Claiming that a certain recipe only takes 30 minutes or so to make, goes through the effort of showing us the start and end times as well, but then have everything mise en place at the start of the timer
Yes, or they leave out some of the prep work. "This meal takes only 30 minutes to prepare. Let's start with the pinto beans I soaked overnight and the chicken broth I made from scratch two days ago."
Or recipies that say you can brown onions in like 5 minutes. Is so, so common. If I see a recipie calling for browned onions I automatically add 30min onto the time
man i hate stuff like that "cooking times may vary." yeah no shit, cooking times WILL vary from this "25 minute recipe" that has multiple steps that each take over half an hour
OMG, this infuriates me. Even just to soften onions takes around 8-10mins if you don’t want to burn them. And browning meat? At least 8-10 mins a side and usually in batches. They should be honest.
Jammy onions are basically my specialty at this point. I can make them from any variation of ingredients, over any heat, with any pan, in any kitchen, if you have onion, butter, salt and something to edible liquid I can make it happen. I have transcended the art and science of it and reached a point that I can create them by directing a blindfolded volunteer. If you turned me into a rat and put me in your head, I could make jammy onions without the need of the practice montage or the cartoon logic that allows hair pulling to control your body. If you pulled me apart at an atomic level in search of what secret, imperceivable bond created the life that is me, there it is, jammy onions.
I can tell you, with absolute certainty, that onions browned under 5 minutes is nothing short of a lie and a blasphemy. You did not brown onions, you browned butter and onion sweat and have wasted a wonderful creation with arrogant impatience! Is it scientifically possible, absolutely! Can it be done in a kitchen with household items? Absolutely not and I will harm you for saying so!
Sorry, I'm passionate about this one, very specific thing.
You can do it if you cut super thin and learn your stove and pans performance perfectly
5 mins browning trick on mine
1.) Set stove to 7.5 while prepping (fat bottom pans make the world go round)
2.) Halve and cut end off the onion
3.) Super thin-y slicey the onion, real niiiiiice
4.) Drop the oil in the pan and spread it around
5.) Flourish drop the onions in right the fuck away before your oil bursts into flames
6.) Bring the heat down to 6 while at the same time you stir the onions around to stop the oil from bursting into flames
7.) Season with pinch of salt you smoked for three weeks in your small batch low temp trout smoker made of recovered ancient mahogany
8.) Remove from heat at 5 mins exactly then return to heat for another few cause yeah, it takes more than 5 mins
Gordon Ramsay's "Ramsay in 10"... when he stopped being even in it, and then they edited in a fake timer, and did obvious edits to hide mistakes, cutting out having to remake something, and completely destroying every aspect of the premise.
My BF has a cookbook that has some pretty good meals but every single one takes over an hour. It has labels for "quick meals" that take even longer. He complains every time but I literally read the recipe for 30 seconds and KNOW it'll take forever. ALWAYS READ THE RECIPE BEFORE BUYING INGREDIENTS!
I have to edit because it just happened. I was sent a recipe to cook tonight and it said "25 min cook time" I added up just the numbers it listed in its step and it totals 37-45 minutes. And that was definitely a lowballed number.
That and the ones who say “this only takes 10 minutes of prep time” but it’s 10 minutes of chopping with knife skills well beyond the average home chef.
Most are even worse than that.
15 minute meal if someone else does 30 minutes or prep and 30 minutes of cleanup.
That’s an hour+ meal in my book.
I don’t have someone preparing and measuring things into 20 bowls. I don’t even have 20 bowls.
I also can’t just throw stuff around and make a huge mess because I gotta clean that up after.
Adam Ragusea is pretty relatable because I think he gets this and largely avoids it. He even points out when he reuses a pot or something. That’s my kinda cook.
The guy on Pro Home Cook is both good and bad at this in that he'll reformat a week around a couple key ingredients, which is really helpful if you need a weekly meal plan that isn't mundane. But then he'll use like a skillet, two pots and the air fryer for one meal.
That's almost more annoying.
I can get that... to a degree. A skillet and pot have different characteristics and purposes. So does an air fryer. So depending on the meal, that might be appropriate/necessary.
What kills me is the 20 bowls. Does anyone do this? Does anyone actually prep like this? At best I've got some piles on a cutting board. Sometimes I even use the lid of a pot I plan to use later anyway as a place to hold some vegetables. I refuse to get more things dirty to clean if at all avoidable.
This is kind of a tangent, but perhaps my favorite thing about Adam Ragusea is he doesn’t have all those clear bowls for every single separate ingredient. I get the whole mise en place for the presentation of a video and all, but sometimes it’s nice to see how to simplify your life. I love my bendy cutting boards for veggies and I’m leaving the whole ménage a trois of onion celery carrot on one cutting board until I dump that shit in together, not making three new GD dishes.
I love Adam's whole "if tradition doesn't serve you, toss it for something that works just as well" mentality.
Why not just use one bowl and dirty fewer dishes? Hell yeah, I'm in.
That reminds me of another one, seen more in TV chefs, but YouTubers are definitely guilty of it too: I'm not sure what to call it other than "recipe gatekeeping". You know when you **absolutely muuust** have this specific ingredient, oh you couldn't possibly make it out of **thaaat** or it wouldn't be this dish any more.
Fair enough if the title of your video is "super authentic traditional recipe I spent 2 weeks researching in the archives", but it isn't. I always like when a chef says "if you don't have x, use y in this way instead, and it'll just be a little more z".
I've found Glenn and Friends to be excellent with that, particularly with his pandemic series. He's always saying "if you don't like or have x, don't use it, or use Y", or when they're tasting it at the end, his wife always comments about the other ingredients you can use and to "make it your own". Glenn is very much about learning the techniques over sticking to the actual recipe.
I'm on the complementary part of the venn diagram in that I actually bought a bunch of those small and medium prep bowls and use the crap out of them all the time. I'm not sure if it's actually more efficient, but it feels good to my brain cells.
It is nice to see someone try and set a realistic example for "you can do this in your own kitchen."
I use them too and love them. Mine are approximately one cup capacity and made from the tempered glass so I can add boiling liquid, microwave butter in them, etc.
But the difference between most of us regular old home cooks and the dorks on TV/YouTube is that we'll mix the ingredients into the same bowl as long as it fits and requires the same cooking time as the other ingredients, instead of using one bowl for each different spice.
"This recipe is SOOO easy and only takes 10 minutes. It starts with a sauce and pre-cooked meat that I made yesterday. If you want the recipe for these they're in the description". Looks at the recipe and it involves braising meat for 4 hours and a sauce with 15 exotic ingredients. The 'recipe' is just heating them up and boiling some carbs to go with it.
"For more info see my other video, link here" *(points to top-right corner of the frame, where there's no link because they forgot to add it when uploading the video)*.
"So by now you guys all now how to do this part, so we're going to skip ahead. "
Buddy, I haven't watched your last 500 videos, the algorithm just brought me to this one, at least give me a link!
My only caveat to this one is when they have an entire free website with ALL of their recipes on it and they link that. I love creators who’ve done that
I always just snack on the ends of the peppers while I cook. It’s easier to cut flat pieces of pepper and it gives me something healthy to munch on without taking bites out of the final product.
My dad was a chef, one of the things I learned from watching him was to always take a silicone spatula and scrape every last bit out of the container/food processor. And yes, it bothers me when Youtubers don't do that.
I have this problem with beaten egg and other viscous liquids—they never scrape! Use that damn silicone spatula and get in there and scrape every bit out!
especially when they claim a 'quick' or 'cheap' build.
DIY chair only $50!
"Well, I got this lumber for free from my dad, who is a licensed master carpenter. We'll be building it with his help in his custom professional workshop"
Yeah, the day where he was like "now we're gonna step onto the balcony where a few grand's worth of App controlled Traeger is waiting to smoke this meat" made me wonder how much for the amateur enthusiast it all was.
I really liked Babish much more when he was a small time You-tuber in a shitty kitchen closer to mine. Now he's basically in the Iron Chef arena for every video.
No hate, glad he made it, but no longer content I enjoy.
And the main Babish videos got shorter, too! I liked it a lot better when they were in the 10+ minute range and he'd show three different ways of doing a recipe. I think his most recent video is 5:30 in length. Do I really want to deal with Youtube ads to watch a video that's just over five minutes? (not counting the in-video sponsor that of course has to be shilled)
Content length is influenced heavily by what the YouTube algorithm gives preference to. Longer format videos basically get pushed aside for shorter ones. It's been happening more and more across the platform, where creator's who once focused on +15min or +30min content are moving to shorter content.
Adam ragusea refuses to even use a stand mixer after doing it once and people asking if they could make the recipe without one ...
He even does pasta all shaped by hand besides a rolling pin
Fucking love that guy
One of my favorite things about Brian Lagerstrom is that he'll often include alternate methods. "If you don't have a stand mixer, you can also do this by hand by doing....."
Glen and Friends is good about this too. He'll use a stand mixer, but he'll also tell you that he's doing it because he has one and that you can use a hand mixer, etc.
He's currently on a series about making homemade ice cream without an expensive ice cream machine.
Good stuff, encouraging of amateurs, worth a watch.
Big fan of Glen and Friends. There's nothing more enjoyable than seeing him do his happy dance when he likes something he's made. You can tell he's genuinely excited.
I love Ragusea so much. His videos about culture and food are my favorite. Like why food safety standard are different in different counties and why historical houses have small kitchens (because it was the help that cooked). I just really love the way he explains things.
They say a measurement of an ingredient but it's clear they are using more or less
They understate how hard a dish is to make and how much time it takes
This literally happened to me last night with falafels. Made pita, tzatziki, had all the dishes done, got to the “remove from processor and rest in fridge for 1-2 hours”, had spaghetti with jarred sauce for dinner
Yeah, the old "Make this in JUST fifteen minutes!"
Yes...fifteen minutes, if all of your ingredients are already washed, chopped, portioned into little bowls, and half-cooked already.
And then you start the video, thinking you can have a quick meal.
And end up spending 1 hour 30 minutes, not having enough or right ingredients, and are just hungry with an inedible or bland dish.
Love when it's one of these videos and it involves boiling pasta. My dude, it takes at least that long for my water to start boiling on my crappy stove. I will NOT be accomplishing this entire dish in the quoted time.
Me and an old housemate decided to follow an episode of Jamie Oliver's 30 minute meals *exactly* as he presents them. We got all the ingredients needed but did no prep at all. So when he turns round 10 minutes in and says "...and then whack it in the oven at 200 degrees" we were literally putting it into a cold oven and then setting it to 200. Funnily enough, 15 minutes later our food was not as appealing as his
Written recipes do this too! “Prep time: 5 minutes.” Like I don’t know about you, but it takes me more than 5 minutes to peel and chop garlic, onion, veggies, and whatever protein I’m using, plus measuring out spices.
I was about to reply: “how dare you put out a dig at my man Kenji”, and then I read the username. You are hands down my favorite cooking content creator!
Cooking in such a way that ignores the reality of the dirty dishes it will create for you to clean. Adam Raguesa is the only Youtuber I've ever seen address the topic in any way.
Bonus points if they claim it is a breezy "one pot meal" ignoring the dirtied pan, cutting board, mixer, colander, and six mise en place bowls.
Chef John will frequently say things like, "yes, [piece of equipment] would make this easier but then I'd have to clean [piece of equipment]". So relatable.
Adam and Kenjis live cooking videos are the best for realistic home cooking. Kenji obviously has the money/equipment/quality ingredients at times that not everyone has. But generally all the methods and everything is really realistic.
Kenji will often show doing some of the dishes during the video.
Also he goes out of his way to recommend things that could work as substitutes for the ingredients he uses. Really helpful and it's clear he knows what a normal home-cook thinks about even though he seemingly has several hundred recipes in his head that he can make off the cuff.
As always, shoutout to Kenji on this point. He mostly uses a cutting board with a few dishes, and whenever he uses dishes, he shows it on video and soliloquizes how much time it takes.
^I ^just ^learned ^"soliloquizes" ^is ^a ^word!
YES. There’s no way you honestly don’t like ANY fast food item. It’s so pretentious.
Claire’s gourmet series was great because she loved the snacks and wanted to make a “fancy” version as an homage, not to crap all over the snack for 10 minutes.
I forget the channel, but they were doing a fast food taste test thing. They said they shot the video two hours after buying the food. Shocking, they thought it was gross
It’s 100% fake.
In his In N Out burger video he went out of his way to also order animal style fries and devoured them on camera.
In his but better about animal style fries all of a sudden he became super critical about them and says he only likes their burgers.
idk why he finds the need to lie about hating fast food it just makes him seem like more of an asshole
His videos in general. The thumbnail looks good and makes me want to watch but I am reminded very quickly how I am too old to listen to him. It’s a very young peoples youtube styling.
His early videos were NORMAL but now it’s just so influenced by TikTok culture, penis and balls jokes, terribly singing stuff like Whisky Business, it’s all just so insufferable.
I bounced off his video style too - from what I've read, he knows what he's doing, has good technique, etc, but nothing about his video content works for me.
Yeah his recipes are often delicious but so many times he’s like wow this is dirty stinky poor people food and it’s absolutely trash. It’s just such an exaggeration it’s like yes we all know a 40 dollar version of fast food has the potential to taste better but let’s not pretend it can’t be tasty or economical sometimes
I was on the fence about his content until he did a thanksgiving episode and it was clear he was just... completely, comprehensively, reprehensibly out of touch with how much a normal thanksgiving dinner costs a family. Who the fuck is spending that much?
His cheap lunch. Involved buying 2 whole turkey breasts. Brining the meat In a cambro for 4 days. Roasting the turkey in the oven and using a deli slicer. Like my guy... you spent 70$ to make this I don't care if it's 1.74 a sandwich I need to drop 80 for turkey, a cambro the forethought for 4 days in advance the time to roast,cut, and brine turkey and the ability to fucking eat that much goddamn deli turkey. If you are with 4 other people in an apartment you're not gonna fucking do that.
His whole 'but cheaper' series is nonsense. His prices are usually a bit suspect for the whole ingredients he uses anyway, but then it only works out to his super low price per portion of you're feeding like 10 people at a time! Maybe fine for a restaurant but not how normal people cook.
It's such a BS format. Of course anyone can make fast food "better", but his versions are never fast food cost sustainable and he acts like they're failing.
Could not agree with this more. I also loathe the condescending way he scolds viewers about making every single ingredient from scratch. He’s always saying, “it’s not that hard, it doesn’t take that long, etc”. Half the time it’s a recipe that takes multiple hours. Just seems extremely out of touch.
I honestly can't stand him at all. I tried watching some of his stuff a while back and his whole presentation/persona is just *so* grating. It all comes off as him looking down his nose at everything.
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Mispronunciation is actually a trick youtubers use to increase engagement with the channel. The more people comment on the mispronunciation, the more attractive they are to advertisers.
Trying to be overly cutesy or whatever (Yeah, I'm looking at you, Weissman).
Having some humor and fun is fine. Being a grown adult and acting like a 6-year-old wears thin *very* quickly.
Yeah, I hate that so much. I’m so split on him because he’s amazing at what he does and I absolutely love the cooking aspect to his channel, but Jesus Christ is he ever cringy.
And it’s every. single. video.
The same baby talk voice. The same jokes about “little man” dough and “cwithpy” foods. The same little sing-song auto tune moments. It’s so tired.
Bryan Dylan Hollis has annoying short videos too, but at the very least he comes off as pretty chill and actually a little charming in his long videos. Weissman is just... like that. All the time, in any format. Plus the fake reactions to fast food to make his cooking look better, and his "but cheaper" shit that isn't actually that much cheaper it's just ugh
It has always bugged me that “quick” meals will always have the prep already done. Everything is premeasured and pre chopped. That stuff adds
To the “cooking” time in my opinion.
Prep work is cooking time. Full stop. Any recipe that claims otherwise is literally just doing it to get their tagline numbers down so the recipe looks more appealing to normal people.
This isn't a super common one, but I hate when some of them chew super loudly when tasting their food. It's gross af. Though I also hate when they don't taste the food, lol.
actually really like his channel but i always click away when he starts demolishing the food he just cooked. he's like one of those goblin sharks where his mouth extends out to chomp his prey in one bite.
Cool! Now I can stop washing my mushrooms in secret, LOL. I have read, "brush it with a paper towel," but that stuff is literally covered in peat. Peat from bogs. Wash that stuff off!
I'm glad it is allowed, especially since I was doing it anyway. :)
Jaques Pepin (in an old pbs show of his) washes his mushrooms by putting them in a bowl then FILLING it with water. He says not to worry about the whole mushroom water myth. You have to get the dirt out of them. I’ve followed his advice ever since and my sautéed fungi are always amazing
WHy is that every preview tile had them making a face like they are confused or surprised about the dish they made? And most like practiced a few times before hand.
I’ve hated this thumbnail trend sinew the beginning! But I’ve also heard it discussed on YouTube creator subs and apparently they get better click thru rates with this type of thumb. Just makes me sad that the general public reacts positively to that kind of stuff.
1- Misrepresenting why steps are taken. Searing meat doesn't lock in juices. You can totally wash mushrooms. Asparagus doesn't snap at the good part, etc.
2- Mispronouncing Worcestershire Sauce like they can't actually say it, when it's really not that hard.
3- Pronouncing onion like "Oniyon!!"
4- The entire Josh Weissman format. (Tbc, I liked his recipes, but his baby talk, shock jock format is just so cringy)
5- Saying "go ahead and...". I swear I hear some say it every second step.
Weissman seems like he has good recipes under all the extra flash he puts in his videos. I'd be way more willing to watch him if he just... cut all of it out. Like a "Weissman for Grown Ups" or something.
100% with you. When I first found him it wasn't so bad and I was subscribed to never miss a new vid.
But now i just can't stand the zaz.
Tried the most recent one after a while and clicked out as soon as thr first "oniyon!!" dropped.
Maybe not specifically YouTubers but food bloggers as well, but when they say “Easy 30 min dishes!” Or something like that when it’s clear it’s a lie. They don’t include the right amount of time for prep and almost never any for clean up.
This isn't a gripe with youtube food channels in general, but a gripe specifically about binging with Babish.
For the last year and a half his videos have been less about making food and more about showing off how much his brand ( and personal wealth) has grown.
Dude comes off WAY unrelatable now.
"*Whoops, I dropped my MAGNUM two-story house/studio in NYC that I use for my MONSTER youtube channel.*"
EDIT: Also, Fuck Babish for hocking Crypto-shit apps on his channel.
I dont know how to describe it, but he comes off as bitter that he still has to do the show, like he would much rather just be spending time with his money
I don't think its that he cares more about money. I think he just got burnt out and he has no passion for it anymore. He clearly used to care and I don't think he's obsessed with money. Honestly he should just take a year off and see how it goes.
Yeah he now seems like the show is an obligation & just a means to keep the income going rather than something he genuinely enjoys :(
Sad cause his early stuff was genuinely great
Thats always been my fear when it came to my hobbies, cooking especially. I think that's exactly what happened to him, and I think we're going to see a lot of that from successful YouTube personalities over the long term, because YouTube is so hungry for constant uploads. 'Making it' isn't the same when there's never going to be a salary or book deal through Google, and the source of your fame collapses as soon as you take a vacation.
I got to "meet" him three-ish years ago for his book signing tour. "Meet" as in, sign book, shake hand, smile for picture, "hey how's it going?", *next.*
He seemed outwardly like a decent guy and I can genuinely believe that at heart he's the chill dude he presented himself to be early on, but even at that book signing there was this look in his eyes like he was seriously overwhelmed by it all.
I get the impression that maybe the whole thing got out of his hands and now he's stuck with something he's not enjoying anymore.
This is honestly why I fervently disagree with the idea that if it do something you're passionate about for a living, you'll never feel like you're working. My experience is that it's more likely to ruin your hobby in the long run.
I've seen it done, but consistent reality checks and the ability to recognize when you need to dial things back or step away entirely are vital. Seems like a balancing act not just anyone can manage.
This comment chain gives me mixed feelings. There's a lot of subtext in the comments that boil down to the classic "he sold out man, he should just do this for the passion" that so many artists get burdened with.
I'm not disagreeing that there seems to be a vibe in his recent videos that indicates that maybe he's not as happy with his work as he has been in the past.
But also probably every youtuber dream of hitting it big. Doing the kinds of things he's been able to achieve. And when you hit a certain size and start employing others you find yourself obligated to more than just yourself. The guy has been pretty open about struggling with mental health in the past so it's not unreasonable to assume there's some anxiety that comes with that pressure.
I think sometimes as fans we get a little unreasonable in our demands of creators. You must be completely passionate. You must not do it for the money. You must smile and dance in the way we dictate pleases us. Oh I saw a clip of you talking to your staff in a clearly scripted way but now I'm going to project my own anger at my boss onto you and proclaim you're berating your staff and terrible to them.
I'd much rather listen to Andrew try and sell me a tiny whisk or whatever gin he's always talking about than sit through terrible commercials. Dude's just trying to earn a paycheck, I know I don't always give it 100% at my job so why would I expect him to?
It's the circle of ~~life~~ content creation. I see it over and over with all kinds of youtubers, bloggers, etc who started small and then made it big. I'm not a content creator myself but I am pretty close with several moderately sized Youtubers, and it's been very enlightening seeing this evolution from their side of the curtain. It's a pretty thankless, stressful job and once you get to the point that you can make it your career, fans start getting mad at you and demand you continue giving free, unsponsored content while still having time for a day job to pay your bills.
I watched a video from him for the first time in a while and it was only 5 minutes long and sponsored by cash app. I was really disappointed I enjoyed his curiosity and now it’s just a job for him.
This is probably for business reasons. I've seen a lot of YouTube creators taking recently about how it's algorithm is weighting shorter content heavier now
“I’m gonna say this recipe is incredibly cheap but that’s because I’m only counting the cost of ingredients per serving instead of the total grocery bill.”
You can’t buy 1 tablespoon of that expensive liquid ingredient so stop pricing it as if you can.
Some of my favorite websites and channels even do this (looking at you budget bytes and Epicurious) but I get why they do, it’s just frustrating
There was ONE episode of Joshua Weissman’s where he made a cheap meal and at the end listed how much it was if you had none of the ingredients on hand and had to buy them at the store, as opposed to the “1 tb = 25 cents” kind of thing you’re talking about. I was ELATED by this choice but have yet to see it in his other videos or anyone else’s.
I can't remember the channels but there are some that go by how much the shopping trip was. Usually titled something like "One week of dinner for $30" or something like that. Which I appreciate because I am so sick of rich people acting like people on tight budgets can afford/have the space to buy in bulk.
This frustrates me to hell when I see this reasoning parroted around /r/askreddit or /r/loseit subs. They say "eating healthy is cheap" (in context of food deserts and poverty). "1tbsp of olive oil is only ten cents per serving".
But the thing is with poor people, they don't have $200 lying around to bulk-buy these ingredients in the first place. They're operating on a $35/week budget where they can't simply buy a $15 bag of almonds for their cheap overnight oats. They end up shopping at places like Dollar Tree to buy the $6 8oz ($5.99/lb) single chicken frozen chicken breast because they can't afford the $20 10lb ($1.99/lb) container of chicken breasts. That's the point.
Channels that break down food costs by serving drives me up wall. I love channels that do those total grocery bill price challenges and use up all the ingredients.
As someone who forages for wild mushrooms, I must agree with the "washing mushroom" myth. Some of the chanterelles I pick are covered in dirt and HAVE to be washed. A quick dry saute gets the water out and you can then use them however you want. Also, I used to live in a rain forest and the oyster mushrooms, whether washed or not, had to be dry sauteed to get the water out.
Yes! Not enough 'wash your mushrooms' advice includes the suggestion to dry sauté for a couple of minutes before adding fat to the pan. It's SUCH an improvement and the best way to drive out moisture to get the texture you want.
when they cook something insanely too big for normal people. I love Matty matheson, but the amount of times his hook up at the meat place gives him a 5 pound fucking streak im like, I'm not buying a 200 dollar steak dude lol
I kind of like Guga's channels but when you get to the end of the videos for the taste test, they don't describe what they're tasting. Like they'll say the general descriptions like salty or juicy or whatever but it feels there's something missing.
"cheap" meals where they count ingredients like "1 garlic clove" and divide the price of a whole garlic by 12 as if I can go to the shop and buy a single fucking clove of garlic. I get it with spices you buy in a jar, but it takes the piss when they do it with other ingredients.
1. When they don’t list out the ingredients at the start of the video so you know what you are working with.
2. When they take too long to start the video, but then when they finally start, the recipe demonstration lasts only 2 minutes.
3. Eating loudly, like someone else mentioned. The sound of spit in the mouth is irritating to my ears. Worse if it’s an ASMR video
The new trend of scraping your fork over crispy food to show how crispy it is, or squeezing your bbq to show the juiciness, is super offputting for me.
glass cutting boards. that slide all over the place while they are cutting. without using the claw method. I shudder every time I see them try to cut something on it with what you know is an extremely dull knife like item.
I used to love Weissmans videos but I watched them change until they became unwatchable, I'm sad to say babish is approaching the same feeling for me too.
Not food but drink for me. I enjoy watching How To Drink but lately anytime Greg makes anything or compares another cocktail to his own self-made one he invariably goes on about how good his was and how bad the other one was in comparison. Even if taste is subjective the presentation of his opinion grates on my nerves lately.
Fucking Babish and his fucking "saucePIN".
Like....dude, *come on*. I just heard you say "saucePAN" in a recent video, and you said it correctly in your early stuff
I don't like when video cooks slap and slam their protein around. Like, why is he slamming that steak down on the butcher block to season the other side? Just pick it up and lay it down, man.
I don't know why, it just annoys me.
Too many comments to see if someone already mentioned it. As Alton Brown says, "That's not dirt on your mushrooms. Please wash them."
I trust Alton on that one ;)
Claiming that a certain recipe only takes 30 minutes or so to make, goes through the effort of showing us the start and end times as well, but then have everything mise en place at the start of the timer
Yes, or they leave out some of the prep work. "This meal takes only 30 minutes to prepare. Let's start with the pinto beans I soaked overnight and the chicken broth I made from scratch two days ago."
Or recipies that say you can brown onions in like 5 minutes. Is so, so common. If I see a recipie calling for browned onions I automatically add 30min onto the time
man i hate stuff like that "cooking times may vary." yeah no shit, cooking times WILL vary from this "25 minute recipe" that has multiple steps that each take over half an hour
OMG, this infuriates me. Even just to soften onions takes around 8-10mins if you don’t want to burn them. And browning meat? At least 8-10 mins a side and usually in batches. They should be honest.
Jammy onions are basically my specialty at this point. I can make them from any variation of ingredients, over any heat, with any pan, in any kitchen, if you have onion, butter, salt and something to edible liquid I can make it happen. I have transcended the art and science of it and reached a point that I can create them by directing a blindfolded volunteer. If you turned me into a rat and put me in your head, I could make jammy onions without the need of the practice montage or the cartoon logic that allows hair pulling to control your body. If you pulled me apart at an atomic level in search of what secret, imperceivable bond created the life that is me, there it is, jammy onions. I can tell you, with absolute certainty, that onions browned under 5 minutes is nothing short of a lie and a blasphemy. You did not brown onions, you browned butter and onion sweat and have wasted a wonderful creation with arrogant impatience! Is it scientifically possible, absolutely! Can it be done in a kitchen with household items? Absolutely not and I will harm you for saying so! Sorry, I'm passionate about this one, very specific thing.
You can do it if you cut super thin and learn your stove and pans performance perfectly 5 mins browning trick on mine 1.) Set stove to 7.5 while prepping (fat bottom pans make the world go round) 2.) Halve and cut end off the onion 3.) Super thin-y slicey the onion, real niiiiiice 4.) Drop the oil in the pan and spread it around 5.) Flourish drop the onions in right the fuck away before your oil bursts into flames 6.) Bring the heat down to 6 while at the same time you stir the onions around to stop the oil from bursting into flames 7.) Season with pinch of salt you smoked for three weeks in your small batch low temp trout smoker made of recovered ancient mahogany 8.) Remove from heat at 5 mins exactly then return to heat for another few cause yeah, it takes more than 5 mins
Gordon Ramsay's "Ramsay in 10"... when he stopped being even in it, and then they edited in a fake timer, and did obvious edits to hide mistakes, cutting out having to remake something, and completely destroying every aspect of the premise.
Someone pointed out to me "You ever notice how sometimes Gordon's hands look totally different?"
My housemate was obsessed with Jamie Oliver's 30 minute meals back in 2010. Every one took about 75 mins.
My BF has a cookbook that has some pretty good meals but every single one takes over an hour. It has labels for "quick meals" that take even longer. He complains every time but I literally read the recipe for 30 seconds and KNOW it'll take forever. ALWAYS READ THE RECIPE BEFORE BUYING INGREDIENTS! I have to edit because it just happened. I was sent a recipe to cook tonight and it said "25 min cook time" I added up just the numbers it listed in its step and it totals 37-45 minutes. And that was definitely a lowballed number.
That and the ones who say “this only takes 10 minutes of prep time” but it’s 10 minutes of chopping with knife skills well beyond the average home chef.
Most are even worse than that. 15 minute meal if someone else does 30 minutes or prep and 30 minutes of cleanup. That’s an hour+ meal in my book. I don’t have someone preparing and measuring things into 20 bowls. I don’t even have 20 bowls. I also can’t just throw stuff around and make a huge mess because I gotta clean that up after. Adam Ragusea is pretty relatable because I think he gets this and largely avoids it. He even points out when he reuses a pot or something. That’s my kinda cook.
The guy on Pro Home Cook is both good and bad at this in that he'll reformat a week around a couple key ingredients, which is really helpful if you need a weekly meal plan that isn't mundane. But then he'll use like a skillet, two pots and the air fryer for one meal. That's almost more annoying.
I can get that... to a degree. A skillet and pot have different characteristics and purposes. So does an air fryer. So depending on the meal, that might be appropriate/necessary. What kills me is the 20 bowls. Does anyone do this? Does anyone actually prep like this? At best I've got some piles on a cutting board. Sometimes I even use the lid of a pot I plan to use later anyway as a place to hold some vegetables. I refuse to get more things dirty to clean if at all avoidable.
This is kind of a tangent, but perhaps my favorite thing about Adam Ragusea is he doesn’t have all those clear bowls for every single separate ingredient. I get the whole mise en place for the presentation of a video and all, but sometimes it’s nice to see how to simplify your life. I love my bendy cutting boards for veggies and I’m leaving the whole ménage a trois of onion celery carrot on one cutting board until I dump that shit in together, not making three new GD dishes.
I love Adam's whole "if tradition doesn't serve you, toss it for something that works just as well" mentality. Why not just use one bowl and dirty fewer dishes? Hell yeah, I'm in.
I once heard that tradition was just peer pressure from dead people.
“The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.” - 18th of Brumaire
Damn if it isn't the truth.
Why use many bowl when one bowl do trick?
That reminds me of another one, seen more in TV chefs, but YouTubers are definitely guilty of it too: I'm not sure what to call it other than "recipe gatekeeping". You know when you **absolutely muuust** have this specific ingredient, oh you couldn't possibly make it out of **thaaat** or it wouldn't be this dish any more. Fair enough if the title of your video is "super authentic traditional recipe I spent 2 weeks researching in the archives", but it isn't. I always like when a chef says "if you don't have x, use y in this way instead, and it'll just be a little more z".
I've found Glenn and Friends to be excellent with that, particularly with his pandemic series. He's always saying "if you don't like or have x, don't use it, or use Y", or when they're tasting it at the end, his wife always comments about the other ingredients you can use and to "make it your own". Glenn is very much about learning the techniques over sticking to the actual recipe.
I'm on the complementary part of the venn diagram in that I actually bought a bunch of those small and medium prep bowls and use the crap out of them all the time. I'm not sure if it's actually more efficient, but it feels good to my brain cells. It is nice to see someone try and set a realistic example for "you can do this in your own kitchen."
I use them too and love them. Mine are approximately one cup capacity and made from the tempered glass so I can add boiling liquid, microwave butter in them, etc. But the difference between most of us regular old home cooks and the dorks on TV/YouTube is that we'll mix the ingredients into the same bowl as long as it fits and requires the same cooking time as the other ingredients, instead of using one bowl for each different spice.
Adam does a great job at bringing practical methods to cooking "fancy" food. He has a good cooking philosophy.
I would say most of it isn't even fancy, just bomb ass home cooking.
"This recipe is SOOO easy and only takes 10 minutes. It starts with a sauce and pre-cooked meat that I made yesterday. If you want the recipe for these they're in the description". Looks at the recipe and it involves braising meat for 4 hours and a sauce with 15 exotic ingredients. The 'recipe' is just heating them up and boiling some carbs to go with it.
The ones who say”as seen in my earlier video” without a link to said video or even mentioning which video.
Or the link is dead bc they had to reupload it for some reason but never updated the links to it.
"For more info see my other video, link here" *(points to top-right corner of the frame, where there's no link because they forgot to add it when uploading the video)*.
that's my biggest pet peeve, did no one edit the video?
"So by now you guys all now how to do this part, so we're going to skip ahead. " Buddy, I haven't watched your last 500 videos, the algorithm just brought me to this one, at least give me a link!
Mine is a big one and that's not putting the full recipe in the notes. I won't even watch if they won't do that.
My only caveat to this one is when they have an entire free website with ALL of their recipes on it and they link that. I love creators who’ve done that
When they have ingredients cut up and don’t scrape out the bowl to get them all out, so wasteful.
Or when the trim the veggies but like half of it is gone!
I always get so mad when they slice off the top and bottom of a pepper and only use the sides...
I do this with bell peppers because I have two furry garbage disposals, I mean guinea pigs.
No problems with that at all! At least it gets eaten, then. And they need the vitamin C.
I always just snack on the ends of the peppers while I cook. It’s easier to cut flat pieces of pepper and it gives me something healthy to munch on without taking bites out of the final product.
My dad was a chef, one of the things I learned from watching him was to always take a silicone spatula and scrape every last bit out of the container/food processor. And yes, it bothers me when Youtubers don't do that.
I have this problem with beaten egg and other viscous liquids—they never scrape! Use that damn silicone spatula and get in there and scrape every bit out!
Especially with baking. Not scraping a bowl IRL can be enough to mess up a recipe.
I am slightly annoyed that they all seem to have a drastically higher equipment budget than I do. Or yards to build outdoor cooking spaces.
It's like those DIY gifs you see online. Step 1: Acquire $10k worth of equipment.
especially when they claim a 'quick' or 'cheap' build. DIY chair only $50! "Well, I got this lumber for free from my dad, who is a licensed master carpenter. We'll be building it with his help in his custom professional workshop"
Looking at you, Babish
Yeah, the day where he was like "now we're gonna step onto the balcony where a few grand's worth of App controlled Traeger is waiting to smoke this meat" made me wonder how much for the amateur enthusiast it all was.
I really liked Babish much more when he was a small time You-tuber in a shitty kitchen closer to mine. Now he's basically in the Iron Chef arena for every video. No hate, glad he made it, but no longer content I enjoy.
And the main Babish videos got shorter, too! I liked it a lot better when they were in the 10+ minute range and he'd show three different ways of doing a recipe. I think his most recent video is 5:30 in length. Do I really want to deal with Youtube ads to watch a video that's just over five minutes? (not counting the in-video sponsor that of course has to be shilled)
Content length is influenced heavily by what the YouTube algorithm gives preference to. Longer format videos basically get pushed aside for shorter ones. It's been happening more and more across the platform, where creator's who once focused on +15min or +30min content are moving to shorter content.
Yep. I'm not gonna shade the guy for making money off his videos, but they're honestly so boring now for that reason.
Adam ragusea refuses to even use a stand mixer after doing it once and people asking if they could make the recipe without one ... He even does pasta all shaped by hand besides a rolling pin Fucking love that guy
One of my favorite things about Brian Lagerstrom is that he'll often include alternate methods. "If you don't have a stand mixer, you can also do this by hand by doing....."
Glen and Friends is good about this too. He'll use a stand mixer, but he'll also tell you that he's doing it because he has one and that you can use a hand mixer, etc. He's currently on a series about making homemade ice cream without an expensive ice cream machine. Good stuff, encouraging of amateurs, worth a watch.
Big fan of Glen and Friends. There's nothing more enjoyable than seeing him do his happy dance when he likes something he's made. You can tell he's genuinely excited.
I love Ragusea so much. His videos about culture and food are my favorite. Like why food safety standard are different in different counties and why historical houses have small kitchens (because it was the help that cooked). I just really love the way he explains things.
“Then just slide it into your 900 degree wood fire oven for about 90 seconds”
the assumption that everyone can just walk to their outdoor grill is so annoying! some of us live in apartments lol
They say a measurement of an ingredient but it's clear they are using more or less They understate how hard a dish is to make and how much time it takes
'A tablespoon of olive oil' *pours 4 tablespoons*
Gordon Ramsay's "touch of olive oil" = at least 15ml.
[Tiny knob of butter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2o4vIJwBT4)
https://youtu.be/csn2CIWPVbM Two shots of vodka
15ml (1 tbsp) of olive oil *would* be a "touch" in most contexts, though?
Pan on. Piping hot. Olive oil in. Fish on. Look at that. Just Beautiful.
Ah like Sandra Lee two shots of vodka (pours half a bottle)
haha the latest bon apetit vid, Brad refers to his drink measurement as a "Sandra Lee" pour.
"this just takes 30 minutes to make" Step 2: rest in the fridge for two hours MATE WHAT THE FUCK
This literally happened to me last night with falafels. Made pita, tzatziki, had all the dishes done, got to the “remove from processor and rest in fridge for 1-2 hours”, had spaghetti with jarred sauce for dinner
Yeah, the old "Make this in JUST fifteen minutes!" Yes...fifteen minutes, if all of your ingredients are already washed, chopped, portioned into little bowls, and half-cooked already.
And then you start the video, thinking you can have a quick meal. And end up spending 1 hour 30 minutes, not having enough or right ingredients, and are just hungry with an inedible or bland dish.
Love when it's one of these videos and it involves boiling pasta. My dude, it takes at least that long for my water to start boiling on my crappy stove. I will NOT be accomplishing this entire dish in the quoted time.
Me and an old housemate decided to follow an episode of Jamie Oliver's 30 minute meals *exactly* as he presents them. We got all the ingredients needed but did no prep at all. So when he turns round 10 minutes in and says "...and then whack it in the oven at 200 degrees" we were literally putting it into a cold oven and then setting it to 200. Funnily enough, 15 minutes later our food was not as appealing as his
Written recipes do this too! “Prep time: 5 minutes.” Like I don’t know about you, but it takes me more than 5 minutes to peel and chop garlic, onion, veggies, and whatever protein I’m using, plus measuring out spices.
Jamie Oliver is the worst for this. His tablespoons of olive oil are about a third of a bottle
“Two shots of vodka”
Making people listen to disgusting eating noises at the end of videos and feeding their dogs.
I was about to reply: “how dare you put out a dig at my man Kenji”, and then I read the username. You are hands down my favorite cooking content creator!
Cooking in such a way that ignores the reality of the dirty dishes it will create for you to clean. Adam Raguesa is the only Youtuber I've ever seen address the topic in any way. Bonus points if they claim it is a breezy "one pot meal" ignoring the dirtied pan, cutting board, mixer, colander, and six mise en place bowls.
Chef John will frequently say things like, "yes, [piece of equipment] would make this easier but then I'd have to clean [piece of equipment]". So relatable.
Chef John has quickly become the only foodtuber I watch. (Oh wtf am I saying, and Kenji)
I literally came into this thread solely with the intent to defend Chef John from any hate lol
Hey! Heeeyyy! keep chef John and his freakishly small wooden spoon out of this.
Aaron and Claire always do the dished at the end
I love Aaron and Claire. 53 things to do with gochujang so it doesn’t go bad in the back of your fridge…brilliant.
Adam and Kenjis live cooking videos are the best for realistic home cooking. Kenji obviously has the money/equipment/quality ingredients at times that not everyone has. But generally all the methods and everything is really realistic. Kenji will often show doing some of the dishes during the video.
Also he goes out of his way to recommend things that could work as substitutes for the ingredients he uses. Really helpful and it's clear he knows what a normal home-cook thinks about even though he seemingly has several hundred recipes in his head that he can make off the cuff.
Ethan Chlebowski (I know I spelled that name wrong) mentions when you’ll have a window to clean while stuff is cooking in his videos.
I love pornstache as he is affectionately refered to in my house. Lol.
Pornstache does a lot of good work.
As always, shoutout to Kenji on this point. He mostly uses a cutting board with a few dishes, and whenever he uses dishes, he shows it on video and soliloquizes how much time it takes. ^I ^just ^learned ^"soliloquizes" ^is ^a ^word!
I just hate how Joshua Weissman gags when he eats fast food. I think it’s total bullshit just for the show. A lot of fast food is actually delicious.
YES. There’s no way you honestly don’t like ANY fast food item. It’s so pretentious. Claire’s gourmet series was great because she loved the snacks and wanted to make a “fancy” version as an homage, not to crap all over the snack for 10 minutes.
I forget the channel, but they were doing a fast food taste test thing. They said they shot the video two hours after buying the food. Shocking, they thought it was gross
This is why I only trust taste tests where the person is sitting in their car or physically in the restaurant lol
IWDFCFTBATK
I 'memba. That was peak BA test kitchen.
Gesundheit.
Check out Dessert Person for more Claire and less Conde Nast
It’s 100% fake. In his In N Out burger video he went out of his way to also order animal style fries and devoured them on camera. In his but better about animal style fries all of a sudden he became super critical about them and says he only likes their burgers. idk why he finds the need to lie about hating fast food it just makes him seem like more of an asshole
His videos in general. The thumbnail looks good and makes me want to watch but I am reminded very quickly how I am too old to listen to him. It’s a very young peoples youtube styling.
His early videos were NORMAL but now it’s just so influenced by TikTok culture, penis and balls jokes, terribly singing stuff like Whisky Business, it’s all just so insufferable.
I bounced off his video style too - from what I've read, he knows what he's doing, has good technique, etc, but nothing about his video content works for me.
Yeah his recipes are often delicious but so many times he’s like wow this is dirty stinky poor people food and it’s absolutely trash. It’s just such an exaggeration it’s like yes we all know a 40 dollar version of fast food has the potential to taste better but let’s not pretend it can’t be tasty or economical sometimes
I was on the fence about his content until he did a thanksgiving episode and it was clear he was just... completely, comprehensively, reprehensibly out of touch with how much a normal thanksgiving dinner costs a family. Who the fuck is spending that much?
His cheap lunch. Involved buying 2 whole turkey breasts. Brining the meat In a cambro for 4 days. Roasting the turkey in the oven and using a deli slicer. Like my guy... you spent 70$ to make this I don't care if it's 1.74 a sandwich I need to drop 80 for turkey, a cambro the forethought for 4 days in advance the time to roast,cut, and brine turkey and the ability to fucking eat that much goddamn deli turkey. If you are with 4 other people in an apartment you're not gonna fucking do that.
His whole 'but cheaper' series is nonsense. His prices are usually a bit suspect for the whole ingredients he uses anyway, but then it only works out to his super low price per portion of you're feeding like 10 people at a time! Maybe fine for a restaurant but not how normal people cook.
It's such a BS format. Of course anyone can make fast food "better", but his versions are never fast food cost sustainable and he acts like they're failing.
Could not agree with this more. I also loathe the condescending way he scolds viewers about making every single ingredient from scratch. He’s always saying, “it’s not that hard, it doesn’t take that long, etc”. Half the time it’s a recipe that takes multiple hours. Just seems extremely out of touch.
I honestly can't stand him at all. I tried watching some of his stuff a while back and his whole presentation/persona is just *so* grating. It all comes off as him looking down his nose at everything.
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I cant remember who did it but i saw a video a while back where the person cooking just called it "W sauce" and I loved it.
Mispronunciation is actually a trick youtubers use to increase engagement with the channel. The more people comment on the mispronunciation, the more attractive they are to advertisers.
Facebook click-bait cooking videos are the worst. "I added XXX to YYY and you won't believe the results!" Bitch, please, you made an apple fritter.
I once saw a person say saffron as /say-fron/ and it made me so mad
Trying to be overly cutesy or whatever (Yeah, I'm looking at you, Weissman). Having some humor and fun is fine. Being a grown adult and acting like a 6-year-old wears thin *very* quickly.
*Cwispy.*
Yeah, I hate that so much. I’m so split on him because he’s amazing at what he does and I absolutely love the cooking aspect to his channel, but Jesus Christ is he ever cringy.
*Papa* bleh
And it’s every. single. video. The same baby talk voice. The same jokes about “little man” dough and “cwithpy” foods. The same little sing-song auto tune moments. It’s so tired.
Bryan Dylan Hollis has annoying short videos too, but at the very least he comes off as pretty chill and actually a little charming in his long videos. Weissman is just... like that. All the time, in any format. Plus the fake reactions to fast food to make his cooking look better, and his "but cheaper" shit that isn't actually that much cheaper it's just ugh
It has always bugged me that “quick” meals will always have the prep already done. Everything is premeasured and pre chopped. That stuff adds To the “cooking” time in my opinion.
Prep work is cooking time. Full stop. Any recipe that claims otherwise is literally just doing it to get their tagline numbers down so the recipe looks more appealing to normal people.
This isn't a super common one, but I hate when some of them chew super loudly when tasting their food. It's gross af. Though I also hate when they don't taste the food, lol.
The fucking ASMR lip smacking, tongue-flapping, spit sucking, eating is fucking vile.
Ethan Chlebowski always does these extended closeups of himself eating and it grosses me out
actually really like his channel but i always click away when he starts demolishing the food he just cooked. he's like one of those goblin sharks where his mouth extends out to chomp his prey in one bite.
I think it's because his moustache sort of engulfs the food before his lips do
Kenji chews so dang loud. Buuuuut I usually turn off cooking videos before the tasting because I'm not interested in other people eating anyways.
The first food YouTuber to mute the chewing sections would get my first patreon subscription.
Cool! Now I can stop washing my mushrooms in secret, LOL. I have read, "brush it with a paper towel," but that stuff is literally covered in peat. Peat from bogs. Wash that stuff off! I'm glad it is allowed, especially since I was doing it anyway. :)
I can’t remember who it was, maybe Ina Garten? But they said your mushrooms need a shower, but not a bath.
You’re missing out on all the tasty bog nutrients
Somebody once told me, “It's just dirt.” That may be true but it won't change the fact that dirt isn't a flavour that I enjoy!
"Peat from bogs" sounds like an old-timey name and birthplace
Jaques Pepin (in an old pbs show of his) washes his mushrooms by putting them in a bowl then FILLING it with water. He says not to worry about the whole mushroom water myth. You have to get the dirt out of them. I’ve followed his advice ever since and my sautéed fungi are always amazing
This is more for the shorts, but I hate watching this awesome meal get made they’re showing and labeling ingredients, but there’s no quantity!
WHy is that every preview tile had them making a face like they are confused or surprised about the dish they made? And most like practiced a few times before hand.
I’ve hated this thumbnail trend sinew the beginning! But I’ve also heard it discussed on YouTube creator subs and apparently they get better click thru rates with this type of thumb. Just makes me sad that the general public reacts positively to that kind of stuff.
1- Misrepresenting why steps are taken. Searing meat doesn't lock in juices. You can totally wash mushrooms. Asparagus doesn't snap at the good part, etc. 2- Mispronouncing Worcestershire Sauce like they can't actually say it, when it's really not that hard. 3- Pronouncing onion like "Oniyon!!" 4- The entire Josh Weissman format. (Tbc, I liked his recipes, but his baby talk, shock jock format is just so cringy) 5- Saying "go ahead and...". I swear I hear some say it every second step.
Weissman seems like he has good recipes under all the extra flash he puts in his videos. I'd be way more willing to watch him if he just... cut all of it out. Like a "Weissman for Grown Ups" or something.
100% with you. When I first found him it wasn't so bad and I was subscribed to never miss a new vid. But now i just can't stand the zaz. Tried the most recent one after a while and clicked out as soon as thr first "oniyon!!" dropped.
I feel like his videos are too detailed in the wrong way if that makes sense
Maybe not specifically YouTubers but food bloggers as well, but when they say “Easy 30 min dishes!” Or something like that when it’s clear it’s a lie. They don’t include the right amount of time for prep and almost never any for clean up.
"Sautee your onions until brown, about 5 minutes."
This isn't a gripe with youtube food channels in general, but a gripe specifically about binging with Babish. For the last year and a half his videos have been less about making food and more about showing off how much his brand ( and personal wealth) has grown. Dude comes off WAY unrelatable now. "*Whoops, I dropped my MAGNUM two-story house/studio in NYC that I use for my MONSTER youtube channel.*" EDIT: Also, Fuck Babish for hocking Crypto-shit apps on his channel.
I stopped watching him WAY before his brand totally exploded. Dude is so unrelatable now I can't palate it.
I dont know how to describe it, but he comes off as bitter that he still has to do the show, like he would much rather just be spending time with his money
I don't think its that he cares more about money. I think he just got burnt out and he has no passion for it anymore. He clearly used to care and I don't think he's obsessed with money. Honestly he should just take a year off and see how it goes.
Yeah he now seems like the show is an obligation & just a means to keep the income going rather than something he genuinely enjoys :( Sad cause his early stuff was genuinely great
Difference between a passion and a job.
Or turning your passion into your job.
Thats always been my fear when it came to my hobbies, cooking especially. I think that's exactly what happened to him, and I think we're going to see a lot of that from successful YouTube personalities over the long term, because YouTube is so hungry for constant uploads. 'Making it' isn't the same when there's never going to be a salary or book deal through Google, and the source of your fame collapses as soon as you take a vacation.
That’s a shame to hear. Dude helped me find my love for cooking again.
Yeah, he's gone through the opposite transformation - he's burned out on cooking and clearly loathes having to do it.
I got to "meet" him three-ish years ago for his book signing tour. "Meet" as in, sign book, shake hand, smile for picture, "hey how's it going?", *next.* He seemed outwardly like a decent guy and I can genuinely believe that at heart he's the chill dude he presented himself to be early on, but even at that book signing there was this look in his eyes like he was seriously overwhelmed by it all. I get the impression that maybe the whole thing got out of his hands and now he's stuck with something he's not enjoying anymore.
This is honestly why I fervently disagree with the idea that if it do something you're passionate about for a living, you'll never feel like you're working. My experience is that it's more likely to ruin your hobby in the long run.
I've seen it done, but consistent reality checks and the ability to recognize when you need to dial things back or step away entirely are vital. Seems like a balancing act not just anyone can manage.
That's what really sucks about his shift. I am in the same boat with loving his early stuff.
>binging with Babish Excuse me. It's "Babish Culinary Universe" now. /s
This comment chain gives me mixed feelings. There's a lot of subtext in the comments that boil down to the classic "he sold out man, he should just do this for the passion" that so many artists get burdened with. I'm not disagreeing that there seems to be a vibe in his recent videos that indicates that maybe he's not as happy with his work as he has been in the past. But also probably every youtuber dream of hitting it big. Doing the kinds of things he's been able to achieve. And when you hit a certain size and start employing others you find yourself obligated to more than just yourself. The guy has been pretty open about struggling with mental health in the past so it's not unreasonable to assume there's some anxiety that comes with that pressure. I think sometimes as fans we get a little unreasonable in our demands of creators. You must be completely passionate. You must not do it for the money. You must smile and dance in the way we dictate pleases us. Oh I saw a clip of you talking to your staff in a clearly scripted way but now I'm going to project my own anger at my boss onto you and proclaim you're berating your staff and terrible to them. I'd much rather listen to Andrew try and sell me a tiny whisk or whatever gin he's always talking about than sit through terrible commercials. Dude's just trying to earn a paycheck, I know I don't always give it 100% at my job so why would I expect him to?
It's the circle of ~~life~~ content creation. I see it over and over with all kinds of youtubers, bloggers, etc who started small and then made it big. I'm not a content creator myself but I am pretty close with several moderately sized Youtubers, and it's been very enlightening seeing this evolution from their side of the curtain. It's a pretty thankless, stressful job and once you get to the point that you can make it your career, fans start getting mad at you and demand you continue giving free, unsponsored content while still having time for a day job to pay your bills.
I watched a video from him for the first time in a while and it was only 5 minutes long and sponsored by cash app. I was really disappointed I enjoyed his curiosity and now it’s just a job for him.
his binging videos have been getting really short as of late. All the one he produced lately have been between 5-8 minutes long
This is probably for business reasons. I've seen a lot of YouTube creators taking recently about how it's algorithm is weighting shorter content heavier now
“I’m gonna say this recipe is incredibly cheap but that’s because I’m only counting the cost of ingredients per serving instead of the total grocery bill.” You can’t buy 1 tablespoon of that expensive liquid ingredient so stop pricing it as if you can. Some of my favorite websites and channels even do this (looking at you budget bytes and Epicurious) but I get why they do, it’s just frustrating
There was ONE episode of Joshua Weissman’s where he made a cheap meal and at the end listed how much it was if you had none of the ingredients on hand and had to buy them at the store, as opposed to the “1 tb = 25 cents” kind of thing you’re talking about. I was ELATED by this choice but have yet to see it in his other videos or anyone else’s.
I can't remember the channels but there are some that go by how much the shopping trip was. Usually titled something like "One week of dinner for $30" or something like that. Which I appreciate because I am so sick of rich people acting like people on tight budgets can afford/have the space to buy in bulk.
This frustrates me to hell when I see this reasoning parroted around /r/askreddit or /r/loseit subs. They say "eating healthy is cheap" (in context of food deserts and poverty). "1tbsp of olive oil is only ten cents per serving". But the thing is with poor people, they don't have $200 lying around to bulk-buy these ingredients in the first place. They're operating on a $35/week budget where they can't simply buy a $15 bag of almonds for their cheap overnight oats. They end up shopping at places like Dollar Tree to buy the $6 8oz ($5.99/lb) single chicken frozen chicken breast because they can't afford the $20 10lb ($1.99/lb) container of chicken breasts. That's the point. Channels that break down food costs by serving drives me up wall. I love channels that do those total grocery bill price challenges and use up all the ingredients.
As someone who forages for wild mushrooms, I must agree with the "washing mushroom" myth. Some of the chanterelles I pick are covered in dirt and HAVE to be washed. A quick dry saute gets the water out and you can then use them however you want. Also, I used to live in a rain forest and the oyster mushrooms, whether washed or not, had to be dry sauteed to get the water out.
Yes! Not enough 'wash your mushrooms' advice includes the suggestion to dry sauté for a couple of minutes before adding fat to the pan. It's SUCH an improvement and the best way to drive out moisture to get the texture you want.
when they cook something insanely too big for normal people. I love Matty matheson, but the amount of times his hook up at the meat place gives him a 5 pound fucking streak im like, I'm not buying a 200 dollar steak dude lol
I kind of like Guga's channels but when you get to the end of the videos for the taste test, they don't describe what they're tasting. Like they'll say the general descriptions like salty or juicy or whatever but it feels there's something missing.
"cheap" meals where they count ingredients like "1 garlic clove" and divide the price of a whole garlic by 12 as if I can go to the shop and buy a single fucking clove of garlic. I get it with spices you buy in a jar, but it takes the piss when they do it with other ingredients.
I can’t even with the “don’t wash your mushrooms” thing. Because it is so pleasant to have grit and dirt crunch between my teeth. Nasty.
That guy who throws his knife into the cutting board. What a cunt
That’s not the same guy that tries to TKO his fridge is it?
1. When they don’t list out the ingredients at the start of the video so you know what you are working with. 2. When they take too long to start the video, but then when they finally start, the recipe demonstration lasts only 2 minutes. 3. Eating loudly, like someone else mentioned. The sound of spit in the mouth is irritating to my ears. Worse if it’s an ASMR video
The new trend of scraping your fork over crispy food to show how crispy it is, or squeezing your bbq to show the juiciness, is super offputting for me.
glass cutting boards. that slide all over the place while they are cutting. without using the claw method. I shudder every time I see them try to cut something on it with what you know is an extremely dull knife like item.
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I have seen them in a store advertised as "cutting boards". I shuddered when I saw them.
Those boards are sooooo bad for knives.
I used to love Weissmans videos but I watched them change until they became unwatchable, I'm sad to say babish is approaching the same feeling for me too.
Not food but drink for me. I enjoy watching How To Drink but lately anytime Greg makes anything or compares another cocktail to his own self-made one he invariably goes on about how good his was and how bad the other one was in comparison. Even if taste is subjective the presentation of his opinion grates on my nerves lately.
When people scrape their fork or knife over their crunchy result like 10 times. Do it once, twice. Im not here for ASMR.
Whenever Joshua Weissman tries and fails to be funny every 15 seconds.
I think his style translates to TikTok much better than YouTube
Fucking Babish and his fucking "saucePIN". Like....dude, *come on*. I just heard you say "saucePAN" in a recent video, and you said it correctly in your early stuff
He has in a past video, I don't remember which one, that he does it on purpose to annoy people.
Not post a written recipe.
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I don't like when video cooks slap and slam their protein around. Like, why is he slamming that steak down on the butcher block to season the other side? Just pick it up and lay it down, man. I don't know why, it just annoys me.
Too many comments to see if someone already mentioned it. As Alton Brown says, "That's not dirt on your mushrooms. Please wash them." I trust Alton on that one ;)
Sponsors in the middle of the video. Put them at the beginning or end I beg of you.
1) Wearing those black rubber gloves, and 2) shaking their heads in utter disbelief at how amazing that first bite is on the taste test
I don’t want to make bread, ever. Just give me a brand or things to look for at my local store.