Keep the skins on your asparagus for maximum flavor!  

I've never peeled asparagus... What?

Pan cook em with olive oil and garlic, finish with fresh grated parm

Martha Stewart taught me to roast asparagus in the oven with olive oil and salt. squeeze of lemon after they are cooked.

I just snap the bottoms to remove the unedible part

I've made asparagus 100s of times. I've never steamed and I've boiled maybe a couple times. Pan fried, baked or grilled

Ive never heard of peeling asparagus 😂

Butter in pan, add asparagus, ad garlic. SnP. Done. Love them that way. I never boiled them before.

Grill asparagus. You’re welcome.

Stuff grew wild where I grew up. You could pick a gallon bucket of it whenever you wanted during the summer time.

I usually use the snap method... but I've never peeled them ever... but I've never had the white ones.

Love to cook them with butter and lots of garlic

As a German, this man just broke my heart.

If you grip the bottom, and brace the top, bend until it snaps, it will break precisely at the point they should be cut.

If this man had ever grown his own asparagus, he would know that the tough part at the thick end does not "stick in the ground." It's above ground.

I do the skin of an asparagus, but we don't have the green ones (we have the white variety). Takes a little skill to do it right. The peels go into the refrigerator and can be use to make asparagus soup.

"feeling for the asparagus" "take off two inches" "come up two inches" :skull:

I never noticed that Gordon is left handed! I was today years old when I learned that. Wow!

I have only roasted asparagus it’s the only way I’ve ever known to eat it.

the smell after is amazing too!

Try sautéing them with mushrooms and you will never go back. Cut into 1” lengths, in butter.

I notice this in a lot of cookbooks older than 30 years old, I think back then most vegetables were heavily preferred soft compared to al dente and blanching was just part of the process. The reason you'd peel is because when asparagus starts to get out of season and you blanch them the outside will still be tough and stringy while the inside is cooked soft. You can definitely get the skin soft with time but the inside will be mush by then. Honestly I prefer to cook in a pan but some vegetables like carrots I prefer cooked soft like this. Blanching is also pretty essential if you want to freeze asparagus from your garden as well as many other veggies.

I’ve never steamed or boiled asparagus and I eat it several times a year

I didn't know people peeled them. Why? The really thin baby ones are good raw.

I usually make them with some butter and garlic in a pan after cooking a steak in said pan.

“beautiful nice round tip .” sounds familiar 😊

Ive never even heard of skining an asparagus....

I've always roasted, grilled, or sautéed asparagus. Never steamed or boiled. Also, it's much more fun to snap off the base rather than cutting it.

It's nice learning from Ramsey when he's not screaming

He learnt this yesterday

I have always wondered this and you are the first Chef to show it so straight forwardly. Thank you! 😊

"The flavor is in that skin" -pervy ramsey

I pan fry them in olive oil and some SPG (salt pepper garlic). It's soooooo good. I like it high heat, so you get a nice char on the outside and still crunch in the middle.

i grill the green (very shortly) and steam the white very gently. and i only peel the white ones.

Cut the ends off, wash, sprinkle with pepper. 425 for 20 minutes. Very basic and simple, but perfect every time and really taste the asparagus.

Pan cook with olive oil chopped prosciutto little bit of garlic and drizzle good balsamic vinegar.. delicious

Wrap em in foil. Salt pepper and a little bit o oil. Throw them on the grill till your liking. May take a few attempts for temp and time per grill for the texture, but ive noticed that at 15 min, at a nice med-high, (same temp for burgers steaks salmon etc) gives you a light crunch but still its nice and soft.

we used to have wild asparagus that grew all around our hunting cabin. It never got big but man was it tastier than store bought.

Thank you Gordon for the tip

I actually learned about the problem with asparagus from my sister. She learned of a fried asparagus recipe, tried it herself and liked it, so she later made some for the rest of the family, explaining to those of us that were hesitant because we didn't like asparagus his most restaurants steam them, but frying them gives them a much different taste. We all tried it and liked it. We've found similar for a lot of vegetables, including brussel sprouts, and now we rarely eat plain boiled vegetables, either roasting, frying, or sauteing them, and with one exception, our whole family, majority of our extended family included, all like vegetables more than before, even those that already liked vegetables

I dont even cut them. I let the stem Tell me where it wants to be broken and I break them with my hands and it’s always in the “joint” between the hard part and the soft part. And I fry them in a pan with olive oil and garlic and some salt and pepper… they don’t need more then that.

Roasted asparagus, with Mrs. Dash Garlic & Herb, until crispy is my favorite (goes great alongside broccoli, green beans, onion wedges, potatoes, etc.). 425F for 20-30 minutes depending on your oven and veggie size. I like a little char on 'em.

I cut it at the point where it fits in my pan :)

"Oven Roast" Or "Pan Fry" Good work, these people know how it's done.

I actually eat the bottom part. It may not be edible, but it's eatable. Besides, I spent money to buy it.

They're really easy to grill, little olive oil some salt and pepper so tasty

My dad usually puts them on the barbecue wrapped in bacon. Soooo good

I peel the asparagus, keep the shavings. toss them in oil salt garlic powder and pepper, bake in 400° oven. Toss the cooked shavi gs in parm cheese and a squeeze of half a lemon

Peeled boiled asparagus must be one of those lovely British dishes I’ve heard so much about

Where did the lisssp come from

I like how it makes me smell afterwards

Didn't even know you could skin asparagus

Roasted Gordon. Roasted is amazing. Little bit of olive oil salt, pepper. They come out tasting like candy. Same for brussle sprouts.

Sautéed is in simple spices and olive oil is The white 1s are my fav .the best way to eat them with a touch of hollandaise yummy.

Spargelzeit 🎉🥳😁

99/100 times I see them in chinese menus stir fried. Taste great.

I find that for asparagus tips, simply coat in olive oil, salt and chopped garlic and place under the grill for a few minutes

I only ever lightly sauté them in butter. Unless I use them in a soup or stew.

I grill them with a little olive oil and lemon pepper. My wife had never eaten asparagus until I grilled her some and now her and her dad ask for it when we are grilling.

Oh my goodness me. Gordon: yes

A good sear on high heat them and they have this amazing nutty flavor.

I roast or grill mine, and grilling is the best I've found

OH OF COURSE! I'll be sure to keep those ends for all those stocks I make so regularly! 😊

My husband cooks it in butter and garlic. Not sure if that is right or not. It works for us.

I didn't know you could peel them. I just bend the ends until they snap, drizzle olive oil on them. add some salt/pepper and bake them.

I like to air fry them with just olive oil, salt & pepper. So good and simple

I trim the bottoms, but I only grill 'em!!

One of my favourite meals to cook is honey and garlic salmon and garlic asparagus, I NEVER boil or steam my asparagus, I always pan fry for 5mins then add them to the baking tray with my salmon to roast and it’s beautiful every time

The best asparagus are the ones you grow.👍

Please peel white asparagus, guys. They're literally inedible otherwise.

From childhood, one of my favorite veg. Especially on toast with cheese sauce!

You actually can eat the entire stem of asparagus. You just have to sautee the part furrher from the tip a little longer.

Julia Child peeled the bottom part rather than discarding it.

We put some olive oil on ours and salt and pepper em put em in the oven and cook till the start to get crispy

All I do is rinse them off, put some olive oil on them, and some salt and pepper and grill them. Taste like a greasy cheeseburger to me. It’s amazing.

Asparagus is my favorite vegetable. That and bean sprouts. Yummy!.

Loved the closed captions! Thank you. I too wear hearing aids. When I see Hell’s Kitchen.. HK. I think of Helen Keller instead. 😊

I have seen a couple of harvesting videos where they cut those asparagus off. Above the ground!! Gordon?

I love roasting asparagus!

I like to saute my asparagus in a pan with a little bit of garlic and butter no steaming no boiling

Gotta love a beautiful round tip!

I rather prefer younger, thinner asparagus, as it tends to be more tender. But boiling or steaming, while they do the job, are not optimal. Air fryer for the win.

skin ON at green asparagus? what a genius.... Britain classic XD

I throw them on my George Foreman grill. They taste great! Never peeled an asparagus ever. Just snap off the tough bottom portion.

The base is NOT where the asparagus sticks in the ground.

Throw them in a pan for a few minutes with butter, salt and some soy sauce, so yummy

“Thats what you want, that beautiful nice round tip” eyyyy 😂

HOLD ON, you can peel asparagus?

Basically GR showed us WHERE to cut an asparagus at the bottom tip, not remove the skin off & forgot to mention what is the next best alternative to boiling/steaming asparagus to retain flavour. Yet his play of words is what gets us, he is a magnificent storyteller.

I did not even know that people took the skins off?

So how does he cook asparagus? Roasted?

He's probably talking to his American audience. The rest of the world knows already.

Highly seasonal except the store flies it in from Peru

2"? I measure that at about 6" 😂

If it hadstuck in the ground it would be white or almost white..where do you think that white asoaragus was grown..???

Sheet pan, olive oil, salt and pepper

Seasonal?! We eat them all year round.

You have to peel white asparagus though. Unless you enjoy the flavour of dirt

What you mean keep the skins on... was I supposed to be peeling these bad boys?

Never wanted to try asparagus but ended up trying it at my mother's once. I later broke out in hives. Never eating asparagus again

Who has been peeling asparagus?