‘Best of Dave Chang Show’: The Origins of Fat Washing, Top Five Fruits, and the Bar Test With Dave Arnold

The Dave Chang Show

The Ringer

Society & Culture, Arts, Food

4.8 • 8.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Dave is revisiting some of his favorite episodes and interviews for his ‘Best of Dave Chang Show’ series. In this episode, Dave Arnold joins Dave and Chris to talk about fat washing, which leads to a conversation about the merits of originality and innovation in the culinary world. Dave Arnold deciphers fancy-sounding bartending techniques and describes the “bar test” he uses to determine whether a bar’s cocktails are worth ordering. Plus: an all-time rant about foams on cocktails, and top five fruits, including the best pears money can buy. Hosts: Dave Chang and Chris Ying Guest: Dave Arnold Producer: Victoria Valencia, Gabi Marler, and Euno Lee Additional Production Supervision: Cory McConnell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dave Chang Show, part of the Ringer Podcast Network presented by Major
0:05.7	Dumb Media. Thank you a lot tango as always. Back with episode number five of
0:10.8	the best of. We have Chris Ying on the introduction joining me
0:15.0	we're doing Dave Arnold. Dave Arnold I legitimately think is the smartest person I've
0:20.9	ever met in my life.
0:22.6	A quick story about Day of Arnold, and I don't know if I've ever said this.
0:25.6	So we're at an Esquire event.
0:27.2	Maybe I have said this on the pod.
0:28.7	And it was celebrating like the world's modern geniuses.
0:35.0	It's like one of those crazy only men's magazine hyperbole covers,
0:41.0	you know, all the geniuses in one room in the world right now.
0:45.7	Sure, sure, sure, sure, sure. And yeah, sure enough, there were a lot of smart people there,
0:49.6	and Dave was making the drinks, and I think that we were doing the food because clearly I'm
0:57.1	the genius.
0:59.1	But I was there.
1:00.1	I don't remember why I was there because I wasn't there in that capacity but I believe we were there
1:05.8	because we were doing canopays or something and we're in some rented place in
1:10.0	Soho and Dave's in the back doing his Booker and Daxes cocktails and he just up in a new cocktail bar with Fabian and Jeremiah of Contra.
1:20.0	So check that out. Oh my God, I can't remember the name. It'll come to me. But anyway, it's a crowded room of
1:29.1	voluminaries of basically nerds, right? I remember being stuck in a conversation about the
1:35.3	individual that was considered a genius for disposing of nuclear waste. And there were
1:41.7	a lot of strange conversations that only, you know, super nerds would be interested in,
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