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, now I have to check out my parents' house in New Jersey, this is my

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, my new kitchen. I'm going to show you around. You can spy on the phone. He fell. Wait, okay? recording, let's try that again, okay, so this is my kitchen. I'll

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you, it's not that big, I'll show you starting at one end, this is just a place where I keep all my appliances, food processor, blender and stand mixer. then in lower dutch ovens it's helpful to have those things on the outside and then this is a slab that I cut from a surface that I used when I was taking the photos for my book and for baking purposes it's nice to have marble because it's great for rolling out dough, something which I do a lot at

home

and then on this side of the kitchen, I have a cutting board, where all my friends at

home

are, they look very lively and in this area I like to have the things that I use.

The most useful thing I have is spray bottles, one is water because sometimes when you're cooking you want to slow down the cooking process, so it's good to spray with a little bit of water in an oil sprayer, non-aerosol coarse sea salt, which It's this wonderful type. of Sicilian gray salt and this one here is the flake salt. I like to decant things into squeeze bottles. Chile oil black vinegar we eat a lot of frozen dumplings, especially lately and this is my oven, it's nice and big. I love it, it is actually a very precise oven. a bunch of fish spatulas, which are perhaps one of the most used kitchen utensils, colanders, my good friend Julia, the patron saint of home cooks everywhere, so I like to have that photo of Julia Child in the kitchen because it makes me feel good.

I want you to say hello. For my cat, this is Maya, the scariest and least friendly cat, but she's actually being very social today in New York. One thing I hate is carrying big boxes of cans and that kind of stuff, so we have a SodaStream to make seltzer at home, so my first time living in New York with a dishwasher is amazing, so useful and important, so that's the kitchen at my house, it's usually in a state of disarray because there's always someone cooking something and baking, so I don't look nice and shiny to you.

Hopefully in the next few weeks I'll be doing a lot of fun things here, so hey guys, we're back in my kitchen in the East Village and I'm going to show you how I like to set up to have a small kitchen, but I feel like I've really streamlined it. I guess we'll start where it's most ridiculous, which is the spice cabinet, which is all of this and goes on. I like to have my things spicy, so these are different chilis, like chili blends. like piri piri spice mix like anything that's spicy goes towards spicy here I have hot spices cinnamon cardamom nutmeg cloves that kind of stuff up here that's my aromatic spice area fenugreek Nigella caraway this is a business funny message green stuff mango powder that you know can't really find a home anywhere else um oh, and then the top shelf is full of dried chiles.

I wasn't lying when I said I can make moly right now, so okay, up here, that's where I keep all my baking supplies. I keep them out of reach because I bake too much, so I have to really like working this way. You know, I often get on stools, I get on the counter, so it's very dangerous and I'll probably walk away. die this way, the most exciting cabinet right now is the snack cabinet, which is abnormally full because, you know, snacking stresses me out. I have cornets, this really annoys everyone in the Test Kitchen like they really hate this, but I freeze my bananas whole.

I don't know why I probably shouldn't, but I don't know. I am in my Britain. Anna turns tan and then I panic. I'm going to sit on the floor with you and show you my refrigerator, okay, there's always a ton of dairy in our refrigerator, we're big dairy eaters, so there's always tons and tons of kefir, which is my favorite thing, sour cream, heavy cream. , yogurt, a couple types of yogurt, oh, lots of butter, I just don't want to not eat butter, oh, all of that. All that stuff that reaches to the back of the refrigerator and is completely filled with oysters.

Oh Clementines, come on you Clint Clem, this is Clementine, she's dog number two and she loves to eat anything, yes, she'll run away with her right now. leaf now okay so here we are in my kitchen and this is a view from the open end into the kitchen that's a view of my son escaping yeah we're vlogging Leo music everyone hmm you have two counters on. on both sides and where I normally set up in this butcher block, I have natural light from the windows and that's where I

take

all my reference photos for my cookbook and I can take a good photo until 3 in the afternoon when the light fades and then I can't get pretty pictures of the food anymore, okay it's crowded right now.

I have a lot of rendered fats from different cooking projects and wine which is in high demand right now. The other thing that I do in my refrigerator is keep my products separated, oh yes, yes, vegetables on the one hand we have a lot of mismanagement here and fruit on the other. It's packed right now. Many things are labeled. I hope you can see that and know that I'm telling the truth when I tell you to label the things we're going through kimchi as going out of style. Half the freezers are occupied right now by a big piece of pork.

Well, already cooked. B in stock I have leftover white wine, things that I don't want to spoil and little elements of things that will add flavor to meals, little power packs that's where I keep all my spices. I don't really sort alphabetically or anything else. I try to keep the tops of the caps labeled. Ironically, Corona beans I didn't know was going to happen when I bought them, but the real thing likes to touch these ingredients every day. I go to my stove cart and what I have olive oil, this is my dad's red wine vinegar that he makes in this basement mm-hmm too with my dish of butter and coconut oil.

I think if you're at home and you cook a lot, figure out what You have to figure out what you like to cook with and then maybe feel better about all the ingredients that you have now to start cooking, Alex. I am NOT in the

test

kitchen here. I don't know anything about what's happening in my parents' kitchen right now. but luckily my parents have a record player and I'm a huge music nerd, so this, without further ado, will be the

tour

of the bag of records that Alex brought to his parents' house. Well, first, George Harrison, an appropriate title.

Everything must pass. Some of the best love songs in music history are on the table below, the Olympic soul instrumental recorded a few years ago. Really good, working from home is like this album is made for you. This is productivity. Ramsey Lewis, mother nature's son, this album. It's full of really wonderful jazz. The Beatles cover rock. American atmosphere. Scandinavian musician. A relaxed electro band. This album selects from start to finish the songs here. They are so good it's incredible. Very wonderful. Wait. There's another thing. One of the other things I brought with me. which is like a lot of my bar saude amount of alcohol here this bag is full of wine okay again I love my parents but I can't drink Pinot Grigio all the time Cheers, okay Oh, thing, thing, okay , largely, so this is my kitchen, okay, this is it, I'll show you the framework you have, okay, it's the first date, okay, see how it goes, here's a couple of interesting things.

I keep this in the refrigerator after I open it and this is some crushed Calabrian chili. boom, little spicy, nice, it has a really unique flavor, it's fantastic and here it's just a little bit, oh, this is nice. I just put this type of pepper and then I use it well, okay, it's black pepper, pink peppercorns, 10% sumac, oh, it's nice. a little bit of salt, I've got a chicken steaming right now, okay, top it with this stuff, dried figs, let me go put this in, I've got to chop it up, put it in like a vinaigrette, throw it in a stew, stew or something, chop it up and make it. . a salad that everyone doesn't eat bianco crushed tomatoes is what we use to make the perfect pizza and these were the godfathers and it was good to have stock to see what else we have where are the spices up here?

I hate these cabinets oh we got a lot of good stuff here some fermented powders from previous It's Alive videos oh this is good Guitar Z and Z Oh a couple of bottles a decent vinegar hanging around yeah we got all the stuff I got bananas I got pots and pans like a loaf, you know, stick maybe if we do this again I'll show you the other wall because it's pretty cool - okay, bye, I'll leave you hanging, that's it, yeah, hello everyone, I'm Priya. I'm actually at my parents' house in Dallas and I'm going to show you around

their

kitchen Wow, okay, the yogurt is ready, it's literally the perfect time and in this era of extra caution and social distancing we all have glasses with our names, oh yes you may need to replace the glasses, sorry, oh we have.

I love this. This is my dad's favorite knife, we got it from Alaska, something seems very right. Brad's alley, the spice cabinet, anything you can dream of, we have it and then we have more in the pantry, which I'll show you, so we have. literally every variety of lentils you can imagine we have like a rainbow of spices we're not going to run out we actually have two refrigerators and this has the basics kombucha my dad's tiny diet cokes two heads of cauliflower so we can always make aloo Gobi this is probably the most used condiment Maggi tamarind sauce my dad will go out and buy samosas and we will drizzle them with this very good tamarind sauce I will show you that you also have Maggi noodles Wow, my dad just confirmed that you have Maggi noodles we have the noodles, it's okay, now we go to the laundry room and this is the second refrigerator full of old photos of me from my childhood.

Here I am at 8 years old. The highlight here is that you will find all our homemade pickles in Indian cuisine. a char or pickle is just a combination of vegetables or fruits, spices, oils that you let sit in the sun and they get nice and they become so delicious, salty and spicy, and this is a caper, a char, it's really good and these are all old ketchup jars and then we have what is the mother of all in jars oh this is the mother of all characters my dad says dad do you want to take this out and wait let me everyone be in this shot , but?

Pull here like on your couch and in the store, are we making the bridge? No, let me fix it in five seconds. Hey guys, we're in my kitchen right now. I'll give you a little tool. My kitchen, as you can see, is big. space, this is like my main part in the kitchen, my soul and my other elegant salt, modern soul and then I have to wait for Mary's for all my tools and then I have a second one with all my spoons, that's my piggy bank and that's it You know. my only plant because all my other plants died here is my mother my mother is always here I don't use paper napkins so I have a collection of mismatched cloth napkins and then my refrigerator are you ready for this?

There's hot Cholula because I always have to have Cholula in the pot back here I have some bones and I'm going to make bone broth then I have butcher food which is meat and rice some tortillas tomatoes that I bought yesterday I never have tomatoes that's all. I don't have a big refrigerator and here we have a pantry. I didn't really have time to finish organizing them. I know a lot of people are going to say this is super organized, but for me it's not how I like it. I'm going in, I have a pantry, there you go, you see me, it's messy right now, please don't hate me, yes, avalanche, this see Shang Shu, don't be here and then I'll have some wine, my two vacuum cleaners, yes, no.

Don't hate me, I have two vacuum cleaners and then I have one more shelf where I keep things I never really use. You can see it? No, no comments, bro, so yeah, that's my pantry, oh my God, this is closed with this life, no, no, hello everyone. my name is Emil stomach I'm here in the kitchen of my house, I'll take you there, yeah, okay, so this is it, where I spend almost all my time in the kitchen, it's directly behind me, the prep table. I love a stainless steel prep table, there is nothing. like in the world, they're so cheap and then being able to turn around so easily and just get to the sink right here oh, these bowls are fun.

Carla Lally Music's sister Nina has a company called Mondays and I bought a bunch of seconds from her, this is actually great, this is really like an aged vermouth, it was from the 70s but it's still good, what do we have more here? Oh ha ha, I made it a while ago, in December, I think it's still good. The other week I cooked some turmeric and ginger chicken, which isn't really ready to eat. Lupita Beans, they actually have a little less product, which I find a little alarming, let's see oohKitKat, that's fun, maybe like an embarrassing amount of vodka here, oh Jesus, you know?

I'm Polish, I drink vodka but I like it very cold. We have beef kidneys, lamb liver, some lamb kidneys too. This is a soup base for Zurich, which is a Polish soup made with sour rye, so it's like a sourdough soup. and everyone in my house has been very skeptical about it and I'm going to make them that soup and they're going to like it ooh, I love this shape, Zuka, it's like little Pinkins, well, I forgot about this scary thing you see behind us, which is the packaging of a funnel that a friend gave us Pino the sweet meddler I love Pino there's the backyard I don't know if you can see it but it looks pretty gloomy right now I swear we're going to plant a garden or something like that That's right, but that's the kitchen setup, thanks.for tuning in how my hair is, thanks, okay.

I think when I moved here a couple of days ago and thought a lot about what are the essential things I need to have, the first things that came to mind were copious amounts. of olive oil, lots of citrus, so both lemons and limes, some kind of vinegar and kosher salt, it's not as full as my pantry at home, but I'm surviving anyway, so here under my island, the top area are four Snicks cookies from Mac's Mary's gone. black pepper flavor, not my favorite flavor, but we're not picky right now, we have corn chips that are one of the best tortilla chips in the world and the bottom of some Chex corn and then on the other side , we have our grains and legumes long grain white rice some French lentils some fava beans I'm about to start making a lot of smoothies in this house, so I stocked up on cashews, walnuts, almonds, sunflower seeds and pistachios, we have a little hot sauce and some Worcestershire because I plan to make Miuccia Lotta's this weekend.

Oh, and this is the best part of this house. It comes with shelled peanuts to crack, so we've been cracking them, so I have eggs and cottage cheese back here that would be a margarita. I didn't finish it last night and decided I should probably save it in case I run out of margaritas at some point, so it's probably not very tasty anymore. Oh wait, this nugget closes, it's beeping. The second shelf is dedicated to alcoholic beverages and meat. I'd say maybe it's a strange choice, but I like kielbasa Above We're beeping, please wait, and then here's the big produce box that's stressing me out a little right now.

Citrus fruits are one of my desserts. Island ingredients, so I have lots of lemons and limes. I also bought some mangoes and Asian pears. A little bit more citrus because we're in California Nats citrus season and I'm going to start with ice and that's for making cocktails. Hi Ben, should we go looking? he what's going on here we need oz this is so awkward yeah we somehow went from an apartment that wasn't big enough to an apartment that was even smaller but here we are honestly I didn't go crazy trying to clean everything up and make it perfect for you because lord knows you'll probably be back here next week so this is our, I don't even know what to call it, we have wine on it and then we have other assorted detritus. like Marmite, I'm sorry to say my kids are hooked, I've got a couple of beans, I've got big spoons, little tapered spoons, this, I'm sorry to say is my knife drawer at the moment, you know, I've got knives like something like that. stored here because I'm terrified the kids will get to them if they are somewhere else dermapen I have my NTM eights CD I have my Joyce Chen she has my duct tape what are you going to do without duct tape?

You know you can't dodge it, can't you, as the saying goes, there's Cersei, yeah, I get it. Bulls of fruit kai from Ninjago, what is she doing there? I would love to know that this is my spice drawer. In fact, I'm a big believer in a lot of mixes just because space is limited for me I love New York mixes shook chaat masala all these things are slaps, you know, I was thinking about swapping this chaotic drawer of doom for this drawer, like this I could free up stuff for more spice but we just have to keep some silly things in here, like the damn three-hole punched Pokémon card, why is there anyone who knows you want to know why I don't have room for everything?

These things take up so much space it's unbelievable, okay? ah damn you're fine in the fridge, I got your cow's milk, your oat milk, I got your wine, I got Lacroix holding the roast chicken keeping everything at nice, neat angles. Oh, EA's best chocolate chip cookies, which can be baked straight from frozen whenever you need them, but yeah, sorry. Honestly, I'm lucky to have a space that's comfortable, you know, looks good, space for plants, you know it works and yeah, we're a little more crowded these days just trying to have more things on hand so we don't have to run.

I go to the supermarket very often, but there it is, that's the route Hello everyone, I'm Christina. I'm in my kitchen at home and today I'm going to talk to you about my setup at home. I've been working on this kitchen island, it's like one of the Ikea staples, this is where I keep everything I would need to prepare 95% of the meals I cook at home and my cast iron skillets, measuring cups like more mixing bowls and this is my direct setup for to the left of my stove, a small bowl of flake salts, a half liter container of kosher salt, a pepper mill and a squeeze bottle of olive oil, and for many of my meals, these are the things that I'm looking for in my spice drawer, which is like my Pride and Joy, that was a project that I embarked on when I first moved here.

Well, I'm looking at myself with this refrigerator as a background. It's so depressing. I'm just going to show you my freezer and close it because no. I want to talk about it, so I hope you liked that my pantry is in another room next to the kitchen, which is an extreme luxury. There you have it, it's also where we keep almost everything in my house. It makes me very happy because everything is labeled. a container that says Asian noodles but it's actually white rice and then above me we have a real embarrassment of riches when it comes to appliances, we have like three rice cookers and two pressure cookers and it's just absurd the most important thing here, our fridge for wines.

You know, it's pretty full right now, it's really gotten us through a lot of things, oh yeah, and this is my mushroom sign that says, put on mushrooms, mushrooms are very important, well, I've been traveling through Mexico for the last six months and when things started to go a little crazy, I decided it was time to stop hunkering down and start cooking and writing, so that's where I am now. I've only been here for five days, so things aren't fully stocked, but I have chicken broth and I have my favorite drink in the Ball Chico universe.

I take it practically every night. I sit on the terrace and take my Chico soccer ball with lime. This beautiful pineapple. Let me take it out. He's probably a little past his prime, but that's just saying. It's very sweet and what I'm going to end up doing is making our own fresh. I fell in love with pineapple water so that's what's going to happen with that and then I have some emergency cookie dough because now it's one. giant emergency and I always need cookies. I found this and I want to show it to Morocco. This is a sizzling pan but it's cast iron which I'm really excited about so I actually want to grill a steak on this because it's pretty cool my trade sheets this is one of my favorite tools in the kitchen so yeah If I were to meet for recipes right away, I would have four sheet pans, everything organized and ready to start cooking right away and nothing. mixes together, these are some of the really beautiful ceramics that I've been collecting all over Mexico and then I have my baking drawer, which is very important to me because I love to bake and more importantly, I love to eat cookies and that It's pretty much my little god of Mexican cuisine, this feels like cribs in 1999 or something, okay, although this is not my kitchen.

I have a pretty good setup. I brought some of the items from my pantry, not as many as I thought I would need mmm salt I see. I have some pasta about 10 mistakes at the moment I prefer flat some these things are not mine included this included this included that don't be ashamed if you like that it's very difficult to make this with a frying pan hazelnuts flaky sunflower seeds paprika madness favorite actually least favorite I don't know what this is Oh almond milk oh I should have used that for my coffee some romaine lettuce this parsley that shouldn't be here and Titian's still beard should be here mmm leeks that shouldn't be here either and then when it comes to our freezer a little more chaotic ceman basil remix cinnamon raisin is definitely not my choice and vodka because well you understand thanks for visiting my kitchen Bon Appetit Bon Appetit Bon Appetit that Oh