Chef Dan Giusti returns to show you how surprisingly far you can stretch a loaf of white bread with nothing more than a few inexpensive ingredients and some ingenuity. Watch and learn as Dan prepares 6 dishes that each take white bread slices from the realm of bologna sandwiches to something unexpectedly delicious. The best part? It all comes in at under $12.
Dan Giusti, formerly the head chef of Noma, is the founder of Brigaid, a company that places professional chefs into institutional food spaces like public schools. Brigaid chefs bring their experience, knowledge and technique to institutional kitchens to improve food quality. Similar to how Brigaid works–by bringing professional chefs into institutional spaces to apply their knowledge to new environments– The Smart Cook intends to do the same by bringing Chef Dan’s experience and knowhow into your home with delicious recipes prepared on a budget.
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0:00 Introduction
0:50 Bread/Butter Blanket
3:49 Ribollita
7:49 Breadcrumbs/Fried Chicken Cutlets
9:47 Sweet Finishing Crumbs
11:10 Savory Finishing Crumbs
12:50 Bread Pudding
15:41 Conclusion
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I love segments that teach people how to be creative with the simplest ingredients.
I think it’s more impressive to make a gourmet meal with whatever is available instead of making something fancy with the most exotic or obscure ingredients.
By the way that bread crumbled, are you sure it wasn't a cracker?
Glad to hear he's still figuring out how to feed others instead of presenting to ostentatious others. This man knows food, and especially how important it is to have food.
Keep it up Dan! You got a lot of young adults, under 18 youths, blue/white collar workers, and hungry folks rooting for you!
Absolutely brilliant video! Thank you so much chef! 🙏
I absolutely love this series! Please never stop making them.
I have 4 kids and 3 of them are VERY hungry boys. We sometimes get low on groceries or can't or don't want to run to the grocery store and he has helped give me so many ideas to utilize the stuff in my cupboards that I wouldn't know what to do with when I have limited ingredients!
Croque Monsieur is a white bread classic that's hard to beat.
I appreciate how you explain that water is OK to use instead of chicken broth in soups. It is another way to save money also.
I’ve seen a bread pudding made with hot cross buns- that looks delicious!🤷♀️👍🏻🥰
French toast would be another use and there's one use for stale bread Americans don't know about: Look up Semmelknödel – it's a stale bread dumpling very popular in southern Germany. It works well with any kind of meat that comes with a jus or gravy (pork roast is traditional) and it makes a main dish with a simple mushroom gravy. Easy to make, cheap, filling, no waste.
Yeah, that butter breadcrumb blanket thing, not gonna lie, l'd have that double thickness covering the whole piece of fish!
This dude is dope.
Side note: is he like, SUPER tall? At 3:38 he holds a piece of what I assume to be a normal sized piece of white bread. It looks like a crouton in his fingers. Literally holding it with 2 fingers
Can the same techniques for white bread apply for multi grain or whole wheat? Curious how different it would turn out
If you had old bay seasoning that would be great for the flounder to mix it in
I didn't know Paul Scheer was a chef
Is anyone going to mention his PERFECT ENUNCIATION???
Charming.
Awesome video
Real question!!! Is the bread smol or is he a BIG BIG guy?
Lol, if spilling water on the top of the stove while cooking is an Italian good luck charm thing, then I have all the luck in the world. There isn't a time that I don't spill water, juice, gravy, whatever out of the pan and onto the stove.. Lucky Me !!!!
I see his videos and immediately save. I've loved cooking for years but he's given me another layer of joy in cooking.
Imagine 10,000 years ago, you've just invented Bread, you've ground the Wheat, you've figured out that it needs a leavening agent to rise into an awesome Loaf….and the local Drunk that's been working on make Beer, comes along and says…"damn Dude, your Bread is awesome….what if we take slices of it, and cook it a second time over the fire?" Who else would think cooking Bread twice was awesome?…. that guy that was inventing Beer.
So Toast was born…that's also why it's called Toast, somebody was Toasted when they thought of that idea…
Truly a fan of this series.
That bread blanket, though. . .
White bread is not good food…
I still think chef Dan is hot