The correct way to react to most miscommunication. And awfully rare.
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I wouldn't think brisket would be good rare
It's not. Brisket is definitely one of those dishes that is very unforgiving of cooking time. The only thing worse than raw brisket is burned brisket.
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Honestly I'd rather have brisket and gravy.
I want brisket on a biscuit with gravy.
I firmly disagree. A good Biscuits and Gravy is the perfect breakfast food. I am part of a Brunch Bunch and have had hundreds of different Biscuits and Gravy. It's my go to dish for judging a restaurant.
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I’d be happy with either
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It’s not just a language barrier, it’s also a cultural barrier. I can imagine someone being confused by this even if they speak fluent English, as the dish ‘biscuits and gravy’ contains neither biscuits nor gravy.
Hold up! First I am confused why someone would combine biscuits - something sweet - with gravy - something savoury - and now you're telling me it's something different alltogether?! (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ Medness! Utter madness!
I looked the dish up. Even more confusion as I investigate having mixrd up my vocabularies
Um... literally every time I've had biscuits and gravy, it's literally gravy poured over biscuits. Every time. Without fail. It's kind of in the name.
the cultural difference is that the US is the only place in the world that calls “flaky scone-like buttery thing” biscuits
everywhere else in the world, biscuit means cookie or cracker
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Yeah, English is my only language and I was thinking wtf is biscuits and gravy? How does that go together in any way?
It's actually freaking delicious and if you ever visit the USA you should definitely try it at some local family-owned restaurant where they make it from scratch.
Give your fascists the Mussolini treatment and I may consider visiting
Or just make it yourself. The biscuits are dirt simple, butter, flour, baking powder, and just enough water to hold it together. Gravy is just a white flour gravy with lots of pepper. Ingredients are sausage with grease, flour, milk, and pepper.
Season to taste.
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Can you imagine being the chef who went home in that round, though?
I might not agree with Alton Brown on all the opinions I’ve seen him post, but I have the impression that he’s someone who’s trying in general not to make things harder than they need to be (except of course when that’s exactly what the challenge is in the game that everyone signed up to play, what with all the wacky sabotage options on Cutthroat Kitchen).
Can you imagine being the chef who went home in that round, though?
You mean, if I lost to somebody who managed to make decent brisket in half an hour?
I mean, if he went home his biscuit and gravy weren't amazing I guess.
No way in fuck is anyone cooking a brisket in under 6 hours without it being inedibly chewy.
Do you have a moment to discuss our lord and savior the pressure cooker?
A sous vide would get you there minus some of the smoke and all the crust . Far from ideal but certainly not impossible.
Sous vide is many things, but fast is not one of them.
under 6 hours
Sous vide would definitely cook it faster while retaining moisture. 100% do-able in 6 hours.
Okay but cutthroat kitchen requires the contestants to finish the dish in 30 minutes.
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What an AI level response. Inaccurate but provided as fact. Username checks out!
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Brisket and gravy makes sense as a meal, but wtf is biscuits and gravy?
I'm British and there's no end of meals that I would have gravy with, but biscuits isn't one of them.
I can tell it's a cultural/language thing because North Americans call biscuits cookies, but I don't know what they mean by biscuits here.
Ah OK, so biscuit means savoury scones.
Every time I have this conversation with Americans they insist that it's nothing like scones but then they describe something suspiciously sconelike
I think it has to do with the fact that every scone I've ever had is particularly dry and very dense. An American biscuit is denser than an average slice of bread, but still generally quite moist and spongy.
Maybe scones hit differently when they are very fresh? In the US we get scones almost exclusively at coffee shops or bakeries from the front window and I've never had one that was offered hot.
Edit: I would suggest a biscuit here is more like... Almost a croissant with thicker layers? Or like a stack of pancakes (made the European "crepe" sort of way, so pretty thin) but with thinner layers? Lol. It's hard to exactly characterize.
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It’s a buttery scone with the layered texture of a croissant that’s had a weight pressed down on it.
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I have never seen this show, but I have a hard time believing he managed to entirely cook the wrong thing and no one told him at any point. Unless it was done on purpose to make a good story...
You are totally on point. Here's the source: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8hd6r9 (from 18:55).
They noticed right in the beginning and totally didn't do anything to fix the misunderstanding until it was too late. And of course that happened for the purpose to make a good story.
Often on cooking shows like this, contestants will do something creative and different in order to stand out, so it makes sense that they'd wait and see what he's cooking up.
Honestly I think they took the best possible approach, they let the creative create, and when it was revealed that there was in fact a communication breakdown, they handled it fairly and made sure to not penalize the contestant for the host's failure to effectively communicate. This is especially important with such an exceptionally regional dish with many different ways to prepare it. People who haven't spent time in the region that its regularly served in may entirely misunderstand how its supposed to be prepared and served, and that causes there to be incredible variation between recipes and approaches
The main point of any TV show is to entertain. They aren't there to be a fair sports competition to find earth's greatest cook. Especially not for such a low-brow entertainment-first cooking show as cutthroat kitchen.
That part of the episode was decent drama. The mix-up clearly made the scene more interesting. If this was an actually serious cooking show it would not have gone like that. But it's an entertainment show and that's ok as well.
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How TF did he do a brisket in the same amount of time it would take to make biscuits, which are basically scones, which take 20 minutes?
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He made a brisket in the time it takes to make biscuits and gravy? I don’t think so.
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