Emeril Lagasse is back in the feed, and one potato-grating clip from his old cooking show has passed more than 3 million views on X. The post also has over 50,000 likes, turning a decades-old TV rhythm into a fresh short-form hit.
Last week’s surge pushed Lagasse to respond with a reaction video that watched a montage of himself set to ABBA’s The Winner Takes It All. He ended that clip with, “That’s some good shit.”
X Finds Emeril Live
Lagasse told Rolling Stone on Monday that he thinks the resurgence is what people want. He said Emeril Live was built to teach people how to cook while also entertaining them, with music, food, and an audience all in the mix.
That format is the reason the clips still travel well now. A potato-grating segment can be cut down to a few seconds, but it still carries the call-and-response that made the show work: “You want the stahhch!” and the audience shouting, “Gimme da stahhch!”
Lagasse said he fed off the audience and the band, and that he “just had fun and did my thing.” He also said the show ran from 1997 to 2010 and produced more than 1,600 episodes, which gives the viral wave a built-in archive large enough for reposts, remixes, and new discovery.
What The Clip Changed
The clip most people are sharing is not a polished highlight reel. It is a simple kitchen move turned into live entertainment, and that is the part that still lands online: the pace, the audience noise, and the way Lagasse turns starch into a punch line without losing the cooking lesson.
Lagasse also spoke from his longtime home of New Orleans and revisited a little-known history as a drummer who gigged with Aerosmith. Those details give the resurgence a cleaner read: this is not nostalgia for nostalgia’s sake, but a reminder that the show’s energy came from performance as much as instruction.
The new audience now has a clear next step if the clips keep spreading: watch the original segments rather than treating them as one-off memes. Lagasse has already said the appeal is the mix of teaching and entertainment, and the viral numbers suggest that balance still works when the clips are stripped down for X.
