How Gordon Ramsay RUINS a Cuban Sandwich (CUBANO) | Pro Chef Reacts

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[@ChefBrianTsao]

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[@dewelrivera3305]

@ChefBrianTsao if you want to try roast pork with ridiculously good edible skin, go to Puerto Rico or try a Puerto Rican pernil from a Puerto Rican in NY. I'm originally from NY and trust me we've perfected lechon and pernil. The crispy skin is an art form, far better tasting than a Cuban lechon. In Puerto Rico there is something we call the pork highway(la ruta de lechon in Guavate).

[@Slavicplayer251]

have you heard of a continental sandwich?

[@wobblyboost]

Why do you simp for his integrity? Ruin the whole video with a "Best Chef on earth" disclaimer. The frequent flyer points and multiple restaurants mean nothing. Gordon. Can. Not. Cook.

[@ragingmonk6080]

Gordon Ramsey cannot cook. The majority of the restaurants that he gave a make over on TV closed shortly there after. Do say to me, " But look how many restaurants he owns. #1 He isn't the chef at those stores, he is on TV. #2 "As of 2023, McDonald's has approximately 41,800 restaurants worldwide." They cannot cook either.

[@wshropshire]

I've never been so sad watching someone at Gordon's level destroy something as simple as a sandwich.

[@loiescudero1172]

"Gordon, make us a cuban sandwich!" - "An effed up Philly Cheesesteak you say?"

[@ChefBrianTsao]

Lol

[@hamburgersmmmmmm]

🎯

[@ramonserna8089]

I've seen Gordon cook a Philly and give it a different name at least 3 times. On his defense the Philly looked quite good.

[@scotttan881]

Good one bro , good one

[@ginnyweatherbee7941]

Yup

[@TheSauceYouGetLostin]

Gordam Ramsey: "today we are going to make a BLT!" His Ingredients: Roast Beef, Blue Cheese, honey, honey mustard, caramelized onions, bell peppers, salt, pepper, parsley, butter, honey, brioche buns, blood of a virgin, and honey

[@alexandresobreiramartins9461]

it's the blood of a virgin that makes it special!

[@blankedo2303]

Don't forget the olive oil

[@spazzypengin]

@@alexandresobreiramartins9461 Without that there's nothing to bind everything else together.

[@jlaw131985]

Frenchy: "Oh I hate that. Resourceful means poor" I appreciate that someone said it.

[@darwinism8181]

Especially when you're in Havana talking about Cuba. Why is it that the people gotta be so 'resourceful,' Mr. Ramsay? Would the guy whose show you're trying to copy dance around what these people are living through?

[@seymourglass26]

@@darwinism8181 It's always a soul-crushing moment when someone takes a simple (aka efficient and purposeful) thing, slanders it, and makes it worse.

[@singingwolf3929]

I've been Resourceful for my entire life and still manage to make some damn tasty food. It may not be Michelin Star but it gets people going back for seconds.

[@otakucuba8375]

😢 lastimosamente los cubanos tenemos que vivir de ese ingenio para sobrevivir. Y si somos muy pobres

[@amberyoung4425]

"i don't know why we're trying to fix this dish" 🤣🤣🤣 who the hell hurt Gordon so bad that he has to over complicate such simple sandwiches?!

[@Azeraelz]

His mentor, Marco Pierce White, probably. Jokes aside, Marco himself stated that Gordon's greatest downfall is his competitiveness which cause him to over complicated recipes, sometimes.

[@azyfloof]

@@Azeraelz Good old Marco Pierre White. The only person to make Gordon choose to make himself cry :P

[@oneblacksun]

@@Azeraelz Marco's philosophy has always been refinement and letting the ingredients talk, even when he was at Harvey's and was making absolutely Baroque recipes that you would never see today.

[@crimsonninja5090]

@@Azeraelz Every Marco video I have seen was basically 'Keep it simple, let the ingredients talk'. So this is definitely just Gordon doing things to stay relevant lol.

[@CarlosLauterbach]

If Gordon was a musician and he was requested to play Happy Birthday he'd turn it into some weird Symphony

[@Fireman2k5]

The good thing about the sandwich is that it is so complicated that no one will ever cook it. Come on Gorden

[@LtSMASH324]

I think this might be the point. No one can ever say it's bad if they don't have the ability to try it. Maybe the tobacco honey and bee pollen is amazing, no one will ever know.

[@Brisk_ohs]

At this point in his career, I truly believe that Gordon Ramsay is trolling all of us

[@nullakjg767]

hes a meme chef. his thing is calling people donuts, not making good food lol.

[@unrecognizably]

@@nullakjg767 lets just pretend youve never said this before

[@chillhour6155]

No one tells them no, is the problem

[@tenphes3]

I was watching the podcast at work the other day and mentioned out loud that yall had reacted to this and it was bad, so my coworker looked up Gordons video then and there so we could see it ourselves. He just overcomplicates so much trying to make it “gourmet” when the original version is absolutely delicious and doesnt *need* any fancying up.

[@ChefBrianTsao]

100%

[@waywardmind]

Absolutely agree. That was something Anthony Bourdain always understood about regional foods: don't mess with them. R.I.P., Mr. Bourdain.

[@lactofermentation]

​@@waywardmind There's always room for personal flourishes, but it has to stay recognizable! Shouldn't be trying to turn regional foods into some weird dick-waving contest to show how much better he is than the locals.

[@Sniperboy5551]

It doesn’t need it, but fusion food is cool. Just don’t call it a Cubano if it isn’t a Cubano. I can’t hate on the guy for experimenting.

[@TheDeer99]

I feel like they just throw ingredients at him and he just makes something up on the spot.

[@Ai-Saika]

Gordon turn into Jamie Oliver, insted of jam he did honey.

[@ChefBrianTsao]

LOL

[@losthor1zon]

You forgot to add: HAIYAA!

[@waywardmind]

Gordon Ramsay: travels to a place, learns about that region's food, then screws it up thinking he can better it Anthony Bourdain: travelled to a place, learned about that region's food, and celebrated it for everything it was

[@jtee788]

"The classic marriage between meat and protein?" What?

[@DeadlyGhost1207]

Just say meat. Stop trying to get fancy with this "protein" shit. Just call it what it is.

[@LogicalNiko]

@@DeadlyGhost1207 Sometimes chefs will say protein as the generic for anything non-fish, as in a classic french line seafood is made by a different line cook. All other "proteins" are made by a separate station. Although yes its a badly used word as pretty much everything you consume except for salt, water, and sugar consists of proteins; it's a basic building block of cellular life.

[@bobbytables4305]

You too

[@RyTrapp0]

@@LogicalNiko I mean, you're right - but he's supposed to be doing videos for a pleb audience, you'd think he'd have adjusted his vocab a little after the last couple decades in front of a camera. But, it's Gordon, so it's probably intentional, like how overcomplicated his cooking is.

[@OddBallPerformance]

Cheese is half protein and not a meat. I am assuming they meant to say cheese.

[@honkiboi5631]

Sandwiches in general are genius in their simplicity

[@bigred212]

Yup ham & chesse BLT Sausage, egg, cheese Ham, lettuce, chesse Bacon egg &chesse Even the complex ones are good but at that point it's just a fancy sub or melt which are fire in there own right

[@RyTrapp0]

About as complex as I've gotten with a sandwich was in high school 'Food & Nutrition'(aka, cooking) class. Was the first class in the morning, which was incredible, and Fridays were cook whatever you want days. I made 'french toast-bacon-ham-egg-cheese' sandwiches one morning, butter & syrup inside, they were pretty incredible. A decent bit of work, but amazing breakfast sandwich lol. For the record, this predated the McGriddle!!! (...not to age myself or anything...)

[@Phi1618033]

When I saw Gordon put that cheese in the pan, my first thought was that some poor production assistant is going to have to spend half an hour cleaning that pan.

[@marrerowski]

That pan went in the trash right next to the sandwich after they wrapped up the filming of that video.

[@gamingwithanxietyy]

I'm pretty sure that's like a $150 pan too. Ugh so wasteful.

[@AlanACarlson]

I noticed Frenchy was wearing red shorts and flip-flops with his chef coat.

[@RyTrapp0]

Cooking happens from the waist up😆

[@richardsanchez5444]

I would love to see Gordon make cereal. Let's see how he fkks that up.

[@ChefBrianTsao]

It’s have everything except cereal 😂

[@richardsanchez5444]

​@@ChefBrianTsaoDon't forget about using goat milk that's been harvested from a rare endangered white tibetan goat that was hand fed by the Dalai Lama himself.

[@bigred212]

​@@richardsanchez5444cereal made from Mesopotamia era wheat And sugar that's been blessed twice by the pope

[@nilianstroy]

@@ChefBrianTsao I know someone that would probably add olive oil and some sort of jam...

[@scotttan881]

With a little touch of sechuan pepper. ,Some rice from a country i dont even know, baked for perfection,mixing full 100% coco chocolate, and a touch of sourdough burned bread bits Serve with milk from the bloody horse , lovely.....

[@richardsanchez5444]

Gordon Ramsey is definitely a world class chef and he's a beast when it comes to gourmet food. But when it comes to simple sht, leave it to the pros brother.

[@ChefBrianTsao]

Agreed

[@GarthKlaus]

​@@ChefBrianTsaoI challenge you to find a video of Gordon not screwing everything up.

[@lucas23453]

@@GarthKlaus i would suggest his scotch egg recipe then

[@ranjanbiswas3233]

Cuban Sandwich simple?

[@richardsanchez5444]

@@ranjanbiswas3233 well yeah compared to what he does. He over engineered a fkkng grilled cheese sandwich

[@FrenkieWest32]

The way he says 'Gouda' is closer to the Dutch pronunciation than 'gooda'.

[@littlewishy6432]

I consulted a dictionary and it said that Brits pronounce it gow-da while Americans pronounce it goo-da. Not sure if it's outdated, though.

[@FrenkieWest32]

@@littlewishy6432 Probably because the brits are a bit closer so they might have historically heard the 'real' pronunciation more.

[@FrenkieWest32]

@@groofay It's not easy if you're not used to it I guess. A lot of languages struggle with the ''th'' sound of english.

[@BrooklyKnight]

​​@@groofayvoiced postalveolar affricate? Or do you mean the velar fricatives?

[@markhamstra1083]

@@groofayNo, no you don’t. Gordon’s ‘g’ is the worst part of his pronunciation of “Gouda”. His vowel sound isn’t awful, but the Dutch ‘g’ in “Gouda” is quite far from either the American or British mispronunciations. It actually has a guttural, phlegmy ‘h’ sound.

[@todo9633]

The whole vibe is like the weather changed suddenly and he needs to make the video before it rains and ruins the set.

[@markhamstra1083]

But Gordon always does everything in a breathless hurry, no matter how much time he has. It’s how you know he is a very experienced and capable restaurant chef who is capable of running a busy kitchen.

[@wobblyboost]

@@markhamstra1083 It's how you know he is a coke fiend.

[@wildwine6400]

I'm guessing he must have visited somewhere in the episode that was making honey and honey products, which is why he is overloading on honey that he must have got/tried there. I see that happen often on the travel based cooking shows

[@dosidicusgigas1376]

I thought the same thing, I know lots of tobacco is grown in Havana too so it adds up. Also explains the pollen lol

[@naminova]

Yup that's exactly it! I've seen the episode this is from, it's mostly about how the locals make ingredients, and then at the end he makes some hodgepodge dish with every one of the ingredients the main part of the episode is about.

[@TheHaubs11tx]

The Cuban sandwich is the middle finger towards the ham and butter

[@TheHaubs11tx]

I use voice to text and I couldn’t get it to do French but you know what I mean

[@dosidicusgigas1376]

​​@TheHaubs11tx Ce sandwich Cubain est un doit majeur vers le jambon et le beurre. There you go French translation, that'll be 500$ please.

[@TheHaubs11tx]

@@dosidicusgigas1376 lol I was just on the couch I didn’t want to go look it up but Yep that’s the sandwich I’m talking about which is good in its own right but give me a Cuban instead

[@63ah1275]

I've never had a Cuban I liked and never had a jambon beurre I didn't like. Aside from all the honey, it doesn't look bad. Just don't call it Cuban.

[@TheHaubs11tx]

@@63ah1275 you don’t put honey on a Cuban. It’s a simple sandwich. Jamond Burre is great but the Cuban raises the bar

[@azelynhirano]

Did Gordon read "sweet ham" as one of the original ingredients and just decided to redesign the sandwich with so much sweetness in it?

[@Qub3rs]

You can see Frenchie's brain, slowly overheat from the anger... to a point where he starts to lag...

[@IAMDOLWOTA]

This is the least surprising thing for me considering that my introduction to Ramsay was literally a bunch of Italians being mad at him (and other tv chefs) for misinformation and misrepresenting their culture. Thanks to them I actually got to enjoy him and his antics, mostly as an entertainer but I cannot tell you how many times I've seen this man travel to some remote village to learn a dish from some grandmothers only to end up not taking any of the lessons and just trying to present a "fine dining" version to them, or going to a restaurant to be taught by a chef in their kitchen to in turn present something that goes against everything they tried to explain to him and getting the "if these cameras weren't rolling this plate would already be in your face" look. The ones I've seen were from various Asian cultures but it felt like enough of a pattern lol

[@paladonis]

If memory serves, when reading about the Origin of Cubanos, it was Cuban bricklayers that would make this sandwich. They would set out some bricks in the heat, while they were working. Then one guy would assemble all the stuff and they would place them on a heated brick and place another brick on top before lunchtime. So using lard over butter makes so much sense. Probably just the lard from the meats they cooked right then.

[@Vykk_Draygo]

That is almost certainly apocryphal. Why would brick layers be heating bricks? Who cooks when they are on the job? Since when is a brick heavy enough to press a sandwich?

[@paladonis]

@@Vykk_Draygo Oh probably some truth and some made up in that story, for sure. But cooking on the job site way back in the early-mid 1900's wasn't uncommon. You had diners and food places, but it's not like they said "Hmmm burger King or Jack in the Box today?" They were Immigrants coming over with almost nothing, but the shirt on their back and doing the construction jobs. It's the same tale for Hamburgers originating from the Hamburg steaks, but they were too hard to eat on a worksite with fork and knife. So a vender added them on bread to make it easier to eat.

[@ugh_dad]

I love a Cuban sandwich, but seeing that first one has shown me I've only ever had some pretty poor imitations, I have got to get down to Florida.

[@nisbenyricardo533]

Florida is the home of the Cuban sandwich. When you come get it in Miami. It’s better than the ones in Tampa. I am Cuban and I have had them in both cities and I have never had a bad Cuban sandwich in Miami and the ones in Tampa are good but not great.

[@ugh_dad]

@nisbenyricardo533 thank you!

[@johnnyblaze1098]

There's TONS of restaurants in South Korea that does ONE DISH. There's alleyways filled with restaurants that only specialize in one dish. But I feel like that's so rare in the States

[@brandonhowell5096]

There are a few places dotted along the the US that specialize in 1-to-3 things the problem is they don't really make that much money so most only open a few days a week

[@Eeveelyn]

Imagine you're the person who slowly roasted that pork in a banana leaf for 12 hours, making it perfectly tender and then Gordon shows up and ruins it like this.

[@dadalorian99]

Awesome videos guys. Love how we saw the good and Gordon’s in the same video.

[@HeWhoSlayethCain]

At a local pizza place, I have a pizza I special order sometimes, mustard base, ham, pickles, and onions, I know it's not exactly, but I call it a Cubano Inspired pizza, and it is incredible.

[@alexanderednie1205]

Frenchies face at @16:31 when he finds out he’s not gonna press the sandwich is hilarious

[@russaicher3786]

Bee pollen? Bee's collect pollen, are we hijacking bees now? Flowers have pollen, WTF Gordon?

[@doozydoge1053]

Oh my god THANKYOU. A quick, concise video showing exactly what to do without fluff or filler. Sweet mercy! I just did it and yep, spot on, this video is 100% accurate as of July 2024.

[@amiatarukita1231]

i love how brian & frenchy goes out to get good food, as a way to cleanse themselves after reacting to a bad food video 🤣

[@Dbcooper460]

As a guy learning to cook on KZbin thanks for all the tips and information.

[@lightningwolf788]

Eugh, bee pollen in a Cubano? The only thing bee pollen is good for is getting picky lizards to eat veggies XD

[@bigred212]

I didn't even know people eat pollen why would you want to in the first place 💀

[@YodielandInhabitant710]

​@@bigred212Is this bait?

[@bigred212]

@@YodielandInhabitant710 no? That's a fr question why would you want to eat pollen and loads of people (me included) are allergic which makes the fact people eat that sh*t even more baffling

[@YodielandInhabitant710]

@@bigred212 Pollen is what makes honey different from sugar. It's what makes it not shit

[@Vykk_Draygo]

@@YodielandInhabitant710 No. That would be the NECTAR that bees make honey from. The pollen is incidental and is usually not present in large amounts (and is usually filtered out, at least here in the States).

[@INoahGuy914]

15:18 I was thinking the same thing! And yes Frenchie, “we ain’t fat for nothing!” That woulda been better.

[@reliablevariable1615]

Paul is such a G with the cleaning! Didn't know he did that when you both shot the other video! Such an unexpected sweetheart! Never had a Cubano but I have heard of it... Mainly how much it is butchered even in Miami. I would not try Chef Gordon's sandwich but I am not a huge sandwich person myself. I think the closest thing I ate to a sandwich in the last decade is a poppy seed bagel with cream cheese from Brooklyn Bagel. It was because their dough was banging! This video was very good and informative. Thank you for showing the proper Cubano sandwich video first! Very informative!

[@ChefBrianTsao]

Brooklyn Bagel is my fav

[@tabebitokage1040]

I've made cheese crust on burritos and to glue together a broken apart hotdog bun but he basically left more than half the cheese in the pan.

[@hugobranca]

Going to Cuba to make a cubano is pretty much like going to Mexico to make nachos.

[@Vykk_Draygo]

I think you mean something more like tacos, empanadas, or tamales. While botanas are a thing, they are a snack (as is implied in the name).

[@jasonpowell8832]

Dudes wearing red shorts and flip flops with the chef jacket. Frenchie you are my spirit animal. 😂

[@rexstetson1717]

Gordon Ramsey is becoming the drummer who’s solos are just him beating all his drums as fast as possible.

[@mjb7015]

I really appreciate that you show the peak performance to compare with Gordon's version. Down here in Australia I've never had (or heard of) a Cubano, so it was good to see what it's _supposed_ to be.

[@p.scottl3447]

Really looks like he misunderstood Cubano to mean Carnitas sandwich, with the onion and orange...

[@robertogomez9936]

Irony. The thing Gordan constantly says to Chefs... keep it simple.. lmao!

[@adityan3208]

Appreciate describing the sandwich at the start, since idk anything about it.

[@o-k9267]

I think this was finally the chance for the producer and the whole crew to stand for themselves.. "No Gordon, we're not grilling a piglet for 12 hours just so you can make some weird sandwich."

[@TheAT5000]

Okay, so 99% of people hopefully won't notice this, but the nose gate on Frenchy's mic is bugging me. I hear the nose when he's taking, but it abruptly cuts every time he pauses and makes the audio sound choppy. A couple solutions are to either have a longer hold time, slower release time, or... Try not gating the self noise entirely, instead set the gate to something like a -6db or so. (This is one of my favorite tricks because it leaves a small amount of the noise there, so your ears can more easily tune it out than when it completely stops and starts)

[@tenphes3]

Im rewatching this waiting for this weeks episode and I noticed it too.

[@GarthKlaus]

Have to admire Ramsay's determination to fuck up every sandwich ever made. 😂

[@kennethnash598]

If I told a cook to make this cuban sandwich, I would be thrown out and told to never come back.

[@colihon3552]

I've lived in Chicago all my life when I feel like pissing a food snob off I go on the Northside to one of the hot dog places that been there for decades with a pocket full of ketchup. order a Chicago dog and but ketchup all over it. the looks of contempt make my day lol

[@gitawulfren]

The sheer joy or shock on Frenchie's face when the lard was mentioned is fantastic.

[@WeAreLegyn]

When I was in college our food vendors did Cubans and I loved them and I decided to put humas on it as well and I never had it any other way. Something about it just elevated it even higher

[@The_Chef2511]

Ramsay's fundamental error is that the Cuban sandwich isn't Cuban cuisine, it's appropriated French cuisine that emerged among Cuban communities in Key West and Tampa at a time when Cubans were still trading with the US. All they did was take a basic hot ham and cheese with pickles and add mojo pork and serve it on Cuban bread. It's diner food, dock worker food, but since this is Gordon Ramsay's Uncharted failure was the only option. This is the same show where Ramsay made his notorious grilled cheese and really is just a hideous bastardization of other travel and food shows

[@darwinism8181]

Could you explain to me how it's appropriated French cuisine? That makes less than zero sense. Sandwiches are not French cuisine, the ingredients are not particularly French, nothing about it is in any way derived from any French cuisine I know of. Cubanos are literally organic fusion food. They are what happened when Cuban immigrants adopted more mainstream American methods to hit flavor profiles they wanted. I... really have no idea why you think France was involved. Louisiana's close, but they ain't France.

[@markhamstra1083]

Exactly. Using Havana to add authenticity to your Cubano is just proof that you don’t know the first thing about the Cubano.

[@Firevine]

Ahh, I didn't know this is from Uncharted. His episode about Appalachia was filmed very close to where my mom grew up, and I was utterly bewildered by his "Appalachian breakfast" he did for KZbin. 44 years of visiting that area and I've never seen slop like that. Not once.

[@KFrost-fx7dt]

Firevine what's in hos version of an "Appalachian breakfast"? My mom was from West Virginia and breakfast for me growing up was mostly cream of wheat, rice porridge with sugar, eggs, or biscuits with gravy or jam.

[@Firevine]

@@KFrost-fx7dt That's definitely more what I'm used to also. My granny would also have homemade applesauce with waffles, and bacon/eggs and hashbrowns or grits. TN/NC/GA tri-state area. The Uncharted episode was filmed in Cherokee NC. What Gordon made was some weird ass ham biscuit slathered in some mustard sauce. YT won't allow a link but you can easily find it.

[@tburgess3426]

13:00 I have to agree with Brian here. I've had roast pig probably 20+ times and I can remember 2 times the skin wasn't rock hard.

[@feroexe7965]

Gordon sometimes does food like how some Math teachers call "simple" math.

[@Sparkle0310-k9w]

This is exactly what I felt watching his videos - over complication. I started cooking 10 years ago watching his video and always have to buy a lot of ingredients to replicate it. I just want a simple recipe to feed my family that taste decent.

[@MajorShepard]

Aww man a honey sandwich? Nice, weird he added meat, cheese and lettuce tho :p

[@TheIrishRev]

I love that she was like"No fool, I won't ruin my sandwich for you." That's 💯 the right way

[@GentleCrank]

You 2 should make a series where you make traditional dishes and dishes ruined by Gordon Ramsay/Jamie Oliver and compare the dishes

[@agiammarco94]

Ok that moment around 22:00 is just incredible and I think the most shocked I’ve heard Brian in a video before.

[@arthurjulian6200]

4:03 "I will not be a part of ruining a Cuban with mayo!" Best words ever uttered in a sandwich shop!💯

[@tonyv.8781]

I'm back. Sour orange is traditionally used in mojo for roasting pork. It's usually, in my family, just the sour orange, smashed garlic, and S&P married in a mortar and pestle.

[@XilliGaming]

He almost pronounced Gouda like us dutch folk

[@lepidoptery]

it's actually the first pronunciation listed in the (english-language, of course) Wikipedia entry for gouda cheese, then is goo-dah (specified as "US also"), then they have the Dutch.

[@Khornecussion]

The censoring guitar makes me think of Metalocalypse every single time

[@ChefBrianTsao]

Bingo

[@Khornecussion]

@@ChefBrianTsao Good tastes.

[@briandstephmoore4910]

I’m sure everyone of those ingredients is just at every corner market for any Cuban citizen to walk down and buy easily and cheaply 😂

[@jockfanshaw2931]

It's not 'bee pollen'. Bees don't MAKE pollen; depending on the species, it either sticks to the hairs on their legs or abdomens from the flowers they visit while collecting nectar.

[@V-Ad-ot8ob-1998]

So basically we just witnessed a flower dust sandwich being made.

[@mariannakump8857]

Gordon, SNAP OUT OF IT!! Look at what you've done. You're trying to elevate something that's already way up there. A well made Cubano is not boring and sad like soggy tuna salad or bologna on Wonder Bread. Throwing strange ingredients into this sublime classic doesn't make you "brilliant". Honor the Cubano by using the best classic ingredients and cook it with the proper procedure. If you want to add your own twist, don't travel to Havana and call it a Cubano. There is a restaurant here on Long Island that does some great fusion. I love their Cubano, especially with a side order of their kimchi fried rice. It really works so well together, but each component is true to what it is. YUM!!❤❤❤

[@melimel2990]

I live in Queens. What’s the name of the restaurant so I can make my way up there sometime?

[@mariannakump8857]

@@melimel2990 Coastal Kitchen and Daiquiri Bar in Bayshore.

[@colihon3552]

wat Havana got to do with it. it was created in Florida. that's like expecting someone in Mexico city to get mad at tex mex

[@melimel2990]

@@mariannakump8857 Thank you Boo!

[@fettel1988]

Gordon would fail that food cart because it'd take him 9 months to make 150 sandwiches for one day.

[@joelbernal-garcia6085]

I am Cuban, but don't love the Cubano mostly cause of the pickles and mayo, but I can tell when its well made. Also as a side note, a British man going to a country and making a food they invented that most can't really afford (Havana maybe more) and fucking it up is really peak colonialism There is no chili in any Cuban food

[@carlos_herrera]

Do they even eat that in Cuba? Internet says it was invented in florida.

[@morganrodriguez5169]

Cuban here too. Pan con bistec is my favorite by far.

[@joelbernal-garcia6085]

@@carlos_herrera I think no one knows for sure. The version using Cuban bread is very much not Cuban. That type of bread was invented either in Miami or Tampa. The bread I've had in Cuba is either potato rolls or stuff that's hard as a rock

[@colihon3552]

​@joelbernal-garcia6085 so how is it peak anything you not even sure who created it

[@carlos_herrera]

Its crazy they don't have chili in cuban food. Havana is closer to yucatan than Jamaica, and both of those places make extensive use of the chili that's still called habanero.

[@iamtesting3824]

It's funny that Grilled Cheese is the first and last time you praised Jamie Oliver.. Thank you for the review.

[@emilioi.valdez6680]

Alright, you gotta see Ramsay's pegao video now. Puerto Rico was really fucking pissed about that one, to the point it made headline news.

[@V-Ad-ot8ob-1998]

Hold up, I'm Puerto Rican and correct me if I am wrong, but pegao is the toasty burnt rice at the edge of the pot that we mix in along with the well cooked rice. So you're telling us there's a way to mess up burnt rice??? Sorry for sounding kinda ignorant. I just wasn't aware of that news.

[@maximus3511]

Gowdah- is actually the real way to say Gouda in Dutch. I learned it recently!

[@lemikaelz4861]

Cubanos are from Miami not Cuba

[@flarican64]

No, From Ibor City in Tampa.

[@colihon3552]

​@flarica64 still not Cuba

[@datHDgameplay]

Frenchie sounded like Stimpy when he was saying "he's not gonna press it!" 😂

[@moondoggie1987]

It's time to start revoking Gordon's Michelin stars.

[@ChefBrianTsao]

lol

[@alexanderzadoroznyj]

I love Gordon but yes, I agree… this is becoming ridiculous.

[@AlastorsShadowDemon]

If he ever adds this crap to his menus, I agree. Revoke away. 😂

[@artonsafari]

Frenchy looked so happy to be getting a real Cubano at the end.

[@phoenix1977]

Brian and Frenchy : gordon overcomplicates everything. Gordon : i'm going to pour a glass of water, and i'l start by seeding the clouds with this chemical.

[@richardsanchez5444]

19:14 honestly, you feed that to a local off the street cuban, in this case, and then tell him its a Cubano. And show their reaction to Gordon.

[@derekpierson7412]

U can cook the sandwich open face using parchment paper to get that meat heated thru all the way faster. It also guarantees the cheese gets melted too.

[@poptartmcjelly7054]

gotta say that is the best looking gas station sandwich.

[@GarthKlaus]

No Sheetz where you live? 😂

[@krislong9338]

I love thw vids where you use your owj music at the end. Metalhead for life.

[@Shampaggin]

I like how you go directly to canceling subscriptions, as soon as you refuse to let Frenchie unsunscribe from the episode. 😂 PS nice shorts, Frenchie. PPS why is Gordon using a bread knife. Just why.

[@Ansatsunin]

Gouda is a Dutch city, which is where the cheese comes from, and yes it's pronounced "how-da" but with a guttural "gh" sound (think of the spot in the back of your throat, right by your uvula, when you're trying to hock up a loogy and you'll know what part of your throat to use to make the sound). Same spot as when you're trying to fog up a mirror by breathing on it to wipe it down.

[@markalexander71332]

Thank you guys 😊

[@teamflowerninja]

Gordon Ramsay is the epitome of hubris. He just thinks he's so great and that his food is so amazing, that when he truly effs something up like the Cubano he thinks it's his gift to humanity. 🙄 I love how at the end he says he's not an idiot sandwich, yes Gordon you are an IDIOT sandwich!!

[@GarthKlaus]

Grilled Cheese. 😂

[@MistressofHeaven]

When he said he was not an idiot sandwich, my thought answered, “No you aren’t. But this sandwich is.”

[@kylebeatty7643]

18:26 nailed it. Decades of working with fox has broken something in him. I'm not saying gollum beneath the Misty mountains....

[@FelixMuk]

"I'm not an idiot sandwich." Right, you're just an idiot! Gordon must have lost a series of bets or something coz there's no way someone would deliberately tarnish their reputation like this...

[@killrade4434]

I would love to see Gordon make a glass of water. I could see it now... First we take our water and dehydrate it. We will stick it into a distillation pot and cook it for 4 hours. While thats cooking dont forget to add salt and pepper to the water. You must session it all the way. Next we will get a glass. That glass we will melt it down and hand blow the glass. This technique i learned in China by an ancient cook book written by a man with no name. Once the water start to pour from the distiller, we will add some lemon zest, squeeze some limon and add some cane suger I processed yesterday from my small suger cane farm in South America. After that we will put it back in the distillery to help infuse the flavors. This should concentrate the flavor or something. Next we will pour one drop of our concentrated redistilled water and add the specail 1 pint of whiskey and another squeeze of lemon. Enjoy.

[@V-Ad-ot8ob-1998]

Don't forget, add olive oil

[@Richardarbizo]

Should react to iron chef dad's 3 easy recipes next

[@ChefBrianTsao]

Love that idea!

[@christopherstroud190]

Idea for the mission sandwich shop. A honey bbq roasted pork sandwich. Topped with veggies and Gouda cheese. You can call it the Gordo sandwich. Served with a nice salad with a honey vinaigrette.

[@bcast9978]

The Cuban sandwich did not originate in either Cuba or Miami. It originated in Ybor City and the original has Genoa salami. The bread should also be baked with palmetto leaves placed in the center of the loaf.

[@deathpyre42]

where do you buy palmetto leaves?

[@bcast9978]

@deathpyre42 You'd have to ask La Segunda Bakery. They produce 95% of all the Cuban bread used commercially. Otherwise you can find them free all over Florida.

[@deathpyre42]

@@bcast9978 followup question, what does the palmetto leaf add? obviously it improves the taste but how?

[@bcast9978]

@@deathpyre42 Releases steam and ads an internal bagel like quality.

[@HighFlyWOW]

I've actually heard Gordon mention before in a video that a lot of videos he does, the producers of the video go get ingredients and he makes something based on what they bought him.

[@markcreemore4915]

A friend of mine visiting me in Miami from Santa Fe once asked the waiter in a Cuban restaurant if they make a vegetarian version of the Cuban sandwich. 😂

[@ChefBrianTsao]

🤦‍♂️

[@beemo1579]

I appreciate this format more when you have the correct way first. I noticed you switched it. Thanks for listening to feedback. It is like 2 videos in one. 1st i get to celebrate the food, 2nd we get to laugh as frenchie gets outraged.

[@mareneaufrance5096]

Other chefs don't tell Ramsey "no" for fear of being called "an idiot sandwich."

[@unvoicedapollo3318]

It's the only sandwich Ramsay doesn't seem to fuck up😐

[@pointlessmanatee]

i cant think of cuban sandwich without thinking of that andrew shulz bit. "cubans are so confident you just start to believe whatever they say. cubans believe they invented the ham sandwich"

[@NikolaiProkoschenko]

Gouda: Gordon is correct, it's how the Dutch (and Germans) say it and they should know, it's a Dutch cheese after all. US are the ones who pronounce it wrong.

[@ChefBrianTsao]

We stand corrected lol

[@dilligaff1979]

@@ChefBrianTsao So you should!

[@dilligaff1979]

As a Dutchman I can confirm this to be correct.

[@littlewishy6432]

@@dilligaff1979Tell that to Italians and the French as well, who also pronounce it as /u/.

[@rock4glory713]

It's a type of cheese

[@eliasaltenberg]

As someone who has worked most positions in a kitchen, including a dishwasher with only a three sink system, I was thinking what you guys were thinking before you thought of it. That the person who had to scrub that burnt on cheese had their work cut out for them and on nonstick pan just destroying that pan's use life.

[@movalboy]

In a world where experts frequently get out of their lane and Salt Bae is famous, telling Gordon he's wrong is easy. Gordon's Cubano would need Havarti cheese to cut that overload of sweetness.

[@GarthKlaus]

Have to admire Ramsay's determination to fuck up every sandwich ever made. 😂

[@Adclif]

To be fair the Sour Orange is normally put on the roast pork when making it, and some garlic so theres 2 ingredients.