Many of us love to pour delicious creamy hollandaise sauce all over our eggs benedict.
Kitchen confidential hollandaise sauce. Hollandaise must be held at a temperature not too hot nor too cold. I use a vitamix. To make the hollandaise sauce put the egg yolks lemon juice and mustard into a blender. The chef author and television star s 2000 book kitchen confidential shaped the way people talked about the restaurant industry.
Mask a bottom of a plate with say an emulsified butter sauce then run a couple of concentric rings of darker sauce demi glace or roast pepper purée around the plate. Turn it on to blend the yolks. However when at a restaurant all bets are off due to it being a magnet for bacteria says kitchen confidential. Now drag a toothpick.
Bacteria love hollandaise reveals anthony bourdain in his book kitchen confidential. Serve stale fish masked with a bacteria bath of hollandaise sauce. Please include recipes with pictures of dishes if they re unique a sauce al capone ate for instance. The guys on the line call my hollandaise cheese sauce because it s got such a shine and volume.
In the 10 years since his classic kitchen confidential first alerted us to the idiosyncrasies and lurking perils of eating out much has changed for the subculture of chefs and cooks for the restaurant business and for anthony bourdain medium raw explores those changes tracking bourdain s strange and unexpected voyage from journeyman cook to globe traveling professional eater and drinker. A staple of brunch is classic eggs benedict or eggs royale but bourdain says the sauce has to be kept at a certain temperature for it to be safe to eat. We don t care if your sheet pans are shiny. And nobody i know has ever made hollandaise to order.
Slowly stream hot butter while constantly blending and adding warm water when needed. And who work in kitchens where compacted sewage rises from the sink. Bacteria love hollandaise he revealed. While that s coming up to temp i combine about 4oz of yolks with lemon juice hot sauce salt and hot water in a large bain with an immersion blender until emulsified.
Just say no to hollandaise sauce. And nobody i know has ever made hollandaise. Kitchen confidential anthony bourdain.