Elegance With Eggs | The French Chef Season 2 | Julia Child

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  • Julia Child demonstrates how the modest breakfast egg can take you to lunch and dinner in fancy French dress.
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    About the French Chef:
    Cooking legend and cultural icon Julia Child, along with her pioneering public television series from the 1960s, The French Chef, introduced French cuisine to American kitchens. In her signature passionate way, Julia forever changed the way we cook, eat and think about food.
    About Julia Child on PBS:
    Spark some culinary inspiration by revisiting Julia Child’s groundbreaking cooking series, including The French Chef, Baking with Julia, Julia Child: Cooking with Master Chefs and much more. These episodes are filled with classic French dishes, curious retro recipes, talented guest chefs, bloopers, and Julia’s signature wit and kitchen wisdom. Discover for yourself how this beloved cultural icon introduced Americans to French cuisine, and how her light-hearted approach to cooking forever changed how we prepare, eat and think about food. Bon appétit!
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 119

  • @nancy9478
    @nancy9478 2 роки тому +73

    Anyone who grew up in the 60s gets why these recipes were elegant. Julia was exotic, I loved watching her cook. Most of us ate simple foods and she taught there was more....

    • @sianiswack633
      @sianiswack633 Рік тому +1

      Yes indeed. She made French cooking, or cuisine accessible to us mere mortals

    • @Roddy556
      @Roddy556 Рік тому +1

      I can be pretty sure my grandmother never saw this. Salt and pepper were the only seasonings used lol.

  • @postmodernrecycler
    @postmodernrecycler 2 роки тому +60

    She's just such a delight. Even just watching her mess around with eggs is endlessly charming.

  • @serioushex3893
    @serioushex3893 2 роки тому +49

    what a legend. she really was larger than life.

  • @algini12
    @algini12 2 роки тому +91

    50 years ago and still ideas that can still be new to you with eggs. She is timeless.🙄

    • @secretagent5954
      @secretagent5954 2 роки тому +5

      same thing with music. can be 100 years old but new to you and you experience it like it just came out

    • @Roddy556
      @Roddy556 Рік тому +1

      I might try some of these ideas

  • @jodavis650
    @jodavis650 2 роки тому +25

    The house I have inherited has the same muffin pans, cooking glass pretty much everything she is using..this house was like walking back into the 40s and 50s..and I also have left it this way...

  • @lawriefoster5587
    @lawriefoster5587 2 роки тому +15

    Still learning at 70!! Thank you Julia!!

  • @shannondore
    @shannondore 2 роки тому +21

    Always the professional, she just ignores the fighting going on behind the scenes at 8:51 and keeps talking over the yelling and door slamming.🤣

    • @elainecrawford6891
      @elainecrawford6891 8 місяців тому +2

      That nonsense went on for a while; she never missed a beat.
      God bless her. She was certainly an amazing woman who truly left no note unsung. 🙏❤

    • @ryanthomas49
      @ryanthomas49 5 місяців тому +2

      😂😂😂😂😂😂 WHAT WERE THEY FIGHTING ABOUT?

    • @shannondore
      @shannondore 5 місяців тому +2

      ​@ryanthomas49 I wish I knew. Someone was mad. You can tell from the door slamming.😂

    • @Justcanadianjanjan
      @Justcanadianjanjan 2 місяці тому +2

      Men. I bet it was the time they had to fire that scientist who was bumped for Julia was was a snore. But guaranteed it was men being petty when this classy woman had the limelight

    • @Justcanadianjanjan
      @Justcanadianjanjan 2 місяці тому +2

      Might have been Paul telling these men to grow up while Julia had the stage?

  • @Banjo56
    @Banjo56 Рік тому +7

    Julia Child was my childhood crush. Such beauty and elegance.

  • @annm4833
    @annm4833 Рік тому +6

    Her enthusiasm is contagious! She makes you feel like you can try these techniques and have success!

  • @francesmaurer185
    @francesmaurer185 10 місяців тому +3

    Julia's was an American Legend that we still treasure and enjoy eating today . ❤❤❤

  • @debinthewheelchair7781
    @debinthewheelchair7781 2 роки тому +7

    blessings on 'GBH for keeping the tales, and making them availble for those of us who are Juliaphiles!

  • @TheDfarhie
    @TheDfarhie 2 роки тому +10

    Le Saint du Cuisine! Brava Julia, mon chere!

  • @rulofreak2711
    @rulofreak2711 2 роки тому +14

    I just Love the moment she talks about Fanny Cradock! Two amazing women that teach you how to Cook with real facts and tips!! ❤❤

    • @kurtishall9492
      @kurtishall9492 2 роки тому +6

      "Everything... EVERY SINGLE THING is in the booklet."
      I agree. Two wonderful TV cooks who were marvelous.
      I wonder if they ever met. I'd love to been there.

  • @mareenorth8790
    @mareenorth8790 2 роки тому +8

    She epitomised the passion for cooking. I have watched and learned for 40 years. Watching back on these episodes I laugh often at some of the old methods, and the technology of the dat … but I STILL lean something new every time.

  • @eguirald
    @eguirald Рік тому +10

    What a wonderful lady! Timeless, charming, incredibly skillful … and yet, so down to earth and generous to share her wisdom.

  • @albertouba
    @albertouba 8 місяців тому +3

    "When she talks about the tomato sauce, you can see how significant the arrival of color TV was. Something so simple for us."

  • @robadams5799
    @robadams5799 2 роки тому +8

    Ever try scrambled eggs with salsa? Good stuff.

    • @robadams5799
      @robadams5799 2 роки тому

      Just don't use diced tomatoes, apparently.

    • @lisaspikes4291
      @lisaspikes4291 2 роки тому +1

      All the time. With cheese, refried beans, guacamole and sour cream. And a few jalapeños for good measure. Yum!

    • @Luckyladyll
      @Luckyladyll Рік тому +1

      Yes, but I heat the salsa and drain the liquid. I love to roast chilis and put them chopped with cheese into the filling. YUM.I make a really good charred homemade salsa.

  • @FLGurl
    @FLGurl 2 роки тому +15

    I have by way of the motivation in this video come up with no less than 21 different toppings for these delightful eggs. Julia just opened my mind to the treasure trove of thinking through this and allow my creativity to flow through with those flavors that I already love so much and top them over these soft eggs. Thank you so very much! ❤

  • @anonleeleichner3915
    @anonleeleichner3915 Рік тому +4

    I'm binging on Julia.....great way to spend my time

  • @garypesci746
    @garypesci746 6 місяців тому +1

    Julia did a show in the 1980s where she made scrambled eggs & omelets. I learned how to make the best scrambled eggs watching that show. I never liked scrambled eggs, my mother cooked them until they were bone dry, then they would turn to rubber on the plate with no flavor at all. Julia's method was to use lots of butter in the pan, low heat, wait until the butter was hot enough, the same way she described here, add the eggs when the butter stops bubbling, she said don't add salt to the eggs until after they are cooked, it makes them tough, constantly stir the eggs in the pan until they look just cooked, still slightly moist, then remove from heat and put them on a plate topside down, the residual heat will finish cooking the eggs. I tried it and have been making scrambled eggs that way ever since, they turn out soft and tender. I add marjoram to the beaten eggs before they go in the pan and add some grated colby jack cheese to the eggs right before taking them out of the pan. Sometimes I stir sauted mushroooms and/or diced ham or prosciutto into the eggs in the pan before they finish cooking. If I have a ripe avocado, I put a couple slices on the plate next to the scrambled eggs. Avocado is so good with scrambled eggs. As much as I disliked scrambled eggs before, that became my go to way of cooking eggs, just occasionaly I will make eggs over easy with ham or bacon on the side.

  • @curtcaudle5900
    @curtcaudle5900 2 роки тому +4

    Her book is part of my collection 📚

    • @lawriefoster5587
      @lawriefoster5587 2 роки тому +1

      Here too!! I love reading cookbooks, getting ideas, and
      then waking up remembering them!! Bon Appetit

    • @curtcaudle5900
      @curtcaudle5900 2 роки тому

      @@lawriefoster5587 how many do you have? What is the oldest? Thank you

    • @lawriefoster5587
      @lawriefoster5587 2 роки тому +2

      @ curt caudle..
      I have about 15 running feet of
      them...famous restaurants, chefs,
      junior league, Philadelphia Orchestra, etc. Oldest one is
      Lowneys Cookbook from 1921.
      Not a first

    • @curtcaudle5900
      @curtcaudle5900 2 роки тому +1

      @@lawriefoster5587 🌹🌹so much thanks for responding, l have a book from Vincent Price, A Treasury of Great Recipes one of my favorites. My oldest is a Encyclopedia of Cooking 1941.

  • @wulfboi8808
    @wulfboi8808 Рік тому +2

    I used to LOVE watching her about 50 years ago when I was just a kid, still do. That cooking competition show on TV now called "The Julia Child Challenge" is simply a joy to watch. Not only to see the contestants try to recreate 1 of the world's best chefs ever recipes, knowing that a younger generation has been exposed to such an artist but also, the winner will go to Paris and study at Le Cordon Bleu as Julia did!

  • @joeblow578
    @joeblow578 8 місяців тому +1

    Julia knew that people wanted cooking shows they could relate to... and she was so right. But there's one thing that modern cooking shows have learned in the intervening years... we want to see the chef eat some of the foods! I wanted her to take a bite of eggs so bad...

  • @matthewbaduria
    @matthewbaduria 2 роки тому +7

    Great show,one of PBS's first hits back in 1963,50 years later it is still with us ever since.

  • @joyellan
    @joyellan 2 роки тому +9

    I had never heard of shirred eggs before. I am definitely going to try this! I have found i really like making omelets in this fashion way easier and less cleanup.

    • @lllowkee6533
      @lllowkee6533 2 роки тому +1

      These “omelets” seem like my scrambled eggs??

  • @Biby57
    @Biby57 Рік тому +1

    Julia Child was a class by itself! Elegances in her dishes were her forte, simple dishes cooked on a grand scale!

  • @Luckyladyll
    @Luckyladyll Рік тому +3

    She makes it look so easy. I am so grateful to her for all these videos and her fabulous cookbooks.

  • @veronicats100
    @veronicats100 Рік тому +2

    She was AMAZING!

  • @kbowler9266
    @kbowler9266 Рік тому +1

    This was a life saver for me to learn the right way to cook eggs. I learned a lot of basics from this series

  • @lllowkee6533
    @lllowkee6533 2 роки тому +3

    Love watching Julia!

  • @mikecroly4579
    @mikecroly4579 Рік тому +1

    How wonderful to enjoy the incomparable, lovely Julia Child ❤️! What a rare gem of a human being was she! Thank you for sharing her again! ❤️

  • @davidhickenbottom6574
    @davidhickenbottom6574 10 місяців тому

    Absolutely wonderful, i almost passed on this episode. That would have been a huge mistake.
    She never disappoints. A true national treasure.

  • @kathym6603
    @kathym6603 7 місяців тому

    Julia was an artiste extraordinaire. 🥚 🥚 🥚 🥚 🥚 🥚 🥚 🥚

  • @jeffbizzarro
    @jeffbizzarro Рік тому +1

    Pioneer!

  • @elizamccroskey1708
    @elizamccroskey1708 Рік тому +3

    $2.50 for a nice carbon steel omelet pan! I wish 😆She is still informative and delightful.

  • @davidotoole9328
    @davidotoole9328 6 місяців тому

    I love that she was aware of Fanny Cradock, who was the UK's first TV Personality Chef, her transatlantic sister.

  • @terlinguabay
    @terlinguabay Місяць тому

    Loved this since it premiered.

  • @leilagomulka5690
    @leilagomulka5690 Рік тому +1

    Exquisite ♥️♥️♥️

  • @emilletich
    @emilletich Рік тому +3

    Omelet perfection

  • @lisaspikes4291
    @lisaspikes4291 2 роки тому +3

    Although I appreciate a French omelette, my favorite way to make an omelette is to separate the eggs, beat the whites until they’re almost like meringue, then beat the yolks until they’re creamy, fold them together and then put them in the pan to cook.
    It’s so fluffy! Add some cheese and whatever toppings you like. Then fold it in half. You have to cook it slower than the French omelettes though. In order to let the inside cook a little.
    They make them like this at many Waffle Houses. I know, not haute cuisine, but they make a wicked omelette!

    • @Luckyladyll
      @Luckyladyll Рік тому +2

      I have done like that, but that is a whole different kind of omelet. She is demonstrating the basic French omelet which is a simpler method.

  • @RaquelGarcia-u3z
    @RaquelGarcia-u3z 6 місяців тому

    Oh that is truly splendid

  • @patriciashelton6644
    @patriciashelton6644 Рік тому +2

    Just turned in. To make my omelets light and fluffy, I add just a pinch of baking soda, so many different omelets, I love mushrooms,and peppers I saute an add with a white cheese. If I have left over homemade mushroom soup that has white wine added to it, I take a cup of soup, bring to a boil, an add a rue of corn starch to thicken to a sauce, and drizzle over the omelet. Soo good. Edit: Wonder what she would think of egg prices today?

  • @RaquelGarcia-u3z
    @RaquelGarcia-u3z 6 місяців тому

    Lovely thanks dear

  • @kd1s
    @kd1s 2 роки тому +1

    Oh wow I've mastered the egg. Boiled I put an inch of water and bring. It to a boil. Then put the eggs in and cover. In usually go 8 minutes periodically turning the heat on simmer to keep the temperature maintained.

  • @gnirolnamlerf593
    @gnirolnamlerf593 Місяць тому

    I was hoping she'd juggle those four eggs at the beginning.
    It is amazing, how many dishes she created in 28 minutes.
    Now I know why I make a good omelet. Somehow I figured out the tips she just gave on my own, long ago. I don't know why. I am a terrible cook but I make good omelets, good meat loaf, and _bake_ a tasty hamburger. Perhaps it was because I was subjected to horrible omelets and greasy hamburgers and meatloaf in school and university cafeterias.

  • @carlosgarciamusic953
    @carlosgarciamusic953 Місяць тому

    Pray, what might be the best method for cooling an egg swiftly, in manner most apt and expedient?

  • @charliesmith_
    @charliesmith_ 9 місяців тому

    Are these *all* fresh unrefidgerated eggs -- or refridgerated eggs? Makes a *big* difference in the cooking times whether they're refidgerated or fresh and unrefridgerated eggs.

  • @Happy-yv7vm
    @Happy-yv7vm Рік тому +2

    We need her life story by Meryl Streep when that movie Julie Julia aired i used to skip the scenes with that younger actress so I can see Meryl Streep ones about the real Julia we need her autobiography

  • @francesmaurer185
    @francesmaurer185 7 місяців тому

    ❤❤❤❤❤

  • @gavmad
    @gavmad 2 роки тому +5

    Is that a Formica countertop? She places her hot pans directly on it?

    • @nancy9478
      @nancy9478 2 роки тому +1

      Lol I know!!! Formica was the thing back then...

    • @Luckyladyll
      @Luckyladyll Рік тому +1

      Julia was known to have a few "accidents" on live tv, which made her show even more entertaining. The bits that Dan Aykroyd, Robin Williams, and Dana Carvey did where their bra caught on fire or things "happened" were all inspired by this lovely woman. She was the original.

  • @danielmartens156
    @danielmartens156 Місяць тому

    And now we have all this cold food! 😅

  • @arak2551
    @arak2551 2 роки тому +14

    Comparing Julia’s omelets in this episode to the ones she demonstrated in her 1980s show, you can see how she kept improving her technique. On the other hand, as ugly as the omelet is here, the basics are correct and I have no doubt it would have tasted great.

  • @ColinCropley
    @ColinCropley Рік тому

    it's kind of interesting how she can make eggs!

  • @Ma_Ba
    @Ma_Ba Рік тому +1

    @15:22 carbon steel omelette pan for $2.50

  • @RaquelGarcia-u3z
    @RaquelGarcia-u3z 6 місяців тому

    How heavily dear?

  • @A55563
    @A55563 7 місяців тому

    12:50 " put the eggs under a red hot broiler as close as you can get them and every one or two minutes check on them $@&?*.... I mean every five or six seconds!.. Priceless.

  • @f.pompeuroda3908
    @f.pompeuroda3908 2 роки тому +3

    These videos should be coloured !!

  • @squishykrishy_
    @squishykrishy_ Рік тому +1

    Julia was into electric before electric became popular!

  • @DavePernas
    @DavePernas Рік тому +1

    Oeufs poches, I make them for Sunday brunch. I top them with pepper, salt, paprika, fresh cilantro and chopped ham. I don't like parsley too much.

  • @marlagriffith3144
    @marlagriffith3144 2 роки тому +5

    The thing that surprises me is she uses and electric stove.

    • @shaddonon
      @shaddonon 10 місяців тому

      a consequence of filming on a sound stage; easier / cheaper than gas

  • @rakefet3204
    @rakefet3204 2 роки тому +1

    למה אין תרגום

  • @c.a.g.3130
    @c.a.g.3130 Рік тому +1

    If we all ate like this, we might also, like Julia, die tragically young: at age 92!

  • @davidhickenbottom6574
    @davidhickenbottom6574 10 місяців тому

    Swiss cheese has the French taste.

  • @vladnechuataluk9151
    @vladnechuataluk9151 2 роки тому +4

    ☺️🇫🇷💕🇺🇦

  • @ddwro1
    @ddwro1 Рік тому +1

    I love watching her but I just need my eggs cooked more

    • @annehajdu8654
      @annehajdu8654 6 місяців тому

      Me too. Those french omelets are under done.

  • @clevelandphil
    @clevelandphil Рік тому

    Overhead, she mixes the eggs with her left hand. Facing the camera, she uses her right hand.

    • @theGhostWolfe
      @theGhostWolfe 21 день тому

      Perhaps there’s a mirror instead of a camera above her?

  • @sean78745
    @sean78745 Рік тому +1

    This would be the perfect intro to a horror movie

  • @hollystump1
    @hollystump1 Рік тому

    Fun: Gordon Ramsay vs Julia Child. Epic Rap Battles of History: ua-cam.com/video/99-n42Xb6NQ/v-deo.html

  • @RaquelGarcia-u3z
    @RaquelGarcia-u3z 6 місяців тому

    I am obviously back since I encountered a hellish time with these things called eggs

  • @RaquelGarcia-u3z
    @RaquelGarcia-u3z 6 місяців тому

    Oh dear I set it for 425… no wonder

  • @Justcanadianjanjan
    @Justcanadianjanjan 2 місяці тому

    The fact the word “margarine” never came out of Julia’s mouth is enough to respect her. Margarine was the worst invention ever and one molecule away from plastic!!! Who wants to eat plastic?? 🤷🏼‍♀️

  • @debinthewheelchair7781
    @debinthewheelchair7781 2 роки тому

    * that should have been "tapes"

  • @bewareofpigeons
    @bewareofpigeons 2 роки тому +3

    The two plain omelettes were more like scrambled eggs..... strange.

  • @jessicagrace625
    @jessicagrace625 2 роки тому +2

    Love Julia but not this particularly

  • @Roddy556
    @Roddy556 Рік тому

    8:56 lol. Eggs benny good but it is pretty boring now and 60 years ago.

  • @jimbo477
    @jimbo477 Рік тому

    Notice that there is no browning on her omelettes. Overcooked eggs taste bad., especially overcooked brown-bottomed frittatas. Omelettes are not just scrambled eggs. Much more delicate and can be filled, as she demonstrated. I wish she had demonstrated the French traditional way of cooking scrambled eggs. They are cooked slowly on low heat or 14 or 15 minutes of constant stirring. The consistency in the end is more like a thick soup than the horrid mess of overcooked clumpy eggs we make here in the USA.

  • @rogeeeferrari
    @rogeeeferrari 2 роки тому +1

    A souffle would have been elegant, nothing in this video is really elegant...

    • @baritonebynight
      @baritonebynight 2 роки тому +5

      Who says it needs to be elegant?! I don't think you know much about cooking.

    • @rogeeeferrari
      @rogeeeferrari 2 роки тому +1

      @@baritonebynight The title of the video is "Elegance with eggs" I guess you overlooked that and just went with a cheap insult, bravo...

    • @lynn1505
      @lynn1505 2 роки тому +3

      To each his own. I think these recipes are elegantl.

    • @annehajdu8654
      @annehajdu8654 2 роки тому +7

      Those little ramekins or souffle dish are elegant.

    • @nancy9478
      @nancy9478 2 роки тому +4

      I grew up watching her cook. I rarely had eggs for any meal, and most of us in those days thought TV dinners were exotic. Julia showed us things that we never heard of. Life in the 60s for kids did not include cable tv cooking shows, we were not jaded like todays kids.

  • @secretagent5954
    @secretagent5954 2 роки тому +3

    oooooooh julias cracking her eggs incorrectly

  • @wulfboi8808
    @wulfboi8808 Рік тому

    Women have always been the best and original chefs/cooks of the world. 💯🍳🔥🥣🫕🔪🫖🍯🍾🏺The problem being, often times they have been written out of history. You never hear a guy say, "I grew up on my Dad's cooking". When I was a kid, on the rare occasion Mom was away for an entire day or more, that was a real treat as Dad would take us to McDonalds and pizza take out was also on the menu if enough meals had to be "cooked" by him.