All language subtitles for 1. Introduction-Aaron Franklin Teaches Texas-Style BBQ

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My favorite part
about barbecue

might actually not be eating it.

I think it's the process
and how we get there.

Even as a kid, like I could
kind of sense the amount of love

that went into this food.

And that's the
premise of barbecue.

It's like you cook
with your heart

you, pour your heart and
soul into this thing,

you make as good as you can.

And even if you fall
short, it almost

doesn't even matter so
much is the spirit that's

behind it and the soul
that that represents.

I feel incredibly
honored to be able to run

a restaurant that
people lined up

for hours and hours and hours.

It's just a piece of
meat, and it's just

fire, nothing special.

But it's the journey of
how you get to the end,

and then it's the
conversations that you

get to have at the end of it.

That's kind of a
barbecue for me.

It is part culture, it is
part process, it is part food.

It's real soul food, it
really means something

Really, what I want to be able
to teach through MasterClass

is kind of the way that
I think about barbecue.

I've never really gotten to do
this in this level of detail.

When I go through the
restaurant and we've

got new cooks starting out, we
sit there, we stare at fires.

I'm like, pick up this log,
what does it feel like?

What do you think
it's going to do?

I quiz people.

So, I'm going to
teach you exactly

like I would train someone
at Franklin Barbecue.

How do you pick up a piece of
wood, how to look at a fire

how to pick up a
piece of meat and know

exactly what it's doing, that's
what you're going to learn.

In this class, we're
going to look at firewood,

we're going to learn
how to build fires,

we're going to learn
how to maintain fires.

We're mainly going to talk
about long cooked barbecue,

but we're also going to talk
about grilling, because that

also requires live fire cooking.

We're going to cook pork butt.

We're going to pull it.

We're going to cook some ribs.

I'm going to show you guys how
to cook a brisket from start

to finish, really get down to
the details of how to trim,

how to wrap it, and then
at the end slicing it.

And just kind of be
prepared to make mistakes.

It's totally OK, it's
just about learning.

I'm Aaron Franklin, and
this is my MasterClass.