Welcome to Binging With Babish: A Quiet Place Edition

In this special episode, we're cooking under the terrifying conditions portrayed in A Quiet Place. To enhance our experience, I've soundproofed my kitchen and partnered with Dolby Dimension to bring you a premium listening experience.

To create an immersive atmosphere, I'll be using Dolby Dimension's home theater headphones, which offer the coolest features I've ever tried. The adjustable Life Mix feature allows me to customize the audio settings to pinpoint sounds in 3D space, making it feel like the action is happening right next to me. Additionally, the touch controls on the side provide effortless control over the volume and playback, while the magnetic charger keeps my headphones powered up all day long.

To test the limits of these amazing headphones, I've set them up with a decibel meter app that allows me to measure the sound levels in real-time. With Life Mix turned up to 11, I can hear every creak, every rustle, and every whisper – even when I think I'm safe from detection.

Now, let's get started on our meal! For this episode, we'll be cooking a simple yet delicious dish that would have been perfect for the American wasteland: pan-seared trout with tomato salad. We'll be using a giant kale leaf as our plate, a nod to the creative solution employed by the family in the movie.

First, let's prepare the fish. To do this, we need to score and season the trout liberally with kosher salt, freshly ground pepper, and oil. This will help bring out the natural flavors of the fish and add a bit of moisture to the skin. I've found a secret stash of these ingredients in the nearby villages – who knew they'd be essential for our survival?

Once we've seasoned the fish, it's time to cook it on top of some corn, which serves as a makeshift oven rack. We'll score the trout with a cross-hatch pattern on both sides and season it again before placing it on the corn. With 450°F and 25 minutes, we should have a perfectly cooked fish registering 145°F at its thickest point.

While our fish is cooking, let's prepare the tomato salad. This will be a crucial component of our meal, providing a burst of freshness and flavor to balance out the richness of the fish. We'll add some smoked roasted garlic vinaigrette to tie everything together – it's the perfect addition to this dish.

To plate up, we'll load our kale leaf with the tomato salad, fish, and top it all off with some smoked roasted garlic vinaigrette. And there you have it – a healthy, sustainable, simple meal prepared and eaten in relative silence.

As we sit down to enjoy our meal, I couldn't help but think of the family from the movie, who cleverly eats their meals on giant kale leaves to avoid making any noise. It's a creative solution, and one that we can all appreciate in this post-apocalyptic world.

But, oh no! I just heard something – or at least, I think I did. Wait, it sounds like... fish? Yes, I'm sure of it now. Sawyer must have been paying attention all along! I spent $5 on the decibel meter app, and it's clear that these headphones are worth every penny.

As we continue to enjoy our meal, I want to thank Dolby Dimension for sponsoring this episode. Their home theater headphones have truly brought a new level of immersion to my cooking experience, and I'm excited to share them with all of you. Whether you're an audiofile, cinefile, or just someone who loves cooking in peace, these headphones are perfect for anyone looking to elevate their listening game.

To learn more about Dolby Dimension, check out the link in this video's description – it's a great resource for anyone interested in home theater technology and audio innovation. And if you're feeling generous, consider gifting one of these amazing headphones to someone special in your life.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enHey whats up guys and welcome back to a veryspecial episode of Binging With Babish whereas you can see i've sound proofed my kitchenbecause this week we're cooking under theterrifying conditions portrayed in A QuietPlace.Fittingly this episode is sponsored by DolbyDimension.These headphones are super cool not only becausethey have active noise cancelling, but becausethey have a really cool feature called LifeMix, which pumps in an adjustable amount ofambient noise so you don't miss anything aroundyou.Doorbell, baby crying, timer going off inthe kitchen.So while I'm enjoying my strict regiment ofFrasier three times daily, I won't miss athing, because I've got my Life Mix turnedup to 7.Sawyer however, likes his turned up to 11effectively giving him super hearing.Making him the blood thirsty alien to my JohnKrasinski.So can I make the meal from the movie whilehe's watching the movie without disturbinghim and getting killed.Well, there's only one way to find out.Download a decibel meter on my iPad, throwblankets all over the kitchen, and get cooking.As a rule of thumb, I'm gonna try to staybelow 80 decibels while I prepare what I thinkwas fish from the movie, rainbow trout.First up we've gotta clean and gut the fishstart by snipping off all the fins.Try not to make eye contact with the poorlittle guy.Then we've gotta cut out the gills which iswhere most of the blood is hanging out.Once you've got those gnarly little thingsout of there, it's time to gut this guy.We're gonna place one single long cut downthe length of the bottom of the fish, andyanking out everything we find inside.You wanna remove as much as you can so allthat you see are the filets and the spine.Then we've gotta scale the fish.Using the sharp side of you knife, scrapethe scales against the grain, so to speak,until all that remains is some nice soft slipperyfish skin.Then we wanna rinse this fish and dry it throughly,and then set it aside so we can prepare, whatlooked to me like a tomato salad.The family in the movie seemed to be veryfond of garlic, so I'm gonna grab three headsof this smoked garlic, peel off most of thepapery exterior, slice off the tops so allthe cloves are exposed, and arrange in a metalbowl.Now I'm guessing that cooking fats would bepretty hard to come by a year and a half intothe apocalypse, but olive oil has a theoretical24 month shelf life if stored properly, solet's assume they have a bottle kicking aroundfor special occasions.Let's also assume that they have kosher saltand freshly ground pepper because is lifereally worth living without it?Now, in lieu of aluminum foil, we're goingto top this metal bowl with a smaller metalbowl, and roast it at 350°F for about 45minutes.Removing once the cloves are soft and lightlybrown.Now I could eat roast garlic with a spoon,but roast smoked garlic?This is some next level sh*t.We're setting that side to cool completelywhile we make the rest of our dressing.We're starting with what remains of the oliveoil.Oh dear, looks like that's our last saladforever kids, and to that we are going toadd a food with an indefinite shelf life,vinegar.In this case white wine vinegar, in abouta 1:1 ratio with the oil.Now like so many pimples ready to pop, we'regonna squeeze this garlic, sorry, gross, intoour vinaigrette.I'm gonna go with like 2 heads of garlic,because I love this stuff, and the third headI'm gonna eat by myself off camera, probablyin bed or something.Now I'm gonna use a potato masher to mashup those garlic cloves a little bit, and thenI'm gonna season liberally with kosher saltand freshly ground pepper.Now you might notice that I'm doing this ina disposable Tupperware.Not only to be quieter than a whisk and bowl,but because the easiest way to emulsify adressing is to place in a lidded containerand give it a good shake.In seconds you will have an effortlessly creamyvinaigrette.This stuff is hurting for some lemon juice,but I can't imagine they have that in upstateNew York where the movie was filmed, but whatthey did have lots of was tomatoes.So I'm slicing up a variety of sizes and colors,scooping everybody into a nice quiet woodenbowl, and adding some chopped basil whichthey interestingly had sitting in the middleof the table with some fresh herbs in lieuof condiments.So we're gonna add that to our tomatoes andI'm gonna add half a red onion, thinly sliced.Because tomato salad is gonna be difficultenough to eat without mozzarella, and there'sno way in hell I'm eating it without onion.Look at that it's a really pretty salad.I'd make that even if it weren't the apocalypse.Lastly something the movie had no shortageof was corn, and it looks like Emily Blunt'scharacter was cooking the fish on top of thecorn as a sort of makeshift oven rack.So we're gonna do the same in case it impartsany ancillary flavor.Plop our fish down on top, and then it's timeto score and season.Scoring isn't totally necessary, it's justkind of a presentation thing, but we wantto score it in a cross hatch pattern.Both sides, don't be lazy now, and then wewant to season liberally all over inside andout with kosher salt, freshly ground pepper,and oil.Luckily I found a secret stash of this stuffwhen I raided the nearby villages.Make sure it's well coated all over, ideallyI'd like to stuff this guy with a bunch ofherbs and lemons, but you can't always getyou want in the sound hunting alien future.450°F, 25 minutes later yields a fully cookedfish registering 145°F at its thickest pointthat we can now carve table side so to speak.We're gonna start by making a shallow incisionalong the top of the fish to aid in peelingoff the skin.You can see on the bar graph there that Icoughed, and very nearly doomed us all, butSawyer got distracted by the raccoons distractingthe aliens in the movie, so we got lucky.Anyway, once we've got all the skin off weare placing a cut down the center of the fish'sspine and beginning to pull the meat downwardand upward from the center with forks.Then once you've got all the meat off thetop you get to do the most fun thing you'llever do in your entire life, which is pullout the entire fish's spine in one fell swoop.Hang on to this if you want for making fishstock, otherwise pat yourself on the backfor deboning your first ever fish.I mean that's pretty cool it's definitelyworth trying at your next dinner party.But now it's time to plate up.By plate up I mean kale leaf up...as the familyin the movie very cleverly eats their mealon a giant kale leaf so as to avoid any clattering.So we're gonna load that up with our tomatosalad, fish, and top the whole thing withsome of our smoked and roasted garlic vinaigrette.And there you have it, a healthy, sustainable,simple meal, prepared and eaten in relativesilence.As such, we're gonna use our 5 fingered forksand knives, and I gotta say this turned outpretty great.The trout when cooked to 145°F was tenderand juicy, the tomatoes were nice and fresh,and the dressing was to die for.It desperately needed lemon, but vinegar helpedfill the gap, and it ended up becoming a memberof the clean leaf club.And then the leaf itself became a member ofthe clean...hands club.All in all, a pretty great meal if you'retrying to sustain your family in the new Americanwasteland.Alright, now it's time to surprise Sawyerwith the fact that I've been making him themeal from the very movie he's watch-- Heysounds like dinner's ready.Wa-wait, you could hear me this whole time?Yeah I had Life Mix up to 11, I could hearyou breathing.Come on, I spent like $5 on the decibel meterapp.Oh, I thought I heard fish.Hey guys, so I just wanna thank Dolby againfor sponsoring this episode.It was kind of a match made in heaven becauseI love home theater stuff, these have gottabe the coolest home theater headphones I'veever tried.In addition to the adjustable Life Mix feature, they'vealso got touch controls on the side, that sweetmagnetic charger, and a robust app to controlalmost ever aspect of the headphones.They've even got a head tracking feature soit sounds like the audio is coming from whereverthe bluetooth source is.Check out the link in this videos descriptionto learn more about Dolby Dimension, the perfectgift for the audiofile, cinefile, or muderousfuture alien in your life.\n"