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Butter Burger with Celery Root Slaw and Remoulade
Butter Burger with Celery Root Slaw and Brunoise Celery Root Remoulade
Chef Sarah Bradley on her inspiration: "Buttery. I'm thinking butter burgers on a brioche bun, which is all butter. I'll make a butter burger. Celery root remoulade to go on the burger. I'm going to have a little celery apple slaw."
On the remoulade: "This is a celery root remoulade for my burger. It has celery seed, celery root, celery stem. I'm gonna add toasted spices in there, a little mayonnaise, and I'm going to add chopped capers. Also, I'm going to make a celery root and apple slaw."
On curing the slaw: "I'm going to put a little salt and sugar on the celery root now to kind of cure it and get some of that moisture out."
On toasting spices for the slaw: "Toast a little celery seed and a little fennel pollen to go into my celery root slaw."
On the butter burger technique: "Butter burgers are like a Midwest thing. You stuff butter inside the burger, and as it cooks out..."
On finishing: "I go ahead and add some toasted spices on my burgers. I grab my brioche buns and toast them."
On plating: "I start with the buns down. Put a really nice big dollop of the celery root remoulade. I put some slaw. I feel really good about this. I think I just nailed the randomizer. I want to show that last year wasn't just a fluke. I want $150,000. I want a belt. I want a ring."
Voiceover (Tiffany Faison): "We have a butter burger with celery root slaw and a brunoise celery root remoulade, butter lettuce, and brie. The ground beef was treated to a seasoning of a toaster packet, toasted celery seed, fennel pollen, and black pepper. A generous knob of butter was packed and smacked into the middle of the ground beef, ultimately creating a butter crust."
Scott Conant: "It's a really good burger. And Chef truly followed the randomizer. It was celery in four different ways. Theme of butter everywhere."
Nancy Silverton: "This is just a perfect dish to make given the randomizer. Toaster toasted the bun. It's a great burger. Love it."
Marcus Samuelsson: "I think a burger is a series of a bunch of different things done well. The flavors are wonderful, but the cook on the burger, I think it could be a little less cooked. It seems to be slightly over for me."
Post-result, Nancy Silverton: "That burger would have been a winner had it not been up against the first dish."
Post-result, Scott Conant: "You're dealing with good and gooder. That's what's really the difference." Score: 84.
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