Nothing fires me up more than when a big-whoop chef makes something incredibly simple and breaks it down for you, a la GR here. I recall being astounded to read in Heat that real cooks don't whisk the eggs in a bowl before scrambling; now by this video I see that there hasn't been a single thing I've ever done correctly while making scrambled eggs. Amazing. And for a nice bonus, I love that he burns the first piece of toast.
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i don't recognize those eggs as scrambled. They look more of a pasty texture, no? sort of a mashed po tahto, i say, and what is that creamery white stuff he added there at the end? we don't have that kind of stuff here in the states. no, just don't agree with that on and off and on stuff. Whisk it together with a splash of milk and pour it into the hot frying pan and turn it down a notch, while you keep stirring. Rye toast. Buttered. Hold the maters. There you have it, BIB.
Yep. i wouldn't eat any of that shit he just made. Mushrooms - no. Tomatos - not for me. Gum-ripping, tooth-cracking toast - sorry, not a masocist. The eggs look like fake butter Quaker oatmeal. In fact, I never have had scrambled eggs at a restaurant that were as good as homemade. The flavor, the consistency and the fact that 20 cents of eggs cooked for 2 minutes costs you $2.99 and 20 minutes of waiting. Your boy Gordon cooks breakfast like Dewberry.
well, my point was less about the food itself (Gnat, you of all people know I'm immediately tossing the shrooms/tomatoes) and more about the thrill of watching someone at the absolute top of his or her field break down something so simple, something that we all do every day. We come to see someone like Ramsay as some sort of cartoon tv creation, it's easy to forget that he really IS an amazing chef (14 Michelin stars or some such) who did pay his dues, then to watch him do scrambled eggs, I dunno, it'd be like watching Paul McCartney change his bass strings (there's a Beatles trivia moment in that last sentence.) For instance, we all love to see Emeril as some sort of FoodTV muppet popped out of a trunk, but the fact is he could walk into your house right now, use only what you already have in your kitvhen and then make a meal that would blow your mind.
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