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Bon Appétit |OT| Forum Poster Attempts To Make Gourmet Thread
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I dont know if Brad is as nice as it seems or of it is wonderful editing ji6b they do in his videos that just make it seem like a perfect mix of comedy, culinary and a real nice guy talking to you and Vinnie (?), the cameram. I love his recipes and the It's Alive thing too.
Didn't know Tempura Matsui had a separate bar menu. Good to know!
Aw yeah, BON APPETIT OT.
So this weekend, my friend and I tried to make gourmet Oreos! It went... okay. We made a bunch of mistakes, not least of which was following some random Reddit transcription of the Oreo recipe that missed a bunch of details and also I think got the amount of butter wrong? (two sticks of butter isn't 150g! is it? is it an American thing?) Anyways, it came out kinda salty, which actually is pretty great, but the filling didn't have the right consistency (should've let the coconut oil and cocoa butter cool more before mixing in the sugar, and also I probably should've gotten an actual food scale instead of trying to eyeball the oil/butter measurements, and ALSO ALSO should've rolled out the icing on parchment instead of bare cutting board) and overall it didn't really taste like an Oreo. Nevertheless, I ate a whole bunch of them and so did my friends. So WHATEVER.
We plan to try again. This time, we got the SILICONE MOLDS.
I enjoy judging the videos on how much effort it would be to make the thing from scratch. Like, Oreos, not so bad. Pop Tarts, a little worse. Cutting the individual rounded corners on tortillas so you can make, like, 18 Doritos chips in four hours? Fuck that, I'm going to the goddamned store.
So this weekend, my friend and I tried to make gourmet Oreos! It went... okay. We made a bunch of mistakes, not least of which was following some random Reddit transcription of the Oreo recipe that missed a bunch of details and also I think got the amount of butter wrong? (two sticks of butter isn't 150g! is it? is it an American thing?) Anyways, it came out kinda salty, which actually is pretty great, but the filling didn't have the right consistency (should've let the coconut oil and cocoa butter cool more before mixing in the sugar, and also I probably should've gotten an actual food scale instead of trying to eyeball the oil/butter measurements, and ALSO ALSO should've rolled out the icing on parchment instead of bare cutting board) and overall it didn't really taste like an Oreo. Nevertheless, I ate a whole bunch of them and so did my friends. So WHATEVER.
We plan to try again. This time, we got the SILICONE MOLDS.
I enjoy judging the videos on how much effort it would be to make the thing from scratch. Like, Oreos, not so bad. Pop Tarts, a little worse. Cutting the individual rounded corners on tortillas so you can make, like, 18 Doritos chips in four hours? Fuck that, I'm going to the goddamned store.
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lots of giant bomb comparisons in here which i could see but this totally nails it. i miss the 1up show :(
So much fresh corn available here in KY right now and next month or so, so might have to make that corn chowder soon. My wife won't touch it, but means more for me.
So do I, and it was a long time ago... but it honestly reminds me very much of it even before this topic came up and I was puzzled by the Giantbomb comparisons. They just skipped right over...
Carla the true GOAT of Bon Appetit. We need more videos of her with drag queens because all of those have been solid gold so far.
yup, he is with Babish now... I just did an It's Alive marathon, didnt know he had left already.
Re: the corn chowder video, R M F E at the idea that Adam Rapoport needs to be convinced that bay leaf is an actual ingredient with an actual flavor and use! Like it's so important in South / Southeast Asian cuisine especially. He's such a douche.
Carla is an angel though. Love love love her.
Carla is an angel though. Love love love her.
Oh my god Carla and Molly going back and forth about are buffaloes cows had me dying. Lol. The pizza series is amazing.
My bf and I attempted Andy's Salted Chocolate Halva recipe and it was surprisingly easy, it was the first time I'd worked with molten sugar so I was a bit nervous. Forgive the subpar presentation, I couldn't find the fancy edible flowers or black sesame (also forgot to take the photo before wrapping it overnight so that explains the marks) but it tastes so damn good.
FUCK that's so apt. Can I just say one of my biggest regret in my life was bumping into mangod TWICE in Japan during TGS and not asking for a photo :(
My wife introduced me to this youtube channel as "cooking meets The Office". Didn't buy it but after watching the Brad/Claire Sour Doughnuts series I was hooked. This is such a great YT channel with so many funny and nice people.
If you haven't seen it yet the Perfect Pizza series is a lot of fun, lots of interplay between all the BA members
She's still freelance, they just hire her as a contributing editor now. (Same goes for Rick, and I believe Priya also.)
She was going to open a bakery in Alaska but either her plans fell through or BA did their best to keep her
I've heard this story and I find it curious. In the Sourdough Donuts episode, she basically says she can barely drive a car because she lives in New York, but she was going to move to Alaska? That just seems like a very weird move to me.
One way or another, I'm glad she stayed. I almost just dropped the channel when she left.
That's so sad. I've only watched some of Babish videos but aren't they shot with a static camera all the time? Kinda weird he would need a camera guy.
Brad doesn't interact with the new guy as much as he did with Vinny.
I find Babish incredibly annoying, to the point of instilling senseless nerd rage on a scale only equalled by Marques Brownlee, reigning king of unctuousness.
Both of his videos with Brad on It's Alice were good, IMO. They have good chemistry. Although, Brad seems to get along with all of his guests.
Brad is simply the best. As a fellow Jersey guy and lover of Tom Berringer movies, he needs to be protected at all costs.
Made his tepache a couple of weeks ago and it is fantastic. Highly recommend.
Made his tepache a couple of weeks ago and it is fantastic. Highly recommend.
I think you mean "It's Allicin" 😛
He (and the rest of the staff) needs to be protected from himself if he gets too fast and loose with his fermentation experiments
I get mad whenever he starts talking about Tom Berringer and doesn't gush over The Substitute.
Nice.
Tangentially related, I went to JG Melon because of the last one and their burger is pretty dope.
I'm starting to think the mysterious backstory of Delaney being Brad's nemesis is just that he sits way too close to people at tables.
Alex looks like that guy from the meme where he makes a scrunched up face and makes like 3 reactions before laying down on the couch and also had red hair I think, which I cannot find now, all grown up.
I was going through different playlists to see what else there was and came across this video of Claire. I didn't recognize her like at all, if I didn't read the description I wouldn't have even known it was her.
All BA videos from before they started relying on the personalities of the chefs are something else. There is a an even older video of somebody who is clearly Claire but with no visible face and mute, making the same sourdough bread recipe she did with Brad. The comments were awful, most people complained that it was too complicated and that making bread shouldn't take that much time.
Edit: found it
Oh, the growing pains of a YouTube channel. This makes me think of people who don't understand how to make a good presentation and end up standing in front of a room just reading off all the slides of their Powerpoint deck verbatim, which each happen to have more text than War and Peace.
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