Summer Food Fights
The Whisk-Off
For the next two weeks, we're hosting our own Summer Food Fights on FOOD52 -- come play along! Big prizes await.
Today: Who can whisk up a beautiful bowl of cream the fastest, without making butter -- is it the Test Kitchen Manager, the Developer, or the Editor-in-Chief?
Kitchen athletics can be gruelling (okay, this is harder, but still). Breaking down whole chickens, rolling out pie dough, and whipping things to soft peaks -- anyone who can master these without getting all sweaty is a champion in our eyes. But touching truths aside, we wanted to see someone win.
Watch what happened when we pitted three fierce cooks from our own staff -- Test Kitchen Manager Jennifer Vogliano, Developer Amanda Li, and Editor-in-Chief/co-founder with the mostest Merrill Stubbs -- against one another in a whisk-off. Cream, not egg whites -- we're not masochists.
p.s. Check out that commentator -- who let her have a mic?
This video was shot by Alex Lisowski and edited by Kyle Orosz.
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Tags: summer food fights, video, whipping cream, athletics, feats of strength, bragging rights
Kristen Miglore
I'm an ex-economist, ex-Californian who moved to New York to work in food media in 2007. Dodgy career choices aside, I can't help but apply the rational tendencies of my former life to things like: recipe tweaking, digging up obscure facts about pizza, and deciding how many pastries to put in my purse for "later."
Comments (25)
10 months ago Third Floor Kitchen
Go, Stiff Peaks Stubbs! I loved this as much as the Disco Fries video!
10 months ago WileyP
I'm going to throw out my electric mixer and get myself a Merril!
10 months ago Sam1148
Irish Coffee for Everyone!
10 months ago amanda
Amanda is a co-founder of Food52.
We actually made butter with the leftovers!
10 months ago Kitchen Butterfly
LOVE IT. This time you get the gold Merrill, very well deserved....unlike the mirepoix debacle :-).
10 months ago Olivedog
A pint of cream in 32 seconds? Whoo hoo!
10 months ago ATG117
So great!
10 months ago ChefCitron
You ladies are bananas :) ! Loved this!!! Congrats, Merrill!
10 months ago LLStone
Merrill rocks!! Good video!
10 months ago creamtea
I wanna be just like Merrill and stand on that podium some day....
10 months ago Hilarybee
Hahaha! But No lefties?!
10 months ago thirschfeld
hilarious! but how come you all hold your whisk like that. Am I the only fosburry flopper of whisking out there, say it isn't so.
10 months ago healthierkitchen
so fun! Love the "starting bell."
10 months ago thirschfeld
it should have been full though
10 months ago liamoran
Probably the funniest thing I’ve seen all day. I love whisks (favorite kitchen tool!) and fierce, healthy competition. Loved it! Team Stubbs!
10 months ago Madhuja
You guys are such goofballs! Loved the video! :)
10 months ago aargersi
Abbie is a trusted source on General Cooking.
OK this is freakin' hilarious - I love disgruntled silver and bronze while GOLD celebrates and weeps on her podium.
10 months ago jvcooks
Disgruntled silver and bronze want a rematch!
10 months ago Amanda Li
Amanda is a developer at Food52.
amen! and i'm totally sneaking in a pinch of cream of tartar
10 months ago inpatskitchen
Stubbs RULES!!
10 months ago fiveandspice
Emily is a trusted source on Scandinavian Cuisine.
Oh you guys are too hilarious! Er, I mean athletic. What a competition!
10 months ago darksideofthespoon
Be the whisk! Yessss!!
10 months ago kenzi
Kenzi is an Assistant Editor of Food52.
I don't think I'll ever whip cream again without repeating in my head, "be the whisk, be the whisk."
10 months ago sdebrango
Suzanne is a trusted source on General Cooking.
How funny, Congrats to Stiff Peaks Stubbs, good whisking!!