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Video is only out 4 hours as of now and I've already made the cheese crackers. Now onto the fruit roll ups. I flipping love this video! Thanks MikeyG 😊

The problem with that cheese cracker recipe is that historically, I've treated the family size box as a single serving...

Highly recommend a homemade "Dorito" popcorn spice mix! For 1/4 cup unpopped popcorn: 2 tbsp nutritional yeast .5 tsp garlic powder .5 tsp onion powder .5 tsp paprika .25 tsp salt .25 tsp chili powder .25 tsp cumin (or less, the cumin can really overpower)

A tip for popcorn. You can heat the oil with 3-4 popcorns until they pop, remove from heat and then cover the bottom of the pan with popcorn, replace on heat after 30secs. This way you are gonna have 100% success on the popcorn popping!

I'm 73yo and have been baking since age 13 with my mother. It took 60 years to learn how to get rid of rough edges! Thx. I love homemade crackers and can't wait to try this.

I feel like while those Cheese Its would be soo much better for you, I could easily devour all of what Mike made in one sitting.

Can I just say that as a recent culinary graduate, I LOVE this? Like, for example, the cheez-its are almost a synthetic pastry with cheese substituted for the butter. That yields the flakiness he talks about, and his methodology even closely mimics that for a large batch of Pate Brisee. Pro Home Cooks is right, that’s all I have to say.

Quick note, if you turn your oven up after the initial 350 for 10 min, to around 425-450 on convection, you’ll get a more cheese-it like consistency and crunch, just don’t burn them

I wish you'd just put the recipe in the description instead of referring people to a site where the recipe doesn't exist.

Ahhh, that popcorn method. I cry. ;) Place the oil in the saucepan with three to five kernels of corn, put the lid on and add to heat. Once the kernels have started popping, remove the lid and add the rest of the popcorn and put the lid back on. Place the pot away from the flame for thirty seconds, and then add back to the heat and cook while agitating the pan until only a few kernels are popping per second. What this does is heat the oil to the perfect temperature for popping (tested by the 3-5 kernels). When you then place the rest of the kernels in and give them 30 seconds in the oil away from heat, you are heating them with oil at the exact right temperature while also preventing burning. Placing them back on the heat source finishes the cooking process (and replaces heat lost in that 30 seconds away from flame). This produces perfect popcorn and very few burned kernels or leftover uncooked kernels.

OMG the tip about folding in the ragged edges of your dough!!! How many times I could have done this, thank you thank you

I think it would be really fun to have a prep day with the whole family helping make everything for the week. Great bonding activity! Then you get to enjoy more time together before and after meals instead of one person sequestered cooking before and another cleaning after! Just throw some music on, maybe a favorite movie sound track for the kids and have a blast! I used to love it when I got to help my Grandma cook!

Best tip on getting the dough into a rectangle shape.

To keep the kernels from burning, start with just a few kernels; once those few pop, add in the rest, as the oil is now at the proper temp, and they'll all start popping quickly, keeping them from burning.

Great ideas, I especially love the cheese crackers. To avoid the popcorn burning, put 4 kernels in while the oil heats and once those pop, remove and put in the rest of the popcorn, cap the pan with a lid, and slide the pan back and forth a few times to coat all the kernels in oil. Then let them pop as you normally do.

The kids and I made the cheeze-its with almond flour, the popcorn with seasoning, and fruit roll-ups todat and they were all great! Thanks for the video and recipes!

Those fruit roll ups got me feeling nostalgic! Mango fruit leather (aka Aam shotto) is a traditional snack back home in Bangladesh. They get the layers super thin, sun dry over days, and stack the thin layers to make an insanely tasty dried fruit snack. That dragon fruit roll up looks legit delicious!

Ok your daughter stole the show! What a love. I am eager to make all of these, but at 5am I’ll wake up the house. So gotta plan a day for snack making.

When I had the time, I used to meal prep energy bars like that quite frequently. Other things that added variety into them: shaved coconut, dried fruit (cranberries and strawberries), agave syrup, small amounts of chocolate bark. One of my favorites we did had pumpkin seeds, cinnamon, white chocolate, and oats - amazing fall snack

The energy ball recipe reminds me of a medieval sugar plum recipe. It was amazing. It satisfied my sweet tooth without me wanting to overeat, like modern candies and snacks can do. I wish I hadn't lost the recipe, because I haven't been able to duplicate it since.