Professional Chefs Play Our ‘Four Foods Of The Apocalypse’ Game

March 28, 2015
Chicago

A while back, we unleashed a favorite food-based suppositious doubt on a world: a Four Foods Game Chloe Searcy

Last time, we had a organisation of Huffington Post staffers — mostly on a Taste group — give their answers. This time, we’ve asked famous, gifted chefs from around a nation to play. The chefs’ answers were utterly opposite from ours. They were reduction expected to select dishes that could be eaten directly out of hand, and some-more expected to collect ones that need cooking — substantially since they adore spending many hours in a kitchen each day! The many apparent instance of this difference: lemons. Not a singular HuffPost staffer enclosed them in their preference — yet 7 of a 13 chefs we polled for this post did. Chefs, it seems, know a flexibility of a fruit, and a significance of poison in offset flavors.

Before we dive into a chefs’ answers, a sign on a manners (which are a same as the final time we played

But this canon has a china lining: Somehow we have a sorcery refrigerator. This shining talent of an apparatus binds a consistent supply of salt, pepper, oil, flour and sugarine — and whatever 4 other dishes we choose.

You can’t select only anything, though. Your 4 dishes have to be elementary ingredients, not stoical dishes. Lettuce, not Caesar salad. Ground beef, not Chef Boyardee Beefaroni. Cream cheese, not a New York Cheesecake from Ruby Tuesday. Also, we can be vaguely endangered with health, yet we don’t need to tatter if your 4 dishes don’t enclose a daily endorsed volume of selenium. It’s a canon — we should provide yo’self.

One final thing: You’ll get a same 4 dishes for a rest of your life. So we should select dishes that we can mix into adequate opposite dishes to keep we confident for a subsequent several decades. Be ambitious! You’ll have copiousness of time to prepare now that your bureau is a raise of rubble.

On to a chefs’ answers! If you’d like to play as well, leave your ideal 4 dishes of a canon in a comments.

Aimee Herring (Asparagus), tashka2000 (Avocado), Getty Images (Eggs), Richard Boll (Goat Cheese)Curtis Stone’s 4 foods:
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What he could make with those four:Getty ImagesShutterstock (Porterhouse Steak), Getty Images (Remaining)Getty Images Carmen Quagliata’s 4 foods:
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What he could make with those four:Shutterstock (Arugula), Carlos Gawronski (Prosciutto), Getty Images (Remaining)Steve Redzikowski’s 4 foods:
What he could make with those four:GMVozd (Chilis), Courtesy of Anson Mills (Carolina Gold Rice), Getty Images (Remaining) Aimee Herring (Chicken), tashka2000 (Avocado), Rachel Been/AOL (Collard greens) ,Shutterstock (Wine)Zak Walters’ 4 foods:
What he could make with those four:Getty ImagesJoe Tarasco’s 4 foods:
What he could make with those four:Another Pint Please/Flickr (Pork Shoulder), Shutterstock (Rice), Getty Images (Remaining) Jet Tila’s 4 foods:
What he could make with those four:Another Pint Please/Flickr (Pork Shoulder), Getty Images (Remaining)Ben Goodnick’s 4 foods:
What he could make with those four:Getty ImagesNicole Rucker’s 4 foods:
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What she could make with those four:Getty ImagesJosh Laurano’s 4 foods:
What he could make with those four:Shutterstock (Cheese), Getty Images (Remaining) Eric Korsh’s 4 foods:
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