Sam Hiersteiner

The vessel you choose to cook in is also important in this format. We suggest using a 12-inch bamboo steamer basket with a lid, set over a wok with a small amount of water in it to create steam. Woks are useful for this because their curved sides allow a steamer to sit inside, but not touch the water in the bottom of the pan. You can use a straight-sided pot, too, but you need to make sure it is of the same diameter as the bamboo steamer so the steamer sits snuggly atop the pot.

On the night of her unveiling on Top Chef, the master satirist comes clean about what motivated the parody account, and what we can expect next. In the food kingdom, it’s pretty rare for a chef to use the veil of anonymity to rabble rouse (that’s usually left to Yelpers), which was why the emergence of Instagram celebrity Chef Jacques La Merde (@chefjacqueslamerde) last year was so refreshing. And hilarious.

Apparently, the most famous chefs in America—the ones from Food Network’s first wave, who became global culinary brands—give each other shit just like the rest of us. “Batali and Flay are always telling me, ‘You blew it!’, for not building a restaurant empire,” said Ming Tsai, who only recently expanded to two restaurants after more than 15 years at his flagship, Blue Ginger, outside of Boston.