$311 vs $17 Tempura: Pro Chef & Home Cook Swap Ingredients | Epicurious

Professional chef Taka Sakaeda, owner of Nami Nori, and home cook Gabi are swapping tempura recipes and hitting the kitchen! We set Gabi up with the finest ingredients from chef Taka’s kitchen along with his $311 tempura recipe. Meanwhile over on the other side, chef Sakaeda was taking Gabi's simpler instructions and remixing them up to gourmet status. Which tempura looks most tempting to you?

Director: Chris Principe
Director of Photography: Ben Dewey
Editor: Manolo Moreno
Talent: Taka Sakaeda
Talent: Gabi Chappel

Sr. Culinary Director: Kelly Janke
Producer: Michael Cascio
Culinary Producer: Jessica Do
Culinary Associate Producer: Katrina Zito
Line Producer: Jennifer McGinity
Associate Producer: Tim Colao
Production Manager: Janine Dispensa
Production Coordinator: Elizabeth Hymes

Director of Photography: Ben Dewey
Camera Operator: Kyle LeClaire
Audio: Rachel Suffian
Production Assistant: Alexia Hall

Post Production Supervisor: Andrea Farr
Post Production Coordinator: Scout Alter
Supervising Editor: Eduardo Araújo
Assistant Editor: Billy Ward
Graphics Supervisor: Ross Rackin
Graphics, Animation, VFX: Léa Kichler


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[Ryan_gogaku]

Still hoping some day we'll see two pros switch expensive ingredients with each other and see what they do with really great stuff.

[kristianlamprecht]

I don't know if Gabi can be considered a 'home cook' anymore given that she went to the Institute of Culinary Education for a while but it's great to see her back!

[MrDrummerDeluxe]

I'm just stunned by all the different techniques of Chef Taka, the way he cuts or makes the mushroom salt. Really creative way to use the ingredients he was given.

[AmoebaCel]

Wow, Taka guessed the price without hesitation. +1 to the chef!

[j]

Love watching Gabi's positive energy! Please feature her more often! 🙂

[fromnaras]

Chef Taka is soooo good at explaining and being excited about his own food! He truly loves what he does

[Ryan_gogaku]

Anago fileting is no joke at all. That's genuinely very impressive!

[deidrebetts]

Alright, chef taka needs to do a video on his knife skills because those are some of the best knife skills I've ever seen

[LydiaTarine]

It looks like they've decided to just have the pro-chef's do what Rose used to with this show, which makes sense.

[mspirits]

I love watching Chef Taka's video everytime. Seriously, always something new to learn. Mushroom Salt? Never have I imagine.

[RobertPeters]

More videos with Taka and/or Gabi please Epicurious. Great video today!

[heiloniris]

chef taka rlly be flexing his knife skills omg

[erly]

Yay, I love Gabi! I just made tempura for New Years because the soba noodles I tried to make from scratch failed miserably 😂 Hot tip: kumquat tempura was surprisingly very good!

[LakshayKukreja]

So proud of Gabi! She's so calm and collected, and has a positive attitude. So talented and absolutely adorable!

[kitherit]

I've loved so many of the people featured on this series, but there is something about watching Chef Taka and his amazing knife skills that was absolutely fascinating!!

[tinaphobia]

Never imagined he’s gonna make salt out of mushrooms 😮 feels like magic

[juandavid]

13:38
Gabi: "This is when you know you're doing this for a chef: when you bring out the food scale".

Chef Taka: "just eyeballing here".

Great editing. I cracked.

[TheGlamorousLifeofNae]

Both of them did so great! & such beautiful plating! 🙌🏽☺️

[sachinkrishnapura]

Chef Taka's Knife skills are EPIC!!

[revvend]

His knife techniques are mindblowing, he must have been a samurai or a ninja in his previous life. 👍