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Hey, everyone.

Welcome back to American Gravy, where food meets fun and flavor meets the absurd.

I'm Lauren.

Oh, I'm Lauren Grohl.

Oh, I'm Andrew Grohl.

And today we're diving into some of the funniest, strangest, and most mouth-watering food stories making the rounds. Look, food has gotten crazy. Everybody's trying to push the envelope way too far. The beauty of food, though, is that it touches everything and everyone. So obviously our stories are going to go beyond food, but we'll bring it back to food. That's the centerpiece. I always say that food

is the great unifier. It's also the vehicle through which you can understand everything happening

in the world because everyone touches food in some way or another, including the supply chain

and at the end of the day, what they're eating. So we're really excited to have you. We are

incredibly grateful and thankful that we have this opportunity to be talking food with all of you. And for those of you that are listening for the first time, welcome. For those of you that are back, welcome back. Hope you had some good meals along the way. I hope they use some of your, what is that? What is that? My quick tips?

No.

Sharpen your skills. Sharpen your skills. Yeah, we got to sharpen the skills. We were talking about ground beef last time. We talked about the cold sear. We actually did a video on the cold sear. I actually used the cold sear. I know. I came. So the cold sear, which is kind of just in recap is my way of like cooking protein starting off in a cold pan as opposed to a hot pan and then bringing the heat up towards the

through the cooking process and searing which is kind of just in recap is my way of like cooking protein starting off in a cold pan

as opposed to a hot pan and then bringing the heat up towards the through the cooking process and searing it at the end similar to the reverse sear but only in a pan. I came home the other day and Lauren had some chicken. She cooked it and I'm eating it and I'm like, this is great. She's like, do you know what I did? And she gave me this little wink. I said, you did the cold sear, did you?

I did do the cold sear.

And I used a carbon steel pan, which you also recommended last

episode. Yeah, that one came out of left field. Sorry about that. We weren't supposed to talk

about the pans, but I realized we need to talk about the pans. Talk about the pans. Talk about

anything. We're just Mike Poppin, as Carolla likes to say.

Pop. Yeah, there we go. All right. So what's going on these days? Okay, well, they caught the guy who allegedly started the horrible fires earlier this year. Yeah, the Palisades Fire. So they were

actually able to catch climate change? Yeah, I love that that's what they blamed it on.

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