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The Dave Chang Show

Brigades, 'The Bear', and How Kitchens Work

The Dave Chang Show

The Ringer

Food, Arts, Society & Culture

4.88.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

With a couple more 'Bear' episodes under his belt, Dave dives into a breakneck elucidation of one of the show’s dramatic engines—the classical Escoffier kitchen brigade system, and the huge role it still plays in top-tier restaurants today. Analyzed along the way: Frank Ceruti, the two types of CDC, piano ranges, coal runners, sabotaging Chris at the poissonnier station, fish fumet, meat-roast squires, simplifying your playbook, telepathic collaboration, kitchen design remorse, cooking with a miracle maker, food dying at the pass, Jürgen Klopp, gambling with ducks, the first-turn bomb, and making food so good that no one’s talking in the dining room. Hosts: Dave Chang and Chris Ying Producer: Sasha Ashall Additional Production: Jordan Bass and Lala Rasor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:21.1

Media, like you a lot to go. So the last podcast I did with Chris, we got into trend setting

1:28.0

and plating. And I think we might have lost a lot of people. They got the gist of it.

1:33.8

Hopefully when we started comparing trends to Nickelback and poison. But you think even

1:41.1

that got over people's heads? I don't know. But I know with the bear, I saw episode two,

1:47.6

they go into a little bit about a brigade system. I think it was episode two. And on our

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1:56.9

There have been some comments about what about a brigade system? What is a brigade system?

2:02.1

So for those that don't know, it's something that we talk about a lot. The brigade system is

2:06.9

based on the military, escoffee created it based on the military. Japan has their own version of

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