I LOVE bbq, but this Home Chef Asian Style bbq HITS a little different: SuperChef vs Supermarket

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So, today on Super Chef's Supermarket Surveys

We are going to be reviewing Home Chef's Take and Microwave

I think how you say take home microwave

So, today I want to do So, we have Little Pepper chicken

We got some Thai curry chicken here

Uh, let's do Asian barbecue style chicken. $8.99

All

you got to do is microwave for 4 minutes

Let's take this back to the kitchen

Let's try it out and I will give you the scorecard to see the greatest. [Music] All right

So, we're here in the kitchen and we are about to try out the Home

Chef restaurant style Asian barbecue style chicken

So, today, you know how this goes, man

I'm going to be scoring this just like you see on the competition shows

I'm going to base this off of price, taste, nutritional value, and I'm going to give you my chef versus consumer review. that is like

what I think as a chef, but also what I just think as a person because sometimes like you just like when I eat food I eat first is as a consumer like is it good? That's the first thing I think about

So I really want to just show a balance between those two because not everybody's chefs and not everybody look

at the details like I may

So I want to give you the best of both worlds here

So let's dive into this

First things first is taste

Let's try this out

So simple

Microwave it

Puncture the hose

Microwave for 2 minutes

Peel the back

Take the sleeve off

Microwave for another minute after

you stir it

Simple

Ready to heat and eat meals

So, this is like a step above like frozen because it's fresh

So, I I really appreciate that

Um, but let's see what it's working out to be. [Music] Not better than you think it's going to be

All right, let's knock this bad boy

out

So, let me check the vegetables, though. [Music] When it comes to taste, I mean, it's there

If I got this, I mean, it price first

Let's go through price

The price is $8.99

For $8.99, this is a lot better of a

lunch than you want to get in fast food cuz nowadays McDonald's, I mean, you going to spend $12 easy

I'm saying, but this has no nutritional value

This, I feel, has some worth eating it

It feels good to eat it, which is a big part of food

Um, so the price is right. $8.99 for lunch, $8.99 for dinner

Like, it's

a take-home heat and eat

It is winning on price

All right, next

Availability

Home Chef is you can order online

They got us at a grocery stores now

So, availability is going to get a I definitely give it a A+ for price

Um, and then when it comes to my chef versus consumer review, I mean, as a chef,

first things first, the picture on this product looks like this

It's white rice with this stir fry on it, but the actual food does not look like the picture at all, you know? So, it it kind of makes me think that I'm getting like steamed rice and I'm going to have this uh Asian style barbecue chicken with vegetables

on top of it, but it's actually like all one mushed together, which has a lot of flavor

I imagine they didn't want to offend anybody, so they said Asian barbecue style

I mean, if it's Asian barbecue, just put Asian barbecue chicken, bro

Like, dive into it

Um, the flavors there is sweet

Um, I like

sweet things

If you ever seen me compete on guys, girls, gang, tournament champions, like my style of cooking, it's sneaking in sweetness into things

Um, definitely things are savory

Uh, so this is speaking my love language

Um, so when it comes to my consumer review, this is what I would want to eat for

lunch

It just tastes good

It just covers all the nooks and crannies I'm looking for

When it comes to my chef review, I mean, how do I say this? prepackaged foods have to take care of the vegetables

And that's what I worry about

Like the green bean is so mushed

down that it's almost better just to put the vegetables in here raw

That way when you microwave them, they don't lose so much nutrients

You know what I'm saying? Because it's it's cooked down so much and people don't understand that the longer you cook vegetables, the more nutrients that leaves through them

Like

you don't want to boil any vegetables or anything like that

So, that's one of the big things that I see with this dish is that the vegetables don't look and make me feel like I'm eating vegetables even though I see them

Um, but I mean, as a chef, I mean, the rice is right

It's not like clumping together

The

sauce is not overly sweet

Uh, this is this is a a B+ for me when it comes to my chef review

Um, and then now let's get into something that matters more than just taste, the nutrition

Um, and nutritionally, I mean, I mean, it's it's the first thing on the nutritional label is white rice and chicken

Like, that's

the bulk of this meal, and that's what you want to see because, you know, the nutritional label orders it in like order of like what's in it most to least

So, I like the fact that there's real ingredients inside of this

Like, when you look at the back of the label, there's actual food

It's not just all

these additives and preservatives

Like, I do appreciate that

But also at the same time for people like my my community, you saying we have high blood pressure and this is 61% of your sodium

That's probably the biggest red flag for this is that the sodium super high and the um yeah, that would be it

The

sodium is way higher than I would like it, but it's 17 g of protein also

So that's a big thing for people who work out

So nutritional wise, I would give this a B

Um, but the sodium is the issue with me

It's always going to be an issue because I feel like salt is something you should let people add

But

then again, you got people like, "Oh, I don't have that much flavor." But what they really saying is it ain't got that much salt

You know what I'm saying? Cuz salt is what brings out the flavor in food

So I understand it's like a catch22 for companies

Like do I add the salt and I give them the flavor, but I

kill them or do I not give it to them and they kill us and not buy the business? You know what I'm saying? Not buy the product

You know what I'm saying? So it's a catch22

But I definitely think this is a overall a just a meal

This is something I would tell people to get to order if you're

out

Um this is it

This was the Asian barbecue style chicken home chef

I would overall rate this an A

Um as a chef, I would have probably rate this a B minus, but this is still a winning

I would tell everybody to get this at home

If you're looking for something to eat lunch, dinner, this is it

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right, see you next time.