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If you’ve never heard of breadfruit, your first introduction to the food may have come during last night’s episode of Below Deck when we learned, “it smells like rotten vagina.” Good to know! Can always count on Chef Rachel Hargrove to tell it like it is.
When chief stew Heather switches up the interior assignments, Jess is tasked with handling the charter guests and Fraser heads to the laundry room with the mission of whipping it into shape. But before he can transform it into a tidy haven, he gets a whiff of something rather unpleasant.
“What is that? This has a really bad smell,” he tells Heather, locating a plastic bag on top of the laundry machines.
“Throw that away. Oh my god, that stinks so bad,” she instructs him, running out of the room.
“Oh yeah, that’s breadfruit,” Chef Rachel confirms. “Where were they?”
Fraser points to their location and tells her, “Up here and the smell is absolutely revolting. It smells like someone’s been working here for the past two charters and hasn’t noticed,” he says, referencing Jess and her previous job aboard the yacht.
This is when Rachel drops the line, “It smells like rotten vagina,” and Fraser agrees, saying, “It does, not that I would know.”
“This is why you’re gay!” Rachel jokes with him.
So what the heck even is breadfruit? Well, a quick Google search reveals that it is a “tree of the mulberry family (Moraceae) and its large fruits that are a staple food of the South Pacific and other tropical areas. Breadfruit contains considerable amounts of starch and is seldom eaten raw. It may be roasted, baked, boiled, fried, or dried and ground into flour.” And if you’re wondering what it tastes like, Parade says, “Although the strongest breadfruit taste correlation is to freshly-baked bread when cooked, the starch-rich breadfruit can also taste similar to potatoes, though riper varieties taste sweeter because the starch converts to sugar.”
Below Deck airs Monday at 9 pm ET/PT on Bravo.
