Take a dip into deliciousness!
After a legendary episode ranking Top 5 Cheeses together, the gang is back for another food sample filled episode where we talk about the food you can’t wait to scoop – dips! Dips are a culinary delight that has captured the hearts of foodies everywhere by providing us a flavour explosion of countless variety that often enhances the vessel you choose to dip with. One of the greatest things about them is how they are made to be shared which makes it perfect for our episode today! So join Tuong La and Dip-shits Hayley Kellett, Spencer Dunn, and Simone Dorie as they dunk themselves into another sensory episode for their mouths and your ears as they rank Top 5 Dips!
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Ground Rules
- Dips are NOT condiments (although there are some grey areas as we discovered in this episode). Either way we already did that episode on condiments
- Even though we just said that the technical definition is: A dip or dip sauce is a common condiment for many types of food. Dips are used to add flavor or texture to a food. But we are trying to avoid things like ketchup, mayo, mustard to count as a dip
- We used the Alton Brown definition which is defined based on its ability to “maintain contact with its transport mechanism over three feet [1 m] of white carpet“.
- A dip is NOT a sauce nor is it a spread (ie butter)
- What vessel or vehicle we choose to dip with doesn’t really affect our choice for dip as that’s personal preference. We should be able to decide if we like the dip based on the finger test.
- Some dips are popular but there are often cases where you can get a bad version of that dip (ie guac). We will take that into consideration but also ultimately we are ranking the best ideal version of these dips against each other.
- Some dips will encapsulate the entire category for that dip nomination (ie Hummus will include all kinds of hummus since there are so many varieties)
*Spoilers* Below is our Top 5 list from this episode as well as our own personal unordered lists.
Group Top 5
5. Spinach & Artichoke Dip (Warmed up)
4. Hummus
3. Salsa
2. Heluva Good! French Onion Dip
1.Guacamole
Other nominations in the Top 12
- Spinach & Watercress (Cold)
- Two way jalapeño black bean dip
- Tzatziki
- Queso
- Siracha Mayo
- Mexican Street Corn
- Cookies and Cream Dessert Dip
Honourable Mentions
- Fresh Multi Bean Dip (Not blended)
- A hot crab dip
- Creamy Garlic Dip (Pizza Pizza)
- Artichoke Asiago Dip
- Cannoli Dip
- Seven layer dip
- Buffalo Chicken
- Blue Cheese
- Picco De Gallo
- Olive Tapenade
Recipes
Hayley’s Guac
– 1 biggish avocado (or two little guys)
– 1-2 cloves of garlic, minced
– diced red onion
– juice of a lime
– diced tomato (no goop, just the firm bits)
– dash or two of you fave hot sauce
– a bit of cumin
– s&p to taste
I have no measurements. Follow your heart and taste as you go!