I love how the whole point of the scene was that it was just a simple burger but Andrew just Couldn’t hold back making something fancy

2:08 To be fair though, when Margot asked Slowik what his kitchen has, Slowik responded "Everything", so TECHNICALLY he most likely would have some ground beef, American cheese and burger buns lying around somewhere.

I love that the mixer just slowly migrates across the counter as it's beating the patato dough

Your perseverance to finish the crinkle cut fries with the wonky knife deserves applause. 👏🏼

Something tells me he didn’t want to recreate “The Mess” or “The S’mores.”

i like to think the crinkle cutter is actually incredibly sturdy but were no match for babish’s inhuman strength

You gotta make Tyler’s meal. His technique was flawless.

Every time I open up an American cheese slice, I hear Ralph Fiennes in the back of my mind "American cheese is the best cheese for a cheeseburger because it melts without splitting". Brilliant.

"And the worst part is: I'm still f***ing Hungry" was legendary

I attempted to make this burger immediately after I returned from the theater. It was one of the best burgers I ever had. The caramelized onions were the best part of it.

This is exactly the type of video I have been missing from babish. I’ve felt like there hasn’t been much “binging” in most of the recent ones! So nice to see a longer video where you can tell he took time to get everything perfect!

I loved the burger scene in the menu the subtle progression of the emotions on his face he says he lost his love for cooking and have that love return not from an awe inspiring rendition of a dish but by a simple burger that returns his love for cooking by reminding him of why he set out on his path Ralph Fienes really made such a small scene with no words powerful with emotion alone

I saw this movie at an Alamo Drafthouse, twice. It's a place that serves real food and drink (not concessions) seat side whenever you want. On second viewing, I got there early, ordered a drink and asked my server to bring me a burger toward at the end of the movie. She brought it at the EXACT moment "just a well made cheeseburger" popped up on screen.

I just wanna say that I love how you try the easier way then make it all again fixing your mistakes and tweaking the recipe until its perfect

I absolutely LOVE that this got back to the more traditional BWB formula: “we made it the cheap and easy way to match the show/movie, now how can we make it better?” Much more like old school BWB episodes that I loved years ago! Great video!

Seeing Andrew trying to unhinge his jaw to eat everything is just too perfect.

To describe your version of Chef Slowik’s Cheeseburger, As Margot would say “My Eyes were a little bigger than my stomach.” Nicely done.

As someone who helped film The Menu… this is the coolest thing I could have imagined!

Decided to try out the recipe and it is absolutely DELICIOUS! Took me a few tries to nail down a near perfect medium but once I did the taste was heavenly and it is a really filling meal so if ya'll are thinking about trying it out go for it.

I never thought that the line “Can I have that to go please” can give me chills

Hawthorn prices include gratuity, as stated in the scene before Dessert, so that store-bought ingredients burger is priced almost exactly correct. Also the point was that it doesn't take fancy ingredients to make great food. Great food is made with care and love.

I remember after watching this movie, I said myself to myself, "Now I want a cheeseburger."

This was the most fun movie of last year, and that scene had me craving a burger for a week after

This was the most fun movie of last year

I love that these videos show multiple ways to prepare the same meal with varying complexity.

Protip: if you don't have sodium citrate, you can make your own sodium citrate solution by reacting baking soda(sodium bicarbonate) with lemon or lime juice(citric acid) in a warm pan over medium/medium low heat. Make sure it's fully reacted before adding milk so it doesn't curdle. Adam Ragusea has a video with this technique in it.

it's funny to imagine everyone in the room waiting to die for hours while the Chef painstakingly creates American cheese with this method

When you see the light smile in Julian's face while he is cooking the burger, you know that Margot is safe

hand cut crinkle cut is something I never thought I would see, that's absurdist levels of art

Also, seeing the tiniest little mistakes even in videos today and not only refusing it edit it out, but narrate them is simply beautiful. Babish has always prided himself on admitting the mistakes he makes in his videos, and it's only made him consistently humble. Even if it's something as tiny as the tripod being just a hair off.

Now I really want a cheeseburger…. This whole video had my mouth watering! 🤤🤤🤤

What I liked about the cheeseburger in the movie was that it wasn't a fancy, gourmet burger, but an ordinary one. The chef was excited to make it because it was most likely the first time in years that he had made ordinary food instead of fine dining food that needed to look perfect. Trust me, I get that same feeling when I make a burger at home.

Out of all the dishes presented on “The Menu” The cheeseburger was honestly the most appetizing looking meal Edit: If someone responds with another comment being “that’s the point of the movie 🤓” like gee you don’t think I figured that out when I watched the movie

There's nothing like classic Babish you make you feel safe and happy on a cold grey Welsh Tuesday in January lol Thanks Babby

As a Burger I can indeed confirm this is how a CheeseBurger is made 🍔

I made this! BUNS INCLUDED (2nd time making bread). The meat/onion blend is fantastic, never had this style and the friends went crazy for it

I never thought of putting the onions in the patties that’s genius

2:53 The stand mixer really just went like "bye"

I cannot overstate my respect for turning "making processed cheese product" into something that looks luxurious and gourmet and maybe like something I might actually want to try.

2:18 To whoever subtitled this, Margot/Babish said "fancy deconstructed *avant* bulls(beep)."

Ah yes. The one dish that started it all for Chef Slowik and it was probably the only one he genuinely enjoyed making in that film.

Okie here learning about Oklahoma Style. Tried it immediately. Delicious

Babby, I work at a deli and I must say a majority of folks are just happy to get freshly sliced American cheese, it don’t gotta be photogenic and symmetrical but props to you all the way

I love how much the stand mixer walks around the table while it’s running

6:15 We all know that he took out some serious frustration on that cutter, and would have done the same. 😂

I’m not exactly sure why, and I can’t eloquently put this into words… but this video felt so perfect. A classic Binging With Babish video with Andrew recreating a simple meal into something that does not demand 100-hundred extra steps. But he did it anyways, and it was beautiful. Oh and can’t forget about Juparo playing in the background. :)

What a nice looking show! Surely nothing bad happens in it..

I've come back to this video several times, because the buns look so magnificent I just can't look away. I have to make some of those.

I think this video also represents how babish used to make things from scratch, like the buns and even the cheese. The passion to make things from scratch is what made babish successful, kinda like the movie where the chef used to have passion with making food.

As an Australian it is hard to believe $9.99 is overpriced

$9.99 doesn’t sound overpriced at all. In 2022, when the movie was made, I couldn’t find a burger & fries at a restaurant for less than $12. Most of the time, they were about $14 or $15.

The second I saw this film I knew wanted to see Babish handle at least one of it’s amazing looking dishes .

I’m so happy he did this one!! The Menu has to be one of my favourite movies now.

back when i was in college and had a certain craving i would go to the student union lunch area and the food ladies that run the place always knew what i was going to get that i didnt need to write in an order, a nice hot cheeseburger and crinkle cut fries and sometimes they would put onion on my cheeseburger, they were the best people i ever knew

After you reach 10 million subs make Clam-entine Crystal from Scooby-Doo Mystery Incorporated episode, "Where Walks Aphrodite"

You absolutely can add water to a dry dough, it's called bassinage and it actually helps when making any bread product. This allows the dough to hold more water than if all the water was mixed in at once. Also the average burger bun in the restaurant is weighed at around 90g before the second proof.

"Probably overpriced at 9.99..." *laughs/cries in European inflation*

Honestly, my favorite part of these videos is watching people eat the food, especially in groups. I appreciate knowing that you eat the food and you don't waste it. Now I'm hungry!

The Menu was much more entertaining than I expected and I’m glad you’re tackling it on this channel. I will definitely try to make the burger sometime

I’m now extremely interested in making my own processed cheese.

I like how the final shot has a LOT of color contrast between the two meals. It’s like hdr being off vs on

On any day in February, make Homer Simpson's Valentine Breakfast from, "I Love Lisa", episode

I've never been as hungery as I am watching this vid

andrew: i’m not a professional chef also andrew: has two cookbooks and an entire line of cookware as well as a successful youtube channel entirely dedicated to food

here's what the cheese burger mean in the movie. The cheeseburger itself is a symbol of the thing that reminded Slowik why he began cooking, and how he fell in love with it. The simple act of preparing something for someone who greatly appreciates it - no bells and whistles, no frills or fuss.

I just saw The Menu yesterday and my gosh this is easily my favorite scene of the movie! Margot remembering what she saw at Chef’s house, then clapping her hands the same way Chef did only to complain about the emptiness of Chef’s courses because he makes them with hatred and bitterness. She then demands a simple cheeseburger with fries which really takes Chef off guard then accepts the challenge with raw emotion. Once again easily my favorite scene because you can really feel a simpler past come back in Chef’s expressions as he cooks what he came out of before the critic brought him into the higher class. In the end, it goes to show that the best you can always make will come from personal enjoyment

Now I really wanna see a "Botched by Babish"-Style episode of the full footage for this episode, just to see how Andrew gradually gets so frustrated that he rips the crinkle cutter apart.

Man, now I'm dying for a cheeseburger. 😋 Wait... maybe I should rephrase that. 😉

Perhaps if the American cheese in block form was frozen before slicing would have saved from the melt and shmear scenario

As an Oklahoman I can confirm we do this with our onions on our burgers but I’ve never heard it called Oklahoma style until today

6:20 I feel the way he just goes “are you kidding me?” Based off his body language alone

Nijmegen insists those buns aren't a bridge too far.

I did not expect to love, “The Menu,” as much as I did.

There totally was pickles in the burger in the Menu. You can see one slice in the burger squeeze shot. No burger is complete without pickles.

The way you were able to actually tear apart that crinkle knife in frustration was hilarious! 😂

Something to make after reaching 10 mil subscribers: The Simpsons- Ethiopian Dish (The Food Wife episode) The Owl House- Fried Orb Cruella- Baroness' Lunch The Looney Tunes Show- Daffy's Complicated Banana Split (Peel of Fortune episode) Steven Universe- Literally All Toppings Pizza

Even the Russian Judge was impressed , hence the PERFECT 10 and now for the last score."I have never been in an Arena this massive and easily can not hear a , It's a 10 from the ITALIANS Judge giving Babish the GOLD MEDAL!!!! " WOW , the very first Unanimous 10 from every Judge . What a beautiful burger exercise we have had the satisfaction of watching and we are so underrated in the World Championships headed in and what a huge statement we will not ever forget. That's a lot of enthusiasm for the opening event and coming up next is the all new Pizza dough wild card.

Now I want to eat a cheeseburger

I got a Cheese Burger right after the movie. BEST CHEESE BURGER ever.

Theres something so satisfying about a simple cheeseburger.

I would say that "Margot" had a certain insight into Slowik, being in the service industry, and knew he would have burger buns and fries

I’ve always wanted a cheeseburger from the menu but I’ve never been bold enough to order one

I love that you kept in your mistake with the buns being too large. You easily could have cut out that footage and not narrated it, but you did, for us. Thank you.

Just as an FYI. After working at roosters and hand cutting the wedges, I learned that a crinkle cut ROCKER KNIFE is the only way to actually get any leverage to cut the potatoes. I prefer the one with a round blade rather than the flat blade. Edit: if you google "pampered chef crinkle cutter" you will see what I mean.

Great video, it's fantastic to see you're back to the classic Babish formula of "let's do it simple, then let's go crazy and do it the hard way" ❤😅 and I gotta say that grinding my own beef blend at home has REALLY elevated my burger game. Like, you wouldn't think it would make THAT much difference, but it totally does. Especially with a super-simple burger.

“Enough width to fill our buns” ya know, I give up, I can’t have a normal mind

Cheeseburgers are probably my favorite food (yes im american). Seeing Babish put tact and care into making a cheeseburger is exquisite. *Chef's Kiss*

I'd love to see a Babish version of Tyler's Bull**** Both recreating it and showing how to fix it

When the fry got split I had to run to the bathroom because I was salivating so much

I was soooo hoping you would do all the food from the Menu!! I’m so happy right now!

something about coming back to your channel and still seeing your passion and fun creativity for food and how it affects us is amazing and gives me chills everytime

Great episode; the "reverse Coldstone" idea you had for the American cheese was very extra and the results were beautiful. But yeah, both burgers looked awesome and you totally didn't need to do that. Both this and "Pretty Patties" were some of the best Babish videos I've seen in a while.

I want to make that cheeseburger so bad now. Not the fancy one, the one that cost seven dollars.

Wait almost 24 hours to make fast food...

Was a massive Babish fan in the early days and just coming back now to binge (no pun intended) on his newer content. I have been loving getting a look into the process, and walking us through some of the mistakes he made and how he rectified them. Such an awesome channel, and an awesome dude.

Babish, we need to talk about the absurdly low quantity of onions on the first "oklahoma style" burger you made

I love when he tries to say he isn't a professional chef. It is LITERALLY your profession at this point my guy.

The menu was my favorite movie of the last few years, and the moment I saw the cheeseburger, I thought "babish is gonna make this"

given the prices these days, that burger at $9.99 is a steal. and comes with fries!

The Menu was a great movie. At the ending I was also craving a cheeseburger.