Bon Appetit Test Kitchen

I feel it demands a thread of its own.

Use this to discuss favorite series, attempts to do BATK tricks at home, and express your approval or disdain for the various personalities on display.

http://www.youtube.com/user/BonAppetitDotCom

I want to try making the omelette souffle, but I'm a bit intimidated

It's super easy. A little weird, but worth trying at least once.

Brad Leone is a hero

I tried the omelette souffle and it did not work, but it was still a good omelette.

i became aware of the videos through this link and maybe tombot on another thread. https://jezebel.com/my-obsession-with-the-bon-appetit-cinematic-universe-1839497437

soooo many videos. i need to just figure out a couple of things to make and start.

The roast chicken looks good too, although having it completely slathered on gojuchang may be too much spice for my family.

The home video era should be interesting (including whatever amazing upstate house Andy has gotten himself hooked up in)

For me the videos are more about entertainment than recipes, although I got a subscription to the mag for my bday and we've made a lot of the recipes. I do want to try Brad's cured egg yolks, but it seems like a waste of eggs rn.

i love carla's videos

i have watched a lot of these videos over the past 3 months. even if they weren't exactly hired for the purpose of internet video, the casting of the ba test kitchen is pretty impeccable.

Brad Leone is a hero
otm. i was watching an older video recently and molly was talking about listening to "i'm like a bird" in her high school carpool, and brad was like, "oh, for me high school carpool was more like smoking joints and listening to system of a down"

only thing i've made was carla's pot of butter beans, which isn't really a recipe, but they were pretty good even without bothering with the aioli.

favorite running gag is priya's apparent deep embarrassment at having a hot boyfriend that the internet knows about.

Molly drives my wife insane. When she reported in on the WFH video her immediately yelled “Oh of COURSE she’s in Joshua Tree”

she's such a cartoon millennial it's sort of hard to believe, but then is so knowledgeable and efficient when it comes to actual food stuff. like when she does videos with the editor-in-chief her vibe is "i've worked in dozens of restaurant kitchens and test recipes for a living, please get out of my way and don't make any dumb suggestions"

Rapo is truly a snoot though

He just shows up to remind everyone how BA in the 90s put sundried tomatoes in everything and it was dumb. And then make a remark that their work is only okay

carla is the best. I also like sohla, andy and of course claire. brad I like but not by himself, too much bro energy, but great playing off others.

the marinade in the gochujang pork recipe is reliable and easy to make if you can get the ingredients.

i only watched the focaccia one with Samin and Brad and really hated Brad for the first half and then warmed up to him.

Holy shit there goes the rest of my life I had no clue this existed.

Molly gives me "milk first then cereal" vibes

My wife has a very offensive but truly apt nickname for Molly.

I liked how in the recent cocktail ep Sohla was the only one who kept showing up to try every single drink, uncommented upon.

Also tbh it took an adjustment period when I learned Chris was straight.

After making quick breads all week, we tried a BA earl grey tea bread, and it overflowed the loaf pan and smoked up the whole kitchen/house. Then I looked up a blog post by Molly saying you need to precisely measure the inside of your pan, or else it will overflow. I fully blame Molly.

omg. so you mentioned this thing about chris (who I don't know) and in my mind I am like, "oh guy who you end up being surprised is straight? probably from boston." and lo and behold when I look him up online.

"Newton is a suburban city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is approximately 7 miles (11 km) west of downtown Boston."

I call it the Ed Norton Dissonance.

haha

I demand to learn the vulgar Molly nickname

I made the omelettes, they were good! Feel like i could whip them up any time, which is saying a lot for me because I'm very nervous about cooking anything without a detailed recipe in hand.

Also, lol, Newton, my high school's rival.

I am def gonna try Sohla's variant on a White Russian.

I liked how in the recent cocktail ep Sohla was the only one who kept showing up to try every single drink, uncommented upon.

Ok, after the coffee one, I legit hope that she's keeping it together.

Chris & Brad do Gourmet Makes was pretty lol, I'm glad the commenters got their wish (would be great if they have more swapped shows in the can).

Watched it this morning as a palate cleanser from reality and I was dying. Brad is such an ADD toddler and I love Chris a lot lot--I love their affection for each other even though they're opposites. Super great.

I made the Gojuchang roast chicken. It was ok, a lot of effort for what it is.

Really enjoyed the bagel bites episode of Gourmet Makes a week or two ago.

Andy >>> Antoni

One sure sign of mental/emotional decline has been developing a parasocial crush on a bon appetit person. Time to log off

Oh I have crushes on several. But they all spend way more time preparing food than I could ever stand.

I mean, there is an upside to being with someone who cooks all the time.

Ugh, Molly making that gross ostrich egg with whipped cream and salmon roe, only for both of them to agree that it's gross, just wasting food. On the other hand, can't wait to see what show swap today brings us!

there's lots of wasting food going on in bon appetit. the whole taking one bite from every dish on a restaurant menu feature !

the ostrich egg was just eldritch tho, no arguments

I feel like the food waste that happens in the BATK and related adventures is somewhat justified in that they aim to teach people how to make better food at home, thus enriching lives and possibly leading to less food waste in the form of thousands of inedible household kitchen disasters. That’s probably what they tell themselves.

Also OF COURSE Molly made the most insufferable thing in the coffee episode. I’d grab a drink with Sohla anytime though. I also like how they wove all the pourover silliness together in the editing room.

Brad’s visit to Tillamook made us wish we got Tillamook ice cream here out east.

I made the the spicy katsu chicken sandwiches, although I dialed back the spice level. They were good, nice crunch.

I made Molly’s Grown-Up Mac & Cheese. She used all parm, I did cheddar, fontina, parm bc I value cheesiness. It was silky and wonderful with no roux necessary. Whole stick of butter though. But it’s spread throughout a lb of pasta.

For the Delaney restaurant series, they always insist that the crew eats the food and that it doesn't go to waste.

I'm baking the BA 'shockingly easy no - knead focaccia' today, it has indeed been easy going so far.

Claire doing Brad's show was delightful btw.

Yes it was. The editing on that show is top notch.

I want a dirtbag covers podcast where ppl attempt to approximate these recipes on a strict budget w no fancy gadgets.

The crew did an "In Coversation" thing at the 92nd Street Y a little over a month ago, though I wouldn't recommend it unless you've watched a lot of the regular videos.

https://youtu.be/eUJzqChe3FQ

Chris's having worked at Vogue maybe another bit of "wait, he's not gay?" dissonance.

I need to know how many of the same navy shirt jacket suit Amiel owns. Like does he have 12 of them or does he just wear the same one EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.

We made a version of this last night and it was surprisingly amazing:
https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/pasta-al-limone

For the Delaney restaurant series, they always insist that the crew eats the food and that it doesn't go to waste.

ok, this makes sense and I probably should've just assumed this. I guess I often don't consider how many crew members there are for these things

i almost never watch these but the one where claire tries to make her own jelly bellies was really entertaining. i appreciate that she takes a stupid task very seriously and gets genuinely frustrated when things go wrong over and over.

I had no idea this thread existed but the bf was just watching the video tour of their home kitchens and paused to turn round and go, "wait, Chris has a wife and kids?" at me and then I click here and it's a running theme of this thread

anyway I haven't explored the full, uh, Bon Appetit universe but I like the ones where he recreates dishes after a blindfold tasting and gets all the surprising obscure ingredients

I had also assumed Chris Morocco was gay, as had my gf

God, of course Delaney hasn't cooked anything in his parents' house and just chose to do show & tell with the vinyl he brought with him, jesus.

looool

the Gourmet Makes for cadbury eggs was seriously impressive

I'm planning to make Molly's chicken soup today, which is p much the same as any chx soup but with pulling out the breasts earlier and adding a lot of dill. Anyway the point is to freeze it for later so I'm going the whole two carcasses and prob like 16 C of water if I can fit it in the pot.

She does it with ditalini pasta but for the g/f versh should I sub in rice or thai rice noodles? Not for the frozen tubs, just for what we're eating today.

ok I am definitely going to try to make a shrimp salad sandwich (inspired by the "pantry sandwich" home ep)

Rick's grilled cheese + spicy tomato soup/dip looked heavenly and super easy to make also

The latest episode with pantry sandwiches was extremely enticing imo

Claire opening a jar of tuna in olive oil was ADORABLE sorry but it was

Also Brad being all “yeah so I just have some elk + venison meatloaf lying around plus dome pickled vegetables I already made, I’m making cold sandwich out of that, word” i.e. “Shit, I forgot that assignment was due today”

Also Amiel really is a Wes Anderson character

yeah Brad's version of pantry cooking was so inaccessible that the captions had to make fun of him

today I made a breakfast sandwich using Cristina's techniques and it was excellent I must say, pan fried english muffins w bacon fat >>> toasted with butter

I've been obsessed with these videos for about 18 months, ever since the one where Claire and Brad make sourdough bread. I love Brad's stoner metalhead vibe, and the way the editing makes subtle jibes at his expense, and Claire's laser-guided on-it-ness. But I love em all really, though I went off Claire slightly after the Creme Egg one, because a) she hates the filling but the filling is delicious, and b) she tried to make a custard for the filling when it is not a custard, which was making my partner literally scream on the sofa next to me. The "Making Perfect" on pizza was my favourite TV event of 2019.

I wrote a thing for the Guardian lasy year on these YouTube cookery stars and interviewed Claire, and she was awesome. She is clearly pretty freaked out about everything that has happened since they started doing these videos. I also interviewed Babish for the piece, who was an absolute sweetheart, really earnest and heartfelt, and Scott Weiner of Really Dough, who really loves pizza.

i tried to watch the garlic ginger paste video last night but they went waaaay too overboard on the frenetic/jokey editing on that one

I got hooked thanks to Carla, so I hope she gets a TV show out of this, if that's still a thing.

Also, I swear by BA's recipes. If I have ingredients I don't know what to do with, or am looking for a recipe for a certain dish, I always check them first. We get a lot of courgette in our veg delivery, and I've been doing their Summer Squash pasta recipe to use it up, and it is delicious. And I'll second the recommendation for Molly's Adult's Mac'n'Cheese. Often if I'm cooking alone in the kitchen, I'll whack one of their YouTubes on in the background, to keep me company.

Rick Martinez is aces too, <3 his nail polish. And Carla's great. She did a fantastic interview with Pamela Adlon on the podcast recently.

Loved Claire eating matzoh while also having clearly baked a giant pan of bread. It's rough for Jewish bakers.

Brad’s visit to Tillamook made us wish we got Tillamook ice cream here out east.

― El Tomboto, Saturday, April 4, 2020 12:27 AM (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

I've seen it at the Social Safeway, and I think at the Cathedral Heights Giant.

Will keep an eye out! Thank you.

I've been into the videos (thanks to Tombot actually), but since lockdown we've actually started making a ton of the recipes, they've been great for inspiration. I think between my wife & I we've done:

-focaccia
-Earl Grey tea bread
-banana bread
-buckwheat chocolate chip cookies
-Tahini billionaire bars (with spicy additions)
-spaghetti al limone (except not spaghetti, and this has really changed our approach to pasta tbh, using parmesan + pasta water + lemon for a sauce rather than drowning it in red sauce, although that's still delicious too)
-sour cream biscuits
-galette (used the dough for a caramelized garlic tart from the Plenty book)
-maybe more things, it's all a blur of cooking and youtube

Probably going to make that souffled omelet again, gonna see if it comes out as well with one less egg

Watched the sandwich video, I'd like to make that grilled cheese w salsa.

I did end up making Molly's best chicken noodle soup. It was a perfectly fine chx soup but no more than that. It's in the freezer for future use. Also Molly's adult mac'n'cheese which I will def make again even with having to use gluten free pasta, which is not ideal. Idk what else to try next, I never did find the curry pastes I wanted, or olek sambal to make Chris' spicy pork noodles.

this is great
https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/summer-squash-and-basil-pasta

as is this
https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/creamy-pappardelle-with-leeks-and-bacon

and so is this
https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/kale-minestrone-pistou

I liked the dill in molly's soup. Actually, I've been using dill more in general since I made that soup.

My wife made Gaby’s pantry sandwich yesterday, it got an excellent review

Gaby was the only one who used good bread.

We definitely make stuff like Rick's soup & sandwich all the time, although imagine having the sort of approach to life that lets you use a tablespoon of butter per side for a grilled cheese.

I cannot fucking abide the cutesy editing on this show. I nevertheless made the burnt cheesecake and am going to do the choco birthday cake next. But I shut the video off as soon as it gets too much and then just go to the print recipe on the website.

if I ever make recipes from bon appetite - which I do fairly often.- I do it from the text on the website. for me the video viewing is just background while pottering around the apartment or laying on the couch too tired to concentrate on reading or watching a film or whatever.

I think the website has a pretty good hit-rate but their recipes have definitely done me dirty on multiple occasions. recently i made this chickpea recipe quite faithfully https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/quite-possibly-the-best-chickpeas and it was bad

Try it with garbanzo beans

I also hold a grudge against BA for killing Gourmet, which was far superior imo

i've been trying since this thread made me aware of it but man i just can't vibe with this channel at all.

I cannot fucking abide the cutesy editing on this show

The editing differs pretty vastly based on whomst's show you're watching!

Loved all the praise for the humble potato on Claire's tater tots vid

Brad made a cameo with Mythical Chef Josh, the guy who makes all the strongo nuevo cuisine that Rhett and Link attempt to eat on the Good Mythical Morning channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FEHKH6cxko

Sohla’s hot dog tacos from the freezer recipes episode (the one that just came out like two hours ago) looked really good, and I’m not even into hot dogs.

Sohla is great.

I like sohla and Carla, I can't stand the one that has to Skype her parents (they're Indian!) in literally every video. I find most of the guys unbearable and self regarding. I watch these way too often because I have an insatiable appetite for cookery videos but my favourite of the slick glossy channels is the food 52 woman who does the genius recipes, the recipes and tips are often excellent despite her having a skin crawlingly awkward screen presence. in the earlier videos she used to always taste the recipes and then do this disturbingly quiet "mmm" that I think the producers have told her to stop doing because it creeped people out. I fully recommend Manjula (opposite of glossy!) as the best source of Indian food and also the "late night" recipes by Kenji Lopez alt (though he does them with a head camera that makes me feel properly seasick and I wish he wouldn't, on more than one occasion I've had to switch to a different tab and listen to avoid needing to lie down after).

Sohla has proven to be great in a whole other way today

the short version of what's going on rn: a brownface photo of Rapaport has emerged, Sohla is calling for not only his resignation but a sea change within Conde Nast's internal culture. gutsy as hell

Oh shiii is this on their yt or her own media? Hang on

she posted about it on her Insta story is what I see from a quick google

yup

Molly’s posted something too

Anyway here’s the og brownface tweet and endless reply thread

I do not know why Adam Rapoport simply doesn’t write about Puerto Rican food for @bonappetit himself!!! https://t.co/rW0k5tjMoS pic.twitter.com/odZnFLz2gd

— chez tammie (@tammieetc) June 8, 2020

short thread from Carla

As the former food director of BA, I didn't do enough to make sure we covered Black cuisine and Black chefs in particular, and BIPOC recipes in general. I accepted the brand's definition of what the "mainstream" food trends were. I spoke up... sometimes. I should have done more.

— carla lalli music (@lallimusic) June 8, 2020

Oh, thanks for the explanation. I kept seeing subtweets about "food media" and wasn't sure what it was all about.

I have subscribed to Bon Appetit for 5+ years, but have never really bothered with any of their video/Instagram content and don't really know much about the people who work there beyond their print bylines.

Sohla’s IG is here

AND she’s the only one who can temper chocolate 😍 pic.twitter.com/AocbaOz7Ao

— Miriam Bale (@mimbale) June 8, 2020

lol Miriam <3

rapoport resigned. conde nast denies only paying white editors for video appearances

solidarity gets the goods

It says something about the current moment that not even the hyper chil idyll of BA is immune. (a good thing!)

Idyll or no, it's ultimately a capitalist venture in America

absolutely

Seems like p much the whole team is in messaging lockstep

I can't wait for the anonymized Buzzfeed piece or whatever

Rapo has always seemed a dick tbh, and the vibe in the kitchen has never felt too warm towards him

What happened to the guy who used to film those "24 hours working in a NY deli/Vegas restaurant" videos?

rapoport resigned. conde nast denies only paying white editors for video appearances

― Rik Waller-Bridge (jim in vancouver), Monday, June 8, 2020 7:42 PM (yesterday)

i feel like what happened here is that bon appetit realized how white their video stars were and to get ahead of the backlash they started throwing brown ppl in front of the screen (it was very obvious when they started doing this) w/o ever getting around to compensating its employees for the increased responsibility (extremely common at all media companies)

or put another way... i feel like what she really meant to say was, "only the white staffers here have salaries that accurately reflect everything they are asked to do" (claire being one exception who is on a non salaried contract)

Yup.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/skbaer/bon-appetit-adam-rapoport-brown-face-racism

Last August, she was sent on assignment to Philadelphia, for a feature with three Black chefs, but because the publication "doesn't have a great history of working with Black chefs," the chefs asked to work with all Black staff, El-Waylly said.

"There was no one on the food team that was Black, so they sent me instead because I'm the darkest one," she said, adding that neither she nor the chefs were given a heads up about the situation. "I arrived and I wasn't Black, and it was very strange for everyone involved."

OH. MY. GOD.

jesus

A few more ex staffers have chimed in

Oh you guys just thought I didn’t enjoy making “It’s Alive” “Gourmet Makes” “Alex Eats it All” “24 Hours” videos?

— Vincent Cross (@VINCENT_CROSS) June 8, 2020

Holy shit. Sohla and I didn’t overlap, but I was a FAR less experienced white editor who made more than this. I’ve spent 3 years cringing every time someone asks me how cool it was to work at BA. In awe of those who’ve been brave enough to go public. There’s a lot more to come 👀 https://t.co/CrCjLL3Xvi

— Julia Black (@mjnblack) June 8, 2020

A lot of the people putting out statements are the same people who stood by silently or joined in the bullying and allowed this behavior to continue.

— Amelia Rampe (@lebonoeuf) June 8, 2020

For the interested, a GQ piece that heavily features Sohla, now recirculating

https://www.gq.com/story/what-happens-when-a-brown-chef-cooks-white-food

and some new background on it in this thread

the back story on getting this piece published was wild. I originally worked on it at @thrillist where it was edited by @mariuyehara. The white man running the company at the time not only held up the piece for months, he then handed it off to a white male editor. I pulled it. https://t.co/YYMXWJAPVE

— Khushbu Shah (@KhushAndOJ) June 8, 2020

BA posted their apology post on Insta

don't follow Delany anywhere but assume he's apologized for the confederate battle flag cake pic which is floating around on socials

cant stand the 'drinks' guy. intensely slimey vibes.

Vulture has a pretty comprehensive rundown: https://www.vulture.com/2020/06/bon-appetit-eic-adam-rapoport-resigns-racism.html

The editor in charge of video got let go as well

Just got the June/July issue of the print magazine in the mail. There is a short interview with an African American pitmaster and historian of black-owned barbecue restaurants, as well as a feature on Juneteenth by an African American writer that includes recipes from three African American chefs. There's also a first-person essay by Roxane Gay.

To be clear, none of that excuses what's been reported about Rapoport and the way that POC staff have been treated, which are real issues. I just thought it was interesting in light of those developments. It seems like the magazine has been trying to prioritize diversity in its editorial focus (more than some people may assume), even if that hasn't extended to its employees (which is surely a bigger problem). And again, I don't know the Test Kitchen world at all.

test kitchen reminds me of when you see huge gangs of straight white people having enormous picnics

same vibe

ah, so when condé says it’s going to take racism seriously, this is what they mean. they’re going to investigate the people making the claims and the people who support them, rather than looking at the systemic racism itself. got it. https://t.co/ow5sf48Dvs pic.twitter.com/meXuWZCOwh

— rosemary donahue (@rosadona) June 25, 2020

free hunzi

ugh for real

noooooo wtf @ suspending hunzi

what bullshit

this whole 'hotbed of racism' thing has put me off the BA videos and tipped me right over the edge of not at all enjoying its forced chumminess. I haven't watched any of their videos since. I wonder if viewer ratings have declined as a result or if everyone else has simply already forgotten?

They haven't posted a video since then, for one thing

They haven't posted anything since, have they? I'm sure views and subscribers are down, but there are probably a majority that have no idea about any of it.

xp

They have still been posting Epicurious videos though

i never found the chumminess particularly forced? it seemed pretty clear that everyone hated rapaport.

I honestly would be watching the videos if they were posting new vids ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I mean, as long as they haven't fucked Sohla over and were genuinely sorting out the issues that arose last month, I would too, as I love the videos they make.

Same, not holding out hope for them to do the right thing, but I definitely haven't been inspired to bake anything (although it's also summer).

Pretty sure all/most of the stars committed to not allowing BA to make any new footage of them or in some cases not even use existing footage of them until demands were met.

I’ve become a Mythical Kitchen devotee since quarantine began and it’s easily just as fun as the best BATK content if not more so. Possible minus: most of the recipes are nonsense. I just watched the new one where Nicole makes pimento cheese monkey bread, thought “I might try that!” and realized I basically never think that thought about anything Josh makes.

Sohla was on Binging With Babish today!!

i might have to watch. i miss coming home from work and watching a fresh ba video while drinking a beer :/

We’ve been watching a lot of Babish anyway. He has the benefit of falling in the Venn overlap of being on It’s Alive with Brad (making ricotta cheese) and on Food Fears with Josh (pork blood). It’s a shame he’s so mumbly though, it makes it hard to follow what he’s doing at times.

I'm leaving Bon Appétit video. Here's what's been happening over the last few months, and some thoughts. pic.twitter.com/L59blcESLv

— Priya Krishna (@priyakrishna) August 6, 2020

Ugh

More: https://www.businessinsider.com/bon-appetit-test-kitchen-priya-krishna-rick-martinez-2020-8?

Uugghh!!!

Rick, Sohla and Priya are three of the very best.

I don't wanna watch the shows if they aren't on them, and if Conde Nast isn't treating the BIPOC contributors right.

damn Conde Nast are really fucking this up, hey?

rip BA test kitchen

yeah it's fucking dead

time for them to pull a Deadspin

Hope Brad and Clare spin off from the brand quick, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzIqQ75mUWo

I support Sohla doing a tour of every other Youtube food channel

The NY Times had a series with the woman who criticized Chrissy Teigen and Marie Kondo, guessing she won't be doing any videos soon, they should swoop in and steal Sohla.

lol that genius recipes show has become unbearable in lockdown with all the baby/husband crap

This looked stupid but I watched it anyway and actually enjoyed it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=PQV-W_Ut8MY

Feels like I should just start a new thread for “food youtube channels that are not terrible” y/n

Would bookmark

https://gabyskitchen.com/

https://gabyskitchen.com🕸/

Bon Appétit, the multimedia food-journalism outlet that has experienced a summer of racial strife in the workplace, has a new editor in chief: Dawn Davis, a prominent editor and executive who has been one of the few Black power players in the book world.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/27/business/media/bon-appetit-dawn-davis-editor.html

Sohla has joined the Babish Culinary Universe, and it is good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zDZV-jGJ6w

meanwhile BA has attempted a woke relaunch. the metrics are not too encouraging so far and the whole thing has a gross post-Deadspin-exodus vibe, fairly or not.

Absolutelyfuckingnot. RIP

I’d love to confidently boycott it but once the algorithm starts suggesting new Brad videos I’m going to end up watching them

Ew. Brad is the LEAST appealing chef to me. I can barely watch his videos esp when the editors over-hack them.

Sohla said something fascinating a while back. When asked about how the other chefs were responding to the initial airing of the test kitchen inequality, she said something like (and I paraphrase), "Everyone is reacting differently. Some of my colleagues have already put out supportive statements, but, like, Brad just discovered racism yesterday."

Lol Brad strikes me as a real creep

It’s certainly possible to be a creep and a doofus at the same time, that’s true.

I find Brad's incoherence winning, he doesn't seem like a creep but a charming clod IMO

I don't know how much is the peeping on drama element, but the two new videos have 250k views per day so sadly the reboot might work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PsJilIaFio

Sohla has another show

This recipe seemed nuts to me at first -soaking the pasta in stock before cooking??? - but OMG was it delicious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5wxY614qGE

i watched that with interest and i don't even like cooked greens

I often cook my noodles in lightly stock cube'd water

I recently made the best oven fries by soaking the potatoes in hot (not boiling) water for 10 min first, so I'm definitely going to try soaking the pasta before cooking it.

these videos have way too much "having a laugh" in them now

omg just cook

you are right, that is the thing i don't like about them. they are the mom recipe blog of cooking instruction, except you can't just scroll through the lols.

I guess that's the BATK legacy

I often cook my noodles in lightly stock cube'd water

I've never tried it before, and NOM the results were OM NOM NOM (also, you can make a pasta bake from the leftovers with a little extra cheese and some breadcrumbs and that is fantastic also)

There's a printed recipe for these dishes in the blurbage in the YT video if watching Sohla have fun is noxious to you

Jacques Pepin would never do the "wacky" stuff.

I don't blame millennials for much, but I do blame them for wackifying otherwise perfectly good cooking videos

I do like Sohla, tho. It's not her, it is the editing.

yeah it's not her at all, it's the need to make everything "cute" and "funny" when her technical skill and regular personality would be enough

of the new folks, I think Harold is quickly becoming my favorite.

I’m half-watching Harold make General Tso’s chicken and just... why do people in this show keep using the term “slurry”? 😬 like i get the usefulness of the term but I’m definitely not the only person watching who thinks of this every time one of them says it.

I know he's not BA but whenever I watch one of Matty Matheson's videos I have to switch off after a minute or so of really unfunny self-conscious weirdness and yelling and unpleasant, billowing ego.

Sohla and Priya have a video in the newly-built NYT Cooking test kitchen...

welcome to my mid twenties xp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksgkpdxPPy8

The NY Times is building a huge kitchen studio

Guys I made a whole other thread for non-BA youtube cooking content but OK

#onetestkitchen

Which thread Tombot because I would like to get in on that

food youtube channels that are not terrible

thanks!

LOL

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Bon Appétit
5 days ago
You may have noticed that we removed the most recent episode of ‘It’s Alive’ about seafood canning. Unfortunately, we showcased the canning process inaccurately and we apologize. In the video, we chose to use a water bath instead of a pressure canner so we’d be able to physically show the audience what was happening within the jars throughout the canning process. We know how important it is to show safe food handling for our audiences and realize this wasn't a responsible way of demonstrating the process. We made a mistake, and we promise to learn from it.
If you tried to can seafood in the way we did in this video, we recommend that you discard your resulting product and start over. For more info on safely canning at home, please refer to the USDA's Complete Guide to Home Canning. The information is based on research conducted by the National Center for Home Food Preservation in cooperation with USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). Learn more about both here: https://nchfp.uga.edu/publications/pu...
For more about safe food handling and preventing botulism, please consult the CDC here: https://www.cdc.gov/botulism/consumer...

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Jesus

You're dead with Brad

well that's monumentally stupid

It's Botulism! with Brad

I have this idea that I want to do a video series where a set of contestants "cover" a BA recipe, with the goal to do it as cheaply and deliciously as possible. handicaps (i.e. must be vegan, convenience stores only, etc) are handed out at random. whoever spends the most money loses even if they made the tastiest dish. penalties for using fancy kitchen implements. etc.

my q is: what would be the cheapest way to rig up 3-4 people with head mounted cameras kenji style, that would actually be watchable sound/video quality-wise?

I'm joining the New York Times Food desk! This is a dream job, one that I hope will not only allow me to tell great stories (and film more video!), but bring new voices into the fold at the Times. It's been...a year, and I'm feeling really grateful today.https://t.co/kTDAWToZVM

— Priya Krishna (@priyakrishna) March 24, 2021

Priya's cool, I love her vids.

https://www.grubstreet.com/2021/03/bon-appetit-test-kitchen-hbo-max-series-enjoy-your-meal.html

the link I followed made me think that Conde Nast/Bon Appetit itself was developing a workplace sitcom based on the Test Kitchen, the reality is less terrible

I like this guy's wine videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqW_sMhA5-Y

He’s very good.

yeah he’s good!
i watched a thing of his about wine labels & learned a lot