LI chef Allison Fasano wins Foodstuff Network’s Supermarket Stakeout

Armed with a Brooklyn accent, abundant talent and deadpan shipping, Extensive Island chef Allison Fasano aced an episode of Food items Network’s Grocery store Stakeout that aired very last 7 days.

Fasano — the chef at Salted on the Harbor in Northport who also cooks meals for COVID-19 examination websites and performs as a non-public chef — gained about the judges all through three frenetic rounds cooked in a California supermarket parking great deal. She took dwelling the grand prize of $10,000.

“I am usually enthusiastic to be a part of Television set displays, and it does not make a difference if I gain or I drop,” claimed Fasano, who has also appeared on Chopped and Beat Bobby Flay. “At the close of the day, you are in a competitors within just by yourself. It can be a mastering knowledge, and about viewing how really hard you can push on your own. It was fun.”

Supermarket Stakeout, hosted by chef Alex Guarnaschelli, pits 4 chefs versus 1 another, supplying them $500 to invest shopping for groceries from purchasers as they exit a Los Angeles grocery store. The chefs unpack the bags at outside cooking stations in the parking great deal, then have 30 minutes to prepare dinner a dish for each and every of 3 rounds. “You will not want to scare the men and women,” Fasano can be heard indicating off-digicam at the commencing of the challenge. Later in the episode, she shouts “girl energy!” a few occasions as she dashes away with groceries bought from the largely women of all ages shoppers.

Fasano, who reduce her enamel at New York Metropolis restaurants this sort of as Del Posto and Bar American right before migrating to the Extended Island restaurant scene (where by she received a few stars from Newsday at Harley’s American Grille), utilized grace underneath stress during the 11-hour filming. For the to start with round, themed “sky-superior sandwich,” she designed a breakfast Monte Cristo that created choose Eddie Jackson swoon for the 2nd, which referred to as for a French dish, she applied pork and salmon for a spin on surf-and-turf (“I”m in fact doing work with a very little potato hash form of situation,” said Fasano as she cooked in the course of the spherical). Choose Stephanie Boswell, a pastry chef, referred to as the dish “flippin delicious.”

For the very last round, “One thing tacky,” she outbid a fellow competitor for a packet of shredded “Mexican cheese,” and then built a twist on fonduta, the Italian model of fondue ordinarily made with Fontina. “You knocked it out of the park,” explained Jackson.

“I just cooked from my coronary heart,” mentioned Fasano from the kitchen area at Salted, on New Year’s Eve. The episode was filmed in October, she mentioned, and she’s had to remain mum about her get until now. It does not appear to have transformed her a lot. “I have been very fortuitous to continue to keep my apron on” during this tumultuous calendar year.

The episode, the to start with a person of season 3, can be streamed from the Meals Network’s web page, and will air all over again on Jan. 19.

Come across chef Allison Fasano at Salted on the Harbor, 14 Woodbine Ave., Northport. 631-651-2600.