How to Make Easy (and Advanced) Vodka Sauce | Basics with Babish

Published 2023-06-09
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All Comments (21)
  • @BrenMcCullough
    It's not about the flavor of the alcohol. It's about separating alcohol-soluble flavor esters from their ingredient matrix and once some alcohol has evaporated it leaves the esters free to be tasted straightaway.
  • @Jacob-Vivimord
    It's not for emulsification. It's a solvent. It's for flavour. Not the flavour that it brings by itself, but the flavour that it brings out of the other ingredients.
  • @jordanloux3883
    I always heard that the alcohol draws deeper flavors out of the tomato sauce
  • @CasaBonita1018
    This one had old school retro Babish vibes from the music to the intonation in the narration. Loved it.
  • @joshmore7175
    Kenji's extensive testing indicates that added correctly it sweetens and smoothes the sauce and makes the dish more cohesive
  • @matthewnelson3388
    I just made the second version of this for dinner and doubled everything to make enough for the family and needless to say there was no left overs
  • @masonjam
    watched this and then made it in the office kitchen today, took me about 40 mins but i also had to clean as i go and clean up afterwards before I could eat it, but it really is simple to throw together and comes out great.
  • @kdub175
    Really is a super power to be able to show 2 variants, with such detail, all under 6 minutes…
  • Made it the second way but with guanciale instead of pancetta and it was the most flavorful pasta I've ever done! Great post.
  • @billierose2962
    My family use to make this for my birthday every year! Thank you for sharing this recipe
  • @javis719
    This looks absolutely delicious, I'm one of many that issues with texture in food but love the taste if tomatoes so chunky spaghetti is out of the question
  • @WitchyRhia
    hey i didn't see anyone talking about this but just so you know it's not for emulsification it's a solvent, nobody had mentioned that yet so i figured you should know
  • @Greenscyth22
    I usually add pepper in at the end, but that's pretty spot on.
  • @David_276
    This was a very popular dish back in the 80's
  • @joelg598
    I’ll be honest, my go to recipe has always been the one from Rachael Ray’s second cookbook. First thing I ever cooked for my girlfriend, and we just hit our 10 year wedding anniversary. I need to try version 2 of this though.
  • @hellbach8879
    I appreciate an actual basic video. I really feel like the basics recently have been not very basic