Brad Makes Charred Tomato Toast | It's Alive | Bon Appétit

hey guys and it's alive with me doing a little a little special one little shooting from the hip no recipe we're going to do it together just gonna make a real cool open-faced tomato sandwich little ricotta cheese some tomatoes and basil or garlic little olive oil real nice real simple let's make it you know what's gonna be cooking together here we're do this is it's alive right I'm gonna get a cutting board [Laughter] [Music] [Applause] [Music] with tomatoes I like to just you know less is more a little salt a little olive oil maybe a little garlic obviously but I mean I don't like to go jazzing them up too much they when tomatoes are good they just have so much flavor on their own what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna get a little Bowl no no we're not gonna do that yeah we're gonna take these over where I got a little cast-iron pan we're gonna preheat a little bit just gonna add a little bit of oil and pop those bad boys right in there oh-ho there we go huh well flavor bombs dropping in and then look I got a couple cloves of just garlic boom we're gonna throw those right in there get them toasty right in there right in their own little skins there I like that I don't want to go turning them into and when I'm making the soup here when I'm making you know what I'm making grandma's gravy but uh you always want to get a little warm them up a little bit bring some of those flavors out Sugar's kind of pop when they when they're heated I feel like so like yeah just gonna try to get a little a little bit of color on them if some of them pop open the juices come out that's fine we're gonna keep all that I'm gonna put it in a little bowl we're gonna let it hang out nice this is gonna be my breakfast me and Matus we're gonna we're out for breakfast look at the flame you know I don't like saying medium I look just look at the size of the plate and that's what we're doing so in your home you can just match it to that flame okay cuz a lot of people like to ask ah you know is it medium everyone's ovens a little different okay oh I just had a great idea stay right there breathe in and this is look this is what I love about cooking it's just in the moment you think of things boom inspiration light bulbs go off little chile de árbol from Mexico lovely sugar man Rick Martinez brought me some back and look I'm just gonna drop them right in there let them toast up in the olive oil yeah now now we're cooking but it's been a while a while we'll pinch a saw BAM well emerald yeah I'm always gonna call an emerald I don't care solo what you doing you want to be in this life it's cool come on yeah little emerald emerald of gas yeah we're deep emerald don't forget to D folks emerald if you're listening anytime you want to come on but I'm ready all right any time you want to come on and make it a little F to fail it'll crawfish etouffee I'm here babe I'm here blistering Tomatoes what yeah just a little Fuego it's fine as long as I didn't kissing my uh my tomatoes that's fine it's the oil splatter and I'm just gonna put those in a bowl that I'm hanging out with the chiles in the bottom I'll take the garlic give it a little crush turn it into a little paste it's all coming together man look at that come on there jump like that like a little candy alright we're getting to a good spot here I'm gonna pull him off the heat and just dump them into my little ball I got okay I don't want the garlic and the chili on the bottom so it sits in the tomato juices it gets real happy oh that's a beautiful thing that's pretty huh I'm add a little more olive oil to that a little more of that sodium yeah babe beat it okay next it's gonna open up this bag gap and you'll go half C then we're gonna open it up this way okay you know I probably make some of you nervous but that's how I like to cut yeah but and then we're gonna toast this right in that same skillet I think I hope it works so it picks up some of those flavors that we got from the tomatoes give him the garlic and the arbol we're gonna do it right in there boom boom all right we're gonna do this on a little lower heat what could possibly go wrong all right this is what we'll do we're just gonna hit up a little more olive oil just let it get nice don't go walking away all right don't go go playing what's that word games sister Doku what's it called sit sodoku no that ain't it Muraki what's that game the word game come on you know huh so don't go is that what school it's the first time I've ever said something right sodoku it's with numbers what'd I say same thing oh that smells so good so it's picking up a little bit of color from the olive oil obviously but it's also soaking up all that tomato flavor that became the garlic and then chili the arbol that we had going on in the pan all right just mop that good stuff up I feel like my go-to references like would make a great ham sandwich but that would make a great hand ham sandwich little prosciutto Cotto whoa all right I'm gonna give it a little flip kiss the bottom to kick it up a notch on a mobile cabbie what's that meeting we have on Friday what what is that yeah it's like you invited me to it some room holds [Music] [Laughter] alright you know what we should do now that we soaked up all the flavor that stuff that's in on there it's just gonna burn I'm gonna throw this in the sink I'm not happy happy with this with it with it I want a little more crunch on there so what we're gonna do is I'm gonna get a new skillet and just gonna get the trick Rocco would you I don't wanna I don't feel like firing up the grill like I don't know get the grill on right that's what's gonna bring us there cuz it soaked up all that goodness but like this sugar is gonna burn a damn grill oil on the winds that's what I'm talking about bud oh that just smells like gas sure it does stand back this is my boil up [Music] we'll let that heat up we'll kiss it on the grill pick up a little smoky char eNOS you know not really smoky it's a gas grill what you know who we fooling [Music] she's got a nice oil smear over the whole thing now what's that cloth what's that coming in is it focusing or is it a little froggy it's good there's the dish just eat ricotta cheese with a spoon and eat that boom you're set alright well let that warm up I'm a little impatient so I'm gonna do is take the garlic out we're gonna take it out of its little this little you know I must start calling it garlic husks I don't know what it's actually called skins but I like husk so they're warm they're hot yeah they're warm in there hot that's great bread what I meant to say is they kind of got like a a semi roasted like softness to them which I like but not completely mu shod yet and now I'm gonna crush it and paste it out yeah yeah ditch those little germs out of there they can be a little little vegetal that's good that's because garlic Wow it's February here in lovely New York City and you know we couldn't get the best garlic in the world but uh but this is nice but that's it trying to grow you know going in the germination oh that's delightful for our next trick Hansie the other bowl stay with me all right go go we're kind of cheese I'm gonna pop that in there like so I'm gonna take our garlic gonna put it into the chess now we're gonna hit it with a little bit of salt see hey Dan ready bud ready or what all right little black pet I'm talking like Molly lately in a little more olive oil right into there so that's our little chas and we'll come back to the tomato open it up let it kind of bleed into that oil then we're gonna use that tomato the oil as our finishing sauce oh happy things happening over on station one here dan the man drinking yeah I know my ears are ringing bud right here's my thing about the show I don't yeah we hear you Dan God's sakes okay now look I'm just gonna take off all the all the that was a tough one there smell delightful but not so good B now we just got that oil let that hang out in there and then look I'm gonna discard this that the the our ball all right give you a pinch more salt and I'm gonna hit a little black pepper salt and pepper on a tomato come on it's all these flavor bombs want I got the grill going these have plenty of oil on them I'm just gonna kiss him on some high heat yeah well start that way down so are we making [Music] whoo all right this is a good idea maracas that's what needed to be done oh god this is a disaster waiting to happen make me nervous that falls into the grill we got a real bad day flower very flammable especially when the air a lot of big fires in the old mills a lot of people died yeah real cool yeah great story bread oh we had that sometime red that's all pop that's all pot we'll breakfast for me and you will get Ali some food too she earned it [Music] what are you gonna put that gravy on so on whoo for watches for you're out of control see that that's what we like okay all right hot bread whoo hump red-hot brand who wants play hot bread Oh Merkel he'll play a little hot bread but yeah that all rascal look we're gonna put the cheese right on there oh yeah but yeah I'm into that I'm gonna cut it like this uh-huh go home you guys beat it beat it hello hello and now we're gonna take our little tomato mixture and I'm gonna carefully place these okay nice all right throw your food geeks out you can break out your tweezers if you want or I get into it whatever makes you feel good okay so we're not hurting anybody whatever you ain't got time for that you know what's this guy talking about and then look [Music] huh look that saucy goodness okay look anyone's gonna pour this right on saucy bud and then we're gonna hit a little basil you don't need a lot a little bit of basil goes a long way so every break gets just a little just a little little accent of basil I don't want it to be a basil bomb all right it's a flavor bomb my babies it's gonna hit it a little pinch of salt why not just a little black pepper looks so good look at us would you look at it let me move that closer to you all right well let's try these huh look we'll save the buttes okay but maybe we you wanna try one I'll try one it's so good I would happily pay for that you know I was really surprised with how flavorful these tomatoes were personally I've always kind of been the guy my my my headspace is with tomatoes has always been like just give him to me two months out of the year you know in their peak season there's so many tomatoes in the supermarket are just kind of boo boo and bye boo boo I mean not so good but I'll tell you what these ones are pretty nice and these are the folks over at Sunset anything I wouldn't you Tanisha ghen they're growing them in these monster hoop houses all right let's say me and you bud let's get on the airplane let's get out there let's see how they make these little flavor bombs all right you see what it's all about you know you want a middle seat aisle seat I'll take an aisle you know I got long legs and let's go to Michigan man I don't think I've ever been to Michigan no no I haven't let's go see Tomatoes we're all right well here we are saying guys having beautiful Michigan I'm here with quali master nominee from sunset tomatoes so what kind of tomatoes you guys got growing here wait here this is actually our flavor bombs so the variety I actually found in the South of France okay it's got flavor so we're like it's it's a bomb it's a flavor bomb named itself yeah I gotta say man they tasted fantastic how do you how'd you guys do that how you guys pull that off well it always starts with variety you know and then how you treat the actual variety after that so sure enough light enough fertilizer water the right temperature so this is the best way to baby a tomato plant is actually within a greenhouse that allows us to actually bring out the most flavor and deliver it in the middle of the winter when there's snow flying outside in the middle of Michigan that's a ball we're in this tomato jungle here I mean I gotta say I've never I've never seen anything like it and like back home I grow tomatoes in the ground or in like five gallon buckets this is all off the ground yeah it's pretty different so over you know 70 years of my great-grandfather came over and we started farming we were farming in the soil Tomatoes we started growing in the ground in the greenhouses but then eventually we realized hey we can control the tomato plants better if we actually grow out of the ground and then we raised actual the plants and hung them from the greenhouse structure like you're seeing here yeah and this allowed a lot of great things to happen from getting better airflow underneath the tomato plants better for the workers now people don't harvest by bending over everywhere back yeah everything's harvested now at waist height well so what's it what's inside these boxes yes so we grow a different media so in this one here is something called rock wall which is a basalt rock and we also grow in wasted coconut houses because they're a nurten organic and it's great for us to use that's just there anchoring system makes them happy and then you keep them surrounded with oxygen water food exactly and then you get 30-foot plants yeah the green notice is 30 feet tall but the plants can go 50 feet long so what we need to do is we need to teach the plants to lean every week so they come off out of our nursery as about a foot tall and then every single week the plant will grow about a foot a foot a week yeah and we'll wrap the head and then we'll teach the plant to lean a plant that starts here will end up down there by the end of the I say hey man do you think we could I saw a gentleman on one little scissor lifts going up you know can we can we go vertical in this yeah absolutely alright come on Z we got you a ticket too but Wow look at that that is can I take a picture yeah yeah this on a tomato plant the the plant usually has what we call about seven to nine sets of fruit on it at a time so this would be a set of fruit and then naturally by nature the top fruit will ripen first in the trail for land sure how many tomatoes are usually in the cluster it depends on the variety but this variety will usually have around 20 and will prune it back to about 14 to 16 to make this variety taste the best so to grow up this far in the north in the middle of the winter what we'll have is what we call supplemental lighting a tomato plant needs around a thousand joules of energy a day and on a cloudy day in the north we might only get about 300 to 500 in the middle of the winter so we'll bring the energy level of the plants up to about a thousand joules okay can we pick some of these bad boys absolutely that's why we're here all right doctor what we're gonna do is we're gonna harvest a full vine and then what kind of colors are you looking well we need to make sure is that the top fruit are fully ripened all the way down and we want to make sure that the trail fruit at the very bottom isn't green so we need to make sure that the bottom fruit is at least about 50% orange no oranges okay and so then we're gonna cut the vine just right above the top fruit all right beautiful I see you I see in 12 hours oh that's a winner snip right here you got it right there well your that beauty I'd be getting in trouble for I'll be having eaten all day sometimes that's up to cluster popper for me all right hey I like this well when the video dries up maybe I'll come apply here Wow hey go ahead mmm oh my god it's so good it's not just saying this because you're standing by me Paul but these are delicious the bomb all right so I'm factoring a little bit of weather coming I'm gonna hit a little bat a little bit of bad weather going through Pennsylvania they think but uh make it back in New York I'm thinking Monday oh wow I'm not a bad little Cruiser bud [Music] sorry gentlemen we're just that here [ __ ] around eat some breakfast bud and we're back we just got back from Michigan oh yeah should we do that no but I mean if that's in the video where it will play right right right like all right well we just we just got back oh you want me to say that you don't have to I'm just saying like that for this we will pick up outro here don't worry about that oh we didn't learn nothing yet okay okay it's very clear to the viewer that you have not gone even in the outside yes how you're gonna package it that'll all make sense and again we breathe in okay I trust you alright well that's it man yeah now they're doing a meeting Soula you're not paying attention Dan bring your coffee over bud I bit that one but you can have any one you want okay it looks like something you get out like the nicest Italian Russian I've ever been to and bone Appetit folks you heard it here bomb Dan keep talking way to redeem yourself after bullying me yeah yeah get up I'm gonna watch you yeah it's not creepy you eat that it's good good it's real good right oh yeah right like sweet little hint to heat perfect amount of you right just kind of it's like not even like hot it's just like um I've got a very welcoming tickle to there and then it goes away it's called balance baby ready what do we do gonna be a great day are you guys hungry it's so good though Chris Chris it's so good you're not having a move come over Bali yeah but what are you talking about [Music] okay okay okay let me cut some pieces to mate owes ricotta garlic olive oil chile de árbol salt pepper sorry Morocco nothing but he right no fresh I know hoophouse we're going Michigan mean Huns II like my school usually is like tomatoes two months out of the year because most of minister of market are kind of fubar yeah these are good here too here first folks when you have good ingredients you don't need to use all types of crazy stuff little little bit of salt little bit of olive oil just have fun with it cook with it you know we've made this dish from nothing we didn't have a recipe did we Hansie no that one we just had a little this was like one of them shows there they go get your ingredients and cook and call it a competition or whatever but I'm not a competition kind of guy when it comes to cooking let's just have fun let's make delicious beautiful food and let's eat it that's it Bon Appetit [Music] so I'm dead on the inside who sings that hey that's good who sings that you know I'm talking about that it's one of them songs everyone knows no one knows who the frig sings it [Music]

Channel: Bon Appétit

Views: 3,362,375

Rating: 4.9544668 out of 5

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Id: 4arNJoJ98Og

Length: 23min 42sec (1422 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 30 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/BigCheeks2]

Quarantine Hunzi's editing is even more off the wall than usual.

And it's beautiful

[u/ruhyen]

The throwbacks to Alex smelling the spices for the Corned Beef episode will never not make me laugh.

[u/[deleted]]

"sorry gentlemen! we're just fucking around" brad i love you

[u/steveofthejungle]

I like how halfway through this became It's Alive: Goin' Places. Glad to have Brad visit the Great State of Michigan

[u/ellsworth92]

This is how you do sponsored content. I learned a lot about tomatoes and now I'll keep my eyes out for Sunset Grown's flavor bombs.

[u/ordinaryorganism]

When Brad gets invited into the meeting that just convinces me even more he is a Golden Retriever in a human body

[u/yakusokuN8]

First Shakespeare reference:

[When Brad called Sudoku "that word game " when it's really a numbers game.]

Hamlet Act 2, Scene 2:

Polonius: "How say you by that? Still harping on my daughter: yet he knew me not at first; he said I was a fishmonger: he is far gone, far gone: and truly in my youth I suffered much extremity for love; very near this. I'll speak to him again. What do you read, my lord?"

Hamlet: "Words, words, words."

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Second Shakespeare reference at 12:40

"Saucy, bud!" - Brad.

[Capulet to Tybalt, Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 5]

Go to, go to;
You are a saucy boy: is't so, indeed?
This trick may chance to scathe you, I know what:
You must contrary me! marry, 'tis time.
Well said, my hearts! You are a princox; go:
Be quiet, or--More light, more light! For shame!
I'll make you quiet. What, cheerly, my hearts!

[u/irnbrumagic26]

“Don’t forget the D folks”. Brad Leone, 2020

[u/breakupbydefault]

That tomato grow house looks like a futuristic heaven. I imagine just walking in to work there feels rejuvenating.