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title: 'Recreating Bobby Hill''s Restaurant Menu | Binging with Babish'
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date: 2026-07-18
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# Recreating Bobby Hill's Restaurant Menu | Binging with Babish

> Source: [Recreating Bobby Hill's Restaurant Menu | Binging with Babish](https://youtube.com/watch?v=eDKuE-LNddY)

## Summary

In this episode of Binging with Babish, host Andrew Rea recreates three dishes from Bobby Hill's fusion restaurant in the animated series King of the Hill: herring in tempura with a yogurt dipping sauce, yuzu bratwurst sausage, and sauerkraut ice cream. He explores the challenges of blending Japanese and German cuisines, shares detailed cooking techniques, and provides honest taste tests.

### Key Points

- **Dipping Sauce Preparation** [01:55] — Combines 1 cup whole milk plain yogurt, 2 grated garlic cloves, half a small grated shallot, lemon juice, a handful of chopped dill, salt, pepper, and furikake seasoning. Ideally refrigerated overnight to meld flavors.
- **Herring Tempura** [02:48] — Uses wine-marinated jarred herring, patted dry, dusted in potato starch, dipped in tempura batter, and fried at 350°F for 2-4 minutes. Seasoned with furikake while hot. Result: extremely fishy and mushy.
- **Yuzu Bratwurst Ingredients** [03:52] — 3 lbs pork shoulder, 1 lb pork fatback, 2 lbs veal stew meat, cubed and frozen. Includes steamed sushi rice, pickled daikon, and yuzu juice. Seasoned with kosher salt, white pepper, mace, ginger, dried mustard, nutmeg, egg yolk, heavy cream, and yuzu kosho.
- **Grinding and Emulsifying** [05:09] — Meats are ground twice (coarse then fine), then mixed with seasonings, egg yolk, cream, yuzu juice, and crushed ice. Beaten on high for 1-3 minutes until smooth. Rice and daikon folded in gently.
- **Sausage Stuffing and Poaching** [06:55] — Farce chilled, stuffed into hog casings, twisted into links, dried overnight. Poached in Asahi beer at 180°F for 15-25 minutes until internal temp 155-165°F. Then grilled over binchotan charcoal or propane.
- **Charcoal vs. Propane Taste Test** [10:02] — Binchotan charcoal gave better browning and less carbon buildup. Taste test with friends: Sawyer preferred propane (cleaner meat flavor), Brad preferred binchotan (dirtier, deeper flavor). Host preferred binchotan.
- **Sauerkraut Ice Cream Base** [11:11] — Dessert sauerkraut made with red cabbage, orange peel, ginger, salt, caraway seeds, fermented 2 weeks. Ice cream custard: 3 cups milk, 2 cups cream, 2 eggs, sugar, miso paste. Tempered and cooked to nappe, then mixed with sauerkraut juice or chopped kraut.
- **Sauerkraut Ice Cream Verdict** [16:06] — Smooth version (using kraut juice) described as 'best vanilla ice cream ever' with buttermilk-like tang. Whole kraut version had unpleasant squishy crunch. Miso addition recommended for richness. Candied kraut topping improved texture.

### Conclusion

The episode successfully recreates two out of three dishes from Bobby Hill's menu, with the yuzu bratwurst and sauerkraut ice cream (especially the smooth version) being winners, while the herring tempura fell flat. The host emphasizes that miso is a game-changer for vanilla ice cream.

## Transcript

This is not authentic Japanese or German food. It's authentic Bobby food. Alio. food. It's authentic Bobby food. Alio. [music]
[music] to be exploring some food from the new seasons of King of the Hill. In fact, season 2 of The Revival just [music] premiered. Last season, there Bobby's restaurant where he's marrying some interesting [music] flavors from
Japanese and German cuisine. Not two cuisines that I would imagine putting together, but [music] it did sound interesting. So, let's see how it tastes here on a good oldfashioned binging with Babish.
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>> I am neither German nor Japanese. Actually, I do have some German in me. I have no Japanese, but to be fair, I'm recreating stuff from a cartoon, >> I think we're perfectly safe. We didn't come up with this stuff. And the the the
appropriation, which you'll have to watch to find out. First up, we need to make a dipping sauce. I'm combining one cup of whole milk, plain yogurt, with two cloves of garlic, grated, and half a small shallot, also grated. We're also
particularly [music] juicy lemon. We're going to want that acid to contrast all we're going to be dealing with. And we're going to add a solid handful of chop it because you don't want long
We're also seasoning to taste with kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper. Mix until fully homogeneous. And to bring a little bit of Japanese flare, I'm going to season it with some fur kake. This is a mixture of salt, sugar,
[music] seeds. All of which are going to be welcome flavors in this situation. ideally, let it sit in the fridge overnight to let the flavors get to know [music] And I'm sorry I hit record a little late on this one, so I don't have
the actual herring coming out of the jar, but [music] it is wine marinated jarred herring. Maybe one of my least favorite food stuffs in the world. Let's patting the fish dry and then [music] dusting it in potato starch before
dropping it in a very standard tempura batter. Dip the fish in that mixture and 350° [music] Fahrenheit neutral flavored oil. These are going to fry for 2 to 4 minutes. They're not going to get deeply golden
they should pick up some color. Evacuate those onto a wire rack set in a rim baking sheet and sprinkle some furk on them while they're still hot. All there I'm gonna sprinkle a little extra furk on the fish and the dipping sauce
[music] itself. And there you have it. An easy and interesting appetizer from Robot Chain. But let's see how it tastes. And the answer is not very good. I'm not a big herring fan, so don't trust me. But it was extremely fishy and
mushy from being both marinated and then cooked again. So, not my favorite. >> I've never actually had a reason, a real reason to say this, but dang it, Bobby.
Next up, the thing I'm most excited about, yuzu worst sausage. Something Bobby describes as a [music] broughtwurst with pickled daikon rice and yuzu. To make the sausage itself, I have 3 lbs of boneless pork shoulder
that I'm going to cube into 1 in pieces. I'm setting all these on parchment and throwing them in the freezer for 20 around the edges, but not totally [music] frozen through. I'm going to do
the same with one lb of pork fatback, which is exactly what it sounds like. It's pork, it's fat, and it's back. And it too is getting cubed into 1in pieces and put in the freezer. So too is some ve. I couldn't find some whole pieces of
ve. So I have 2 lbs of ve stew meat that I'm going to cube up and put in the grinder, which is about to get strapped to my stand mixer. Now, Bobby does rice. So I've got some sushi rice that I've steamed here that I'm sprinkling
with a little bit of sushi rice vinegar and kosher salt and letting cool sausage. I hope I don't have to explain why you don't add hot rice to cold [music] raw sausage. Next up, the daicon. I have some pickled Japanese
[music] chop. I don't want big pieces of daon. I don't want it to be crunchy. I just want it to bring the flavor. So, nice fine chop. About a cup's worth. And now it's time, as Jenz [music] likes to say, to get to grind to hit the grind to
what do they say? First, I'm passing all this pork [music] and ve and pork fat plate, which is going to give us a coarse, pebbly grind. Then, we're putting that ground meat back in the freezer for 15 minutes to firm up again
and passing it through our finest grinder plate, giving us a nice smooth farce for our broughtwurst. Now, it's time to season and emulsify that farce. So, in the bowl of a stand mixer, I'm combining my ground meat with 2 tbsps of
kosher salt, 1 tbsp of ground white pepper, 1 teaspoon of mace, 2 tsps ground ginger, 2 tsps of dried mustard, 1 and 1/2 tsps of freshly grated nutmeg. broughtwurst experience. I'm going to add one egg yolk just for some richness
and structure. And for even more richness, one cup of ice cold heavy cream. And I'm starting with about 2 tbsp of yuzu juice. I don't want to overwhelm with yuzu flavor. I want it to play nice with everything. So, I'm
later on. Last but not [music] least, we're going to beat some crushed ice that I'm pulsing in the blender until it's about the texture of an icy and adding about a/2 cup to our farce mixture. Then, we're beating this on
high speed for 1 to 3 minutes until it lightens in color, gets sort of smooth to add my sushi rice. I don't want to overprocess the rice and break it up too test. So, I'm going to grab a little ball of meat. I'm going to pat it out
with a little bit of vegetable oil until it's golden brown on both sides and see how this thing tastes. [music] And the answer's really fantastic. The yuzu actually plays very nicely with the warming [music] spices and the daikon
brings a wonderful acidic hit. But I don't think it's yuzui enough. So I'm don't think it's yuzui enough. So I'm going to yuzu some yuzu kosho. This is a [music] salt and spices. So let's emulsify that together. See what that
tastes like. And it's pretty grand. It's got a really nice balance of flavors together. The only thing that kind of sucks is the rice. It feels like a filler and it kind of screws up the structure of the sausage. So, I would
going to dump this farce out onto a parchment lined rim baking sheet. Put it minutes to firm it up. And then it's time to stuff our sausages. I have some natural hog casings here that I'm soaking in ice water to rinse off the
salt. So now all we need to do is thread it onto our sausage stuffer like an endless condom. Then once we got enough on there, snip off the end, tie a knot, and poke a hole. This is to prevent air from being pushed by the farce through
inflating [music] it. Not unlike a balloon. Then it's time to start diligently stuffing the farce back into the grinder and using it to fill our sausages. An act best accomplished with three hands. It's really hard to grind
sausage by yourself. [music] So, I recommend recruiting a friend or loved one or enemy if you want to know your enemy. I'm doing something stupid, which shouldn't do that. I don't know why I did it. I don't [music] truly don't
been high. But either way, you want to twist the sausages in opposing directions. [music] That helps prevent them from unfurling when you cook them. But that shouldn't be an issue because now we're going to let these sit
is going to dry out the casings a little bit and help prevent them from splitting sausages are going to be cooked twice basically. We're going to start by wonderful Japanese asah beer, one of my favorites, which I'm going to bring to
180° Fahrenheit and poach the sausages gently for 15 to 25 minutes, depending on the girth of your sausage. You basically want it to reach [music] 155 165° F at its thickest point. Once it's there, take it out, let it cool
in the fridge for up to three days before consuming. Now, into one of the binchan [music] charcoal, which Bobby is insistent on using for authenticity. >> How do you know if a food is authentic?
>> I don't know how to define a food as authentic. I do know how to define it as inauthentic, and that's what all this stuff is because it's a mish mash of culture. So, I have some bichon that I'm placing in a charcoal chimney and
placing that directly above a highowered burner. This is going to ignite all the charcoal throughout as it goes [music] for 20 25 minutes until all the coals are bright red and there's white ash forming on the outside. I'm transferring
Enjoying the slow-mo and all the particles you can see. I'm turning on my because I'm [music] doing this indoors. Do not do this indoors. And prepping my sausage. doing a little food styling by rubbing it down essentially with some
evenly. And then I'm cutting it into lengths. It's a little curved, so I'm which you know, those will be little snacks for me. But the robot skewers that Bobby presents are little straight segments [music] of sausage, so that's
going to impale these sausages on two skewers. This is going to allow me to rotate the sausages [music] reliably. Otherwise, they might just spin on the to grill them evenly. Once you got your sausages skewered, it is time for the
moment of truth. That's right. I am pitting charcoal against propane. I'm going to grill up some of these sausages on the banoton charcoal, but I'm also going to grill some sausage over propane to find out once and for all which one's
have the botan and on the right the propane. The bchon browned a little better. There's less carbon buildup on the outside. That's one of the great very cleanly and it doesn't flare as much as normal charcoal or propane. As
some black buildup, some soot on the outside from flare-ups. So, let's give them a try. The charcoal one is very, very good. It does have a nice clean taste. I am indeed tasting the meat rather than the heat. But the bonan is
really something special. I I prefer the beonan. It's It's crispier on the outside. It's got a really deep carbonized flavor from that charcoal. It's for sure a dirtier meat experience, but it's one that I prefer. But I'm just
one guy. So, I'm going to bring on my dear friends, Sawyer and Brad, to taste test these two sausages and point out their favorite. 3 [music] 2 1. Wow, it takes all kinds. It would seem as though Sawyer prefers to taste the meat and
least, something I'm morbidly curious about. Sauerkraut ice cream. This is recipes online that seem to have their roots in German cuisine. People describe
to it, which does sound [music] nice, but I just can't imagine the texture of First up, I'm going to make some dessert sauerkraut as the topping. And I have two big, beautiful pendulus [music] red cabbages that I'm going to peel the
cut them into quarters, core [music] them, and then thinly shred them on a mandolin. You're probably best off doing this with the slicer attachment in your food processor or with just a [music] knife. The mandolin ended up being kind
of cumbersome. Once you got all that finely shredded, it's time to encratify it. But I'm going to add some sort of dessert elements in the form of thinly juliened orange peel. I think this is going to bring a nice contrast to the
ginger. And here's a fun kitchen hack. easier to peel and much easier to grate and it keeps beautifully in the freezer. I'm also going to add about a tablespoon of kosher salt and a tablespoon of
caraway seeds. Next, we need to massage the salt into the [music] cabbage to get it to release its liquid. So, thoroughly massage it for about three full minutes until [music] it is dripping wet and then it's ready to ferment. So, we're
fermentation vessel of choice, load it evenly. Then, we want to weigh it down. So, [music] I'm placing a sheet of weighing it down with a couple of fermentation weights. Then, to let this
methods. You could cover the jar with a couple layers of cheesecloth and secure it with a rubber band. Or this jar has a hole in the center into which you can shove a fermentation [music] device. It's actually a kind of valve that only
lets air out and not in. Then we're letting this guy sit in a cool, dark place like your basement for at least 10 days up to [music] 4 weeks. The longer you go, the more sour the kraut will become. So I'm only going for about 2
super [music] duper sour. I still want to have a a cabbage essence to it. Now, saucepan, we are combining three cups of whole milk and two cups of heavy cream. Then, in a separate heat proof bowl, we're combining two large eggs with 1
passing mine through a fine mesh sie because it's a little clumpy. I'm also miso paste. I wanted to add some Japanese flare to this sauerkraut ice cream. It's going to be rich and savory and salty. Now, we want to beat this egg
completely smooth. Bring the milk and cream mixture up to a bare simmer. Take bowl. Secure the bowl with a moist kitchen towel that's going to keep it in place while we whisk it constantly. And slowly ladle in the hot milk cream
eggs, so you got to start very, very slowly to temper them. By the time much more quickly. Then we're going to add this mixture back to the remaining milk and cream, whisking constantly just to be safe. Set this back over medium
low heat and cook for anywhere from 2 to 5 minutes until it's thickened to the point of nape. Now, once we've killed the heat, I'm going to add about a I think that's going to play really nicely with [music] the tang coming from
the sauerkraut. Speaking of which, it's time to add some sauerkraut to our ice think I was going to say, at least in this [music] lifetime. I'm doing two batches here. One utilizing sauerkraut juice so we keep a nice smooth texture.
The other I've got some freshlysqueezed dry sauerkraut that I'm finely chopping into coconutized shreds. And the other one, I'm just dumping that sauerkraut right on in there. Let's whisk that in and give it a taste. And I'm pleased to
vanilla ice cream I've ever had. I'm not crazy about the texture of the kraut, but it brings a wonderful tanginess. Indeed, a buttermilk-l like twang to the situation. And the miso just makes the vanilla all the more rich and salty and
wonderful. Cover it up with plastic wrap pressed directly against the custard. overnight. And then dump it into your ice cream maker [music] manufacturer's recommended period of time until it looks like frozen yogurt
going to dump it into our freezing vessel of choice. Smooth it out and let it sit in the freezer at least overnight to finish the freezing process. Now it's time to examine our kraut. It's been about 2 weeks and it smells like farts.
stage in the [music] fermentation of sauerkraut. But as you can see, there sauerkraut. So, the top half wasn't submerged and it kind of dried out a little bit. This could potentially be dangerous. [music] But if there's no
fuzzy mold or really death-like smells clinging to it, it's probably fine. Then again, I'm not a doctor. I am not a scientist. I'm just a guy. So, take please. I think it's safe. So, I'm going to give it a taste. And it's
interesting. It's not nearly as tangy as most sauerkraut cuz it needs more time definite presence of orange and carowway, which are interesting and kind of good. So, I think they might work in our ice cream context. Let's see what
it's like all together. We have our whole sauerkraut ice cream here. Scoop's [music] with our quote unquote dessert crout. Let's give it a taste. And I got to say, it might be the best vanilla ice cream I've ever had, but the texture is
squishy crunch that you [music] get with whole sauerkraut in this situation. So for the sauerkraut juice ice cream, let's try making some sweet sauerkraut topping. Grabbing about a/2 cup of the kraut and I'm pressing it extremely dry.
Then over on the stove top in a small [music] sauté, I'm combining 1/2 cup each granulated sugar and water. Bring that up to a simmer and dropping in the dried kraut. Then cooking for anywhere from 5 to 10 minutes until most of the
water is cooked off and the mixture's thickened and the bubbles are prolific and small. That means that it's mostly sugar at this point. Then I'm shake into a bowl of granulated sugar [music] to make it kind of like candied orange
peel. All right, let's try it with our smooth sauerkraut ice cream. This time sesame seed for looks and flavor and top it with our candied kraut. There you have it, an interesting looking dessert. Let's see if it's an improvement on the
best ice cream I've ever had. The big takeaway here is to add miso to your ice cream, especially vanilla ice cream. It really makes it rich and salty and savory on top of super sweet and light. And the sauerkraut genuinely brings a
nice acidic hit almost like a buttermilk. I might use buttermilk just again, you don't get to tell your friends you made sauerkraut ice cream. And isn't that what making sauerkraut ice cream is all about? As far as
fantasy cartoon food goes, two for one is a really good score. So, nice job, watching. It's been a while since I've done an oldfashioned binging. I'm really King of the Hill and find out if there's any more food worth recreating. If
future episodes of binging, shout [music] out in the comments. Otherwise, I'll see you next time here with Babish. Binging with Babish. That's what [music] Binging with Babish. That's what [music] this is. Binging with Babish. Thanks
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>> At the end of the day, did we honor both cultures equally or offend them equally? again, none of this was my idea. Also, there's no Japanese elements of this ice cream. So I added some which does in fact make it my responsibility.