- Hey, hey, Delish.
It's Jesse McCartney, welcome to my house.
Let's go check out the kitchen.
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We live here in the Hollywood Hills
in Los Angeles, California.
This is our favorite place to be.
We start every morning here in the kitchen
at the coffee station.
Coffee grinder, this is a Fellow kettle, which is,
changed my life.
It gets the temperature of your water spot on
and very quickly.
We have an entire cabinet, actually,
dedicated to our coffee station.
All of our coffee mugs, Mr. and Mrs.
Here's my Ellen mug from when I was on Ellen DeGeneres.
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I'm a big pour over guy.
I like the Blue Bottle nest.
Katie, my fiance, she's less fussy.
She likes her Nespresso,
so we got her little Nespresso pods here,
and she drinks her latte every morning.
Three things you'll never find in my kitchen.
One is instant coffee.
Yes, Katie using the Nespresso pods,
not really instant coffee.
Instant coffee's like when you put it in, mix it with water.
I've tried it, I hate it, you'll never find it.
Number two is fake fruit.
It's tacky, right?
Number three is a dull knife, and this is a funny story.
One of my close friends
is celebrity chef, Michael Voltaggio,
and he came over one night after we had drinks out in L.A.,
and we were cooking up some food in the kitchen,
and he pulled out one of my knives
and he started laughing.
It was very embarrassing.
We had a bunch of people over
and he was making fun of how dull my knives are.
Since that day, I sharpen my knives every single day
at the end of the day after using them,
and now when he comes over, he's super impressed.
So, never a dull knife in the house.
Okay, so the pantry.
Every kitchen's got one, this is ours.
Pretty basic here.
We have all of our canned foods, our kidney beans,
turkey chili, black beans, all of my cooking fat.
So, my olive oil, my veggie oil.
We even got a can of Crisco here
if we wanna get super southern.
I never even had Crisco until I met my fiance,
who's from the South.
The Hawaiian buns.
If you don't know about the Hawaiian buns,
you have to, right?
I mean, they're the softest buns on the planet.
They're great for pork sliders, which I love to make.
Now, over here, I like to call it our his and hers drawer.
This is the hers drawer.
This is Katie, Katie's the big baker in the family.
So, this is the baking drawer here.
It's a little messy 'cause actually just last night,
we made some chocolate chip cookies.
So, all the baking goods, the chocolate chips,
the brown sugars, all the sugar, the flour,
all the dirty stuff.
Almond flour, which by the way, life hack.
You wanna make cookies like these right here?
Soft, chewy, delicious, almond flour's the way to go.
And now, the his drawer.
The most important drawer, my favorite drawer.
Right here is where I keep all my barbecue tools.
This drawer is the most important drawer for me
in the kitchen because I love to be outside barbecuing,
which brings me to my favorite place in the kitchen kind of,
but we'll say kitchen adjacent.
Come outside, we'll check out the barbecue.
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So, we have the gas grill, right?
For kid stuff, hot dogs, hamburgers,
grilling up some veggies.
It's for quick grilling.
And then, on this side over here, my pride and joy.
This is the Big Green Egg.
Now, if you're into barbecue, you know what this is.
This is for slow smoking.
Brisket, pulled pork, baby back ribs, beef ribs,
beer can chicken.
You name it, if it's in barbecue, this thing does it.
Very heavy, it's like kiln, and it's barbecue.
Such an American pastime.
Growing up as a kid, my father was always behind a grill.
I idolized that, and now I'm better.
Let's check out, obviously,
one of the biggest parts of any kitchen,
my refrigerator and freezer.
Just a little bit of cleaning 'cause there's nothing worse
than a crowded refrigerator space.
As you can tell, we have our pasta, fresh pastas,
a lot of herbs, butter, our jams.
We have a lot of homemade stuff too.
I like to pickle stuff, so we pickled a red onion,
which is great for barbecue.
Katie made this simple syrup.
We love a good cocktail at five o'clock.
We're big into gin right now.
We do a gin, elderflower, grapefruit,
with homemade simple syrup.
Really easy to make too.
The classic refrigerator beep when it's open too long.
The freezer.
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Steaks, love my steaks.
Also love chicken thighs.
These are great for sous vide.
All of our frozen meats.
We also have some ground turkey in here.
One of the cool things that I love
about making a cocktail is big ice.
Big blocks of ice.
You can buy these,
I think they sell them at Bed Bath.
I mean, you can get these things anywhere.
Get them wherever you can online, but it's impressive.
Having a big block of ice over a whiskey,
or just making a really fancy cocktail.
It's impressive-looking and it's a cool life hack.
Good to have some big ice in your house.
I have the square ones
and then I also have the individual round ones.
It's great for a single malt.
Good to have big ice.
Also, frozen cups.
This is great.
I love an IPA.
It's great for serving.
It's impressive, it keeps the drink cold.
So, always a cold glass.
Ice cream.
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'Cause you know.
We freeze our bread too because there's only two of us
living here, and we buy a loaf of bread,
and five days later,
we've had four slices and the whole loaf goes bad.
So that's my fridge and my freezer.
Let's check out the rest.
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So, over the years, I've gone back and forth
between non-stick and steel pans.
They obviously both have their benefits.
But, most recently, I invested in a couple
of incredible pans that do both.
They're kind of a hybrid.
Le Creuset, which is arguably some of the most famous
cookware when you think of pots and pans.
Incredible, despite the fact that they're 400 pounds each.
I have both the 10 and the 12 inch pan.
They are both non-stick and cast iron,
which is incredible.
So you can literally sear a steak at 500 degrees,
which we did the other night.
And then, also, and get an incredible sear on it,
and also cook something as delicate as an omelet
without any clean up.
Love these pans.
Two of my favorite items in the kitchen.
Some other items in the kitchen that I love.
I'm a huge advocate for fresh pink Himalayan rock salt.
It's just, it tastes the best.
Simply grind it over your food, and it's out,
and it'll last a lifetime.
Olive oil, of course.
Fresh basil, we're approaching summer.
Basil's great for making cocktails.
Obviously, great for cooking.
So we always try to have some fresh herbs in the house.
And then, here's our healthy little cookie jars
that aren't cookies, but we have almonds, ONE bars.
And the healthiest jar here, the Hershey Kisses,
which also happens to be the most empty.
(laughs) Guilty.
And then, this is another super cool thing here.
We have Katie's family's recipes.
We're not huge into cookbooks, we do have a few.
But these are great because these are all of Katie's
grandparents' homemade recipes.
They grew up in Texas so they have a Tex-Mex enchilada
that we cooked the other night for my birthday.
And they're all handwritten, which is super cool.
So, this is a prized possession in the kitchen
for both of us, especially Katie.
This is a multipurpose drawer here.
Our doggie drawer up top
'cause we do have a little furry friend named Bailey
in the house.
So all of her treats,
all of her little pill pockets, and her bowls.
She goes through phases with water bowls.
She's very particular about her water bowls, her treats.
And then down here is sort of my food preservation area,
where I have my FoodSaver.
Like I showed you earlier, I store all my mushrooms
and foods that go bad quickly.
It really gives them another week of life.
And then, this is one of my new favorite machines
that I just got.
It's a sous vide machine,
and a really, really nice one, the Anova Pro.
Love the sous vide machine.
Oh, you want a treat?
Oh boy, what's that?
Oh boy, oh yeah, sit.
Shake, give me kiss.
Okay, I mean, is that not content?
Is that not golden content right there?
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Also, in case you were wondering,
this is my favorite apron.
Delish, thanks so much for hanging out.
That was my kitchen.
I hope you guys had a good time.
Next time, you'll have to come over and I'll cook for you.
I'll make you something special.
Until then, I'm gonna work on these cookies.
See you next time.
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