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Just watched Top Chef Season 7 Premier episode and caught a blaring* mistake.
I have enough things to be anal about as is, and now I’ve got one more category to add: food TV misinformation.
In the quick fire, contestants performed various preps as part of a mise en place challenge.
The problem is, there is no such thing as brunoise onions.
Onions can be small diced and the technically correct term for this is called ciseler, not brunoise!
There is a different term for small dice onions as there is for other root vegetables because you cannot achieve perfect cubes (required of a brunoise) when onions come in layers of varying thicknesses. Let’s not even go into details about what the exact dimensions of a brunoise is.
I have no choice but to tell Tom Colicchio what’s what when I see him tomorrow (volunteering at the Great American Food & Music Fest)!
*[correction: Glaring. Thanks, Tim!]
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