OUR SUGGESTION FOR AN ABSURDLY EXPENSIVE MENU

If your richness and stupidity level is a little bit lower than the one required to order Arnaud Strawberries, we can also suggest you some other absurd dishes you can probably afford. There are many others, but the ones we have selected have been developed to turn the most popular dishes of the world into something only affordable by a few, which should made us all think about it.

 

1. The 25.000$ Frrrozen Haute Chocolate

 

This chocolate lovers’ dessert mixes 28 of the most expensive strange and exclusive types of chocolate with 5 grams of edible 23 carat gold. It is topped with cream, more edible gold and includes a side of a Madeline Truffle – the most expensive chocolate truffle of the world. It costs only 25.000 dollars, but as even the most expensive chocolate with edible gold and truffles is so expensive, you will receive a “complimentary” gold spoon set with white and chocolate-colored diamonds you can take home so as to never forget your stupidity.

 

2. The 12.000$ Gigi Cocktail

 

It is made with a bottle of 1990 Vintage Cristal -a vintage champagne- and a bottle of 1888 Samalens Vieille Relique Vintage Bas Armagnac -an ultra-rare Armagnac brandy that pre-dates the Boer War. Finally, it is topped with ‘lashings’ of gold leaf to make it a little bit more expensive. Due to its price, the drink must be paid for in advance to prevent the «rather embarrassing» situation where a patron’s debit or credit card is declined. It was created especially for iconic singer-songwriter and actress Grace Jones, the drink was a way of the owners showing their appreciation for attending the opening of Gigi’s restaurant, with something ‘truly special’.

 

3. The 2.500$ Gold and White Truffle Pizza

 

Margo’s restaurant chef in Malta surely woke up one morning asking himself how to turn something delicious, cheap and easy to prepare into something absurdly expensive. The answer was “let’s add some edible gold and white truffle” and this is how this pizza was born. If you want to taste it, remember it is only available during the white truffle season and you will need to order it one week in advance.

 

4. The FleurBurger 5000

 

It is only available in the Fleur de Lys restaurant at the Mandalay Bar in Las Vegas. Served over truffle pain, it is made of Wagyu tenderloin and foie topped with white truffle sauce and slides of black truffles to create an extremely difficult to digest and sickeningly sweet dish. Surprisingly, it doesn’t come with a side of edible gold, but it is served with a bottle of 2500$ Chateau Petrus Bordeaux and Ichendorf glasses you can take home. If you buy it, they will give you a complimentary certificate so as you can tell everybody you can spend 5000$ in one hamburger.

Now it’s time for the funny part: Pizza, Hamburger, Chocolate dessert and drinks cost is 44.500$. Good for you!

 

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WHO INVENTED THE SPANISH OMELETTE?

We have discovered we have a small obsession with Spanish Omelette while writing this blog. This is probably because having the best non-stick properties is one of our main goals and the Spanish Omelette is the dish in which a frying pan must prove its skills. Following this little obsession, we have thought it would be interesting to look for the origin of this recipe.

 

Until recently legend attributed its invention to General Tomás de Zumalacárregui during the Bilbao siege in 1835. He was supposed to having created it to feed his troops, although some people said the truth was he copied the recipe from an anonymous woman who gave him dinner once.

 

But recently the book “The potato in Spain” written by Javier López Linaje has confirmed the real origin of the Spanish Omelette can be found in Villanueva de la Serena (Badajoz), placed in the south of Spain. He has found some documents which mention this dish in 1798 and attribute the invention to Joseph de Tena Godoy and the Robledo marquis, two property owners who were trying to find cheap foodstuff to stop famine.

 

It seems they first tried to make potato bread in the frying pan with the help of the women of the town. This idea evolved until frying the potatoes in olive oil so as not to turn potatoes into flour. When some eggs were added, the first Spanish Omelette was born. Or at least the first documented one.

 

At Castey we love this recipe so much, that not only write about it all the time in our blog but also have developed the perfect frying pan to turn the Spanish omelette easily.

 

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THE FRYING PAN HISTORY

This frying pan dates back to the 3th century and it’s supposed to have been manufactured by a soldier of the Roman army in Wales. Its main peculiarity is it has a foldable handle that makes it easier to store and carry on.

 

Even though cookware is used since the discovery of fire and cooking in the prehistory, in this post we will only focus on the history of the modern frying pan, which is supposed to have its origins in the old Mesopotamia. Anyway, as it is a very quotidian object, it was possibly developed at the same time in many different cultures. For example, there are some evidences of its use during the Han Dynasty in China, where they were used for salt evaporation. They were also known in the old Greece, were they were called tagēnon and in Rome, were people called them patella or sartago.

 

The first material used to manufacture the modern frying pan was copper; although there are evidences cast iron frying pans were also used during the Han Dynasty. The shape of these old frying pans was not quite different than the modern ones, as shows the picture of this copper frying pan dated between the 5th and 6th century BC of the Archeological Museum in Thessalonica.

 

In Europe, before stoves were introduced in the middle of the 19th century, the common frying pan had 3 legs. These were used to place the frying pan on the live coal and they disappeared when stoves became popular. In those times, especially during the first half of the 20th century, cast iron was the main manufacturing material and it continued to be until the 60’s and 70’s, when non-stick aluminium frying pans became popular. Nowadays non-stick aluminium frying pans are still consumer’s favourite choice.

 

Did you know Castey is the oldest cookware manufacturer in the world? Our history dates back to the sixteenth century and our origins are strongly linked with art. For this reason, design is one of our main brand values.

 

Are you a history lover? You may find interesting to learn more about Spanish Omelette origins.

 

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