In Videos: 'Waiters Who Are Nauseated by Food'
From the short-lived Dana Carvey Show comes this comedy skit from 1996 featuring Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell. Video after the jump.
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In Videos: The Death & Life of Ice Cream
This three-minute montage of ice cream and other frozen novelties melting into puddles of goo and resolidifying back into their original forms is oddly soothing. And saddening. I can't help but think, "Oh my god, I would've totally eaten that, prior to its transformation from solid to liquid, nooo!" every few seconds.
Witness the fleeting life of ice cream (when not in a freezer, that is), after the jump.
How To Make Chocolate Truffles
Learn how to make chocolate truffles by watching San Francisco-based chocolatier Michael Recchiuti in action as he makes truffles in an elevator (an elevator being your second choice if your kitchen is too crowded):
Check out part two after the jump.
A Japanese Potato Chip Commercial
I'm not exactly sure what's going on here. Can any Japanese readers explain? Video
How To Kill a Chocolate Bunny in Three Exciting Ways!
For all those times that you've wondered what would happen to a chocolate bunny artfully subjected to the destructive power of an iron, a heat lamp, and a blow dryer, here's your answer.
Octopus Ice Cream: Now With More Suckers!
In his series of videos about life in Japan, Kevin Cooney takes us on a stomach churning tasting tour of Namjatown's Ice Cream City. What could be so bad about a city of ice cream, certainly one of the best things to have ever been concocted by humans? This city may contain the flavors of your dreams, but it also contains the flavors of your nightmares. Twisted nightmares at that, mostly featuring sea life. Observe:
[video contains some strong language]
Here are some choice quotes if you don't want to watch the nine and a half minute video in its entirety:
Octopus: "Oh my god. Oh. Oh my god, this is horrible. It's a sucker. There's an actual sucker..."
Squid: "That is the most aquatic ice cream I've ever had in my life."
Shark Fin Ramen: "I think whoever decided to make shark fin ice cream should also be put to death for crimes against my mouth."
Saury: "It's in fact chocolate and fish, together at last, fish and chocolate. Fish and chocolate. Peanut butter and chocolate—I can get that, can wrap my mind around that—but fish and chocolate...god, why?"
After tasting the last ice cream he breaks down and gives the impression that he's about to die. I think a strong message here is that sea life and ice cream don't mix well.
If Kevin's expressions of nausea amuse you (they sure amused me), be sure to watch part 2 of the ice cream horror where he painfully digs into octopus, curry, and snake flavored ice creams. [via TV in Japan]
The 5 Worst Candies of All Time
Handsome Donkey gives us the 5 Worst Candies of all time in this handy video that illustrates typical human reactions to eating such candies:
Who are the sugary perpetrators? Paper Dots , Wax Bottles, Chewing Tobacco (certainly a bad candy since it's not even candy), Circus Peanuts and Necco wafers (tie), and the number one criminal to all candy kind, Giant Jawbreakers.
While I don't necessarily agree that these are the worst candies of all time, I do think that they all suck. Out of everything on the list I've only had the displeasure of eating wax bottles and jawbreakers, probably because they came with goody bags from childhood parties and kids will eat anything artificially colored and borderline toxic as long as it's sweet (me being one of these kids). I distinctly remember chewing on a wax bottle, feeling perplexed because it was missing a property of food that I tend to hold in high regard—that is, digestibility—and then spitting it out, thinking that it would only be worth biting through the inconvenient wax receptacle if the liquid inside were some kind of serum that gave you superpowers or increased brain functionality, which it did not. If anything, it may have lowered my brain activity.
There's a lot of questionable candy out there. Bad Candy knows the horrors of these confections all too well.
Grandma's Kitchen Television
My grandma Ida was a great Eastern European Jewish cook (her matzo brei and her blintzes were the stuff of legend), and if she were alive today I would be taping her for this brilliantly conceived British website, What's Cooking Grandma. Here's one of the videos featured on the site:
Taste3 Videos
Videos of some of the presentations at this year's Taste3 are now available online. Two that I'd recommend watching are Moto Restaurant's 21-year-old Pastry Chef Ben Roche and Honey Bee expert Dennis van Engelsdorp.
Robert Rodriguez's 10-Minute Cooking School: Sin City Breakfast Tacos
The director Robert Rodriguez has a new movie out, Grindhouse, which I haven't gotten around to seeing yet, but I did love 2005's Sin City, his adaptation of the Frank Miller comic book. Turns out if you get the Sin City DVD, one of the special features on it is the second episode of Rodriguez's 10-Minute Cooking School, for his Sin City Breakfast Tacos:
He makes his tortillas from scratch, and uses both lard and butter! I may have to fight his new girlfriend Rose McGowan for him.
Handpulling Noodles to Teach Physics
If you like both noodles and science, you should get a kick out of this video from the physicist Philip Morrison's 1987 PBS show The Ring of Truth: Atoms, in which chef Mark Pi makes noodles to demonstrate the principle of halving:
After handpulling and folding the noodles just twelve times, Pi's created 4,096 strands so thin they're called dragon's beard noodles; Morrison points out that if Pi pulls and folds them another thirty times, the noodles would be so fine as to approach atomic thickness!
Tasting Rachael Ray
Tasting Rachael Ray by Naomi Lebowitz is a video composed of Ray's money shots after tasting something on her Food Network show $40 A Day. Lebowitz used clips from more than 30 episodes of the show to make the video, which is a fun watch whether you love or hate Rachael Ray.
[via Gawker]
Popcorn Popping in Slow Motion
Popcorn Popping in Slow Motion: "Check out this video of a popcorn kernel pop in slow motion being captured with a high speed camera. The explosion that makes it expand outwards is caused from a small amount of water inside the kernel that gets heated up until it expands." This is going to sound really silly until you watch the video, but: who knew popcorn was so beautiful?
[via Neatorama]
Bear with Me
Sometimes when you don't want the artisanal chocolate and you don't want any cheese that's 30 years old that's been made by monks in Latvia, you need things like sour Sunny Bears.
Edibles: Scarfin' the Scharffen
In today's installment of Edibles, I indulge my sweet tooth with some Scharffen Berger milk chocolate. They just sold to Hershey's, so it's going to be interesting to see if the quality is still good. Eat along with me to find out.
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Scharffen Berger 41% Cacao Extra Rich Milk Chocolate. $4.50 for a 3-ounce bar.
Edibles: Getting Cheesy
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Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Company Blue Cheese Dressing: "American cheesemakers have come a long way, and this is an indication." pointreyescheese.com
Cypress Grove Chevre Humboldt Fog: "A fabulous cheese; it's sharp tangy and nutty and all the things you want." cypressgrovechevre.com
Edibles: Stockholm Slices
Here is the second episode of what we've taken to calling "Edibles" around Serious Eats world headquarters. In this video, I talk to Adam Kuban, Serious Eats managing editor—and founder of SliceNY.com—about the lines at Di Fara Pizza. My friend Robb Walsh visited Di Fara while in town recently and confirms tales of two-hour waits there. Two hours!
Edibles: Palapa Azul Ice Cream
We've gotten our hands on a video camera at Serious Eats world headquarters. I thought it would be fun to produce short video blog entries with it. We're calling them "Edibles." Here's the first one.
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Palapa Azul helados (ice creams) from Mexico: Sweet Corn, Flan, and Mexican Chocolate flavors sampled.
I bought these at Whole Foods, but you can use this link to find it near you.
LA Hot Dogs and Tacos: The Movie
I came across this great little LA hot dog and taco movie.
These guys are both really passionate about their respective fields of expertise. They have their own blogs, babygater and latacohunt
Today's Special: Hamburgers
George Motz produced and directed the definitive hamburger documentary, Hamburger America, that was shown at the just completed Cannes Film Festival.
George's movie is just swell, and this clip will give you a little taste of the weird and wacky world of hamburgers across the USA.
