This video demonstrates the prep process for making oil poached and pressed potatoes. Fingerling potatoes are first slowly poached in flavored oil until tender, slightly cooled and then pressed with the skin still on. These potatoes can then be fried in olive oil or clarified butter until the exterior is crispy, finished with fresh herbs and sea salt and served as is or as an accompaniment to a meat course.
Here's a quick video that will teach you how to properly clean a kitchen work surface. No, it's not the sexiest food video I've ever released, but if you ever wanted to work in a professional kitchen, this is the technique they would want you to use. Not to mention, this will make your kitchen clean-up at home much more efficient.
This video will demonstrate how to prep tomato concasse, a technique that can be utilized anytime you want to serve just the tomato flesh without the skin (which can be tough and catch in your teeth) and the seeds, which contain a high amount of water content.
Here's a quick video demonstrating how to clean and blanch green beans. After the green beans are prepared, their ready to be finished using a high-heat, secondary cooking technique such as sauteing, frying and roasting.
This video will teach you how to quickly seed a pomegranate.
In this video we go over basic pan terminology used in a professional kitchen including the definitions of a hotel pan, third pan, ninth pan, sixth pan, and more. These are important terms to learn if you plan on working in a professional kitchen.
Frenching frog legs is a right of passage in many French kitchens. This video will teach you how to prep and french frog legs, allowing for a cleaner presentation and easier consumption.
This video will demonstrate three different techniques for roasting garlic. Also, a brief lecture on the science behind roasting garlic, and why its strong, pungent flavor will become mild and sweet when heat is applied over a long period of time.
In this video I demonstrate how to bind together two boneless, skinless chicken breasts using the transglutaminase enzyme. The resulting piece of meat is cohesive, easy to portion and will cook more evenly then a traditional chicken breast.
In a previous video, I demonstrated how to bond two chicken breasts together using Activa RM. In this video I demonstrate how to bond two chicken leg and thigh portions together using an Activa GS slurry. This form of slurry allows for a tighter bond, making it ideal for large pieces of meat.
My preferred method of finishing is to cook the legs sous vide at 60C for four hours, which makes them extremely tender and juicy. After the fours, I'll ice bath to cool and then portion. For service, both sides of the leg and thigh are pan fried and then finished in the oven until the core temperature is warm.