Executive chef at a top Thai restaurant tells Gordon Ramsay that his Pad Thai is trash [x]
Lmao âwhat do you want to know from me?â Fuck!
So no one thinks that Gordonâs being âPut in his placeâ or something, this is from Gordonâs show where he specifically goes to places around the world to be schooled in how they do their cuisine and un-fuck the British (Imperialist but we canât admit that on TV, but he does hint STRONGLY at it in some episodes) way of cooking âexoticâ dishes by learning from the people who do it best.
Thatâs the worldâs most successful chef putting himself in a position to learn from chefs around the world in world-class restaurants, grandmotherâs houses, in a cramped make-shift kitchen on a rocking and speeding steam train, and more. He doesnât shy away from learning from people whoâve never been in the remote vicinity of a culinary arts school or run a âprofessionalâ kitchen.
And here heâs showing a chef what he thinks of as Pad Thai and if you donât think one of the most talented chefs on earth didnât know he was specifically setting himself up to fail to make a point to his audience, then hopefully you do now! â¤Â
the context- he wasnt saying âheres my world famous pad tai for you to sample, a recipe i hold more dear then my own motherâ its closer to âhere, this is how i was taught to cook pad tai in liverpool by a man named charles, how far off am i?â
The first time you see how cashew nuts grow, youâre gonna think somebodyâs posting a joke picture or a weird art installation.
ok but you say thisâŚ.then donât give us picturesÂ
LOOK AT THESE RIDICULOUS THINGS
And it gets even weirder!
The shell of the nut itself:
contains a resin thatâs so toxic just touching it causes burns to the skin, similar to poison ivy. Which is why cashews are never sold unshelled, because processing them requires safety measures like this:
How humanity ever figured out to eat this nut is beyond me.
In case you ever wondered why cashews are so expensive. Now you can wonder why they arenât more expensive.
what iâm wondering now is how anybody ever found out that you could eat cashews
OK but you seem to underestimate how scarce food could get for people, and how desperate they become to try anything. If eating it raw kills you? try cooking it because weâre gonna starve to death anyway. Cooking it kills you? Try cooking it a different way. Touching it is painful? Try washing it, or extracting the inner bit and washing that.
Thereâs this plant thatâs eaten by aboriginal people of australia around where I live. Only certain parts of this plant can be eaten, and even then only if those parts are cooked exactly right, kept at a certain temperature for a certain amount of time. And it has to be exactly that amount of time as both undercooking it AND overcooking it are deadly.
The history of food is a history fraught with countless, terrible deaths because we are so stubborn that when faced with starvation, we will fucking eat poison again and again until itâs not poison anymore.
Some Paleolithic chef âI know like five people died already, but I think I got it this time.â
Some different, starving, Paleolithic person âfuck it bro. Gimme the nut.â
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