Author: Savory Tv
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Fellow chefophiles, did you watch the Top Chef Masters premiere on Bravo Wednesday night?  A spinoff of the traditional Top Chef, this series features renowned, elite, VIP chefs competing against each other for their favorite charities.  No spoilers here, but James Beard winner Chef Hubert Keller of Fleur de Lys won our heart completely.  Born in France and originally a pastry chef, Keller surprisingly has a love for hamburgers, and has authored the newly released cookbook  “Burger Bar: Build Your Own Ultimate Burgers“.  In an excerpt from the book, Keller says,

“We knew everyone loves burgers, but we wanted to offer something new.  What if we reimagined burgers and applied our fine-dining culinary training to create the best-tasting burgers possible?  We would take them seriously because, we noticed, burger lovers take the subject seriously. Very seriously.”

We discovered this video from Chow with Hubert Keller’s tips for how to cook the ultimate burger.  The burger he…

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Author: Mark
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So, on Saturday, I had a very interesting experience. I was asked to be a field judge for the Eagle Mountain Pony Express Days Dutch Oven Cookoff.

I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. I’d participated in the cookoff the previous two years, and had interacted with field judges each time. Still, interacting doesn’t mean the same as doing.

I read over the instructions and the judging criteria the night before. They had all turned in their recipes. Part of what I was supposed to do was to make sure that they cooked their chosen recipes in a safe and correct way.

Actually, that’s not entirely true. My job was to watch them do it and mark them down if they did it “wrong”. It seemed that all of the criteria in the scoring was based on messing up. I thought that was strange. They got 3 points in each of five categories. The highest score was defined as “satisfactory”, and the others were things like “Needs Minor Improvement”, “Needs Major Improvement”, and “Don’t Eat Their Food”. … (Read the rest of this article at the following article source link for the full story)

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