Binging with Babish: Duck Fat Fries from John Wick: Chapter 2

I have seen a person get sponsored by Lionsgate. Big respect.

It’s so nice of the Italian guy to discuss food with John. I wish you didn’t cut out his response about how the steak is even better than the potatos

It's easier to keep the layered potatoes together if you add potato starch in with them before layering

man, i've been watching you since the inception of the channel. it's so crazy to see what you've done. from tiny apartment to giant house with 2 studios, hot ones, and now sponsored by john wick.
Andrew you are slaying life, stay killin it, much love

As someone who used to work in a 2-Michelin star restaurant, this looks worthy in the menu! I never knew you could cheat dry-aged steaks with Koji! I've got to try it!

I love how "let's see if we can do better" takes a somewhat affordable dish and turns it into a high tier, five star restaurant. Love your work!

The only real change that I'd personally make is to NOT use butter in the Sou Vide initial process because it dilutes the natural beefy flavor a bit. Doing the butter basting after the fact is a fantastic idea, though.

I love how he explains it like we're going to make it 😂😂😂

The John Wick movies are never disappointing man. All four of them were absolute masterpieces.

with the partnership, i am now convinced that the babish version is the one they serve in the movie

The thing babby did with the loaf of potato slices was mind blowing.

Babish getting the opportunity to advertise John wick 4 while doing a recipe for one of the films was an absolute perfect opportunity for him .

Such a pretty dish as always! I'm a bit new to this channel but I'm definitely pleased to have discovered it. I think I'm learning lots of new things about cooking here. If you enjoy suggestions for this series, I wonder if trying potatoes and molasses from Over the Garden Wall would work out? It probably isn't as complicated as some other recipes you've done but I know you could come up with a way to make something really delicious out of the combination.

Rest in peace Lance Reddick ❤ one of the best actors of all time

I know you said you "half-assed" it but the first attempt at steak & fries felt like a return to the simpler days of Babish in your apartment kitchen, big fan of the more accessible content.

I just saw John Wick 4 a few hours before I saw this video, highly recommend it. The cinematography and fight scene choreography are insanely well done.

You're always gonna be one of my favorites, dude. This one was great and also very classic Babish.

Was catching up on the first three john wick movies the other day and thought of babish doing this recipe especially with the fourth one coming out now. Back from the movies an hour ago after watching Chapter 4 and saw this uploaded when I got home. Finished my dinner tonight while watching this video :)

My word, those layered chips look sensational 👍

This looks absolutely delicious. Steak and chips will never be the same…

thanks for the tasty video

Honestly, I think the way you treated the fries the second go around is how I thought they were made in John wick. I'm sooooo excited for the final installment.

Winston: "What have you done?"
Babish: *puts fork and knife on clean plate* "Finished it."

These little bit longer videos where you go on an adventure of improvements are 👌

I haven't attempted my take on this yet, but my goodness, I especially find the potatoes here so very intriguing. Thanks for this video, which I have already repeatedly revisited when thinking of this dish.

On top of the fraction of time and cost you save for the rice dry aging process, the steaks seemed to maintain a lot of the juice which is a trade off of the typical dry aging process.

It's so nice of Alvin to let Andy do a special episode in his channel.

This is the first time I heard of the rice ferment method, will sure try it out later !

I tried making koji steak a few times over the past 3 years and it tasted weird to me. I’m not the only one who experienced this either, there are sizable portions of people on Reddit and other forums that make koji stuff and said koji steak tastes odd.

Every time I watch videos like these 0:01 I’m always so Hungry, haven’t eaten whole day and my mouth just watering on the delicious food he’s preparing. It looks so beautiful I’d like to try this recipe in the future so badly
Or maybe I’ll be happy with my bowl of cereal😆

I’ve see chapter 4 twice and it is indeed the best one yet.

you make cooking interesting with experimentation and your narration while describing how you do things makes cooking fun

this is awesome. I'm not sure if you noticed in the John Wick clip, but the fries had the same layered effect as yours, so I think you nailed the recipe. Not sure if they provided the recipes to you. If they didn't, then you did an amazing job at reverse engineering them

A John Wick inspired menu and use of a mini wisk?!! Best episode ever!

I would love to see the other things on The Continental’s menu.

Babish literally never disappoints. Thank you for your videos

Dying for a steak now. Thanks Andrew. 😄

I can confidently say that either version of this recipe looks absolutely amazing

i looked for this dish last week. i was disappointed not finding one on your channel. I AM SO HAPPY

I’ve always wanted to try some of that after seeing John Wick 2.

amazing video bro, i love all your cooking

It's always awesome to watch those videos. I have to eat when I watch but I remain hungry from watching. Great show, awesome People, thank you all and greetings from Germany!

Think there have been quite a few experiments showing that adding butter to sous vide like that actually kind of leeches out the flavor of the beef. May be interesting to try out or compare in a future episode!

I love how this episode honestly seems like Lionsgate approached Andrew about doing a sponsorship and he quick had to come up with anything food related from the John Wick franchise which, there surprisingly isn’t a lot of

This might be the most extremely delicious meal he’s made.

You should do your own spin on Gus' Paila Marina from breaking bad, I have a similar soup around Christmas time and it's absolutely delicious.

I can only imagine what a meal like this would cost

Looks delicious and beautiful! Thank you very much for sharing! 👍👍👍

I feel like Keanu secretly watches these videos. Would be fun to see him in one!

hace que le agarre el gusto a la cocina, muy bueno..

This was a great episode! The food and the movie it was referencing from

Andrew's voice is so soothing I often don't register his jokes until at least 5 seconds after he tells them.

Watching this while eating a cold slice of pizza hits different.

My daughter is about to enter culinary school and loves confit! I’ve only confited duck legs, but she looks at everything and wants to confit it.

Is there a possibility you could make the sandwich from the movie " safe" ? I have no idea what was in that sandwich but it looked so delicious

Personally, potatoes pave just looks so much better when you make the pieces taller than longer so that you more clearly present that lovely cross section of the layers of potatoes.

Great video with great connotations to Mr. Wick! Greetings from the Netherlands, mouthwatering content you make!

If I we're John Wick, I'd respectfully slide a gold coin on the table and order this.

Hey Babish, you should try out Adirondack blue and red potatoes, they have blue and red flesh and keep their colors even boiled or fried, they make amazing flavored fries

A natural born killer deserves some of the finest cuisine before going out to play! This will do nicely for any guest of the Continental!

That meal was to die for. Though Santino did not know what went through his head.

We use to use a salad spinner to drain duckfat from fried food and to conserve as much as possible Instead of losing it in the napkin ❤

So stoked! been asking for this episide for years!

I watched John Wick 4 on opening night and it did not disappoint, all 4 were amazing!!!

Banish. The only guy to take fancy food and say I can make fancier 💅

Kennebec Potatoes (which are mostly purchased by Lays) or Russet Norkotah are THE best US variety for Fries. Just trust me I’ve done and incredible amount of leg work on this one.

After Babish interrupted the clip, John agreed with Santino. They sat down and had a meal together, and had a civil conversation about their differences. (:

it's been a while binging with babish, refreshing to see same ol comfy food content

I wish they cast you in the next John wick film if they ever decide to make one

If I had this as my last meal I would die happy

That looked delicious! Thanks for the video and clip from John Wick...yes Reeves is cool.

If you will leave the butter out of your sous vide bag instead, you will find that the flavor is objectively better. Butter has alot of water in it. It affects the flavor of the steak negatively while in the sous vide as lipids tend to impart no flavor to meats while in sous vide. Everything else was as perfect as I could hope for. I'll have to try the potatoe starch trick I saw down in the comments

I'd love to see you recreate the fried feast Bill and Boomhaur made in King of the Hill after learning bananas could be fried. Served with a honey sauce, of course

So, question on using koji
Would Koji miso work towards the same ends? I am asking, because I tried to find it at my local whole foods, and could only find the miso variant. I suspect you can, but it would also be affected by the miso flavors, which is why rice is being used in this case.

Guga, from Sous Vide Everything showed that putting butter on the bag actually make the steak worse than without it. Better to use it only to put the crust at the end.

You can dry age at home if you use Umai bags. Not as quick as koji, but works like a charm

Yum, looks soooo delicious

These old school BB episodes are my favorite

Looks to be worth a gold coin. I still need to see the movie too.
Thanks for the video

that looks so delicious😋🤤💦

I've actually been waiting for this for years.

You should do cheese smoothies from Zeke and Luther. I wanna see how this could me made edible.

Just discovered your channel.And its wow

I want them so badly right now

I suggested this years ago and it makes me happy it finally got made

Dude I bought all three DVDs of John Wick chapters 1-3 last week and I plowed through one and two today (about to watch the third tomorrow). I got done with the second an hour ago and kept thinking about that food then I see this on my notifications. The frigging timing!

Immediately liking because you finally made a John Wick video.

I’m literally eating bbq, and I haven’t been this hungry watching your video since the baklava on basics or the chefs choice platter from binging

Man got sponsered by Lionsgate themselves, amazing.

Man, it looks really delicious and lovely to look at

anyone else notice all the alliteration and occasional rhyme in the script? this is truly art

I saw the movie this last weekend. For being the first John Wick movie I saw, it was a fun watch. Definitely gonna rent and watch the other three movies. Keanu Reeves is best anime waifu.

You should do Arlene's magical fry bread from "Smoke Signals" next.

My grandmother made me homemade potato chips fried in bacon grease; I've never tasted better.

Could you try making the turducken slammer or the Winchester Surprise from Supernatural?

Question when you sous vide the steaks how do you know when the inside of the steak reaches your desired temperature?

Man out here being sponsored by big studio, big up!

John Wick 4 is absolutely amazing. Beautiful locations, music, stunt choreography, cinematography.... it rules.

this dish is to die for

This is my first time even hearing of sous vide. I looked up the machine and it looks like such a handy kitchen tool to have if you're serious about steaks. >> Be nice for a special occasion holiday meal!
I always learn so many great cooking techniques from this channel, thank you so much for such great content Andy! I'll be tuning in for more!