You did it, you reproduced what is probably the most technical carbonara ever developed so far in Italy. Bravo Alex, from Luciano too! p.s. Everybody here is so happy the series in back on track 🙌
literally the best source for italian cuisine content online! absolutely love your content i have replicated lucianos recipe multiple times for friends and they cant eat carbonara at restaurants anymore it just hits different
No way. A TV show would take away the magic that we're getting through his RUclips videos. He can make these types of videos because he has freedom and has great support by his fans.
Very very true. Just the way he analyses every part of the dish and the cooking prozess with that entertaining style and the close look on every detail makes his videos so perfect. I would most definetly watch that show on netflix. He is great
Alex, I can't tell you how much I appreciate your videos! As an Italian, I love the thought, detail, and respect you pay to our food...thank you. Being a foodie surpasses all cultures and nations...this is the real appreciation. Wonderful 👏 👏. 👏
As a French, I can tell you we have a lot of respect for Italian culinary tradition even if we don't say it. We love to hate it and we hate to love it but that's just the French being french.
I love how you said "being a foodie surpasses all cultures and nations"! I'm British and haven't had the chance to visit Italy yet (or even France, as an adult) but when I make an Italian dish (e.g. I made Cacio e Pepe yesterday) or any dish from any other country, really! I do my best to find an authentic/traditional recipe and good ingredients. That way you feel, just a little bit closer, to another place in the world ♥️
@@davelovesdrums Well i hope you'll come to Italy someday so you'll see how if we are eating together there's no borders, no races, no genders and that's because for us ( Italian people) food is the higher way to love someone.
The “inspiration” bit was just outstanding, the shots, the music, the atmosphere you manage to create it’s just unexplainable, and the fact that every video you raise the bar a little higher it’s incredible. One of the most enjoyable channel out there, thank you 💙
That sauce really is genius. It blew my mind when you explained it. Everything about the preparation was perfectly thought out and executed. It's like Luciano coalesced all his knowledge of cooking technique and realized the truth of how it should have been made all along. It just makes sense. The double boiler, all of that. I'm in awe. Knowing the technique, knowing the traditional methods for carbonara, I'd never have stopped to consider the two together, and yet it just absolutely makes sense. It feels right. It has that feeling when someone explains a profound and fundamental Truth to you. Genius.
Hi Alex, wanted to say that because of you we decided to travel from Romania to Luciano's and we had the carbonara. It was the best pasta we've ever had, thank you!
No matter how many cooking shows I watch, the artistry and passion of Alex keeps me coming back and always delights in new and imaginative ways. What a fantastic series and I think an incredible ode to a fantastic chef's dish. I hope he will get to taste and grade it.
Alex, I've been working in professional kitchens for 30 years. I am, by all accounts, a master chef. I still find new information, new ideas and techniques, and new inspiration whenever I watch your videos. Thank you for everything you do!
Ten years ago I watched an Australian chef do it like this on RUclips. He got bullied in to extinction by Italians. And now... This is the golden standard...
This is by far, one of the best carbonara videos ever made. Well done Alex! As an italian, I just wanna say thank you for your brilliant work and to the respect you put to italian cuisine.
Every time I think where's Alex, he appears with something incredible. I truly want to give this a try and we have a decent Italian grocery store in town, it should be easy enough to source ingredients. Merci chef!
Very good Alex, finally you did the perfect carbonara. I'm Italian and I can confirm, your tecnique and your knowledge about this recipe are now at the top level. Greeting for your new skill. Thanks to show the world how our food culture is so deep and not simple at all.
My parents just happened to be going to Rome this weekend to do a bike tour over the next couple weeks and I showed them this video. They decided to go to Lucianos and got to meet him! Complete with a dish of carbonara for sure! Thank you so much for introducing us to this place! I can't wait to try to duplicate what you did in this episode when they get back!
You probably know this already but Luciano cooked it for some other lady on RUclips and he used different ratios than his official recipe. Worth a watch if you haven’t already.
Your videos are not only inspiring but the best on RUclips hands down. I always get chills when watching them. The production level is second to none. As someone who is fanatical about the preparation of food and not cutting corners when it comes to quality and technique, I thank you from the bottom of my belly. I too spent many times mastering this dish and through this method have done just that. So rewarding!
Luciano giving out the recipe for great carbonara on his restaurant's business card is a move that blows my mind. The confidence on the man to not only sell world class carbonara as a dish, but show people how to make a similar dish themselves is mind boggling.
Getting the recipe out there for people to try and make it themselves is really smart. Once you have tried to make it, you want to compare it to the original. Atleast i do!
@Vallorn I grandi chef non hanno paura di divulgare le loro ricette,sanno bene che difficilmente qualcuno riuscirà ad eguagliarli,ma contemporaneamente aumentano il numero di persone in grado di eseguire correttamente i loro piatti senza stravolgerli,in questo caso l'uso del guanciale e non della pancetta per esempio,e poi aumentano la diffusione di una cucina vera e "semplice" come quella italiana,senza nulla togliere ad altre cucine come quella francese o giapponese,in ogni nazione ci sono ricette fantastiche che non trovi altrove,l'importante è non cambiare la ricetta.
That's because everybody will try to make it themselves, realize it's not as good as the original because that magic touch, that je ne sais quoi, the hand of the master is missing, and then they'll come back to the restaurant. All kidding aside, yes, it is nice of him to do that.
This brought tears of joy and happiness to my eyes. I've just recently started cooking carbonara and it has become an obsession. Thank you for such great work.
The editing, the lighting, and the story arc is _chefs kiss_ you’ve turned into a serious filmmaker whilst accidentally becoming a seriously good cook. I love this channel so much.
Alex just made the world a better place. This recipe is pure gold. Did it for the first time, turned out exactly like his, taste was a part of heaven. Thank you for all your hard work, it’s deeply appreciated!
I've been making carbonara for years. Not until I watched this series did I realize it was supposed to be an emulsion. After a few attempts I think I finally understand how it works. Thank you for this video. Wish i could send you a pic. Now I just have to make it work for cacio e pepe!
Since you started this series, I began buying Monograno pasta and found a local Italian shop to get real guanciale and have been making Carbonara non-stop to try and perfect this very recipe. Bravo!!
Have tried this dish at Luciano's last week after watching your videos, can confirm this is one of the best dishes i have ever tried, your one looks exactly the same as the restaurant, good job Alex keep it up!
been following this channel for around 7 years or more now. i barely comment at all but im really happy to see that you got to where you are right now.
hahahaha I was just looking at your channel last night wondering if you had released another video since you went to Rome. And now I log in this afternoon and your new video is up!!! Nice!!!
Huh. Seriously, huh. That was intense! So the sauce is similar in technique to Hollandaise, that makes an overabundance of sense. I think... I'll be able to make something similar in my kitchen. I'll have to try this. Great video once again Alex! This series is a gift that keeps giving!
I would like to see Vincenzo's Plate doing a reaction and commentary of this video. It's so amazing. Dry pasta being the unsung hero. I guess he's got a point after all.
Without a doubt, best cooking channel on youtube by far, dudes so passionate and loves cooking so much, his videos become almost like short films, cinematography, voiceover, the editing. All 10 outta 10
Hi Alex. After the dry pasta series, I have a suggestion. In Scandinavia there's this thing called a sandwich cake (Smörgåstårta). I know it sounds weird, but it is a savory kind of cake, not the sweet dessert kind. It is out right delicious and unfortunately quite unknown in the world. I really think it would be something you'd like. Maybe a shorter series kind of thing, trying it out, going a bit deeper and then giving your take on a french version of it. I don't know if you'll see this, but in case you do, please have a look at it and see if it's something you'd consider taking on. I just know you'd make an absolutely incredible version of it.
The method to make this carbonara is brilliant and it why im a fan of learning from every food culture. Using techniques and methods from one culture to improve and adapt a recipe from another.
Did this recipe based on the Luciano’s video, it is amazing, we love it at home, In my case I add a couple of smashed garlic cloves on the guanciale wile it fries then remove them when light brown, it leaves a nice garlic roasted aroma to the sauce. Great videos Alex, thanks for keep inspiring us!
That actually sounds like a great way to use garlic in carbonara (I feel like recipes that have you chop it and leave it in are way too garlicky in a recipe that's already extremely flavorful) but depending on what kind of guanciale you get it might be redundant; guanciale is often also flavored with garlic
I very much like this concept of chef-hopping, where you go from chef to chef, either directly (having one chef recommend another chef to you), or by switching to a different research topic and finding another topic to search a chef for.
I‘ve been in the editing & multimedia business for over 10years now & I really love your whole production. Was there since the old „french guy cooking days“ and so on! We‘re producing more and more food videos lately, I really do enjoy making these cause I love cooking so much and when the song startet at 11:24 (which I also used for a food video) it was such a familiar feeling. It feels so good to see other people edit in a similar way, so cool!
@@matt_freund thank you so much. I heard this song in a silly mattress ad during football this on sunday, found no app to recognize it under the voice over, had two sleepless nights, remembered that I heard it in this video here, found a search engine for yt comments and finally -> found your comment! Thank you!
Discovered your channel about an hour ago and I'm already in love with it. I've always been a foodie. I love food. From every country. But I've neglected myself in recent years when it comes to making these dishes myself and sought them out by trying to find the best local takeaways/restaurants. I've recently found my love of cooking reignited. No longer do I search for the "right" takeaway. I want to do it all myself with my own two hands. Your passion for authenticity and traditional recipes often blended with a desire! A madness! To see if you can find a way to better them, is exhilarating to watch. Thank you very much for your videos!
Great video alex, I think a sushi series would be an amazing learning experience for everyone, sushi is a very miss understood and complicated dish and I would like to see your process of mastering it.
I love the quality of information in these videos almost as much as I love watching Alex rhapsodize about the food. The cinematography is on point- the shadows, the steam, the lighting, all highlights the important qualities of the technique and the ingredients.
I am so glad to have you on youtube. The quality of content you make is exquisite. This series is just that. I was thinking how the cooking channels I watch here are sooooooo... much better than any of the formulaic and dull cooking shows on American cable television. Alex you dive deeper than any cooking show I've ever seen. I doubt I will ever make my own dried pasta but every bit of method and technique you explore informs future me. When I have cooking issues to solve I imagine I will find myself remembering parts of these series and apply your solutions to my problems. I'm so grateful for your generosity of spirit and your courage to research, apply, fail, learn and perfect. Thank you.
Ok I just made this last night and it changed everything I thought about carbonara. Seriously, adding the guanciale oil to the eggs is genius. Completely changes how the whole thing tastes. And making basically a hollandaise sauce with it for a creamier texture was insanely good. I can't go back to the other method now. I actually wanna try something since you're making a hollandaise. I know it's a little blasphemous but I wanna add a bit of lemon and see how the sauce tastes as a full hollandaise with guanciale oil instead of butter. Also, it's got me rethinking my next Eggs Benedict. Guanciale and this sauce method might really make a crazy eggs Benedict. I mean the two meals, carbonara and eggs Benedict, are pretty similar after all.
Dear Alex, I've watched your videos for a couple of years now and the othder day I've watched your dry age series again. I love how your vidoe and production quality has shot through the roof and you are simply one of my favourite youtubers to watch. Keep up the quality work!
Hey Alex ! Thanks for this so creamy (I know there’s no « panna » in this recipe) piece of art. Maybe somebody already told you but there’s a little error in your poster, you forgot the “i” in the word guanciale. Keep going on communicating your passion for food, science and culture !
Oh man I went back to look and you're right the i is missing. But wait...I went to the website where he sells stuff and it's spelled correctly there. Must be one of the proofs that had a mistake. Yay, it got fixed!
Alex you're reading my mind. I was inspired by your video when you visit Luciano and was eager to recreate the dish myself. I'm stoked you went in depth and made another video about THE carbonara. I was cheering the whole video. Many thanks! This is amazing!
I love your videos keep it up man. The Production Quality in this one is insane. Feels like you watched a BBC Wildlife documentary and went "wait a second I can do that with food aswell"
Alex, not only did you finally made a video about my favorite italian dish, you also did it with such compassion and you told me what I need to work on for my own carbonara! The editing, the music etc. of this episode is exceptional as always. I've been a subscriber since you made a video of a quiche back in the day and seeing this just makes me smile. Congrats!
ye but you forgot the pepper man. THE PEPPER MAN! I unsually toast a bit the pepper grainS and then crush them in a mortar and IMMEDIATELY put it in the eggs or sauce, to prevent the pepper-oil to evaporate.
At 11:41 there is a shot of Alex grinding pepper in a mortar in pestle. At 12:30 there is a shot of him sprinkling pepper over the dish. At 12:41 there is a close up of the dish with obvious pepper all over it. I remembered the pepper grinding shot but had to go back and watch again to see the others:)
@@lorenzozanelli3437 When he said he needed inspiration, I thought he would be going to the pepper since, I too, feel the pepper to be equal to all other ingredients . . .
Alex, I've been following you since Early 2017 and have loved to see your channel grow. Carbonara was a life changer for me the first time I tried it, opened a door to Italian cuisine that I never knew existed. This recipe breakdown is pure genius for those of us home cooks that love attempting these amazing dishes. Looks like it's time for me to stock up on some fine ingredients. Thank you for the very well done video.
Another type of dry pasta you may try to do at home is fregula sarda 🙂 check this type of pasta from the island of Sardinia, it's a pasta that looks like a risotto, check it out!
I just made this and I am now swearing out loud alone in my kitchen. This is SO much better than any carbonara I've ever had. And I made it MYSELF! Thanks so much for the content!
I'm going to try this out soon but there's a step that I think is a bit unclear both from the video and the recipe in the description. When and roughly how much pasta water do you add? Do you just have residual pasta water that is on the pasta when you transfer it to the sauce or do you add more? In the beginning of the video it looks like you add pasta water (maybe like 2-3 tablespoons?) to the eggs and cheese, before you add the pork fat. But in the end (during the "inspiration" part) you don't see any water being added. You also mention that you remove the pasta from the boiling water 2-3 min before it is finished since it will be in the double boiler but in the video it doesn't seem like you do this, it seems like you just add it to the bowl (not over the boiling water) and mix with the sauce to coat it. Are you in fact supposed to add it to the double boiler and stir it there with the sauce for 2-3 min? Hope you have time to answer. Really appreciate all your videos, they're fantastic!
These were exactly my thoughts too. I would very much appreciate a more clearly and unambiguously description. In the description are some differences too. First at the top you should mix all ingrediences together at the same time. Further below it says only the yolks without the cheese and without the water first to mix, then the fat slowly. Just to be sure for this great recipe.
@@drstefankrank oh, how sad, but good luck for tomorrow 👍🏼🍀 I got a whole original Guanciale for christmas and tried it a few days after christmas. I took very little water for the spaghetti, stirred them often and took them out of the water shortly before they were al dente. The precious starch water I kept aside. Then I heated new water in the pot for the bain-marie. Stirred the egg yolks and cheese with a scoop of starch water in a bowl over the bain-marie. Then slowly added the fat for a perfect hollandaise while stirring. After that I added the spaghetti and scoop by scoop nearly the whole rest of the starch water until the consistency of the sauce was nice and the pasta was ready. Then I plated the spaghetti with the scoop as he showed, added fresh pepper and the chunks of Guanciale. It looked delicious. Pretty good so far. But I guess I let the Guanciale too long in the skillet for rendering the fat, although on low temperature. The sauce was bitter as hell! 😭😭🤢 I tried it again today. Shorter fat rendering, middle temperature. This time not so bitter anymore but still slightly tasteable. I will try and test it again. But maybe it is a specific taste of rendered Guanciale 🤔 I have never had such kind of bitterness with other bacons or pancettas or fats.
@@missfit1536 Mine wasn't bitter. Our guanciale was made by a co-worker. First attempt. We can't even compare to a bought one. Tried it raw and it is delicious. Had it it the pan for no longer than 5 minutes. Good luck for your next attempt.
alex your production quality is unbelievable! I'd say some of the best food photography and capture and its all you in your little studio kitchen. Love the carbonara too. I learned so much!
Carbonara has been my go to lunch on weekends (if I can get my hands on guanciale), and it’s surprisingly simple. Unfortunately, Japan (where I live) banned imports of all pork products from Italy… Anyway, that spaghettoni is super delicious, expensive, but definitely worth it.
@@user-bf6gz8ej4o i think its due to african swine fever. As an italian i can say that japan has done the right thing, even tho its not dangerous for human, this desease can literally destroy pig meat prdocution.
@@user-bf6gz8ej4o there have been case of African swine disease, and other Asian countries have also banned import of pork products from Italy. I fell they’re being too cautious though since no EU countries have implemented a similar ban. Anyway, they banned products made after December 2021 and it seems some companies keep them in stock for a year or two. But, all the good ones are bought out by restaurants.
@@greenmachine5600 I can find Pancetta, but it’s not the same… I can still get my hands on guanciale online, just that the high quality ones are bought out by restaurant. Though I’m ready to make my own when they’re gone
omfg, this whole time i've been trying to perfect my timing in the pan for this sauce, doing it this way is going to be so much more reliable. Thank you, Alex!
Alex, I am currently doing a business degree but have always had a passion for cooking I am Irish and love all of your videos I have just tried to recreate your creation and it was amazing love your videos.
I've watched all of your videos on this dish and videos of Luciano making this with you and others, plus other chefs. You hit the nail on the head with this one. Hollandaise analogy! Brilliant! I make hollandaise all the time and by doing the sauce separately like this makes it fool proof. This was my third and most successful attempt as the sauce was creamy and velvety, like in your video. I used the same pasta as you and it was wonderful. The only difference between what you do here and Luciano is that he thickens the sauce with the pasta, not separately. I've tried that and have been less successful in getting it creamy. To those who say that this is mayonnaise - apparently they have never made mayonnaise from scratch. It's an emulsion of oil and egg yolk (and a few other ingredients) and isn't cooked, not unlike making a Caesar salad dressing. This is NOT mayonnaise. Merci, Alex.
Alex, I really like your perfectionism. You´ll never stop try and try again until the result is perfect. I really enjoy ever single of your videos. Nice greetings from Germany.
Bravo ! La nette amélioration en terme de réalisation enrichie encore un travail qui était déjà extraordinaire.🤯 L'attente entre chaque vidéo est de plus en plus insoutenable 🥵 Félicitation pour votre travail, la passion qui se dégage de ce contenu est Intense et sincère, merci !
How did a pasta video make me cry??? I’ve been following all the way through your series and replicating some of the dishes along the way, your talent and passion is astounding
Very few channels put as much effort into their videos as you do. The production quality is huge which is then followed up by simply fantastic cooking which always makes me feel like I'm there cooking with you. Amazing work Alex keep it up!
I had to come back to this video just to give you my thanks! I've tried different methods to make the carbonara sauce be creamy, and the emulsion/mayonaise method has been the best one I've tried yet. Once more I want to thank you, because this little change in my cooking helped me grow a bit more as a home cook!
good christ, you did it. incredible alex, so satisfying to watch you truly do it. theres something about the juxtaposition of your space, the blue painters tape and the plastic strainer in the corner of dishes with the masterful carbonara attempt. it gives me so much hope and encouragement as a deep ameteour chef myself, that the tools do not make the chef, and neither does the kitchen. thank you for this timely reminder and as always, it's such a pleasure to watch.
Alex you are back! Thank goodness! I was getting worried when there was no new video after a couple of months. So glad you are back and I'm looking forward to more videos in this series. OH! This video was definitely worth the wait.
I was at the restaurant last week and that carbonara really is something else! Anyone visiting Rome should try it! Now it will be a lot of fun trying to recreate the recipe at home following your video.
@@eddy_6502 oh, we definitely ran into a couple of those unfortunately. But for this, we made a reservation ahead of time, made sure it’s the right place and so on.
I love that you can take any piece of a series to make what you are doing better. Improve an ingredient, or a single technique, each piece is explained as to why you are doing it or why you are using the ingredient so you can improve your cooking at home by pieces instead of shooting for 3 star Micheline off the bat.
I tried the recipe 2 times. The first time it didn't go so well because the pasta was to hot so the egg solidified. I tried again the next day and let the pasta cool down a bit, and it worked flawlessly. So my recommendation is to let the cool down a bit, before mixing it with the sauce. But overall great recipe and good notes.
OMG ur filming skills are just blowing my mind. That video is so gorgeous visually and it's also given me knowledge and isparation. Thank u, very much for ur art, it's inspires me to cook and create different techniques and recipes
Things nobody wants to hear: Through the emulsion method, this technique brings Carbonara one step closer to a mayonnaise-based pasta salad.
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Every Italian in a 20 km radius shrieks in horror at the very thought.
Bro, pack your stuff and fly to some tropical countries right now, the Italians are on their way, run for your life
@@kenta326 nah I can just claim asylum in the USA with what "Italians"(Americans) are getting away with over there.
You did it, you reproduced what is probably the most technical carbonara ever developed so far in Italy. Bravo Alex, from Luciano too!
p.s. Everybody here is so happy the series in back on track 🙌
Miglior Crossover di RUclips
sarebbe bello un video in collaborazione in futuro :)
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literally the best source for italian cuisine content online! absolutely love your content
i have replicated lucianos recipe multiple times for friends and they cant eat carbonara at restaurants anymore
it just hits different
Italia squisita e alex forse gli unici canali culinari che affrontavano il cibo con serietà
This guy really needs to be given a Netflix show. The quality of this content is far beyond any cooking show currently out there.
No way. A TV show would take away the magic that we're getting through his RUclips videos. He can make these types of videos because he has freedom and has great support by his fans.
Hulu!
He is already on Skillshare. No need for Netflix.
Netflix would degrade his creativity and freedom
Very very true. Just the way he analyses every part of the dish and the cooking prozess with that entertaining style and the close look on every detail makes his videos so perfect. I would most definetly watch that show on netflix. He is great
Alex, I can't tell you how much I appreciate your videos! As an Italian, I love the thought, detail, and respect you pay to our food...thank you. Being a foodie surpasses all cultures and nations...this is the real appreciation. Wonderful 👏 👏. 👏
As a French, I can tell you we have a lot of respect for Italian culinary tradition even if we don't say it. We love to hate it and we hate to love it but that's just the French being french.
@@loicleflour8334 I love french people talking abouT how french people are acting french and stuff, it's awesome
I love how you said "being a foodie surpasses all cultures and nations"! I'm British and haven't had the chance to visit Italy yet (or even France, as an adult) but when I make an Italian dish (e.g. I made Cacio e Pepe yesterday) or any dish from any other country, really! I do my best to find an authentic/traditional recipe and good ingredients. That way you feel, just a little bit closer, to another place in the world ♥️
@@davelovesdrums Well i hope you'll come to Italy someday so you'll see how if we are eating together there's no borders, no races, no genders and that's because for us ( Italian people) food is the higher way to love someone.
@@loicleflour8334 As in the best love stories. We love each other but, out of pride, we do it maliciously in secret 😆😆
The “inspiration” bit was just outstanding, the shots, the music, the atmosphere you manage to create it’s just unexplainable, and the fact that every video you raise the bar a little higher it’s incredible. One of the most enjoyable channel out there, thank you 💙
I didn't think I'd ever say that, but ta video about Carbonara is the most epic clip I've ever seen.
Oh man waited so long for this one. We are in for a treat guys!
I was actually getting worried about Alex, took sooo long for this episode.
There had been some technical challenges along the way. Now we arrived here :)
@@drbrainlp Worth the wait! :)
@@gnost3k144 indeed
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That sauce really is genius. It blew my mind when you explained it. Everything about the preparation was perfectly thought out and executed. It's like Luciano coalesced all his knowledge of cooking technique and realized the truth of how it should have been made all along. It just makes sense. The double boiler, all of that. I'm in awe. Knowing the technique, knowing the traditional methods for carbonara, I'd never have stopped to consider the two together, and yet it just absolutely makes sense. It feels right. It has that feeling when someone explains a profound and fundamental Truth to you. Genius.
The cinematic quality of your videos is outstanding 👏🏻👏🏻
like your recipies have allways been 👍🏻
Hi Alex, wanted to say that because of you we decided to travel from Romania to Luciano's and we had the carbonara. It was the best pasta we've ever had, thank you!
From Romania to Rome, nice!
No matter how many cooking shows I watch, the artistry and passion of Alex keeps me coming back and always delights in new and imaginative ways. What a fantastic series and I think an incredible ode to a fantastic chef's dish. I hope he will get to taste and grade it.
as an italian, I thank you so much Alex, for giving to this dish the respect that it deserves. Bravo
this man takes any dish and takes it to the extreme and im here for it
Alex, I've been working in professional kitchens for 30 years. I am, by all accounts, a master chef. I still find new information, new ideas and techniques, and new inspiration whenever I watch your videos. Thank you for everything you do!
Ten years ago I watched an Australian chef do it like this on RUclips. He got bullied in to extinction by Italians. And now... This is the golden standard...
This is by far, one of the best carbonara videos ever made. Well done Alex! As an italian, I just wanna say thank you for your brilliant work and to the respect you put to italian cuisine.
Every time I think where's Alex, he appears with something incredible. I truly want to give this a try and we have a decent Italian grocery store in town, it should be easy enough to source ingredients. Merci chef!
Very good Alex, finally you did the perfect carbonara. I'm Italian and I can confirm, your tecnique and your knowledge about this recipe are now at the top level. Greeting for your new skill. Thanks to show the world how our food culture is so deep and not simple at all.
My parents just happened to be going to Rome this weekend to do a bike tour over the next couple weeks and I showed them this video. They decided to go to Lucianos and got to meet him! Complete with a dish of carbonara for sure! Thank you so much for introducing us to this place! I can't wait to try to duplicate what you did in this episode when they get back!
The production quality has really improved over the years, but these latest episodes are on a whole new level! Congratulations and thank you, Alex.
You probably know this already but Luciano cooked it for some other lady on RUclips and he used different ratios than his official recipe. Worth a watch if you haven’t already.
I love how Alex provides such an engineering perspective to his cooking techniques. Love this videos.
You are the only reason I created a separate recipe playlist in here. And your videos takes 90% of the spots. Kudos, Alex. And keep it going
Your videos are not only inspiring but the best on RUclips hands down. I always get chills when watching them. The production level is second to none. As someone who is fanatical about the preparation of food and not cutting corners when it comes to quality and technique, I thank you from the bottom of my belly. I too spent many times mastering this dish and through this method have done just that. So rewarding!
Luciano giving out the recipe for great carbonara on his restaurant's business card is a move that blows my mind. The confidence on the man to not only sell world class carbonara as a dish, but show people how to make a similar dish themselves is mind boggling.
Getting the recipe out there for people to try and make it themselves is really smart. Once you have tried to make it, you want to compare it to the original. Atleast i do!
@Vallorn I grandi chef non hanno paura di divulgare le loro ricette,sanno bene che difficilmente qualcuno riuscirà ad eguagliarli,ma contemporaneamente aumentano il numero di persone in grado di eseguire correttamente i loro piatti senza stravolgerli,in questo caso l'uso del guanciale e non della pancetta per esempio,e poi aumentano la diffusione di una cucina vera e "semplice" come quella italiana,senza nulla togliere ad altre cucine come quella francese o giapponese,in ogni nazione ci sono ricette fantastiche che non trovi altrove,l'importante è non cambiare la ricetta.
That's because everybody will try to make it themselves, realize it's not as good as the original because that magic touch, that je ne sais quoi, the hand of the master is missing, and then they'll come back to the restaurant. All kidding aside, yes, it is nice of him to do that.
This brought tears of joy and happiness to my eyes. I've just recently started cooking carbonara and it has become an obsession. Thank you for such great work.
The editing, the lighting, and the story arc is _chefs kiss_ you’ve turned into a serious filmmaker whilst accidentally becoming a seriously good cook. I love this channel so much.
"accidentally becoming a seriously good cook"
I don't know man, seems like he put an awful lot of effort into it lol
@@NG_v1 oh of course, Alex is a fanatic cook but he’s a skilled video content producer too.
Alex just made the world a better place.
This recipe is pure gold. Did it for the first time, turned out exactly like his, taste was a part of heaven. Thank you for all your hard work, it’s deeply appreciated!
I've been making carbonara for years. Not until I watched this series did I realize it was supposed to be an emulsion. After a few attempts I think I finally understand how it works. Thank you for this video. Wish i could send you a pic. Now I just have to make it work for cacio e pepe!
I believe Alex has either Instagram or Twitter. You can send it to him there.
Since you started this series, I began buying Monograno pasta and found a local Italian shop to get real guanciale and have been making Carbonara non-stop to try and perfect this very recipe. Bravo!!
Have tried this dish at Luciano's last week after watching your videos, can confirm this is one of the best dishes i have ever tried, your one looks exactly the same as the restaurant, good job Alex keep it up!
been following this channel for around 7 years or more now. i barely comment at all but im really happy to see that you got to where you are right now.
The production quality is insane in these videos. Continue l'excellent travail Alex!
hahahaha I was just looking at your channel last night wondering if you had released another video since you went to Rome. And now I log in this afternoon and your new video is up!!! Nice!!!
Huh. Seriously, huh. That was intense!
So the sauce is similar in technique to Hollandaise, that makes an overabundance of sense. I think... I'll be able to make something similar in my kitchen. I'll have to try this. Great video once again Alex! This series is a gift that keeps giving!
Very cinematic. I'm glad you are focusing on pasta so much right now. I love pasta.
I would like to see Vincenzo's Plate doing a reaction and commentary of this video. It's so amazing. Dry pasta being the unsung hero. I guess he's got a point after all.
Without a doubt, best cooking channel on youtube by far, dudes so passionate and loves cooking so much, his videos become almost like short films, cinematography, voiceover, the editing. All 10 outta 10
Hi Alex. After the dry pasta series, I have a suggestion. In Scandinavia there's this thing called a sandwich cake (Smörgåstårta). I know it sounds weird, but it is a savory kind of cake, not the sweet dessert kind. It is out right delicious and unfortunately quite unknown in the world. I really think it would be something you'd like. Maybe a shorter series kind of thing, trying it out, going a bit deeper and then giving your take on a french version of it. I don't know if you'll see this, but in case you do, please have a look at it and see if it's something you'd consider taking on. I just know you'd make an absolutely incredible version of it.
yes! the world needs more smörgåstårta
@@kebrl Unfortunately, surströmming gets more publicity than smörgåstårta on the Internet.
Oh his take on smörgåstårta would be amazing to see
Jaaa!
Is it like pålægskagemand? I am not Scandinavian, but I like it more than sushi. It’s just so varied and refreshing.
The method to make this carbonara is brilliant and it why im a fan of learning from every food culture. Using techniques and methods from one culture to improve and adapt a recipe from another.
Always a delight seeing a new video man. Thank you for your efforts to give us the best possible content with the utmost love for detail ❤️
Bravo!!! Thank you for respecting one of our best dishes!
Did this recipe based on the Luciano’s video, it is amazing, we love it at home, In my case I add a couple of smashed garlic cloves on the guanciale wile it fries then remove them when light brown, it leaves a nice garlic roasted aroma to the sauce. Great videos Alex, thanks for keep inspiring us!
That sounds delicious!
That actually sounds like a great way to use garlic in carbonara (I feel like recipes that have you chop it and leave it in are way too garlicky in a recipe that's already extremely flavorful) but depending on what kind of guanciale you get it might be redundant; guanciale is often also flavored with garlic
guanciale usually has some garlic in the spice mix on the opposite side to the skin
There is something so generous about his passion and excitement that sets these apart from other videos. Bravo and thank you!
I very much like this concept of chef-hopping, where you go from chef to chef, either directly (having one chef recommend another chef to you), or by switching to a different research topic and finding another topic to search a chef for.
I‘ve been in the editing & multimedia business for over 10years now & I really love your whole production. Was there since the old „french guy cooking days“ and so on! We‘re producing more and more food videos lately, I really do enjoy making these cause I love cooking so much and when the song startet at 11:24 (which I also used for a food video) it was such a familiar feeling. It feels so good to see other people edit in a similar way, so cool!
do you by any chance remember the name of the song playing at the timestamp?
Run with the wolves - ardie son :)
@@matt_freund thank you so much. I heard this song in a silly mattress ad during football this on sunday, found no app to recognize it under the voice over, had two sleepless nights, remembered that I heard it in this video here, found a search engine for yt comments and finally -> found your comment! Thank you!
Discovered your channel about an hour ago and I'm already in love with it. I've always been a foodie. I love food. From every country. But I've neglected myself in recent years when it comes to making these dishes myself and sought them out by trying to find the best local takeaways/restaurants. I've recently found my love of cooking reignited. No longer do I search for the "right" takeaway. I want to do it all myself with my own two hands. Your passion for authenticity and traditional recipes often blended with a desire! A madness! To see if you can find a way to better them, is exhilarating to watch. Thank you very much for your videos!
Great video alex, I think a sushi series would be an amazing learning experience for everyone,
sushi is a very miss understood and complicated dish and I would like to see your process of mastering it.
yes but man in France it is difficult to get top grade fish. And that is what it is all about.
I love the quality of information in these videos almost as much as I love watching Alex rhapsodize about the food. The cinematography is on point- the shadows, the steam, the lighting, all highlights the important qualities of the technique and the ingredients.
Glad to see you back. With all these Italian secrets you’re giving away, I thought you might be sleeping with the fishes 🐟
I am so glad to have you on youtube. The quality of content you make is exquisite. This series is just that. I was thinking how the cooking channels I watch here are sooooooo... much better than any of the formulaic and dull cooking shows on American cable television. Alex you dive deeper than any cooking show I've ever seen. I doubt I will ever make my own dried pasta but every bit of method and technique you explore informs future me. When I have cooking issues to solve I imagine I will find myself remembering parts of these series and apply your solutions to my problems. I'm so grateful for your generosity of spirit and your courage to research, apply, fail, learn and perfect. Thank you.
Ok I just made this last night and it changed everything I thought about carbonara. Seriously, adding the guanciale oil to the eggs is genius. Completely changes how the whole thing tastes. And making basically a hollandaise sauce with it for a creamier texture was insanely good. I can't go back to the other method now. I actually wanna try something since you're making a hollandaise. I know it's a little blasphemous but I wanna add a bit of lemon and see how the sauce tastes as a full hollandaise with guanciale oil instead of butter. Also, it's got me rethinking my next Eggs Benedict. Guanciale and this sauce method might really make a crazy eggs Benedict. I mean the two meals, carbonara and eggs Benedict, are pretty similar after all.
I though the same about lemon, but it would overwhelm the dish - but white wine....?
Dear Alex, I've watched your videos for a couple of years now and the othder day I've watched your dry age series again. I love how your vidoe and production quality has shot through the roof and you are simply one of my favourite youtubers to watch. Keep up the quality work!
Hey Alex ! Thanks for this so creamy (I know there’s no « panna » in this recipe) piece of art. Maybe somebody already told you but there’s a little error in your poster, you forgot the “i” in the word guanciale. Keep going on communicating your passion for food, science and culture !
Oh man I went back to look and you're right the i is missing. But wait...I went to the website where he sells stuff and it's spelled correctly there. Must be one of the proofs that had a mistake. Yay, it got fixed!
Alex you're reading my mind. I was inspired by your video when you visit Luciano and was eager to recreate the dish myself. I'm stoked you went in depth and made another video about THE carbonara. I was cheering the whole video. Many thanks! This is amazing!
I love your videos keep it up man. The Production Quality in this one is insane. Feels like you watched a BBC Wildlife documentary and went "wait a second I can do that with food aswell"
I thought the same! He really kicked it up a notch with this one! Food documentary pro status now.
Alex, not only did you finally made a video about my favorite italian dish, you also did it with such compassion and you told me what I need to work on for my own carbonara! The editing, the music etc. of this episode is exceptional as always. I've been a subscriber since you made a video of a quiche back in the day and seeing this just makes me smile. Congrats!
ye but you forgot the pepper man.
THE PEPPER MAN!
I unsually toast a bit the pepper grainS and then crush them in a mortar and IMMEDIATELY put it in the eggs or sauce, to prevent the pepper-oil to evaporate.
Pepper is already on the pork
@@bassplaya69er yeah but not nearly enough. a real carbonara has a ton of pepper.
At 11:41 there is a shot of Alex grinding pepper in a mortar in pestle.
At 12:30 there is a shot of him sprinkling pepper over the dish.
At 12:41 there is a close up of the dish with obvious pepper all over it.
I remembered the pepper grinding shot but had to go back and watch again to see the others:)
@@puggirl415 I know he puts pepper.
the problem is that he doesn't talk about it.
pepper is almost as important as the other ingredients.
@@lorenzozanelli3437 When he said he needed inspiration, I thought he would be going to the pepper since, I too, feel the pepper to be equal to all other ingredients . . .
This video made a light go off in my head, i love alex's scientific approach to food, its just what i love
That’s such a treat! Carbonara is my favorite and yours ended up looking incredibly delicious! I’m gonna have to try reproducing it soon!
Alex, I've been following you since Early 2017 and have loved to see your channel grow. Carbonara was a life changer for me the first time I tried it, opened a door to Italian cuisine that I never knew existed. This recipe breakdown is pure genius for those of us home cooks that love attempting these amazing dishes. Looks like it's time for me to stock up on some fine ingredients. Thank you for the very well done video.
Alex! Just as the average italian guy i must warn you that you forgot a letter in your poster! Its guancIale not guancale ;)
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Another type of dry pasta you may try to do at home is fregula sarda 🙂 check this type of pasta from the island of Sardinia, it's a pasta that looks like a risotto, check it out!
I just made this and I am now swearing out loud alone in my kitchen. This is SO much better than any carbonara I've ever had. And I made it MYSELF! Thanks so much for the content!
I'm going to try this out soon but there's a step that I think is a bit unclear both from the video and the recipe in the description. When and roughly how much pasta water do you add? Do you just have residual pasta water that is on the pasta when you transfer it to the sauce or do you add more? In the beginning of the video it looks like you add pasta water (maybe like 2-3 tablespoons?) to the eggs and cheese, before you add the pork fat. But in the end (during the "inspiration" part) you don't see any water being added. You also mention that you remove the pasta from the boiling water 2-3 min before it is finished since it will be in the double boiler but in the video it doesn't seem like you do this, it seems like you just add it to the bowl (not over the boiling water) and mix with the sauce to coat it. Are you in fact supposed to add it to the double boiler and stir it there with the sauce for 2-3 min? Hope you have time to answer. Really appreciate all your videos, they're fantastic!
These were exactly my thoughts too. I would very much appreciate a more clearly and unambiguously description.
In the description are some differences too. First at the top you should mix all ingrediences together at the same time. Further below it says only the yolks without the cheese and without the water first to mix, then the fat slowly.
Just to be sure for this great recipe.
@@missfit1536 I ruined it last second by adding too hot pasta to the sauce. Doh!
Try again tomorrow.
@@drstefankrank
oh, how sad, but good luck for tomorrow 👍🏼🍀
I got a whole original Guanciale for christmas and tried it a few days after christmas. I took very little water for the spaghetti, stirred them often and took them out of the water shortly before they were al dente. The precious starch water I kept aside. Then I heated new water in the pot for the bain-marie. Stirred the egg yolks and cheese with a scoop of starch water in a bowl over the bain-marie. Then slowly added the fat for a perfect hollandaise while stirring. After that I added the spaghetti and scoop by scoop nearly the whole rest of the starch water until the consistency of the sauce was nice and the pasta was ready. Then I plated the spaghetti with the scoop as he showed, added fresh pepper and the chunks of Guanciale. It looked delicious. Pretty good so far. But I guess I let the Guanciale too long in the skillet for rendering the fat, although on low temperature. The sauce was bitter as hell! 😭😭🤢
I tried it again today. Shorter fat rendering, middle temperature. This time not so bitter anymore but still slightly tasteable. I will try and test it again. But maybe it is a specific taste of rendered Guanciale 🤔 I have never had such kind of bitterness with other bacons or pancettas or fats.
@@missfit1536 Mine wasn't bitter. Our guanciale was made by a co-worker. First attempt. We can't even compare to a bought one. Tried it raw and it is delicious. Had it it the pan for no longer than 5 minutes.
Good luck for your next attempt.
@@drstefankrank thank you and good luck for yourself 🍀
alex your production quality is unbelievable! I'd say some of the best food photography and capture and its all you in your little studio kitchen. Love the carbonara too. I learned so much!
Carbonara has been my go to lunch on weekends (if I can get my hands on guanciale), and it’s surprisingly simple. Unfortunately, Japan (where I live) banned imports of all pork products from Italy…
Anyway, that spaghettoni is super delicious, expensive, but definitely worth it.
@@user-bf6gz8ej4o i think its due to african swine fever. As an italian i can say that japan has done the right thing, even tho its not dangerous for human, this desease can literally destroy pig meat prdocution.
Are you able to find something similar to guanciale?
@@user-bf6gz8ej4o there have been case of African swine disease, and other Asian countries have also banned import of pork products from Italy. I fell they’re being too cautious though since no EU countries have implemented a similar ban.
Anyway, they banned products made after December 2021 and it seems some companies keep them in stock for a year or two. But, all the good ones are bought out by restaurants.
@@greenmachine5600 I can find Pancetta, but it’s not the same… I can still get my hands on guanciale online, just that the high quality ones are bought out by restaurant. Though I’m ready to make my own when they’re gone
i cant express how proudreally
omfg, this whole time i've been trying to perfect my timing in the pan for this sauce, doing it this way is going to be so much more reliable. Thank you, Alex!
Je suis au bord des larmes lorsque je visionne cette vidéo. This story is so exquisite. One love Alex !
You are the only one I let the ads run out for, because by now, we’re practically family. Like a nono
Alex, I am currently doing a business degree but have always had a passion for cooking I am Irish and love all of your videos I have just tried to recreate your creation and it was amazing love your videos.
I've watched all of your videos on this dish and videos of Luciano making this with you and others, plus other chefs. You hit the nail on the head with this one. Hollandaise analogy! Brilliant! I make hollandaise all the time and by doing the sauce separately like this makes it fool proof. This was my third and most successful attempt as the sauce was creamy and velvety, like in your video. I used the same pasta as you and it was wonderful. The only difference between what you do here and Luciano is that he thickens the sauce with the pasta, not separately. I've tried that and have been less successful in getting it creamy. To those who say that this is mayonnaise - apparently they have never made mayonnaise from scratch. It's an emulsion of oil and egg yolk (and a few other ingredients) and isn't cooked, not unlike making a Caesar salad dressing. This is NOT mayonnaise. Merci, Alex.
Alex, I really like your perfectionism. You´ll never stop try and try again until the result is perfect. I really enjoy ever single of your videos. Nice greetings from Germany.
I would like to thank you for all the respect you're showing for Italian (Roman) cuisine
Carbonara is a dish I want to make by heart. This with the previous video have transformed my carbonara to a whole new level.
Thanks!!!!!
Bravo ! La nette amélioration en terme de réalisation enrichie encore un travail qui était déjà extraordinaire.🤯 L'attente entre chaque vidéo est de plus en plus insoutenable 🥵
Félicitation pour votre travail, la passion qui se dégage de ce contenu est Intense et sincère, merci !
Just found your channel Alex! I wish I had found it years ago. The perfect combo between nerdiness and passion for food.❤
How did a pasta video make me cry??? I’ve been following all the way through your series and replicating some of the dishes along the way, your talent and passion is astounding
Love that you mentioned the difference between Grana and Parmigiano. As a dude born and living in the Pianura Padana I feel represented :D
Very few channels put as much effort into their videos as you do. The production quality is huge which is then followed up by simply fantastic cooking which always makes me feel like I'm there cooking with you. Amazing work Alex keep it up!
I had to come back to this video just to give you my thanks! I've tried different methods to make the carbonara sauce be creamy, and the emulsion/mayonaise method has been the best one I've tried yet. Once more I want to thank you, because this little change in my cooking helped me grow a bit more as a home cook!
good christ, you did it. incredible alex, so satisfying to watch you truly do it. theres something about the juxtaposition of your space, the blue painters tape and the plastic strainer in the corner of dishes with the masterful carbonara attempt. it gives me so much hope and encouragement as a deep ameteour chef myself, that the tools do not make the chef, and neither does the kitchen. thank you for this timely reminder and as always, it's such a pleasure to watch.
I've watched your previous videos on carbonara and dried pasta but I'd happily watch another one. It's so satisfying
i literally cried when all those beautiful techniques came together to make that pasta!!
I just cooked this recipe and it was sensational, whipping up the eggs with the oil, that's when you see it really come together.
These videos are getting wayyyyyy over the top and I’m loving every single second!!!
Alex you are back! Thank goodness! I was getting worried when there was no new video after a couple of months. So glad you are back and I'm looking forward to more videos in this series. OH! This video was definitely worth the wait.
I was at the restaurant last week and that carbonara really is something else! Anyone visiting Rome should try it!
Now it will be a lot of fun trying to recreate the recipe at home following your video.
You need to find the right one tough, there are a lot of tourist traps
@@eddy_6502 oh, we definitely ran into a couple of those unfortunately. But for this, we made a reservation ahead of time, made sure it’s the right place and so on.
You changed my life with the recommendation of De Cecco brand dry pasta. Thank you!
Just yesterday I was looking at your channel's videos to see how long it's been since your last one.... never want to miss the next one.
that's amazing how you watch all the video waiting for that epic edit with that epic sound base, always the best
I love that you can take any piece of a series to make what you are doing better. Improve an ingredient, or a single technique, each piece is explained as to why you are doing it or why you are using the ingredient so you can improve your cooking at home by pieces instead of shooting for 3 star Micheline off the bat.
omg been waiting like 2 months for thus I still make all my Raman noodles from scratch thanks to Alex love everything you do
This is like a legendary summary of all the carbonara video's.
I can't say it enough how much I enjoy these videos. I can't wait to try this version on carbonara
What a fabulous tribute here to the Italian kitchen. You have done very well and deserve the credit for the hard work and effort.
I tried the recipe 2 times. The first time it didn't go so well because the pasta was to hot so the egg solidified. I tried again the next day and let the pasta cool down a bit, and it worked flawlessly. So my recommendation is to let the cool down a bit, before mixing it with the sauce. But overall great recipe and good notes.
I always made good Carbonara….. but this was on another level! Perfect creaminess! Merci beaucoup Alex.
OMG ur filming skills are just blowing my mind. That video is so gorgeous visually and it's also given me knowledge and isparation. Thank u, very much for ur art, it's inspires me to cook and create different techniques and recipes