A cooking video
December 20, 2022 12:48 PM Subscribe
free yourself of daylight's culinary limitations. become a midnight gourmand.
Ok, there is me frenchsplaining to the enligthened masses of MF (against my better judgement and because it annoys the heck out of me) : the "d" in gourmand is silent...
posted by bluefrog at 2:54 PM on December 20, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by bluefrog at 2:54 PM on December 20, 2022 [2 favorites]
thank you! always fun to watch a BDG production and this is my kinda cooking video
posted by elkevelvet at 3:05 PM on December 20, 2022
posted by elkevelvet at 3:05 PM on December 20, 2022
Elwood: It's 8 hours til the alarm goes off, we've got a full can of spam, half a pack of tortillas, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses.
Jake: Fry it.
posted by Greg_Ace at 3:45 PM on December 20, 2022 [7 favorites]
Jake: Fry it.
posted by Greg_Ace at 3:45 PM on December 20, 2022 [7 favorites]
Okay, now do that without waking the dog.
Because the dog gets his 10% or else the barking starts.
posted by JoeZydeco at 4:28 PM on December 20, 2022 [2 favorites]
Because the dog gets his 10% or else the barking starts.
posted by JoeZydeco at 4:28 PM on December 20, 2022 [2 favorites]
If you’re going to cook something in the middle of the night, the secret to truly enjoying it is to fall asleep before you eat it.
I have eaten a lot of food sitting at the kitchen table in the middle of the night with the lights out and my eyes closed over a single flickering ember of consciousness, and in that state flavors are multiple times more intense. I am not kidding about this. The only real drawback is the danger of falling fully asleep before swallowing that final bite.
The 'gourmand' thing is interesting. I’d argue that it’s fully naturalized like 'claret' and the 'd' should be sounded, if weren’t for the inconvenient fact that the pronunciation of 'gourmet', its partner in the sixth deadly, remains so obdurately French.
posted by jamjam at 4:33 PM on December 20, 2022 [2 favorites]
I have eaten a lot of food sitting at the kitchen table in the middle of the night with the lights out and my eyes closed over a single flickering ember of consciousness, and in that state flavors are multiple times more intense. I am not kidding about this. The only real drawback is the danger of falling fully asleep before swallowing that final bite.
The 'gourmand' thing is interesting. I’d argue that it’s fully naturalized like 'claret' and the 'd' should be sounded, if weren’t for the inconvenient fact that the pronunciation of 'gourmet', its partner in the sixth deadly, remains so obdurately French.
posted by jamjam at 4:33 PM on December 20, 2022 [2 favorites]
It's no Earn $20K EVERY MONTH by being your own boss
posted by lalochezia at 4:42 PM on December 20, 2022 [3 favorites]
posted by lalochezia at 4:42 PM on December 20, 2022 [3 favorites]
I let out a gasp of delight & fear when he mentioned kimchi jjigae.
Reader, it did pizza and now I really want to try it.
posted by later, paladudes at 5:15 PM on December 20, 2022 [1 favorite]
Reader, it did pizza and now I really want to try it.
posted by later, paladudes at 5:15 PM on December 20, 2022 [1 favorite]
The lazy ingenuity of the late night kitchen prowler is something that I feel like he only truly approached with pizza section of this video. Ain't nobody waiting on a rice cooker and veggies 'n' dip is too basic. Peanut butter is quite the omission from this video as well, but perhaps BDG can't eat peanuts and thus does not know the myriad ways it can be used.
posted by forbiddencabinet at 6:15 PM on December 20, 2022
posted by forbiddencabinet at 6:15 PM on December 20, 2022
This is very interesting stuff and I will try all of it. Any friend of Spam, kimchi, rice, and eggs is a friend of mine.
posted by cybrcamper at 6:35 PM on December 20, 2022
posted by cybrcamper at 6:35 PM on December 20, 2022
Ain't nobody waiting on a rice cooker and veggies 'n' dip is too basic.
Recently, black beans with hot sauce, nutritional yeast, and a generous sprinkling of that sweet/salty crushed nut topping you’re supposed to put on ice cream - and god help me, it was tasty.
I saw a red fox run across the moonlit lawn while I was waiting for the microwave, too.
posted by ryanshepard at 7:00 PM on December 20, 2022 [2 favorites]
Recently, black beans with hot sauce, nutritional yeast, and a generous sprinkling of that sweet/salty crushed nut topping you’re supposed to put on ice cream - and god help me, it was tasty.
I saw a red fox run across the moonlit lawn while I was waiting for the microwave, too.
posted by ryanshepard at 7:00 PM on December 20, 2022 [2 favorites]
Holy crap, the TryToEat channel that he mentions toward the end of the video is a *gold mine*.
posted by ssmith at 7:18 PM on December 20, 2022 [3 favorites]
posted by ssmith at 7:18 PM on December 20, 2022 [3 favorites]
> Ain't nobody waiting on a rice cooker
The assumption is probably that you made rice earlier and had leftovers. And making rice without any leftovers is a mistake.
posted by Pitachu at 7:48 PM on December 20, 2022 [3 favorites]
The assumption is probably that you made rice earlier and had leftovers. And making rice without any leftovers is a mistake.
posted by Pitachu at 7:48 PM on December 20, 2022 [3 favorites]
Ok, there is me frenchsplaining to the enligthened masses of MF (against my better judgement and because it annoys the heck out of me) : the "d" in gourmand is silent...
The "d" in "gourmand" isn't silent in English, the language that he's speaking. He's using the English word, not the French one. It's been borrowed. You're trying to "correct" someone for using what is the standard pronunciation in their language.
Words often change pronunciation when they're borrowed. It might annoy you, but it's not incorrect; it's just the way language works.
Anyway, that was just me linguistsplaining.
posted by Kutsuwamushi at 9:16 PM on December 20, 2022 [3 favorites]
The "d" in "gourmand" isn't silent in English, the language that he's speaking. He's using the English word, not the French one. It's been borrowed. You're trying to "correct" someone for using what is the standard pronunciation in their language.
Words often change pronunciation when they're borrowed. It might annoy you, but it's not incorrect; it's just the way language works.
Anyway, that was just me linguistsplaining.
posted by Kutsuwamushi at 9:16 PM on December 20, 2022 [3 favorites]
The shirt BDG is wearing has filled me with questions that cannot be answered, or asked.
posted by entity447b at 1:29 AM on December 21, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by entity447b at 1:29 AM on December 21, 2022 [1 favorite]
you are certainly allowed to watch the video and find fault in any number of details
I don't understand you or the world you live in, but you're allowed
posted by elkevelvet at 8:38 AM on December 21, 2022
I don't understand you or the world you live in, but you're allowed
posted by elkevelvet at 8:38 AM on December 21, 2022
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Laurie Colwin, from the essay Alone In The Kitchen With An Eggplant
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 12:53 PM on December 20, 2022 [1 favorite]