Thanks for the link, looks like a great resource. I've seen a lot of Americanized recipes (which come pretty close!) use saffron, but I've never seen the batter before. Almost any fried breading in Italian-American cooking will use egg as the "glue". Anyone know if a batter made from flour would make a big difference in the end result compared to egg?

Outside are breadcrumbs

It's not supposed to be a fancy sandwich served to impress tourists. It's an affordable every-man's sandwich that hits the spot after a long day at work or a long night out. Basically it's just good street food.

"I'm trying to lose weight, that's all" lol

Awesome video and they seem like great guys. I didn't know that chopped cheese was such a new thing, with how much cred it gets as a classic NYC sandwich I would have figured there was a longer history to it.

I've made both this version and the more traditional stew version. Stew tasted better, but this is obviously prettier.

If I were serving my family, I'd go with the stew, if I were hosting a dinner party I'd serve this version.

Honestly though, neither becomes all that much more than the sum of its parts, it's just a veggie medley.

I thought we had moved past this and onto what ingredients go into an authentic carbonara.

Spoiler alert it's garlic and heavy cream.

Try to brush it off next time, authenticity policing isn't only rude it's almost always wrong.

Unfortunately the way Reddit works is the first few comments/upvotes swing the entire rest of the comments section. So if four or five of those pedantic jerks get here first, they set a snowball in motion and suddenly you have an entire thread of confidently incorrect takes.

I was under the impression there was no "real" paella, its one of those dishes that every household/neighborhood/city/region has their own variations of

Guess who read the title too quickly, thought it was Serena, and shot from the hip with a sarcastic response?

This guy!

I guess you expect it from the type of personality that comes with being an elite athlete, but man it gets old seeing them "retire" four times and have the media lose their shit every time.