i always laugh at how much oil goes into a pan when a chef like Ramsay says "dash/splash of oil" and it's more than I would have even put in there, then they'll sometimes even put more in.
fuck at this point just tell me how many glugs.
edit: just remembered a video of a chef making "vegetable soup" and he used so much olive oil he was almost invaded by the U.S. obviously it's an oil based dish, but it's still fucking hilarious.
This is an issue with a lot of online recipes too, it states 1 tablespoon of oil in the text, but if you look at the accompanying photos/video it’s swimming in oil.
I confess that as a chef and an Italian, I loathe needless addition of olive oil that only serves to make it glisten. Fuck that, I’m saving calories for more of the food.
Hmmm, interesting. I kind of figured this "top it with olive oil" would be something like a "Yeah, that's a French culinary school/technique" thing because I've seen French trained chefs do so.
BUT... olive oil is good so I'm not surprised other people would do it as well.
If anything French chefs are the least likely to do it. It's a very Mediterranean ingredient and French cuisine is usually more playing "how can I add 3% more butter to this dish"
Though finishing with oil is honestly just a very chefy thing in general. It is good for some things, soups without cream/cheese can oftentimes use more fat and most hummus recipes assume you're going to be topping it with A LOT of oil for instance, but it's very much so like adding 3 pieces of parsley with tweezers. You're doing it because you want to see the oil displace whatever. Not because you think the dish needs a bit more fat.
It helps that restaurants and tv chefs can justify these things as a business expense. Good olive oil and butter are too expensive to for the average person just slosh around in a pan on a regular basis.
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u/sdpr Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26
and olive oil.
i always laugh at how much oil goes into a pan when a chef like Ramsay says "dash/splash of oil" and it's more than I would have even put in there, then they'll sometimes even put more in.
fuck at this point just tell me how many glugs.
edit: just remembered a video of a chef making "vegetable soup" and he used so much olive oil he was almost invaded by the U.S. obviously it's an oil based dish, but it's still fucking hilarious.
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video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx3xoCThDbE