Hey whats up guys and welcome back to a very
special episode of Binging With Babish where as you can see i've sound proofed my kitchen
because this week we're cooking under the terrifying conditions portrayed in A Quiet
Place. Fittingly this episode is sponsored by Dolby
Dimension. These headphones are super cool not only because
they have active noise cancelling, but because they have a really cool feature called Life
Mix, which pumps in an adjustable amount of ambient noise so you don't miss anything around
you. Doorbell, baby crying, timer going off in
the kitchen. So while I'm enjoying my strict regiment of
Frasier three times daily, I won't miss a thing, because I've got my Life Mix turned
up to 7. Sawyer however, likes his turned up to 11
effectively giving him super hearing. Making him the blood thirsty alien to my John
Krasinski. So can I make the meal from the movie while
he's watching the movie without disturbing him and getting killed. Well, there's only one way to find out. Download a decibel meter on my iPad, throw
blankets all over the kitchen, and get cooking. As a rule of thumb, I'm gonna try to stay
below 80 decibels while I prepare what I think was fish from the movie, rainbow trout. First up we've gotta clean and gut the fish
start by snipping off all the fins. Try not to make eye contact with the poor
little guy. Then we've gotta cut out the gills which is
where most of the blood is hanging out. Once you've got those gnarly little things
out of there, it's time to gut this guy. We're gonna place one single long cut down
the length of the bottom of the fish, and yanking out everything we find inside. You wanna remove as much as you can so all
that you see are the filets and the spine. Then we've gotta scale the fish. Using the sharp side of you knife, scrape
the scales against the grain, so to speak, until all that remains is some nice soft slippery
fish skin. Then we wanna rinse this fish and dry it throughly,
and then set it aside so we can prepare, what looked to me like a tomato salad. The family in the movie seemed to be very
fond of garlic, so I'm gonna grab three heads of this smoked garlic, peel off most of the
papery exterior, slice off the tops so all the cloves are exposed, and arrange in a metal
bowl. Now I'm guessing that cooking fats would be
pretty hard to come by a year and a half into the apocalypse, but olive oil has a theoretical
24 month shelf life if stored properly, so let's assume they have a bottle kicking around
for special occasions. Let's also assume that they have kosher salt
and freshly ground pepper because is life really worth living without it? Now, in lieu of aluminum foil, we're going
to top this metal bowl with a smaller metal bowl, and roast it at 350°F for about 45
minutes. Removing once the cloves are soft and lightly
brown. Now I could eat roast garlic with a spoon,
but roast smoked garlic? This is some next level sh*t. We're setting that side to cool completely
while we make the rest of our dressing. We're starting with what remains of the olive
oil. Oh dear, looks like that's our last salad
forever kids, and to that we are going to add a food with an indefinite shelf life,
vinegar. In this case white wine vinegar, in about
a 1:1 ratio with the oil. Now like so many pimples ready to pop, we're
gonna squeeze this garlic, sorry, gross, into our vinaigrette. I'm gonna go with like 2 heads of garlic,
because I love this stuff, and the third head I'm gonna eat by myself off camera, probably
in bed or something. Now I'm gonna use a potato masher to mash
up those garlic cloves a little bit, and then I'm gonna season liberally with kosher salt
and freshly ground pepper. Now you might notice that I'm doing this in
a disposable Tupperware. Not only to be quieter than a whisk and bowl,
but because the easiest way to emulsify a dressing is to place in a lidded container
and give it a good shake. In seconds you will have an effortlessly creamy
vinaigrette. This stuff is hurting for some lemon juice,
but I can't imagine they have that in upstate New York where the movie was filmed, but what
they did have lots of was tomatoes. So I'm slicing up a variety of sizes and colors,
scooping everybody into a nice quiet wooden bowl, and adding some chopped basil which
they interestingly had sitting in the middle of the table with some fresh herbs in lieu
of condiments. So we're gonna add that to our tomatoes and
I'm gonna add half a red onion, thinly sliced. Because tomato salad is gonna be difficult
enough to eat without mozzarella, and there's no way in hell I'm eating it without onion. Look at that it's a really pretty salad. I'd make that even if it weren't the apocalypse. Lastly something the movie had no shortage
of was corn, and it looks like Emily Blunt's character was cooking the fish on top of the
corn as a sort of makeshift oven rack. So we're gonna do the same in case it imparts
any ancillary flavor. Plop our fish down on top, and then it's time
to score and season. Scoring isn't totally necessary, it's just
kind of a presentation thing, but we want to score it in a cross hatch pattern. Both sides, don't be lazy now, and then we
want to season liberally all over inside and out with kosher salt, freshly ground pepper,
and oil. Luckily I found a secret stash of this stuff
when I raided the nearby villages. Make sure it's well coated all over, ideally
I'd like to stuff this guy with a bunch of herbs and lemons, but you can't always get
you want in the sound hunting alien future. 450°F, 25 minutes later yields a fully cooked
fish registering 145°F at its thickest point that we can now carve table side so to speak. We're gonna start by making a shallow incision
along the top of the fish to aid in peeling off the skin. You can see on the bar graph there that I
coughed, and very nearly doomed us all, but Sawyer got distracted by the raccoons distracting
the aliens in the movie, so we got lucky. Anyway, once we've got all the skin off we
are placing a cut down the center of the fish's spine and beginning to pull the meat downward
and upward from the center with forks. Then once you've got all the meat off the
top you get to do the most fun thing you'll ever do in your entire life, which is pull
out the entire fish's spine in one fell swoop. Hang on to this if you want for making fish
stock, otherwise pat yourself on the back for deboning your first ever fish. I mean that's pretty cool it's definitely
worth trying at your next dinner party. But now it's time to plate up. By plate up I mean kale leaf up...as the family
in the movie very cleverly eats their meal on a giant kale leaf so as to avoid any clattering. So we're gonna load that up with our tomato
salad, fish, and top the whole thing with some of our smoked and roasted garlic vinaigrette. And there you have it, a healthy, sustainable,
simple meal, prepared and eaten in relative silence. As such, we're gonna use our 5 fingered forks
and knives, and I gotta say this turned out pretty great. The trout when cooked to 145°F was tender
and juicy, the tomatoes were nice and fresh, and the dressing was to die for. It desperately needed lemon, but vinegar helped
fill the gap, and it ended up becoming a member of the clean leaf club. And then the leaf itself became a member of
the clean...hands club. All in all, a pretty great meal if you're
trying to sustain your family in the new American wasteland. Alright, now it's time to surprise Sawyer
with the fact that I've been making him the meal from the very movie he's watch-- Hey
sounds like dinner's ready. Wa-wait, you could hear me this whole time? Yeah I had Life Mix up to 11, I could hear
you breathing. Come on, I spent like $5 on the decibel meter
app. Oh, I thought I heard fish. Hey guys, so I just wanna thank Dolby again
for sponsoring this episode. It was kind of a match made in heaven because
I love home theater stuff, these have gotta be the coolest home theater headphones I've
ever tried. In addition to the adjustable Life Mix feature, they've
also got touch controls on the side, that sweet magnetic charger, and a robust app to control
almost ever aspect of the headphones. They've even got a head tracking feature so
it sounds like the audio is coming from wherever the bluetooth source is. Check out the link in this videos description
to learn more about Dolby Dimension, the perfect gift for the audiofile, cinefile, or muderous
future alien in your life.
THIS is how you do a sponsored video! A relevant product that is naturally woven into the methodology of the episode. Kudos u/OliverBabish
I'm not saying I want more gimmick episodes, but give me more gimmick episodes.
At 1:13, once you snipped the 1st fin off the fish, it recorded 87.9 decibels.
Sorry to be "that" guy!
Those are 600$ headphones man, that might be too much IMO.
We just had some electrical work done at the house. Went to play this video. Didn’t hear anything. Thought it was a clever idea to do a silent video for The Quiet Place/headphone tie in....... realized half way in that our sound system must have shorted because we weren’t getting any sound at all.
The very first thing he does is cut off the fin, which hits 87.9 db.
Also, since I was watching the ipad more than the actual cooking, I gotta say, I'm disappointed halfway through the video it became unreadably out of focus.
I wouldn't mind more of Sawyer. He's adorable.
I think that would've been a very good chance to make a video like Peaceful Cuisine with just the sounds of scraping, cutting, tossing and using subtitles to explain - or doing an additional video with the voice over. Still, a very nice Special! :-D
I was anxiously watching the decibel meter the whole time