Join me as I react to French Chef Dumas’ incredible take on the classic Italian Bolognese sauce! In this video, I’ll provide my thoughts and insights on his technique, ingredients, and overall execution. Chef Dumas did a fantastic job and his Bolognese sauce is truly impressive. He only needs to imrpove a few key steps. The same steps I had to improve after my friend David shared his Nonna recipe with me. Watch along as I highlight what makes his version special and offer some tips of my own.

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today we’re reacting to a bolog made by a very loved very well-known French chef chef Duma can famous French chef make bolog let’s find out yeah wow he’s using fresh tomatoes let’s see where this is going yeah you always remove the grein I’m have to put English subtitles here yeah w is basically trying to make a tomato puree now with those fresh tomatoes very good yeah this is a very nice old school technique um I haven’t done this for a long long time but you basically do that so that when you boil the tomatoes it’s easy to remove the skin so basically you don’t use the skin but you only use the pulp the the Tomato the the meat of the Tomato you know the juice is [Music] pass this is a technique and my parents always used to do I don’t do I use different techniques and to be honest if I make Pata yes I I eventually remove the skin when I pass it through the meal but if I make like a cherry tomato sauce I do like the flavors of the skin and I blend it I don’t know if this is need for a bolog because you can use tomato concentrate Pata PE Tomatoes I think they do a very good job so this is extra work that you don’t need bolog is already a long recipe but a round of applause to Chef D for doing [Applause] this thing is I will spend time doing this if the tomatoes I’m using are really amazing like if I’m in Italy or I get you know beautiful it tomatoes are famous you know for being sweet and great then I will spend my time doing it but if the tomatoes are not sweet they don’t really deserve it and then I just buy Italian PE Tomatoes wow wow wow well [Music] done yeah when I make Pad I always use this vegetable milk vegetable press call it this is greaten I think everyone needs SP in the kitchen everyone who loves to cook needs this this is [Music] great maybe the tomatoes are not boiled enough to be honest I don’t know I don’t know looks beautiful that looks beautiful he made his own rustic beautiful this is B don’t need the leaves okay please no no leaves I made a mistake too and David T me off if you watch his reaction video to my bolog original one I think the tomatoes need doesn’t need anything now just cook them doing yes Bravo so now he’s going to cut them that’s what he’s going to do very good the so good a small piece is [Music] good it’s just making this process a lot easier if you do the julen yeah I mean you have to buy this type of julen [Music] machine the celery such a underrated ingredient for bolog it’s so important gives you the the right kick the flavors I like the way this video was edited look I think alha onion was great now he’s using more bit too much I would say but you choose what you like and that’s the flavor that you like Okay add more onion I would say half onion was more than enough you basically want a nice large carrot a small piece of celery and then half onion you know now the onion was going to take over seriously those herbs in the pada no no beautiful he’s using a nice Dutch almond beautiful EXT okay is doing P yeah put P if you going to look at the original bolog recipe the Ed in c commercial in Italy a petta was actually included was in it it was in part of bolog okay lots of people in bolog would disagree but I’ve made it with bolog I’ve made it with paneta and I think the bolog with Peta adds more flavor I think what he’s doing with Peta is really good I like it he’s putting the vegetables now something very important too what he just did he cooked Peta first with the oil uh to cook it well and to release the fat you know and get more oil from the fat if if you were going to cook the vegetable first then you had the Panet would have been a little bit tricky for the paneta to to cook so instead do what you did focus on the petta first make a little bit not crunchy but start the cooking process Now by adding the vegetable The Panetta will finish to cook and become crispy but if you would have done the other way around which I normally do put the vegetables and then the meat a petta would have suffered a little bit so he did very well now in this case to cook petta first out these are a lot of vegetables in there by the way I think too much [Music] onion so it’s got pork and beef good I normally use pork V and beef or pork and V just like the V be more Ted up but it’s up to you the pork is a must for bolog it adds the flavors granny that’s good that’s the word see that’s how you want it you want the meat to be not burned you want the meat to be a little bit gray and then that’s when you add the wine okay you can use white or red wine fantastic go see is not using wine in the sauce you’re putting wine in the meat the meat needs to make love with the wine they tenderize it the wine gives more flavors okay look the broth big discussion here okay not many people use the broth but the broth it is okay to use okay so you will have some people in bologa saying no way you put broth you just put water some people will say yes you put a broth in this case I will say vegetable broth do not use mushroom broth or do not use uh meat broth or a simple or a chicken broth a plain vegetable stock broth well the broth is richer heavier in flavors the broth will be [Music] better now in this case it’s cooking bolog so it’s okay to put the sauce now when it’s wet but what I will do first wait for the wine to evaporate which is very important then you start adding in the liquid so in this case I would say add the tomato first add the tomato make the Tomato make low without the meat okay make sure the tomato mix very well had flavor all the ingredients and then once you got the Tomato cooking in there you add the stock or the broth as you need it or water that liquid C at the end if you know what I mean so I will say tomato first it’s not wrong with it it it’s just for me for the way I will cook this is it’s important the Tomato to make love with all ingredients no a l no you normally put milk okay you want to put cream B but not now you put cream right at the end when everything is done so you have to cook this for 4 hours now minimum for 4 hours put the lid on and cook it you add the cream I put milk but you add cream at the end right at the end you put a little bit after the 4 hours to revive the so the soce should be very thick to be a little bit dry not dry that’s not the W but very very thick so the cream will make the color a little bit lighter and we’ll combine all the flavors together okay but not now now it’s way too early it’s like a waste of cream and not doesn’t do anything right now no 2 hours is not enough you need to do 4 hours I did the same mistake years ago when my original bolog video said you can do it in 2 hours you can’t do it I was trying to help you doing two hours and I’m sure Chef Dumar is trying to do what I try to do as well to say hey guys you can make it but no you can’t make it my friend David will disagree and everyone in Bologna will disagree and I did ask lots of people in bologa and I said guys can you please approve my 2 hours bolog and they said no way 4 hours minimum so when you cook in a cast like that you have to cook low low medium low no not even medium like low because it’s the way the Castalian Dutch alen is meant to work at low temperatures okay they don’t work in high temperatures so that’s why 4 hours minimum I like this putting salt and pepper rather the end it’s actually very good thing because first you let everything cook and then he’s putting the salt and pepper at the end so you can do at the beginning not not a problem you know I didn’t put any salt and pepper in the meat in the vegetables that’s how it’s done and it do is doing it now at the end it’s a little better if you add salt and pepper at the end and don’t forget you also have the vegetable stock or the broth in there and that’s salty so basically now you taste it you see how it is and you know how much salt you need no I disagree with oregano even though I made the same mistake I can tell you Chef Tom don’t do that don’t do that not even Basel nothing don’t put any hers all right I guess it disappears so nobody knows I guess I when you cook this you add a little bit of it nobody knows okay look I’m not going to tell my friend David you need a lots of water when you Bo pasta nice generous amount of salt see he not using spaghetti very good it’s using see probably yeah good right pasta yeah no look at that me it looks nice should have cooked longer now I know cuz it looked nice when I made it too cooked in 2 hours it looked nice too but I can see it needs more it needs more time but it’s beautiful it’s beautiful it’s got nice flavors but you can’t call it B you have to call it hours nice nice nice like you can see that the cream I will use milk again but the cream had to be added at the end because the MEK like it’s not sa enough like the cream would have combined everything together now I know it’s not 4 hours not enough and it’s it’s missing it’s missing that it’s missing the extra time cooking it’s missing it it’s beautiful but it’s missing that extra 2 hours to be called bolog yeah instead of using the water and keep it in dep too long cuz now the pasta will go a little bit too soft you should have added the cream at the end cuz I know you like to use cream and then uh you mix it together with the pasta in the pan there little splash of water toast to stce and serve I feel sorry for the pasta the moment so you don’t put cheese on a hot pan the pan is on fire on the fire and it’s very very hot so the cheese will go a little bit lumpy you don’t want that I also think the cheese should go in the plate like it’s personal you decide how much cheese you want I normally put a little bit of cheese too much in this case but some people like to put more some people put nothing at all it looks beautiful it looks nice I mean something I want to e now I want to e it now I like it I like it again I can see now I have experien in this I’ve learned that this is not a prop bolog but it’s a beautiful Ragu I will eat this I will enjoy we Dan shift tomor I think he did a f job I think Chef Duma did a great job last time I reacted to his video he didn’t do a very good job I have to say but today amazing very good very good maybe remove the herbs but look if you’re at home do whatever you want but don’t use the herbs just because they don’t have to go in it they don’t have to go if you do a good job the bolog will taste fantastic fantastic without any hers what do you think of Chef Duma do you follow him do you like him he he’s pretty good I like how he go straight to the points he’s very good with details and yeah well done well guys I’ll see you on the next wi Cho plate reaction video I hope you enjoyed this video with me and a very nice Ragu

36 Comments

  1. I did not need the subs. He said that the pasta requires 5 minutes so he is cooking it for 4 minutes and the final minute will be in the pan. However, the pasta does look overcooked a bit.

  2. It's really nothing special. I'm sure that adding a few herbs wouldn't ruin this, frankly, basic dish.

  3. Dear Vincenzo, I am a lover of your channel and fierce traditionalist when it comes to carbonara. HOWEVER. It was Italians who emigrated and called these dishes Spaghetti Bolognese – and they put them with spaghetti (even though they were ragu).. There are people all over the world brought up with different versions of Bolognese, and especially the British version (spag bog – we don't call it Bolognese any more) these are comfort foods that are loved for the versions they are. YES it's the wrong type of pasta/meat/cooking time, but after this amount of time these dishes are quintessentially from the place that they are modified in. I've tried Bolognese in Bologna, it's good, but I've had better in London and France (Normandy) as well. Bolognese is like cheddar and the right to claim it for the region has gone. This is the only dish I will say this about. Some of us like the extra texture from less cooking time, some of us like the extra flavour from stock. There is personal taste and however much people from Bologna wince, the whole world has a different SPAGHETTI Bolognese. All the best to your lovely family.

  4. Looks wonderful!

    I use almost the same recipe and I also like to use pancetta or guanciale. But there is a trick I found which is to first cook the soffritto, then I take it out of the pan and if I use pancetta I will first melt that a bit while I shape the meat into meatballs. Then I put the meatballs in and brown them a fair bit. The ball shape help you get more surface for browning and now there is no risk of burning the soffrite. Let the meat sit and don't stir too much, but turn the balls when they start to brown. When the meatballs are brown on the outside I take the heat down a bit deglaze with wine and add the soffritto back in and break everything up. That caramelization of the meat really does wonders for the taste.

  5. He is of French origin, but he is Québécois!!

    Vincenzo I would LOOOVVEE you to react to an Italian food abomination that we have here in Montréal: Pizzaghetti!!

  6. Yeah, I don't like using heavy cream either, the dish is already rich and calorie dense enough as it is. Milk is okay, but heavy cream is just too much.

  7. Yes never use medium or even medium low heat, I made that mistake once and I scalded it at the bottom, I called it my burntlognese, because it had a weird smoky flavor, it wasn't inedible but it wasn't great either.

  8. I personnally like to put just a bit of salt and pepper in the beginning over the sofrito and again in the end a bit of salt if needed to correct it and a lot a pepper just because I love pepper 😀

  9. Not bad. I have my own six hour bolognese. I’m sure you could criticize that as well (I use just a little bell pepper, for instance)

  10. Mwah. I can make gluten free pasta bolognese and it looks better than his. i like to use GF Rigatoni for it since i'm limited to pick good GF pasta. i do like some dried oregano and parmegiano reggiano to put it at the end on the plate. it's my favorite herb and it compliments to salt. (i don't understand bayleaf? this would make the sauce bitter imho)

  11. Why does the meat have to be grey only? I usually saute soffritto first, take it out, brown the meat alone and then put the soffritto back in. Always thought that the final dish taste better when you brown the meat, am I doing it wrong?

  12. By demand… I request that you challenge chef Dumas to make an authentic italian boloGNEZZZZzzzZZZZeEEEeeeee (haha!!!) lasagna… and I challenge Chef Dumas to challenge you to make an authentic Quebec POUTINE (our Quebec national dish)!!! good luck to both of you… you will need it!

  13. Some people like to personalize the classic recipes so I respect Chef Dumas' choices. I agree, though, that the cream should have gone in towards the end of the cooking process. In any case, it looks delicious. Chef Dumas is a real pro.

  14. David´s Bolognese to me still the undefeated champion!!
    people might say: ¨But it´s four hours…¨ I say: ¨BECAUSE it´s four hours… five sometimes…¨

  15. I like to put extra herbs in my Bolognese just so I can imagine Vincenzo shouting MA CHE FAI, it really adds to the end product.
    Emotion = Flavour

  16. I only use beef in my bolognese because my mom cannot eat pork without getting an adverse digestive reaction. Also, I did some research, and pork actually has a very mild flavor when compared to beef. Veal is really hard to come across in my country as well. I use red wine because it is the only kind of wine my parents drink (and it actually tastes better with it than with white wine). I add a mug with half lactose free milk and half evaporated milk and it is amazing (we are lactose intolerant, so this is the way to go for us). I don't have time to make egg pasta, so I go for rigatoni or penne rigate. I have been told something else about the 4-hours controversy. A guy from Bologna says it's just a gimmick, nothing more. In reality, 2 hours is good if you are in a rush, the people are starving, 3 hours is better, 4 hours is best, but not the minimum. If anything, the ragu won't get any more flavors nor tenderness after 4 hours. He has actually conducted an experiment cooking 4 batches of ragu for 2, 3, 4, and 5 hours respectively and that's how he drew that conclusion.

    I believe some people put herbs and some other add-ons (like beef bones or parmigiano rinds) to draw a signature flavor out. After all, if everybody made bolognese the same exact way, it would be difficult to determine who makes it the best, not to mention you can easily get bored of it. Obviously, someone from Bologna won't add anything, unless he or she owns a restaurant and wants their ragu to be different to that of another restaurant in the same city.

    Oh, and the machine he uses is called a mandoline slicer (or just mandoline). I have one that you can switch from straight blade to julien blade. You may also need to use protective gloves because that blades are ultra sharp. You can lose part of your fingers if you don't know how to use it correctly.

  17. Hi Vincenzo – I agree with you. Everything you said was spot on. I like this chef. He also did a great job. I will subscribe to his channel. Hopefully, he has some more good Italian dishes.

  18. Vincenzo's Plate . i'm from france.
    hope you see my comment

    yesterday, a 2-star chef "Philippe Etchebest" had a disastrous bolognese. he has more than 1Million subscribers. You absolutely have to comment on the recipe.

    I won't spoil it but the mistake he made is a shame.

  19. The sauce has a mash potatoe like consistency before you add the cream if that makes sense? But with milk at the end it adds a silky texture. My experience

  20. I follow both of you guys ! I also follow pascale sciarappa and chef Corleone

  21. Vincenzo, perhaps do a video where you learn a traditional boeuf bourguignon. A a traditional french dish that is sort of a ragu of beef. Or perhaps a Cassoulet Castelnaudary (not a ragu). You’ve done fried rice. Time try out the cuisines from your neighbors to the northwest 😊

  22. Porn, I mean pork and beef I use as well, like him, veal is expensive in Serbia 😂
    Plus you need to find a good one, not a borderline beef, that you pay as a veal.
    Also I love to use more onion, never is enough (not literally)😅 like Pecorino is never enough for you Vito 😊
    I like how onion adds aroma to the tomatos.
    And I have to admit I add sometimes Yugoslav MSG called Vegeta 😛 It makes everything taste umami as f.

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