- [Man] Doin' a good job.
- It's just the food.
It just needs me to be here to talk nice to it
and tell it it's pretty.
Come on now, work with me.
Piece of (beep).
Sorry, I'm supposed to be nice to you.
I'm a food stylist.
Consider me a make-up artist for food.
I take boring, everyday average food
and make it look amazing.
Guys, I love the movie "Chef."
It's one of my favorite movies of all time,
and most importantly, the grilled cheese
from the movie "Chef" is what we're gonna do today.
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Come one, what are you doing?
For a grilled cheese that I was styling for a photo set,
I would just use good old fashioned white bread,
and dun dun dun dah, you guessed it,
singles in the cellophane wrap.
It melts like crazy, stays melty for a long time,
yeah, it's awesome.
It's an awesome grilled cheese product.
We grew up eating this stuff, right?
You just throw the cellophane wrapper at your brother
or sister and make them freak out.
It's completely different than the grilled cheese
we're gonna make today, which is made with real cheddar,
real Parmesan, Gruyere, and sour dough bread.
Amazing ingredients to make a delicious grilled cheese
that looks as awesome as it tastes.
In the movie he has a super cool flat top griddle
in his like shabby apartment which is just amazing,
I love it.
We don't have anything like that here necessarily,
so we're just going with the good old fashioned electric
griddle, non stick, obviously if you're at home
you're making a grilled cheese
in cast iron or non-stick pan,
or maybe you're fancy and you have a gas griddle
in your house too and I'm super jealous.
So, I have my little meased out stack of cheese
for my "Chef" grilled cheese.
I mean, it's a pretty hefty amount of cheese,
but we're going for
like a pretty serious grilled cheese here.
And then, four slices of just the good old fashioned
processed American cheese for our OG grilled cheese.
Just to do a side by side comparison, because why not?
Obviously the biggest thing when making grilled cheese
at home or in a professional scenario is the regulation
of your temperature on your griddle.
That's one thing that was really awesome in the movie.
It's just this beautiful dance almost of him
buttering the bread and putting it on the griddle
and regulating the temperature.
So I'm gonna start with just my classic white bread.
My butter is at room temperature.
There is also a whole like mayonnaise versus butter debate,
and I'm not talking about mayonnaise
inside of the sandwich,
I'm talking about mayonnaise on the outside
of the bread to help toast the bread.
If you have an opinion that, you should comment below
and let me know.
I just go with good old fashioned butter.
I think it gives the bread a beautiful color,
and I feel like mayonnaise can be a little greasy,
which obviously can be a good thing,
when you're making a grilled cheese,
but the cheese is already kinda greasy.
So, we're just gonna go with one fat today on the bread
and then more in the middle.
I'm kinda toggling between like 350 and 400.
I love sour dough bread, I love toasted sour dough bread,
it's so delicious, it creates such a beautiful crust
and Roy Choi, the actual chef behind the movie "Chef"
talks about this grilled cheese being like
just a flavor sort of explosion from like beginning to end
with the tanginess of the sour dough and then the creaminess
of the cheese and all the other textures you get.
It's beautiful, it's golden, look at all that.
You can see like all the texture on the bread.
Our OG grilled cheese is hanging out on the griddle
just to maintain a warmth while I work
on the "Chef" grilled cheese.
You can already see the like color change.
It's beautiful.
Cheese is a wonderful thing.
And butter, and bread, the whole thing.
Gosh, there's just not many things that are better.
I love the whole intimacy in the scene
with the grilled cheese.
It's something that's so simple,
but it's broken down and it's really thought out
and it's so intimate.
He's making this grilled cheese for his son,
the whole thing is just lovely.
So I let the OG grilled cheese hang out a little too long,
the one side that was on the plate
is a little dark, it still looks really good,
super crusty, but now I'm gonna transfer it
to this metal rack, it's gonna let the grilled cheese
cool down a little bit without making the bread soggy.
If I was to transfer that grilled cheese
like onto a plate or onto a sheet pan
the contact with the bread to the surface
is gonna create condensation.
So this, is gonna keep the bread crisp.
In the Roy Choi, the "Chef" show, they talk about buttering
the bread again, that's not something that I do,
'cause I feel like, like there's a lot of grease
on this griddle,
but maybe there's a trick that I'm just not aware of.
But also butter's delicious.
Ooh wow, that looks gorgeous.
Starting to get a little crust here, where the cheese
was like in contact with the griddle.
That is not something that would happen
on the OG grilled cheese necessarily.
So now I'm gonna turn the temperature down on the griddle.
Ooh, okay, maybe the extra butter did help
out a little bit. (laughs)
I sorta put the extra butter in this spot around
the bread where it wasn't getting this darker brown color,
and it looks great.
It's super crusty, the cheese is coming out,
which is amazing.
Okay, so I'm gonna move my griddle out of the way
so I can transfer the grilled cheese to the cutting board
so I can cut it in half and we'll do a comparison.
This looks bomb.
I love everything about it.
I don't know that I'm gonna go back to making
OG grilled cheese anymore.
So I've just warmed up my other grilled cheese.
I'm just gonna call it the other grilled cheese.
Okay, so we'll do that one first.
We're not necessarily gonna talk about a cheese pull
in this moment,
but we just are gonna look at the difference.
That's a good looking grilled cheese, right?
Oh wow.
That's epic as (beep).
I don't even know what to do with that,
other than eat it.
So we have our classic grilled cheese on white bread
with American cheese and it's so classic,
it really does have a beautiful look to it.
This'd definitely be in a commercial alongside
a bowl of tomato soup.
They are probably gonna be selling the tomato soup,
not the grilled cheese, but it's classic, gorgeous,
I love it.
Now this bad boy is just in another league of its own.
It is like the king of grilled cheeses.
The bread is so golden,
the cheese is just like unbelievable,
the way it's like oozing out,
and it's not just the front, like I just need to flip
this around so you can see the back too,
because even the back to me is so yummy
and delicious, because it's like crispy around
the edges of the bread, and then gooey,
ah, it's just amazing.
So obviously the "Chef" grilled cheese like in its
natural state did a beautiful cheese pull,
and I think that's just the sheer amount of cheese
in the sandwich creates that beautiful pull.
So, for instance, if I was to do a cheese pull on set
with this grilled cheese, basically what I would do
is have my grilled cheese bread pieces already toasted
and halved like this, the way that I would cut
the grilled cheese and then you take your grilled cheese
and put it back on your warm surface
and just like leave it together until you're ready
to make your cheese pull.
And basically what that does is it allows the cheese
to fill into that cavity where you've cut the bread,
and so when you go to do your pull,
you just pull it apart.
Oh, look, there she is.
Vindicated.
We're gonna make a couple more grilled cheeses anyway,
just because we got all this cheese
and we got all this bread and all this butter.
If you have seen a movie about food or a food scene
in a movie and it has given you a certain feeling
or you've seen it and now you're super passionate about it,
comment below, let us know what that movie is.
Let us know what that food is.
And if you think about it and if you've made it at home
for yourself because that means somebody
is doing their job right.
Chefs and food makers alike all have to think about it
from a consumer's perspective,
and they did a really good job in the movie.
Oh, it's hot as (beep).
Look at it just (laughs).
It just, it all just came on out didn't it?
That looks great.
This is not the sour dough though,
so it's not the like true "Chef" sandwich,
but I don't guess it really matters now does it?
'Cause this is the one that looks better.
Now we're gonna go over to set.
Okay, we have got the grilled cheese on our beauty set.
It looks awesome.
We replicated this scene exactly from the scene
in the movie "Chef", the propping's very minimal,
but that's the way it should be.
The focus is all about the food.
Comment below and let me know what you thought
about this episode, making the grilled cheese
from the movie "Chef" and make sure you're following
"Food Stylist Verus" on YouTube.
Please, and thank you.
(sandwich crunches)
So good.
So greasy.
So good.
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