The Olive Garden Sold Me a Cheese Grater + Copycat Alfredo Recipe
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- Опубліковано 4 чер 2024
- Did you know that The Olive Garden will sell you one of those fancy graters they use? Yep, a brand new one. So I went and got one and let's make some alfredo! #emmymade #olivegarden #cheesegrater
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:25 Go, go Gadgets.
0:40 What is The Olive Garden?
2:44 The vintage version: • VINTAGE KITCHEN GADGET... .
3:08 My Zyliss garlic press.
3:48 Assembly.
5:55 Boiling pasta.
6:51 Making the roux.
8:49 Adding the milk and cream.
9:56 Cheese Time.
16:41 Taste test.
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As a former olive garden Manager who made alfredo billions of time. I can make it blind folded…. For a .6 of a Gallon of OG Alfredo:
1lb of Flour (we used “White Sauce Base” which is not the same as what you can buy in the store, it is flour with a little salt and sugar but it is almost negligable when making at home)
1lb of Unsalted Butter
1TBL minced garlic in water (like the kind you buy in a little jar)
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp course ground black pepper
2 Quarts Heavy Cream
1 Cup Whole Milk
1lb of Grated Parmesan (Kraft in the jar is basically the same thing)
Also Olive Garden does not salt their pasta.
Melt Butter, add Garlic salt and Pepper, after about a minute add Flour until roux forms, add Heavy Cream and Milk and stir constanty for a few minutes over Medium High, add Parmesan and stir frequently until you reach 185F… you dont want it to boil… et Voila … Olive Garden Alfredo! Not copy cat.
Also the Grater Cheese they use is Romano, but the cheese they use in Alfredo is basically Kraft Grated Parmesan.
For a standard service: 10oz Volume of Cooked Pasta topped with 8oz of Sauce and garnished with fresh finely chopped parsley.
Thank you, Sir! You're the hero we never knew we needed. If you have the salad dressing and garlic breadstick recipes, feel free to share those too!
@@sherrysoong94 I have info on both for you! 1. the Dressings were made off site. So I cant tell you the recipe but i can tell you there are multiple manufacturers for the dressing: Kens, T-Marzeti and then Olive Garden. You can but T-Marzeti, and you also get it if you buy salad in bulk or “family package” or “catering” at Olive Garden and Kens at Kroger and Wal-Mart with the olive garden logo but onlly Olive Garden corporate Makes the exact same Italian Dressing used when you buy a salad in store. And they arent going to sell it to you for home use
Bredsticks: buy plain breadsticks from the bakery section or a bakery store, bake them in a 350F convection oven for 4 minutes rotating after two minutes, until just golden brown. *As soon* as they come out of the oven brush them with a liquid butter (the kind you buy in a squeeze bottle is good, but you just want a quick thin brush amount per breadstick) then sprinkle each breadstick with Garlic Salt…
You want to brush with butter quickly because you want that butter to form a kind of shell…. You dont have to butter each breadstick at once, get a chef brush and do as many at once as you can… and follow quickly with the garlic salt so that it will adhere to the butter before it shells up
I edited this to say 2 quarts of Heavy Cream. I previously said “1 Quart” but inwas thinking abiut a 1x recipe. Usually we made a 3-4x recipe which required 6 to 8 quarts of Heavy Cream, and lasted for just a few hours before we would sell out and need more!
Is it true they put grape jelly in one of the pasta sauces?
@@aaron101889 no! That’s ridiculous! Ive never even heard that. The only thing about sauces that might be a little controversial is that their Carbonara isnt Authentic Carbonara, it is just alfredo with Pancetta in it. True Carbonara uses Eggs, Guanciale and Romano Cheese emulsified with Pasta Water… Olive Garden just uses their own version of Alfredo and adds cooked Pancetta (essentially Bacon Pieces)….
Emmy ! I have a white sauce secret for you! The next time you make a white sauce, add a pinch of NUTMEG. It sounds strange but it somehow elevates it and takes it to another wonderfully delicious level ! ❤
You’re my absolute favorite and I completely adore you 🫶🏼
a suggestion also add a bay leaf
try mace instead
mmm freshly grated on a microplane ☺️
@@michmirichi love that they come from the same fruit ☺️
Yes!
rotary graters are great for finishing with hard cheese, anything softer will gum up the works. may work with frozen cheeses, or a great way to defrost frozen butter or work into a pie dough.
Also chocolate! I used to have just one and switched often between parmesan and chocolate.
In fact, sometimes I would use it for both during the same meal...cheese for the pasta, chocolate to pretty up the dessert. I got tired of having to clean it when I switched between them so often, so I ended up buying s second one so I would have a dedicated one for cheese and one for chocolate.
@@lumpyspiceprincess2697 can confirm, have also used for chocolate shavings. refrigerated of course.
should try it with garlic. could save having to clean the press and grater. all about having fewer dishes to clean. now i need to decide on using the small grater barrel, or maybe, the slicer barrel. thanks for the insperado. salud.
Up to a point. Olive garden uses Romano and not parmesan because parmesan is too hard for the plastic graters.
Amazing idea with the butter!
The noodles can go straight from the boiling pot into the cream sauce. It makes the pasta extra creamy. Thanks for the great recipe
Her pasta was done way before the sauce was hence why she didn’t do this
I've recently discovered fresh linguine... it comes in little balls, about 10 balls in the package (in our supermarket it is by the Deli counter with the specialty cheeses) in a refrigerated case on the wall. My husband and I wondered if it would really make a difference and it DOES! We add about 4 or 5 of the little balls to a small pot of boiling water and in 2 minutes, you have fresh pasta that is so delicious. Much lighter than dried pasta and SO good and easy-peasy to fix!
Yes!
Also alfredo doesn't use cream or flour. That sauce is going to either break or solidify into a block by the time it hits the table.
That grater is also good for grating chocolate when you need a delicate shaving of it.
It would be even easier to make authentic Alfredo. Just soften a lot of butter on the bottom of a warm platter, put hot fettuccine noodles on top and grate tons of parmesan on top of it and then toss to combine and add pasta water until you have a saucy Alfredo. Delicious in its simplicity.
that does sound easy. I thought using cream, butter, and parm was the easiest
Wow that must be why it's so good, I had it in Italy. pure butter and cheese 😅
You can switch the handle side, it does work both ways. The one from Pampered Chef had 2 different size graters. I love mine and use it with more than just cheese.
I have the same one, from Pampered Chef and enjoy using it 👍💖✝
I'm an OXO fan myself, I like the ergonomics more.
My mom's had the Pampered Chef one for like 20 years and when I was a kid I'd never use a box grater because it's just so effective. I need to buy one for my house one of these days.
Looks like a copycat of the Mouli grater
Besides cheese, I've used mine to grate carrots and cucumber to make raita.
Surprise butterfinger ending! We love that.
Emmy is the only that can make me interested in a cheese grater. She make everything so fun!
I'm not understanding why it has to be bought at Olive Garden. I got mine from Amazon. I think it's the same style. I'd guess it's available all over the place.
@@jvallasPRICE! $15 at O.G. MUCH higher elsewhere! Amazon, eBay, even Zyliss site are ALL over $20+
"Cutting the cheese..."! 😅
Emmy doing Dad Jokes! 😊
+1 for mixing up Sweden and Switzerland. Didn't see that in a while.
Emmy is one of my very favorite humans.
Microplane has a great rotary grater, you should try it! Also, Sweden and Switzerland are two different countries.
Exacly. Not get why it's so difficoult to seperate them. Both start with Sw but that's it
I have that very same old cast aluminum Zyliss garlic press! It's fantastic and has lasted for years and years. I normally don't like "unitaskers" but the garlic press is used often enough (in our house anyway) that it makes up for it's focused niche-ness.
It isn't just performative, although the performance part is important as is demonstrates to the customer that the cheese on their plate is freshly grated. It's also hygienic, as it allows a server to grate cheese onto a diner's plate without having to touch it, and as the blade is safely tucked inside the gadget, there's no danger of a server slicing any part of their fingers.
Those graters are hardly hygienic. They get washed once a day and are left lying around everywhere but routinely you can find them on a tray stacked high with multiple tables dirty dishes
@@kramermccabe8601 Hygienic in the sense of servers not having to handle the cheese directly. Whether or not they're washed enough or stacked with dirty dishes isn't the issue (what you're describing and complaining about is restaurant-wide hygienic practice, not the aspects of the grater itself).
@@kramermccabe8601 plus the cheese is indeed touched in order to cut it and put it inside the block.
Emmy, I have had an olive garden grater for 23 years. I would tell you how I got it but I was young and foolish then and .... well, you get it LOL. You can reverse the cylinder for left handed use and I agree with you, its a pain to use. My Romano cheese goes through the food processor but my husband swears he likes it better through that grater, so he grates it and I cook with it. Works great here! Thanks for the video as usual always entertaining.
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Thanks for the tip on the grater. I assume you know that this isn't Alfredo sauce, at least not as made in Italy. Our version is simpler, with just butter and cheese. When you put the pasta and a little water together with the cheese and butter, the starch from the pasta water creates the creamy Alfredo sauce, with no cream or flour needed. The garlic is also not traditional. If you like Olive Garden, I imagine this would be tasty. You are so right about the green can of doom cheese (and sawdust)!
Alfredo is so easy to make and is so delicious. Just add some chicken and viola, you have a great meal! I have an old garlic press like Emmy's that belonged to my father but I've found that it is SO easy to use a microplane to grate my garlic and I've never looked back! Easier to clean than trying to get the garlic out of all of those tiny holes too!
I have had two of these cheese graters for more than 30 years. Mine have 2 different size shredding blades. They are great for shredding a small amount of cheese. For lerger amounts I have a large cheese grater.
@emmymade, I have a Zyliss grater that's quite old, so I don't know if they have changed anything in the style of construction. The grater I have can be used right or left handed. You just put the barrel in on the other side of the part you hold with your hand (it should allow you to enter the barrel from either the left or from the right), and then of course, put the handle back on there so you can use it with the other hand).
Emmy is right; rotary graters are best for small amounts. I have the Oxo version which has the advantage of sealing up. I keep it in my fridge with small scraps. For larger amounts, a good box grater is the way to go.
Only you can gracefully show how sturdy a product really is !
Say. You said the setting of grater makes really good dolls hair ....were someones children playing beauty salon...or perhaps a late night chef relaxing, being creative with what she had around....
Recipie looked scrumptious!
Love that parsley!!!
Pasta and cheese is like the angels from heaven 😳🤤, definitely my weakness😋! Thank you so much for sharing 😊.
This is the first I've learned that you can buy an Olive Garden grater. I definitely have wanted one for a very long time, so I will be purchasing one the next time I'm there.
We have one of these. We found it at the grocery store, and I was THRILLED. This was before the internet blew up about buying it from Olive Garden. I recognized it instantly as the grater from Olive Garden and it was in my cart sooo fast. We now use it every time we have soup or pasta. My family always goes "Where is the cheese gun?" and we call it "Reloading" when we put more cheese in. I think at the grocery store it was 12 dollars, and that was about 2 years ago.
Ok I use to watch Emmy when she started doing the great depression recipes but I never subscribe and didn't find again the channel until today and I can just say Emmy hasn't aged a single day since I saw her 5 years ago
Love to see she is still making her nice relax content, now I will subscribe to not miss the channel again
I just love watching your channel. Fun, cheerful, and always interesting.
Emmy thank for for all your videos. I enjoy your calming voice and interesting videos keep up the great work!
I have the exact garlic press and grater I purchased from Pampered Chef 30 years ago and both still work beautifully ❤
Pampered Chef has some great products.. plus I think they have a lifetime warranty, kind of like Tupperware!
Both mlms!
Emmy's jacket and t-shirt remind me of the color scheme of ALDI-themed apparel i've been seeing at their stores lately
So wholesome!
Looks delicious, as always.
I just picked one up, same exact, from the Goodwill! But when I need a new one, I know where to go. Love the Olive Garden as a special treat. I go for the endless soup and salad
It is also handy if you use bar laundry soap. Gets it to the perfect grain.
I bounced between three different Olive Gardens trying to get one of their graters for my son-in-law for his birthday. After 7 different visits over 6 weeks, I ordered one from Amazon!
Lol, I worked at Olive Garden for 7 years as a Server. I have litterly grated hundreds of pounds of cheese through that Zyliss cheese grater, so much so I developed a callus on my palm. The key to that cheese grater is lots of wrist pressure while spinning the hadle. They are absolutely a superb/ top notch product, it's zyliss or nothing lol
I made a lot of tips because of that cheese grater ;)
I don't even like Olive Garden but I can't deny that when the server grates a little portion of fresh cheese just for you, it really warms the soul. Thank you for your service!
Emmy, you make me feel peaceful. Thank you for that.
As a left-handed toddler in the UK in the 1960s I had to prep party salads for whole family with the Moulinex tin plate original grater/slicer mill. It had an even smaller hopper, drums with different cutters to swap around and was a fiddle to wash so my toddler fingers were the right size! Mum was passing the chore on but I loved it! Made wonderful cheese straws! With crank left cranking towards my body. Moulinex as a company was named after these and other hand cranked mills and mincers (1932) moulin being french for mill. If you can get your hands on one you might like to test the big bowl shaped mill designed to sit on top of mixing bowl or saucepan with the crank sticking up in the middle. They had their own recipe books too. Grandmama of all food processors. But nowadays I just use flat graters with a saucepan style handle straight over plate, bowl or pot. Love your shows, though I'm older than you might expect you audience to be, I've learned a lot from you. Thank you Emmy, you beautiful lovely.
I purchased a countertop version of this gadget that I've seen in other cooking videos. I love it! I know it's extra, but the way it makes grating cheese easy encourages me to use fresh cheese. 💜
I saw an ad for a grater with tumblers and a handle that “clamped” to the counter using suction. It works on firm cheeses (cheddar, mozzarella), and works amazingly fast. And most of the parts go in the dishwasher. A purchase that I don’t regret!
I've been thinking about getting one of those because hauling out my 50 year old box grater to grate fresh cheese is a chore that I really don't like to do. Thanks for the tip!
I've heard that traditional Alfredo sauce does not contain any cream or milk, t is all technique, using hot pasta water and the cheese. Have you heard of this?
Yes it is true. Its why I cant stand American alfredo.
I've had a cheese grater like that for over 20 years. Olive Garden is behind the curve on cheese grating technology.
Love you videos, Emmy!
I have this grater for over 40 years. It is a sturdy plastic. I have found that Romano works best. I tried good parmesan and it is harder. I am alone now, so I just buy my cheese grated in a jar. Love and best wishes from NC
My grandmas use these graters all the time in Eastern Europe. They have more of a top-loading design tho and you can apply direct pressure, it makes for such quicker grating. We use it for nuts for baklava, for squash and pumpkin much more often than for cheese!!
i can see why this sauce was so popular, not only is it easy to make, as you said "whats not to like"
I haven't seen a grater like that in years and now I MUST buy one!
The drop at the end gave me a good laugh thank you 😂😂😂
I was just thinking the other day while watching one of your vids, that I’ve been watching you for 12 years! That’s the longest I’ve consistently watched ANY creator 💜
We had one growing up! I would hold it with the opening facing up and fill the whole tumbler with cheese, resulting in a satisfying pile of cheese on my pasta. It was fun to use
@emmymade For years, I watch you everywhere! Very entertaining & you always make me smile! TY! Stay well!
That fall was incredible
Oh I grew up with the Kraft cheese… we loved it and still do 😂 My sister used to take the can into her room and would pour it into her hand and eat it. 😂
You just twigged a memory - I used to do the same thing (although not in my room). I remember my mum hiding it at the back of the fridge to discourage me.
@@SandiBee-rf3te 🤣 that’s hilarious…. Whenever we couldn’t find the cheese we knew where it was. And it would be almost empty.
Thank you for trying it lefty style!
My father bought one for his house back in the early 2000's. They used to ask you at the table. At least our olive garden did when it first opened. You have to use pecorino Romano in it. It's the perfect blend of soft and firm.
My favorite response is “when it’s empty” to the typical “tell me when” at Olive Garden 😂
Love watching your videos.❤
Love your shows!
❤ Simply Delicious ❤ The food looks good too 😋
I would love this with onions, mushrooms, bell peppers, broccolini, and prawns!
Even when using the box knuckle-buster, I can see using the Olive Garden grater to finish off the end of each block of cheese… to avoid any knuckle busting!
A bit extra to wash, yeah… but I value my knuckles more! 😁
The Geedel rotary grater on Amazon is amazing and has 3 interchangeable blades and suctions onto the counter. Comes in funky colors and is easy to clean. I find the Zyliss grater gives me hand fatigue.
The Mouli-grater is fantastic for grating chocolate for desserts also .... we always had one in the drawer growing up 😊
My mother had metal one just like this from a French manufacturer called Mouli back in 1960 , sounds like the one you had.
That’s the one I have, inherited it from my mom.
I have had a Zyliss cheese grater for 20+ years and it's still going strong. I am left handed so it is rather a challenge to use, but I still love it. I have always taken mine apart and put it in the dishwasher for cleaning after every use.
Growing up, we called that Kraft cheese stinky feet cheese. Mostly because that’s what it smells like. I just love watching your videos.
I'm not knocking the grater, but I use my Cuisinart to take care of the Locatelli Pecorino Romano cheese for my pasta. That way when I'm having dinner, I can have pasta with my cheese. I like my cheese.
This video made me want to help her moisturize her hands, they have put in some hard work for Emmy and they deserve to be pampered
So beautiful and awesome.
My Zyliss grater isabout 30 years old, as is my Zyliss garlic press. Great tools.
I just saw an episode of "Food that built America" and you know who started Olive Garden, General Mills.
Thanks!
Thank you!😊 😊
Your hair looks really pretty Emmy 🫶🏻
It does!! When I turned this on that was the very first thing I thought/noticed as well!
Grate video!👍
I purchased one of these Zyliss graters from Pampered Chef probably about 30 years ago. I still have it. 😊
No, soft cheeses do *not* work!
By the way, you can hold the hole up and turn the handle and pour it out once you have accumulated an amount.
Me too! That was their selling point at the party and why I bought it. I still have mine and yeah definitely meant for hard cheese's only❤
I also have one from PC. Left or right handed, multiple cylinders for different grating options.
Bought a steak knife set from Longhorn last Christmas.
Same, but mine broke & I got another brand, though it's not quite the same. My Pampered Chef one had different inserts; one small holes & another with the larger holes. I've done cheddar, swiss & low moisture mozzarella in them (semi hard cheeses). You can also store the cheese in the grater in the fridge. Also, lefties can use it; just swap the barrel so the crank is on the other side. Sometimes I do that, as my hand gets tired.
That sauce looks soo much better than anything I’ve ever gotten from Olive Garden it’s always split when I get Alfredo there
I have this with a little less cheese and prawns once a week. Love your vlogs.
I’ve had the exact cheese grater for like 15 years. I believe I got it from pampered Chef. It works great.
Glad to see this one as I've always been fascinated by that grater (as opposed to the OG food which I think is crap.). So glad to know I don't want one of these. I use a microplane box grater and when I do parmo or pecorino on the fine grate it creates an amazing pile of cheese fluff. I also use a non-cut glove when the cheese piece is small!
No spoon club! Thanks, Emmy ❣️
This is an old piece of kitchen gadgetry, as a family we had one back in the late ‘60s. When my younger sister, who was born in 1971, started eating semi solid food, mum would just grate whatever she made for our family dinner. Voila! Cheap and healthy baby food!
I am in Europe but have just checked: IKEA USA also sells these graters for around 7-8 USD. I have one at home and this one works very well. I save bits ans pieces of hard cheeses in freezer bag and then grate for pizza pasta or oven dishes au gratin, quiches...
It's all you can eat soup and solid you get the bread sticks with it. .
cool looks good.
I’ve got a version of that grater from 30 maybe 40 years ago. Still use it today
"No Spoon Club!". All the way from Costa Rica. Love your videos
They make larger graters that work the same way that stick to the countertop with a suction cup, and it also disassembles for cleaning.
You’re just delightful Emmy 😂
Never in my wildest dreams would I think of using a garlic press to make Play-Doh hair, but it makes PERFECT sense. That would have saved my parents $5.99 for the Play-Doh Barber set back in the 70s. Who knew?
Thank you for the 2 seconds you gave to considering how/if this product would work for a left-handed consumer. I say thank you b/c while this was barely acknowledgment that left-handed people exist, it was also approximately 100% more than most product testers do.
It's easy to spread spaghetti noodles (or whatever) in the pot: you hold a bunch in your hand over the pot vertically with both hands, and wring it once, gently, like a towel, and let go as you place it in the water. Ta-da!
When you kept adding the black pepper to the sauce it reminded me of Trader Joe's Cacio e pepe spaghetti. You can find it in the frozen section, and it's so good. If you like black pepper you'll like it. Maybe do a taste test.😊
12:30 My mother had that stuff when I was growing up, the rest of the family called it “vomit cheese”. Tried fresh Parmesan for the first time when I went out with my cousin for her 21st (I’m a few months older), have always fresh Parmesan on hand since, and fairly quickly converted my mother
Greetings from Redondo Beach CA USA 🇺🇸. Nice cooking video. Cheers 🥂
Wow lol. My mother had one of those exact same cheese grator in the late 1970's. It was orange. Literally exactly the same! If only slightly smaller.
Pampered Chef used to sell this grater. It came with different inserts...3 I think? Mine went in the yard sale many years ago because...my box grater was so much more efficient so I never used the pricey tool👍
My mummy has had one of these cheese graters since I can remember but it's an old metal one. I don't think she still uses it but she still has it 😊
Emmy, this is also great for butter too if you need to add some to toast but you don’t have any in the butter dish and all you have is cold butter, just pop it in the grater and grate it over your toast.
You know what those are great for? Using up the very last bit of the parmigiano or the grana padano, without having to cut off the rind. So useful and saves hundreds of dollars of cheese over the decades.
I got mine from IKEA for ten bucks.
I must say I'm very impressed that you, as a righty, noticed that this tool appears to be somewhat less convenient for a lefty. I was planning to comment on that very thing. It's frustrating when designers don't take that into account and find ways to make tools work equally well either way. I really appreciate your attention to it though!