$135 vs $13 Dumplings: Pro Chef & Home Cook Swap Ingredients | Epicurious

Pro chef Chris Cheung from East Wind Snack Shop and home cook Emily are swapping materials and hoping for the best! We set Emily up with a selection of the finest ingredients from chef Chris’s kitchen, along with his recipe for a $135 batch of dumplings. With some unfamiliar ingredients and plenty of questions to accompany them, food scientist Rose dialed in for a tutorial teleconference to help Emily along the way. Meanwhile over with chef Chris, a much more modest $13 worth of ingredients were being finessed up to gourmet status while making dumplings without his usual arsenal. Tune in and find out whose dumplings came out on top!


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[swiftie]

'put it on medium, becasue nothing bad ever happens on medium.'

This is the sort of helpful advice I come to the video for.

[vuntan]

Now I wanna see him actually cook his own dumplings

[Where_you_been_loca]

Need an apron that says “nothing bad ever happens on medium”

[genesistejada]

I wanna see Rose cook in one of these episodes😆

[carlosordonez]

"I don't have that luxury because I AM the tutorial right now" hahahaha I love Emily

[stepawayful]

Chris Cheung is, literally, the master of dumplings in NYC. The fact that he gave a thumbs up to Emily's effort says a LOT! #MakeEmilyLevel2

[captprime]

This pro chef is 100% ny. That accent is THIICCC

[belalabusultan]

Chris is fun because he's nice, Emily is fun because she's humble, Rose is nice because she's Rose, this was a nice team all in all :)

[ang]

At this point, Emily is at least a 1.5 level chef, she is very versatile and I really love seeing her in these videos

[DONKEYKONGCB]

I like how the pro chefs are like eH i CaN wOrK wItH tHiS
And then they make literal gold.

[cookingwjaniya]

i’m in the middle of an exam but this is much more important

[margaritamix]

“Something feels....expensive”
-Emily 2020

[TheMrAntilohs]

It actually looks like Emily has progressed A LOT since first being on epicurios as just the ketchup girl. It's great to see. Keep it up!

[BurningSearcher]

Emily had to work with a lot of complicated ingredients and she did not do that bad at it. The fact that they both were planning to make an asian style dumpling is predictable, but I really like that the home cook’s recipe showcased asian dumplings in a simple way, and the professional chef’s recipe showcased it in a more complicated way and we get the best of both sides because of that. The inclusion of lard and king crab on the professional chef’s recipe was very smart and cool in my opinion since it adds a interesting spin to the traditional asian style dumpling. Also, I like that the professional chef combined vegetable oil, water, and tapioca starch to the pan with the dumplings because it seems to add a very nice crust to it and the combination of Emily’s carefree, determined, and laid back personality and how focused, detailed, and straightforward the professional chef is, is great.

Edit: Thank you guys all for over 500 likes, it means a lot. It’s obvious that a bunch of you guys may have liked my comment just because you felt like it, but thank you anyways.

[usforonce]

God the pro chef’s wrappers are so round paper thin and beautiful I was sh00k how easy he made them

[jbondad]

loving the evolution of emily from being ketchup lady to a legit coming home cook

[richardwidjaja]

Chris: Don’t open the lid
Emily: Talking to the dumplings
Me: O.o

[timrao]

I think Chris's modifications were really consistent with the original price of Emily's dumplings.

Making your own wrappers from scratch is actually a lot cheaper (and tastier) than buying premade wrappers.
Chikiang Vinegar and Rice Vinegar have very similar prices in a lot of asian groceries.
Starch (it could be cornstarch as well) has a pretty negligible cost and is readily available in almost every kitchen. Usually, you can add a lot less of the batter in to get a crispier snowflake pattern (only need a tablespoon per batch).

[vega]

It’s the resignation on Emily’s face when she says “And now I’m required to cook them” that makes me both laugh and want to hug her.

[Gldtr]

I love that they have Emily in this series more and more!! She gets better from this and she does well every time!!