“Season lightly” Two shots of vodka

The salt in the Bunny Stew was a good idea, because if you watch the extended cut of Two Towers, they show that Sam brought some fancy salt from home in case they had an opportunity to prepare a roasted chicken, to which Frodo laughs, and appreciates how this journey still hasn't changed who Sam is at heart.

*Babish hoists up a gigantic rib roast* Me: "It still only counts as one!"

"Get engaged and put it on your wedding registry" Me - "Babe, we oughta get married" Her - "Why?" Me - "Stand mixer"

Realizing I made the old Babishian mistake of not telling you how everything tasted! The standouts were the iced tea loaf (sweet, salty, fruity), the standing rib roast (that jus is out of control), french apple tart (super apple-y), salmon-leek tart (delectable, and I actually like the low amount of custard), and mince pies (startlingly delicious). There was room for improvement with the honeycakes (a little dry, but still delicious), salted pork (needed some more aromatics in the cure, and I prefer cures with pink curing salt, otherwise it's basically just less-interesting bacon), and seed cake (needed a frosting or other sweeter element - but the caraway seeds are an interesting addition to what's essentially a vanilla pound cake). Mashed potatoes are always great - rabbit stew is a little off-putting (has a slightly gamey flavor from the bones(?), and I'm not a huge fan of mushrooms cooked directly in a braise), and that pipe-weed was harsh as fuck. EDIT: Also, what was done with the leftovers! Jess and I tried to be extra-healthy in the two weeks leading up to this episode, including a little fasting day-of, so we could really gorge the night of its completion - we polished off about 1/6 of it. The roast beef was saved for sandwiches, the salmon-leek and apple tarts were revisited for breakfasts, the breads frozen for future snacking, the mince pies given to an Irish friend (along with some honeycakes). All-in-all, tried to minimize waste! But I have been doing cardio perpetually since.

imagine having a fridge with enough room to just casually store that entire rack of meat

For all these years, I thought Sam meant "boil them OR mash them OR stick 'em in a stew", but babish just did all 3 at once. THEY WERE STEPS, NOT CHOICES!

“Maybe a bay leaf or two if your feelin’ wild” Boris: *hard bass intensifies*

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” ― Tolkien

Andrew's 'yay' at the end reached a pitch that I never thought him able.

I’ve been married for 14 years, my wife and I got that exact black kitchen aid mixer for our wedding. The registry joke is spot on also I love that I’ve been married for almost a decade and a half and the mixer they sell now looks exactly the same. Consistency is born from high quality.

Ironically, Sam didn't have potatoes in his stew, he was just wishing he had some... didn't even get to eat any of it though. Thanks, Faramir.

Babish: Season lightly *proceeds to empty an entire salt mine*

Humans: We eat Christmas dinner once a year. Hobbits: We eat Christmas dinner every day.

A big part of me wishes this could have been served to Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Billy Boyd, and Dominic Monaghan

Imagine binge watching the entire trilogy with a meal like this.

Saucepn: Who are you? Stockpt: I’m you but stronger.

"Lattice Made of Flesh" is my favorite new wave Metal band

"At least it's not.. Man-flesh." *disappointed Uruk-Hai noises*

8:11 "to know how stick around after the commercial break" (gets an ad) Real funny Andrew

Can't wait to see what happens in Part 3 _Lord of the Binge:_ *The Return of Tiny Whisk*

"Oh I got it on camera YAY" why's he so adorable ahahaha

"It's werid to make a lattice...outta flesh..." *Laughs in Epic Meal Time*

"Finest weed in the shire" has always been my favorite line 😅

When Babish sees his tiny whisk: "My Precious..."

Imagine how happy his gf is, he has personality, he's attractive and omg how he cooks. He has taste at everything.

Babbish: "It's much easier to take it off the bone first" Me: *reaches for torch and pitchfork Babbish: "Now we're going to mount it back on the bone" Me: *cautiously puts pitchfork back, but keep torch for marshmallows

Babish: Cooks rabbit Me: *What's it doing? Stupid, bald Hobbit. It ruins it.*

“Flesh Lattice” is the name of my new metal band

If not your hilarious dry sense of humor, then it’s the sheer level of nerdiness that has earned my instant subscription.😂❤️

That sign off with "can't wait for 2020" did not age well, lol

"get engaged real quick and put one of these on your wedding registry" did I miss something

The yay you made when you got that ring was priceless You're a great inspiration to me and even though you don't consider yourself a professional chef as a "professional chef" You inspire me all the time to just do things and be creative

Honestly one of the most impressive things was the smoke ring at the end.

“I will lattice your flesh!” Sounds like something a serial killer would say

“Looks like I am out of surfaces so this is going into my bedroom” is the most NYC thing I’ve heard.

"Season ligthly" Dumps in the average League of Legends player

12:06 "oou i got it on camera, yay!" adorably wholesome 🥰

Cutting to Sam at 10:06 saying PO-TA-TOES is my favorite part, thank you for that

4:46 "...and a half a cup of half-and-half" Just checking, is it okay to substitute this with a full cup of quarter-and-quarter?

"Stockpt" *He can't keep getting away with it*

When he said stick around after the break, I got an ad, perfect timing

Loved this video. I like to imagine that the kosher salt used to season the coney stew was Sam's seasoning salt from the early scene in the extended edition of TTT. It always gave me a small bit of joy knowing Sam eventually got to use the seasoning he carried all the way from the Shire.

"While these potatoes are good, the flavor isn't as robust as our own potatoes, so grab your gene modifying kit and let's start editing"

Babish: Stick around to know after a commercial break * no ad * Alright then, keep your secrets

I JUST GOT AN AD WITH BABISH WHEN HE SAID "You will find out how after this commercial break"

That “yay” at the end made my day

Babish: "Stick around after the commercial break" Me on mobile: *1.5 second void of darkness plays*

Babish: lays out food table. me: looks at half cooked instant noodles

Saved it at the end. I’m glad at least one dish had mushrooms in it. Tolkien explains in the book that hobbits really love mushrooms. When Frodo was a kid he was beaten by farmer Maggot for stealing mushrooms. Most children steal candy or cookies, hobbit children steal mushrooms.

Moved from Upstate NY to Arizona a few years back. Wegman's is one of the things I miss the MOST !!! It's not a grocery store, it's an experience :-) Ok...the pipe at the end was AWESOME !

I covered my bunny's eyes when he was sitting on my lap during the Stew portion. Boy doesn't need that in his soul.

“Top Ten Most Anticipated Sequels of All Time”

When he said “stick around for the commercial break” an ad popped up! Crazy

"this, is a pint. " "THEY COME IN PINTS??" I love that scene

How can anyone be this wholesome, give this man a TV show a movie and everything else too

Babish: *blowing smoke* Me: "An attempt was ma--" B: *blows perfect smoke ring* Me: O__O

You know the whole block be lining up when Babish get on the stove!!

When you get to 8, do things like Eowyn’s stew and how to improve it. Pirates of the Carribean would also be fun.

“... it’s much easier to get engaged real quick...” *kneads and cries* speak for yourself, Andrew!

Babish: ...After the commercial break Me: Oh he's got a sponsor *Ad starts to play* Me: 👁️👄👁️

10:17 “Stock pt” Guys it must be contagious, he’s not only saying “pn” instead of pan anymore, it’s slowly spreading to his other dishes

8:10 you just broke the 4th wall more then deadpool in the whole Deadpool 1and 2 combined!!!

“How’s he gonna eat all that-“ *proceeds to smoke what I assume is weed* “Ah. That’s how.”

Me clicking on the video: Why’d he put uncooked carrot on a pie? Babish: F L E S H L A T T I C E

Sounds like he said “Red” meat off the bone. I used to say that before I found out it was actually ripe meat off the bone.

@4:20, if you guys have never cooked with leeks before, after you cut the tops off, wash the stalk. You would be amazed how much dirt and junk gets in-between the layers. Great video, Babs.

"....To find out how, stick around after the commercial break" My adblock: "You have no power here, Babish the grey!"

Okay, but is no one gonna talk about that Gimli impression? That was great!

"The most magical place I know" - You haven't been to William Sonoma recently, then. I went there for my birthday and got my first chef's knife on your recommendation. It's all I could do to stop there.

Babish, I got engaged, threw one of those stand mixers on my registry and can’t wait to start making more Hobbit worthy breads with it!

Me when seeing Babish cook the dish Gimli was bragging about: “looks like meat is back on the menu boys!!”

*I like to imagine he has a walk in fridge where he keeps the majority of his food.*

i had lost my love and passion for cooking but after watching your videos, it brought back that joy and passion i had for cooking! thank you for that

Puffs out a many smoke ring... and then immediately the least manly “yay” of all time. 🤣 But for real, I’ve never appreciated anything more than every aspect of this episode 😂🥰👌🏻🤤

0:40 "Hobbits being basically British caricatures, take their teatime very seriously." Never before have I been so offended by something I 100% agree with.

"Lattice out of Flesh" is the name of my next album.

6:55 - And now is time for... the *bay leaf* ... OR TWO! 🤣

Hobbits being basically British caricatures ... As a northern Englishman, I can't argue with this.

"Wegman's is the most magical place I know of." .... Way to hit me in the homesick feels, bud.

7:53 Do we replace the "fork shake" with the "primal scream of glory" when judging if something is really good?

the celsius conversion is very helpful and i thank you on behalf of most people living outside the usa

“sauce pit” and “sauté pin” instead of pan and pot is so funny lol

When you do a 7M special but you have reached 7.33M already

>sees intro footage with mention of W E E D Is this about to turn into Blazing with Babish?

When Babish was saying 'Cony' at one point I got the image of him cooking up Kony from that old internet campaign. X3>

True words...Wegman's is indeed a magical place! If i go there with nothing to do afterwards... there goes the whole entire afternoon.

You've done the LOTR, and GOT, now what we really need is The witcher meals.

I’d really enjoy a whole episode about tea making, uncle iroh’s tea from avatar perhaps

The Church Warden and old Toby at the end a true Hobbit indeed

and about 3 months later he's nearly at 8 million. well done babish

Playing with a ring last episode "Just get engaged real quick" and "Time to marry it to our dough" from this episode You got something to tell us Andrew?

"get engaged and put this on your wedding registry" trying to tell us something Andrew?

“Hobbits being basically British caricatures..” Well… actually Danes 😁 and I can testify that we had almost that many meals when I was a kid.

Fun fact: The original pronunciation of Aluminum is without the extra I, and the term was coined by a British scientist. The added I was an artificial addition by other British. This is why Americans say it without the extra I, due to the addition not being able to get across the sea as easily as it does on land.

Fun fact. The “weed” that Tolkien was smoking was tobacco. That used to be slang for tobacco many decades ago as well.

“Stick around after the commercial br- Ad plays eak” Edit: wow. I’ve never gotten this many likes before in my time on KZfaq, thank you all so much!

What I've always wondered: How do Hobbits have time to do anything other than cook?! I feel like as soon as they've finished eating one meal they have to move on to prepping and cooking the next!

I was watching Star Wars Return of the Jedi and during the battle on Endor when Leija shot down an ATST, I shouted “That still only counts as one!”

Me, eating a pack of poptarts for lunch: I could probably make some of these dishes, they look really good.