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Brooklyn Beckham is back with another profoundly confusing cooking video — this time filmed on a yacht. In a TikTok video posted last week, the 27-year-old announced he’d be making “tomato pasta,” then immediately cut to a clip of himself holding a stainless-steel pot off the back of a boat and scooping up some “pasta water” straight from the sea. He then proceeded to dice up some cherry tomatoes, roast them in a pan with olive oil and a prominently placed dribble of his Cloud 23 hot sauce, and boil his noodles in the seawater.
Am I a professionally trained chef? No. But even I know that it’s best to cook pasta in boiling water with a pinch of salt — not a vat of liquid heavily seasoned by the Mediterranean and the fuel from your own yacht. As far as we know, the eldest of the Beckham brood was never bedridden with seawater-poisoning, though he did get what I suspect was his goal all along: a ton of incensed commenters. “Pasta water with a hint of burnt boat fuel please sir,” one noted, while another advised Beckham to brace his bowels: “As [an] italian, I’m pretty sure that sea water is the best way to spent [sic] all the next day in the bathroom 👍.”
Brooklyn is known for embracing these sorts of unconventional cooking methods and recipes — blue smoothies at Erewhon, blow-torching grilled cheeses — and the bit happens to be great for engagement. So great you might even forget he’s feuding with his famous parents and had to borrow his godfather Elton John’s yacht instead of vacationing with the rest of his family. On that front, well done, chef.
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