Binging with Babish: Death by Chocolate Éclair from The Simpsons 

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Death by Chocolate Éclair is one of the three ways I would be content in dying.

"ive seen this man eat a bowl of change." -one of my all time favorite lines from the Simpsons..

This reminds me of my roommate who put milk powder in his milk so that he could drink more milk per milk

There's something so humanizing about the way Babish cooks. He fully admits "I don't understand this I just know it works" and it gives me confidence in the kitchen

French cuisine: Really laborious ways of eating butter.

Also from the Simpsons, when Moe takes out a girl on a date to a fancy restaurant, Moe orders their "fanciest food stuffed in your second fanciest food". I think it ended up being lobster stuffed with tacos. I would love to see a recreation of that!

"I've seen that man eat a bowl of change!" Golden era simpsons writing was on another level, probably due to the amount of legends writing for them at the time

I'm calling this a failure. I could accept not having 25 pounds of butter per square inch(maybe). I understand that it's hard to find chocolate dark enough that light cannot escape it so I won't hold that against you. Where I draw the line is it not being one million calories!

“Whisking Constantly” would be a great name for a biography

The irony of *sticking* parchment paper with *non stick spray* is on another level.

Story time; So I was in a Tim Hortons the other day (October 8th 2021) and I was sitting down eating lunch with my family. We were seated near the front counter and I was facing said counter. An older gentleman was taking his turn to order. He ordered a coffee and than turned towards the baked goods display case and without pointing at what he wanted or reading the labels, said with full confidence: "I'll take one of those Hot dog bun lookin' things that you dipped in chocolate and the cream inside it." I nearly choked on my drink as I immediately realized this man wanted an éclair. Seeing this video in my recommendations reminded me of it so I thought I'd share.

"Kendall told me what it means and I forgot immediately afterwards" you just summed up my entire High School experience.

This takes me back. Over 20 years ago when I started in a commercial bakery the first batch of creampuffs I made was with a similar dough. I remember watching them bake it was like magic!

I do really appreciate that he films and includes how/why he ‘messes’ things up. He could totally edit it out and make it look like he does everything flawlessly every time - but he doesn’t and I respect that.

Trivia: bakeries in France usually fill the éclairs with a custard matching the decoration. Two most common versions are chocolate and coffee éclairs, but i wish to find one with extra flavors (i bet living in a big town like Paris would make it easier to find a shop specialized only in éclairs) Pistacchio éclair would be something to die for

MASSIVE Simpsons fan here, keep this up! This was delightful. Now, as someone else already wrote, please do Moe's "fanciest food stuffed with the second fanciest food" 🤗

While Whisking Constantly: An Autobiography of Babish

Legends say that Babish is still whisking to this day

2:05 "Using non-stick spray to secure it in place" Mmhhmm yeah

7:31 you mean Bananaphalactic shock?

Reminds me of a joke by Gabriel "Fluffy" Iglesias: "I dont want to die tomorrow knowing I could have had cake today. When the coroner cuts my stomach open, I want the whole room to smell like potato wedges... Coroner be like: "This guy knew how to live..."

This is sort of a challenge episode, but could you make Scooby Snacks? Basically a treat that is safe and enjoyable for both dogs and humans and maybe see if you could get dogs from your local shelters to try them? Clean bowl club!

Ah So thats the food the Cat girl in the factory became when she fell on the conveyor belt

i vividly remember them poisoning the pastry in the episode, so adding what is essentially poison to babish keeps it accurate

I hate food allergies. My daughter (grown) is allergic to a LOT of foods, and it really limits the culinary universe. But she gets creative from time to time with what she can eat.

Fun fact: "éclair" is French for "lightning" because a seasoned pastry chef can make them in a flash!

Next up: making the bowl of change Homer ate.

That episode has a special place in my heart because A) the jokes were great and B) I watched it while visiting my best friend, so I have happy memories of us sitting on the bed and laughing our heads off every two minutes or so.

Since Thea White (a.k.a. voice actress of Muriel Bagge from Courage the Cowardly Dog cartoon) passed away, make either Happy Plums or Chicken Dumplings to honor her

i love that he literally makes it deadly for him to eat to stay true to the show

If you REALLY wanted to make this a deadly eclair (as well as making it literally so dark light can't escape). You could add some Vantablack pigment.

Babish's smooth low voice, telling the story of how he was spilling milk all over his tablet top because it was out of his line of sight, was the best thing I heard all day.

"using non-stick spray to keep it in place" that sentence feels weird

“This is an attempt to pack more butter per square inch into our eclairs” Finally, a rival to the guy who put milk powder into his milk so that he could drink “more milk per milk”

Just found this channel, I love the humor and great cooking tips

For those who want to see the end result 8:00

“Kendal told me what it means and I forgot immediately” literally me.

"To help stick use non stick spray." Love the Babish Universe

Dude just made regular eclairs

“I’ve seen this man eat a bowl of change” It’s always the fleeting Simpsons lines that never get brought up again

im impressed that you have managed to use the same background music for years and it never gets old

"Kendall told me what it means and I forgot immediately." So relatable.

This video made me watch this episode. And then making me watch every other episode, thank you for making me fall in love with the simpsons babish.

Love that bit of blender-magic at the end

"I've seen this man eat a bowl of change." I know The Simpsons isn't what it used to be, but lines like this still make me laugh. Cheers.

There’s a deli here in Houston called Kenny and Ziggy’s that has football sized eclairs. Not saying it’s one million calories but it’s up there for sure. They are also quite delicious aside from being huge.

Ever since I found this channel I have been waiting for this moment.

To continue the Simpsons style, I would love to see Babish recreate: -Klav Kalash from Homer in New York -Chief Wiggum's Chili with the insanity peppers

Next week will be National S'more Day, maybe you should make Donut and Cookie Dough S'more from Ducktales episode, "Astro B.O.Y.D."

With how much my parents and brother like watching your videos, I'm surprised that none of them ever mentioned that the stand mixer we have is the exact same as yours.

Did Babish end up eating the eclair though? Also, got your cookbook for Christmas! So excited to start making the recipes!

"No, no, no! This is just a picture" Now i'm glad it gonna be real

Looks delicious, as always

1:34 who's that on the reflection of the stand mixer!!! LOL

Learned the perfect rhyme for this in culinary school: Pate a choux, make a roux, add the egg, then you’re through!

The word comes from the French éclair, meaning "flash of lightning", so named because it is eaten quickly (in a flash)

That French chef that is plotting Homer's assassination is voiced by Dan Castalaneta, Homer's voice actor.

Love that you included ur failed tries and explained what happens.

slight modification for your eclair puff's separate the egg yolks from the whites beat up the whites with sugar into a foam then slowly incorporate it into you doe mixture , that way it makes it even more airy and light

It's reassuring and relatable to see seasoned professionals dribble milk when pouring. "He messed that up like I do!"

Hearing Babish say "Sawspin" instead of "saucepan" will never get old to me

I like voiceovers that go off-track, which is what really sold me for Huggbee’s How it’s Actually Made series

I love the part where he whisked constantly. That was my favorite part.

Fun fact: Eclairs are called "bomba" (bomb in Portuguese) in Brazil. It has nothing to do with the Simpsons. They were always called that.

I don't know if you'd ever do recipes from a novel, but with the Dune movie coming out, there's a whole banquet scene in the novel with some great sounding food.

You do great work, but I've got a few tricks after 15 years of cakes, candy and pastry: get a bismark tip, use parchment cone-bags and ditch the coupler. Wilton bags stretch and pop the tips out, use ateco, ck or hygo brand disposables and you don't need couplers. The *only* time you need them is when you're piping different colors and only have one tip - in which case cut your parchment bag to shape *or* buy more tips as they practically cost as much as couplers. Also a better way to melt chocolate is to preheat your oven to 'warm', or it''s lowest setting, and turn it off - set a ceramic/glass bowl of chocolate in there and stir after 10 min. Stir every minute until evenly melted (should only take another couple stirs). Ovens are dry and chocolate melts thinner, also if you're dealing with tempered chocolate or coveture than you can't overheat it that way. Plus if you're dipping things in chocolate you can have two bowls in there and as one starts to set up you can swap it out for the warmer one, giving all your confections an even shiny coat.

The banana twist at the end was everything

I figure that Andrew's autobiography would be called 'Biography with Babish', but I'd also like to throw my hat in for 'Andrew Rea: Whisking Constantly'

I really, REALLY would like to see how you would re-create the Pumpkin Fish Soup from Legend of Zelda, Twilight Princess. I'm sure you'd make it spot on.

0:50 You are like the guys that add milk powder to their milk to get more milk per milk

5:49 I wonder, is Vantablack edible?

Love the devotion and humility of showing that you're making mistakes, learning the resolution to them and picking up from there. It's nice and rare to see

"I ran out of dough." D'oh!

When you were making the chocolate squid ink came to mind as a black coloring agent to make it very dark brown. But gosh that looks delish.

Me when he threw blown dough: *But, you put so much effort to do it...*

Why was I genuinely worried when he mentioned bananas, I actually went “Dude oh please don’t do it!”

Babish is like the Bob Ross of cooking his voice is calming

Love the honesty about the walk up video when he could have just reused an old one

Despite all this time, Babs is still cracking eggs off a bowl edge & not on a flat surface. The secret of no shells right there.

As if the Moon Waffles and the Ribwich weren’t unhealthy enough, here comes La Bombe. It’s like Matt Groening wants us to get a heart attack by doing his recipes.

As someone who has been making custard since i was a kid, if you are patient enough, you DO NOT need to add corn starch to get it to thicken. It takes twice as long, yes, but it is extremely satisfying when it finally thickens enough that you can whisk it and see the bottom of the pan. And it doesn’t leave any of that weird cornstarch aftertaste.

To be extra safe when baking Choux pastry you can poke tiny holes in them a few minutes before they come out

8:03 I am so glad no mess was made when that was knocked out of Babish’s hand. That means it can be consumed.

The ending makes me think instead of actually suggesting adding banana extract stuff the friend haphazardly said something like "Thank goodness the recipe didn't call for any banana or else it really would be deadly" to wich Babish immediately goes "You're right!" and started looking for banana extract leaving the friend like "Hey what are you? Nooo don't you dare, doonn't dooo it..."

It was really disappointing when I discovered that most eclairs in the US are stuffed with cream instead of custard

Oh!! That's a 1990s Tim Horton's Long John. It is just missing the single cherry in the middle (on top of the whip cream)

A Babish ad on a Babish video. We love to see it.

"Using non-stick spray to secure it in place." **mind gives up**

Perfect for killing a remorseless eating machine. But yeah, don't anaphylactically shock yourself, Andy, that'd be bad. Could you please do your own take on the Fiesta Burrito with Chili and Eggs that Dan Aykroyd makes for Robert Stack in the food truck scene from Caddyshack 2?

The chocolate melting part made me wonder if that wouldnt weaken the glass of that bowl, heating it unevenly like that. I've always seen this technique used with a smaller metal pan, which on top of it can be dipped in the water below without limits.

Dude how did I stumlbe on this torture chamber of food madness! Youre killing me. I was listening to music with the munchies and now I want to eat the monitor

4:42 "and you guessed it... wisconsin"

4:30 "Story of my life, whisking constantly." -Proceeds to dual-wield whiskers.

Great little video but as pastry chef me only advice would be to use the paddle to cool the batter down first before adding the egg. Also there is no need to beat the eggs first you can just add them one at a time allowing them to incorporate fully after each one this allows the egg whites to trap air.

I always find it funny how we use non stick spray to stick baking paper to a baking tray

I would request Fairy Godmother’s Diet-Breaking Meal from Shrek 2 The contents could include the Renaissance Wrap, the Medieval Meal, and whatever you interpret a “sourdough soft taco” to mean.

Babish, death by eclair wouldn't be the worst way to go, but the people still need you here.

now we need a compilation of whisking with babish

2:05 Ah yes. I love using nonstick spray to make things stick.