Chef profile · 1 win vs. Bobby Flay

Franklin Becker

Potato latkes
  • Point Seven · New York, NY
  • Bento by Point Seven · New York, NY
  • Coral Omakase · New York, NY
  • The Press Club Grill · New York, NY
  • The Bronze Owl · New York, NY
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The Indian episode that produced potato latkes. The second one in this book, if you are counting. Beat Bobby Flay is a show that does not always observe the boundary between cuisines and the dishes that get assigned to them.

Franklin Becker runs Point Seven and Bento by Point Seven in New York — a chef with thirty years in the city's fine dining grid. Latkes are deceptively unforgiving: the potato has to be grated, drained, salted, drained again, and bound just enough that the latke holds in the fryer without going dense. The shred has to stay shaggy. The exterior has to crisp.

Becker's stayed shaggy and crisped. Bobby's, per the broadcast, did neither in the right proportions.

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S39E8
Round 1
vs. Kelly "Shibumi" Jones · advanced to face Bobby
W
S39E8
Round 2
beat Bobby with Potato latkes
W