1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:04,120 Speaker 1: Today. It's all about food, stocking stuffers, giving food as gifts. 2 00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:09,320 Speaker 1: And of course we start with our cheap plug for Zelmans, 3 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:11,639 Speaker 1: because this is what Neil and I do. We're very 4 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:14,600 Speaker 1: involved with Zelmons, very close to the family who runs it, 5 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:15,920 Speaker 1: and we. 6 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:19,799 Speaker 2: Attach me to your horrorsh ways, Oh no, I. 7 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:23,920 Speaker 1: Well please, I don't know how to act otherwise. Zelmans 8 00:00:24,079 --> 00:00:27,600 Speaker 1: is offering twenty five percent off as a flash flash 9 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:31,040 Speaker 1: sale starting well right now, you get twenty five percent 10 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:35,160 Speaker 1: off until midnight tomorrow night, twenty five percent off anything 11 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:39,400 Speaker 1: that's there for sale, which is Zelman's minty Mouth and 12 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:41,479 Speaker 1: they have the new spearmint flavor. You can get a 13 00:00:41,479 --> 00:00:44,760 Speaker 1: three pack, of five pack a ten pack at twenty 14 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:47,919 Speaker 1: five percent off. Also if added to that is their 15 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:51,280 Speaker 1: great Tongue Scraper, which you get twenty five percent off. 16 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:53,960 Speaker 1: You add that to the cart, and so that is 17 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:57,440 Speaker 1: worth getting. That's that's a deal of not of a lifetime, 18 00:00:57,480 --> 00:00:58,760 Speaker 1: but certainly of a Christmas season. 19 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:01,960 Speaker 2: All right, Neil, So we've done this Elemens one, but 20 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:03,040 Speaker 2: let's do other ones too. 21 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:06,399 Speaker 1: What else do you what kind of food gifts do 22 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:07,080 Speaker 1: you do you want to give? 23 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:09,560 Speaker 3: There's a couple things that caught my eye this year 24 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:11,960 Speaker 3: that I want to put on people's map as far 25 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:15,520 Speaker 3: as gifts are concerned, I don't know if you pronounce 26 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:20,240 Speaker 3: this pepier or pay pier or whatever. Pa pi e 27 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:24,800 Speaker 3: R dot com. They have this really cool tasting notes 28 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:27,240 Speaker 3: and recipe books, so you can have it customized with 29 00:01:27,319 --> 00:01:30,480 Speaker 3: a name on it. But it's it's a journal to 30 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:34,240 Speaker 3: take notes about whether you go to a restaurant or 31 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:37,440 Speaker 3: something like that and you liked the flavor of something, 32 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:39,959 Speaker 3: to write your notes about it, but also to write 33 00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:44,080 Speaker 3: down recipes, put recipes together if you're trying different things. 34 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:48,800 Speaker 3: I just love the concept of taking notes on stuff. 35 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:51,440 Speaker 3: I used to be much better at that, going to 36 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:54,520 Speaker 3: a restaurant what I liked about a particular dish or 37 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:58,200 Speaker 3: things like that. Secondly, I think every house needs this. 38 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:03,040 Speaker 3: John Booze b o s cutting boards are some of 39 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 3: the best. You know, they I would put you know, 40 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:11,679 Speaker 3: local vendors or local woodworkers that put these together at 41 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:15,880 Speaker 3: that top notch as well. But Wayfair has great prices 42 00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:20,239 Speaker 3: Wayfair dot Com on these John Booze cutting boards. They 43 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:23,400 Speaker 3: just last for a long time. What have they made 44 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:26,360 Speaker 3: an these? They would, oh, there would, but they do 45 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:28,480 Speaker 3: a lot of end cuts and things like that. They 46 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:32,240 Speaker 3: really and they're double sided. They're just their top notch. 47 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 3: It's what you'll find in most, if not every professional kitchen. 48 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:37,679 Speaker 2: Okay do they do. 49 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 1: They have a little troughs where the juices those are 50 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:43,920 Speaker 1: on some of them. Yeah, it was really as you 51 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:47,000 Speaker 1: were talking about no writing notes for a restaurant. I'll 52 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:49,280 Speaker 1: tell you what works very well, especially if you want 53 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:51,840 Speaker 1: to get a lot of free food, is the waiter 54 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:54,240 Speaker 1: comes over and goes, hi, my name is and I'll 55 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:56,560 Speaker 1: be your waiter tonight whatever it is, And you go hi, 56 00:02:56,680 --> 00:03:00,280 Speaker 1: my name is Bob Michelin, and I don't and I 57 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 1: don't sell tires. But you have your little note and 58 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:08,320 Speaker 1: you bring out your little notebook and you're writing. My 59 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 1: guess is you're going to get one or two or 60 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:11,560 Speaker 1: three free plates. 61 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:15,359 Speaker 3: That's a funny concept going in there with like bifocals 62 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:18,720 Speaker 3: or something in the notebook and saying, yes, I'm here, 63 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:22,720 Speaker 3: I'm here, just regular guy. I won't be taking any notes. 64 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:27,200 Speaker 3: Another thing is a lot of people don't A lot 65 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:30,880 Speaker 3: of people have issues with nonstick or things like that, 66 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:34,120 Speaker 3: and they want really high end cook where you don't 67 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:36,600 Speaker 3: have to break the bank. One of my favorite pans 68 00:03:36,640 --> 00:03:40,839 Speaker 3: and one of my favorite vendors actually is Meson. They 69 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:43,440 Speaker 3: are online. I don't know that they're in any stores. 70 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:46,720 Speaker 3: I think they're solely online. They have great knives and 71 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:49,880 Speaker 3: great pans. One of them is their pre seasoned carbon 72 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:55,680 Speaker 3: steel pan, and carbon steel when seasoned properly becomes nonstick. 73 00:03:55,880 --> 00:04:00,360 Speaker 3: It retains great heat. And you can find them at 74 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:03,880 Speaker 3: Meson MI s e n dot com. 75 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:07,400 Speaker 2: Wonderful products. And this one is newer. 76 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:11,680 Speaker 3: Hexclad has a non stick pizza steel And the thing 77 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:14,200 Speaker 3: with pizza steels is you need them to get up 78 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:18,520 Speaker 3: to high temperature, so you have to preheat them. The 79 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:21,440 Speaker 3: thing that sets this hex Clad apart, in addition to 80 00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:25,920 Speaker 3: their patented hex Claid design that gives you the heat 81 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:31,120 Speaker 3: and of stainless steel and the evenness of all of that, 82 00:04:31,279 --> 00:04:34,680 Speaker 3: but you also have the non stick abilities, is that 83 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:37,160 Speaker 3: you can put this. You can put the pizza on 84 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:40,359 Speaker 3: it and put it in the in the oven cold 85 00:04:40,839 --> 00:04:44,320 Speaker 3: and it will heat up, because otherwise you have to 86 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:46,679 Speaker 3: use a pizza peel to put it onto a hot 87 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:49,880 Speaker 3: steel in the oven, and some people don't like that. 88 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:53,040 Speaker 3: This is a different technology that allows you to put 89 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:55,560 Speaker 3: the dough directly on there. Make your pizza, put it 90 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:58,320 Speaker 3: into the oven. It will get up to those high 91 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:02,599 Speaker 3: up to nine hundred degrees on that and really do 92 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:07,359 Speaker 3: something great. So the hex Clad you can find out 93 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:10,640 Speaker 3: at hexclad dot com. But they have a lot of 94 00:05:10,839 --> 00:05:13,000 Speaker 3: really great cook wear. 95 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:19,480 Speaker 1: They're okay, So Neil, it's the holidays. We talk about 96 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:21,680 Speaker 1: holiday food all the time. And one of the things 97 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:26,640 Speaker 1: that I notice is giving food as a gift, sure, 98 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:30,680 Speaker 1: which is a terrific idea. The one thing I've noticed, 99 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:33,679 Speaker 1: and there are companies that do that and ship food 100 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:38,200 Speaker 1: and always have and we're getting a lots of I'm 101 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:40,240 Speaker 1: getting pamphlets, brochures and a lot of stuff in the 102 00:05:40,279 --> 00:05:44,920 Speaker 1: mail and email blasts. And that is how expensive it 103 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:48,400 Speaker 1: is when you're talking about shipping meats, frozen meats, and 104 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:53,200 Speaker 1: you're talking about shipping seafood, shipping charcuterie. 105 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:59,000 Speaker 2: Shipping cheeses. I mean, it turns into like dozens of 106 00:05:59,080 --> 00:05:59,919 Speaker 2: dollars a pound. 107 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:02,799 Speaker 1: And you know, you could buy a really fancy steak, 108 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:05,040 Speaker 1: and I understand that there's it has to be shipped 109 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:07,919 Speaker 1: in dry ice, et cetera, But just like seventy dollars 110 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:09,640 Speaker 1: a pound for some of this stuff. 111 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:13,160 Speaker 2: It gets expensive to You're absolutely right. The packaging is 112 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:14,280 Speaker 2: a large cost of it. 113 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:16,880 Speaker 3: Plus you want it to look pleasant, not just like 114 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:20,040 Speaker 3: they threw a bunch of you know, food into a box. 115 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:22,640 Speaker 3: But some of the companies, and I'm not going to 116 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:25,680 Speaker 3: give any specific name, but some of the meat mailers 117 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 3: and things like that, I've noticed the quality is hit 118 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:31,640 Speaker 3: and miss on some of them, you know, And I 119 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:34,640 Speaker 3: know they've been a sponsor of the show, but I 120 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:38,080 Speaker 3: really like Wild Fork as far as sending certain meats 121 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:40,760 Speaker 3: and the cuts and things like that and choosing the quality. 122 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:42,680 Speaker 2: Where do they send I didn't know. 123 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:44,719 Speaker 1: Do they ship meats all over the country? 124 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:45,440 Speaker 2: Oh? 125 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:48,880 Speaker 3: Yeah, they you can ship Yeah, I think you could 126 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:51,120 Speaker 3: ship it all over the country. I'm trying to think, 127 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:56,640 Speaker 3: because I've only I've sent gifts to other people before 128 00:06:57,160 --> 00:06:59,680 Speaker 3: that might have a store local to them, so it 129 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:02,880 Speaker 3: gets there pretty quickly. I don't think I have sent 130 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:07,920 Speaker 3: an anything outside of California. 131 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:10,240 Speaker 2: Here California. 132 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:13,400 Speaker 1: But I mean that makes sense because you're not talking 133 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:16,120 Speaker 1: about a fancy schmancy packaging, or maybe they do. I 134 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:21,520 Speaker 1: have no idea, but again, it's do you find those 135 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:25,880 Speaker 1: almost prohibitively expensive. It's almost as if it's a very 136 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:28,240 Speaker 1: special gift. It's not something that people do as a 137 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:29,040 Speaker 1: regular course. 138 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:32,560 Speaker 3: It depicts like, for instance, there's a company called bro 139 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:37,440 Speaker 3: Basket and I love them. It's like gift baskets for men, right, 140 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:41,520 Speaker 3: and some of them are samples of whiskey and they 141 00:07:41,560 --> 00:07:45,200 Speaker 3: come together nicely packaged. There's also Bespoke. There are these 142 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:48,920 Speaker 3: different companies that look for things that are interesting, that 143 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:52,160 Speaker 3: are higher end, and I'm willing to pay for that 144 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:55,600 Speaker 3: if it if it comes in a package that I think. 145 00:07:56,880 --> 00:08:00,480 Speaker 2: It heightens the experience. Let's say. So it all. 146 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:03,800 Speaker 3: Depends what what you want to do. But yes, sometimes 147 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:05,960 Speaker 3: you look at what it would cost if you went 148 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 3: to the grocer, local grocer, grab the same product and 149 00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:12,560 Speaker 3: throw it in a basket. That's not doing You're shipping 150 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:17,119 Speaker 3: it across the country sometimes and and packaging and making 151 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:18,360 Speaker 3: sure that it gets there. 152 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:21,360 Speaker 2: You know, in a good state do. 153 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:25,600 Speaker 1: You give You give gift boxes with pasta and sauces 154 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:29,320 Speaker 1: in it and chocolates and you give those out and. 155 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:33,200 Speaker 3: You know, I'm doing something like that partners in the past, 156 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:38,000 Speaker 3: but that I would recommend doing things like that. Vomb 157 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:43,040 Speaker 3: Fast does an amazing job. There's one currently in uh, 158 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:47,160 Speaker 3: San Diego, there's one in Ventura. They do a phenomenal 159 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:50,319 Speaker 3: job because you can customize those things. I prefer that 160 00:08:50,760 --> 00:08:54,480 Speaker 3: there are you know, and Suns if you're looking for 161 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:58,640 Speaker 3: high end chocolate and Beverly Hills and Suns does a 162 00:08:58,640 --> 00:09:02,160 Speaker 3: fantastic job of local. I try to look for local 163 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:08,200 Speaker 3: shops or individually owned shops that put together these custom 164 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:11,360 Speaker 3: baskets and things, and I think those are are fantastic. 165 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:13,720 Speaker 1: And that's when you're going in and buying locally, you're 166 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:15,720 Speaker 1: delivering the gifts. 167 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:19,440 Speaker 3: Them to deliver it as well. But there's just that's 168 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:22,360 Speaker 3: when I get very specific. I really encourage people to 169 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:26,440 Speaker 3: try and buy local and from handmade goods. There's awful 170 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:31,800 Speaker 3: often little boutique places where you can get handmade even 171 00:09:31,920 --> 00:09:35,680 Speaker 3: dried pasta that is made locally and things like that. 172 00:09:36,920 --> 00:09:39,839 Speaker 3: Great books that are out there that you can send. 173 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:43,080 Speaker 3: One of my favorite books that makes my list every 174 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:47,440 Speaker 3: single year is called Ratio and it's by Michael Ruhlman. 175 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:50,440 Speaker 3: You find it on Amazon or your better book dealers. 176 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:52,840 Speaker 3: But what it does is it breaks down things into 177 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:56,959 Speaker 3: ratios and how you can memorize how to make cookies 178 00:09:57,520 --> 00:10:04,040 Speaker 3: or breads or dressings. Based on ratios like you need 179 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:06,600 Speaker 3: this much fat, you need this much flour, you need 180 00:10:06,679 --> 00:10:11,920 Speaker 3: this much sugar, and that you can build cookie recipes 181 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:15,359 Speaker 3: that you can do these things off of basic ratios. 182 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:21,079 Speaker 3: Another great book is called Salt, Fat, Heat, Acid, and 183 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:25,760 Speaker 3: it just breaks down the rudiments of cooking. And these 184 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:29,880 Speaker 3: things help you be a better cook outside of the 185 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:35,520 Speaker 3: basic recipes, like understanding how cooking works. One last thing 186 00:10:35,679 --> 00:10:38,720 Speaker 3: that I have fallen in love with and are newer 187 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:42,240 Speaker 3: to me but not to others, are called mug huggers 188 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:47,000 Speaker 3: or toppers. These are adorable. So they make little gingerbread 189 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:50,200 Speaker 3: houses and they have this little notch in them that 190 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:54,560 Speaker 3: they can hang on the side of your coffee or 191 00:10:54,679 --> 00:10:57,400 Speaker 3: hot cocoa and you can dip them and eat them. 192 00:10:57,520 --> 00:11:01,679 Speaker 3: They also make these cookie cutters of you know, Snowman 193 00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:09,280 Speaker 3: or Santa or whatever. No, no, you can find them 194 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:12,880 Speaker 3: at World Market, Williams, Noma, Amazon. But they're cool. They 195 00:11:12,920 --> 00:11:15,120 Speaker 3: just hang off the side of your of your mug 196 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:16,920 Speaker 3: cocoa or something. 197 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:17,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, no, that's cool. 198 00:11:18,679 --> 00:11:22,000 Speaker 1: Real quickly, before we go, in terms of gift baskets, 199 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:25,160 Speaker 1: you know the pastas, the chocolates, that sort of thing, 200 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:28,440 Speaker 1: the booze, the wines, et cetera. In these gift baskets. 201 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:29,079 Speaker 2: One of the. 202 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:36,360 Speaker 1: Best places to get those is Tata Costco Costco the world, 203 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:40,679 Speaker 1: and they are very They're very inexpensive relative to the 204 00:11:40,679 --> 00:11:42,080 Speaker 1: ones to find everyplace else. 205 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:46,000 Speaker 3: The vast majority of my show tomorrow is going to 206 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:49,920 Speaker 3: be all on stocking stuffers and gifts. So if you're 207 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:53,000 Speaker 3: still looking for not only food stuff so I'll also 208 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:56,920 Speaker 3: talk about, you know, some crafting, some buildings, some makers 209 00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:58,920 Speaker 3: supplies because I love doing that as well. 210 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:01,839 Speaker 2: But all have a honest stuff tomorrow on the show. 211 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:06,520 Speaker 1: Okay, sounds good. All right, Neil, We're done with Foodie Friday. 212 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:08,360 Speaker 1: We're gonna be talking more about the holidays coming up 213 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:09,160 Speaker 1: next couple of weeks.