ASMR, you either love it or loathe it. For many, the thought of sitting through a fourteen-minute video of someone salaciously crunching on a crisp pickle fills seems repulsive; for me, it taps into my most primal desires.
There is, however, one ASMR video to rule them all. That video is a video of Massimo Bottura making his revered dish, “The Crunchy Part of the Lasagna.” I imagine the awe felt of whilst Bottura unveil his crispy boy is parallel to the unveiling of the stained glass windows of Sainte-Chapelle.
If you’re not familiar with Bottura’s lasagna, let me break it down for you. “The Crunchy Part of the Lasagna,” is a dish served at his restaurant, The Conduit. This isn’t a pasta dish you’d be greeted with upon visiting a mate’s nonnas house after receiving a scalding for being “too skinny.” No, this is a petite architectural triumph.
“The kids, they’re stealing the crunchy part,” Bottura explained to Business Insider. “I just rebuilt and shared the idea of serving the crunchy part of the lasagna, because it’s the way you approach the food as a kid. Everybody knows, even people from Lima in Peru, they know that the best part of the big pan of lasagna is the crunchy part.”
“I’m serving the emotion of the kid who steals the crunchy part of the lasagna. That’s the experience.”
The crunch is, quite simply, mesmerising. It’s a sensory trigger that sends the most carnal shiver down my spine. The culinary equivalent of a lover whispering in your ear. There is truly no way to string a sentence together that will paint a portrait that does justice to the magnificence of this divine creation. You’ll have to see for yourself below.
Watch: Massimo Bottura make his lasagna in a soundproof room
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl2PvQCw7cY&t=2s
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