Chef Tips! With Justin Pichetrungsi!

Need tips from a world-renowned chef? Justin Pichetrungsi is here to help.

Aug. 21, 2024 10:14 AM PT

Chef Justin Pichetrungsi of Anajak Thai, 2022’s L.A. Times Restaurant of the Year, offers a few tips and tricks to make your life easier in the kitchen. The best little kitchen knife for cutting fruit? The best time to bring out ice cream for easier scooping? And what to do if you let your frying oil get to hot? Pichetrungsi has answers.

Put your new knowledge to work in his Ice Cream Sundae With Thai Tea Caramel and Fried Bananas recipe and watch Pichetrungsi make the sundae from start to finish in our L.A. Times Food video series “Chef That!”

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