We challenged chefs of three different levels – an amateur, a home cook and a professional chef – to make their versions of lasagna. And then we brought in a food scientist to review their work. Which Lasagna was the best?
Check out the professional’s recipe here on the ICE blog: https://www.ice.edu/blog/frank-proto-lasagna-recipe
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4 Levels of Lasagna: Amateur to Food Scientist | Epicurious
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The recipe in the bio is so bad. The beschemel cannot take this much milk can it? I'm going nuts haha
The level one guy is ridiculous and shouldn't cook
I'm a level 1.5 "Chef"! 🍳
Frank is a man's man! Thats definitely one way to keep a wife right there.
Love seeing my Ethiopian Berbere getting noticed. 3:21
My only down fall is the waiting part I’m the person that cuts right into it once it’s out the oven 😂😂😂
Is Franks eye really this Blue? Or is it the editing? Love it!
Level two chef … the only one that thinks you’re funny is you sweetheart.
honestly i would rather khadijha’s before franks
Berbere is the ultimate spice 🙌🏾
Omg my Italian grandma doesn’t like garlic either 😂
Where is the Italian grandmother level cook? 😊
1:03, 1:25, 1:47, 2:49, 3:12, 3:52, 4:28
5:10,
6:06,
6:57,
8:00,
8:24
Franks and John’s look delicious. The home cook added some strange spices for lasagna. Maybe it would be good.
level 1: not draining the fat? 🤢
level 2: I guess it's some kind of lasagna, but it's not even close to italian; this is a HUGE no for me
level 3: this is very extra, but very authentic
Chef: Give it time to rest…
Other guy: cuts it straight away XD…Huhhhh gorgeoussssss
the level 1 lasagna looks the best tho 🤤
The only problem with these lasagnas- there's no visible browning on the cheese. That's how you know it's great.
Oohhh i luv the level 2 cheff , her personalitynis lovely and i hope to try her lasagna style laterrr
Heres my lasagna vine boom this is my lasagna gunshot and here is my lasagna pipe bomb explosion
Well I didn’t not expect for her to use Berbere Ethiopian spicy 😂😂 thanks for the shoutout! From Ethiopia 🇪🇹
Oh man Frank forgot to make a homemade plate for his lasagna!!!!!!!😩😩
Level 2 chef is annoying AF. Sounds like a big childish baby. Please don’t bring her back. 🤦🏻♂️
Wow, even the "Level 2 chef" over-chefed her dish. What a nonsense recipe. And hey Frank, lasagna is a southern Italian dish (that you totally didn't make – you made pastitsio instead). Too bad that only the guy who can't cook made a real lasagna here. And his jarred Rao's tomato sauce was the best sauce there.
25% level 3 and 75% level 1 is closest to how my Italian mother makes it (minus the spinach). I don't know what level 2 was, but it wasn't lasagna.
Prefer to see one recipe wo interruption. Frank's!
I want to see frank make vegetarian lasagna (no egg)
Why do I think the amateur’s lasagna look better than the joke cooks 😅, no hate.
Im watching with my boyfriend fabrizzio
Two years later watching this again.. Frank was the only one who "officially" let his lasagna rest.. but all of them got theirs out in one intact slice. The reason: they didn't make their sauces overly runny! THAT is the biggest way to fail at making lasagna: not giving it rest time and/or making a tomato/meat sauce that is too liquid.
Amateurs looks best
I'm eating lasagna
WHAT???? MOZZARELA ISNT THE TRADITIONAL CHEESE ON LASAGNAS???? am I from another dimension?
I love lasagna. I made enough to feed 83 residents today and they were upset. Upset that I didn't make enough for 100. I personally don't put meat in my lasagna and I don't cook the noodles. I let the sauce cook them.
Excuse me, where is Rose?????????
You know what. I would eat all three of them. But, I would stick them in the fridge for a day and eat them reheated.
this video show the different… omgg
None of them made lasagna correctly. Home cook is an amateur cook too.
Frank’s recipe looks easy to follow but I don’t have a pasta maker and too lazy to roll😂😂
she used berbere🥰
Is the cheese layer with ricotta a US thing? When I saw both level 1 and 2 do it like it was supposed to be like that, I was instantly thinking: wtf u talking about. I sighed with relief when Frank got the bechamel out. I can't imagine straight up ricotta in a lasagna that's already super heavy food. Super mega overkill.
You should make Video of Frank's lasagne recipe, sounds amazing 😋
8:55 Her reaction to the cheese pull was so cute 😄
I want to try making her version. Looks like it would be savory.
What is with the girls face
Hi just thought I might say that you have this all wrong there are three types of cook the first is everybody (from good to bad) then you have a proper cook who cooks as a living (these are the best they listen to what you want then cook it as you like it no arguments) then you have "professional "chef's (these are the worst they cook how they want to when you complain it's wrong they shout they are a chef and that's how it should be but as you are paying and eating that is just wrong) never use a so called professional get a good cook to do it how you want it right first time
Completely wrong trio for this needs the Italian woman (Beth?)
I don’t cook that much but even I know the amateur did not put enough spices
dont you use bechamel sauce instead of the cheese ?
But… what's the fault of my grandmother from Bologna???😭😭😭
Why do you want to make her suffer?
First level … no comment!
Second level … I would have also used monitor lizard meat, banana pate, avocado cream and a pinch of coffee! The "Caribbean lasagna" would have been perfect!
Frank … why do you put garlic in ragu? Why do you put garlic in… BECHAMELLA? 😭😭😭
Frank? You've been to Bologna! Have you tasted the real lasagna? Why Frank? … Why?😂😂😂
Not sure what she made but Lasagne it ain't.