Binging with Babish: Breakfast from Howl's Moving Castle

Howl's Moving Castle is one of the many exquisitely animated (and profoundly confusing) expressions of destiny, growth, and love brought to us by Hayao Miyazaki. An even more ubiquitous theme in his films, however, is food. Few can so magically inspire hunger as the sizzling breakfast served up courtesy of Calcifer's demonic flames - can some at-home know-how help us bring the magic into our own kitchens?

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Music: "Summer Spliffs" by Broke for Free

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[babishculinaryuniverse]

Oh and you can slow-roast the super-thick (1"+) slabs of bacon to create...a bacon steak. You're welcome.

[samhunt]

3:50 now I’ve only seen Howl’s Moving Castle once, but I seem to remember that killing the heat is not a desirable thing in that movie

[tubboi]

Innacurate, you didnt feed the egg shells to the fire

[bigboispaghet]

“its the perfect excuse to make our own bacon from scratch”
*pulls out shotgun*

[YoungAspect]

“This thing holds in smoke about as good as a college freshman after taking his first bong rip”

[a]

8/10
didn't feed your oven egg shells

[diaconucristi]

Binging with Babish: Sunny Side-Up Egg
Babish: "this is a pretty generic dish but this gives us an excuse to buy a farm, raise a chicken and get some eggs"

[robertloerwald]

I was evenly exposed to the Cure in middle school. The 80s were rad.

[SunbaeDan]

For any curious fans: Distilled water is emphasized, not because of impurities and dissolved minerals in regular water, as that won't make too much of a difference, but because of microbials, bacteria, and other things that may be living in the water that a filter may not remove. Meat is being cured and you don't want to get sick from any growth due to water, so a previously boiled water is used, whether it is bought or done at home.

[littlehollow]

There's just something so satisfying about watching Howl crack those eggs lol. 🤣

[janna]

"A cure for our belly, and no, I don't mean Pepto Bismol."
Babish, you didn't tell us you were gonna be a dad

[j.r.r]

Howl’s Moving Castle is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. It’s my favorite love story ever, and that sound track!!! It’s literally what I think true love sounds like.

[celeste]

That scene from the movie ALWAYS makes me hungry. The food looks amazing.

[pizzacore]

A bit disappointed you didn’t make your own egg.

[danielh]

My guy really just bit a chunk out of a whole block of cheese

[MultiRastaman]

Hayao Miyazaki is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. His artistic design and technique makes for movies so vivid and beautiful that they will be timeless masterpieces forever.

[richardshapiro]

I feel like for the bread and cheese, you’d want to select a really hearty rye, and for the cheese, you should go with something sharp and salty. This is definitely a meal of few, but bold ingredients.

[AJ-xcnm]

This guy just took a massive bite right out of a block of swiss.

[oklwccz]

"Here's another curse: May All Your Bacon Burn" - Calcifer

[aron]

I always love the simple foods he makes and excuses it as a reference from a show or movie