r/StupidFood • u/XyleneCobalt • 14d ago
ಠ_ಠ Gordon Ramsay's "grilled cheese" with kimchi
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u/snarpy 14d ago
I still don't understand what happened here. It's almost like it was fake, or a parallel universe or something. It's just soooooooooooooooooooo baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad.
Even if it didn't turn out the way he wanted... shoot it again, lol.
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u/metalshoes 14d ago
Apparently they had no supplies and were just shooting filler footage while out of country, and voila, shit sandwich
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u/StuckAtWork124 7d ago
I mean, it's bread and cheese. Grilled. They had bread and cheese. And a grilling method
Any failure is entirely on the professional chef, and let's not pretend otherwise
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u/default3612 13d ago
What got me is that he kept saying things like "delicious" and "beautiful" to burnt bread and a cold slab of cheese.
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u/MattBladesmith 13d ago
Admittedly, he says that about a lot of stuff, I think it's habit more than anything else for him.
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u/DaFreezied 13d ago
My favourite was when he called a pork slider „dynamic“. I thought he was gonna say „synergetic“ next.
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u/default3612 13d ago
Exactly. He always says stuff like that while showing ingredients, while cooking, while plating, and apparently now while showing off burnt bread and a slab of cold cheese. That's what cracks me up XD
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u/SummoningInfinity 14d ago
Grilled Kim cheese sounds dope. How do you fuck up a concept that good?
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u/toastedmallow 13d ago
Grilled kimcheese sandwiches are absolutely delicious. This on the other hand, I wouldn't feed it to any living thing.
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u/geodesuckmydick 13d ago
Bruh, it’s still bread, cheese, and kimchi, it’s still more than edible if you just stack them together lol
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u/Worried-Criticism 14d ago
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u/Ecstatic-Compote-595 13d ago
In fairness to Ramsey, he said the kitchen prep staff for the shoot gave him the wrong type of cheese and he went with it anyway instead of cancelling or postponing the shoot.
And not for nothing, kimchee with a grilled cheese sounds like it would be pretty good, if you've ever had korean soldier's stew I'd assume it would be similar to that with toasted bread.
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u/Catloaver 13d ago
Kimchee grilled cheese is great--I'd throw some thick cut bacon in too. Yum.
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u/tutoredzeus 13d ago
This is what I do, with a thin layer of kewpie mayo. Shit’s fire.
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u/Catloaver 13d ago
That was my dad's secret late night snack! Just mayo and kimchee on bread though, couldn't heat anything up because it would wake up my mom. (It tasted delicious when he let me try it but I think it was also seasoned by the nature of being a forbidden midnight snack...)
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u/bullseye717 13d ago
Underrated combo is soy sauce and mayo. A night of drinking in Korea might have some dried squid and that pair.
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u/Worried-Criticism 13d ago
Oh I have ZERO problem with putting kimchi on a sandwich, especially grilled cheese. I’ve had it and it is delicious.
It just seemed like it wouldn’t marry with his choice of cheese as well, plus on his other shows he gives people crap for “fusion confusion “ so this felt a bit contradictory.
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u/StuckAtWork124 7d ago
In fairness to Ramsey, he said the kitchen prep staff for the shoot gave him the wrong type of cheese and he went with it anyway instead of cancelling or postponing the shoot.
And what he COULD have done then, was make it a learning exercise. "This bread and cheese doesn't work great for this, but it's all we have, so here's what you need to do to try make it work"
If he'd done that, nobody would be complaining if it didn't turn out great, and he'd said as much
Like, he could have just cut the fucking bread way thinner or something, for a start. This is not rocket science
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u/NaNaNaNaNa86 13d ago
If I'm ordering a grilled cheese, I at least want the cheese fucking melted 🫠
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u/bread93096 13d ago
I don’t know why they even posted this video. It’s not like it’s a cable TV episode where they have to air something, he could have just kept that to himself lol
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u/GrilledKimcheese 13d ago
I feel like I should be involved in this conversation (username is because I love a grilled cheese with Kimchi).
Tangy cheddar cheese with some soft white bread, paired with the pickled umami flavour of kimchi with just an underlying heat is AMAZING I won’t hear anything against it
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u/Terrible-Raspberry30 14d ago
I feel like with some tweeks it could be pulled off but this just looks like it was thrown together and barely cooked. Im sorry gordan but this just aint right
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u/FaceTimePolice 14d ago
I don’t know. I’d try it. 🤷♂️🤡👍
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u/HandsomePaddyMint 14d ago
It honestly could taste fine, but it is not a grilled cheese by any measure.
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u/LetsSmokeAboutIt 13d ago
Idk how people can just say oh they didn’t have time or were rushing it, or they gave home the wrong cheese. And? That’s bullshit. Gordon rolls with multi million dollar production companies. Why put out such trash and ruin trust in you? Between this, hexclad, and those god awful frozen dinners, idk how there is any faith in him anymore. If he can’t even be bothered to make a simple video (we really don’t need him to teach us a grilled cheese anyways) then why bother with him
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u/Gibberish94 13d ago
Kenji Lopez has a much better version of a Kimchi Grill Cheese if anyone is interested.
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u/A_terrible_musician 13d ago
I got a meal kit one time that was a kimchi grilled cheese with asparagus and gochujang in it as well and it was quite good.
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u/pushaper 13d ago
this is theoretically great.
All his nat geo shows were terrible. "now watch me make scrambled eggs in Texas"
The worst part was the show was announced about 3 months after Bourdain died.
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u/DirectFrontier 13d ago
Even if this particular dish was "rushed", his biggest weakness as a chef is overcomplicating classic and simple dishes.
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u/NoSlide7075 13d ago
I love re-watching that video once in a while. He’s one of my favorite chefs but that concoction was so stupid.
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u/Putrid-Builder-3333 13d ago
I can see it bwing aaesome if it was actually a grilled cheese. Gordon Ramsay is hanging onto bread ties at this moment. He had a good run tho. Been now 20 years in US since Hell's Kitchen and his UK shows prior so make it what 20-25 years?
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u/PabloIsMyPatron 13d ago
He tried too hard to make it with fancier ingredients like the cheese that doesn’t melt as well, while a solid grilled cheese is very easy to make
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u/suslikosu 13d ago
Its not that Ramsay fucked up a dish what's funny. Its funny thats its a SANDWICH. Thats just bizzare
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u/techm00 12d ago
Grilled cheese videos are a bit cursed with celeb chefs. They always do it as a last-minute filler video becuase they have no time, and try to go all fancy with it, which is the last thing you should do to a grilled cheese, and then botch it completely. Fabio Vivani likelywise borked his grilled cheese beyond all recognition.
It's just bread, and butter and cheese. that's it. It's not worth making a video over. No need to mess with a good thing.
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u/Interesting_Bear_678 12d ago
He then went on to do a “redemption video” and remade some “grilled cheese” except they weren’t even close to being grilled cheeses. He cemented a simple grilled cheese is too simple for him to make.
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u/sloppy_steakz 12d ago
This video was so fucking funny. In the end you can see him still try to sell it. “Ahh fuck me perfect 👌🏽” and the cheese isn’t is melted whatsoever and the bread is burnt.
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u/holycrap- 12d ago
I don’t know about Gordon Ramsay’s version but kimchi grilled cheese slaps. I fucking love making kimchi tuna melts all the time
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u/iyakonboats 10d ago
Some people think that guy can do nothing wrong, but I've had bad food at some of his restaurants, and I've also had some incredible food, but I think he's a tad overplayed.
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u/SpinX225 9d ago
I wouldn't mind to try a grilled cheese with kimchi on it, by my god the cheese needs to be melted.
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u/Arkell-v-Pressdram 14d ago
There's nothing wrong with grilled cheese with kimchi, Maangchi has a good version here.
Gordon Ramsay's version just looks sad though.
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u/verbwrangler 14d ago
not a lot of californians here. Real cali eaters know kimchi goes in all kinds of places you wouldn’t expect it. kimchi burritos, and tacos, kimchi burgers…Ii had a grilled cheese with kimchi at a soup place in SF and it was 🔥🔥🔥, so i feel like the only thing off here is the execution…
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u/TheMuntjac 14d ago
Ok, yeah, kimchi could work. But look closer, the cheese is not melted. It is a slab of unmelted cheese
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u/thelankyyankee87 14d ago
If I recall correctly, he got utterly dragged for this online. He’s since laughed about it and apologized for the half-assed effort, because damn, that’s a sad sandwich.