had it I remember saying that if this is what food is like in Tusacany, we have to go there ASAP! You should try it with chicken thigh, and add in some sugar snaps or mangetout for a fresh crunchy contrast

[@mathboy1066]

Loving the TT creations mate.

[@mrbarrylewis]

cheers

[@lisam2537]

We have made the candied fruit a couple of times we used seedless tangerines and they were my favorite. I agree marry me chicken is delicious. Great video. Thanks!!

[@brianartillery]

It's probably popular because, and I'm going to be tactful here, you don't have to be a genius to enjoy the stuff on it. A good bit of gullibility where some of the content is concerned, and also that great blocker of independent thought, Fear Of Missing Out. A lot of my life is structured around deliberately missing out on things that are considered popular, so that I can enjoy my life without worrying that i might have missed out on some TV show or other. I haven't watched any TV for over seven years now, and, as it's basically ephemera, I haven't missed anything. I'm perfectly happy.

[@Hudson316]

Uncle Roger would approve of the MSG usage

[@jeanettaszerletich5118]

The Marry ne chicken sounds very similar to what ny husband started making a couple weeks ago: lemon pepper chicken. We use to do a dry rub but it didn't have much of a flavor, so he's been experimenting and came up with a sauce instead. He uses just about the same ingredients and it tastes amazing!!

[@annother3350]

Marry me chicken isan old Tuscan creamy chicken recipe

[@theblode1337]

I'm glad you figured out the pickle one in the end, I would have been left hanging otherwise

[@xIDarkSideIx]

MSG !! Fuiyooooh!

[@loveyourselfplease6842]

I had a bad day yesterday (recovering from Covid is not going as well as I'd like) so I put on a little Barrithon & my mental state took a major uptick, thanks Barry

[@annfromma8456]

My favorite use of msg is in my teriyaki sauce. I got the recipe from my mother in law who was Japanese. 3/4 cup of soy sauce, 1/2 cup of sugar, 3 or 4 cloves of garlic, minced, 1 to 2 tsp grated ginger, 3 TBSP rice wine vinegar, 1 tsp msg. And if you're feeling saucy, 1 TBSP sesame oil. Mix until sugar is dissolved, marinate meat for up to 3 days. If marinating vegetables, 1 to 2 hours. We grill it usually, or bake in oven and then finish under the broiler for a little char. Japanes pickles to go with the teriyaki: 1 seedless cucumber, sliced thin with a mandolin. Salt the cucumber and massage the salt through, let sot 15 minutes, then lightly rinse under running water. While waiting for the cucumber, mix 3/4 cup of rice wine vinegar with 1 to 2 TBSP sugar until sugar is dissolved. I add 1/2 tsp msg to mine but it's optional. Mix cucumbers and liquid together and put in refrigerator for at least 30 minutes. They last 3 to 4 days in the refrigerator but mine are usually gone immediately.

[@user-xw7ui8wv7o]

"It's like eating a bouncy castle" Ummm... Barry how do you know what a bouncy castle taste like??? 😂

[@mrbarrylewis]

I really should start adding 'Would imagine' to when I say these things lol

[@jemimaj20]

You have a way with words 😂 thanks for the video

[@HomeBrewandGardeningAustralia]

'By the paws of Boston'? Someone's been watching Galaxy Quest! Love it!

[@jacknorman8236]

Please do that video on MSG! It’s been so stigmatised in western culture when in actual fact it’s perfectly safe to use and is used as a regular seasoning in Asia and they live pretty long over there!

[@scottneil1187]

Stigmatised?, literal tons of it are used and consumed every day here in the UK.

[@AlexHuntercreativememory]

​@scottneil1187 Yeah but people will still claim chinese food gives them a headache due to the MSG despite so many packaged foods containing it

[@annother3350]

@@AlexHuntercreativememory MSg has been taken out of most UK foods and thats because it's an excitotoxin, it kills off brain cells. All peer revieweed science

[@annother3350]

msg has been shown to kill off brain cells

[@melissalambert7615]

@@AlexHuntercreativememory If MSG is so okay why is it not shown on the list of ingredients in packaged foods? Hidden under "natural flavoring". I don't like it and always can tell when it's in a food product. Okay I can list without snacks but I'd like to eat some salad dressings or flavored cream cheese.

[@csachevauxsansabri2612]

If the chicken was julient, you cud call it Stroganoff. I have been doing this for years with myshrooms and pore the sauce over butterflyed pork fillet. Served with galic fied runner beans. The Stroganoff base is just heaven to do all sorts of things with it, like you said.

[@kupaN9]

When pouring something out, if you want to make it less likely for the liquid to splash around by going back up the container, you can put a spoon or a chopstick or something on the side of the container that is pouring pointed to the container you are pouring into and pour 'through' the spoon/chopstick. This lets the liquid 'grab' the chopstick and work it's way down instead of 'grab'ing the pouring container and splashing around.

[@lordofthenotes]

If you like the chickle, try pickle roll ups/Lutheran sushi. Try and use pastrami or salami in my opinion

[@samhenwood5746]

What a fun video & thanks for sharing Barry 🤪👍🍓🍇🥒🍗🐾

[@SingerBabyJay]

So unique with the cereal latte 😁 I'll definitely try that. I've made a similar recipe of the "marry me" chicken with vegetarian chicken (Quorn product) So delicious 😋 Thanks Barry 💙

[@stefanpetrov6510]

I remember once after I had my knock off cheerios bowl I rly wanted chocholate milk so I just put power in the leftover milk and it was amazing, so I can really see how the coffee one would work out as well

[@goldug]

@6:09 "I've dried out my pickle, but this time I'm gonna push it even further"... Take that out of context 😜

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Your TT creations and reactions are awesome! Try more viral recipes! How about coffe ones? Like a coffee cake? ☕☕☕

[@mrbarrylewis]

good ideas mate

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

@@mrbarrylewis Nice.☕☕☕

[@Hugh-S]

logagm is so much more than just a cucumber guy lol. absolutely worth watching his videos.

[@eurogael]

I think I have had a very similar chicken dish a few years ago at a proper italian restaurant here near Boston and it was also one of the best things I have ever eaten. The sundried tomatoes made the dish.

[@dejanm.5742]

In Serbia we have like sugar coated apples, like that grapes and strawberry's, but coat is so thick you need to bite it really hard or lick it like lollipop till you break it, it's very popular carnival sweet.

[@0T772]

Here in my room, yelling in Spanish SECA EL PEPINILLO!!!!!! dry the pickle!!! lol

[@vozpit]

MSG! Fuiyoh!!! MSG stand for "Make S*** Good!"

[@auntlynnie]

If you don’t like cucumbers, you can slice carrot on the mandolin and do a very quick boil to soften them a bit, and then shake them with the dressing.

[@vickymaddox3791]

Can we get a garden kitchen update as cant wait to see you record in it!

[@notold37]

MSG is found naturally in tons of food, from cheese to tomato, that's just 2,we use it alot

[@dawnmorris3718]

Hahaha. When we were kids, oh about 60 years ago, we just added cinnamon and sugar to our coffee. Or a bit of vanilla.

[@CricketEngland]

What you should be asking Barry is “Why is TicTok so popular?”

[@mrbarrylewis]

It might not be for long! To be fair it's not so much dancing on there anymore, some recipes and stuff are useful, there's still a lot of junk on there of course, but something for everyone... until it maybe gets shut down!?

[@YaaLFH]

Because it is specifically designed to be addictive. It works by feeding you more and more videos and tickling our brain's reward system.

[@CricketEngland]

@@YaaLFH not to me it doesn’t as I have never used it

[@lorraineannheron3515]

Slice the pickle fine, and the cheese mix together and fry ❤

[@Stucc0Dude]

MSG is amazing. I put it in anything with onions or garlic.

[@angeltt4390]

The cheese on the chickle needs to be cooked until it goes dark gold so its like a cheese crisp, then whilst its still warm you wrap it around the pickle.

[@patrickhannon4217]

7:41 didn't SortedFood do this a while ago? @Barry I know you know Jamie Spafford somehow, I'd like to see you do collab with Sorted at some point, two of my favorite cooking shows in one

[@bradasstv]

MSG is great. I use it about every single day. It really brings out a great flavor in meats even potatoes. The stuff they sell over here in the USA called Accent and it's just MSG as a brand. If you are afraid of MSG, look up the history on it and why it was banned or whatever. It's insane.

[@annother3350]

there are studies showing its harmful

[@AmerzLynn]

I am that type of person who looks at a recipe i love and think what else can i do to this that would bring the same flavors but i would still love.. I believe i would double up the sauce or maybe even tripple it.. and add some type of pasta.. maybe even a cheese filled pasta or gnocchi and shred or chop the chicken up..and turn it into a marry me chicken pasta or marry me chicken gnocchi.

[@MrMit50101]

Msg blind test with Mrs B and Chloe would be epic

[@cksp1d]

Not sure how much MSG they use in dishes in Asian countries, but personally I (as a Swedish person) have started using a sprinkle of MSG (usually like a pinch of it) in things like stews or soups that I just want to enhance the flavors of without adding more salt to it. Works great 🙂

[@ian3314]

This was great Barry! Thanks for all the videos. Im gonna try that cereal milk one maybe with reeses cereal. The 3rd one though....its pickles...not a salad...pickles..tiktok thinks it invented quick pickles. 😆

[@emmaponymous]

I'd love to see a msg comparison video! 🤓

[@cardboard4929]

Issue with the TikTok recipes is they don't explain much.

[@Smileyyn]

“Drain through kitchen paper” Proceeds to use milk that has not been drained. Barry, what happened? 😅

[@mrbarrylewis]

Oh in the Patreon longer version that would make way more sense lol

[@Smileyyn]

Gotcha lol

[@brianargo4595]

With Barry's normal intelligence, I half expected him to say "We've got some fish sauce, which I think is actually made from fish."

[@brianhunt8273]

I’d like that last chicken dish over rice or noodles!

[@paulcullen814]

Good job it was a pickle with the cheese to make a chickle, and wasn't a snickers added to the cheese. Don't know if I fancy eating a sneese. 🤣

[@LindsayDaly]

Lovedddd those cucumber salads. I still need to get MSG though, I'm sure it would send it over the edge!!

[@BumblerBee]

If you live in the US, MSG is sold as the seasoning "Accent Flavor Enhancer"!

[@YaaLFH]

You don't need MSG for this salad. The original Korean recipe doesn't contain any. BTW if you love this kind of things, look into Korean side dishes - Maangchi is a good place to start.

[@TheRealSallyBeescomb]

​@@BumblerBeeI've found it before as "Chinese salt" in the UK!

[@samos4924]

Thumb out, mate. 🖖🏽 Also, Phoebe 2028 will be 20. Crazy!

[@Masked_Pirate_Geist]

I love a little MSG in my food. I live for that Umami.

[@TheLastPhoen1x]

"No big dill." ha, I get it. That's a good one.

[@thumbtak123]

The cereal milk trick you did, does work, but look at the video titled "What Cereal Makes The Best Cereal Milk Latte?" by Morgan Eckroth. Also, I can't remember where, but I think I watched a video saying that you need to leave the cereal in the milk, overnight.

[@bakachan3601]

After you bake it take the chicken out cut all the chicken back up stir it into the sauce serve it over rice or mashed potatoes 🤤

[@annother3350]

The pickle cheese was much browner barry - you need to coook it more until golden

[@susan.connelly9955]

The candied fruit caused a lot of burns on younger folk trying this recipe so they actually had a story on our news bulletins warning people not to do that.

[@AMPProf]

HEY BTW you Can Microwave the cereal for like 10-30s and then put jam on it

[@epowell4211]

When I worked at a hotel, I'd always grab a tiny box of Frosted Flakes and grab a coffee then eat them together - pop a handful of the cereal in my mouth, then chug coffee to wash it down. I say this because my first thought at your coffee cereal milk recipe was horror, as I've gotten a grown woman's fear of cereal, carbs, and sugar and the idea of getting more of them, in drinkable form is just ridiculous to me. Side note: flavoring your cereal milk makes even tasteless adult fiber bomb cereals taste like childhood memories. I'm not afraid of chemicals, so I use a pump of Jordan's Skinny Syrups Cotton Candy flavor or Joe's Cinnamon.

[@orientalmoons]

Look up synergistic umami. Sounds like a mouthful but it just means having multiple sources of umami compounds which work together to be greater than the sum of their parts.

[@annother3350]

from natural sources its fine

[@vozpit]

A chickle is actually buffalo chicken in a pickle, used like a hot dog bun.

[@ukgroucho]

Pick and choose where you use MSG. It is a brilliant ingredient for enhancing 'savouryness' - So soups and stews and stir fries with a lot of protein - shrimp, tofu, chicken, beef etc Not helpful in dishes with a lighter taste profile - like quick salted cucumber. MSG is a very worthwhile addition to the larder of anyone who is trying to extend their food repertoire. It's NOT unhealthy and is pretty cheap - just use it wisely.

[@annother3350]

it has been shown to kill off brain cells. its unhealthy

[@Meandtheghosts]

MSG is the magic ingredient of asian food! I use it all the time!

[@annother3350]

I have 5 or 6 asian cook books written by asian authors -- none of them recommend MSG nonsense

[@Jejaimes20]

I need someone to remind me when 2028 starts so I can say "Hello" back to Barry.

[@Rizmas27]

"don't worry the calories will dissolve" 😂

[@spoosh13x13x13]

Mr Barry Lewis you should get Uncle Rodger Aka Nigel Ng , to do a colabb on the Msg video.. Just my two cents or in your country two Pence.. But I feel it would make for a amazing funny colabb. Anyways grate video as always .. Thank you for creating and sharing this with us..

[@brianartillery]

When I heard the word 'Chickle', I thought of 'Chicle', which is the gummy sap of a South American tree that was originally used as the base for chewing gum. Have you used Soy Sauce in a video? That's basically MSG, Barry.

[@doninis1354]

Nutrions and Cereals dont fit together... nob no matsh there 😉 For the chickel use a bit of Panko or bred crums to give the cheese something to grab on. I loved to season it with smokey paprika and onion powder. It might seems weard but I ate this quite often when I was in my 20.

[@delbydoo]

By the paws of Boston........Alan Rickman would be proud!

[@LavaWaffle1]

Was the few seconds of blended cereal in kitchen towel (eta: it's at 02:13) supposed to be included or is it an editing bllp? To add: Thanks for the videos Barry - my kids have grown up watching your videos, been around for about 10 years and that's crazy

[@fyrbornxtg5000]

I prefer just making pickle wraps 😅

[@malcolmd53]

By the paws of Boston 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@NoName-dm7xo]

❤❤❤

[@robinsmith5442]

For the pickle, use wafer sliced ham or pastrami and cream cheese wrapped around it. Thin slices are called fish eyes!

[@TheOfficialStal]

That was allot of MSG. MSG goes a long way, too much and it'll overpower any dish. Treat it like pepper, just a sprinkle is all that is needed and it'll make your dishes shine.

[@Matt-1212]

Hi Barry. Where did you get your phone case, it’s awesome?

[@hobbycathartic]

Is this the same recipe where the fruit on the sticks are meant to be spun and creating fine sugary fibers, like candy floss? If so, the fruit needs to be frozen before dipping in, so when you spin them, the floss bursts outwards.

[@kyliestend7499]

Don't be afraid of MSG. It's already in the soy sauce and fish sauce😂