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Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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I tried… *tried* to read one of his cook books. I failed. He seems like a nice guy in the videos but on the printed page it’s like reading the Smugcronomicon. I’m genuinely happy for him, but I’m also ecstatic we’ll never meet.
Some people for real don’t know they’re actually rich tho.
Binging with Babish and Max the Meat Guy are pretty forward about how not easy most of their recipes are. Which I appreciate. Sometimes you just wanna watch delicious food being made, or you just want to see a meal from a movie get recreated.
(Alvin’s ep on the 28 layer chocolate cake had me weeping I wanted to try some so badly)
All chefs are like this. That Onion video about “simple and quick recipe using cheap ingredients you already have in your kitchen” when it takes 7 hours and ingredients appear out of nowhere is what I always think of.
Fun to watch, but it’s nothing more than entertainment, nothing I’m actually going to attempt.
He also has a habit of prescribing ‘essential’ tools that are very expensive and only used for highly specific things that I don’t think I ever thought of making.
There’s something comically obnoxious about “gentrified” food where they make up a bunch of pseudo-indigenous cooking methods and mark up the price tenfold, and then you go to a small restaurant in Tuscany where the 90 year old nonna only adds three ingredients *max* to their pasta and it’s the best dish made since the dawn of time.
The only food tubers I trust for now are Kenji, Chef John, FutureCanoe and YSAC and sometimes that one guy whose name I don’t remember, who makes vegan dishes and says ‘wunderbar’ in the end
# BEFORE THIS BECOMES HATE FILLED
# I LOVE HIS VIDEOS
# BUT HIS COOKING IS IMPOSSIBLE IRL
Doesn’t help that he does the johnny test quirk chungus adhd-bait editing over everything he does. And that his clownish obnoxious persona is just a character over his irl personality, a rise-and-grind hustle culture player.
Him along with most other youtube chefs suck at making budget food. Why would you price it per serving
I suppose I’d be the first to say Adam Ragusea in this context, so I’ll say Adam Ragusea.
A lot of these food tubers are headquartered somewhere like NYC, where they have access to all kinds of exotic food stores. Adam started out in Macon, Georgia and initially did pretty accessible things, using ingredients he bought from his local supermarket. In a way, now that his sponsorships and such have brought him a fair bit of income, he could branch out into doing some fancier, less accessible things – but even that turned out to be pretty restrained, like to good steak made in a less memetastic way.
Not really the main topic, but you can make infinitely better burgers than 99% of restaurants at home for cheaper.
12 pack of decent 3rd pounders from the store for 25 bucks CAD, season that shit with a dash of salt, a fuck-ton of pepper, and whatever your preferred flavor is (I like dill and paprika for mine) then slap that shit on the grill. (I use an indoor grill, but either outdoor or indoor works)
Grab some buns of your preferred variety (sweet Hawaiian for me) and toast and butter that shit.
Slap the ingredients together, put toppings on, and et viola.
That’s like 30-35 bucks for 12 burgers. Most fast food places here are like 7 bucks a burger, and they taste like shit. I genuinely refuse to buy them. Even restaurants taste like ass compared to this, and I’m not even that great on a grill.
This point as been dragged on for so long I had to go and see his youtube channel to see whats up (Joshua Weissman)
He has not made a single video about a fast food that is better since a year ago and a fast food item being faster or cheaper since 2 years ago
His channel has been nothing but Mr Beast level of content made to get clicks centered around food
Find new insults to diss this man please
Doesn’t wagu make for terrible burgers?
„Boil water? What am i, a chemist?!“
His current content isn’t great, i agree, but the original point of his „let‘s make fast food at home“ videos was to show that it‘s relatively cheap (per portion) and easy to make a burger or fries, not to criticize that McDonalds isn’t using Wagyu (wtf). He also used to give alternatives on how to fake certain techniques that‘d require more time/space/equipment. It’s kinda sad to see him fall off, but alas…
Is this real or satire? Is this a photo of a random guy?
I think Kenji is the only food YT channel where I’ve wanted and managed to easily reproduce the recipe.
Joshua Weissman’s smugness pisses me off. His level of arrogance is high relative to how good of a chef he actually is. And his videos are mid.
When you have more culinary knowledge than the guy who’s been in the food industry for years.
Lynja was the only good one of them, the contrapoint of foodtube. RIP.
Why aren’t my parents blue-linked on Wikipedia:(
What is life x
I liked him until his video testing kitchen tools video. He kept saying how to just learn a knife skills it’s not that hard bro and couldn’t think for a fucking second that it might be for older people or people with a health condition that make doing certain things harder or even unsafe.. like using a fucking knife!
I kept rolling my eyes and thinking when he complained that it wasn’t made with him a perfectly capable adult, let alone one that worked in a kitchen and thus for their job had to learn knife skills.
Ah yes, opposite of Internet Shaquille.
This reminds me of a reverse situation – a wealthy rapper(don’t remember who) requested a restaurant to make him some sort of minced beef sandwich or bun, apparently a popular street snack in his State, with Wagyu beef. From what I know mincing Wagyu beef just makes for decent minced beef, pretty much turning the most expensive beef in the world into store brand level mince.
To me it’s similar level obliviousness only in opposite direction.
Chef John supremacy
“Its actually SO easy to make this Michelin quality recipe at home, provided you have all these different niche cooking utenseils, a huge clean counter top and ample kitchen space, a stocked pantry of gourmet supplies, the budget to buy these specialty/organic ingredients fresh, and the better part of 2 whole days completely free to actually do all the prep work, cooking and cleaning with no interuptions”
Why I love Mythical kitchen, Josh will actively tell you the fancy ingredients are shit and they are only useing them to push the numbers up
I thought the fact that he makes simple things out of wildly expensive ingredients was the whole point. Like you weren’t expected to the actually use that as a tutorial, it’s a spectacle thing. Did I miss the point?
you can make a better burger than mcdonalds by frying beef mince with onions though