In The Weeds with Ben Randall
By: Chef Ben Randall
Language: en
Categories: Arts, Food, Comedy, Leisure, Home, Garden
I began cooking when I was 14 years old and I never looked back. Enjoy the pirate ship.
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Episode 469: Eau de Tillamook with Chef High
Jan 07, 2026Today we're talking to the chef/co-owner of Bay City Kitchen (Bay City, OR) about the path to restaurant ownership, locally sourcing ingredients and keeping baker's hours.
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Duration: 01:55:46Episode 468: Back on the Booch
Dec 31, 2025Today we're talking christmas & new year's food, 2026 hospitality predictions and Steve encourages you to all go where you want to be.
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Duration: 02:11:22This Empty Glass Episode 43: Parents in Recovery with Sarah Allen Benton
Dec 18, 2025Today we're talking to addiction specialist and therapist Sarah Allen Benton about her book, 'Parents in Recovery'. I truly wish I had had this book years ago when I first got sober and my kids were still little. The perspectives and interviews with folks who are parenting while in recovery are amazing.
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Duration: 01:15:14Episode 467: Chefs Against Humanity
Dec 17, 2025Tonight we're talking canned bread, Japanese New Year traditions, a fight at a San Francisco restaurant and the British can't pronounce 'dulce de leche'. Also, we hate milk duds.
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Duration: 01:33:26Episode 466: Cooking On Vibes
Dec 10, 2025Tonight we're talking soup dinners, potato salad, unique thanksgivings, things in cans and delivery robots clogging up sidewalks.
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Duration: 01:53:52Episode 465: Bad Can of Yams
Dec 03, 2025Today we're talking Soup&Bread, kitchen floors, old coffee, a hot tub full of mac&cheese and Thanksgiving Leftovers. Also, Campbell's soup thinks you suck.
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Duration: 01:31:52Episode 464: All The Keys In The Bowl
Nov 26, 2025Happy Thanksgiving everyone, and huzzah! It's our annual Thanksgiving episode, plus a quick discussion about scheduling, meatballs and New Zealand gets some tire awards.
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Duration: 02:07:23Episode 463:Aphrodisiac, Mr. Cooper?
Nov 19, 2025Today we're discussing aphrodisiacs, food & politics, green sriracha and a little bit about turkeys.
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Duration: 02:01:47Episode 462: Dog & Nuts
Nov 11, 2025Today we're talking frozen gardens, 'pumpkin' pies, Spudnuts, lab-grown chicken and what that means for kosher chicken parmesan, and Puebla de Sabor tequila goes missing.
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Duration: 01:53:17Episode 461: Fishy Boner Honey
Oct 30, 2025Today we're talking Yelp's protection racket, queso beds, lead in protein, Mike's Hard Honey and Etta's continued slow collapse.
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Duration: 01:31:07Episode 460: Green Tomato Jam
Oct 22, 2025Tonight we're talking influencers beefing with bakeries, rice recalls, culling ostriches and Montana's 'Food Freedom' law. Also, that trashbag Bickelhaupt was denied bail. Everybody drink!
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Duration: 01:32:32Episode 459: Twinkie Innovation
Oct 10, 2025Today we're talking cider donuts, Ukrainian apple picking, dessert innovations, dangerous corndogs and people are suing Hershey's for spooky-related claims?
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Duration: 01:29:08Episode 458: Big Tallow
Oct 03, 2025Today we're talking Ben's job, Koeze Peanut Butter (https://koeze.com/), Red Angel hotsauce (https://www.redangelsauce.com/), Starbuck's store closing sweep, milk from a No-Cow and Big Tallow himself!
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Duration: 01:48:35Episode 457: Kitchen Spanish
Sep 24, 2025Today we're talking why immigrants Make White People Food Great, coffee in context, radioactive shrimp, Donkin' Donas and do people drink smoothies on Sunday?
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Duration: 01:28:43Episode 456:Pineapple Pork Stick
Sep 18, 2025Tonight we're talking PFAS in your cookware, in your fish, in yourself. Also garden updates, PandaFest and restauranteurs who voted for mass deportations are now upset about mass deportations.
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Duration: 01:45:47Episode 455: Supersize My McWage
Sep 10, 2025Today Steve's a little sick, Ben just got two vaccinations, and we're recording anyway! We talk sentencing of the Australian Mushroom Murderer, define some culinary terms and McDonald's splits with the NRA (not *that* NRA, but both are bad) over the tipped minimum wage credit.
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Duration: 01:30:44Episode 454: Relaxation Day Prep List
Sep 03, 2025Today we talk fancy burgers, turkey woes, Burgers Against Humanity, now things are 'swicy'? and Ben can't relax.
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Duration: 01:42:10Episode 453: Sluts For Tourists
Aug 29, 2025Tonight we're updating Walmart's radioactive shrimp, we're resurrecting Hot & Now and we dive into the turf war between Traverse City Michigan's wineries and residents.
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Duration: 01:37:26Episode 452: Virtual Churros
Aug 20, 2025Today we're talking radioactive shrimp, raw milk, raw bread, beef fat (tallow, if you're fancy), taco husbandry and churros on the internet. Also, there's nothing wrong with seed oils.
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Duration: 01:40:28Episode 451: Big Chill B&B
Aug 15, 2025Today we're talking The Big Chill, raw milk (again), Coke arcades and tiny human steaks.
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Duration: 01:16:16This Empty Glass Episode 42: Purity Test
Aug 07, 2025We've got another episode of TEG! Today Ben's talking about sandbags, cool rocks and varieties of sobriety.
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Duration: 00:32:45Episode 450: Shower Beers & Bathroom Fridges
Jul 30, 2025Today, we're talking Ben's inability to relax, backyard garden updates, the brand new book Patreon, the passing of chef Anne Burrell and the Feast of St Pasty.
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Duration: 02:05:51Episode 449: Orange-Flavored Bacon Juice
Jul 17, 2025Today we're talking FDA regulation rollbacks, cereal collabs, UV milk and American Girl Dolls
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Duration: 01:35:07Episode 448: Dented Can Store
Jul 08, 2025We're back! Today we're talking about the Erin Patterson verdict (she totally did it), gardening (again), food saints, chef collabs, lovely gifts and turkey bacon recalls!
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Duration: 01:55:47Episode 447: Big Boy Beef
Jun 25, 2025Today we talk Big Boy turf war, updates on the Australian mushroom poisoning lady, Weber gets Smoque-y and Panera's violating child labor laws. Who knew?
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Duration: 01:48:54Episode 446: Chef Don't Bail
Jun 18, 2025From Konro to Con-Row, we talk today about Jake 'Bloody Knuckles' Bickelhaupt's ongoing legal troubles (which he keeps making worse for himself - it's like he's never faced real consequences of his actions before). We also get into Starbuck's new AI assistant, produce suppliers get cyberattacked, and does anyone want to publish my books?
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Duration: 01:53:52Episode 445: 42 Whams
Jun 12, 2025Oops, he did it again. To nobody's great surprise, Jake Bickelhaupt is back to punching ladies. In tonight's episode we talk about that series of crimes, and discuss how it's related to the (outdated, irrelevant) Michelin Guide star awards. Be warned, there are graphic descriptions of domestic violence in this episode.
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Episode 444:Garden of Assholes Re-Release
Jun 09, 2025Wife-beater Bickelhaupt is back. Before we do an entire episode about his second domestic abuse arrest, this time in Florida, enjoy(?) this re-release episode covering the LAST time this assclown beat a woman mostly to death.
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Duration: 00:35:19Episode 443: Steve's French Laundry
Jun 03, 2025Today I guess we're talking only about Thomas Keller yelling at a restaurant critic? Who wasn't even at the French Laundry to write a review? What the heck is going on?
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Duration: 01:28:39Episode 442: Lonely Mouth
May 30, 2025Today we're talking Snacks v Meals, Robot Pizza, Chocolate Chip Creme Pies and airport food!
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Duration: 01:25:57Episode 441: Drone Cold Steve Austin
May 21, 2025In which we talk Starbucks uniforms vs. union contracts, the Flying Doordash Bros, really, really bad cookies and the revival (?) of Chi Chi's 'Mexican' Restaurant. Also, our connection was apparently really bad, so Steve's audio is hit & miss.
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Duration: 01:58:34Episode 440: SPAMcuterie
May 09, 2025Today we're discussing fast food AI orders, Australian MAGA restaurants failing, Australian mushroom murder, Disney's menu hack and an all-SPAM charcuterie board.
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Duration: 01:40:34Episode 439: Secondhand Ham
May 01, 2025We're back with a show filled with cookies, SPAM, a roulade made out of Arby's Loaf, hidden foodborne illnesses, third-party delivery service sales and gardening injuries!
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Duration: 01:37:35Episode 438:Get On The SPAM Wagon
Apr 25, 2025Today we're talking meal prep, Uber Eats fraud, the FDA communications freeze, food dyes and what to do about them (or not) and SPAM. Also a small amount of gardening.
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Episode 437: Full of Microplastics
Apr 17, 2025Today we're talking gardening, composting with or without worms, dosing schoolchildren, and vegetables vs. microplastics. Also there are no vegetables.
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Duration: 02:06:06Episode 436: HBOSnax
Apr 11, 2025Today we're talking bad blenders, kitchen torture, incremental egg price increases, streaming service dinners and oyster desserts?
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Duration: 01:41:20Episode 435: Cap'n Crunch, Admiral Spank
Apr 04, 2025Today we're talking Ben's vacation, the Driftless Cafe, book updates, egg product recall, easter potatoes and hippo meat?
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Duration: 01:51:57Episode 434: Cheeto Vodka
Mar 18, 2025We're back after a week off! Today we're talking catering vs mealprep, St.Patrick's day, book updates and Star Trek?
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Duration: 01:57:55Episode 433:Tacos Are The Wu-Tang Of Food
Mar 07, 2025Today we're talking delivery services, fast food breakfast, new technologies, Kroger's CEO disappears amidst an internal investigation, and some serious realtor FAFO.
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Duration: 01:40:32Episode 432: There's Nothing That Two Middle Aged White Guys Can't Do
Feb 25, 2025Today we're talking Hooters (death by private equity), Sourdough (easier than you think), gardening (do it), Lima beans and why you likely hate them, and Coldplay is the okra of pop music.
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Duration: 01:36:34Episode 431:Built In Breadstick
Feb 20, 2025Today we're talking bad pizza, pretzel garlic breadsticks, Delaware's raw milk move, and the death of the 3rd space.
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Duration: 02:01:35Episode 430: Grill A Popsicle
Feb 13, 2025Today on our show, we talk about food in Vegas, food shows, Bobby Flay's Striped-Food Diet, an Egg Heist and we go hard against Pennsylvania for some reason. Go Birds?
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Duration: 01:55:06Episode 429:Table Sausage
Jan 28, 2025Today we're talking Schwann's dairy, Amazon Fresh, the rebirth of Hot & Now and beef jerky business cards?
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Duration: 01:34:32Episode 428: The Restaurant Is Not Your Dad
Jan 24, 2025We're making predictions! Today Ben & Steve imagine what the food trends will be in 2025, and try not to get too depressed about it.
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Duration: 01:30:02Episode 427: Hot Tuna
Jan 15, 2025Today we're talking the various ways you can serve hot canned tuna, Ben's recent car accident, restaurant liquidation auctions and The Book.
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Duration: 02:06:59Episode 426: Skinfluencers
Jan 07, 2025Today we're talking what music to listen to in the kitchen vs what to listen to while menu writing, chefs battle it out with influencers, and there's a Guinness heist!
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Duration: 01:26:34Episode 425: Garlicky Death Balls
Jan 02, 2025Happy New Year! We're back talking about where fancy cheeses & candles overlap, we're going to a robot food show (?), does Arby's sell whole unsliced 'roast beef' and what are the trends that came true last year?
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Duration: 02:14:16Episode 424:Storytime
Dec 21, 2024Today Ben's recording solo!
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Duration: 00:35:27Episode 423: Culinary Sabotage
Dec 06, 2024Today we're talking Thanksgiving, LOTS of pies, working too much and the crossover everyone was waiting for: raw milk and avian flu!
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Duration: 01:50:09Episode 422:Egg Washin'
Nov 23, 2024We're back! (After a 2-week hiatus.) Today we're talking restaurant restructuring, garden planning, kitchen communication & hours worked vs volume of work...worked?
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Duration: 01:58:26Episode 421: BrainWorm2024
Nov 08, 2024Everybody ready to get expensively sick?
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Duration: 01:47:13Episode 420: DUHigh
Oct 30, 2024Today we're talking McDonald's ongoing EColi issues, Subway getting trolled with frivolous lawsuits, Ben's new Prep Monster job and a major french fry producer shutters a plant.
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Duration: 02:02:36Episode 419: It's A Ticket, Not A Reservation
Oct 23, 2024Today we're talking restaurants pivoting to catering and ticketed events, more 'raw milk' concerns (avian flu), and robots cooking in Walmart?
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Duration: 01:31:04Episode 418: Dirty Milk
Oct 17, 2024Is 'raw milk' going to kill you? Probably not. Is it better for you than pasteurized milk? Definitely not. Today we carve through the mis & disinformation surrounding what is absolutely a dangerous product, and we tell you who's out to benefit from your inevitable illness.
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Duration: 01:36:34Episode 417: Kitchens & Coolers
Oct 10, 2024Today we're talking Kitchen D&D, personal cheffing, robot 'cooks', McDonald's sues Big Meat, and we 'invent' Smart Toilets?
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Duration: 01:56:07Episode 416: It's the BratBest!
Oct 03, 2024Today we're talking all SORTS of things: Prep Monsters, Boar's Head Updates (criminal; yikes), Oreo's continuing descent into madness, Counter Service models and Waffle House. Let there be Waffle House!
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Duration: 01:45:52Episode 415:Baja Blast Popcorn
Sep 25, 2024Today we're talking apple picking & processing, Yosemite National Park foodservice and we have a new recording style! (Which needs fixin'.)
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Duration: 01:07:10Episode 414: Chainsaw Expert
Sep 18, 2024Today we're talking fall flavors, Cost Plus World Market, MORE Boar's Head updates, The Bear and apple picking.
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Duration: 02:06:28Episode 413:Chili Roll
Sep 10, 2024Today we're talking weird Michigan city names, Chicago diners, the return of Foxtrot, and chili with cinnamon rolls?
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Duration: 02:00:22Episode 412:Ham Powder
Sep 02, 2024Today we're talking foundational chef moments, updates on the Boar's Head recall, coffeeshop monopolies and dehydrated ham?
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Duration: 01:56:35Episode 411:The Shame Shack
Aug 27, 2024Today we're lighting Vicks Vap-O-Rub on fire, witnessing GBBO's comeback, wondering about Dunkin's boozy PSL & we get taken to task about non-dairy milks. Also, maybe it's time to spam-tag Pepsi?
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Duration: 01:56:13Episode 410: Pancake Bush
Aug 14, 2024Tonight we're talking Boar's Head updates, Chicago street fests, Tipping (again), and should your boss just be an AI already?
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Duration: 02:12:39Episode 409: Edible Bacon Diaper
Aug 07, 2024Today we're re-considering our position on Taco Bell (because we got a call!), we're dishing out some Boar's Head and somebody asked an Olympian to sit on cheese?
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Duration: 01:42:10Episode 408: Dr Vikram Baliga
Aug 02, 2024We have a guest! Joining us today is Dr. Vikram Baliga from Texas Tech to talk horticulture, water reclamation, backyard gardening and a bunch of other related things.
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Duration: 01:38:45Episode 407: Taco Bonaroo
Jul 22, 2024Our topics today include a glut of tomatoes, cheese on fish (?), apologies to old chefs and Taco Bell is hosting an old-people-cosplay festival?
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Duration: 01:38:41Episode 406: Secty Food Cults
Jul 15, 2024Today we're talking Food Cults! From Sleepytime Tea to Kellogg vs Post to the Source Family, everybody was Cult Food Fighting!
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Duration: 01:27:39MilkCrate Manifesto - Episode 2: Erika
Jul 08, 2024Today we're pulling up a milkcrate next to my former sous chef Erika! Hear all about what she's doing now that she doesn't have to work for me anymore.
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Duration: 01:10:21Episode 405: Mac & Cheese Fest
Jul 01, 2024Y'all, we did it. We said we were going to Mac & Cheese Fest in Kalamazoo Michigan, and we did it. Hear what we thought about it!
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Duration: 00:27:25Episode 404: Blinky Cheese Fountain
Jun 25, 2024Today we're talking New Job scheduling, growing purple tomatoes and butterflies, Mac & Cheese Fest and the difference between 'taste' and 'flavor'. Because there's a HUGE difference.
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Duration: 01:44:33Episode 403: I Dig Right In
Jun 19, 2024Today we're talking Ben's new job, some corporate closures, The Banana Giant and who eats at BK?
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Duration: 01:53:46Episode 402: One Gig In
Jun 10, 2024Out with the old job, in with the new one!
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Duration: 01:55:42Episode 401: Beataly
Jun 04, 2024Today we cover Steve's donut adventures, the downfall of Red Lobster, a fight at Eataly and german potato bread. Also, Steve's mic cuts out at the end, but I think we hid it pretty well.
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Duration: 01:52:12Episode 400: To Be or Not To Be A Good Chef
May 28, 2024Today we're celebrating 400 episodes by answering (?) the question "Sure, you've defined 'chef', but how do you be a GOOD one?" Well, at least we try to answer it. You tell us if we nailed it or not.
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Duration: 02:01:04MilkCrate Manifesto - Episode 1
May 21, 2024Introducing our new show, MilkCrate Manifesto! Is there a problem in the hospitality industry that you are PASSIONATE about but nobody's listening to your solution? We Will Listen! Now accepting guest pitches! Email them to intheweedswbr@gmail.com today!
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Duration: 00:35:13Episode 399: Chef D'Podcast
May 13, 2024Today we're talking a little quitting-the-job-update, and what does the word 'chef' mean in America?
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Duration: 02:13:46Episode 398:The Fourth Problem
May 07, 2024Bombshell tonight folks. Bombshell.
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Duration: 02:19:07Episode 397: Bathtub Turkey
Apr 29, 2024Today we're talking kitchen innovations & technology, timers, the demise of Foxtrot/Dom's, Cafe Selmarie's elegant closing and how many circulators it would take to cook a turkey in a bathtub.
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Duration: 01:58:24Episode 396:Champion Floor Potato
Apr 22, 2024Today we're talking Lil Caesar's (trash), DoorDash (trashdash), gardening, work stress, vacations, deep-fried burgers and Flippy gets a demotion.
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Episode 395:Hamburger Soup
Apr 14, 2024Today we're talking chili walks, Just Coffee, the Mac & Cheese Festival, hospitality industry stress and a little bit about what it means to be a chef.
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Duration: 02:19:06Episode 394: Fake Sushi on Fake Humans
Apr 08, 2024Today we're talking Starbucks vs Intolerances, robot servers, vegan sushi and fictional space restaurants.
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Duration: 01:32:17Episode 393: Second-Hand Milking
Mar 31, 2024We're back! Today we're talking Maine health inspections, ghost kitchens and down hours in restaurants, burn-away cakes, AI is trying to convince you to self-poison with mushrooms, and Stargate SG-1? Ok.
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Duration: 01:59:51Episode 392: Less Etta Mo Betta
Mar 24, 2024Today we've got an update show! You'll hear about Etta's long, slow dissolution, Amos Miller still wants to flout all of the rules and get people sick, and a listener adds to the 'vegan' donut discussion!
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Duration: 02:05:05Episode 391: Spineless Milk Cactus
Mar 17, 2024Today we're offering up gardening updates, talking about food additives, a proposed NECI-fest and investigating massive hybrid sheep.
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Duration: 01:44:54Episode 390: Bread Glitter
Mar 10, 2024Today we're talking gardening, Dune 2 (not food-related), Infinite Celery, a massive & suspicious cinnamon recall and non-vegan donuts.
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Duration: 01:52:21Episode 339: Bookended by Bread
Mar 05, 2024Today we're talking sourdough (of course), Wendy's 'dynamic pricing' (gouging), is Flippy racist and the 'sovereign citizen' (not a real thing) Amos Miller.
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Duration: 01:48:54Episode 338:BananaSaurus
Feb 29, 2024Today we talk spring gardening, leaded & unleaded soil, Flippy's "restaurant", the trend toward Counter Service, and GMO bananas!
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Duration: 01:49:55Episode 337: Hamwise
Feb 24, 2024Surprise Mini Episode! Today we're speculating on D-list celebrities' restaurants, plus we have an update on that server in Michigan who was fired following receiving a $10,000 tip!
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Duration: 01:13:20Episode 336: It Was Only Dangerous To The Relationship
Feb 20, 2024Today we talk the looming extinction of Brie, fancy cookies/twinkies (?), Supply chain issues and what is an expiration date anyway?
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Duration: 02:06:15Episode 335: What Isn't Chili?
Feb 11, 2024Today we're talking (reluctantly) the SuperBowl, towns fighting with health inspectors, dead ballerinas and chili, as well as Stanley Cups (not hockey) and Pennsylvania farmers not following the rules.
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Duration: 01:53:52This Empty Glass Episode 41: It's Your Fault* (*responsibility)
Feb 05, 2024This Empty Glass is back with a brand new episode. Tonight we're tackling Personal Responsibility. Spoilers, there's not much good news.
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Duration: 00:43:42Episode 334: Death Inspection
Jan 28, 2024Today we're talking restaurant inspections, chicago restaurant corruption/malfeasance, The Bear (again) and our prediction about counter-service was correct!
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Duration: 01:41:42Episode 333: Plates, Please
Jan 14, 2024Today Steve & Ben get COMPLETELY sidetracked roasting some restaurants who have decided to forgo plates in favor of, you guessed it, shovels. Among other non-plate items.
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Duration: 02:06:00Episode 332:Carrot And/Or Stick
Jan 05, 2024We're back from vacation! Today we're talking avocado toast, weather witches, diner slang, butter boards and french kitchen hazing.
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Duration: 01:50:55Episode 331: Duck Dust
Dec 17, 2023Today we're talking Christmas Roast Duck, hiring & firing (again), colonoscopies and cantaloupes.
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Duration: 01:50:29Episode 330:Pity Muffins
Dec 11, 2023Today we're talking more child labor violations, lasagna, sourdough, our 2024 food trend predictions and McDonalds has a super popular drink-heavy drive-through? What?https://www.facebook.com/groups/774902433251568
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Duration: 02:08:54Episode 329: Just Can't Aloupe
Dec 07, 2023We're back! Today we're talking Thanksgiving, restaurant closings, people finding people in food and deadly cantaloupes. No joke, Canadians are dead.
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Duration: 02:11:12Episode 329: Just Can't Aloupe
Dec 06, 2023We're back! Today we're talking Thanksgiving, restaurant closings, people finding people in food and deadly cantaloupes. No joke, Canadians are dead.
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Duration: 01:56:31Episode 328:Why Are Cranberries?
Nov 21, 2023It's our annual Thanksgiving episode! We're talking sides, travel and what is the deal with cranberries?
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Duration: 01:56:31Episode 327: Jennifer Billock, Kitchen Witch
Nov 17, 2023Today we're talking kitchen witchery, specifically Tyromancy (fortune telling with cheese)! I love it when I get to learn stuff!
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Duration: 00:38:07Episode 326:Sus
Nov 12, 2023Today we talk Canadian daycare closings, Australian mushroom murders, fine dinign restaurant closures and Twix sourdough?
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Duration: 01:58:03