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Elevate Your Everyday Cooking with Curtis Stone

Season 1
With Elevate Your Everyday Cooking with Curtis Stone, you’ll finally gain the confidence you need to cook restaurant-quality dishes at home. Filmed on-location in Curtis’s indoor and outdoor kitchens, these eye-opening and mouth-watering lessons are packed with techniques, tips, tricks, and insights that will transform the way you approach seafood, veggies, chicken, and more.
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Episodes

  1. S1 E1 - Open Fire Cooking: Creating an Open Fire

    October 31, 2023
    7min
    TV-PG
    The crackling of fire is an age-old human tradition. Curtis kicks the series off by teaching you a variety of open-fire techniques.
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  2. S1 E2 - Dry Rubs and Brines

    October 31, 2023
    14min
    TV-PG
    Learn the difference between a dry rub and a brine and follow along as Curtis makes one of each.
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  3. S1 E3 - Marinades

    October 31, 2023
    11min
    TV-PG
    Want tenderness and juiciness to your grilled food? Curtis shares three delicious marinade recipes, and explains the purpose of various ingredients to achieve maximum deliciousness.
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  4. S1 E4 - Spit Roasting

    October 31, 2023
    11min
    TV-PG
    Cooking on a spit roast is like nothing else. It's looks impressive but it’s easy to assemble and it’s social—but wait until your guests taste it, because that's when they'll jump up and down.
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  5. S1 E5 - Sauces

    October 31, 2023
    6min
    TV-PG
    Finish off your dishes with a bright and zesty chimichurri sauce from Argentina that takes just minutes to make by hand and will be your next go-to sauce in the fridge.
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  6. S1 E6 - Grilling Steaks

    October 31, 2023
    14min
    TV-PG
    Harness the incredible smokiness of a live fire grill and learn how to prepare the perfect wagyu steak, mushrooms, and lamb skewers over hot charcoal.
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  7. S1 E7 - Making Breakfast on a Plancha

    October 31, 2023
    8min
    TV-PG
    Whether on a fun Saturday morning or for your next camping trip, prepare breakfast utilizing the plancha, a flat-top griddle that lets you cook with high heat over an open flame.
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  8. S1 E8 - Cooking in a Caldron

    October 31, 2023
    10min
    TV-PG
    Master another method of working over an open flame by learning how to cook porcini-braised short ribs in the cookware of our ancestors: the caldron.
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  9. S1 E9 - Roasting Vegetables on Embers

    October 31, 2023
    10min
    TV-PG
    Not every cooking method that uses fire needs ferocious flames. As you’ll see here, you can also use the lower temperature of the embers to roast vegetables perfectly.
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  10. S1 E10 - Brick Oven Favorites: Building a Brick Oven Fire

    October 31, 2023
    5min
    TV-PG
    Curtis gives you his best secrets to building the perfect fire for wood-burning ovens, a cooking method that is much more versatile than you might think.
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  11. S1 E11 - Pizza

    October 31, 2023
    13min
    TV-PG
    If you've never cooked pizza in a brick oven, now's your chance to learn how to prepare this simple, international food from scratch that everybody loves.
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  12. S1 E12 - Bread

    October 31, 2023
    11min
    TV-PG
    This special breadstick recipe from Curtis’s restaurant Gwen is sure to please even your toughest critics and make you look like an incredible baker.
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  13. S1 E13 - Vegetables

    October 31, 2023
    12min
    TV-PG
    Try out salt crust—a special technique to cook dense vegetables such as celery root to perfection, leaving it charred on the outside and tender on the inside.
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  14. S1 E14 - Seafood

    October 31, 2023
    14min
    TV-PG
    You can even cook delicate seafood in a brick oven. Learn the secrets to making your shrimp and salmon perfect every time.
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  15. S1 E15 - Meat

    October 31, 2023
    7min
    TV-PG
    As an Aussie, Curtis loves lamb. He demonstrates two versions of rack of lamb in the same oven, with a fast recipe and another slow and low.
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  16. S1 E16 - Creative Garden Vegetables: Stems

    October 31, 2023
    12min
    TV-PG
    Discover the unique blank canvas of white asparagus, and learn to prepare a simple, delicious dish complete with butter and poached eggs.
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  17. S1 E17 - Roots

    October 31, 2023
    16min
    TV-PG
    Explore the rich, earthy, mineral flavors of roots in this episode, and learn tasty ways to serve them raw and cooked.
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  18. S1 E18 - Leaves

    October 31, 2023
    13min
    TV-PG
    Here you'll learn a delicious way to eat your cabbage and Brussels sprouts with two recipes from Europe and Asia that would make anyone love greens.
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  19. S1 E19 - Tubers and Mashed Potatoes

    October 31, 2023
    12min
    TV-PG
    The most versatile of vegetables, learn how to turn potatoes and sweet potatoes into a creamy, buttery mash that will make your mouth melt.
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  20. S1 E20 - Flowers and Cauliflower Steaks

    October 31, 2023
    7min
    TV-PG
    Yes, you can eat flowers. Cauliflower, too, is having a moment. Make an easy and delicious dish, topped with a fabulous Italian agrodolce sauce.
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  21. S1 E21 - Bulbs

    October 31, 2023
    9min
    TV-PG
    Bulbs are literally the root of all flavors. From leeks and onions to fennel and garlic, learn how to best use them to make your dishes stand out.
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  22. S1 E22 - Seeds, Beans, and Peas

    October 31, 2023
    10min
    TV-PG
    Seeds, beans, and peas are humble ingredients that can make great dishes. Learn how to make braised green beans and blanched snap peas.
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  23. S1 E23 - Custom Condiments: Pickling

    October 31, 2023
    12min
    TV-PG
    Add crunch, sweetness, and sour flavors to your food with the perfect accompaniment: pickles.
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  24. S1 E24 - Relishes

    October 31, 2023
    9min
    TV-PG
    Learn to make a saucy piccalilli relish, a cousin of the pickle and wonderful served over meats, breads, or really, anything.
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  25. S1 E25 - Chutneys

    October 31, 2023
    8min
    TV-PG
    Make two tangy chutneys with Curtis to accompany your stews and soups, including one that can be whipped up in seconds.
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