Pro chef Esther Choi, owner of Mŏkbar in New York and home cook Gabrielle are swapping ingredients and hitting the kitchen to make each other’s crab fried rice recipes. We set Gabrielle up with all of the supplies she’d need to make Chef Esther’s decadent $242 creation while sending a modest $13 worth of ingredients back the other way. While Esther was using her expertise to elevate Gabrielle’s recipe, food scientist Rose dialed in to assist our home cook with a few questions he had along the way. Which one looks best to you? Follow Chef Esther on Instagram at @choibites & @mokbar_nyc Keep up with Gabrielle at @gabchappel Rose is on Instagram at @rosemarytrout_foodscience Still haven’t subscribed to Epicurious on YouTube? ►► http://bit.ly/epiyoutubesub ABOUT EPICURIOUS Browse thousands of recipes and videos from Bon Appétit, Gourmet, and more. Find inventive cooking ideas, ingredients, and restaurant menus from the world’s largest food archive.
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I would watch a series of Esther just teaching us how to utilize most of the ingredients we have at home
A professional chef is not someone who makes all fancy dishes. Its the one who uses her ingredients efficiently
I love that Esther uses EVERYTHING. It's so creative how she repurposes things most people would discard.
I love when the pro chefs use the home cook's ingredients, cause it shows me what i can do on a budget to get the most out of what is available to me.
I love that Esther was impressed by how cheap the ingredients were and on the other end we’ve got Gabby freaking out, not wanting to waste the expensive food
I love how the pro chef is so confident and clearly knows what she's doing, and still backs away from the hot oil. Makes me feel like less of a coward for doing it myself.
Esther is explaining everything step by step so professionally like we’re actually gonna understand anything she’s saying 😭
Chef Esther gives me the “Just because I’m professional, that doesn’t mean I waste ingredients” vibes
Can we have two pro chefs together making same dish in their own unique way? I think that would be cool
Gabi is hilarious, she seems fun to hang out with Chef Esther is amazing at what she does, the way she maximises ingredients in amazing
Esther is the perfect chef for these swap episodes because you know she’s really gonna maximize the usual basic ingredients and elevate them, which could be a very educational experience for us viewers. I can’t appreciate as much the other chefs who bring in a couple more ingredients just so they could do their own interpretation. I find it cheating in a way. Imo, what Esther does in this swap series stays true to the challenge and that for me shows how skilled, talented, and knowledgeable she really is as a chef. Edit: forgot some words
Esther’s 0 waste philosophy is amazing in practice!
"how much do you want to flavour the oil ?" esther: Yes
I have a HUGE respect to chef Esther's responsibility and no-waste cooking ethics.
I went 😳 when Esther started crushing the fried shrimp heads! I didn’t know you make shrimp paste out of those shrimp heads! Learnt something today! Thanks Esther!!
Watching Chef Esther cook was like attending a high end culinary school...this was a learning experience like no other....if she can do that with such humble ingredients in such a short amount of time...i can not even begin to imagine her creative prowess... am a FAN!
I made chef esther’s version today and it was unbelievably good. Completely elevated my fried rice and it’s amazing
"I can indeed confirm they have spots on them, so... we're gonna rip their heads off" I laughed so hard! Gabby's having so much fun and it's contagious
Dang, Esther killed that recipe. Simple ingredients yet infused complex flavors to them without adding other stuff not given to her. Simply brilliant technique and food knowledge.
Can we appreciate Gabi too for how well she made that dish! I would’ve been overwhelmed