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I honestly can't guess how much Claire or Brad makes. It's an industry shroud in complete mystery. Some rando guessed Claire makes $20k an episode based on YouTube monetization estimates and that seems obviously too high (probably?) but who even knows what would be close to the real number.
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Brad has also made some pro-Trump Instagram posts. He's going to lose so much of the goodwill he ever earned.
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  quote:For context, this was posted April 22nd when Trump ordered the Blue Angels to flyover NY/NJ.
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99% sure if they "diversified" their food videos they would literally lose viewers. If Sohla and Rick's "ethnic" food videos are getting consistently less viewership than the white stuff now, why would you expect things to change? I just feel very cynical about it all. It's ultimately a business and they'll only bend to public pressure for so long before the metrics get too real.
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Gonna get poo poo on for this, but Molly's show is absolutely awful and there's no reason it should get as many views as it does beyond her being a white attractive blond woman. Sure as poo poo I don't think it would get nearly as many views if it was Alex or Rick or even Andy hosting it. The chef makes a big difference in viewership.
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Grem posted:I love Chris' show but he bombs every single recipe to a hilarious degree. I think they overestimated what a "super taster" can do.
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I wonder if one solution for them might just be to confess and accept that their recipes are completely unfaithful to the original cultural context. I'm inclined to agree that we should be okay with food being localized or otherwise tweaked; the problem is when people mistake these remixes as the originals.
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Jun 24, 2020 13:57
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Babish looks like someone made a stick of chalk into a YouTube personality
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Priya alluded to complicit people on the BA video team. Seems pretty clear that it's Andy and Chris. Apparently someone on the Sporkful podcast said that the two were interviewing black chefs. Sohla is still staying on as an assistant editor for the magazine, and I can't say I blame her. You don't walk away from a full-time gig in this economy. She got a pay raise and that's pretty nice. Now all that's left is Chaey, who's the only remaining BIPOC in the video team.
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He apologizes for his social media posts from his school days -- What about his tweets about how he was surrounded by hot women at Conde Nast? How gross would it be for a woman to work around someone posting public comments like that? That said, 76k lol. I can't take this industry seriously. Why haven't companies like Conde Nast decanted their operations to some other city? Is New York City really the only place to film a home kitchen series? It does mean that Sohla's apparent new salary of $80k (assistant editor, editorial only) is higher than Delaney's (associate editor, editorial+video). That seems to me like some equality. She probably still isn't getting as much as Andy, Chris and Molly, and likely far less than Claire and Brad. But I'm not sure who's a fair benchmark for Sohla here. edit: fixed the numbers Vegetable fucked around with this message at 14:11 on Aug 11, 2020 |
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Aug 11, 2020 14:06
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this was 100% about not setting a precedent for the rest of the condé nast organization
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He’s white-passing. There, now you guys don’t need to disagree anymore.
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Calling Brad a big dumb incomptent white guy is a big lol. But she accuses Morocco of some pretty cynical and racially discriminatory stuff. Oh man.
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I remember watching that bologna sandwich video and kind of enjoying it. I don't think most people watch BA videos for the recipes.
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Molly also has a new book coming out next year. It just seems... appropriate that the white blond whose boring videos got lots of clicks also has her face on the cover. Sorry to be so cynical about this.
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kidcoelacanth posted:sometimes things can just be fun I still wish for that community kitchen style of BA videos but with what's happened and then now COVID, it's not coming back any time soon.
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The_Doctor posted:He said in the last QQ he voted Hilary. This news really bums me out but he's deeply religious and also probably super rich, so we have no right to be surprised.
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The only betrayal I could feel is if Brad turned out to be the son of some venture capitalist and just happens to vibe blue collar
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"Haitian-inspired Pumpkin Soup" seems like it'd get more clicks than "Soup Joumou" but idk, maybe there's something about exotic dish names that are actually super popular.
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Isn't that just salad and chicken, am I missing something
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Jan 10, 2021 18:00
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Uncle Roger is a minstrel show
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Doesn't Mike Chen have a non-food channel that's got some dodgy science or conspiracy theory or something. I can't recall what it was but it made me raise my eyebrows.
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Democratic Pirate posted:I feel (somewhat) bad for the canning company who surely thought they’d get some slam dunk advertising doing an It’s Alive! with Brad. Instead BA has wiped the video from their pages and posted some half assed clarifications/apologies, Brad posted a 24-hour non-apology apology and will never think of it again, and the company has to deal with responding to people asking if they knew the process in the video was unsafe for shelf stable products and signed off anyway, or if they somehow didn’t know how unsafe their recommendations actually were.
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Jadeilyn posted:The podcast Reply All released the first of a four-part story going into detail about the Bon Appétit scandal: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/dvhzkdo/172-the-test-kitchen-chapter-1
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Gaby accused Sohla of bullying her without much details and Sohla basically went “sorry that’s how you feel.” It’s all a bit murky.
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The Reply All subreddit also got real angry about the BA podcasts because it was supposedly biased and too entangled in America’s culture wars as opposed to whatever the series originally was about.
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Kenji's videos are great. It's disorienting when he's putting the camera on and I wish he would edit out that part. But otherwise the camera angle really simulates how you would actually cook in a real kitchen -- moving between stove and sink and spices, juggling cooking and slicing and cleaning, and recovering from dumb mistakes. Also his late-night no-commentary heavy-breathing POV videos got me through the early months of the pandemic.
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Mar 5, 2021 08:56
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Someone alert Jacobin, turns out the real frontier of class warfare was minced poultry all along
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Mar 5, 2021 10:14
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I've never done the math on cost savings but it seems like a waste of time to mince your own meat instead of buying pre-minced. Would you even be able to get a good consistency without spending an inordinate amount of time?
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fizzymercury posted:Yeah that's all pretty spot on. My butcher actually spent a lot of time explaining ground chicken and why it's a problem to produce at any rate of scale below a factory. Most of the factory ground chicken you see is leftovers and scraps from doing things like boneless skinless pieces and parting out fryers. It's not bad meat, but it's a little closer to pink slime than you'd like as well. The all white meat ground chicken is made on a line that's after the boneless breasts and tenders and right before the slop buckets. None of that is bad, but that's why it's cheap. It's just easier for them to pass smaller and smaller chicken bits down the line cause there is so much of it.
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Mar 9, 2021 13:47
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I don't know how Food52 survives. Some of their YouTube videos barely break 10k views. How can they afford to hire these people?
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I honest to god believe that most Americans just don't give a rat's rear end about pronouncing non-English words correctly. It's probably a badge of pride for a good number of them. I mean, this is a place where 40% of the people never leave the country in their lifetime. Insularity is a way of life.
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Mar 25, 2021 17:57
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It’s Alive with Botulism Brad
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Mar 27, 2021 08:06
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Didn’t we have this debate a few pages back. Don’t be stupid about the way people talk. Why the heck should people use the bastardized pronunciation of words? Particularly if it’s from their cultures.
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Jul 16, 2021 11:09
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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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On a kinda-relevant note, Kenji made a point about food authenticity in his latest video. Americans have an idea of authentic Chinese food that's hugely based on Cantonese restaurant-style food prepared by the earliest migrants. So there's this obsession with wok hei produced by high-butane gas cookers. This isn't really the kind of food most Chinese people, even those in Hong Kong and South China now or back then, eat on a daily basis. Most homes don't have giant burners that restaurants have. Just thought it was an interesting point. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUlfcxSCnOU&t=1007s
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Chleboski is a pretty chill dude. Kenji even namedropped him in a video. He’s not cocky or histrionic like some of the other food youtubers. He’s best when he’s just suggesting a healthier or easier way to prepare simple dishes, not so good when he’s doing gimmicky poo poo like “can I make a taco before my brother comes back with taco bell??” Also I can’t stand his dumb mustache, much like I can’t stand Babish’s pasty head. My brain just can’t get over those things.
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I have a rotary cheese grater like that — not mounted to the table, but handheld. I store it in the fridge with a small block of parm in it and have on-demand, no-effort grated cheese.
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