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Pre-heat oven to 350 or don't, just leave it in there a bit longer
Open your package of Tikka Masala and put in a skillet
Put skillet in the oven for 30 or so minutes
Bon appetite!
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Well technically, 2nd one time thing. She did this video for gourmet confetti cake before.
To everyone who's not familiar with the background:
Bon Appetit is a Conde Nast Magazine
Its Youtube Channel used to have a video series where Claire Saffitz made gourmet versions of commercially available food products: Gourmet Makes.
The series is responsible for a lot of Bon Appetit's most popular videos, accounting for half of the current top twenty most viewed videos on the Bon Appetit channel.
However, when people found out Bon Appetit pays different rates for different talents, some people accused Bon Appetit of racism. (Why would BA pay someone who gets them 10 million views the same as someone who gets them sub 100k views though?).
People went through old tweets from BA's top editor and one of Conde Nast's VPs and found old chuddy tweets, so Bon Appetit got cancelled.
A lot of their talent cut ties as a result, with varying levels of success for those talents.
Claire Saffitz was one of the breakout stars of the channel so a lot of the BA audience followed her when she went solo.
She's had success in her cookbooks and youtube channel.
She's held back on making videos where she makes gourmet versions of commercially available food products so far in her post-BA youtube career.
Nobody's sure if she has done so because she doesn't want legal trouble for yoinking the IP or if she wants to pivot her identity away from the series to establish herself as a pastry chef and recipe developer.
However, the views of her most popular videos still pale in comparison to the views Gourmet Makes garnered. Her current most popular video has 4.4 million views, whereas the most popular Gourmet Makes video has 13 million views.
Her 10 latest videos before this video averages at around 250k views, with the oldest having a 4-month headstart and the newest having a 1-month headstart.
The current video has gotten more than that in just 1 day.
What do y'all dramanauts think?
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!goyslopenjoyers deep fried onion from texas roadhouse
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look like flesh
low fiber
don't digest easily
smell like death when rotting
The opposite of plants.
In many cultures watermelons are considered meat. In China pregnant women are forbidden from consuming watermelon
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I finished a bowl of Shin Ramyun Black (w/ only half a package of the spicy powder) and now I'm so warm and sleepy
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Made this for lunch just now. I've tried getting the beef right for these darn things a bunch of different ways. Internet people have all sorts of ways they've tried to get it just like the restaurants, but the only one I've seen that looked like it would realistically work was this massive bearded greek dude shoving like 5 pounds of lamb shoulder onto two spits and throwing it on a charcoal grill. I'm just trying to make lunch here, though. I've tried to make a mini spit using the rotisserie attachment in my toaster oven, and that looked and smelled great, but the meat completely dried out and was nasty inside.
Other internet ideas were like to use ground meat and form a really tight meatloaf and bake it in the oven, then you can cut thin slices off it that look a lot like the gyro places, but it's lacking the super brown crispy outside you want.
This time I bought some really thin ribeye steaks (like less than 1/2") that people usually use to make carne asada. I figured with how thin they were I'd want the pan to be really fricking hot, so I did a test run with one of them with the heat cranked all the way up on my stove and a cast iron skillet. Darn near lit my kitchen on fire, like the oil in the pan actually just made a poof noise and burst into flames. The steak didn't get burned though, even with me moving it around in the pan to smother the fire. The steak was a perfect medium rare cooking it just one minute a side. Problem, though: medium rare steak is too chewy for sandwich or sandwich-adjacent preparations.
Finally, I marinated the rest of the steaks and cooked them with slightly less heat (although still enough that the pan was smoking up my kitchen) for 2 minutes a side. They're pretty well done, but perfect for a gyro because you can bite through the pieces so easily. Then I put this together and smashed the whole thing into my face. The end.
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The menu would be focused on the hits.
Breakfast 24/7 -- BK French Toast and McD pancakes + hashbrown. Don't know which one you feel like? That means you want both.
Arby's crinkle fries
Arby's curly fries
(these are the only fries)
Arby's Roast Beef sandwiches
Burger King Whoppers
McDonald's Nuggets
McDonald's Cones
Wendy's Frosties (chocolate only)
Taco Bell tacos
Taco Bell burrito supreme
Pizza Hut personal pans
If the franchising fees didn't kill you, you'd make a million dollars a day.
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Gnd beef 90% 3 lb
1 lb garden rotini
1 lb mushroom peppers onions whatever
1 lb tomatoes
1 jar pasta sauce
Boil rotini al dente, chop veggies while you wait, rinse in collander and leave in sink.
add everything but tomatoes and sauce, brown, add tomatoes and cook for like a minute, add back pasta and pour in sauce. Mix and Walla you have something tasty your boytoy can get packed in him at night. Makes a whole giant pot so have one of those.
Later homos.
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The offending post: Little country boy trying his hand. How'd I do with spaghetti and meatballs?:
Frick that fake tilt shift, who thinks it looks good? 75% of the picture is blurred. I also hate the title, but that's not why we're here.
The top comment:
Good but not Italian, we don't put meatballs on spaghetti, that's american [+81]
So you're telling me that in the entire history of the nation of Italy, no one has ever put a meatball on top of spaghetti? [+4]
We first eat pasta, then as the second plate we eat meatballs [+1]#
That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. So basically if you have two Italian foods and you eat them separately, it's Italian. But if you put them on the same plate it's not Italian. Like I said, dumbest thing I've ever heard. [+1]
Well my nonna used to make spaghetti and meatballs ...
Death to all nonna-posters
you can do whatever you want with your food, but it's not Italian. [-1]
The gatekeeping in this sub is off the charts. [+1]
Enter /r/iamveryculinary
Did somebody say "gatekeeping" in a food subreddit? /r/iamveryculinary's monitoring dashboard lights up like a Christmas Tree and it gets reposted there: Someone posted meatballs in the Italian sub. The whole thread is bickering and probably unseen gesturing.
As always the comments are full of hilarity, these really are witty redditors:
If an Italian makes a ball out of meat, they die instantly.
No, the spontaneous combustion only happens when the meatballs touch pasta.
Hot take: if we subtract all the dishes that get eliminated by that sub as "not Italian," Italian cuisine would not be voted the most popular cuisine in the world any more
Where would Italian cuisine be without hot pockets and the Little Caesars lunchtime special?
My hot take is that I don't think Italians do themselves any favors by hyping up Authentic Italian Cuisine(tm) so much. I've been to Italy and I was actually mildly disappointed by the food there at first, I think because it was so ridiculously hyped up in my head.
I'd love to see this Redditor's holiday pictures
Wait until you see all the mean comments I get for my perfectly dark and precisely reproducible roux for gumbo. The Cajuns go beserk when I say I made it in the microwave instead of wasting 30 minutes stirring it on the stove like their memaw, lol. This is, of course, after they've tasted it and liked it.
This post is sponsored by this week's anti-gatekeeping campaigner @Not_a_R-slur. I'd like to thank @Lappland for his weeks of dutiful service and I wish him a happy retirement.
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I need ideas / recipes for easy to make kazakhstan food.
I have to make a bunch of Kazakhi food for reasons so I need easy recipes without much substitution. Like substituting cow for lamb is acceptable.
Currently I'm thinking of making Boortsog and Samsa.
I was thinking of maybe Shashlik since it's basically a kebab and easy
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A lot of fast food slop gets me pooping a couple hours later.
Plus how do you finish a plate/meal packed with so many carbs?
I end up feeling sick during the meal as well.
Are burgers just built different that you have iron slop stomachs?
Teach me your fat ways.