Why You Should Burn Your Food (A Little Bit) | What’s Eating Dan?


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  1. Courtney Boyle
    Courtney Boyle says:

    Toasty brown only for my perfect s’more. ❤. That said I love a good crème brûlée and my last batch of twice baked potatoes had just a bit of char which really seemed to make them better, not worse. Thanks for the episode😊

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  2. Crimson83blah
    Crimson83blah says:

    One recommendation I had learned from an earlier YouTube was that you can use onions to cover a cast iron skillet to help prevent the smoking and charring if you don’t have enough chicken cutlets. This worked well for browning short rib I can attest

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  3. EastSider
    EastSider says:

    The perfect s’more starts with homemade graham crackers because all the commercial ones are too thick. The cracker needs to be crisp and brittle, and Hershey’s milk chocolate bar as to be slightly chilled so it snaps well. And yes, char those marshmallows!!!

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  4. Sapan Parekh
    Sapan Parekh says:

    The best smores: graham crackers smeared with creamy peanut butter, with dark chocolate, charred but not overly burnt (vegan) marshmallows. The peanut butter helps with adherence to the bottom graham cracker and just adds so much!

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  5. Scott Reno
    Scott Reno says:

    Great video. There are certain foods which need a some form of char on them. My marshmallows need to be just short of turning black. I worked in a Pizza Hut back in the mid 70s. My manager always said the pizza was done when the crust just start to get a little black on it. My fried and scrambled eggs need a bit of golden brown on them. Char is a necessity for steak. I could go on, but will end by saying blackened catfish is my favorite blackened dish.

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  6. Jared Leonard
    Jared Leonard says:

    Back in the before fore, long before I ever cooked anything, my father would cook thin Tbone steaks well done on the grill. I did not know any better and just thought beef was that tough. But the saving grace… was that awesome char. The charred bits were the most flavorful and of course the tenderloin portion was also still pretty tender. I now know that there are other ways to make steak that leave the meat more tender and jucy but the taste and aroma of that char lingers in my memory. The combination of charred beef and A1 steak sauce was the beginning of my food journey.

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