If Yan can cook...
22 Jun 2014 12:12 AM GMT
I love watching people cook. It is retarded and it brands me as insanely lazy - I will deny neither. That is perhaps why I am very happy reviewing food. You don’t do any hard work, you just sit there and enjoy.
Thank god for those who love to cook and on that note - thank god for Chef Sabyasachi Gorai. Chef Saby, as he is better known, is also Chef Mentor and Cuisine specialist at Miele and that is exactly what got us to check out this new kitchen heaven.
Now, Miele is not a restaurant, ladies and gentlemen, it is one of the best known brands for kitchen appliances in the world and they have an incredible range of every possible thing you could think of placing in a swanky and very effective kitchen. And also, their main aim is to make life simpler for you - thus all their appliances are crafted to make all ‘chores’ seem like cakewalk. That’s the first thing that crossed my mind as I walked around the Miele experience center at Jasola - if my kitchen looked (and worked) like this - I would gladly spend my life there!
So, Chef Saby welcomes us to Miele by telling me, ‘We are doing Bengali food today. I wanted to experiment with some things.’ Ideally, anyone else using the work ‘experimenting’ would have made me very nervous, but then, it was Chef Saby, so we went with the flow, happily.
As Saby guided his students from Olive Culinary Academy around the kitchens, and they answered with ‘Yes Chef’ and ‘No Chef’ - like a smooth drill, he got down to making Bhapa Chingri, Bhapa Ilish (steamed prawns and steamed hilsa), Baked Fish Kalia and mutton - all in the oven. Mind you, traditionally, oven is not used for even one of the recipes.
Since we weren’t in traditional kitchens, it was a treat to watch Saby throw caution to the winds and add his ingenious twists to the dishes (like steaming the prawns in the petals on the banana flower instead of the usual green banana leaves and Luchi made out of bread dough). Giving credit where it is due, these crazy twists would not have been possible without Miele’s equipments and that is exactly what Saby pointed out to us.
The students cooked up a storm with some incredible Butter Chicken (where the chicken and the gravy were separate and yummy even individually - yaay!), Ghee Rice, Alu Posto, Firni and Firni tarts (tarts made from scratch mind you!) and Saby topped it all off with Bhapa Doi (steamed yoghurt, also made in the oven!) paired with vanilla ice cream.
The working Saturday made way to a quick spell of rains as we headed home stuffed to brim with the incredible food. Watching Saby cook up magic along with his students was like watching a very well oiled machine at work. Of course there were glitches and students got reprimanded for that, but this we assure you that each one of those kids would eventually be leading the game where ever they work. They are learning to improvise with high tech machines and that is the best thing in the world, for sooner or later, all kitchens in the world would come equipped with incredible ovens and cook-tops like Miele has on offer.
I am gushing over Miele simply because their gadgets are to die for and they can make pretty much anyone cook. Even me, at least they made me want to cook. And as they say - If Yan can cook, so can you!
Thank god for those who love to cook and on that note - thank god for Chef Sabyasachi Gorai. Chef Saby, as he is better known, is also Chef Mentor and Cuisine specialist at Miele and that is exactly what got us to check out this new kitchen heaven.
Now, Miele is not a restaurant, ladies and gentlemen, it is one of the best known brands for kitchen appliances in the world and they have an incredible range of every possible thing you could think of placing in a swanky and very effective kitchen. And also, their main aim is to make life simpler for you - thus all their appliances are crafted to make all ‘chores’ seem like cakewalk. That’s the first thing that crossed my mind as I walked around the Miele experience center at Jasola - if my kitchen looked (and worked) like this - I would gladly spend my life there!
So, Chef Saby welcomes us to Miele by telling me, ‘We are doing Bengali food today. I wanted to experiment with some things.’ Ideally, anyone else using the work ‘experimenting’ would have made me very nervous, but then, it was Chef Saby, so we went with the flow, happily.
As Saby guided his students from Olive Culinary Academy around the kitchens, and they answered with ‘Yes Chef’ and ‘No Chef’ - like a smooth drill, he got down to making Bhapa Chingri, Bhapa Ilish (steamed prawns and steamed hilsa), Baked Fish Kalia and mutton - all in the oven. Mind you, traditionally, oven is not used for even one of the recipes.
Since we weren’t in traditional kitchens, it was a treat to watch Saby throw caution to the winds and add his ingenious twists to the dishes (like steaming the prawns in the petals on the banana flower instead of the usual green banana leaves and Luchi made out of bread dough). Giving credit where it is due, these crazy twists would not have been possible without Miele’s equipments and that is exactly what Saby pointed out to us.
The students cooked up a storm with some incredible Butter Chicken (where the chicken and the gravy were separate and yummy even individually - yaay!), Ghee Rice, Alu Posto, Firni and Firni tarts (tarts made from scratch mind you!) and Saby topped it all off with Bhapa Doi (steamed yoghurt, also made in the oven!) paired with vanilla ice cream.
The working Saturday made way to a quick spell of rains as we headed home stuffed to brim with the incredible food. Watching Saby cook up magic along with his students was like watching a very well oiled machine at work. Of course there were glitches and students got reprimanded for that, but this we assure you that each one of those kids would eventually be leading the game where ever they work. They are learning to improvise with high tech machines and that is the best thing in the world, for sooner or later, all kitchens in the world would come equipped with incredible ovens and cook-tops like Miele has on offer.
I am gushing over Miele simply because their gadgets are to die for and they can make pretty much anyone cook. Even me, at least they made me want to cook. And as they say - If Yan can cook, so can you!
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