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Joshua Weissman tests fried chicken coated in vanilla ice cream

Tim Laielli joins the viral-recipe taste test, where an ordinary potato-and-cheddar omelet makes a stronger case than the stranger shortcuts.

Channel: Joshua Weissman Story of Trari Newsroom

No. 56 on the daily chartNo. 5 on the Food chart

Why this story? One of the most watched videos since yesterday, with 123,749 views.

I Tested Viral Clickbait RecipesI Tested Viral Clickbait Recipes

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  1. 0:27Chicken-and-beef carnivore bread earns the lowest score after both chefs reject its texture.
  2. 3:56Canned biscuit dough makes cinnamon-sugar air-fryer donuts that both chefs enjoy.
  3. 10:29Weissman's own viral fries enter the test and ultimately land in the middle tier.
  4. 18:02Vanilla ice cream and cornflakes produce fried chicken both chefs find unpleasantly sweet.
  5. 24:35Almond-flour-and-yogurt bagels fail on chalky texture and dense dough.
  6. 28:45The chefs name the potato cheddar omelet their favorite and caution against dismissing every clickbait recipe.

Vanilla ice cream belongs nowhere near this chicken, Joshua Weissman and guest chef Tim Laielli decide. They have coated a raw breast in it, added cornflakes and fried the result. The candy-sweet coating prompts Laielli to say: "I can't think of a worse way to bread this piece of chicken."

That is one of the more unfortunate experiments in "I Tested Viral Clickbait Recipes", which has drawn about 124,000 views in its first three hours. Weissman and Laielli, known online as Barefood Tim, recreate food videos and sort the results into tiers, testing whether an appealing shortcut survives actual cooking and eating.

The failures aren't all about outlandish flavor combinations. Chicken-and-beef "carnivore bread" falls apart on texture, as do almond-flour-and-yogurt bagels. Roasting watermelon and treating it like tuna sushi doesn't convince either chef, but canned biscuit dough turned into cinnamon-sugar air-fryer donuts gets a much warmer reception.

Weissman's own viral fries don't escape scrutiny. "This is my video, guys. I know this works," he says before the tasting. They ultimately place the fries in the middle tier, below the cottage cheese wrap and baked feta pasta.

The chocolate-and-water mousse brings a useful wrinkle to the comments: several viewers point to Heston Blumenthal's version, arguing that the method matters rather than dismissing the ingredient pairing. Others suggest making improved versions of the recipes that went wrong.

By the finish, the chefs favor something less surprising: potato peelings, eggs and shredded cheese cooked into an omelet. Its familiar diner taste and straightforward technique earn their final pick, and Weissman closes by arguing that a clickbait recipe still deserves a test before being written off.

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The facts
Subscribers
10,800,000
Channel views, last 7 days
9,382,527
Channel views, pace per day
1,018,773 (on a normal day: 1,812,988)
Video published
November 1, 2026

The numbers

The video reached roughly 124,000 views within its opening hours. That is its audience so far, not a full day's total.

subscribers
10,800,000
no significant change in the last 7 days
total views
2,629,765,094
views per day
1,018,773
typical day: 1,812,988
subscribers: this channel and similar channels
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As of November 1, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
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