Pro chef Esther Choi, owner of Mŏkbar in New York and home cook Gabrielle are swapping ingredients and hitting the kitchen to make each other’s crab fried rice recipes. We set Gabrielle up with all of the supplies she’d need to make Chef Esther’s decadent $242 creation while sending a modest $13 worth of ingredients back the other way. While Esther was using her expertise to elevate Gabrielle’s recipe, food scientist Rose dialed in to assist our home cook with a few questions he had along the way. Which one looks best to you?
Follow Chef Esther on Instagram at @choibites & @mokbar_nyc
Keep up with Gabrielle at @gabchappel
Rose is on Instagram at @rosemarytrout_foodscience
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KOMMENTARE
LilHamHam
I would watch a series of Esther just teaching us how to utilize most of the ingredients we have at home
Bilqees Siddiqui
Esther is explaining everything step by step so professionally like we’re actually gonna understand anything she’s saying 😭
safreen khan
Love how the Esther is so serious and Gabby is jus living in the moment 😂
BCT Alicorn
"I can indeed confirm they have spots on them, so... we're gonna rip their heads off"
naomi ralph
Esther definitely need her own YouTube channel!! She amazing at what she does and explains everything well! She’d be great on YouTube
Trippy SZN
I love Gabi so muchhhh, she is always having a great time smile on her face and never complains 👏👏 She just gives off great energy and btw Esther is awesome too!!
Piqued
I love that Esther uses EVERYTHING. It's so creative how she repurposes things most people would discard.
Arjun Mehta
Holy moly just tried this recipe today following the $13 ingredients (lol!).. except I added bok choy, pineapple, and carrots as well. And the store didn’t have head-on shrimp, so after boiling the shrimp shells for the stock, I took those same shells and fried them in oil and used them instead of shrimp heads for the shrimp paste… this was the most incredible fried rice I’ve had at home and it truly felt restaurant quality… maximizing flavor and using every part of every ingredient made such a huge difference…. Thank you!!! Mind blown, life changed!
Vor 7 StundenFat Bomb
Gabi is great, she got a really hard task, I wouldn't know how to deal with that crab. Esther is awesome, appreciate the knowledge she dropped. Nice video.
sam bill
Watching Chef Esther cook was like attending a high end culinary school...this was a learning experience like no other....if she can do that with such humble ingredients in such a short amount of time...i can not even begin to imagine her creative prowess... am a FAN!
Kathy
Oh my God, seeing Esther and Gabrielle together at the end made me cry. Just the reactions to each other's dishes... it was beautiful. I don't know why this is making me so emotional. Two amazingly talented women<3
gjaeigjiajeg
you could almost lock Esther in a room and throw away the key, with but a few simple ingredients, come back in a week, and expect that she turned said room and ingredients into a full on restaurant.
Vor 7 StundenFallenreaper
I love when the pro chefs use the home cook's ingredients, cause it shows me what i can do on a budget to get the most out of what is available to me.
Roweenadb
Not gonna lie, I love Esther's style, especially the way she utilizes everything and is always surprised by her own cooking haha! I also love Gabi, she is super fun so this was an awesome duo honestly.
Greg Brunner
Auntie Esther just taught me some valuable tricks to utilize every thing to its full potential. Thank you so much. Can't wait to incorporate those great cooking skills into my dish's for full on flavor. Gabi made the whole dish look delicious, but the end product was a true work of art. Both looks delicious
Andira Rahman
This is such a Feel Good video. Gabi looks like she's having such a wonderful time cooking and her smile is energy is contagious. Esther's cooking is so informational and efficient while her charisma really shine through. And the part where they just have a great time tasting and complementing each other's dish at the end is a fitting end to this video. Such a wonderful experience this was.
Paula Wojciechowska
I love how Esther is organized and clean when working. I love how she doesn't waste a thing and makes the most of everything.
Kinga
I love how this video is made. It shows us that you can have basic ingredients and accessories, but if you have some skills and knowledge, you can still make awesome food.
Zola XX
Esther is the perfect chef for these swap episodes because you know she’s really gonna maximize the usual basic ingredients and elevate them, which could be a very educational experience for us viewers. I can’t appreciate as much the other chefs who bring in a couple more ingredients just so they could do their own interpretation. I find it cheating in a way. Imo, what Esther does in this swap series stays true to the challenge and that for me shows how skilled, talented, and knowledgeable she really is as a chef.
Guse Falito
They are both so engaging, they deserve their own TV shows with swapped ingredients