Open Stove
About Last Night: Nice Cans
We brought in chefs from The Dutch and the Broad Table Tavern for an Open Stove all-soup challenge. We gave them cans and cans and […]
About Last Night: The Oyster And The Taco
We have done a LOT of Open Stove nights at COOK. The official count is 46, but that number seems low to me. But even […]
About Last Night: Welcome To The Chocolate Factory
The death of Gene Wilder a few weeks ago hit all of us at Foobooz World HQ pretty hard. So we decided, what better way […]
About Last Night: Chestnuts Roasting by an Open Stove*
On May, 4th the Open Stove contestants at Cook guessed that we would torture them with a Cinco de Mayo themed competition. But instead we gave […]
About Last Night: Where My Nerds At?
Okay, so I learned something last night. I learned that not everyone is quite as big a Star Wars nerd as I am. Or, really, […]
Open Stove XLII: Tong Hands and Tater Tots
Ever see a guy drinking a beer with tongs as hands? Me neither–at least not until Wednesday night when chef Matt Stebbins of Townsend did […]
About Last Night: They Do It On Top Chef All The Time…
We’ve been doing Open Stove nights at COOK for a long time now. We call it episode 41, but really there have been more like […]
Open Stove XL: A Candy-Rific Whiskey-Drinking Halloween Spectacular
Look at ’em. They look so happy. So calm. So unaware of what’s coming…
Have You Got What It Takes To Compete At Open Stove?
Can you make dinner for 18 people in 35 minutes, starting from scratch? What would you make with a bowl full of conversation hearts, some […]
About Last Night: The One Where No One Saw Strange Brew, But At Least We Had Tiny Sombreros
It is imperative that you do the following tonight: crack open a beer, introduce your backside to the couch, and put on Strange Brew. Do not […]
About Last Night: It Happened Last Week
Sometimes when we do these Open Stove nights at COOK, everything goes down as smooth as 12-year-old whiskey. And sometimes when we do them, everything […]
About Last Night: What Do You Mean You People Have Never Seen Barfly?
No, seriously. It is a great goddamn movie–probably the single drinkiest film ever, and features a young Mickey Rourke (before he became a poster child […]
Open Stove 35: When Mise En Scene Becomes Mise En Place
We could have given them liver and a nice glass of Chianti to see what dishes they’d come up with, but Adam Ratmoko and Sean […]
About Last Night: I Heart You THIS Much…
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome once again to the drama, the suspense, the creativity (and the aftermath) of Philadelphia’s own cutthroat culinary competition! February 4th brought […]
About Last Night: Masters, Cooking Masterfully
The story line of Open Stove XXXIII is an odd one: For the first time, the competition was comprised of two graduates of the COOK Masters […]