Recreating Martha Stewart's Baked Alaska From Taste | Reverse Engineering

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Recreating Martha Stewart's Baked Alaska From Taste | Reverse Engineering | Bon Appétit

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We challenged resident Bon Appétit supertaster Chris Morocco to recreate Martha Stewart's Baked Alaska in the BA Test Kitchen. The catch? He'll have to identify what he's making with a blindfold over his eyes, letting each of his other senses guide the way. Will Chris be able to reproduce this show-stopping classic dessert without being able to see what it is?
Director: Cory Cavin
Director of Photography: Eric Brouse
Editor: Mike Imhoff
Host: Chris Morocco
Director of Culinary Production: Kelly Janke
Producer: Halie Aaron
Culinary Producer: Jessica Do
Culinary Associate Producer: Katrina Zito
Culinary Researcher & Recipe Editor: Vivian Jao
Line Producer: Jen McGinity
Associate Producers: Tim Colao
Production Manager: Janine Dispensa
Production Coordinator: Elizabeth Hymes
Camera Operator: Jacob Robbins
Audio: Lily Van Leeuwen
Production Assistant: Justine Ramirez
Researcher: Ryan Harrington
Post Production Supervisor: Andrea Farr
Post Production Coordinator: Scout Alter
Supervising Editor: Eduardo Araújo
Assistant Editor: Andy Morell
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@flytronica Жыл бұрын

Bring back Chris’ trips to the supermarket.

@intherestrictedsection Жыл бұрын

I agree! The shopping trips were my fav!

@maksymilianreiter3111 Жыл бұрын

please!

@grobles675 Жыл бұрын

Yasssss!!

@RyTrapp0 Жыл бұрын

We're really missing a good bit of his overthinking without the store trips - we need them back! lol

@lysolmax Жыл бұрын

Guessing it takes way too much out of his day to do it

@ItzBwo Жыл бұрын

Ngl the cherry ice cream miss is one of the funniest Chris misses we've ever seen. She was suuuper generous with an ingredient score of 75%

@jesterday3965 Жыл бұрын

that 75% is even more generous considering he added so much to the cake layer lol

@bartdevries8531 6 ай бұрын

Should have been like 45.

@TheyCallMeMisterCool Жыл бұрын

It’s very funny watching Chris say, “there’s no way it’s done that way. Why would anyone do it that way?” all while they’re showing the chef do it exactly that way

@joshwilliams8863 Жыл бұрын

Honestly I much prefer the two-day videos rather than "Have to do this all in one day". In some of his other videos, you can tell how under the pump he is to complete the second attempt without keeping the crew there overnight.

@RyTrapp0 Жыл бұрын

Yea, I can only imagine that it's too easy to get caught up in your own thoughts when trying to do this in one day - two dayers are a must, especially when they throw some more wild stuff at him. Ironically, not the most wild/complex dish, but one of his biggest misses lol.

@tamararobinson806 Жыл бұрын

This video has over 100K views in a day. Please give Chris a weekly show. This is the most interesting show on this channel.

@Kleopold94 Жыл бұрын

The only interesting show on the channel imo

@paigedesjardins5525 Жыл бұрын

@@Kleopold94 I was going to say the same thing. Truly the only show I watch on this channel.

@andalongjacket Жыл бұрын

So funny that when he found cherries, his first instinct was strawberry ice cream with cherries added, and not just... cherry ice cream. A thing that exists 😆

@brianhunt8273 Жыл бұрын

I love his videos, but he has a bit of that “I’m a classically trained chef” snobbery. “It’s not ice cream, but a dairy dessert!” Get over yourself. 99.99% of your audience says it’s ice cream, but nope, it’s technically a dairy dessert and I think he pointed that out twice.

@stinooke Жыл бұрын

I think it might be because he thought he tasted maraschino cherry, which is flavored with almond liqueur. Artificial almond and cherry flavor are actually the same chemical compound (benzaldehyde or sometimes acetophenone, they smell alike) , but if it occurs in something a bit tart and red colored you just assume that it's cherry instead of almond.

@mst3kanita Жыл бұрын

Chris so sheltered lol

@MBou0626 Жыл бұрын

@@brianhunt8273 it literally technically is a frozen dairy dessert….depending on flavor because of the additives and the usage of ingredients that aren’t typically found in real ice cream it fails to to meet the criteria set by department of agriculture. He’s not wrong and I don’t think that makes him a snob by saying it is ISNT ice cream.

@brianhunt8273 Жыл бұрын

@@MBou0626 Technically correct, the best kind of correct. Like I said, I enjoy his videos, but his snobbery and condescension is off putting at times.

@darkdistroi Жыл бұрын

They're waaaaaaay too generous with some of these ratings. To the detriment of Chris, honestly. 58 on attempt one for ingredients? He got like, 3 of 20, and added a huge amount more than existed in the first place. If he knew how far off he was, maybe he'd actually change some things.

@amberdawn5372 Жыл бұрын

Normally even when Chris is way off base I can understand/agree with most of his choices…but I am BAFFLED over the strawberry ice cream and sliced cherries. Just use cherry ice cream, some things aren’t meant to be complicated!

@monochr0m Жыл бұрын

right? even the cherry ice cream he tasted wasn't actually cherry, it was vanilla with cherry bits

@amberdawn5372 Жыл бұрын

@@Sletchman I'd say pure cherry ice cream isn't super common here in the USA (though there are some like Tillamook's dark cherry), you're more likely to find cherry with chocolate pieces or cherry vanilla. And the amount of cherry flavor in cherry vanillas vary depending on the brand. And like you said, it's pretty easy to DIY a cherry ice cream based on taste. So yeah, the jump to strawberry ice cream is just weird.

@calumryan6328 Жыл бұрын

@@Sletchman yeah it would be easy to make cherry ice cream. Hope you get to try cherry garcia sometime!

@Reboundary Жыл бұрын

Certainly up there with the pear wrapping.

@taylorbutler5392 Жыл бұрын

The other one the brought him was cherry vanilla and I’ve had it, it’s VERY fake tasting. I think if they had more cherry options for him he would have landed in that, but that’s all he brought them.

@dennett316 Жыл бұрын

EXTREMELY generous on the ingredients score there. Half the ice cream wasn't included. So many ingredients used that weren't in it, so many left out that were supposed to be. No way that was a 75%.

@Theater00jock Жыл бұрын

It was literally just a long list of red things lol

@davidschwartzman2986 Жыл бұрын

Hanna was WAY too generous in both ingredients, technique appearance. Ingredients should have been low 40's, technique 50 at best and appearance 55.

@erinmoore9681 Жыл бұрын

We’re so used to Chris getting robbed. I think the producers are being easy on him now.

@colealsup1755 Жыл бұрын

Nah we need to keep being real here, he used to be gas a most of these and not second guess himself as much, now he gets so many things wrong cause he’s not always confident

@bubblebeamm Жыл бұрын

@@erinmoore9681 he has never been robbed ever lol. He always gets way higher than he should

@harrytuck7537 Жыл бұрын

Yeah the scoring on this one feels really weird. Especially for ingredients, where Chris left out the cherry ice cream and did almost a completely different cake

@jam08060 Жыл бұрын

I feel like with recipes like this, because what Chris would normally make is so much better than what he's trying to replicate, he ends up fighting his own instincts quite a bit.

@Disconcertedfox Жыл бұрын

Exactly!

@syntacticalcrab Жыл бұрын

I think his biggest flaw is that usually about 3/4 of the way into the first attempt, he forgets that he's trying to replicate a thing the way someone else would do it, rather than how he thinks it SHOULD've been done, and then everything goes off the rails.

@ijennamirabelosuji 7 ай бұрын

@@syntacticalcrabthat’s a huge flaw for this show lmao

@Kate-bl2mz Күн бұрын

@@syntacticalcrabyeah he’s thinking about himself too much

@CarolineLFranco Жыл бұрын

"It's not. It's not actually ice cream, it's a frozen dairy product." lol love it

@michael22414 Жыл бұрын

Not going to lie, I think the score should have been painfully lower. Just missed on so many ingredients, appearance, and technique. That said, they are similar in essence and "wow" as was stated. But I think this was a sub 60 score.

@SirTurtle12 Жыл бұрын

Very generous scoring at the end lol

@MinaF99 Жыл бұрын

Way too high

@freighter1097 Жыл бұрын

Its almost as if its not serious and they're having fun.

@rockpooladmirer 11 ай бұрын

@@freighter1097consistency is still important if they're going to bother having a scoring system like that. the scoring in this one is way off compared to others

@MrCillaKam Жыл бұрын

Sure the fugde sauce was not in martha's but I like Chris's Idea of adding the fudge sauce on the first attempt.

@clydefrog5609 Жыл бұрын

How did he get a 68 for ingredients the first time and a 75 the second when he took out several ingredients?!

@its_me_bree Жыл бұрын

Normally i think the judges are too harsh but she was way too generous across the board

@jaime_lee_g Жыл бұрын

Chris' overthinking is what always cracks me up about these. Why would anyone add cherries with a strawberry ice cream??? It's just cherry ice cream Chris 😆

@JwMomma Жыл бұрын

I think the first scores kind of set him up for failure. They were so close to his that it didn’t really give him the chance to realize he was way off with technique and ingredients. Same with appearance.

@Corndog4382 Жыл бұрын

Sometimes he simplifies things to much, but this time he wildly over complicated it. Cut cherries in strawberry ice cream is crazy, then to omit it entirely the second time. It was a rollercoaster

@ZachAndMaggie Жыл бұрын

Starting out thinking this is gonna be super easy, then reazling how many differnt steps and variations there are in chocolate cake..

@linajackson8270 Жыл бұрын

I feel like there are quite a few times that the judge says they prefer Chris’ over the original. It would be cool if he and BA came out with a cookbook of all his twists on the originals

@RaeCarson Жыл бұрын

I agree. This channel could easily do a print version and an e-version of OG recipe vs Chris's guesstimate. It could be hellafun , especially if it were geared for people who lack confidence in their ability to switch-up ingredients within somewhat finicky creations (That way, it could appeal to persons across a wide range of demographics.) As most of us know, no singular person's taste buds match anybody else's - even the outward physicality of each our tongue prints are different! (Much like finger-prints and irises - even with maternal multiples!)

@Inveggible Жыл бұрын

So cute how Chris started liking the recipe more when he improved it 😂

@michaelgoff4637 Жыл бұрын

It's fun to be smart! It's also a torture to be too smart. Ladies and Gents, Chris Morocco!!

@michaelgoff4637 Жыл бұрын

That said, he's an absolute North Star for me personally

@colealsup1755 Жыл бұрын

I know why he doesn’t shop anymore since the pandemic, but dang that used to be such an entertaining aspect of the videos. A little sad we don’t get to see Chris explore New York anymore :(

@Sup3rmanJLA Жыл бұрын

I've gotta be honest, these are the only videos I look forward to on the channel at the moment, along with the regular ingredient episodes. I watch old episodes of this, an It's Alive with Brad regularly, Do a Christmas episode with all the current test kitchen guys like you did for pizza and thanksgiving. Love

@zeeenno Жыл бұрын

I love this series, but I wish Chris would stop trying to Chris-ify the recipes, because the whole point of this is to replicate the original recipe. He intentionally makes changes trying to “improve” on the recipe, then is disappointed when his dish isn’t the same as the original ???

@edensophia9822 Жыл бұрын

Not to mention the espresso in the cake for bitterness instead of just… a darker chocolate? He thinks too much.

@sonicfactory-co-uk Жыл бұрын

I always think Chris' recipe looks better 😊

@plantita3183 Жыл бұрын

Sorry but the judge was way too nice😭😭 This was hard, and like he got the basics of it, but so much was wrong, ingredients not more than a 50%, and surely the technique is not that high either

@JoshuaHorn Жыл бұрын

Scoring was very generous on this episode.....

@garricksantos Жыл бұрын

Would be awesome to see a guest judge who is the creator of the featured dish Chris is recreating.

@jen3789 Жыл бұрын

They have done this before! I know that Madhur Jeffrey came on and judged when he did her Tikka Masala recipe. I’m not sure if they’ve done it with others too.

@stgm Жыл бұрын

I like how they took their time making it look all pretty knowing Chris was going to get his mitts all over it while blind folded.

@Alex-zi1nb Жыл бұрын

makes me smile how happy he was to get access to the blast chiller lol. darn behind the camera man making him ask first!

@learningbytaste Жыл бұрын

I've never seen a flourless chocolate cake like this before. The one I'm used to making has a lot more chocolate and it's quite dense since it uses whole eggs. I'm interested to try Martha's version.

@youXthinkXimXpretty Жыл бұрын

We're well overdue the next installment. What gives?!? Maybe do Yellowtail Jalepeno Sashimi by Nobu Matsushia

@anneguarino4638 Жыл бұрын

I would love this series as a face off with another chef!

@edensophia9822 Жыл бұрын

How did he not feel the piping he’s not even trying anymore 😭

@gracehetfield5331 Жыл бұрын

This is the funniest episode I've seen of this show.

@lbeatles53 Жыл бұрын

Chris seems more carefree & relaxed than usual ☺️❤️

@EAKugler Жыл бұрын

If they'd put a better cherry ice cream in there, I'm sure Chris would have used that. Breyers' frozen dairy dessert has really good cherries in it, but the body is weak. On top of that cold mutes flavors, making it super hard to tell subtle differences.

@cato3149 Жыл бұрын

In the side-by-side they show them using Breyer’s though, so they gave him the actual ingredient used

@MaliohammadDesigns Жыл бұрын

@@cato3149 Yes actual ingredinet used but doesn't make sense if you haven't seen it yourself. If you ask for ice cream and they bring a frozen dessert you expect it to be a wrong choice and they just brought it because they couldn't find actual cherry ice cream.

@davidschwartzman2986 Жыл бұрын

Sorry but this is one of Chris' biggest failures. But admittedly, Baked Alaska is one of my least favorite desserts. Also, Martha's choice of Cherry "Ice Cream" is a product I abhor. IT tastes like Robitussin to me. I wouldn't even allow it into my house. At least Chris' version sounds edible.

@ashmaz4811 Жыл бұрын

The judge was too nice lol, it should be ingredients: 55% Technique: 60% appearance: 75% Taste: (can't comment)

@awkardAZN Жыл бұрын

Chris usually does great; honestly its amazing what he does sometimes. What he did here was just basked alaska; not anything like the target technically or by ingredient. A C is crazy

@d.d.9636 Жыл бұрын

I miss these videos. We need more, please!

@d.d.9636 Жыл бұрын

@BonAppetit71, yea, ok, this is legit. Uh huh.

@AquaMar1na2 Жыл бұрын

The judge felt bad for him so she scored him more generously. The appearance and taste score is much higher than it should be.

@RenateGloudemans Жыл бұрын

I feel like Chris deserved a lower score for this one, they are being too nice to him, sorry Chris

@nusaibaahmer7164 Жыл бұрын

watching some parts u just KNOW he’s gonna be soooo mad when he finds out what technique/ingredient they really used 😭😭😭

@amandagoldsmith2988 Жыл бұрын

Chris should've gotten waayyyyy lower lmao that scoring was way too generous

@henrikbienstein Жыл бұрын

"This is not ice cream this is a frozen dairy product!'' killed me.

@katief7047 Жыл бұрын

Love the little Chef Jesus cameo

@robalv Жыл бұрын

the meregue techinique and the cake technique are wrong ,how its 67% right?

@jaekimchi Жыл бұрын

there are some vids where Chris is judged too harshly, I think still to this day he has never got a full A before. That said, this video was way to generous.

@3l3llala13 Жыл бұрын

For the external appearance of the Baked Alaska, I like the look of Chris's better.

@RaeCarson Жыл бұрын

That fudgy cake base also looked SOOOO much better!! I could taste it just by looking!!

@desertseatingoceans Жыл бұрын

Super generous with the scores.. Technique 67%? Appearance 80%? How did you come up with that?

@nihal_s5391 Жыл бұрын

My favourite series in the Ba kitchen ,love u chris

@bubblebeamm Жыл бұрын

Can we please get judges that actually judge him correctly for once? And fail him when barely any ingredients are correct?

@JudyCZ Жыл бұрын

I like Chris and I don't enjoy him being criticized but what's the point of the scoring if it's this ridiculously nice. Like...he missed one type of ice cream, the cake was basically all wrong even the meringue wasn't (ingredients-wise) perfect. And he got at first 58 % and at the end 75 %? Every time I hear "I'm gonna give you..." I roll my eyes. Which is a shame because I really enjoy Chris and the format, it's honestly the only thing that keeps me coming back to BA in the first place.

@NN-xq7pb Жыл бұрын

The scoring was disappointing. it was overly generous despite the absence of several crucial ingredients and the use of dissimilar techniques; Considering that sometimes chefs give him less score for stupid details like using regular salt instead of pink salt 🫣 Consistency in scoring people!!

@berk.hatipoglu Жыл бұрын

Ngl most of the time in this series I was usually finding the end scores generous but this was different. There was a lot of missing and wrong ingredients and it looked way different. End scores were way more than it actually was and I was a little bit bothered by it. 🤣

@danijelaolds2216 Жыл бұрын

I go on this channel every day since the last reverse engineering waiting for the newest episode. Seeing this new episode this morning made my day 😍 This series is my favourite and Chris is just amazing. More please!! X

@DSzaks Жыл бұрын

I felt like the first one was closer but somehow scored lower....

@jeffreybowers1220 Жыл бұрын

how did someone even come up with baked alaska🤣

@Gigi-fv9ky Жыл бұрын

Maybe you are too young, but it used to be a very well known, fancy dessert.

@vittoriol557 Жыл бұрын

Brad gets his name in the title but this pro does not shame on you bon apetit

@aranzaachotegui9624 Жыл бұрын

I've been obsessing over this series, i didn't know thit existed until now and I LOVE IT ❤ it's so much fun to watch and Chris is awesome

@Narra0002 Жыл бұрын

Great video as always. I would prefer Chris’s version ofc

@broadwaywes Жыл бұрын

Haaaaa Chris is so pressed by his grade😅

@der.Schtefan Жыл бұрын

I love how this went completely off the rails with every aspect of the ingredients, process, etc. in the second run.

@kwebst1 Жыл бұрын

Chris seems annoyed. Just… Im not doing it. I dont like Baked Alaska, I’m not working on this with all my brain cells.😂

@straightgrrrrrizzly Жыл бұрын

"this is unequivocally cherry ice cream..... it must be strawberry ice cream" okay

@NimrodFowl Жыл бұрын

Chris' version is so beautiful

@hannahmore9118 Жыл бұрын

I blended frozen cherries and folded them into vanilla ice cream and refroze it for 30 minutes. The most delicious ice cream ever. There is no straight cherry ice cream out there.(Cherry Garcia?) Not sure why, it's so yummy.

@gagamba9198 Жыл бұрын

I think only Baskin Robbins. IIRC, it's called Cherry Jubilee.

@destructioniscreation Жыл бұрын

In Canada you can get Chapman's Black Cherry ice cream, it's quite delicious. A local place to me also does cherry ice cream but obviously that can't count lol.

@kaycia9947 Жыл бұрын

Tillamook makes cherry ice cream :)

@roandcheetoh Жыл бұрын

Fosselman's in Southern California has Burgundy Cherry. Rum cherry is a known flavor that you might find in old school drugstores or supermarket branded ice cream.

@MANNYISTHERE Жыл бұрын

Have the hostess look at the camera too while talking to Chris

@anthonygabriele67 Жыл бұрын

Chris phoned it in. His heart isn't in this anymore. I'd be suprised if this show lasts much longer.

@cjeske1 Жыл бұрын

I kinda felt that too…seemed like he was over it. I wonder if his contract is up soon and he’s thinking of leaving.

@rileyhanle3403 Жыл бұрын

i miss when we got to go shopping with Chris

@jeromeaddict Жыл бұрын

Haha they should do an episode of this where Chris only gets to see and feel the dish. No tasting it at all

@palindromee Жыл бұрын

it feels like the old days

@goldenbeanmedia5453 Жыл бұрын

This gives me old clear vibes. I miss when the whole team was together this new team just isn’t the same. Thank God they still have Brad.

@jcthefluteman Жыл бұрын

Interesting to see him defend not baking a baked alaska lol It's not called a blowtorched alaska!

@raizzavidena2314 Жыл бұрын

“Always bet on yourself.” In Reverse Engineering and in life. :)

@najihahzulaikha4527 Жыл бұрын

i miss the grocery shopping sequence aaaa

@wizzzard999 Жыл бұрын

Me: Oh, a baked alaska! Literally ice cream, cake and meringue, he'll surely get close to 100% Chris: strawberry ice cream with added cherries, ghost fudge, doesnt bake the *baked* alaska Ah, Chris XD

@rainysunflower384 Жыл бұрын

What a fun video! I think Chris got a bit cocky with this one and the judge was way too generous with the points. I laughed when he flipped the 2nd tasting cake over without feeling it-- I was hoping he'd figure out the piping. As always, this is my favorite series on the channel and I look forward to the next one!

@PropheticOverflowMC Жыл бұрын

He is the only chef I know that can taste "Bright Red"

@keithdesign6231 Жыл бұрын

D+ at best

@mbarrett99 Жыл бұрын

I think the judge was being charitable with her scores. It probably could have been worse.

@wikotikabesa Жыл бұрын

chris is a genius but this time he way waaay off. not sure if the rating was right. cake was completely off, the cherry ice cream and he didnt even care to figoure out by touching, if it was piped or not. usually chirs is superior thats why i am beeing so harsh

@BadNemo8487 Жыл бұрын

Chef to people this is Hard AF. Chris your amazing!

@johnrubio Жыл бұрын

Morocco went feral on this one.

@CarlGorn Жыл бұрын

Surprised nobody thought to get Talenti black cherry gelato during the shopping. That stuff is da bomb!

@jasonduncan26 Жыл бұрын

Hey Chris! That's our blast chiller! Technically speaking, you were using it as a shock freezer rather than a blast chiller though. Awesome to see our equipment help you out, been watching for years!

@imjusthereforthecomments4920 Жыл бұрын

I watch the Kids Baking Championship and that's the only thing in the prize package they care about 👍

@beckysmith2751 Жыл бұрын

Also, kinda funny that spumoni is Italian.

@PandaMandaaa Жыл бұрын

Are they making new episodes!?

@headweasel93 Жыл бұрын

She was WAY TOO GENEROUS.

@syntacticalcrab Жыл бұрын

Who on this earth would mix whole cherries into premade strawberry ice cream, Chris? Who? That is a ridiculous combination. I dare you to find one other person 😂

@silvermoon2281 Жыл бұрын

His first attempt looked so close, though. 😭

@aranzaachotegui9624 Жыл бұрын

This was so much fun 😂 I honestly this he did a GREAT job considering he went just on taste, no recipes, can't even see what he's recreating. Also his last Baked Alaska looked beautiful 😍

@osnatashtaralevin8944 Жыл бұрын

I don't like the judging element in the end, just feels like a bad incentivization for what is otherly an amazing display of skill and talent on both these chefs' parts.