I could listen to J. Kenji talk about food all day

@GladeAir-Freshener

2 жыл бұрын

i agree 🎧👌🏼

@victorevans2867

2 жыл бұрын

Or about anything

@i.d.9754

2 жыл бұрын

Too satisfying

@1206mattdillon

2 жыл бұрын

Same

@stanceypanda8668

2 жыл бұрын

Me to

I'm so used to watching Kenji cooking from his POV that this feels like an out of body experience.

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

2 жыл бұрын

It feels weird seeing him make eye contact with the camera.

@TheArcSet

2 жыл бұрын

:) .

@gigphoong9059

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah. I was taken back by how serious he looked during this series. But considering how much work and research he puts into everything it shouldn't be surprising.

@jonhedlund8058

2 жыл бұрын

hahahahahahah

@jonhedlund8058

2 жыл бұрын

hahahaha

I love the "I'm meeting my hero and I'm ultra nervous and dorky" energy from Babish in this episode ♥

@AndrewJW

2 жыл бұрын

Right!? I can't believe he didn't say anything about it!?

@TerraHv1

Жыл бұрын

I think that's just normal him and the Babbish videos take out all the spaz bits. :p

I love how Kenji precisely explains everything with the least amount of words.

@Garbageman28

2 жыл бұрын

The mark of true genius

@LordofBays

2 жыл бұрын

Explaining it to us like we're 5-years-old.

@NeverMind353

2 жыл бұрын

The result of explaning this stuff over and over again to students, chefs, in his cookbook,... He gradually leaves out the unimportant bits and focuses on clearly communicating the core bits

@mwr7

2 жыл бұрын

100%

The name “Tempura” comes from the Latin “Quattor Tempora” literally “four times”. The phrase refers to what in English are known as Ember days, four brief periods of fasting that were traditionally observed by Catholics throughout the year. The Portuguese missionaries taught the Japanese a method for frying fish to be eaten on these Ember days (meat was traditionally avoided during fast periods) and the method of batter frying became so closely associated with the the ember days the Japanese began referring to the process itself as “Tempura”

@has2236

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting fact.

@serpentax

2 жыл бұрын

thank you, i learned in japan the word came from portuguese, but when i brought it up with portuguese speakers they thought i was insane. context was needed. especially embarrassing when getting called an idiot by a japanese brazilian.

@rodrigogcoritiba

2 жыл бұрын

I've read somewhere that it came from the portuguese word "tempero", which means spice. This explanation makes a little more sense since tempura is not really spicy

@min_says_h3110

2 жыл бұрын

This is a very interesting fact. I always thought that perhaps the word came from some other country or was sampled centuries ago since it sounded a little different to some other words in the language, turns out my hunch was right! I will definitely read into this more

@MrAqr2598

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the explanation. I really should know this as a Japanese person.

Always great to see J Kenji on the show! Love to see more of him on!

@connorbryan8189

2 жыл бұрын

His own KZread channel is also worth watching if you haven’t started yet!

Andrew's fangirling over JKLA is proof that he's human like the rest of us. Still not convinced he's human, but at least now there's some evidence.

@seankay597

2 жыл бұрын

He keeps a bottle of whisky/borboun on his work desk. He human.

@Woodshadow

2 жыл бұрын

They need to go out and get dinner together. just chill out and be human with each other

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

2 жыл бұрын

@@Woodshadow What dinner could they get that's better than what they could make themselves?

@samazam4221

2 жыл бұрын

He cant pronounce worcestershire sauce. He's definitely human.

@TheForeverRanger

2 жыл бұрын

The way Andrew looks at Kenji is the way I look at my idol Alton Brown.

I’m happy to see Andrew doing his dream job, J Kenji Lopez-Alt’s book rep.

I love how universally amazing croquettes are. My mom is Indian and she makes a croquette called vegetable chop, which is made with beets. This really reminds me of that.

@cthulusauce

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! I’ve only had Cuban ones before but they are equally as amazing

Often, Andrew takes a step back to allow the guest chefs to have their "creative space." This time, it looks like Andrew is less being polite, but more that he is intimidated by the presence of one he regards as a diety. To hear Kenji speak of using his mom's recipe, then the next breath explaining how to exploit thermodynamics, just seems to cement his credibility as a mature and wise master. Not flash and flair with showboating to hype up the result. He is relatable, encouraging, and just makes you want to try it yourself.

So how many times did you guys rewatch Andrew dropping the sweet potato? Because I've already watched it three times, and I'm still laughing at it yet. 😂

As a mom with a child old enough to say, “mom, do you have … I could take?”, I felt the love and high regard he has for his mom throughout the video.

What useful tips for tasty and safe croquet cooking, thanks to Kenji and his mother! Traditions must be passed on to future generations to be eternal!

I may be alone here, but one of my favorite underrated parts of the BCU is Andrew constantly juggling/dropping things, because same.

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

2 жыл бұрын

It's an important part of the cooking process.

Phenomenal explanation!! As a teacher, throughout the entire video I couldn't help but think, "Wow he's a great teacher!" Loved the video ❤️

@sonicfan2651

2 жыл бұрын

He's just a fountainhead of knowledge

@nowthatsurban

2 жыл бұрын

Chef first and youtuber second. That's one of the keys to his success and likability.

Whoever edited this is hilarious! They keep sandbagging every one of Babish's jokes hahahahahaha

Kenji: "It doesn't matter what the beef is, you could use turkey, you could use chicken..." I know he meant "the meat", but this slip of the tongue made me think of ordering a Coke in Atlanta.

@blu4get

2 жыл бұрын

“what do you want?” “coke” “okay but what kind of coke?” “sprite” “oh okay cool”

@chsyank

2 жыл бұрын

While consulting to Pepsi I actually asked for Coke in the dining room. Oops.

I learned of Kenji through Babish and love them equally, so seeing them together is always awesome.

@nowthatsurban

2 жыл бұрын

I've watched Kenji for years - his old midnight snack videos were mouthwatering. I only found Babish last year which is surprising given his KZread presence. I agree that they're both incredible!

@MauiWowieOwie

2 жыл бұрын

@@nowthatsurban I found Babish right at his inception and got to watch him grow into the behemoth of a channel he's become. While watching I kept hearing him refer to Kenji over and over so I finally went over to his channel to see. Absolutely love him and he reminds me a lot of Alton Brown on how they go into the chemisty of cooking to explain what's happening on a molecular level while showing us the recipe. Also, yeah I love his midnight snacks videos, I've seen all of them multiple times. I wish he would do more. I've actually done more of Kenji's recipes than Babish's.

The best part is watching Andy just be a goofball while Kenji does his thing. That is certainly a mood.

J. Kenji López-Alt is a food virtuoso! And so fun and engaging to listen to! He is a talented teacher too! Rare that someone so skilled at their trade should also be able to teach it so effortlessly.

I loved this guys food! And his name.

Kenji’s single white hair falling out of his top knot, I’m obsessed 🤩

Great to finally see him on the show, always been a fan and he comes up so often on the show.

I've never clicked on a video so fast. I got my wok (and copy of "The Wok") last week. One enlightening trip to the Asian market later, I've made stir frys every other night this week! Much love to Kenji and Andrew ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Seeing this makes me imagine how donuts and donut holes would be easier to fry in a wok.

@Jinxanator66

2 жыл бұрын

Ngl wanna make tempura donuts

@ordinarywine

2 жыл бұрын

They're super easy to do! We use our wok for deep frying donuts and fried pickles and almost anything else you can stick in a deep fryer basket

@NancyPower33

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, my husband uses our wok for frying donuts (and many other things) and it works very well! 😊👍

@BakedandCooked

2 жыл бұрын

Kenji dropped that tip on his own channel and I've been thinking about donuts too.

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

2 жыл бұрын

Mmm... donuts.

Kenji and Babish: A great combo AND both terrific solo. Great explanations of these wok processes.

deeply appreciate kenji's deep frying tips for people who are afraid of oil splatters! i often fry stuff but am afraid of the oil splatters so i tend to stand away from the pan to avoid it, so im very glad kenji showed us how thats the wrong thing to do, and what the right approach is. even the best of chefs often dont explain something that simple and important, and i cherish the fact that he did! thank you kenji and thank you andrew for admitting that youre afraid of oil too 😅 makes me feel more seen haha

I actually bought his The Wok cookbook after watching another episode Y'all did together and I'm loving it. I've cooked about 4 different dishes from it so far, and all have been delicious and easy to follow. I absolutely love cooking with my wok and have always been looking for more recipes of stuff to try in it. An amazing cookbook for anyone with a wok or who wants to try cooking with one.

Happy that you had J Kenji on these episodes! I’ve had a wok for a while and didn’t know what else to do with it besides stir fry so I bought his book! Excited to try out these recipes and some others!

You can tell this is really a recipe from the chefs heart, which reminds him of his mother and his daughter

J Kenji teaching me a lot about my own country, ngl. I never associated tempura with any of our words, now i know it's a church fast thing. Wild

I love how clear Kenji's directions are! easy to follow and engaging. can't wait to try frying in a wok!

Honestly this is the best food duo anyone could ask for! I could watch videos like these for hours and hours!

I picked up Kenji's book a few weeks ago and it's fantastic. Full of great information and pretty easy to follow recipes. I HIGHLY recommend it.

Love J Kenji Lopez Alt! All of his recipes turn out so well.

Babish finally got J. Kenji Lopéz-Alt! It's about time!! We've been hearing his name since way back and now he is finally here!

@nick4leader

2 жыл бұрын

As soon as I saw the title I was like "no way, he got jkla on the show?"

J. Kenji is a real teacher. Would love to see more from him.

i love how this channel went from babish taking inspiration from J.Kenji recipes and techniques to having him have his own series on the channel! I love to see the growth this channel has gone through over the years and cant wait to see what will come next!

Your videos are helping me through a stomach flu by bringing my appetite back. And I thank you.

LOVE seeing kenji and Andrew cooking together both are my favorites to watch

love that babish always referenced tips he did now she’s been on his show a couple times

I started exclusively deep frying in woks a couple of weeks ago and I can't understate how much easier and cleaner it has been to work with, I can't recommend it enough.

@TheRAMBO9191

2 жыл бұрын

How do you discard the oil?

@VicViper26

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheRAMBO9191 Since I usually use a whole bottle, I strain it through a coffee filter and just pour it back into that bottle for reuse (I just pour it out the side with the filter set up over a 16oz measuring cup, never really have any issues with spills). Eventually, once the oil can't be used anymore, I throw it away in that same bottle since you can't dump oil down a drain (at least not where I live in the US).

@johnhpalmer6098

2 жыл бұрын

@@VicViper26 Yep, the trick is to keep track of how many times you use it. According to one source, you can't reuse oil that's used for deep frying battered foods more than 4 times, even if you filter it (recommended), but for French fried, no more than 8 times however.

Great to see Kenji, really clear and simple instructions!

making the different sizes for his daughter 🥺❤️ so so cute. I lived in germany for a while and discovered a love of croquettes through my host parents, so thank you for the recipe so i can make these for myself!

It is SO COOL that I'm watching Kenji on the BCU!!! I friggin' LOVE this collab!!!❤️

LOVE J Kenji! LOVE Babish! I need more of this in my life.

Love these videos. Great to see you two working together on something!

I was so so excited to see this!!!! Literally gasped and dropped what I had in my hands.

08:07 Thank you SO MUCH for telling us how we could make a similar sauce, i was thinking this looks delicious but i will never be able to buy that sauce

Great cooking vid! Always lovely to see Andrew collab with other awesome chefs. Loving Kenji's traditional top-knot! He looks like he jumped out of a painting and threw on modern clothes. Then let Jess paint his nails 🤣 love it!!

2 of my favorite cooks on KZread! Combined in one video, loved it :D!

Always nice to see these two working together

These videos convinced us to not only buy a wok but also the cookbook, really hype to start trying out some of the stuff shown :)

It's so great that he explained the why to each thing done.

This was the wrong video to watch late at night while I'm hungry. Glad Babish and J. Kenji clearly had a lot of fun! I'll definitely be trying to make his mother's croquette recipe!

Love this channel So much thanks alot for teaching us all these wonderful foods and of course I'll try but fail but that's the goal not the Winning but the journey

I will always trust Kenji-san. He ended years of destroyed boiled eggs for my family in a couple seconds of video.

I love how he's this famous badass chef and everything he's making just like what his mom made him growing up ❤️ "this came out of my mom's pantry this morning."

Love Kenji! My two favorite chefs in the same video!

I loooooove using a wok for frying, it's so reliable and easy.

Love tempura fried sweet potato. I got some with my first bento box ever and I called the sweet potato the secret best bite of the box.

You two need to get together more often. This made me so happy!!

Love seeing the master of crispiness at work.

This is a perfect video for today. I planned on making these today for dinner so this is like the perfect tutorial

I bet a huge % of food youtubers who didn't start their career as a professional chef owes Kenji a debt of gratitude in some form or another. Glad to see Babish letting the godfather plug his excellent book on his channel.

@itsmeandthensome

2 жыл бұрын

I am one of those KZreadrs and Kenji's book is my must have books. It's a great book!

@Galactic123

2 жыл бұрын

@@itsmeandthensome Right on brother, I love sandwiches, I took a glance at your channel and I'm digging what I see so far, you just got a new subscriber.

Kenji and Andrews voice is a smooth drink on a Sunday evening 🤌🏼

Love to see Kenji here, hope the series continues

legendary collab, this is my multiverse of madness

What a compelling host! Lovely video- gonna have to try some of this myself!

Really hope this series addresses the continuing decline of gas burners (including in restaurants), and how to usefully use a wok on induction. Because otherwise you're leaving out a *large* proportion of the population. Even in the US, where gas is ostensibly the predominant cooking medium, less than half of households even have it as an option. Elsewhere in the developed world it tends to be even less common.

@blu4get

2 жыл бұрын

you can get induction burners specifically make for woks, which are essentially bowl shaped. but tbh woks work best with a flame

For those who dislike BullDog Katsu sauce(like myself), it can be a bit harder to find, but if you have an asian market in your area try to find Ottogi Katsu Sauce(I prefer without sesame seeds.) I absolutely adore and fell in love with Ottogi's recipe for Katsu Sauce and simply can never go back to other brands. If you enjoy Katsu sauce in general, I would very much recommend trying to see if you can find Ottogi's brand to try it out!

Both of these are the best.

Thanks to this video we don't need a deep fryer. We just use the wok. And that's great.

It's a mashup of my favorites, I know I'm going to enjoy this.

@kallisto9166

2 жыл бұрын

Do you mean the show or the croquettes?

@wormulous

2 жыл бұрын

The show, but I wasn't opposed to the food either.

I LOVE collabs between KZreadrs. Yay! Plus, great Japanese dishes

We love you Kenji! Just got your science lab book and my partner and I have been cooking up a storm! Maybe will get wok one next! lol :D Thank you for being you and doing all you do

Kenji I love you channel, your beef stew recipe changed the game for me. Please be on Babish again soon, you two make a funny duo!

I Love that J kenji alt is finaly at your show because your fanboying for so long 😄👍

"If you're really afraid of oil.... go to a restaurant" 😂

got this cookbook for my birthday, i love it!

I am just so here for the Andrew and Kenji mashup that's going on, love it

I want to see kenji explain what to do with the wok full of oil after he’s done cooking. That has always been the main reason I hate deep frying at home.

@Alaskaalien

2 жыл бұрын

Filter it! After it's cooled down pour it into some paper towels or coffee filters in a funnel over a mason jar, fry oil filters really and you can reuse that same oil lots of times as your deep fry oil!

@johnhpalmer6098

2 жыл бұрын

@@Alaskaalien However, you should never reuse the oil, even if you filter it for deep batter frying more than 4 times, or 8 times with cleaner types of frying like making French fries. When you are finished using it, put it into a disposable container with a lid and toss in the trash, or better yet, find a place that recycles food grade oil and take it there.

I just imagine Andrew in the background not knowing what to do, being nervous, and asking kendall what J. Kenji needs lol

Both simple but brilliant!

So glad they have the cameras to cover multiple angles so we could see the ideal size for the sweet potato.

This episode was very relatable and heartwarming to me, for myself being of Japanese origin, partially like J. Kenji. 0:25~ So uncalled-for, Babish. So uncalled-for. 7:51~ Nothing like burning your mouth with a piping-hot croquette. 13:26~ Babish, don't talk with your mouth full.

@feelthelove3725

2 жыл бұрын

…not that uncalled for given the history of European colonialism

@1911odisea

2 жыл бұрын

@@feelthelove3725 I mean, Japanese colonialism was incredibly brutal.

@feelthelove3725

2 жыл бұрын

@@1911odisea yeah it was pretty terrible. Not really worth comparing them because they both exploited and killed millions

@MrAqr2598

2 жыл бұрын

@@1911odisea Yeah, mostly because the government was not strong enough to keep the forces in check.

It’s about time J. Kenji Lopéz-Alt got a part in the BCU.

@seanmcdonagh6237

2 жыл бұрын

He’s doing perfectly fine on his own

@onyxcosmium6586

2 жыл бұрын

I know he is. I’m just glad to see more of him on the channel. Also kinda just realized that this isn’t the first time he was on the channel; I just missed the first episode :/

@thanoswasright999

2 жыл бұрын

@@seanmcdonagh6237 Benedict Cumberbatch was doing perfectly fine on his own and now he's Doctor Strange.

@seanmcdonagh6237

2 жыл бұрын

@@thanoswasright999 Kenji > Benji

@thanoswasright999

2 жыл бұрын

@@seanmcdonagh6237 No argument there.

Finally a collab! Never clicked so fast!

I'd always assumed the Japanese croquette thing was from the influx and popularity of french cuisine. Neat.

I loved this episode, especially the sweet potato launch.

I do all of my deep frying in a wok, I tried it for myself a couple years ago and haven’t gone back to the dutch oven.

My grandma would make chicken or Turkey croquettes with gravy and I loved them.

these videos are delightful

I’ve never really understood how to use a wok, I just didn’t use one growing up and at uni I haven’t had space of a wok. That cookbook looks like a interesting thing to start with.

We need a Kenji head cam to feel authentic!

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

2 жыл бұрын

Alternatively, Babish should appear on Kenji's channel and give us a Babish head cam.

The one wet hand one dry hand idea is a game changer; I'm so embarrassed I did not think of it

Kenji and Babish = instant like

THAT was a great video....! You two need to do more co-vid's... Cheers from Canada.

Ooh babish talks about kenji so much in this show, he mustve been so excited to have him 😄

Kenji is the KZread chef that KZread chefs watch.