Cooking with Johnny Depp
Filed under: Fandom, Johnny Depp
Over the years, you'd think that moviegoing audiences would have learned the lesson of Don't Try This At Home. But no ... now people are starting to look to films for cooking lessons. And not foodie films, either, but culty Johnny Depp movies. This Web site illustrates one couple's adventures in making grilled cheese sandwiches with an iron "the Benny and Joon way." They discovered that the film may have taken some liberties in cooking accuracy, perhaps for the sake of comedy. Turns out the rayon setting that Depp's character recommends for ideal sandwiches produces quite inferior grilled cheese. Not only that, but the movie fails to mention that using the iron without a protective layer of foil or waxed paper will render it unfit for clothes pressing afterwards, unless you like that burnt-cheese stench. I can only hope this isn't the beginning of a trend. Which Johnny Depp movies might adventurous cooks imitate next: Pirates of the Caribbean? Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas? Let's hope they steer toward Chocolat and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory instead.
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10-02-2005 @ 5:40PM
annetta said...
Well i have to say i found this very funny, hey what i good way of grilled cheese sandwiches, if you havent a grill lol.
Thier's always away around anything you do and yes johnny found it a iron least you would still have that toasted sandwich, good on ya johnny, after my own heart lol :).
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10-02-2005 @ 1:29AM
Susan Kemp said...
You would think that people would know better than to try this at home....but NO!!!!!!!!!! They try it anyway!
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10-02-2005 @ 1:33AM
Susan Kemp said...
One would think that people would have commen sense when it comes to trying things like this at home, but NO!!!!!!!!!!! They try it anyway! I guess they figure that if it works in the movies, why not at home? (duh)
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10-02-2005 @ 7:29PM
canuckgurl22 said...
haha thats so awesome!!!
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10-02-2005 @ 5:58PM
johnny_luver said...
Or maybe people do think about what would happen, but do it anyway just to have fun. I tried the iron thing, and yes i did have to make the iron hotter, but the sandwiches turned out quite nicely. And I even thought to use an old iron.
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10-02-2005 @ 6:41PM
annetta said...
I believe it's called imaginative insight, next best thing, cant knock it. COME ON :), least those toasted butty's fill you up, you wouldn't go hungry and it toasted lol. you think using a iron bad imagine those restaurants that use well, not wish to say what they use lol, i go on the theory that their's ways around every aspect of anything you do. Johnny your fine i back your iron theory all the way, plus it has other uses like straigten your hair drying clothes making toast lol good for you :).
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10-02-2005 @ 6:17PM
annetta marie keen said...
well it's what you call imaginative insight, least you would have those butty's and toasted one lol.
I back johnny thoery all the way iron has many use's ie straighten your hair , drying clothes and toasted cheese sandwiches lol. It's better theory that what i wouldn't imagine behind the scences of reasturants all over the world, so iron it will be for me lol.I would be interested on other thoerys that my be in the making ;).X
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10-04-2005 @ 7:08PM
Cassanova said...
Okay okay, so after watching B&J I may have tried to iron my cheese sandwiches too. Well, it could have produced the world's best ever toasted sanwiches couldn't it? You've got to try these things.
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10-07-2005 @ 2:04PM
lbphilly said...
Well, that's my husband, my iron, and my idea, so I hope you don't mind if I comment.
We did it for a goof (what a surprise), and the iron cleaned up just fine with a little steel wool.
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10-07-2005 @ 4:48PM
Roy Blanchard said...
Well, I'm the husband and I'm the one with the iron. And guess what? What we learned making grilled cheese samwidges the B&J way morphed into better product using the more conventional fry pan.
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