'Time Bomb'
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No, it's to pick the best ingredients irrespective of cost. There's a difference.
And, upon reflection, they would go together because it's essentially deconstructed Beef Wellington with added veggies and truffles instead of mushroom duxelles. I'm personally not a fan of foie gras, but the ingredients have precedence together.
Point being, I suppose, that I've had practice not swallowing things at the bottom of martinis, so someone should buy me the $10k one. As a present.
Excellent!
I have to warn you guys, from now on, I'm going to post about it every time I'm afraid someone's not calling me back. I'm two for two over the past couple of weeks with posting and having the phone ring shortly thereafter.
Yeah, but you can get the same effect with ground chuck at like $2-3 a pound.
Oh, I know, I was just thinking about it from an Alton Brown-ish perspective.
Great, now I want to grill up burgers for dinner, but I won't be able to do that tonight.
I was just thinking about it from an Alton Brown-ish perspective.
Alton would never grind up a Kobe steak! Perish the thought!
Spidra, I honestly don't know what answer you're expecting to hear. If you disapprove of the sandwich, don't buy it.
Alton would never grind up a Kobe steak! Perish the thought!
I was just about to say something similar...
On an unrelated tack, the point of the sandwich is clearly to pick ingredients by their high cost
No, it's to pick the best ingredients irrespective of cost. There's a difference.
It really could go either way, right? If the idea is "let's make the most expensive _____ EVAH and get a bunch of write-ups" its probably the former.
I'm sure you don't grind up Kobe steak to make Kobe burger -- you grind up all the Kobe cuts you can't sell as steaks or roasts.
What Betsy Said. Even in Kobe, the cows (Cows!) have hooves and horns, and meat closer to them.
Alton would never grind up a Kobe steak! Perish the thought!
No but he could give a scientific rationale for why someone might.
eta And I think someone did it on Iron Chef America recently, so he had reason to.