Chef's secret grocery store favorites (VIDEO)

By Casey Balch (C.balch@mstarsnews.com) | Apr 12, 2014 08:48 AM EDT

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Potluck Video probes Food Network's star chefs to find out their favorites from the local grocery store.

Chef Anne Burrell is most known for her Food Network's show Secrets of a Restaurant Chef, but she has been on Iron Chef America, Best Thing I Ever Ate, and Worst Chef's in America.  Her go-to in the supermaket, she practically glows as she recalls, "Triscuits and cheddar cheese with a little slice of dill pickle... I always have that in my house"

Chef Marc Murphy is known for his work as a judge on Food Network's Chopped and has been featured on Iron Chef America.  His guilty pleasure is peanut butter and nutella sandwiches.  Yum!  He says, "You always have to have nutella in the house."

"I like sandwich meats," says Matt McCallister, the executive chef and owner of FT33 in Dallas, Texas.  "Like country ham and stuff.  That's about as out there as I get.  I'm pretty lame when it comes to that."

Regular judge on Top Chef, Gail Simmons hails from Canada and she says, "Dill pickle chips are really common and there are also dill pickle, little rice crackers that I love and always buy and always have in my house in Canada.  People think it's so odd but they're sorta my secret favorite thing."

Co-founder of the Gramercy Tavern in New York and recipient of five James Beard Foundation awards (awards presented for excellence in cuisine, culinary writing, and culinary education) , chef Tom Colicchio's secret grocery store must-have is Columbian Hot Pepper Relish.  He excitingly says, "It's just amazing.  It's so, it's really really spicy."

Top Chef and Chopped judge chef Scott Conant has a love of Hellman's Mayonnaise.  Practically grinning, he says, "In any restaurant, obviously you make your own mayonnaise...  I just buy Hellman's."

Hot sauce is on chef Jonathan Waxman's shopping list.  Owner of Barbuto in New York, Waxman says, "There's like so many hot sauces out there, so I have like 30 of them in the refrigerator and it's graded from really mild to incinerating.

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