Shrimp Scampi SHOWDOWN!! SuperChef takes on the supermarket with Michael Angelo's
Summary
SuperChef rates Michael Angelo's frozen Shrimp Scampi in his latest supermarket showdown. Under five bucks for a full meal? That's a strike. Darnell digs into the nutrition (solid C), the price (easy A), and the actual taste, praising the raw shrimp that cook perfectly in just three minutes. But here's the thing: it's playing it too safe. The garlic and lemon need what he calls "a steroid shot" to really wake up the dish. His fix? Sprinkle some lemon pepper seasoning on top and suddenly this sleepy frozen dinner starts kicking and screaming like it should.
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[Music] All right
So, today on Super Chefer Supermarket, we are going to be trying out a product that I mean, first of all, I'm hungry
Let's put it out there in the air
And I got a taste for shrimp scampy
So, how can we get shrimp scampy not at the restaurant, but at home? They
have this amazing product from Michelangelos's
It is a shrimp scampy
I think you only microwave for 3 minutes
I want to take this home
I want to try it out. and let's go ahead and rate it
Let's score it
Let's see if you can get restaurant quality at home in the microwave
Meet me in the
kitchen
All right, so we back in the kitchen now with Michelangelo's shrimp scampy
You know what I'm saying? Like again, a lot of these products you probably never heard of, but if you like shrimp scampy, we wanted to start there
Like, let's just think about it
Taste your shrimp scampy
and you want something that's priced well
This right now is less than $5
I mean, it doesn't matter if it's $4, it's less than $5
It's like $4.49 is what we paid for it
A+ for lunch or dinner
Come on, man
Think about it
When you're about to eat lunch, h think about it
When you're about to
eat lunch, how many times you spend $5 or less on something that you want? Like an actual meal
As far as price goes, $5 for either lunch or dinner, no matter which one it is, a steal every time
You know what I'm saying? Every time you you roll that ball, it's a strike
You know what I'm saying? Like, so when it comes
to there, there's not there's no competing
It's an A
When it comes to nutritional, now let me say this
Usually frozen products don't do good in nutritional cuz they usually tons of sodium
So, let's see what we got here. 450 calories for this meal
Are you supposed to get like 2,000 is like if
you're in this range, you know what I'm saying? 2,00500 breakfast, lunch, and dinner
If each one was this was this amount of calories, you'll be in a good place in life
Um, so and then we get into things like trans fats, nine grams of saturated uh fats, which is 45% of your daily
value
Cholesterol is 110 milligrams, which is 37% of what you should be getting of your daily value
I mean, it's it's a good C plus
Sodium, 33% of your daily intake for sodium is in this one meal
So, you got to be very
strategic on how you eat the rest of the day
Um, I would get us a really high C, like 79
You know, 80 is where you get to the B's at a 79 is good though
You know what I'm saying? That's why I talk to my kid like, "Why didn't you get that one more percent?" You know what I'm saying? So, a good high C
Go high on
that
When you saw that graphic, Evan, make it a high Cy like make it on fire or something
I don't know how you do that, but that's your job
Um, but let's get to taste
Um, you microwave this for 3 minutes
You don't puncture no holes
You stir it
Then you microwave it again
And I want to give a huge shout
out to Michelangelos's
You know why? Two things
First of all, the shrimp were raw
No, normally when you get like shrimp inside of a pre like a product that you're about to microwave, the shrimp is already cooked for you
This shrimp was raw
I thought it was so smart
I thought it showed like actual
like you want to have the best product
That shows me you want to have the best product, not giving me a pre-cooked shrimp and something you want to microwave for 6 minutes
So, shout out to them
And I love how they talk stuff, which you know when you talk about talking that stuff is whatever you put
on the front of your product that really brags about who you are and what your product is
And for this product, it's very short
It doesn't say much
It says no shortcuts, which shows that this is actually a product that cares about its actual ingredients
Simple ingredients
I mean, shrimp scampy is simple
Garlic,
white wine, butter, lemon
There's not really a lot of ingredients that go into a shrimp scampy, so it shouldn't be over complicated
Let me see what this is working with though
Try the shrimp with this
Definitely not wine in it, which a shrimp can't be
You should be able to
taste the wine cuz once you add that wine to it, you let it reduce down to like a what we call, which is like a very short amount, a small amount left
So, you really get that intense wine flavor
So, the shrimp are juicy, which is crazy
My only
knock is that it's very light
First of all, it's light
The shrimp are plump
The shrimp are juicy because they gave us raw shrimp
Um, I love the wine flavor in this
The only thing that I would have liked to seen probably a little bit turned up would be the garlic and the lemon
It needs acid
And if you
know anything about a shrimp scampy, the acid hits in the shrimp scampy, whether it's lemon, uh, vinegar, whatever it is, usually it's lemon
Um, it just needs to be pumped up some
Like it needs to be like you need a little steroid shot
Just so we be clear
I've never done steroids
I've had jokes made about me
gaining weight and stuff
But I've never done it
But this one needs a little steroid shot of lemon and garlic
That would be my only knock to it
Yes
Good
It is what it is
I like it
Shrimp scampy
I would tell people think about this
If I tell you to go get it and you don't like it, you
going to be like, "What is he doing?" He's not being honest
Um, this for me just needs a little more flavor
You need to season this also
So, my Super Chef tip for this product would be to add some lemon pepper to this
I think will help out a ton and it's going to just make this dish a lot
more vibrant
It's like it's sleeping a little bit and I like my shrimp scampy to be up yelling, kicking and screaming
So, that would be my only knock to it
As far as taste goes, I would give this a B minus C plus
Same way
So, we got our price easily an A
Nutrition was on fire as a C, almost a B, 79
And then
taste, I give it the same chef's tip
Add a little bit of good seasonings you have at home to this
I do respect the fact that they didn't give us tons of too much more sodium and you give you the chance to add things
You know what I'm saying? Whether you like that um what's the seasoning called people like
you like Danos, if you like Pop Secret Seasoning, which Pop Secret seasoning is my favorite seasoning
They have a lemon pepper one that's fire
Look it up
It's from uh Steve Batty
It's amazing
But yeah, let me know what you want me to try
DM us
We'll see you at a grocery store in your city here soon
Uh this is
Super Chef Versus Supermarket
We will be back with another review.
Episode description
Tired of bland frozen meals? Today, we're putting Michael Angelo's Shrimp Scampi to the ultimate test. Is it possible to get restaurant-quality shrimp scampi from your freezer? I'm breaking down everything you need to know about this popular frozen dish – from ease of preparation to the final bite. Watch to see if it's the delicious shortcut you've been looking for! #MichaelAngelosShrimpScampi #FrozenDinner #QuickMeals #FoodSolutions #TasteTestTuesday #HomeCooking #MealPrep #nutrion #healthy #superchef #superchefvssupermarket #grocery #darnellferguson Follow Darnell "SuperChef" Ferguson on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superchef_23?igsh=MW9OOHZ1MjRydGF1MA==