Recreating The Pioneer Woman's Lasagna Dip & Chips From Taste | Reverse Engineering | Bon Appétit

We challenged resident Bon Appétit supertaster and test kitchen director Chris Morocco to recreate a lasagna dip and chips recipe made famous by Ree Drummond of "The Pioneer Woman." The catch? He'll have to use each of his senses - other than sight. Does Chris have what it takes to recognize and reproduce the layers of flavor while fully blindfolded?

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Director: Matthew Hunziker
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Recreating The Pioneer Woman's Lasagna Dip & Chips From Taste | Reverse Engineering | Bon Appétit

[michellex]

I literally want an episode where Chris just blind tastes tests all sorts of cheeses.

[melindalee]

Oh Chris. I love this episode back in the test kitchen and I especially love that Chris couldn’t come up with “regular people cheese.” These episodes are some of my favorites.

[SirPrizeMF]

I've never legit seen Chris crack up like that. He's clearly happy to be there, back in his element. You just love to see it.

[cassieleigh-lf]

I would love to see an episode where Brad tries this and Chris is the judge.

[CCDRaydiance]

Final episode of Reverse Engineering is just going to be Chris vs a cheese platter. 😆

[feliciaivy]

“Did you salt the water?”

This is what happens when Molly isn’t in the test kitchen anymore 😂

[benfecteau]

The Ghost of Red Leicester will forever haunt Chris

[emmythemac]

The fact that ricotta is in like 80% of the lasagna recipes in the US and yet Chris was like...BUT IT CAN'T BE RICOTTA. And he was thinking Rachel Ray! RACHEL RAY WOULDA PUT RICOTTA.

Yet another reminder to play the player, not the game.

[HannahJGriffiths]

I love seeing Chris battling with having to reduce his classical chef skills and knowledge to ‘ordinary people’ recipes and ingredients 😂

[amandapadalino]

"i mean, I just look unhinged" is the most Chris Morocco reaction to hacking up dry lasagna noodles 😆

[lisaseidel]

“Whacking a raw turkey. Is that part of the recipe?” And this is why I adore Chris.

[letsfoolgravity]

Cheeses will always be Chris' kryptonite. I wonder if he wakes up in a cold sweat breathlessly repeating "red Leicester" until the monster goes away...

[AlbieMartin]

Every time I watch it’s alive all the comments say how Brad is keeping the channel going. This is the best series on the channel IMO

[moonchild]

Am so glad to see Chris back in the test kitchen... the previous background wasn't doing it for me as well😂

[jjkim]

What was impressive was Chris course correcting after the first round and thinking through the technique based on what he thought of as the reason behind creating a dish like this — doing the sauce in one pan and not taking things out and putting back in and also baking chips and not the fussier frying. Always appreciate him applying critical thinking to the mission and sharing the logic with us. He just couldn’t overcome his cheese discrimination. Got close though. 👍

[haveron]

“like going off a flavor jump on your BMX” — there’s that classic Chris Morocco culinary intellect

[TheRealChetManley]

Chris is my favorite BA chef. Loving his colorful use of language. We need unedited versions of this. 😂

Glad to have this show back.

[rachellauryn]

Chris saying he looked unhinged while hacking at dried pasta made me laugh harder than it should have

[aliciawachon]

"Do you remember what cheese regular people eat?" HAHAH, soo good to see the test kitchen again!!

[CyrusEnnui]

I would love to see Chris do this exact format, but have an average person trying to make the dish under the same circumstances. I think it would kinda show how much skill Chris has in the kitchen