Chefs

Michael Carlson Would Have Preferred Herpes to Malort For Chef Challenge

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If you saw Michael Carlson in the Key Ingredient video we did at the Chicago Reader, you know that the heavy metal-lovin’ chef of Schwa keeps up a steady patter of hilariously out-there comments as he cooks his Achatz-influenced molecular food. More, in fact, than we could fit into one video, so the Reader has now posted a selection of deleted scenes in which Carlson is even wilder and crazier about his (not) favorite alcohol. Learn why Malort brought to mind a certain notorious internet video, what the mysterious substance growing in a bowl at Schwa is, and more.

Michael Carlson Would Have Preferred Herpes to Malort For Chef Challenge