Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Ten years ago, ChefSteps published “Pixar-Style Ratatouille,” a video detailing our recipe for replicating the dish that serves as the emotional and culinary climax of the hit Pixar animated film Ratatouille, in which a sentient rat impresses an ornery restaurant critic. And it is, to date, our most popular video ever.
Today, we’re revisiting the video, in part to identify what we could’ve done better, in part to offer up useful tips and bits of knowledge we’ve gained in the intervening years but also for laughs.
In this video, Grant Crilly watches and critiques his younger self prepare confit byaldi, the more refined, restaurant-y version of the dish that gives the Pixar movie its name, adding context and answering questions that have been posed in the comments over the last decade.
Original video:
Pixar-Style Ratatouille: youtube.com/watch?v=iCMGPRiDXQg
Recipe:
Pixar-Style Ratatouille: chefsteps.com/activities/get-creative-with-pixar-style-ratatouille
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Ten years ago, ChefSteps published “Pixar-Style Ratatouille,” a video detailing our recipe for replicating the dish that serves as the emotional and culinary climax of the hit Pixar animated film Ratatouille, in which a sentient rat impresses an ornery restaurant critic. And it is, to date, our most popular video ever.
Today, we’re revisiting the video, in part to identify what we could’ve done better, in part to offer up useful tips and bits of knowledge we’ve gained in the intervening years but also for laughs.
In this video, Grant Crilly watches and critiques his younger self prepare confit byaldi, the more refined, restaurant-y version of the dish that gives the Pixar movie its name, adding context and answering questions that have been posed in the comments over the last decade.
Original video:
Pixar-Style Ratatouille: youtube.com/watch?v=iCMGPRiDXQg
Recipe:
Pixar-Style Ratatouille: chefsteps.com/activities/get-creative-with-pixar-style-ratatouille
Sign up for a Studio Pass subscription for full access to 1,200-plus recipes developed by expert chefs, plus hundreds of guides, tips, and tricks to help you cook smarter: chefsteps.com/studiopass
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