Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
I’ve been thinking about cooking as a metaphor for using ai, so im cooking you my new recipe for the crunchwrap ultra and talking through my perspective.
https://this-artificial-life.wonderfulcolor.chatgpt.site
Support the pod on partreon! patreon.com/user?u=2277997
My Tiktok: tiktok.com/@ghrondo?_t=ZT-907AfWiFC1N&_r=1
Chapters:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:20 - crunchwrap ultra backstory
00:04:04 - cooking begins
00:04:12 - cooking is digestion outside the body
00:12:02 - ai conventions are hyper-palletable flavors
00:16:47 - new study; people like ai writing better than human writing
00:19:07 - art = convention + novelty
00:22:04 - i love notebookLM (now called gemini notebook)
00:28:31 - assembling the crunchwrap
00:31:27 - needlessly dense academic writing
00:37:07 - crunchwrap ultra reveal and taste
00:37:43 - breaking down judith butler
00:39:01 - “cHaTgPt MakEs U DUmB”
00:41:22 - conclusion: TRADE OFFS
00:42:48 - send me your crunchwrap ultra pics and reviews
Crunchwrap Ultra ingredients:
Butter (for the pan)
12 inch soft flour tortilla
Plant-based ground beef/ mince meat (or real ground beef)
Taco Seasoning
Mozzarella Cheese
Hard shell tacos shells (or tostadas)
Sour cream
Kent Pumpkin (or acorn squash/butternut squash)
Feta Cheese
Pickled onions (with jalapeño optional)
Arugala aka Rocket (add cilantro optional)
Mozzarella Cheese
Extra virgin olive oil
Salt
Crunchwrap Ultra — Method
Makes 2
Cook the pumpkin. Peel and cut into small cubes. Toss with olive oil and salt, then air-fry at 190°C / 375°F for 25 minutes. Stir and cook for another 6 minutes, or until very soft.
Cook the filling. Cook the plant-based mince meat over medium-low heat with olive oil, a splash of water and generous taco seasoning. Break up any lumps and cook through, keeping it moist and a little sloppy. Set aside.
Get everything ready. Finely chop the rocket and optional coriander. Have your cheeses, pickled onions and sour cream ready. Use a tostada for the crunchy layer, or break hard taco shells into flat pieces.
Layer it up. Melt a little butter in a large frying pan over very low heat and lay in a jumbo tortilla. Working quickly, pile half the fillings in the centre in this order: meat, mozzarella, crunchy taco shell, sour cream, pumpkin, pickled onions, crumbled feta, rocket, optional coriander and a final sprinkle of mozzarella. Leave plenty of tortilla around the edges for folding.
Fold and toast. On the pan, on low heat. Fold the edges inward, working around in five or six overlapping folds to enclose the filling. Use a spatula to flip it seam-side down and press gently. Cook for 3–5 minutes, until sealed and golden, then flip and toast the other side briefly if needed.
Repeat and serve. Make the second crunchwrap, let them cool slightly, then enjoy.
Keep the heat very low during assembly so the tortilla stays flexible enough to fold.
AI description created by chatgpt for SEO:
In this episode of Ryan’s Rants, I make the Crunchwrap Ultra—a homemade vegetarian upgrade to Taco Bell’s Crunchwrap Supreme with roasted pumpkin, feta, rocket, pickled onions and spicy plant-based mince—while exploring an idea: what if generative AI is a form of cooking?
Drawing on Richard Wrangham’s book Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, I explore the theory that cooking helped fuel human brain evolution by making food easier to digest. Could tools like ChatGPT, Google NotebookLM and Suno do something similar for information, turning dense academic papers and complicated ideas into summaries, podcasts and songs we can more easily understand?
Along the way, I unpack “AI slop,” why AI writing can feel so appealing, the balance between predictability and novelty in art, and the difficulty of reading academic work like Judith Butler’s. From a fake AI-generated Taco Bell announcement to the real crunchwrap recipe, this is a cooking video about how we process both food and ideas—and what we gain or lose when we let AI help us learn.
I’ve been thinking about cooking as a metaphor for using ai, so im cooking you my new recipe for the crunchwrap ultra and talking through my perspective.
https://this-artificial-life.wonderfulcolor.chatgpt.site
Support the pod on partreon! patreon.com/user?u=2277997
My Tiktok: tiktok.com/@ghrondo?_t=ZT-907AfWiFC1N&_r=1
Chapters:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:20 - crunchwrap ultra backstory
00:04:04 - cooking begins
00:04:12 - cooking is digestion outside the body
00:12:02 - ai conventions are hyper-palletable flavors
00:16:47 - new study; people like ai writing better than human writing
00:19:07 - art = convention + novelty
00:22:04 - i love notebookLM (now called gemini notebook)
00:28:31 - assembling the crunchwrap
00:31:27 - needlessly dense academic writing
00:37:07 - crunchwrap ultra reveal and taste
00:37:43 - breaking down judith butler
00:39:01 - “cHaTgPt MakEs U DUmB”
00:41:22 - conclusion: TRADE OFFS
00:42:48 - send me your crunchwrap ultra pics and reviews
Crunchwrap Ultra ingredients:
Butter (for the pan)
12 inch soft flour tortilla
Plant-based ground beef/ mince meat (or real ground beef)
Taco Seasoning
Mozzarella Cheese
Hard shell tacos shells (or tostadas)
Sour cream
Kent Pumpkin (or acorn squash/butternut squash)
Feta Cheese
Pickled onions (with jalapeño optional)
Arugala aka Rocket (add cilantro optional)
Mozzarella Cheese
Extra virgin olive oil
Salt
Crunchwrap Ultra — Method
Makes 2
Cook the pumpkin. Peel and cut into small cubes. Toss with olive oil and salt, then air-fry at 190°C / 375°F for 25 minutes. Stir and cook for another 6 minutes, or until very soft.
Cook the filling. Cook the plant-based mince meat over medium-low heat with olive oil, a splash of water and generous taco seasoning. Break up any lumps and cook through, keeping it moist and a little sloppy. Set aside.
Get everything ready. Finely chop the rocket and optional coriander. Have your cheeses, pickled onions and sour cream ready. Use a tostada for the crunchy layer, or break hard taco shells into flat pieces.
Layer it up. Melt a little butter in a large frying pan over very low heat and lay in a jumbo tortilla. Working quickly, pile half the fillings in the centre in this order: meat, mozzarella, crunchy taco shell, sour cream, pumpkin, pickled onions, crumbled feta, rocket, optional coriander and a final sprinkle of mozzarella. Leave plenty of tortilla around the edges for folding.
Fold and toast. On the pan, on low heat. Fold the edges inward, working around in five or six overlapping folds to enclose the filling. Use a spatula to flip it seam-side down and press gently. Cook for 3–5 minutes, until sealed and golden, then flip and toast the other side briefly if needed.
Repeat and serve. Make the second crunchwrap, let them cool slightly, then enjoy.
Keep the heat very low during assembly so the tortilla stays flexible enough to fold.
AI description created by chatgpt for SEO:
In this episode of Ryan’s Rants, I make the Crunchwrap Ultra—a homemade vegetarian upgrade to Taco Bell’s Crunchwrap Supreme with roasted pumpkin, feta, rocket, pickled onions and spicy plant-based mince—while exploring an idea: what if generative AI is a form of cooking?
Drawing on Richard Wrangham’s book Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, I explore the theory that cooking helped fuel human brain evolution by making food easier to digest. Could tools like ChatGPT, Google NotebookLM and Suno do something similar for information, turning dense academic papers and complicated ideas into summaries, podcasts and songs we can more easily understand?
Along the way, I unpack “AI slop,” why AI writing can feel so appealing, the balance between predictability and novelty in art, and the difficulty of reading academic work like Judith Butler’s. From a fake AI-generated Taco Bell announcement to the real crunchwrap recipe, this is a cooking video about how we process both food and ideas—and what we gain or lose when we let AI help us learn.
