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Brian Lagerstrom breaks lasagna down to one Dutch oven

Broken oven-ready noodles go straight into the meat sauce, with ricotta dollops and a browned cheese topping.

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Brian Lagerstrom Story of October 28, 2026Trari Newsroom

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I Made Lasagna The Wrong Way, Im NOT Going Back!

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0:17Brown ground beef and spicy Italian sausage in the Dutch oven before building the tomato sauce.
6:37Mix ricotta with Parmesan, salt, pepper and an egg for the topping.
7:43Break oven-ready noodles into pieces and press them beneath the sauce in three successive layers.
11:14Add ricotta dollops, shredded mozzarella and Parmesan over the submerged pasta.
12:16Bake covered first, then uncover at a higher temperature to brown the cheese.
13:58Rest the lasagna before slicing so the portions hold together.

The layers survive. Brian Lagerstrom breaks the noodles, skips the separate pasta pot and builds his lasagna directly in the Dutch oven where he browned the meat. After baking and resting, he can cut out a square rather than spoon out something resembling pasta soup.

His only upload of the week, "I Made Lasagna The Wrong Way, Im NOT Going Back!", has reached roughly 330,000 views. It is comfortably the channel's busiest video right now, with the restaurant-tools guide and his steak Diane tutorial supplying smaller streams of daily views behind it.

The shortcut isn't simply to stir everything together. Brian presses broken oven-ready noodles beneath the sauce in successive layers, then adds dollops of ricotta mixed with Parmesan and egg. Mozzarella and more Parmesan finish the top. A covered bake cooks the pasta; an uncovered spell browns the cheese. He also wipes sauce off the pot's inner rim before baking, a small housekeeping move in a recipe built around fewer dishes. The video includes a sponsored segment for Southern New Hampshire University.

Viewers are swapping their own variations: extra sauce with ordinary dried noodles, a potato masher for breaking up ground beef, and stovetop versions with cheese folded in later. Another recurring subject is the grated onion, which cooks quickly but gives at least one viewer an eye-watering objection to the promised time savings.

Across the channel, daily views are running above their usual pace, while subscribers held steady over the week. The older "10 Cheap Restaurant Tools Home Cooks Are Missing Out On" is approaching 800,000 views, keeping Brian's practical kitchen-equipment streak moving alongside the new one-pot dinner.

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What viewers say

I make my sauce a little on the runny side, use about 50% more than I normally would, and use normal dried lasagna, not the no boil. It absorbs the extra liquid, and I like the texture better than the no boil pasta.
@saltydroog854See it on YouTube
3:00 ah but you forgot to account for the fact that I will be wasting an additional 10 minutes drying my eyes from the grated onion burning them!
@JonathanKayneSee it on YouTube
If you put a lasagna on top of another lasagna, it's no longer two lasagnas. It's one giant lasagna. *THAT* is the power of lasagna.
@nacidocoquiSee it on YouTube

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16:25 I thought he was going to hit "let's eat this thing" with the little dance at the end
@danielsimms5796See it on YouTube
*Updating my shopping list immediately...*
@adamplace1414See it on YouTube
To break up ground beef if you don’t want to get a unitasker (or use plastic) and you have a potato masher that has a wire zigzag across the bottom that works great too. I think it might even be better because it covers more real estate with each push. But it would not be ideal for a nonstick pan.
@EliseLeonard-c1bSee it on YouTube
I'm blown away, cause I was just about to start putting together a lasagna right as this video popped on my feed, so I tried it immediately and guys, it is FREAKING AWESOME. Waaaaaay less clean up, and so easy! 10/10, full recommend!
@MartínBernalSee it on YouTube