Binging with Babish: Cheesy Blasters from 30 Rock

"Okay, cheese

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, you take a hot dog, fill it with some Jack cheese folded on a pizza, you have cheese

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and then all the kids say thank you Meat Cat and then Meat Cat flies away on his skateboard." I can't eat "Hey, what's up guys? Welcome back to Binging with Babish. This week you may be wondering if this is the new kitchen. No it's not, it's my high school alma mater learning cooking when they were kind enough to let me go back and experiment with their students, complete with

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blaster. It's a recipe that includes hot dogs with Jack cheese and, of course, pizza, so we'll start by baking our frozen pizza.

I'm going to use supermarket-bought frozen ingredients because I imagine this is what Liz is talking about. One of those frozen snacks that are part of the ongoing public effort to make kids less healthy, so let's do, the song goes. We'll grab some hot dogs stuffed with some Jack cheese and then fold them into a pizza. I later discovered that it was more effective to butterfly the hot dog completely and place the cheese on the cover of its open maw for maximum melting. I'm also making a backup pizza. The first pizza was a little over the top for my taste, but it will do for a practice round.

I'm going to start by trying to make a sort of individual cheese blaster that cuts a strip off my pizza, placing a single hot dog in the center and rolling it until it's complete. Let's take a look at the cross section here... nothing to write home about, but we have to do it according to the

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binge bylaws and be careful with that first bite because it will remind you how spicy the cheese physically is. able to convert and maybe also opted for some regular hot dogs because these natural casing joints made them too difficult to eat.

So let's try it again this time with a pepperoni pizza that I think is more appropriate and two cheese-stuffed hot dogs, all in one horrible package. Not only will this be more impressive to your dinner guests, but it will also make for a better cross section. Let's take a look, oh yeah, that's a

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blaster, now if you're 30 like me and don't want to die in 3 years, you have an invitation to your high school's culinary club, the Tang gang. Come on guys, these kids were kind enough to invite me to their school and now you can eat this guys.

I'm going to go eat kale or something... yeah, look at how these animals move, disgusting and impressive. Alright, thanks guys, now let's take a break from corrupting America's youth and try to make a

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version of the Cheezy Blaster that I think can only be in the shape of a calzone. What I have here is a pretty simple pizza dough, if you want to see how to make pizza dough check out the video in the top right corner, and since this recipe is good for about four small pies, I'm going to take a quarter of the dough and turn it out onto a lightly floured work surface, stretching and rolling if necessary until it forms a 14-inch round.

Instead of hot dogs, here I have a spicy Italian sausage and three different types of salami. I guess that's good enough for Meat Cat and the substitute for the jack cheese is some low moisture mozzarella, now let's start by sautéing the inside of our calzone, normally we wouldn't do this. I've served sauce on the side, but we have to try it. and be slightly true to form here. Top it with some mozzarella, some of our chopped salamis, followed by some of our Italian sausage and some ricotta, since the original cheese also had two different types of cheese.

We'll fold this guy like a big calzone using a sort of empanada folding method around the edge to close it. Then we will use a serrated knife to cut three steam vents on the top if you don't. This thing is going to explode in the oven and we normally use a brush to brush everything with egg yolk, but you don't have any, so I'll mail you one. About 20 minutes later, it totally matched that oven and we have a lovely looking calzone. Let this guy rest for about ten minutes before slicing, otherwise you might burn your little fingers and dig in, making sure to document a generous stretch of cheese.

After all, it is a cheese disintegrator and of course I'm here to help you introduce it into the cleanup. plate club is the Tang gang, thank you all for inviting me back to your school and please make healthier life choices than me.