I appreciate that Chef John is apparently amazing and seems like a great dude, but I can't get past his presentation style. I've tried a few times, and the voice and approach just set something off in me.
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the best foodbro on youtube is Ann Reardon's husband Dave
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# ? Dec 18, 2022 00:15 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7shXc1NkJs Yikes
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# ? Dec 18, 2022 02:41 |
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I'm not going to watch this again but from what I recall, isn't it not actually as negative as the title suggests?
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# ? Dec 18, 2022 03:04 |
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thatsbait.gif I've really been enjoying Lucas Sin's videos. He goes really deep into the theory behind what he shows in his recipes, and offers ways to riff as well. It's super dense and I always come away feeling like I've learned new fundamentals. Even though I don't anticipate making many of his recipes I still learn techniques I can apply elsewhere. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpgVmLMAOzs
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# ? Dec 18, 2022 04:13 |
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mystes posted:I'm not going to watch this again but from what I recall, isn't it not actually as negative as the title suggests? He praises a lot of the things Ragusea does but the mistakes he makes are pretty critical to the final product being dry and overcooked My takeaway from it was that Ragusea was dipping his toes into something new to him, thought he could get it right from the start just by doing enough research and didn’t realize how many mistakes he made that he would have known if he’d had more practice. And then he published it as a how to
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# ? Dec 18, 2022 04:39 |
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Steve Yun posted:He praises a lot of the things Ragusea does but the mistakes he makes are pretty critical to the final product being dry and overcooked the kicker is always gonna be the ending where ragusea says something along the lines of 'if any pitmasters have any purely dogmatic objections to what i've done today, please keep those to yourself' and then following that up with a half hearted 'im always open to honest criticism'. something about it just always reminds me of people that get to control a debate by deciding what 'actual honest criticism' is vs 'purely dogmatic objections'. the barbecue community isn't exactly the SS but im just fuckin around, i dont really care about any of that. i just wanted to say that i hate how he holds a knife
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# ? Dec 18, 2022 04:52 |
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Boy this guy's coming for everyone's bbq videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNfcExw6gwU
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# ? Dec 18, 2022 06:54 |
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Steve Yun posted:Boy this guy's coming for everyone's bbq videos i was thinking about that earlier cause his poo poo came up in my recs and yeah it reminds me about how ethan did basically the same thing. he was getting a grip of views but nothing major, and then he did like a real short lived series of Mine vs Theirs where he took a ragusea/kenji/chef john/sam the cooking guy recipe and i guess tried to make it better. looking through his older vids this is also like right after he put ragusea on blast for the 'why you should never deep fry at home' video. ant's videos aren't bad by any means, but given that his channel has been around for like a year, it feels like he's trying to hit the confrontational side of the algorithm. the vids themselves are all fine, its just all insanely cynical i guess
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# ? Dec 18, 2022 07:11 |
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There's also that guy who cooks everyone else's recipes, like three to six at a time and decides whose is best. I guess he dodges confrontation by not submitting one of his own Weissman dodges confrontation by just taking on corporate fast food, nobody sticks up for them everyone's got some algorithm formula I guess
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# ? Dec 18, 2022 07:26 |
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Steve Yun posted:There's also that guy who cooks everyone else's recipes, like three to six at a time and decides whose is best. I guess he dodges confrontation by not submitting one of his own i do like weissman's 'but cheaper' videos. oh word, this recipe only requires $0.32 worth of salt and $0.05 of smoked paprika? its like some kind of parody
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# ? Dec 18, 2022 07:34 |
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Steve Yun posted:There's also that guy who cooks everyone else's recipes, like three to six at a time and decides whose is best. I guess he dodges confrontation by not submitting one of his own part of the thing there is that "can you make a better tasting version of fast food" is always going to come down to "yes, obviously" ethen c did a video asking "can I make a taco bell crunch wrap supreme faster than driving to taco bell" and technically he did do that, but realistically it sounded like traffic was abnormally poo poo that day and he can't make the Baja Blast which is the only reason to get taco bell so who really wins? https://youtu.be/kTtEaji27A8
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# ? Dec 19, 2022 20:34 |
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I remember when Watcher (the Buzzfeed Unsolved boys splitting off from Buzzfeed and their unfunny friend) started doing "HERE'S AN EPIC MAC AND CHEESE YOU CAN MAKE FOR $800!!!" and the conspicuous consumption legitimately made me unsubscribe. Like, yeah man, I'm sure it's great, but I can also make an epic ftw maccy cheez for, like, $20, and that's with getting some fancy cheese. also none of you commenting on that guy upthread's youtube face is damning
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# ? Dec 19, 2022 23:42 |
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Borsche69 posted:i do like weissman's 'but cheaper' videos. oh word, this recipe only requires $0.32 worth of salt and $0.05 of smoked paprika? its like some kind of parody I particularly enjoy his showmanship when he acts like he's summoning all his might to try not to vomit after taking a bite of a Crunch Wrap Supreme.
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# ? Dec 20, 2022 00:12 |
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A friend is trying to break into food content creation on tiktok and she spent a good part of Friendsgiving trying to convince my gf and I to start our own content account. Unfortunately for her my ideal content would be 2 am, unedited, go-pro videos (a la good Kenji) of drunk/stoned me attempting an overly ambitious recipe with zero measurements while the DVD menu music for Hard Target drones in the background and I bemoan the quality of streaming film content or the death of video stores. Every video would end with me taking a pratfall and the disastrous dish smeared all over the camera lens. And you better believe I'd be using metal utensils on non-stick surfaces.
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Gorman Thomas posted:A friend is trying to break into food content creation on tiktok and she spent a good part of Friendsgiving trying to convince my gf and I to start our own content account.
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# ? Dec 20, 2022 00:49 |
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Would watch a show based around testing how easy a recipe is to make at various levels of inebriation. Call it MunchEZ or something for the algorithm.
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# ? Dec 20, 2022 00:52 |
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Drunk Cookery
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Gorman Thomas posted:A friend is trying to break into food content creation on tiktok and she spent a good part of Friendsgiving trying to convince my gf and I to start our own content account. this is what old youtube used to be about
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Bogart posted:I remember when Watcher (the Buzzfeed Unsolved boys splitting off from Buzzfeed and their unfunny friend) started doing "HERE'S AN EPIC MAC AND CHEESE YOU CAN MAKE FOR $800!!!" and the conspicuous consumption legitimately made me unsubscribe. Like, yeah man, I'm sure it's great, but I can also make an epic ftw maccy cheez for, like, $20, and that's with getting some fancy cheese. This is slightly disingenuous, it's not about you making the stupidly overpriced dishes, it's about the Worth It host who can't cook absolutely struggling to make dishes for his friends (aka mostly white dudes from Buzzfeed and asian american celebrities who live in LA). It's still a waste of food, but also he's a dude who can't cook who's had his sense of "high quality" food warped by 5 years of eating like, pizzas covered in truffles and gold leaf. If memory serves a lot of the Mac & Cheese's cost came from him deciding to shave an entire truffle on top of it cause he wanted his friend to have some truffle. They spent like a grand making fried chicken but that's cause they actually bought a whole wheel of high quality parmesan so they could do that that weird "light the parm wheel on fire to make a sauce" thing. He's not great at the whole cooking thing, he's just like a kid getting to choose his ice cream toppings but applied to treating his friends. Queer Salutations fucked around with this message at 13:53 on Dec 20, 2022 |
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Lagerstrom just made Brisket and Kugel, but turned the kugel into Mac and Cheese b/c "it just needed gruyere"
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toplitzin posted:Lagerstrom just made Brisket and Kugel, but turned the kugel into Mac and Cheese b/c "it just needed gruyere" This is antisemitism.
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egg tats posted:part of the thing there is that "can you make a better tasting version of fast food" is always going to come down to "yes, obviously" That was one of the things that was the beginning of the end of me watching Weissman. "Can I make food that tastes better than food that was optimized for cost and speed in a commercial setting? I can and it only cost me $70 and 3 hours!"
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# ? Dec 20, 2022 14:34 |
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Quite liked the spin on it that that Iron Chef did - taking fast food and re-purposing the already-cooked food into a stunning meal. Only bummer was that it was his son filming it and the dude is clearly a rich teen who wants to be an influencer but is very, very boring outside of his dad. Fell off watching them from not being able to stand him.
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# ? Dec 20, 2022 14:53 |
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HootTheOwl posted:This is antisemitism. It's a violence for sure. I'm going to have to make some raisin kugel soon to compensate. CatstropheWaitress posted:Quite liked the spin on it that that Iron Chef did - taking fast food and re-purposing the already-cooked food into a stunning meal. Only bummer was that it was his son filming it and the dude is clearly a rich teen who wants to be an influencer but is very, very boring outside of his dad. Fell off watching them from not being able to stand him. I like the NYT-Sohla/Ham take on this with the "mystery bag" meals. The Hot Pocket one was hilarious imo.
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Queer Salutations posted:This is slightly disingenuous, it's not about you making the stupidly overpriced dishes, it's about the Worth It host who can't cook absolutely struggling to make dishes for his friends (aka mostly white dudes from Buzzfeed and asian american celebrities who live in LA). It's still a waste of food, but also he's a dude who can't cook who's had his sense of "high quality" food warped by 5 years of eating like, pizzas covered in truffles and gold leaf. So it's wasteful as well as stupid?
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Gorman Thomas posted:A friend is trying to break into food content creation on tiktok and she spent a good part of Friendsgiving trying to convince my gf and I to start our own content account. Ok hear me out: Strobe Cooking This would probably result in someone dying, but think of all the clicks!
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captkirk posted:That was one of the things that was the beginning of the end of me watching Weissman. "Can I make food that tastes better than food that was optimized for cost and speed in a commercial setting? I can and it only cost me $70 and 3 hours!"
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# ? Dec 21, 2022 01:05 |
We really ended up enjoying the big brunch, but I didn't love how the final episode was suddenly about the best investment. I wish either they had focused of that aspect from the beginning, or just kept it on food the whole time. A bit out of left field for the pitch to suddenly matter.
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Carillon posted:We really ended up enjoying the big brunch, but I didn't love how the final episode was suddenly about the best investment. I wish either they had focused of that aspect from the beginning, or just kept it on food the whole time. A bit out of left field for the pitch to suddenly matter. I liked the mentors being brought in and that it was a facet, but it being part of the judging was a huge pivot out of nowhere. Feel like they should've brought mentors in earlier or somehow brought it in sooner if it was going to be part of the "scoring". Only other real complaint with the show for my house was that it could've spent so much more time focusing on the actual cooking.
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# ? Dec 31, 2022 17:27 |
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I think the pitch was always a through-line. A lot of the challenges were based on "at your restaurant, here's the brunch you'll make for [theme]" I thought. I liked that about TBB, that it was always about each chef's "voice" as cliche as that sounds.
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# ? Dec 31, 2022 17:39 |
Yeah it's possible I missed it, or that so many other shows do that schtick that I didn't realize they were gonna take it seriously? But given that it was part of the finale I'm surprised it wasn't something we saw them working on and refining every episode. Like yeah of course her pitch is disjointed! She only had a day to think about it!
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# ? Dec 31, 2022 19:41 |
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I also picked up on that theme in earlier episodes. It was sprinkled in, but fair enough. I liked that focus a lot because it seemed to be more cemented in the reality that this is a niche competition show – it's one thing to walk away with a trophy, it's another to really conceptualise what happens next. It's nice that they pushed them to focus on that and not just cooking one great meal.
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# ? Jan 1, 2023 20:53 |
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Ragusea is watchable, mostly just for easy weeknight dinner ideas and little hacks like deboning chicken thighs and putting a weight on them. Alton brown is back though and better than ever so theres much less incentive to watch his videos
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# ? Jan 7, 2023 07:21 |
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Where's Alton back? His YT channel hasn't had a new video in 6 months, and I thought Good Eats was done.
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Radio Nowhere posted:Where's Alton back? His YT channel hasn't had a new video in 6 months, and I thought Good Eats was done.
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Radio Nowhere posted:Where's Alton back? His YT channel hasn't had a new video in 6 months, and I thought Good Eats was done. His big tour is finally over, so I suspect he’ll be back to doing QQs and kitchen videos soon enough.
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# ? Jan 7, 2023 17:03 |
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It's not really Food TV, but I watched The Menu and enjoyed it. A couple of lines in it slayed me. Would you like to jam it into a Pacojet?
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# ? Jan 8, 2023 23:18 |
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The Menu is amazing, and must be seen. It’s such a good deconstruction of foodie culture and classism.
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I just found a TikTok channel that is just a Japanese highschool (basing off of the uniform pants and the timber of voices in the background) boy opening up the bento packed by his mom filmed go-pro style. No commentary or anything, just him opening it and the occasion "oooh" or subdued "sugoi" in the background. 10/10, very wholesome.
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