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At this point his channel would probably be better if he didn't brand it around himself and instead just leaned into it being an online cooking media empire or something, since he has all the BA refugees. He could probably make more money selling cookbooks or merchandise or something that way. And he appears to actually be formally trained in film stuff too.
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mystes posted:Chef as in someone who is the head of a restaurant's kitchen professionally or chef as in some random person who operates a cooking-related youtube channel? He's not a (former) professional head of a restaurant kitchen chef? He has chef tattoos.
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droll posted:He's not a (former) professional head of a restaurant kitchen chef? He has chef tattoos.
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Jul 19, 2021 16:19
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Also, not that his own videos are particularly bad or anything but if this "Botched with Babish" video is indicating that he routinely has to make stuff a ton of times to get it to work and he's just not showing that, that's exactly what I don't want in cooking videos and it's one reason I appreciate Kenji's POV videos actually showing everything that happens, although ideally cooking videos will explain any potential pitfalls anyway.
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Jul 19, 2021 16:21
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mystes posted:At this point his channel would probably be better if he didn't brand it around himself and instead just leaned into it being an online cooking media empire or something, since he has all the BA refugees. He could probably make more money selling cookbooks or merchandise or something that way. And he appears to actually be formally trained in film stuff too. He's only had a short series with Sohla and I'm guessing the Rick series will be a similarly limited engagement. That's it as far as ex-BA on the BCU. If he's gonna bring in others, I don't think it'll be BA refugees. I am an unabashed Babish fan. Hope he builds a full-on empire.
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Jul 19, 2021 16:33
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To put it another way, I don't know if he's just hosting Rick's videos but considering how high quality the first one was, if he's actually involved in getting them made in any way he should seriously consider focusing on that (producing shows with other people).
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Jul 19, 2021 16:44
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fizzymercury posted:If chef tattoos make the chef I am a goddamn James Beard award winner. Or a line cook, whatever. He wasn't industry?
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Jul 19, 2021 16:45
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Nope, he was a dude that posted a video to Reddit while in, I think, film school.
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Jul 19, 2021 16:47
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droll posted:He also has really amateur technique. Watching him work with a knife is super cringe. I didn't realize he hadn't actually worked a line before lol but now it all makes sense ^ And if we want to flash forward to the next 20 posts in the thread cycle: droll posted:Y'all getting triggered is funnier than his doucebag tatts
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Jul 19, 2021 16:49
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I completely forgot! Man I must have completely memory holed April 2020 when really hosed up poo poo was happening like my best friend in the ICU from COVID. Thanks for... creeping on me? :\
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Robviously posted:Nope, he was a dude that posted a video to Reddit while in, I think, film school. He's just alton brown 2.0 maybe without the republican political thoughts but... there's still time to milkshake duck himself.
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Jul 19, 2021 17:13
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Slotducks posted:He's just alton brown 2.0 maybe without the republican political thoughts but... there's still time to milkshake duck himself.
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droll posted:I completely forgot! Man I must have completely memory holed April 2020 when really hosed up poo poo was happening like my best friend in the ICU from COVID. Thanks for... creeping on me? :\ It was easy to remember, those posts from April were just a month ago…right? My food related video consumption has collapsed over the course of the pandemic. It was the perfect time to expand my culinary boundaries, but instead I basically only watch Foooood Wishes dot cooooom, maybe every other main Babish video, Rick’s stuff, and Hot Ones when I like the guest.
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Jul 19, 2021 17:31
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Slotducks posted:He's just alton brown 2.0 maybe without the republican political thoughts but... there's still time to milkshake duck himself. Alton Brown went to culinary school though.
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Jul 19, 2021 17:41
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Democratic Pirate posted:It was easy to remember, those posts from April were just a month ago…right? No you went back 15 months.
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Jul 19, 2021 17:52
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That manic chaotic energy was pretty fun to watch. Yes pecorino tends to clump and parmesan doesn't. I like his blender solution at the end, whatever works. Afterwards I made cacio pep for dinner first attempt like a normal person.
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Jul 19, 2021 17:55
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droll posted:No you went back 15 months. So you freak the gently caress out in this thread whenever Babish comes up and you... aren't doing it for the attention? Like I get that him having "chef tatts" is really offensive to you but it clearly doesn't bother everyone else nearly as much. Maybe start writing him weird letters and quit posting in here about it.
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Jul 19, 2021 18:01
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Can we just skip to the droll probe so that this rehash is over?
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prayer group posted:So you freak the gently caress out What an odd way to describe it given I just asked a couple questions and expressed surprise. I completely forgot this came up 15 months ago when I was under immense stress after losing my job and my friend in ICU intubated. Plus my long covid brain fog probably isn't helping my memory. Which posts do you think are 'freaking the loving out' ?
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Jul 19, 2021 18:57
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Not interested. Sorry to hear about your bad life.
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Jul 19, 2021 19:01
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Sorry, posting about Babish a whopping two times in the food tv thread in 15 months clearly means you are obsessed with him and thinking about him 24 hours a day.
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Jul 19, 2021 19:04
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i mean who WOULDN'T be obsessed with that charming rascal 
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Jul 19, 2021 19:07
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Muscle Tracer posted:i mean who WOULDN'T be obsessed with that charming rascal  Also matty Matheson
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Jul 19, 2021 19:50
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His head is so pasty it hurts my eyes. He should wear a hat.
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Jul 19, 2021 19:57
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Better yet he should get a chef tattoo on his big bald head
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Jul 19, 2021 19:58
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Binging With Blue Men.
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I like his tattoos I think they really represent what he's all about.
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mystes posted:At this point his channel would probably be better if he didn't brand it around himself and instead just leaned into it being an online cooking media empire or something, since he has all the BA refugees. He could probably make more money selling cookbooks or merchandise or something that way. And he appears to actually be formally trained in film stuff too. Nobody makes the recipes on his channel. It got popular because he made food from movies and tv shows in an entertaining way. If he stopped doing that and brought in real cooks to do whatever I bet views go down.
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Mu Zeta posted:Nobody makes the recipes on his channel. It got popular because he made food from movies and tv shows in an entertaining way. If he stopped doing that and brought in real cooks to do whatever I bet views go down. I used his croque monsieur/madame recipe this evening. 
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Me too -- I followed the baklava recipe most recently, it came out excellent.   In general, his Basics series do about the same amount of views as the Movie/TV dishes, so it's not impossible that he could slowly pivot away from the stunt dishes and keep the viewership. But if he does bring in others, then it's a matter of finding the right mix of personalities and that's far from easy. I think it's become obvious that the appeal of BA was greater than the sum of its parts, at least if we're to judge by the followings of those who left (not named Claire Saffitz). Sohla's view counts on various solo outlets do a third or less of what she did on Babish's show. Many of Rick's Sweet Heat videos are hitting under 100k.
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Yeah I've made several of his recipes as written or used them as a basis for something I wanted to experiment with. I still have a bottle of the carolina red bbq sauce he made for the Freddy's ribs episode, it's pretty good after growing up with nothing but KC Masterpiece. He has a kitchen producer now, Kendall Beach, who graduated from the CIA. She definitely does a lot of the heavy lifting like in the space cake episode.
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A ton of his recipes he just credits to America's Test Kitchen or Kenji, especially early on.
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Rick_Hunter posted:Yeah I've made several of his recipes as written or used them as a basis for something I wanted to experiment with. I still have a bottle of the carolina red bbq sauce he made for the Freddy's ribs episode, it's pretty good after growing up with nothing but KC Masterpiece. It took me way longer than it should have to figure out what you meant by CIA.
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Even 90% of his main series dishes aren't stunt dishes, they're just fairly normal dishes that happened to be in a show. The taco town and milk steak stuff is mostly reserved for specials. I use his sandwich bread recipe pretty often (it's nothing earth shattering but just a nice solid white sandwich loaf), and I did his kettle corn recipe on the weekend (turned out great and is only the tiniest fraction more complicated than normal popcorn).
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I have his first cookbook. Would I buy another, probably. Would I buy his cookware, lol no. I appreciate the dude figured out the blessing of the algorithm. I remember some of his early more cocktail focused videos in the dim New York apartment, and how far he's gotten. I am not mad at the guy for riding the viral wagon to success. He's aware of how lucky he is, and I don't begrudge him getting to try and win his spin at the wheel of capitalism. I would rather babishes then another Cooking with Sam or Weissman or ATK or Bbq Pit Boys DOT COM. Or God forbid more Gurga foods.
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toplitzin posted:Gurga foods. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4of3b7Xb4Rs All nitpicking aside Babish was my first glimpse into foodtube and he's gotten me to broaden my cooking horizons without having to read wordy blogs or watch 30 min episodes on food network. I understand why people would be skeptical of his cookware - the knives are pretty subpar. If I was going to throw him a quarter I'd probably buy a bowl or something b/c you can't gently caress that up too much. Leraika posted:It took me way longer than it should have to figure out what you meant by CIA.
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Queer Salutations posted:A ton of his recipes he just credits to America's Test Kitchen or Kenji, especially early on.
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Sort of on topic, this nice reply was buried in the comments a while back.
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toplitzin posted:I have his first cookbook. Would I buy another, probably. Would I buy his cookware, lol no. If his knives are even within the ballpark in terms of quality compared to the goon-approved Victorinox knives, they might be worth the price, especially given that the latter aren't really $20 anymore.
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