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Mike G puts two-ingredient cooking to the texture test

Carly joins him for viral recipe trials, from garden-carrot noodles to an AI-generated peanut butter fudge.

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2 Ingredient Recipes That Shouldn't Be Possible

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0:28Cooked apples and gelatin produce a marshmallow-like sweet, but Mike and Carly find the texture too spongy.
2:34Microwaved rice-paper and nori chips deliver the crisp texture missing from several other recipes.
4:52Soaked quinoa and flaxseed blend into a batter that cooks into flexible wraps.
13:40Garden carrots and glutinous rice flour become button noodles, finished with a spicy sauce.
20:24Biscoff cookies soften overnight in vanilla skyr; freezing the mixture later removes the cookie crunch.
22:51Whipped egg whites and cottage cheese bake into a loaf that deflates and tastes omelet-like.

The donuts get demoted. Mike G's air-fryer mixture of yogurt and self-rising flour turns out too bready for the name, prompting a wonderfully specific verdict: "It's a little bit disrespectful to donuts, in my opinion."

That distinction between something edible and something worth making runs through "2 Ingredient Recipes That Shouldn't Be Possible," LifebyMikeG's only new upload this week. It has passed 600,000 views, with culinary producer Carly joining Mike to cook, taste and rank the internet's minimalist recipes.

There are useful discoveries among the disappointments. Rice-paper nori chips deliver crunch, quinoa and flaxseed become wraps, and Mike pulls carrots from his garden for button noodles. Biscoff cookies soften inside vanilla skyr into something resembling a no-bake cheesecake; freezing the mixture costs it the cookie texture Carly misses. The video includes a sponsored cookware segment, and the peanut butter fudge recipe comes from an AI-generated video.

The final egg-white loaf makes texture the talking point again. It collapses after baking, and Mike leaves room for user error in his ranking. Viewers pick up that thread: several question the substitution of fresh egg whites for powder, while others suggest different oven positioning for the onion rings. The comments also become a small recipe exchange, with cream-and-flour biscuits and yogurt pizza dough offered as alternatives.

Beyond the new test, September's mushroom-growing upload is attracting almost as many daily views, and the cooking-cube guide remains active. The channel added roughly 10,000 subscribers over the week, though daily viewing is currently well below its usual level. That makes a contrast with Epic Gardening, whose daily viewing is above normal: Mike's garden-to-kitchen archive is moving, but at a gentler overall tempo.

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What viewers say

Equal parts greek yogurt and self rising flour is pretty dang good as a pizza dough. I make it in a 1/4 sheet pan in the oven
@kylemiller57See it on YouTube
My biscuit recipe is just 1 part heavy cream and 2 parts self raising flour
@dean8864See it on YouTube
I've made the button noodles with a boiled potato and potato starch. It's nice to see the carrot variation. Noodles are generally neutral-ish in flavor... it's always about the sauce (even if that's just garlic butter)!
@theajane6444See it on YouTube

3 more comments

for the onion chips, your rack is too low. Right on top of the element so it's blasting the bottom with heat. Middle position
@ibarskiySee it on YouTube
On the keto bread it looked like you left some egg yolk in the bowl, may have had something to do with it not having the right texture. Just a thought.
@benross5372See it on YouTube
You really do need the eggwhite powder - works totally different that what you produced
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