Uploaded December 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
What’s better than the best porchetta recipe you can make at home? TWO of the best porchetta recipes you can make at home! Master butcher Kevin Smith of Seattle’s Beast & Cleaver shows us how to make the Ultimate Roast Porchetta, and our very own Chef Nicholas Gavin shows us how to make a more streamlined sous vide version. If you’re the type of cook who wants only the very best, Kevin’s method is for you: It’s a huge lift with a lot of moving parts, but we’ll walk you through the whole thing. If you’re the type of cook that’s okay with a little compromise, Nick’s sous vide version is the one you want: Clever butchery and the power of sous vide make it both delectable and relatively convenient. Don’t know which bucket you want to be in? Check out the video and behold the wonder of delicious cylinders of expertly butchered pig meat. No matter which one you choose, you’re in for some epic roast pork sandwiches! #porchetta #sousvideporchetta
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Recipes:
Ultimate Roast Porchetta: chfstps.co/3NtLNd9
Easy Sous Vide Porchetta: chfstps.co/46TsRLS
Equipment:
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Ingredients:
Pork belly: snakeriverfarms.pxf.io/DKb3Nn
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What’s better than the best porchetta recipe you can make at home? TWO of the best porchetta recipes you can make at home! Master butcher Kevin Smith of Seattle’s Beast & Cleaver shows us how to make the Ultimate Roast Porchetta, and our very own Chef Nicholas Gavin shows us how to make a more streamlined sous vide version. If you’re the type of cook who wants only the very best, Kevin’s method is for you: It’s a huge lift with a lot of moving parts, but we’ll walk you through the whole thing. If you’re the type of cook that’s okay with a little compromise, Nick’s sous vide version is the one you want: Clever butchery and the power of sous vide make it both delectable and relatively convenient. Don’t know which bucket you want to be in? Check out the video and behold the wonder of delicious cylinders of expertly butchered pig meat. No matter which one you choose, you’re in for some epic roast pork sandwiches! #porchetta #sousvideporchetta
Sign up for a ChefSteps Studio Pass subscription: chefsteps.com/studiopass
Recipes:
Ultimate Roast Porchetta: chfstps.co/3NtLNd9
Easy Sous Vide Porchetta: chfstps.co/46TsRLS
Equipment:
Buy a Joule® Turbo Sous Vide: breville.oie8.net/oq4Krb
Buy a Breville Joule® Oven Air Fryer Pro: breville.oie8.net/21W1WG
Ingredients:
Pork belly: snakeriverfarms.pxf.io/DKb3Nn
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![How to Shape Dumplings, Easy to Advanced
Shaping dumplings is one of the main barriers to entry for home cooks, even though the process is as straightforward as can be: Dollop a little bit of filling onto a dumpling wrapper and seal it up, and you’ve got a dumpling. But there’s an entire universe of dumpling shapes out there, and while becoming comfortable with more advanced shaping techniques is mostly a matter of practice, you’ve got to start somewhere.
In this video, chef Tim Chin demonstrates in detail how to fold and pleat 12 different dumpling shapes, from super-basic ones that require no more than a couple of pleats and folds to trickier variations.
In the process, Tim highlights how the shape of a dumpling can determine the best method for cooking it. For example, cinching and pleating the dumpling wrapper many times around the filling will create a flat base, which is ideal for pan-frying, because the dumpling will have maximal surface area contact with a frying pan.
To learn more about dumpling wrappers, fillings, and cooking methods, check out our Ultimate Guide to Chinese Dumplings (Jiǎo Zi): https://www.chefsteps.com/activities/guide-to-chinese-dumplings
[Time Codes for the 12 Common Shapes]
0:00 - How to Make 12 Different Chinese Dumpling Shapes
0:59 - Half-Moon (Bàn Yuè Jiǎo Zi)
1:55 - Pinched Half-Moon
2:49 - Open Potsticker
4:22 - Potsticker
5:57 - Pinched Potsticker
7:43 - Ingot (Yuán Bǎo Jiǎo Zi)
9:08 - 2-Pleat Half-Moon (Yuè Yá Jiǎo Zi)
10:31 - Bidirectional 4-Pleat Half-Moon
11:23 - Bidirectional 6-Pleat Half-Moon
12:24 - Bidirectional 8-Pleat Half-Moon
13:26 - Unidirectional 8-Pleat Half-Moon
14:49 - Pleated Leaf (Liǔ Yè Xíng)
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