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America’s #1 Burger is Served at NYC’s Best New Bar | On The Line | Bon Appétit
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- The Sip and Guzzle is a American Japanese hybrid cocktail bar.
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We got number one burger in North America, voted by world's best steakhouses.
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My title is Executive Chef.
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I did 10 years at three Michelin, Alinea,
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as Executive Chef and I'm taking all of my creativity
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and applying it to the bar.
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It's a cocktail bar.
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A lot of the food wouldn't work in all environments.
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Here, having a 13-inch mochi fry,
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that's chewy and it's a French fry with a couple of cocktails
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and a beer makes absolute sense
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and it's fun.
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Hey, what's up?
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Welcome to Sip and Guzzle.
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I'm Mike Bagale, Executive Chef.
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Come on in.
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This is actually Guzzle Bar.
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Downstairs is Sip Bar.
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Upstairs focuses on classics and classic cocktail-making, prohibition style.
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And then downstairs is a little bit more technique driven
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and the kitchen supports both programs.
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So, come into the kitchen and let's get started.
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♪ Hey ♪ - We're checking in on some morning production.
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Chef here is getting ready to grind our A5 Wagyu for our signature Tavern
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Burger.
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This Tavern Burger is a byproduct of another iconic sandwich that we do,
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the Royale with Cheese.
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We take all the trimmings from that and we grind it into patties.
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That was how this dish was birthed.
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We use A5 Miyazaki specifically 'cause the Royale with Cheese sandwich is an iconic
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sandwich in Japan called the Katsu Beef Sandwich.
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And our version is a little bit Americanized.
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We put minced onions similar to how big fast food brands do it.
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We make our own Japanese ketchup, our own version of cheese sauce on it.
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Specifically, this is tenderloin.
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This isn't just A5 Wagyu,
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it's the most tender cut on top of it already being tender.
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And the reason for which is when you bite into this really thick sandwich,
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it needs to disintegrate and eat almost like a marshmallow.
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But for the burger, we do 12 a day,
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very specifically because that's our yield of our byproduct.
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So, it is sustainable.
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This is like a nose to tail, if you will,
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of our in-house production.
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There's a lot of fat here.
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It's not traditional for a Tavern Burger, so we need to strengthen it.
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So, we add a little bit of gelatin
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and then we add Japanese Jidori egg yolks to give it a little bit
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of a binder as well.
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It's a Japanese chicken that's actually a fertilized egg.
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It is chicken eggs they use in Yakitori.
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We start this in the morning, let them really,
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really firm up 'cause we're gonna pan base those in a lot of French
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butter and caramelize 'em.
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And we need to make sure that it's fresh ground daily,
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that it's bound properly
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and that it has time to rest
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so the meat softens even a little bit more,
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but it's still compact.
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And then we assemble the burger by adding what I call Parmesan singles to
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mimic like a craft single where we take Parmesan
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and cream and lay it into a sheet
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and cut it into perfect square
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so we can drape
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that over and steam it over the final product.
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And then we do our own fermented shishito relish, napa cabbage slaw, fermented pickles,
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just a light brushing of tare on it and the Breads Bakery sesame buns.
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This looks great, chef.
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I'm gonna head upstairs and check in with Chef Isaac.
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I like to start my day with Chef de Cuisine Isaac here.
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Isaac runs not only the day-to-day operations,
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he helps me streamline the systems to make sure every dish is consistent.
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Let's check out this caviar.
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You gotta see how it's gonna work.
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This is Golden Osetra caviar.
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We get it farmed from Greece.
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It's just a rare quality egg.
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It's a little bit richer,
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a little bit more buttery than you would typically get from a caviar.
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Any luxury ingredient, there needs to be a form of education from the product
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to the guest.
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The best way to serve it is in abundance.
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That way the guests feel not only are they getting the quantity of
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which they want,
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but they're able to make their own assessment into why they like it. -
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Dealing it in with ice cream a lot.
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So, thinking maybe we just do a special with a fat dab of caviar
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on the Hakata milk saucer. - Mm-hmm.
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Really good. - It's delicious.
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This batch is super nutty. - Alright,
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we're gonna check some of the deliveries that are coming in now.
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Some of our deliveries come up to the bar.
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This is our Breads Bakery delivery.
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A very prestigious list that rated us number one burger in the country,
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is partially due to this amazing partnership with Breads Bakery. - Every day,
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deliver in the morning between 12
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and 15 buns just baked like an hour ago. - We don't make it
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in-house because we don't have the time commitment,
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the proofing, the ovens. - One thing coming from Michelin kitchens is there's like
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a stigma of not making everything in-house.
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And if you're not making your own bread
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or your own cured meats
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or whatever- - Then you're a hack. - Yeah,
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then you're an idiot
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and you should go home
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and never come back. - Bread looks awesome
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and we have a few other deliveries
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that we need to check on.
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Come on in. - Thank you. - Straight to the kitchen. - Alright. -
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This is our bluefin tuna.
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Really high quality, as you can tell.
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Clean, beautiful product that we use a lot of.
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Typically what we'll do is we'll separate this loin
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and use the loin specifically for putting into our volcano roll.
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We like to give it a little taste,
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determine if we want to age it on the skin a little bit downstairs
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to impart a little bit more umami
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and flavor.
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Or sometimes it's kind of ready to go now.
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What do you think? - I think it's great.
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I think sit on it for a couple days
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and let it kind of concentrate,
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just on the skin. - Okay. -
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And we'll break it down
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and get it ready. - It could go right now.
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I'd be happy with it right now.
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But yeah, let's give it a few days and we're okay.
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Let's pack it up and keep on moving.
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So, a big part of my day is checking in on production.
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All of the production happens behind the scenes before we start service.
5:35
Right now I'm checking in on our volcano roll,
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which this is an homage to the Japanese hand roll.
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This is a unique recipe of macerating nori with sugar
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and soy and an invert sugar
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and then drying.
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This is a perfect example of a dish that's just hyper, hyper minimalist,
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but it took about four months of constant R and D.
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This is actually two sheets of nori that we've pressed together.
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The next thing is to fry it quickly
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and what we're doing is we're letting the sugars
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that are in the soy caramelize,
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you take this bar and you have to work very,
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very quickly because as the sugar cools, it hardens.
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So, what we're doing is rolling this
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and pressing it so
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that I'm getting it very,
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very, very tight and structural.
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And then the sugar temperature is dropping drastically and as it cools,
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it forms a tube.
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And we set it right here
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and we make 150 of those
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and then we move on to the next project.
6:31
So, we're almost done here.
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Let's go check on some more of the production.
6:35
So, we saw some production upstairs.
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A lot of the rest of the production happens down here in our receiving
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kitchen.
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You saw upstairs, me rolling the tubes
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and finalizing 'em and
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then they get dehydrated.
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Down here is where the production starts.
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We lacquer and brush and macerate all the nori,
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and then it gets air-dried before the final steps.
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So, this happens every day, first thing in the morning,
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as well as drying our chicken skins that we will puff later.
7:01
This is our Bikini production.
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It's the Bikini sandwich designed for my love of the Spanish Bikini sandwich.
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We call it the world's thinnest sandwich.
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The idea of this dish is
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that we fill it with luxurious ingredients
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that embody ham and cheese sandwich.
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We use Comte cheese from France
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and we kind of make like a Comte cheese ganache.
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And then we layer that with fresh shavings of Cinco Jotas Jamon Iberico,
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which for me is the greatest jamon in the world.
7:28
This is the base of the sandwich and as you can tell, it's super,
7:32
super airy.
7:33
It's like a wafer.
7:34
We need two of these per order.
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We can sell over a hundred of these a night.
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So kind of like everything else,
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it's a huge production that has to continually work with extreme efficiency.
7:43
These machines here, they have to continually go for hours
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and hours to fill this.
7:47
It's not a traditional stroopwafel machine.
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It's basically a flat iron press with non-stick surfaces
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that I've used for a variety of techniques,
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but it's the only one I know that proves this technique.
7:58
The batter's really special
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because it's a combination of the right amount of starch
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and how those starches are introduced with flour
8:05
and how it's rested
8:06
and sits over time to give it the resiliency it needs to be paper
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thin and light without being overly heavy.
8:13
And over here, we have our chicken production, Chef Will here,
8:17
has been with us since day one and he's a monster.
8:19
Will can single-handedly prep almost all of it by himself
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and we're super lucky to have him.
8:24
This is a signature Electric Chicken.
8:27
It's called Electric because it has a heavy amount of Sichuan oil
8:30
and a little bit of Sancho,
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which is Japanese, that has a numbing effect on the pallet.
8:35
It's kind of like our version of Nashville hot chicken,
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but we debone it for maximum surface area for crunch- - Crunch. - For consistency.
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It also helps speed up the cooking process.
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Then we brine the legs overnight.
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It makes a juicier piece of chicken.
8:47
For me, you cannot fry chicken if you don't brine it.
8:50
We air-dry it,
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it takes a little bit of
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that moisture out of the skin
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so that when we fry it,
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it gets even extra crispy.
8:56
Off the air-dry into buttermilk, out of the buttermilk and into our dredge.
9:00
Out of the dredge into the fryer,
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every single chicken gets fried for exactly seven minutes, no more, no less.
9:07
Out of the fryer into our amazing Sichuan oil.
9:10
It goes in and outta that oil,
9:12
which just allows that textural crunch layer to be saturated with all that chili.
9:17
But then we let it drip
9:18
and dry so that the chicken's not overly saturated.
9:21
And then we finish it with a heavy dusting of a lot more chili
9:25
powder and Sichuan powder.
9:26
And you let the guests use a pair of scissors.
9:28
We instruct them to put a glove on
9:30
so they can handle the heat. -
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If we cut up the chicken,
9:33
it immediately starts to lose heat and also moisture.
9:35
All of the dishes are izakaya-style.
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So, it's all things to share.
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And this is how we can make something
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that is a single leg of chicken shareable for,
9:43
you know, the whole table. - But that's it for our chicken.
9:45
Keep this thing moving.
9:46
We have a little bit more production to do.
9:52
We got about an hour before doors open, get ready for service,
9:55
do any final tastings,
9:57
any final garnish work
9:58
and make sure the stations are set the way they need to be for
10:00
service.
10:01
Here's our nori rolls.
10:02
The cutting boards are coming out, salamanders going on, ovens are going on.
10:06
Cotton candy machines getting warmed up.
10:08
This is another bit of garnish for one of the dishes.
10:11
This is our chicken skins,
10:12
which we make chicken stock
10:14
and puree the chicken stock with koshihikari rice from Japan.
10:17
It kind of puffs like a chicharron.
10:19
These are the skins that we had drying on the speed rack downstairs.
10:23
We go through a lot of these.
10:24
We do a chicken chips and salsa.
10:26
So, this actually acts as like a potato chip.
10:28
The guests get to crack the chips
10:31
that are seasoned with the powder
10:32
and dip it into avocado,
10:34
pineapple and salsa verde.
10:36
So, part of service is getting these last minute.
10:39
They stay super crunchy.
10:41
We're gonna put up the chicken chips and salsa.
10:43
This is kind of a Ferran Adria trick way, way, way,
10:46
way back in the day.
10:47
He used to put salt air on his margaritas,
10:49
which is super ahead of its time.
10:51
Sometimes people will look at airs
10:53
and foams and they'll criticize it
10:55
as being sciency and molecular.
10:57
It's no different than any other technique.
10:59
Making a foam, making a puff chip, making an anglaise for ice cream base.
11:04
These are all science techniques.
11:05
You can either dip it or you can sip it.
11:07
It's almost designed to be like a gazpacho.
11:10
Guests have a lot of fun with it.
11:11
We need to check the foie gras, which is our signature Mont Blanc recipe,
11:15
which is toasted shokupan, sour cherry jam.
11:18
And make sure we're tight there.
11:19
Did you reblend that? - This is new. - That's new? - Yeah- -
11:23
It still needs to be blended silkier.
11:24
This is a pato foie, a classic French pato foie using cherry juice.
11:29
It's kind of like a jam,
11:31
which still gives it bite and really holds up texturally to the foie gras.
11:35
We've lost a few chefs to this dish.
11:38
He's our third chef to attempt this- - Today. - Today.
11:42
Foie gras's obviously really, really dense, right?
11:44
It's pure fat.
11:46
And when fat gets cold, it gets really, really firm.
11:48
We stabilize ours with a little bit of gelatin, so it's flexible,
11:52
but we don't do a whole lot else to it.
11:55
So, inherently he's working with a very, very dense firm duck fat.
12:00
And he probably should start going to the gym soon.
12:03
He's gonna fix the cherry.
12:05
So, I think we're pretty much there, unless I'm surprised.
12:10
There's also like a peanut butter and jelly thing going on.
12:13
Not in actual flavor, but in texture and design.
12:16
The sour cherry and the super fatty foie gras and, of course,
12:19
the bread your mind takes you to a place, you're like,
12:22
something's very familiar about this.
12:24
And it's done in a little bit more of an elegant fashion.
12:27
For service, like I'll typically expedite or Chef Isaac will expedite.
12:31
We have 110 people on the books,
12:33
but we could easily have 150 walk-ins tonight that we're not ready for.
12:37
And with that comes surprises.
12:38
That's the nature of the beast.
12:40
We are all set up in here with tastings.
12:42
Now, we just need to finalize getting the expo station set up
12:45
and fine-tuning everything so we can get ready to go for service.
12:51
It's four o'clock.
12:52
We're about to get busy,
12:53
so I'm gonna have to kindly ask you to leave.
12:56
Thank you.
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