Binging with Babish: Buttered Noodles from Community

This week, we're double-dipping in the world of Dan Harmon's lovable, irreverent collegiate caricature: Community. I'm here to defend the "weird" favorite food of Abed Nadir: buttered noodles. Yes, that impossibly plain side dish/cafeteria filler/thing you eat when you're sick. With a few simple tricks, we can upgrade this ubiquitous underdog into something worth making all on its own.

Music: "Summer Spliffs" by Broke for Free

My playlist of preferred cooking tunes, Bangers with Babish!

[babishculinaryuniverse]

It has been correctly pointed out to me that the third pasta resembles cookies and cream pasta. Next week I guess?

[chrizzlybearlol]

“European butter” or as we Europeans call it “butter”

[JoshuaWeissman]

You took Buttered Noodles to ~𝓑𝓾𝓽𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓝𝓸𝓸𝓭𝓵𝓮𝓼~. Very jealous of that sourdough bread and butter noodle.

[vmh]

I'm here because of trisha and her love of buttered noodles. She is not wrong they look amazing 😋

[brettjohnson]

Fun fact, every time you call pasta "noodles" an Italian spontaneously combusts in anger. Needless to say the fire services were very busy when this video came out

[bodelicious]

“Haven’t got a manicure in a while”

Bougie with Babish.

[samtuttle]

Babish: shakes his fork when he likes the food

Also babish: *eats buttered noodles, fork vibrates at the frequency of the universe*

[FluffyDragonDrawing]

Untill today I never knew this was a proper dish. I didn't know you could just make it. I would have it when my mom made spaghetti, and often would sneak a second bowl- without any sauce.
I felt so guilty doing this, like I was eating desert without dinner first.

I feel validated seeing this in doing that though.

[nitiratp]

I've been making this for years and the key is the addition of some of the pasta-water back to the pan when you butter the noodles. Like the gentleman says, it makes it more like a sauce than just noodles soaked in butter. It's smoother, richer and creamier.

[ayelmao]

Babish: “In order to prevent kinky pasta.”
Pasta: “I like feet”
Babish: *“Shut up.”*

[aishikmukherjee]

...So we will make everything from scratch

* *Starts planting wheat for the pasta dough* *

[TheGary]

I still remember my college days of making buttered ramen noodles with parm cheese and garlic. It ain’t fancy, but it ain’t bad.

[victoriaramirez]

Came here after Trisha’s attempt at “emulsifying” 😂❤️

[Sillybutts]

The ending rock out really ties this masterpiece together.

[erenfroger]

"The first thing you need for buttered pasta is your butter. I'm not really a fan of the packaged stuff they sell at stores, so what we're gonna start off with here is one infant cow..."

[sixstringedthing]

Babish: "Pasta al burro".

Me, who last took Italian lessons back in highschool about thirty years ago: "Pasta with... donkey?"

[Hlznkl]

Babish's hands are like a dog's tail - whenever they like something, they wiggle around...

[sophiestrano]

At first I was like “hm, Babish pays for manicures in New York?” and then I realized this dude is literally a hand model essentially

[mr.peepers]

Wow! As a pasta lover I've struggled for years to get that really buttery taste. I can immediately tell a difference after watching this video. I used normal butter and pasta, but now I'll definitely think about investing in better butter and pasta. Subscribed!

[inspectorbutters]

Babish: "Fancy Shmancy European butter"
Me watching this in Germany: "You mean... butter?"