Why does CK use both oil and butter?

Jesus Christ Favreau, it's just a grilled cheese

What the fuck are you talking about?

Different tools for different jobs.

That's as dumb as asking a mechanic if he uses both wrenches and screwdrivers.

A better comparison is a socket wrench and a spanner

You can split hairs and argue semantics all you like, but the point remains unchanged. They're still different tools with distinct pros/cons.

I'm asking in this specific case, why does he use both. Sure, okay, each has a different purpose. What is the purpose?

Butter and oil both do the same job just that one does better in different places, like spanners and socket wrenches a screwdriver does somewhat different job, mayo would be the screwdriver, you can use it on grilled cheeses and shit but it'll be all weird and fucked up, like if you try using a screwdriver on a hex bolt/nut

Pretentious faggotry so he can look like a "gourmet chef" to retard normies who watched that shitty movie

Thats not Louis CK

I have no idea about "he"; I was answering the general question posed by OP.

As for the Webm, this is just a guess, but it's very common to add oil to butter in order to improve it's resistance to heat. He might be wanting that buttery taste while retaining the ability to fry at a higher temperature.
Oil

The oil helps to stop the butter burning.

It really doesn't, I use butter and I cook the absolute shit out of my grilled cheese cause I like the cheese piping hot and I've never once had the butter burn on me, once I used butter and oil just to try it out there was literally no difference to just using butter.

If you're burning the butter you need to learn how to control the heat better

What's even the purpose of this scene? I haven't watched the movie, so i can inly conclude it's supposed to be "look at how passionate favreau is about cooking, he's making something as simple as a grilled cheese for his son and he's doing so much for it," but it just comes off as pretentious as fuck.

Yes chef!

How could it be pretentious? Who is he showing off to?

Normies who watched that shitty film

That doesn't even make sense.

He was being pretentious on screen so he could trick normies in to thinking he's passionate about food and is legitimately good at cooking, he's showing off to the fucking films audience you dense cunt.

But he's cooking alone. There's nobody present to show off to.

Methinks you don't really understand the true definition of pretentious and are confusing it with anything you find to be "fancy".

Stop repeating mom science you dumb faggot. Oil does not raise the smoke point of butter, go test it yourself.

OP, I think it's for flavor.

you are super retarded

He is showing off to the films audience, how many times do I have to repeat this you dense fuck

>a character is showing off to someone he doesn't know is watching

kek

Why wouldn't you use both oil and butter? And as others have said, it stop the butter from browning, even though a little browning is good sometimes depending.
When I use a cast iron pan, I first add a little bit of oil to the pan and heat it up, then I add butter to say fry eggs with. It just works better that way for numerous reasons.

Favreau is showing off and being over the top about a grilled cheese for the film so the audience gets the impression that the character knows how to cook real good.

Is that really so hard to understand?

no, that's not what he's doing.

What do you think he's doing then genius?

>Is that really so hard to understand?

Nope. Makes perfect sense. But that has nothing to do with pretentiousness.

The pretentiousness of it is how he's being so over the top and overly finicky about a grilled cheese, a meal that you would make when you're hungry for something simple, quick and cheesy.

Sure you can make a grilled cheese really nice by using decent cheeses and decent bread but it's still a very simple dish and being so over the top about it is fucking stupid and pretentious

That's not necissisarily pretentious.

If he's making it over-the-top because he likes it that way, or because he's doing it out of the love for his son, there's nothing pretentious about that.

If he's making it over-the-top because he wants to make himself appear superior to another character in the same scene then that would be pretentious.

Pretentiousness, by definition, requires the element of doing something for the express purpose of appearing superior in the eyes of others.

I think he fucks his son's boipucci

Sure in the context and universe of the film, it could have been done with a lot less wankery that's for sure.

Otherwise I feel that scene was made to make him seem like a "loving father" and also to make the character seem superior to the audience (who are mostly facebook "foodies") in cooking, thus giving off the impression he actually knows something about cooking even though he's just over exaggerating the process, I feel that's pretty pretentious.

>I feel that's pretty pretentious.

But you are mistaken in that feeling. You don't know what pretentious means. The definition in your head is not the real one.

Again: Pretentiousness requires the element of doing something for the express purpose of appearing superior in the eyes of others. There are no others in this scene, therefore it cannot be pretentious.

I still reckon being a dickhead about a grilled cheese on camera to impress and look like a superior cook to a film audience (note how I'm saying film audience and not character) is pretentious

The character isnt being pretentious,the director/writers are you dumb nigger

It's just fucking grilled cheese. He's treating it like it's some fucking 5 star dish.

You didn't answer my question. Who is he showing it off to? Pretense requires a person to show off to. Where is that person?

No person to show off to = no pretense.