John: 0:00

So we're going to talk about ramen noodles and how the first batch completely failed. I didn't record that part. We had to restart the video last week. Also, we're going to talk about banana and the collaboration we have coming up in less than two weeks with Jim Kitch's Kitchen. That's going to be great. And we're going to talk a little bit about AI and how it can help you cook and how I've actually used it on this channel. So stick around for episode number 11.

Intro / Outro: 0:32

Time to fire up that grill. From smoked pork to smash burgers, outdoor cooking just tastes better. This is the Okie Smokin' Podcast. Tastes better. This is the Okie Smokin' Podcast. And here's your host, john Barry.

John: 0:48

Yes, welcome in everybody. I got my co-host, my lovely wife, my beautiful wife, delores Seid, with me here. She's going to join us in today. How are you doing? I'm doing fine, all right on. It's been a great day right here in Headquarters Studios, oklahoma. Got this podcast going right now, got a little bit of talk about ramen noodles and April the 4th was Ramen Noodle National Ramen Day so I did do a ramen noodle video and that didn't go quite well. As a matter of fact, it's the first time I had done that and there was some problems going on with that. We're going to talk about that here in a minute. We're also going to talk a little bit about that banana collaboration coming up, as well as some AI cooking. So I just want to welcome everybody back into the podcast. If you get a chance, you might also check out the YouTube channel. We try to put out a video once a week and you didn't try the ramen noodles because you're on your keto, did you?

Dolores: 1:59

Yeah, I'm going to try to stick to it until July.

John: 2:02

She's on, but.

Dolores: 2:03

I'm going to cheat on our anniversary. That's about it.

John: 2:07

May 28th, going to go out. We usually go. We're going to the Texas Roadhouse Yep. Have you a steak? You can have a baked potato.

Dolores: 2:15

Yeah, I'm going to eat a lot of stuff.

John: 2:19

Everything they can give you. Yeah.

Dolores: 2:30

You're just going to're you're not on no limit, you're gonna use a carb blocker you got them carb blockers or you're just gonna go all in. I'm not really sure I might use it, why not? But till july people, yeah, so I'm trying to stick to it.

John: 2:36

I'll lose some weight you see a video come out between now and may the 28th and you see her try anything that's not keto. Go ahead and let us know, because we need to keep her accountable, make sure she don't mess up.

Dolores: 2:50

No, I'm not going to try it. I promised myself.

John: 2:53

We're also going to be talking a little bit just a smidgen about keto when we get to our AI segment just a little bit later in this episode. But first, welcome in one more time and let's just talk about a ramen noodle video. Now. I did this last Thursday and April the 4th that is right, april the 4th was National Ramen Day, and it was just made me think.

John: 3:24

I like ramen noodles. I don't eat them a whole lot. They're pretty easy, they're inexpensive, they're great when you're on a budget. I mean, I've survived on them in the past pretty handedly. You know we have, there's something you can boil in water. You can just add some seasoning to it and you can have your nice little meal. But it goes a lot deeper than that. You can actually elevate ramen noodles. You can not just use the flavor, the seasoning packet that you get at your local grocery store, and you can actually create your own sauce with soy sauce and some rice vinegar and you can add your own seasonings. You could add barbecue sauce, whatever you want. You can add your own mushrooms, you could add steak pork, whatever it is, so you could elevate it. And that's what I tried to do, or actually what I did do and it actually turned out really well. Now, I liked it and it was spicy. My son tried it and he liked it. It smelled good, yeah, so liked it and it was spicy.

Dolores: 4:24

My son tried it and he liked it. It smelled good.

John: 4:26

Yeah, so she got to smell it.

John: 4:28

I couldn't eat it though but it smelled good and she said she wanted to. It was a struggle because it did taste quite well. It was really fantastic. I added some mushrooms to it. I didn't add onions but had garlic, but I think some onions would have went well. It was a vegetarian version but it came out quite well.

John: 4:50

But the first time I tried to do it, when I started the video, I completely burned it. So, if you've seen it or not, but I put it all in a skillet and I went ahead and I was boiling the noodles on one burner and I had a cast iron skillet on the other burner. The sauce that I made I put in the cast iron skillet and as soon as it hit the skillet it just burned my onions. I'd sauteed them, it burned, my garlic burned. Everything was caked to that thing. It was not liquid.

John: 5:24

Yeah, they're too hot. Yeah, way too hot, and I don't think I should have been using a cast iron skillet for this particular cook. I don't know what I was thinking. You know I always have a couple of beers before I start cooking, so sometimes I just goof. But so I went ahead and took the cast iron skillet back in the house, regrouped, restarted, started the video over and did it all in the same pan. So the pan, the little sauce pan that I boiled the noodles in. Once those were done, I just took the noodles out. I cooked them about halfway because I didn't want to cook them all the way, because I wanted to cook them again, the flavors and stuff.

John: 6:05

Well, yeah, I wanted the flavors to moisturize with the noodles Once I added the sauce to them, and then they're going to continue to cook and I didn't want them overcooking. Yeah, because if I would have cooked them the full distance and then added them to the sauce, then I think they could have potentially been overcooked.

Dolores: 6:25

I remember I smelled so good though. I had a steak, you guys, though.

John: 6:30

Yeah, you can't go wrong with a steak, though. I mean, heck, I was vegetarian night. You know ramen noodle with mushrooms and garlic, so yeah, some of that steak would have went well with that. Cut that up in there, sauteed that in that saucepan and then threw that in there. You had your little steak ramen. He didn't have the steak, though?

Dolores: 6:49

No, there was plenty.

John: 6:51

Yeah, I could have had some, but I didn't that night Just went that way with it and those ramens came out really good. I added some sriracha sauce to it and that was spicy. Can you have sriracha on keto?

Dolores: 7:10

I think so yeah.

John: 7:11

Yeah, it's, oh, yeah, you got actually what is that? That's not it, but what do we got there?

Dolores: 7:21

I think we need to try this. This one's zero carbs.

John: 7:23

Zero carbs. Well, let's give it a try. How about that? This is some. I'm looking here and we got some hot sauce here Fire roasted garlic and habanero. Let me go ahead.

Dolores: 7:35

That's zero carbs.

John: 7:36

So this is some fire roasted garlic and habanero Melinda's. Now, this was $1. I also have some here habanero Sriracha Honey.

Dolores: 7:49

Oh, that sounds good, but can I have that?

John: 7:51

And this one is see how many carbs is in that one. So what we're going to do is we're going to go ahead and do a little test of this fire roasted garlic. Let's just put a couple drops on our spoon here, just like this.

Dolores: 8:03

Oh no, this one's total 16 grams.

John: 8:06

That's a pass on that one. I got to take this lid off that one sounds good too. Yeah, I'm going to take this opening off. Got to get it open here and we're going to see how this?

Dolores: 8:16

Do you have to refrigerate that one?

John: 8:18

No, I don't believe so.

Dolores: 8:19

Are you sure?

John: 8:21

Most of these hot sauces you can leave out. I'm going to put me a couple of drops here. Okay, there you go, see that, you see. Okay, I got to. What would you say? Oh, I got about a dime size, let me have it. Okay, there you go, put some on your spoon.

Dolores: 8:32

Oh yeah, smells good.

John: 8:35

And let's, let's see how this tastes.

Dolores: 8:38

We're just going to do a little. Let me have the lid.

John: 8:40

Let me do a taste test here. Put the lid on.

Intro / Outro: 8:45

All right.

Dolores: 8:46

All right Chink.

John: 8:48

Chink, clink, cheers, cheers. Okay, what do you think?

Dolores: 8:56

That is spicy.

John: 9:01

That's got some kick to it.

Dolores: 9:02

A kick, that's like a boot.

John: 9:05

That's really good.

Dolores: 9:06

Yeah, that's not a kick, that's a boot, you guys.

John: 9:10

Fire roasted garlic and habanero Melinda's.

Dolores: 9:13

That would be good on some chicken.

John: 9:15

That'd be good on some eggs. I just like it. I don't know about eggs, that's not over the top hot. You think it is? Yeah, that's pretty spicy Okay there you go Live test, live test. We need to do that in some future episodes. With some seasoning we can do some live seasoning test and maybe even get some hotter hot sauce.

Dolores: 9:34

I'd rather have a piece of meat with that.

John: 9:36

Maybe some different hot sauce. Yeah Well, let's get back to our Instead of tasting it by itself.

Dolores: 9:42

It needs some meat with it.

John: 9:43

Yeah Well, I don't know, I can eat it Just right in the spoon just sitting there.

Dolores: 9:46

I know you can, but I'm not that type of person.

John: 9:50

But the ramen noodles. We added some sriracha.

Dolores: 9:52

That would have been good. That would have been good in the ramen noodles right there. I can't eat it because it affects my stomach for some reason.

John: 10:07

Yep, that was, uh, that was pretty, pretty good. But yeah, so the first batch, like I said, we just I just completely butchered, redid it and made that another man yeah, you want to try this other one real quick. I can't have that one.

Dolores: 10:22

Oh, you can't have that one, that one's 16 carbs. You can try it I think I will.

John: 10:25

Let me see.

Dolores: 10:26

I can't try the ketchup Tabanero.

John: 10:29

Sriracha Honey Sauce. I don't, this is some. Let me put this on my spoon here and see how this tastes.

Dolores: 10:34

Is it Tabanero? This was also $1 at.

John: 10:37

Walmart.

Dolores: 10:38

It's just a little small, that one doesn't have a little fleece thingy.

John: 10:42

I don't know how many ounces this is. It's not very big, it's just a little. What's that?

Dolores: 10:47

say they are tiny, Like they have a little.

John: 10:49

I can't read it. I didn't get my glasses.

Dolores: 10:51

I think they're cute.

John: 10:53

They're a little tiny thing. Oh yeah, no, that tastes good, that honey, sriracha honey.

Dolores: 11:01

We also bought some ketchup.

John: 11:06

This one's.

Dolores: 11:06

Melinda's habanero ketchup and that one's Melinda's.

John: 11:08

I also got some ghost pepper ketchup here, habanero ketchup.

Dolores: 11:11

I can't have those. The ketchup has sugar in it.

John: 11:13

That's going to be good with some fries. I don't want to taste test that, but that'll be good on some fries.

Dolores: 11:17

This one doesn't give the carb intake but, I, know that I can't have that. If it was sugar-free, I would be able to.

John: 11:24

That'd be pretty good, wouldn't it? Well, there you go, a little hot sauce test right there.

Dolores: 11:29

This right here contains traces of tree nuts.

John: 11:32

Oh.

Dolores: 11:33

So Jacob won't be able to have this. This one too, and it has coconut in it also.

John: 11:37

Okay, that's interesting so make sure he don't yeah, he has tree nut allergies so he wouldn't be able to eat that. He'd break out. But yeah, if you want to go ahead and check out that video, those ramen noodles, uh, it turned out quite well and we're going to be making it again and, I think, a meat version. So, anyway, in celebration of national ramen day, april the 4th, that's what I had for dinner and did a little video. So that was pretty cool, I think. But, moving forward, I also want to talk about, in our next segment, we're going to be doing I'm going to be doing a banana dish. It's less than two weeks away I've talked about this now for quite some time uh, with jim kitch's kitchen. Now, uh, he has asked many other creators out there to uh join him in creating a banana dish, and have we decided yet what we want to do? Seems like we were talking about, um, first of all, a banana drink.

Dolores: 12:41

Yeah, and then we're going to do the French toast banana thing.

John: 12:44

French toast banana, yeah, something along those lines. Yeah, so that's going to be, and then we'll drizzle some syrup on it. Now will the bananas? Are there just going to be toppings on it? Are we going to cook them with the French toast?

Dolores: 12:59

No, we're going to cook it with the French toast.

John: 13:00

Well, I'll tell you what we're going to use AI and help us with that just a little bit, and we'll talk more about that later on in the podcast and have it kind of guide us a little bit.

Dolores: 13:11

Cheater.

John: 13:13

Well, you know, hey, artificial intelligence that does help. We got that coming up a little later in the segment as well. Intelligence that does help. We got that coming up a little later in the segment as well. But this is going to be really, really good, I think, in creating this banana dish, and we can't spill all the beans, so we can't tell everything that's going to be in this video, so you're just going to have to go ahead and watch it. It'll come out on April the 17th. We're going to be doing that dish this coming week and at 2 pm Pacific time I can't remember, I'll have to look, but it'll be out on April the 17th and you're going to be able to see that great banana dish and banana drink.

Dolores: 13:56

Yeah, we're doing two this time around.

John: 13:58

We're going to do a banana cocktail and a banana dessert, but that's before May, so you won't be able to.

Dolores: 14:08

No, I won't be able to try it this time.

John: 14:09

You won't be able to try it. Can we do a third one? Is banana. Banana isn't keto, is it? No, there's not any way we could do a keto version of a banana dish.

Dolores: 14:17

I don't know.

John: 14:18

I could look things up to see if I can yeah, and we may not be able to yeah.

Dolores: 14:23

Because I know banana is really high in carbs and it's sugary.

John: 14:26

It is. It is a bit high in carbs, yeah, so going into segment number three today and this is something interesting that I wanted to talk about and it's a little bit off the lines of cooking a little bit. But interesting that I wanted to talk about, and it's a little bit off the lines of cooking a little bit, but it is the world of AI and artificial intelligence and, if you haven't noticed, ai is taking over a lot of things, from whether you go to the grocery store or whether you are driving your car. Ai can be involved. You've got your phone and everything else, but there is a couple of websites out there that can actually help you in cooking. You mentioned it a minute ago and you say it's cheating.

Dolores: 15:07

You think it's?

John: 15:08

cheating if you use AI.

Dolores: 15:10

Well, if you're trying to come up with a recipe, yes.

John: 15:13

Well, I want to tell you first of all, if you look here at our notes and one of them is a video I did in the past and I didn't mention this, and I don't do this a whole lot, but I've done it a couple of times. We did, or I made some alligator chili I don't know what a month ago or so you can check that video out on my YouTube channel and I didn't want it to be overly complicated and I was trying to Google recipes, and whenever you're making recipes, all you're doing is you're usually Googling, trying to get ideals anyway, so you can use AI. And so I went to chat GPT and basically asked it a simple question how to make a good pot of alligator chili that is spicy and with only 10 ingredients. Now, that's the power of AI. Now it's going to give you a recipe and you don't have to do it exactly. But it gave me 10 ingredients because I didn't want it to be a bunch. Everything I was looking at was 15 ingredients and I said I want this narrowed down and it gave me 10 ingredients Alligator meat, kidney beans, diced tomatoes, onion, garlic, bell pepper, chili powder, cayenne pepper, salt and pepper and two cups of beef or chicken broth, and I did say about 10 ingredients. I gave the AI a leeway. It could have did nine or 11. And that's what it gave me and it gave me the instructions to make it and that's pretty much how I made. The alligator chili was using that Because when I was looking up recipes just in Google I, I was finding a bunch of other things.

John: 16:54

Now they say that AI is also a Google killer and I don't really think it is. People still want to see the perspective of recipes. I don't know, but I found these results on search. I'm sorry, I've got my Google Home. I don't know if y'all heard that going off over there, because I guess I thought I was asking it a question. I got AI in this house. Folks, they're all over, they're listening, they're always listening to me, but I was also going to say so.

John: 17:26

I also, if you see this, other notes here, we got making keto chili, so I asked it how do you make keto chili? Now you can see here it gave all the ingredients and you can BARD, which is Gemini as well. I use it sometimes in ChatGPT, but they're both really good to use to just get ideals. You don't want to create it and have it. You definitely don't want to use AI to create a blog post. Google will know They'll penalize you. It's not for that. It's not to have it create your full video or it's not to have it do your work for you.

Dolores: 18:01

Essentially, it's to give you the ideals, it's to give you the, the foundation, and the only thing that I don't like about the ai and you guys do it like you're doing that it's like the keto carb content.

John: 18:15

like you like, do it, but you don't know I'm glad you asked because if you open this page up and go to, if you turn this over after I did the recipe, I said how many carbs are in that recipe you gave me and right here it gave it to you. So this may be a little high for you. It'd be on the back of the page there which one, the keto recipe. Just turn it over toward the bottom. Now I said Holy cow, yeah 24 net carbs. Well, that's actually keto.

Dolores: 18:52

Yeah, but that's high.

John: 18:54

Right, so you may not want this version. I would not be able to do that because Right, so you can actually ask it how many carbs are in the recipe? And it said there's zero grams in the ground beef, six grams of net carbs in the onion for a medium size, one gram net carb for the two cloves of garlic. So you could omit something here if you wanted to omit the onions, and that would take away six. So you'd be down to 18.

John: 19:18

Diced tomatoes is eight net carbs, yeah, and then your diced tomatoes is eight net carbs. So maybe you could split that in half. You know your tomato paste you could keep out.

Dolores: 19:30

You guys, my husband always does this, where when he does the keto stuff he always makes it like so high in carb and I'm like babe, I can't eat that, I've had this many carbs already.

John: 19:41

But but it says right here total estimated net carbs per serving is approximately nine grams. That's that's, that's not. That's under 10 for one serving yeah, I know I know she is, uh, on a whole new level with keto, but I only do 20 carbs per day, and sometimes I do lower than that, but that's that's, but this would would work for that.

John: 20:03

But yeah, so you can ask the ai to go ahead and uh, you know how many carbs is in that it's it's hard for keto people because if you like it, you'll want more, and it's like you don't want to eat more than what you're supposed to right, yeah, I get that

John: 20:21

that's the rough part and then also I went ahead and, uh, just out of fun, went ahead and ask it something else give me a pulled pork recipe with only four ingredients, because, again, if you like simple but you don't want a bunch of ingredients, it's simple. It gave it to me Two chicken breasts, one cup of barbecue sauce, one egg, getting two cloves of garlic, gives you the instructions. You can put that together and you can actually make pulled pork and that sounds great. That does sound good. Yeah, that sounds good. Just four ingredients. And there you go. Now you can add more that you want to it and everything.

John: 21:01

But I just wanted to bring that up in this episode a little bit of how AI has made cooking a little easier. Again, it's not going to give you everything perfect and you're going to have to work on it a little bit, and I wouldn't use it all the time, but I have used it from time to time. It's a great way to get ideals and you could even just have it. You know, help me out here and have it go ahead and you tell it the ingredients you have in your fridge. Yeah, and it will go ahead and tell you things you can make that you wouldn't have thought of.

Dolores: 21:38

I've done that. I've done that With the keto dessert.

John: 21:41

Yeah, and you could say I have these six ingredients, give me a keto recipe or give me five keto recipes. It's going to give them to you. This podcast that we're doing I always have it. Go ahead and just tell it what it's going to be about and it creates segments so we can kind of have an outline. You know we're not reading it verbatim, we're not even really going by what it says, but it's kind of a layout and so that's pretty good to use so you might check it out.

John: 22:09

If you haven't ever done that, just go ahead and look at the ingredients in your fridge or in your pantry. Go to chatgptcom or Gemini, which used to be Bard it's owned by Google and go ahead and say, hey, what can I do with this chicken thigh? Tonight I got some chicken thigh and a couple of onions and what do you think? How can I cook it? And by gosh, it's going to go ahead and give you some great ideas and then you can go ahead and, course, make it your way, but use their information as a little bit of a guide.

John: 22:43

But that's what we got for you in this week's episode a little bit of talking about ramen noodles and how I completely butchered the first set that I did and and went ahead and hit the reset button and went ahead and pulled those ramen noodles off, which were fantastic, and if you haven't checked out, we did do a bonus episode or I did one. Our last episode is just about eight minutes long. Gives you 10 things information about ramen noodles. One of them is a ramen noodle has officially been measured to 167 feet long. Can you imagine that?

Dolores: 23:20

that is just one noodle one noodle 100, 167 feet.

John: 23:25

the whole noodle not broken, just yeah, just 167 feet long. And another interesting fact is it took the inventor of ramen noodles a year to perfect it because he wanted to make sure it was correct. And it took him a year to perfect it. But I've got all 10, 10 different things in the last bonus episode.

John: 23:49

If you want to check that out on this podcast and if you would like to become on this podcast, be sure to visit okiesmokencom slash fan page. You could go ahead and leave a message. We'll play it on the podcast and talk about it. Well, we'll go ahead and make you a podcast superstar right here on the Okie Smokin' channel. You can also email us at john at okiesmokincom so we can read your comment on air or if you have a question, I can go ahead and answer that. Enjoy getting emails and comments from all of you. Of course, you can always comment on any of my videos on the YouTube channel. So I appreciate you guys for listening from Germany. We've got listeners all over the world, india as well. What was that one in California? San Bernardino, california, san Bernardino, california. We've got some San Bernardino. I think we got two listeners over there. So thanks for listening to us. We do appreciate it.

Dolores: 24:51

It means a lot, it's pretty cool because I'm from California.

John: 24:53

We are increasing a listenership. And hey, thanks so much. Share this podcast so others can listen to it as well, and we'll be back with episode number 12 next Monday.

Intro / Outro: 25:06

Thank you for listening to the Okie smoking podcast. Episodes drop every Monday. Don't forget to follow this podcast or you might miss out on some delicious creations. You can also find us on our website, okiesmokingcom, and on YouTube and other social media platforms. Until next time, keep firing up that grill.