Food Styling | Bonus Basics with Babish 

Thawesin Chatchalermvith that soup seems SO DELICIOUS

I second this. Sounds tasty

I would love to see this too

Yes, this sounds like a great idea

I'd also love to see this.

Budget with Babish

There's a show called struggle meals that really helped me with this.

A lot of that on brothers green eats channel

Being broke* with Babish

😂

yeah lmao he could do this better already what was the point of the video

that’s what i’m saying. she’s like... mediocre..? i don’t want to be mean

She's a photographer, not a chef. That's why. She has no knowledge of actual food.

Haylee Spence that would make more sense

Haylee Spence he did say she was a professional food stylist though?

That's what I was thinking, that & Kenji Lopez-Alt would be cringing so hard inside we'd see his jaw twitch. It seems like You tube set him up on this one.

This video is honestly garbage. They assume home cooks are r*t*rded and cater to the lowest common denominator.

Haha good one 😄😄

Nailed it

Unless you're playing Red Dead 2, because then you're dead. I don't know why I brought that up.

@@leoxu583 I haven't played it through fully yet. Thanks.

@@AslanW Sorry for the spoilers.

It feel so weird every time I see his face

sounds like your new around here, maybe you sould subscribe 🤷‍♀️

@@GrandpaSpaceOreo*AND SOME HAIR! HE DESERVES IT!*

You taking about are baba babish or the food?

@@dareokoski8158 ....This better be bait

You forgot Kocher Salt 😭😭

i know this old but you spitting

To be fair, the pre-shredded cheese has some extra starch like he's said before, which while it does impede melting, the starch also thickens the soup

Phrophetsam thought I was the only one. Even I grate my own cheese and I don’t have near as much skill in the kitchen as he does.

They were doing food styling, be thankful they used edible items at all.

Nasty...

Nnsmskekke

yessssssssssss

Tea is just hot leaf juice uncle

@@ninnusridhar How could a member of my own family say something so horrible!?

@@muchdoge8351 The best part of that line is that literally everyone in his family is constantly saying completely horrible things, lol.

Leaves from the vine.....

lmfao this whole episode was off man, i laughed when she said that too im glad you said it lool

This woman is so fucking fake like damn how can anybody STAND this?? She's so fake!

Green giant: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

I mean, would it have hurt to add just a drizzle of balsamic to them to make it even better? If they didn't want the dark color, they could have used a poppy-seed dressing & no pepper.

We can be shocked at everything.

I know! But they don't realize pre shredded cheese has starch coatings that are perfect for keeping a thick creamy soup, regular grated cheese would make it too gooey and more oily

@@junkiejackflash But the pre shredded stuff has an awful texture and essentially no flavour

Fax. Shit isn't hard. Food stylist are a joke.

i felt this so heavily dude

@@wigglytuffgaming "Shit isn't hard" So I'm guessing you've done it before?

@@grimmparagon427 Yeah, you put the food on the plate and you make it not like dog shit - crazy stuff.

@@wigglytuffgaming Plating food isn't hard, Making it look restaurant quality delicious at home is a skill.

Yes... Good old *Babby* .

Sorry I first read baby celery and it’s not going away

there was none. this whole thing felt like a joke. the soup was crammed with stuff, the pasta looked like regular every day pasta, and the steak plating was ridiculous. he should have done this himself

The only reason we're looking for the twirls are because we were just told and shown that she was doing it. If i was handed that plate as a meal, whether at home or a restaurant, i'd just see spaghetti the way it always looks. The way Babish plates pasta using that fork thing looks far more impressive. I love your channel Babish but this episode was ridiculous.

I guess that this das the intention. They didn't want to teach how to make an absolutely incredible van Gogh style pasta, but to make something simple that embellishes the day to day meals.

Lol did you see how "excited" he was at that pasta? "oh.. yeah... wow... look at that..."

It was like he pulled some random person from no where and she made she up

SteveTheMathMan he got laid.

Its cause shredded chesse has a extra protective layer thats added to it that prevents perfect melting but will help thicken soups

Thickens the soup mayne

Mystic It has extra starch, which thickens the sauce more than Andrew

Y'all saying it's starch but it's technically a fine sawdust. Called wood pulp or cellulose on the package. Its also in low-fat icecream

Yeah, got that vibe as well when I heard that.

Here's a happy accident.

straight facts tho

Wtf why is a plussy fan here

Yessss

i knoww it annoyed me so much especially when she did such a mediocre job

Waheed Abdullah I've only now realised how much i need this

SAME I NEED THIS SO MUCH OMG

YESSA

Blip Blop

With the gravy train! Yes!!

Banana seems random lol

"Oh Mexican food!"

Yeah, I would say this is one of the bigger struggles of styling. In a restaurant you would usually have heated ovens or heat lamps that keep the food warm while you fiddle with it. I would say, best tip at home is to first keep the plates/bowls warm in an oven before serving, seeing how a cold container will drain it the fastest. Then just, try to work quick. Also, 'mise-en-place', basically have everything already shredded/measured/cut/peeled/whatever to just dump on top and continue. 😉

@@lauramihalek agreeeeed!

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@@recoil53 for a bag of pre shredded cheese and some potato peels? count me in!

And I feel like I need to drink every time I hear "beautiful"

You should watch the latest basics video it’s literally an infomercial for nutribullet

College of Foliage I thought I was hallucinating!

Good catch, very true

Shut the fuck up you hater

@@jokingareyou2.028 wooooowwwweeeee, calm down. Considering your username it's very ironic how humourless you seem xD I actually love this channel, and this was a great video. The fact that they had to make an unfortunate editing choice doesn't detract from that, and is certainly very understandable with the high pressure RU-vid release schedule. I am not hating on the channel, the video or any of the people behind it. I do however hate RU-vid trolls that take every opportunity to attack others for their own sad gratification ;)

@@jokingareyou2.028 don't be a bitch

Why is that?

None of what she did looked even remotely as good as how Babish plates his stuff up. Definitely a weird episode.

Alyssa Stevens she really didn’t know what she was doing

To be honest that potato soup looked sloppy

This is what I was thinking the entire episode 😂

Martin Agniss además por qué de repente es vegano por haberle puesto palta? dónde esta lo no vegano del chimi?

Son estadounidenses chicos, deben de haber aprendido el concepto del chimichurri de un cubano y creen que viene de México

_[Muffled "concha de tu vieja" in the distance]_

Encima por qué lo procesó tanto? Parece puré

It's looks like more of the venezuelan style of the chimichurri, which has another name I don't remember 🤔🙃

with stems still on lol this is food for a magazine cover not human consumption

It's a salad. They're sad by default.

Tru tru

ThatRipOff chicken and dried cranberries in a salad is good. It’s been a long time since I’ve had it, but not all salads are sad.

@@erronblack308 If adding meat to a salad is the only way to make it enjoyable, you don't want a salad. You want meat. Just go eat a proper meal.

When the unstoppable class meets the immovable posh.

You know what's better, B roll…

Binging with B-roll.

Josh and Babish disagree on a lot of their techniques. In fact, recently, it seems Josh makes his videos in response to Babish’s.

Trinity Johnson I’d love for that to happen

Absolute comment excellence

She def dtf

No not at all. You can tell that she's got a southern accent that she's trying so hard to keep out of her voice but she's failing. Also she's so extra with the plating, I think she's one of those basic white girls all over Instagram and Babish's plating is so much better and it feels like it's real, as opposed to hiding the initial dish behind toppings like this lady. Babish's food plating has purpose. This lady's plating is a disguise

@@just_a_tired_they_.2437 Advertising and serving food are different things. Food stylists and photographers will play with lighting and ingredients to make food look more appealing and desirable, and just that. No one will eat the photo of a dish. With the soup from this video, the potato skin chips are incredibly large for a spoon, and there's too much crisp combined with the bacon, however, it does have a fine look, especially if we could see a photo with proper work done on it. When it comes to actually serving that food, it's way better to keep the potato skin chips smaller, and hell, throw them out altogether. Bacon crisps carry the taste anyway, and you don't always have to think in the French way of "nothing must be wasted". And instead of scallions of chives you may want parsley on that soup, since, at least as far as I can tell, the sharp and pungent fresh onion taste would be too heavy, especially combined with bacon. But mellow that out with parsley, which would also look way way better imo with the darker green colour, damn that would taste good. So there, make a single serving of dump food and let your stylist play with it for your menu photos, but do your own thing when you're actually serving it. There's the difference.

Same I wasn’t sure where she was going with it but it looked great in the final picture

I didn’t really notice them either, but it still looked good. Though in my opinion doing the same cheese and basil thing with a twirled nest of pasta looks better

**Standing Ovation for your Ted Talk!!!**

It was def very specific to certain dishes versus basic tips for any dish

They clearly used more bacon to prepare dishes off camera, dude...

kevlar5150 You sounds like a pretentious dickhead

alize0623 you sound like shut up your stupid

Sorry, but...did you REALLY ask why someone would make additional bacon? WHO cooks just enough bacon for a recipe? You always need extra to snack on, dude.

What time

Derpy Bear 0:50

Babish failed no nut november

He coomed

@@oneconarguy5019 you are not welcome here

Yeah, it sounded a bit Aussie in the intro at places, but it sounds like she's either been in the US for a long time, or is trying to hide it. Edit: wait, now it sounds like she's from the southern US. Weird

Alabama. Sounds like Lizz from bamabass. She aint from Georgia though.

I’m literally so confused by her voice

@@swirlingtoilets definitely not Australian. Alabama. Sounds like Lizz from Bamabass. She aint from Georgia though and it doesn't sound like Texas either.

Yeah. Listen on how she says "saws"

The Internaut it feels like He showed her then gave her credit

She is though!! Like you can HEAR her trying not to have her southern accent, and it pops out every now and again and it's frustrating like JUST BE YOURSELF WOMAN THIS VERSION FEELS FAKE

@@just_a_tired_they_.2437 exactly

Or "texture."

Haha, chef!

Just learned is name is andrew

It's free real estate!

That's not possible, scientists say that memes were most likely here before the big bang.

Unless you're using a square plate the rule of thirds wouldn't really be important though would it? Since otherwise the middle square will always be the largest and most important section. Thus such a focus on the centre. You've also got the third dimension to worry about, people want to see food that is higher than wide, which makes it look more grandiose. That also furthers the focus on the centre of the plate

i wouldnt do rule of thirds on a bowl thats the shape of a circle. might work on lasagnia though.

Does this stuff make the food actually any better? Or is this just some rich people shit that I won't understand? I get using quality ingredients makes a huge difference, but how pretty your plate looks?

@@calebdanielherman4913 I think it's the concept of "eating with your eyes first." If food LOOKS good, it can kind of trick your brain into thinking it tastes better than it actually is.

@@SmartyPoohBear Ah. So it is rich people shit that I won't understand. Thank you for clarifying for me. I want to enjoy this kind of stuff, but all I can think about is how extra all this stuff is getting in the way of me eating my food sooner.

Have you ever eaten parsley? No the stems do not have more flavor than the leaves.

As long as you don't slop it down like a TV lunch lady.

@@recoil53 - THWACK - "NEXT!"

@@FlameOnTheBeat it's all turning to poop, anyway.

It's called BASICS with Babish dude. "Nothing special" is the whole point. It's teaching people who know absolutely nothing about food.

@@ArtemisScribe thank you, all these pretentious "experts" in the comment section

@@ArtemisScribe Pretty sure anyone with a brain could plate as good as they did

Kryštof Krajník Yeah, I agree. I would’ve skipped the arugula with a two cherry tomatoes... just felt outdated as you said. I realize it’s for people with a ‘basic’ knowledge of cooking and playing but that just felt so passé.

Yes. That steak plate looked like what a kindergartner would make in a drag and drop "what does dinner look like" computer program.

To me it sounds like a southern Missouri accent not quite southern and not quite northern but that's just Missouri

She definitely has some sort of Southern accent which has been infused with California Girl, and the longer it goes on the more she slips back to the Southern.

Andrew Beshears Definitely not Missouri, Missouri is more country sounding, I’m thinking Tennessee or Georgia.

Definetly sounds like a south Missouri accent, I sound similar but not quite as heavy

derek Brogan I’ve lived in southern mo my entire life and never hear people talk like that.

Honestly I'd love to see Babish do an episode on the foods of Skyrim, and of Oblivion for that matter.

I wanna see a white-gold tower. Mead and cream seem like they go excessively well together

Aka instagrammer who gets ad revenue because she is attractive

beemobile98 I agree I like BA’s style of food plating way better.

Can you guys explain the differences?

@@KianOntong13 We want our food to look like it was made with love by an imperfect human, not designed by some cold marketing team.

especially the steak... weak AF

Kian Ontong If I was looking for specific differences it would be like not perfectly placing all the cherry tomatoes and the greens in spaghetti.

He wasn't forced at gunpoint to make this video he made it cause he wanted to learn how to plate food better and decided that he wanted to share it you weren't forced to watch this either

itookacraponurlaptop Your point being....

It was a partnership meant to help the chick and her yt channel.

Abraham Vargas Yeah sounds about right.

If you know or thing or two about carpentry but a master cabinetmaker is offering to teach you a couple things are you going to refuse? It's her specialty and it hurts no one to possibly learn something new. Always nice to have an expert show you the ropes

I thought the same! Her twirling did nothing, it looked exactly the same! I think Babish was just being nice, but when he does his it actually looks like a nice little nest.

@@MauiWowieOwie tru

Andrew Conlan i thought the same thing. Also, styling a dish is so that everything shows proper. When they added so much by the end you couldn’t see the potato chunks and barely any bacon. So what was the point?

I think the reason is because the soup was made for eating,food stylists make food that doesn't necessarily tastes good they use more inedible materials and techniques you wouldn't normally use in kitchen to stylise food. But since it had to be edible you have to make compromises and you couldn't do it in the time needed.

Agreed

Possibly using a more shallow, wide bowl would have helped presentation wise.

Its arrogant. My take tbh

This comment made my morning lol

miso wtf

HAH!

I would like this comment but I want to keep it at 69 likes.

Been thinking the same thing.

They should have seared the steak on the sides :(

This episode was a little unseemly. This could easily be boiled down to how to garnish properly.

Its really not as complicated as they are making it out to be, most of this episode was theatrics. Just look into typical garnishes for whatever you make at home on a weekly basis. This kind of stuff has a place in fancy restaurants and no where else, really.

Who has the time for this? I love this channel but my kitchen lives in real life circumstances.

She wasnt. At all.

This feels like a troll.

What's it supposed to taste like? I like it in Salsa. It has a certain tang to it.

We can make it work. It's an acquired taste just like moldy cheese. Salsa and Guacamole are just bland without it.

Tobias Wozniak it’s not an acquired taste. It’s genetic and literally causes people to associate cilantro with soap.

@@BoxStudioExecutive Thank you for the insight into my genetic predisposition. Since it tastes like soap to me, it is a taste you have to acquire and not instantly love like e.g. chocolate. Hence my comparison to moldy cheese. Nobody loves that stuff from the get go. Coffee and beer would be other examples: the benefits outweigh the taste, hence we are training our taste buds to accept - maybe even love - it.

@@nettack Ok. By your logic shit is also an acquired taste. Glad we had this discussion.

She seems like she doesn’t know what she’s talking about. Sorry that sentence kinda pissed me off

@@yehudakreps682 he's not disagreeing with you, moron, he's arguing that your sentence structure was woeful, which it was.

Lewis Jenkins thank you, you can’t really argue basic grammar, it’s either right or wrong

@@yehudakreps682 What are you on about? Lamo I think that you haven't even checked her out or what she does and you're just saying that to act cool or some shit lmao

@@jjfranki did u even scroll through the comments? There r a bunch that said the same as mine and they all have a ton of likes so stfu

Imagine thinking that “food stylist“ isn't an actual profession. Almost every time you see a picture of food in a magazine or see food in an ad it's professionally presented by a food stylist to look as good as it can. It's definitely a real job!

don't want to be the arse but I wasn't really impressed with any of them...

Oy Blech SAME. They should’ve placed the soup in a much more shallow bowl. I don’t know.. this just felt pretty amateur to me.

@@nicholashilton2514 yep and that thing with the pasta twirling did feck all to it. babish's way looks way more impressive (twirling into a big one - or three, depending on the quantity). this looked like my pasta looks when I straight pour it out of the pan and add a bit of basel and parmesan, which isn't food styling but seasoning to me.

I think it was meant to be more of a guide. Babish knows a lot about the techniques already but she just makes it easier for beginners like me to understand the process of plating :)

@@uhoh1860 tbh she didn't really seem all that competent to me, I mean the soup was more or less just "put stuff on the top so it's not just a white surface"(and it gives some bites a few extra flavours). the pasta didn't really look impressive, one could come up with using the tomatoes which are already in the pasta, a few leafs of basel and a bit of parmesan; she even looked quite clumsy to me when handling the pasta (whether twirling it or even eating). and the steak looked really average imo, chips and an undressed salad? seriously? I just felt like she didn't know enough about the things she was trying to teach. you don't need a "food stylist" to come up with these ideas. andrew should've done this on his own, his plates look better than these.

Jam Thief r/iamverysmart

Except Oliver Twist was written in the late 1830s. I do think that's what she was trying to reference... she was just WAY off on her timeline.

i hope you're eating to your heart's content now, mattjones

Not nearly as comforting as Babish’s voice overs though

weaselGRM She never said to use cheddar, she say she liked the look of an orange cheese, and the show is literally called basics with babish