Cooking in Your Hotel Room - Foodie Flicks

by Monika Bartyzel, Posted Aug 14th 2009 @ 11:00AM

If any Foodie Flick could blow your mind, it's this one. British comedian George Egg recently posted a YouTube video in which he cooks dinner in his hotel room.

We're not talking about a quick salad and sandwich here. Without bringing any special tools from home, Egg sweeps aside the overpriced room-service menu and makes pasta and biscuits in his room -- from scratch. No hot plate. No microwave. If it wasn't captured in a video, we probably wouldn't believe it.

The entrée? A tortellini pasta with spinach, rocket and crème fraîche that he cooks in the room's tea kettle. This might not leave a desirable taste for the next poor sap who makes tea, but it's a rather ingenious way to boil noodles. (He adds a raw egg yolk in a nod to carbonara; emulate that at your own risk.)

Oh, but there's more: Egg ups the ante by making biscuits (kneaded, risen, the whole 9 yards), using a clothes iron. Color us a new shade of impressed.

Though Robert Irvine might be back on "Dinner Impossible," we reckon he's got some stiff competition.

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8-14-2009 @11:32AM Sarah-Jane said... First off, I am sooooo impressed. What a fantastic display of foodie ingenuity! My problem is they don't normally provide minifridges anymore in hotels, so where do you put the leftover ingredients?
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8-14-2009 @1:06PM pceasies said... I've made Ramen noodles in a coffee pot before and they turned out horribly. The flavor was gone and they cooked very weirdly (kind of mushy)
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8-14-2009 @1:08PM pceasies said... You don't need a fridge. Simply use a cooler with wheels. Fill up a bucket of ice 3-4 times a day (I would recommend against taking the entire cooler to the ice machine) and fill the cooler. At night, set it in the bath tub and pull the plug to drain out water (hotel ice melts fast).
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8-14-2009 @9:27PM vickie said... I can now use this video as an explanation to my relatives as to why I scrub a hotel coffee maker or kettle before using it.
It's still very impressive. I'd encourage Egg to do a webcast kitchen-less cooking show, but it might end up getting him blacklisted by the travel industry!
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8-17-2009 @10:30AM Gretchen Roberts said... Hilarious and so creative. I don't know if I'd make dough on the bathroom counter (even after wiping it off), but I loved watching this.
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8-18-2009 @9:20AM kelly said... omg!@ that's freakin' ridiculously funny! And just in time for recession~
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8-19-2009 @8:46AM Ramki said... Cooking up carbs in a hotel room is not a great idea. It is messy and does not cook well -I'm not sure if whether the pasta or bread was cooked well. Using the electric iron is however a great idea !
Here is a One page cookbook for fellow Hotel room chefs:
http://ramkicooks.blogspot.com/2009/08/cooking-in-hotel-room-or-just-about.html
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