from an extern at jean georges
via the atlantic: "One recipe I prepped—during the one week when I graduated from peeling vegetables—called for 26 grams of salt. 26. Who am I to judge? Maybe one gram of salt is the difference between three Michelin stars and two." PLEASE SIGN ME UP FOR THAT.
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Extern clearly did not learn her lessons: "Instead of confiting the chicken, which takes effort and is messy..." Whytheface!
One suspects that the recipe originally called for 1 oz of salt, and that the recipe was converted into metric at some point, but somehow 28 grams became 26 grams. Or the recipe actually called for 28 grams of salt, but the extern failed to appreciate the significance of that amount (not being fluently bilingual in these things) and turned it into 26 grams when recounting the story.
that, or 3 star cooking requires EXTREME PRECISION.
They would not have a scale in the kitchen that would be able to weigh with that degree of precision!! Do you think it's a bloody chemistry lab??
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