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Hello and welcome to the Shitty Vegan Kitchen. In this episode, we're going to be learning
different vegan hacks.
Alright, so one of the first things I'm looking at is Buzzfood's "Seventeen Cooking Hacks Every
Vegan Should Know".
First vegan hack, "You can create vegan buttermilk by adding vinegar to any non-dairy milk".
Okay.
So, I only have apple cider vinegar, so I hope that that works and I have some soy milk
here and a measuring cup because that's what's on the picture and a fork.
It's one tablespoon of apple cider vinegar for one cup of non-dairy milk and then you
have to let it sit for five to ten minutes. So, I don't want to make that much because
I don't actually like -
I don't want to waste anything, so I'm just gonna put like that much milk, tiny bit, like
a splash or so. Oh, yeah, okay I'll add a little more milk. This is like very reminiscent
of the last video.
I'm going to just like stir that up. That's all stirred up
and I'm going to let it sit for the five to ten minutes, and then we can check on it.
So, another hack is using either flax or chia meal with water as an egg replacement. I don't
have flax meal. but I do have flax seeds, which I can try my best to grind up. I'm supposed
to get - I did actually measure this because I want to get it right. I have three tablespoons
of water and then one tablespoon of flax seeds, oh, and they're stuck all over. Gonna get
just a tiny bit more.
Okay, I don't have a mortar and pestle because I couldn't find it but I'm going to try to
use this spoon and this little cup. I know I'm not going to break this down into flax
meal, but if I could just like break them down slightly so that they'll have like a
similar
effect.
[chopping noises]
Well, it's sort of working. Well, it is what it is.
Alright, so I'm mixing the lightly pounded-grounded flax. Oh, also let this stand for five to
ten minutes. And while it is standing, we are going to check on our vegan buttermilk.
It smells a lot like apple cider vinegar. I'm going to actually give you a little taste
test. Oh, that's very vinegary.
It's kind of like a really watery yogurt. I - I think this could work. I think this
could easily work, and it doesn't taste like poison so that's a good sign.
Okay, so another thing I consider to be a vegan hack is an easy vegan snack hack. It
is banana, some kind of seed or nut.
I have sunflower seeds, non-dairy milk - I have soy. You open up your banana. This is
a really good comfort food, I find, like when you're craving something, I usually like to
eat this at night when I really want like a late night snack.
Feels kind of healthier but it's also like very, there's just something - I had this
when I was a kid, so there's something just very like comforting about it. Banana is in
the bowl. You put as much milk as you want, depending on how like watery you want it to
be or how thick you want it to be.
And then you throw in your sunflower seeds.
Woo.
And then you gotta mush it all up. That's right, I'm making mushed banana. A lot of
people think that this is baby food, but it's everybody food. Babies don't have to have
the monopoly on mushed bananas and mushed foods in general, okay? Babies can share.
You also do this with a frozen banana if you want it to be cold and kind of more like ice-cream.
[Hums]
And then you have mushed banana. It's good because you've got fruit and protein all in
one snack. Cool vegan hack snack.
So, I'm going to see how long my flax seeds have done. It would have been a lot better
to use flax meal, I recognize, but even so, the texture of the water has gotten bit like
sticky, like it's got that - it's not quite eggy but it's like going there.
Depending on what you want when you're baking, like if you're okay with just having straight
up flax seeds in it, I think that this is probably fine, but if you don't want to actually
you know encounter flax seeds when you're eating it,
then definitely get the ground kind, but I know that - I think - I think I've tried this
using whole flax seeds that I've just kind of punched a little bit.
I've tried this before and I think that depending on the recipe it can work, as you do you get
that same kind of texture. So, Buzzfood recommends an app called, "Is it Vegan?" where you scan
the bar codes of different items and it tells you whether or not it's vegetarian, vegan,
or neither of those things. So, I downloaded it on my phone, and I have things in front
of me right now that I can scan.
First thing that I'm going to scan is the crackers. There we go.
It got it. Oh, unknown product, ingredient list not available. Okay, so it doesn't know,
so good - good way to start. The next thing that we're going to do is Oreos, and I know
that Oreos are vegan because I've heard it a million times that they're vegan, and I've
looked at the ingredients, and this app better know what they are.
Duh duh duh duh duh, duh duh duh duh. Duh, duh, duh.
Okay, definitely vegetarian. One vegetarian ingredient, ten vegan ingredients. Oh, yeah,
I told it to only consider sugar vegetarian rather than vegan
just, I just made that choice, it asked me whether I wanted to do that.
So, if you consider sugar to be not vegan, then Oreos are not vegan. If you consider
sugar to be vegan,
then Oreos are vegan.
It worked for Oreos. Oreos passed the test.
I'm going to scan these - these guys, they are sesame seed and quinoa brown race crackers.
Oh, it got it. It got it! Unknown product. This isn't very helpful so far, no offence
[crash onto the floor] but it's not.
Bagels. Are bagels vegan? Unknown product! What?
Okay, now we're gonna do this margarine. Pretty sure, unless they specify, most margarines
are not vegan. Unknown product. [laughs]
Okay, this is like Becel, or Becel, or however you say it. Kay, like it gives you the option
to add it, and they'll add it to their database, but, I don't know, that's like - it seems
to not know a lot more than it does know.
See if it knows the chai tea, if it doesn't know the chai tea, I'm giving up on this app
and uninstalling it immediately. So, it knows that it is Tetley chai tea, uh two vegan ingredients,
tea and natural spice, so it's vegan. As I would expect from chai.
It seems like it works well for major brand name stuff but if you buy like no-name stuff
from your grocery store, or like from smaller companies, it's probably not going to recognize
it, so that's like not super helpful.
Another easy vegan hack snack is kale chips. Take your kale, dump your kale. Now the kale
actually reduces in size quite a bit when you cook it, so it might look like you have
like a ton of kale on your tray, but it's going to get like a lot smaller. Apparently
with kale too, you really shouldn't eat it raw, or you shouldn't eat it like, you can
eat it raw - oh gosh - you can eat it raw in a uh smoothie or something like if it's
been like mulched up, or you can um just cook it a little bit, or steam it, or bake it,
as I'm about to do, because it's a lot easier for you to digest that way.
So, normally, I would put a little bit of oil. We just ran out of oil because I keep
making kale chips. Unless. Unless I go to the dark side. We do have this Pam. [spraying
noise]
Okay, so I just used some spray-on oil, I don't know if that was a bad thing to do,
but I made that call.
Gonna use salt. Lots and lots of pepper because [grinding noise] I like things with pepper.
Basil. And now it's time for thyme.
Put them in the oven. Now, it's really easy to burn these guys, so I usually put on a
timer for about five minutes, check on them, um they're usually not cooked by then, but
then I'll do like another three minutes, so eight to ten minutes in the oven, um I have
the oven set to 365, which isn't too hot.
Yeah, they cook really fast and they burn really easily, so you don't wanna burn them,
cause then that's disappointing.
Okay, so here's our buttermilk. Kind of like just a thicker version of soy milk. Gonna
spin it around.
Here is our flax seed, egg replacement. You can see it's kinda like bloop bloop bloop.
Here's our disgusting-looking but very yummy banana mush. Oh, yeah.
And our kale chips are done. As you can see, they're kind of crunchy and the whole thing
is just a lot smaller, and they make for delicious chips.
Yay, whoo, yay!
Thank-you so much for watching. If you have any suggestions for different vegan foods
or recipes you'd like me to try in another video, please leave them in the comments below.
Also, feel free to share any of the vegan hacks that you might have. If you watched
my last video, you might have noticed that I finally come up with my outtro catchphrase,
which is, wherever you are in life, I hope that you are learning as much as you can.
Thanks again for watching, and bye.
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