Thank you chef John for these videos. I lost my wife of 29+ years on Sunday Feb. 26. We watched cooking videos during every meal time, switching between four different channels depending on who had a new video up, or one we hadn't watched yet. This was the last we watched during dinner Saturday night. She loved your videos, and sang along with the "and as always, enjoy" every single time. So I wanted to leave a comment and thank you for the memories I have of love and laughter with my wife while watching your videos. Thank you.

I teared up reading this, 31 male.

I'm so sorry for your loss

I am sorry for your loss.

My heart is with you, every time I watch a Chef John video I will think of her. ❤ In treasure her memory with you.

Condolences. I wish you comfort and peace.

I'm not going to make this for myself, but I love that I live in a world where Chef John's mad genius exists.

So I made the recipe last night. The ingredients were not perfect but the dish was pretty good. Although it took much longer than I originally thought.

@JJ I kept thinking that my 40-year-old son would have loved this as a kid, going to see if I can fix it for him.

That’s how I feel. I’m not really a drumstick person but I’m happy there’s a recipe out there that uses drumsticks so effectively!

@Aven Maybe I’m in the minority but I go to YouTube for inspiration for my own meals to cook. This one and other recent posts from Chef John to me seem so obscure and unrealistic for the home cook. That’s my only point but to each his/her own. Cheers.

​@SAM BRICKELL lmao

There's a thin line separating madness from genius, and this recipe uses it as a skipping rope!

This looks more like something you’d post on April Fools Day.

Oh gawd. I kept expecting Chef J to bring out cuddle fish sauce to put on this too.

😄 Well said.

Chef John showed us how to cook almost everything from all over the world, and now he`s just chilling and inventing new ways to combine and cook delicious food. Truly the Bob Ross of cooking.

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This is like budget turned gourmet. And it looks absolutely delicious.

Chef John never ceases to amaze us.

Don't include me in your "us"

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Food Wishes has one of the best intros in all of YouTube.

Don't forget the outro!

After a tiring day, when I see a new episode from Chef John, it's almost cathartic on some level. 🧘‍♂️

Absolutely

I was quite puzzled when I saw this Chef John … but gotta say I’m very tempted to try as I often am your recipes!

You're not alone in both of those thoughts!

Chef John! Truly has Gone Where No Chef Had Gone Before! 🥴😜

I've always said I'd prefer a savory French toast but couldn't find a good version. Now I have one. Thank you, Chef John.

Just a couple of days ago, Golden Gully made Tandoori Chicken and Waffles, where the chicken was served by putting it on the waffle maker to finish cooking together with the waffle batter. This looks like it has similar concept to that 🤤

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This is truly inspiring. I want to make this one for my wife for when she gets out of hospital after labor

Make two of them, mothers are hungry 😉 (greetings to your wife from mother of two...)

I don’t think I’ve ever watched a video 3 minutes after upload! This really does look tasty

I made this last night. I tripled the recipe. My thoughts were that it took a long time to make. I mean you're simmering, grilling and baking, and also soaking. The reduction took longer since I tripled it, though after a while I split it into two pans. The end product looked hilarious but also amazing, like a kid's toy or something. The flavor was worth every minute. I don't know if eating dinner at 9:30pm makes it taste better, but it was one of the tastiest things I've had in years. I'd consider making this again just for all that flavor. Thanks again, Chef John.

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I might use a boneless thigh for this. Looks like a good recipe!

For ease of eating, yes, but it wouldn't look as good

That would be delicious! But I don't think Chef John wants you to.

Chef John This is crazy This is ridiculous This is the weirdest thing I've ever seen. I can't wait to make it! 🤠🥰

I made this last night and it was so very good.

The video I was waiting for Lol. Yesterday, No one thought it was real. Chef you're a genius 😎

That recipe looks and sounds absolutely delicious!

That is the weirdest idea I've ever seen chef John come up with 😄

This is a delicious recipe I really enjoyed to watch 😋😋😋😋

That's one heck of a thumbnail!

I am so glad I found your cooking channel, your enthusiasm is infectious and I am less scared of being in the kitchen than I used to be! Thankyou!!

Food can smell fear.. Food gods hate a coward I have watched too much Chef John 😂

This is a cool recipe. I learned to bake my french toast from you about 10 years ago and my mom always loved it

Brilliant, French toast technique rethunk, art and science combined, that is why I'm a fan, well done and thank you Chef.

This is such a great idea! I can't wait to try this.

Please let us know, I'm very curious !

Im not wild enough to put a chicken leg in a piece of toast, but I did "convert" this concept into a savory chicken & ranch bread pudding, you're an inspiration.

May I suggest you call it "stuffing?" Savory ranch bread pudding almost made me throw up...

I LOVE this Franken-chicken idea lol! Definitely going to make this asap!❤️

Thank you. As someone not from the USA I've never understood the whole chicken and waffle thing, but this sounds much better. I will try.

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This. Look. Amazing. I’m definitely making this for our next Sunday family dinner!!!!!

Just made this using French style baguette and wing drummetes. What fun!

Chef John, you crack me up! As whimsical a recipe as I've seen in a while.

This is a riff off of CJ's "Million Dollar Chicken", where he baked a chicken in a creme fraiche-based sauce over slices of bread. (It's excellent, by the way.) EDIT AFTER WATCHING: I was right, LOL!!!

Chef John has a video on that! I’ve made it five times. 3/5 got me l….ots of compliments.

With boneless chicken you might be able to make it into a sandwich - hmmm, imagine a savory chicken french toast sandwich with lettuce, onion, relish and garlic aoili

Me and my husband love you so much chef John, we would love if you make some Egyptian food ❤️

@Craig Bryant please do, and let me know if you have any questions, best of luck 🤞🍀

I will enjoy trying them.

@Craig Bryant oh wow a lot, but mainly Egyptian koshari, egyptian falafel ( which is way different than the international one and way tastier, we use fava beans, leeks, fresh coriander, coriander seeds and coriander seeds and no humus) or maybe egyptian mahshi or molokheya 😀 dishes are endless but these ones are signature dishes ❤️

What dishes do you think of most of all when you say "Egyptian Food?"

It does look hilarious, but I would dig right in. Especially when knowing how it was prepared because that is some solid flavor building there.

Million dollar chicken in a single serve portion. .love this

If I make this, I'd definitely make some extra toasts. Just because.

Chef John literally sticks a chicken leg on french toast and he makes it look delicious.

I was going to comment something along the lines of “mad genius” but I see many people beat me to it! Never change Chef John!!! I may make this with a boneless chicken thigh instead of drumstick, easier to cut up and eat alongside the French toast than a drumstick 🍗

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Looks like you hit it out of the park Chef John!

The creative energy just bursting from Chef John!

The bread in a batter is like “pain doré” . So good! Yes, with maple syrup 🇨🇦

So simple yet wonderful!!

This reminds me of the Palestinian Musakhan, chicken, onion, and sumac over flatbread. Really delicious

There's already a "savory French toast": Red Dog Toast. Like French toast, but with condensed tomato soup instead of milk, salt instead of sugar, paprika instead of cinnamon, and garlic powder and/or cayenne instead of vanilla. Pro tip: after making the red dog toast use it as the bread in a grilled cheese sandwich.

Chef John, you've been making some, uh, different things lately, and I've got to ask...have you started partaking of the devil's lettuce? 😂🤣😂

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Of all the days to do this one. It was the day I recommended the channel to others. Anyway Chef John you really just never disappoint lol

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💜Chef, points for crazy creativity! I don't know how I feel about this dish HAHA, all it's missing is the runny egg like "toad in the hole"....way to go, even chicken thigh would probably send this to the moon and back! Very inspired...the restaurant I worked at, we always soaked the day-old sourdough bread for french toast the night before brunch service. You're right, if you have time that's the way to go. Thanks Chef!

Should save this for the 1st of April I can’t wait to make this dish!

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Many many years ago I worked at a French 5 star and one lunch the sous chef put up a really unusual (odd) entree that was mildly received. It was a deboned chicken leg stuffed with ground veal and served in a vanilla sauce. It was pretty trippy but now I see it on custard toast.

Oh man, I worked with a French chef once who made vanilla mashed potatoes, to go with some kind of beef in a red wine sauce. They were nobody's favorite, but they also weren't awful.

That looks so good and not very expensive to make either in these inflationary times.

I was skeptical, but it looks like it worked. John, you are a genius.

I may actually do this one. This looks very budget friendly.

Literally 15 seconds in and Chef John's already cracking me up haha - love you Chef!

I have made your million dollar chicken a bunch of times, and so this totally makes sense!!

What a great “out the box” recipe 👌

The delivery of “they have a different word for everything” killed me. Hahahaha.

It's not a April fool's joke. WOWZER Chef John 😋

Nice to see this. I love chicken and waffles. But french toast is so much easier to make than waffles, Belgian or otherwise. Every time I make either fried chicken or even baked buffalo chicken I always make french toast the next day and have them together, smothered in syrup of course. Perfect combo. You're the man, Chef John. 👍

What I love about you chef John is that your more than just a cooking show, you come up with some amazing and sometimes weird recipes. Bravo for not just giving us your version of spaghetti bolognaise or Chinese fried rice, keep doing what your doing and inspire us all 👍😉

Hey chef John I’m in Australia, thank you for wanting to give me something special, but it may be a bit difficult. Keep up the good work I love what you bring to the table👍😋

Wonder how this would be made like a stuffing🤔 maybe like a bread pudding. 😋

What a bizarre -- yet cool!!! -- idea! I think I might try this with a chaffle, being that I'm on a keto diet.

You are. (After all) The host with the most. With your Chicken French Toast!

I feel like an idiot for never thinking of savory french toast before. This is such a flexible idea.

I've literally only had savory french toast

In the Romance Language World they call in Pan (or Pain) Perdue. (Nothing to do with the Boiler Makers...) I. E. Saved Bread.

We do it in the UK all the time Egg mix - eggs, milk, salt, optional spices Dip two slices of bread in the egg mix, then fry them on one side. Flip the bread and quickly add cheese to the cooked side. Put them together as a sandwich and finish cooking, flipping as needed. My family calls that a "cheese dream."

Look for Indian French Toast recipes, if you like Indian flavours. I didn't learn "French Toast" was meant to be a sweet dish till I was in my 20s! We always make them savoury.

I eat it all the time, because i dont like sweet dishes.

Your dishes keep me smiling as well as your plesant voice😆

This has to be the best and most refreshing recipe yet to try out, a French toast drumstick….brilliant 🍗

The more I watch this the better it looks…

This is you cooking. Your true gift is information during recipe fabrication, and most profound.........inspiration!

Looks delicious!!

A wonderfully different recipe, would give it a go.

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I was lazy so I only made the Dragon Syrup. It was pretty darn good!

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this dish speaks to me on a spiritual level

It's like chicken and waffles but actually good!

Yes, I will try this because it looks tasty and fun BUT I will use a deboned chicken thigh. I will present with the skin side up. It will be much easier to eat. Can’t wait to try!😊😊😊😊

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This the sort of thing I might dream up after a bong hit or two. It's 11 p.m. and I'm hungry. Got bread and got a leftover chicken thigh. Yum. Munchies satisfied.

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You are the Dr John Christopher of your chicken leg toast that I can’t resistor. The man of cayenne!

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This is the most insane or brilliant or insanely brilliant thing I've ever seen! My mind can't decide! Either way, well done Chef! 👏 👏👏

I'm glad we've all been here to watch Chef John's slow descent into insanity 😂

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This is mad really, in a genuinely genius kind of way

On of the most creative things I've seen outside of Chopped.... and dare I say, another level up.

This seems wonderful!

I can't wait to try this!!!

Couldn't agree with you more, Chef John: full penetration is the most important part 👍

I always find funny how Chef John always pronounce Siracha, like Chirazza or something like that.

Chef John be wild! seriously looks delicious though

I wanna sous vide some duck or chicken leg confit and make this, you're a genius, chef!

Yes ! I was also thinking of using a jar of ready cooked confit de canard

My son sent me pictures of the brioche he made today. He had a snow day from work and decided to challenge himself. I just sent him this video to "up" his challenge 🤣

Nice recipe 😋😋

It must have been good, boy oh boy, Chef John really went to town on that serving, hehe :D

I see Feta French toast in my very near future. Maybe this one also but not til I have someone to impress. Thanks Chef 😉

Oh, I definitely will make this!

Love you Chef John!!

Nice recipe Sir. I suppose you could make it even more French & make "Cuisses de grenouilles sur pain perdu"; Frogs legs on french toast. Could be really nice too. Will be giving your a go soon.

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Feel like this would’ve been a good video for April 1st since it’s something you don’t quite expect lol

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Hey Chef John could you post a recipe for tuna briks? Love to see your take o them!

This is certainly one of the dishes of all time

It is hilarious to look at. I thought it was maybe a joke, but I'm thinking about making it now. Drumsticks are still affordable.

please never change, chef john