Welcome to a special edition of Gear Heads, featuring local Boston chef, Tiffani Faison. Lisa and Hannah visit Tiffani at her Italian restaurant, Orfano, to learn restaurants pasta tricks. Next, Tiffani comes to ATK to learn more about making pasta in a home kitchen and together, they prepare her famous Lobster Fettuccine.
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We don't use meat fork. We use chopsticks, different lengths. Perfection 🥰
I stumbled on this episode kind of by accident, and love it! It's so great to see Tiffani; I admit to a little bit of fan-girling 😀
The “taste like the ocean” for salting pasts water is the biggest tripe re pasta cooking. No chef does this, I don’t care what she said; if she really salted the water that much her pasta dish would be ruined. You need some pasta water to finish the pasta sauce and there is some reduction going on you would end up with a salty mess.
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What size is that pot they are using to cook the pasta?
Great episode! Now where is my carving, I mean pasta fork!
So fake … ATK is getting desperate .
How about recipes that you make along with links to gear?
Loved it, thank you!
I used to live in that neighborhood and I worked at Beth's real hospital which is now Beth Israel Deaconess. My hands are so disabled I cannot roll out pasta even on a machine that I would crank so I'm going to purchase the best rated pasta maker and extruder. It's got to be better than off the shelf! 🙂
Right off the bat you can tell it’s a lesbian restaurant. So I. Guessing if they hate men so much, no guys should eat there, not to mention the name of it
Tiffani is pure sex and she’s fabulous! Love you gal! Hope you get yours!!!!!
Aw, congratulations Hannah, so excited for you! Great episode, and right on time. I actually was gifted an Atlas 150 for my birthday earlier in March by a good friend, I am looking forward to using it. And good job consolidating all the pasta gear for the home cook in a single video, it makes it very easy to complete my kit. Appreciate Tiffany’s input and tool ideas too! Nice collab, much appreciation for this.
https://youtu.be/Mr94YUpE3NQ I just bought this recently and wonder if you have any tips in making fusilli with nice spiral?? And how do you minimise wastage? I mean the dough that left in the attachment.
Wait! The rule is to save some pasta water for the sauce. Just saying.
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There are few things that are better to watch than 3 exceptional people with great chemistry and superlative skills. THANK YOU!!
Also chiming in to say that this kitchen-drop-in format is awesome. ATK is great, but it's also suuuper white…yeah Boston. Anyways, getting to visit chef's in their professional kitchen and then getting them in the ATK kitchen is an organic way to have different faces show up with their specific techniques and insights.
1. I prefer long wooden chop sticks vs tongs or a meat fork to separate pasta.
2. It'd be fun to see the visiting chefs' first impressions of the ATK kitchen, getting to play around with equipment like a kid in a candy store. They could pick things out to try that they're curious about. It would be nice to gift the visiting chefs a little swag bag of ATK-approved gadgets each chefs should be able to use, especially if it's featured in the feature recipe.
3. It'd be fun to see Lisa and/or Hannah get to suited up to work in the Orfano kitchen…if that's appropriate. Hearing their thoughts are about doing stuff in a commercial kitchen vs ATK kitchen vs home kitchen would be interesting.
4. This kitchen-visit format can be done with home kitchens, especially during social distancing.
5. Guest chefs can also be part of the review process. I'm sure they'd love to use a Sawzall and beat up on equipment. Maybe bring some of their own stuff to battle store-bought items or ATK favorites
6. Please have More info boxes of the featured and un-featured items being used. What's the pot the colander is sitting in? Yeah the close-up money shots of all the called out items are ok, but that seems necessary for thumbnail & marketing shots and I would rather have more bullet pointed info about the product features AND more importantly the cooking process you all are actually doing. The tools are just there to get stuff done properly. More than selling the PRODUCT, highlighting the winning features of each product and why it's useful for the cooking process is more important IMO. That focus hopefully pressures more manufacturers to make useful products (instead of wasting our money, time, and landfills with junk) and helps us identify what to look for in products or our MacGyver workarounds to ensure the cooking process works as well as possible.
Is there a quality electric pasta roller you recommend? I broke my wrist a while back & can't keep up with a manual machine any more.
I’m having a “coronavirus “ flashback….no 6 feet…no masks…stop and restart my World, please✍🏽
I liked what the chef said about tongs in a professional kitchen; I'd say the same about kitchen towels hooked to aprons.
All three of you ladies ROCK! Thanks for all the info you’ve presented! Cheerz!
It'd be nice to have the sauce recipe!
Best lasagna pan??
Best tabletop induction burner?
The sun is not an evil thing. Jus sayin
What kind of pots and pans?
Great to see this. Thanks to all. Love Lisa all the time.
I love this video and liked seeing a restaurant chef (and a Top Chef at that!) working with the ATK folks. More of this, please.
Has there been a review of meat slicers?
I want that pasta machine😂😂😂
full recipe is where!?
ATK: transfers pasta with tongs
Tiff: transfers pasta with a meat fork
Asian Cooks: transfers pasta & noodles with chopsticks
What's the deal with white chefs (male and female) and arm tattoos?
Don't turn your back on Tiffany. If she thinks you're cooking better than her she'll turn off your oven when you're not watching, or claim that your creations are hers.