David Chang

why is the top rack not stable? i thought top racks are all the same, standing on its handles, but scaled to size..

@Syzygies there was one on display in a furniture store in vienna. not a kitchen shop, a furniture store. i think it was a berkel. imagine having one in your home. it’s the ultimate culinary flex.

January has only begun and this machine has already made my list of kitchen gear purchase of the year... I saw this Graef slicer in Austria and wanted to buy it but couldn't be disassembled to carry in my luggage, so i ordered it on amazon de. it is 100% manual and for a few quick slices here and their to snack on, it's perfect. light enough to hold with one hand. the only downside is it will not slice a piece bigger than 15 cm diameter because the travel is limited. but the speed is as fast as you can crank and push. the cuts are surprisingly thin and uniform. i'm very happy with this machine. made in germany. 190mm serrated blade for bread and meat.

i don’t know if this would be a popular but i would totally option a tiled side table..

yeah we ate chinese and korean in vienna. they were not great but surprisingly not bad. we just couldn’t stomach any more wiener schnitzel, which is apparently served in every freaking restaurant in austria..

its a brown crab common in uk/north brittany. but the taste of a florida stone crab claw is much better and sweeter. the brown crab has the texture, but the taste is rather absent..

i would do this if possible. ask the client to pay for the 32 stone, but pack the 32 stone in a 42 crate. client returns the the wrong 42 stone in the proper 42 crate.

back in paris on the last leg of my european winter holiday (vienna, istanbul, rome, firenze) and eating one of my last meals, a giant crab claw in our favorite raw bar in st honoré, paris. but i’m ready to go home because most of the food and coffee we had sucked, and i can’t wait to make home cooked meals.. it was the first time we ate chinese food outside of hk and we never eat chinese food in europe. THATS how desperate things got… 😅

so i spent christmas in Cappadocia and maybe its because its massively touristy here, but i ordered the manti and i can say for sure the one i made at home tastes so much better than how they make it here. will try this dish again in istanbul but i have doubts it will be better…

i followed the recipe in the video, but what they don't show you is it takes 3 hours and a lot of screwing up (for someone who is making it for the first time) to complete the recipe. it's all smoke and mirrors in a tv studio..

i would spin meats on the kk rotisserie that cook hot and fast. like chicken or pork. for edge-to-edge medium rare prime rib (exactly how it's served in a restaurant), use reverse sear method in the kk without the rotisserie. or even better, sous vide then sear. the sv bag will yield lots of liquid for making jus with no mess. and there will be no puncture holes made by the spit rod for a better presentation... i made prime rib roast on a spit years ago on a weber kettle. charcoal baskets on opposite sides with a drip tray in the middle. it was not possible to get edge-to-edge medium rare this way. lots of grey banding and over cooked edges. i would assume the same if done the same way in a kk..

my wife has been nagging me to make these for a while. the balled up ones are dumplings i messed up. taste is not bad. but a pain to make..

yeah i cut it open. the taste is fantastic. i want to make 2 more. shame it takes forever.

made the most random stuff tonight..

you can make a custom pallet built around the feet of the 32 and load it on an all-terrain pallet jack. i believe you can tow this on an atv. but the terrain needs to be flat. inclines/declines will be trouble.

i personally would not put it on a trailer for long distance travel. but if you manage to do all this, i'd like to see how you set it up..

in seoul, korea eating pork bbq the heat source is charcoal supplemented by a gas flame that gets turned on when you need a boost in heat. but this is the first time i’ve seen common variety garden hoses for gas lines. whatever works i guess…

very informative video. this korean fishmonger shows three levels of removing blood from fish. shows exactly where to do things correctly. english subs. warning: dispatching of live fish with lots of blood and twitching.. ikejime (spike and bleed) shinkei shime (spike, bleed, and wire) tsumoto (spike, bleed, and high pressure removal or spinal cord and 99% of blood)

had a guest last night for yakitori with a small appetite. its hard to cook for people who don't really eat...

i've never seen black cod sold fresh. only frozen. they say patagonia toothfish and black cod are the same, but they are clearly not the same fish.. i got a delivery of spanish beef today. a rib eye and tenderloin chain. what we have in abundance in fresh seafood, we don't have in meat and poultry- like the incredible selection you get in europe. so i have to pay up the wazoo for this stuff...

update on this. i achieved target weight but i'm not ready to consume it. i've read its best to vac seal i for a few more months? to develop the flavour more. anyway, it feels like i have half of what i started. smells good but the casing was a pain to remove..

seasport, i have two of these tabletop grills. one is the ss bincho grill. the other one is a japanese round ceramic that i used last night. i do not have a diatomaceous grill. i believe @tekobo has one. i find the bincho to be a top performer in terms of yakitori grilling. the rectangular size of it makes it easy to rest skewers on bars or on the edge of the grill. and stainless steel cleanup is easy. the round grill is like a ceramic bowl. there is the body which holds some water in the bottom and the ceramic charcoal bowl fits inside of this body. when the ash falls through, it hits the water so there is no scorching of the bowl. it's a cheap grill i picked up in my supermarket. probably around $120 USD with 2 grates. its a good tabletop grill for communal use (maybe up to 3-4 people). the bincho grill is more of an operators grill. if you travel or want a bulletproof grill, maybe the stainless steel bincho. if you want a traditional korean/japanese feel of table top grilling, maybe the round grill. i've heard the diatomaceous retains heat well but does not like to be wet..

i used to eat this every other day when i was working in lower Manhattan. sold out quick so i always made sure i got to the soup kitchen on time.. adapted from this yt recipe, but i used pork meat and added a ton of chili flakes in the meatballs. italian style foods are always better spicy for some reason. the broth is homemade. i don't like broth from a box. oh and when making the meatballs, they are supposed to be mini, so piping them through a disposable pastry bag is the way to go. you don't want to roll these by hand. it would take forever...

today was my first time using real japanese binchotan. so this is some magic charcoal. absolutely ZERO flareups. none. super hot and i reckon i can reuse this two more times. so i guess the high cost is worth it.. tonight i grilled those little spanish peppers (carry-on from barcelona), A5 rib eye dap, pork secreto, cuttlefish, corn.. we bought a live cuttlefish from the pier today. $5 usd. im so spoiled by live seafood, i can’t eat frozen anymore..

shabu shabu does it drive anyone here crazy that shabu is basically eating boiled meat in water? in my case, i'm boiling A5, pork belly, and pork shoulder in broth..🤓