Cornbread | Basics with Babish

Cornbread, as it turns out, wears many hats: essential barbecue side, thing-that-makes-chili-worth-eating, cultural mainstay, even dessert when it has to be. However you want to enjoy it, a few simple tricks will keep your crumb light and and your crusts crunchy, no matter upon which side of the Mason Dixon Line you lie.

[Bbit_]

saying honeybutter 3 times in the mirror makes babish appear behind you with cornbread

[kris-to-pher]

My dude is always shaking his food after he bites it. The “that’s good” signal

[furrymessiah]

As a southerner, I gotta say, Andrew did good with his cornbread.




For a Yankee.

[SonicKing]

As a southern boy who's had cornbread more times than double the years I've been alive, I am so happy you showed both varieties of southern style cornbread. I was raised on the delicate, cake like version (with some additives like onion, bacon, jalapeno, etc.) and I have found few things in life that tastes better.

[drew]

I remember the first time my Yankee aunt tried southern corn bread. She hated it and said we put all our sugar in the tea and had none left for the cornbread

[KoyasuNoBara]

You are _ruining_ my mom's joke.

"πr²? No, pie are round. Cornbread are square."

[shotokantiger]

It’s not paddling... the correct term is “wangjangling”

[andreaingham]

Fun addition: cornbread/corn-cake batter works beautifully for citrus upside-down cakes. I tried it with blood oranges a couple years ago and it did not last long

[The_Cranky_Painter]

Coarse ground is breakfast cornbread. Good with sausage and eggs (and maybe some sausage gravy). Fine ground is for dinner cornbread, with plenty of butter and maybe some blueberry jam if you're feeling frisky.


Yankee cornbread is great with chili or some corned beef and cabbage.

[Breaodo]

Me, lives on the West Coast and has never had cornbread: “ah yes, the grind size effects the texture yes mhm”

[alexvasquez]

Idk about you, but Babish has that “thickness I desire”

[Doodlebob]

As a southern, I'm gonna have to say that cornbread, whether is savory or sweet, is the best.

[KellDuCull]

I love how you show how one food item is cooked differently based on the region. You could make a whole sub series of this on Basics.

[theraggedymochi]

just popping on to say that i tried your brown butter cornbread recipe for thanksgiving yesterday and my parents LOVED it. my dad's such a huge fan of cornbread, albeit maybe not an authentic one. they said it reminded them of the cornbread that american foreigners would bring to the after school academy they attended in korea so it brought a lot of memories for them. thank you!!

[LukeBeks]

Babish saying "Honeybutter" into my headphones feels like a warm blanket

[cuboidham]

can we get an hour long mix of babish saying “Honey Butter” and other such words?

[smittynumber]

Ah yes, Blue Apron: The plastic seller that sometimes includes food

[waheedabdullah]

How about you make Gingy the Gingerbread Man from Shrek for Christmas?

[lilbu]

In Romania we call it 'mălai' and we eat it with sausages and fried sour cabbage or fried pork. For sure it will pass 'clean plate' test.

[scottcombs]

My mom uses a mix of half cornbread and half yellow cake mix. And it makes for a good cornbread.