The 13 Most Bizarre Lunches Ever Made On Mythical Kitchen

Good Mythical Morning has created an internet empire but none of its spinoffs intrigue us quite as much as Mythical Kitchen. With its weird and wonderful food creations, it has breathed new life into the world of YouTube cooking, inspiring us to get creative, make a mess, and add Flamin' Hot Cheetos to absolutely everything. At the helm of it is Mythical Chef Josh, a self-taught cook who knows no limits and enjoys long-winded monologues about essentially everything and nothing all at once.

The Mythical Kitchen produces dishes for the main GMM channel but often indulges us in some behind-the-scenes content to show us how it makes its crazy creations. What often starts as a head-scratching bizarre dish is quickly transformed into something that makes our mouths water over our keyboards. The cooky combinations and newfangled creations are painstakingly executed, mostly cooked from scratch, and infused with flavors in every way imaginable. We can spend all day philosophizing over the channel's inventions but we will let their dishes speak for themselves. Here is a look at the 13 most bizarre lunches ever made in the Mythical Kitchen and why we want to try them (or not).

Nothing is more comforting that a gooey grilled cheese for lunch. But what happens when you infuse it with a beloved rolled Mexican corn chip? Chef Josh goes far beyond the realm of what is considered normal in a kitchen and blows us away time after time with bizarre creations like this Takis grilled cheese.

For this lip-smacking lunch, he materializes a dream that we never knew we had. He incorporates various flavors of Takis into every aspect of a grilled cheese lunch. Starting with the cheese, he creates a pimento pepper cream cheese spread that he blends with Fuego Takis, adding a zesty hot chili pepper and lime tang to the spread. Next, he makes tomato soup that will knock your socks off. He thickens his soup with Nitro Takis that bring the heat with their habanero flavor but also perfectly complement the basil with their slight cucumber and lime flavor. The last step is to crust the bread with some crushed Takis, add some pepper jack and Takis cream cheese, and get grilling. 

If you aren't feeling so fancy, you can also try making his simplified version by crusting your bread in crushed Takis and deep frying it. Layer some American cheese and pepper jack onto your fried bread and pop it in the oven to melt. It is undoubtedly easier and no less sinful and indulgent.

Whether you like them air fried or fresh from Mcdonald's, everyone can agree that a nugget is the ultimate lunchtime treat. But in true Mythical Kitchen style, they had to go and fix something that's not broken. The team decided to create 9 new nuggets and pit them against a classic chicken nugget to see if they can find a more delicious alternative to this lunchtime staple.

The options ranged from classic meats like lamb, pork, turkey, and beef to the more interesting options like salmon, ostrich, buffalo, elk, and gator meat. As standalone proteins, these all have their place, but there is something about the concept of grinding them up into a meaty sludge that just doesn't sit right with us. A blind taste test was conducted where Josh and Lily tried them all, with some startling results. In dead last was the elk with salmon following shortly on its heels. But by some miracle ostrich won. They couldn't even correctly identify a chicken nugget among the bunch and even flinched a little at its taste. Maybe it is not the be-all-and-end-all of the nugget world after all.

Ostrich is a complex meat with a deep red color and texture like beef, a rich flavor with subtle nutty and sweet notes, and a lean structure like turkey meat. Could this be the shake-up the nugget world needs to keep things interesting?

Jalapeño poppers are a fun and spicy lunchtime snack that you can quickly toss in the air fryer but they can be pricy with all that bacon and cream cheese. Can Spam be a cheap alternative? Chef Josh, ever the nostalgic Midwesterner, decided to opt for a childhood favorite of his and add Spam to a classic jalapeño popper.

He combines some quick-pickled jalapeños with cream cheese and cheddar cheese — all still pretty stock standard at this point. But his meat addition to the poppers is fried Spam cubes and instead of breading his popper balls he stuffs the mixture into sushi rice and fries them up. Josh's knees almost buckle from the sheer awesomeness of his creation and you can definitely color us intrigued.

Half of the magic of the Mythical Kitchen is what chef Josh comes up on the fly with while cooking. In this particular episode, he makes himself a little lunchtime snack in between jalapeño pickling and Spam chopping. He takes two large square slices of Spam, stacks them with some fresh jalapeños, and slathers some cream cheese in between. This creation is slightly more offensive to our senses and we would rather skip lunch if this is what is on offer.

Ramen is the ultimate fast lunch — just add hot water! But what if your sweet tooth is getting the better of you and the MSG kick from noodles just won't do it for you? The mythical Kitcheneers came back with another edition of Snack Smash where they combine two treats to create a new super food.

When ramen powder on an Oreo was a dismal failure, they went back to the drawing board to create Oreo-flavored ramen bowls. In true Mythical fashion, they went the whole nine yards and created vanilla filling flavor packets and dehydrated the cacao noodles, then packaged them up in some authentic-looking ramen cups before rehydrating them again with hot water.

The classic combination of chocolate and sweet dairy milk makes this lunch an instant winner. The initial concept threw us for a loop but after seeing the painstaking work that went into Oreo-fying every aspect of Top Ramen, we are sold on this delectable idea.

Pizza bagels are a fun and fast lunchtime staple. You have your bread, you have your cheese, and you have your deliciously unhealthy cured meat. But this humble offering lends itself to a ton of interesting variations, satisfying whatever craving you have. The Mythical Kitchen decided to go plant-based for a change and create a giant plant-based Nashville hot chicken pizza bagel. We don't know if the name or the actual bagel is more of a mouthful.

This is one of those creations that is so crazy, it just might work. The base of the pizza bagel is a pizza-sized everything bagel that already wins us over. Instead of regular cheese, he adds non-dairy mozzarella shreds and plant-based Buffalo dip. He tops it off with handmade plant-based chicken nuggets that he has coated in Nashville hot sauce and spice.

We are cautiously optimistic that this could be the plant-based comfort food that we have been desperately craving. It is oversized, caters to the palate of a teenager, and is oddly nostalgic — the best kind of bizarre combination we have come to love from Mythical Kitchen.

On one summer's day, the Mythical Kitchen went where nobody has gone before. Chefs Josh and Nicole challenged each other to create the best Sunny D dish, a competition we never thought would see the light of day. Yet, here we are. TikTok has been flooded with a horrifying food crime: a Sunny D shrimp boil. Both chefs agreed that this was a big no and instead tried to rectify this mistake by creating their own dishes inspired by the aforementioned atrocity. They had their work cut out for them.

Josh started off strong with Bang Bang Shrimp infused with the golden nectar but he hid behind a clever mask of batter and oil to make his dish soar. Nicole opted for something a little more daring and it's her Sunny D shrimp salad sandwich that piqued our interest. The first step is to poach the shrimp in Sunny D and then pop them into a Sunny D ice bath complete with juice ice cubes. The idea is that the ice bath will lock in the punchy citrus flavor and not let it be overshadowed by the seafood taste of the shrimp. She went on to create a Sunny D reduction to add to the slaw and also mix it into some melted butter to give the shrimp a quick fry before serving. Even though she didn't win the overall challenge, we are captivated by her bold incorporation of our favorite sugary childhood juice, Sunny D.