Comments on: Home Ec for All, Bourdain’s Technique Show http://livingsmallblog.com/2010/04/06/home-ec-for-all-bourdains-technique-show/ Life, Literature, and the Subversive Power of Living Small Thu, 10 May 2012 18:35:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: SallyBR http://livingsmallblog.com/2010/04/06/home-ec-for-all-bourdains-technique-show/comment-page-1/#comment-40755 SallyBR Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:08:49 +0000 http://livingsmallblog.com/?p=2328#comment-40755 Just found your blog through Ruhlman's site, and love it! I loved Bourdain's show on Techniques, but have to agree with Heather, I almost passed out when I saw Thomas Keller and his pepper grinder stuck in the chicken, very bad example, I could not believe a chef of his caliber doing that. I am a microbiologist, work around bacteria 24 hours'day, so I am not paranoid at all. But raw chicken needs a lot more respect.. Just found your blog through Ruhlman’s site, and love it!

I loved Bourdain’s show on Techniques, but have to agree with Heather, I almost passed out when I saw Thomas Keller and his pepper grinder stuck in the chicken, very bad example, I could not believe a chef of his caliber doing that.

I am a microbiologist, work around bacteria 24 hours’day, so I am not paranoid at all. But raw chicken needs a lot more respect..

]]> By: cmf http://livingsmallblog.com/2010/04/06/home-ec-for-all-bourdains-technique-show/comment-page-1/#comment-40709 cmf Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:01:24 +0000 http://livingsmallblog.com/?p=2328#comment-40709 I'm not sure what the wishbone thing was about either -- except maybe to make the trussing smush the bird a little more? Myself, I'm dedicated to the Marcella Hazan "stuff a perforated lemon inside" method of chicken roasting. Which worked out well when the poor bird spent an extra hour in the oven while I had to go rescue the Sweetheart last night at a trailhead (his car battery died). We ate a very well done, but not dry bird. I'm so in love with Jacques Pepin that I was just happy to see him making an omelette ... mostly though I just loved the general admonition to take back some responsibility for knowing how to cook some basics -- it's not enough to order well or know the best restaurants -- learn to cook a few things. Sometimes the secret-insider-Chowhound aspect of Bourdain's show bugs me. (Although everyone had very nice things to say about him when he was here.) I’m not sure what the wishbone thing was about either — except maybe to make the trussing smush the bird a little more? Myself, I’m dedicated to the Marcella Hazan “stuff a perforated lemon inside” method of chicken roasting. Which worked out well when the poor bird spent an extra hour in the oven while I had to go rescue the Sweetheart last night at a trailhead (his car battery died). We ate a very well done, but not dry bird. I’m so in love with Jacques Pepin that I was just happy to see him making an omelette … mostly though I just loved the general admonition to take back some responsibility for knowing how to cook some basics — it’s not enough to order well or know the best restaurants — learn to cook a few things. Sometimes the secret-insider-Chowhound aspect of Bourdain’s show bugs me. (Although everyone had very nice things to say about him when he was here.)

]]> By: Heather http://livingsmallblog.com/2010/04/06/home-ec-for-all-bourdains-technique-show/comment-page-1/#comment-40707 Heather Wed, 07 Apr 2010 02:19:27 +0000 http://livingsmallblog.com/?p=2328#comment-40707 I was distracted when Thomas Keller was roasting his chicken, but I caught the "take out the wishbone" part. That was completely new to me, and I think I'll have to track down what that was all about. Also, I was shocked when I watched him shove his pepper grinder into the inside of the raw chicken. Made me think a bit what it means that I'm that afraid of a raw chicken. I was distracted when Thomas Keller was roasting his chicken, but I caught the “take out the wishbone” part. That was completely new to me, and I think I’ll have to track down what that was all about.

Also, I was shocked when I watched him shove his pepper grinder into the inside of the raw chicken. Made me think a bit what it means that I’m that afraid of a raw chicken.

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