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  • Опубликовано: 14 май 2020
  • Clickbait Title: World's Largest Activated Charcoal Superfood Epic Burger Made With Acai Cake
    In this video I mention Gourmet Makes a bunch and I actually felt really insecure about that just because for a long time during the edit it was feeling like I only had one example. But the reason it was on my mind so much is that the recent video with the gourmet Tater Tots was just so perfect with the intro where a parade of chefs, cooks, and foodies, the kind of folks who regularly cook hundred-dollar cuts of meat with obscure Italian names, stop by to talk about just how much they love frozen potato nuggets.
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  • @Cynimax
    @Cynimax 3 года назад +6317

    "But unlikely to draw negative attention to the platform."
    *looks at bon appetit 3 months later*

    • @Emily-ce7hd
      @Emily-ce7hd 3 года назад +1004

      This video genuinely aged really well. The view of certain foods as "exotic" was also an issue within the BA Kitchen and them only ever really letting Priya make Indian dishes.

    • @RengokuGS
      @RengokuGS 3 года назад +106

      oh, what happened?

    • @Emily-ce7hd
      @Emily-ce7hd 3 года назад +1001

      @@RengokuGS one of the BA higher-ups got outed for having done brown face. He dressed up as a Puerto Rican man for Halloween a while back AND his GF shared it on her insta more recently and they were all still showing that they hadn't changed since then. A lot of the non-white members of the test kitchen have also come forward about how they are paid SIGNIFICANTLY less than their white counterparts and some are pidgen holed into only making "ethnic" cuisine.

    • @RengokuGS
      @RengokuGS 3 года назад +244

      @@Emily-ce7hd thanks for taking the time to respond. Awful news, feel bad for the workers.

    • @coffeevie
      @coffeevie 3 года назад +343

      RengokuGS Amazingly Sohla, the person that was at the center of it and got the whole BA thing going and brought to the forefront, now has a cooking show on Binging With Babish’s RUclips channel so it looks like some of the BA chef’s that didn’t get treated fairly are getting back out there and getting paid

  • @ragingbombast
    @ragingbombast 4 года назад +3326

    Re: Urine Drinking - It's only cooking content if it's someone else's urine. Otherwise its an ecofriendly recycling video.

    • @nadiabishop5650
      @nadiabishop5650 4 года назад +19

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @Kennitto
      @Kennitto 4 года назад +16

      I was just coming to the comments to see if this was gonna send me spiraling like the quarantine one, what thd fuck is gonna happen in this video

    • @prefectdreyfus
      @prefectdreyfus 4 года назад +11

      Does it count as self cannibalisation?

    • @AxelLeJeff
      @AxelLeJeff 4 года назад +21

      Negative, it's only cooking if you heat it externally.
      Else it's no different than someone pouring a glass of milk, except gross, and much worse for your kidneys.

    • @TurbopropPuppy
      @TurbopropPuppy 4 года назад +11

      kinky cooking content

  • @urbanarmory
    @urbanarmory Год назад +777

    I live in the Middle East and I always love telling people here that in the West falafel is a "health food", when it's basically just a bean-based french fry

    • @dashiellgillingham4579
      @dashiellgillingham4579 7 месяцев назад +26

      I could never enjoy those because they seemed too greasy to me. Then I’d turn around and stuff a dozen McDonald’s chicken nuggets down my gob.

    • @RunButton
      @RunButton 7 месяцев назад +47

      I live in America and I've never heard anyone say falafel is health food. 😅

    • @moleperson
      @moleperson 7 месяцев назад +7

      That sounds absolutely delicious to be honest

    • @derekmccloud6333
      @derekmccloud6333 6 месяцев назад +50

      ​@@RunButtonFor some, not having meat is sufficient to qualify as a "health food" 😂

    • @sigmascrub
      @sigmascrub 5 месяцев назад +11

      ​@@derekmccloud6333my friend once chose vegetable tempura instead of shrimp tempura because battered and deep fried vegetables are "healthier" than battered and deep friend shrimp 🤷‍♂️

  • @blenderpanzi
    @blenderpanzi 2 года назад +2500

    Now I want a cooking show by a native American who just "discovered" this exotic thing called mac and cheese.

    • @iprobablyforgotsomething
      @iprobablyforgotsomething 2 года назад +220

      YES. I would 100% subscribe to a humour-parody based cooking show by an indigenous person 'discovering' modern foods. If done well, it could even slip in some historical fact into casual comparative conversation or as off-handed remarks about what their family / community is doing at insert-time-of-year, as the host does a fast-forward montage waiting for a dish to set or cook.
      .
      Someone please do this? Or if someone already is, please link?

    • @Kevin_the_Caveman
      @Kevin_the_Caveman 2 года назад +59

      Incredible caloric value in mac and cheese, they would be wondering why all those diet people insist on suckling on dry seeds and not stuff their gob with all that cheap efficient calorie-rich junk food

    • @ericmathis4309
      @ericmathis4309 Год назад +44

      Would also love a series on how seemingly innocuous foods are heavily influenced by politics. There’s not enough discourse about how food availability effects the everyday diet

    • @spinozatheobvious626
      @spinozatheobvious626 Год назад +3

      It's a super food!

    • @lukaf5
      @lukaf5 Год назад +17

      I'm responding to an old comment, I know, but mac&cheese WAS 'discovered' by non-native American: Thomas Jefferson.
      While in France, he was served with macaroni and cheese, noted how to make that kind of pasta, how to make a sauce and then served it in 1802, as the President. It wasn't received that well.

  • @MrFrostburner
    @MrFrostburner 4 года назад +3321

    It took me longer than I'd like to admit to realize the pickle joke was, in fact, a joke, and not an actual video made by one of those channels.

    • @stanbonesletsplays
      @stanbonesletsplays 4 года назад +205

      Funniest shit I ever saw

    • @PogieJoe
      @PogieJoe 4 года назад +25

      Likewise.

    • @derpolcu
      @derpolcu 4 года назад +17

      Same.

    • @a.r.e.j.1693
      @a.r.e.j.1693 4 года назад +12

      Same.

    • @eimazd
      @eimazd 4 года назад +71

      Had me fooled on the celery, but I figured it out the instant the aluminum foil came out.

  • @cetriyasArtnComicsChannel
    @cetriyasArtnComicsChannel 2 года назад +906

    the thing that gets me is that the 'exotic' foods suddenly gets stupid expensive and the original people can no longer buy their staple.

    • @RozWBrazel
      @RozWBrazel 2 года назад +134

      basically gentrifying the grocery aisle too

    • @Palemagpie
      @Palemagpie Год назад +55

      You can flip reverse it though.
      My uncle used to sell "authentic Irish stew" to American tourists for like 5x the price of a bowl of stew.

    • @u805
      @u805 10 месяцев назад +39

      My in-laws are Vietnamese and they had to stop going to the Asian store they used to go to all the time because it just got too expensive and a lot of the staples they used to buy were replaced with more trendy popular items. Now I can't say this is true for certain but I'm pretty sure it is because a predominantly white upper class suburb was built in the area and the people that live in it started shopping there for A) for the cheap prices on produce and meats, and B) because it has "exotic" foods that you can't find at regular American grocery stores.

    • @familyguyfreemoviedownload8314
      @familyguyfreemoviedownload8314 3 месяца назад +12

      western health food/vegan culture is, unsurprisingly, very much ruled by colonialism. i read an article once about how the rise of quinoa as a trendy grain was driven by forcing south american subsistence farmers to meet massive quotas for almost no money, and i imagine the story behind other “superfoods” isn’t too different. granted, there are vegans trying to decolonize veganism but some of them are waist-deep in it; i’ve heard vegans say some ghoulish things about african, asian, and indigenous cultures that historically rely on meat as a staple

    • @hamsandwichindahouse
      @hamsandwichindahouse 3 месяца назад

      Yet you can’t get enough of “other” cultures, can you?

  • @Inlelendri
    @Inlelendri 3 года назад +947

    "He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination - but at the end of the day they'd settle quite happily for egg and chips. If it was well done and maybe had a slice of tomato.” - Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant, I cannot remember the page number

    • @Treckasec
      @Treckasec 3 года назад +12

      Oh my goodness! Same profile picture... What a coincidence! Heh... One Stormy Night 💙

    • @notapplicable6985
      @notapplicable6985 3 года назад +4

      I love that series.

    • @dinksunker
      @dinksunker 2 года назад +25

      and sometimes people drink their own piss

    • @LordMegatherium
      @LordMegatherium 2 года назад +58

      You can read the novels over and over and you still won't be able to memorize the trove of quotes yet when you come across one of them unexpectedly the texture of the sentences makes those memory neurons fire as if it were a smell deeply ingrained in your childhood. GNU Sir Pterry

    • @karinmaria6455
      @karinmaria6455 2 года назад +22

      @@LordMegatherium Seriously, I've read most of his novels translated to German many years ago and yet 90% of the time someone quotes Pterry I immediately recognize it after like the first half sentence.

  • @andrew_cunningham
    @andrew_cunningham 3 года назад +1288

    For the record: starting now, at least one person in the world (myself) has searched this video up for the sincere purpose of learning how long to microwave a pizza pop.

    • @Jimmy_Hutch
      @Jimmy_Hutch 2 года назад +24

      hey it's the deltarune guy

    • @Brainstrain
      @Brainstrain 2 года назад +22

      Doesn’t the box tell you?

    • @itgms
      @itgms 2 года назад +89

      @@Brainstrain bold of you to assume I kept the box

    • @synthetichumangaming4634
      @synthetichumangaming4634 7 месяцев назад

      Hi there Andrew, love your video essays

  • @projectz975
    @projectz975 4 года назад +1889

    the sound of Dan Olsen slurping a coke haunts me to my core

    • @boundbythecurve
      @boundbythecurve 4 года назад +70

      I thought an Elder God had stopped the video and I was hearing him preparing to eat me

    • @Cheezbuckets
      @Cheezbuckets 4 года назад +32

      Dan Drinks Cola 10hr ASMR

    • @flurgerbla7609
      @flurgerbla7609 4 года назад +11

      I need it as a ringtone

    • @thatcutenerdgirl6090
      @thatcutenerdgirl6090 4 года назад +15

      I have never laughed so hard at a video as I did during the 30 seconds that Dan slurped that cola.

    • @dr.strangelove2066
      @dr.strangelove2066 4 года назад +23

      Was that a jab at stanek, the guy who does the "steak done 50 different ways" from bon appetite. He's infamous for emulating his chewing and eating sounds in his videos, all of which are obviously done in a sound booth after the fact.

  • @ameliamorrow1929
    @ameliamorrow1929 4 года назад +2022

    Man this recipe for shortbread chocolate chip cookies is tough to follow

    • @timothymclean
      @timothymclean 3 года назад +185

      I don't know what I'm doing wrong, I keep making pickles.

    • @brianna6377
      @brianna6377 2 года назад +111

      Did you use a dirty plate? Apparently it's just not the same otherwise.

    • @dillonwalshpvd
      @dillonwalshpvd 2 года назад +7

      @@brianna6377 what do you mean “apparently”

    • @alex.g7317
      @alex.g7317 2 года назад +24

      You probably need to turn the microwave ON and OFF again.

    • @IanM86
      @IanM86 Год назад +25

      I tried to follow the recipe and just made an insightful video essay. I can't serve this at my daughters birthday party!

  • @catarinaverduro2966
    @catarinaverduro2966 2 года назад +1228

    once when i was in the usa i met one of these natural healthy food aficionados and she, upon knowing i'm brazilian, made me taste one of her "superfood" açaí smoothies and it just... tasted like the açaí ice cream we eat all the time.. delicious, yes, but very sweet, very sugary. it's super easy to tell because the açaí berry by itself tastes a bit like dirt and is by far not the most common way to consume it. the "healthy" açaí supplements she was buying were just as industrialized, unhealthy and sugary as any other ice cream off the street but foreigners who buy it have no way of knowing. i wouldn't be surprised if all these "exotic superfoods" were the same.

    • @duncanlutz3698
      @duncanlutz3698 2 года назад +103

      Well for starters, there is no such thing as a "super food." Food is food. While some may have better nutrients than others... no food has unique nutrients or properties. At best, the "super food" is just a more efficient or concentrated source of the key nutrient(s)... that can be found in other foods. Worse for the super foods craze, foods aren't magic. They aren't special little buffs. You only get a benefit from "good" foods typically if you are already suffering from a nutritional deficit or some other problem. If you are already healthy, this magic food won't make you "more" healthy. At best, it just helps you maintain your current health.
      People believe the super foods craze because it makes "food" seem much simpler than it is. Instead of this confusing mess of vitamins, calorie counting, basal metabolic rates, protein profiles, etc... there are the "good" foods and the "bad" foods. Marketing plays this up as it's an easy way to inflate the price of some random food no one would be buying otherwise.
      But the sad truth of the matter is that nutrition really isn't complicated. Calories in

    • @juniawetmann1311
      @juniawetmann1311 2 года назад +44

      Also, as far as I heard, açaí is kinda difficult to transport as berries, so in places that aren't near the Amazon it's way more likely that they will have access only to the pulp mixed with some sort of syrup, not the actual berry.

    • @user-sl6gn1ss8p
      @user-sl6gn1ss8p Год назад +33

      @@juniawetmann1311 I don't know about the logistics of açaí, but I'm from the brazilian south and indeed we also don't have all that much access to it, mostly just smoothies

    • @blueprint7
      @blueprint7 Год назад +3

      @@duncanlutz3698 stop simping for processed foods

    • @Gammera2000
      @Gammera2000 Год назад +7

      Yeah, superfood is just some marketing buzzword.

  • @ShalathePrinny
    @ShalathePrinny 3 года назад +552

    *opens soda can*
    "All that's left is to enjoy"
    *sputtered breaths of a dying man as he drowns in his own blood*
    "Hmmm delicious"

  • @willmckinley4257
    @willmckinley4257 4 года назад +2636

    I love that he talks while washing dishes. The one thing you never see in a cooking video is the cleanup.

    • @thebolas000
      @thebolas000 4 года назад +120

      It feels like the paper work scene at the end of Hot Fuzz.

    • @famuel2604
      @famuel2604 4 года назад +8

      Looks like these dishes have not been used

    • @themusicaljunkie37
      @themusicaljunkie37 4 года назад +99

      "Polls shows that audiences dislike the perception of manual labour. It's like eww.. Poor people do that.. Less engagement. Less dollar."

    • @potatorodka2795
      @potatorodka2795 4 года назад +35

      ​@Anna안나 I think it's more about the perception of labor and profession, in a professional kitchen the cooks dont clean dishes.
      In a youtube video you like to think you're watching a chef or cook, a professional you know? Someone who mastered the blade.
      I guess it breaks immersion to think about them doing the washing up. That's why I like sortedfood they talk about clean as you go a lot and even show it on camera.

    • @Duiker36
      @Duiker36 4 года назад +1

      @Anna안나 I would pay to watch Sam Jackson clean dishes again. Or at least dry dishes, I guess.

  • @1980rlquinn
    @1980rlquinn 4 года назад +1299

    Don't let anyone fool you. Gold leaf is CHEAP AF.
    I live in Kanazawa, Japan, where more than 99% of the entire country's gold leaf is produced. We have no shortage of edible gold leaf foods for sale in the more touristy parts of town, and while they are more expensive than the standard fare, that owes more to the allure of consuming gold and the need to cover overhead in neighborhoods where rents are high rather than the base cost of the product itself. Gold leaf ice cream is $4. It's $8 if you go to the shop located next to the biggest sightseeing spot.
    Somewhere down the line of imports and advertisers, gold leaf in North America began to be placed on fast food made of unnecessarily high-end ingredients and marked up several hundred percent, with $200 donuts and $2000 pizzas. Let me assure you: there is nothing about the gold that adds to that price.
    (Yes, I had to stop the video at seeing the ridiculous gold leaf donuts to rant about this.)

    • @elvellarambles9151
      @elvellarambles9151 4 года назад +85

      Really! I'm American (US American, not Canadian haha) and I would NEVER have guessed that gold leaf is actually that affordable in the areas where it's actually produced.
      I don't know about Japan, but in the US, a thing like gold leaf food is all about the, well, aesthetic of opulence and expense. I wonder if it's actually comparably cheap to get, at least in the places that people are producing it. Cue existential reflections on wealth vs displaying the aesthetics of opulence.

    • @danr.5017
      @danr.5017 4 года назад +164

      A sheet of gold leaf costs about a buck each. Its an anger inducign gimick becuae of how much it inflates an item's price while making the food just a little bit worse.

    • @QuikVidGuy
      @QuikVidGuy 4 года назад +34

      i implied this in my other comment:
      gold leaf is seen as a tool, a material, as not real gold
      gold leaf food, as a commodity and a spectacle, loses the level of "oh I know that cheap shine isn't gold" and gets marked up for it's appearance alone. that's why I say you can easily MAKE gold leaf food, but not as easily BUY It, especially not the ones in the gimmick videos
      I wouldn't be surprised if gold leaf were made from pyrite

    • @theoneandonlymichaelmccormick
      @theoneandonlymichaelmccormick 4 года назад +35

      Yeah, pretty much any expensive meal that’s covered in gold leaf is only expensive because it uses wagyu beef, black truffles or some shit.
      Good leaf is pure artifice. It’s the illusion of wealth.

    • @milkteamachine
      @milkteamachine 4 года назад +34

      @@elvellarambles9151 It is. You can buy gold leaf anywhere for cheap, it's nowhere near as expensive as solid gold. Hell, average people use it for random craft projects.

  • @gianniwu6564
    @gianniwu6564 Год назад +179

    As a Chinese the first time someone quoted Marie Antoinette saying eat croissants I immediately thought of our emperor who said:”if they don’t have rice, eat meat”. Or the other legendary emperor that thought that eggs costed 30 taels of silver and when he heard of his ministers eating eggs for breakfast wanted to kill them all and take their “riches”.

    • @midn3341
      @midn3341 10 месяцев назад

      Which emperor?

    • @Hemostat
      @Hemostat 9 месяцев назад +30

      i like the humans have basically been telling the same 5 stories over and over for all of history

    • @SheepUndefined
      @SheepUndefined 3 месяца назад +18

      "It's a banana for god's sake, how much could it cost? Like, 20 dollars?"

  • @acecat2798
    @acecat2798 3 года назад +2600

    I remember watching British Bake Off and for their Victorian week I think Nadiya (who is a second-generation British Bangladeshi woman) used Bengali spices in her dish, and the judges said something like "Victorians wouldn't have used those" and I was struck because A) yes Victorian English could've if they'd wanted to, that's what the whole spice colonialism was for and B) yes a ton of Victorians did... because by definition, Bengal was under British rule + under Queen Victoria-> Bengalis were Victorians, whether they were living in Bengal itself or if they ended up in the British Isles (as many did).
    Bengalis in the 1800s were more Victorian than the concurrent Americans who weren't living under Victoria's reign, but the show never counted their food as "Victorian" even in a context where that would've been historically correct. Bake Off also tends to treat non-English cuisine as exotic even when it's the norm for a *lot* of British people.

    • @angellover02171
      @angellover02171 2 года назад +299

      There is a channel where a woman dresses up like an 19th century chef and makes recipes from her cookbook and others of the time period. I believe it's late Victorian. One dish she made was kedgeree. It's a rice egg and fish dish spiced with curry powder. So clearly those spices were getting around.

    • @xxsosbrigadexx12
      @xxsosbrigadexx12 2 года назад +177

      wow thank you for putting to words what always felt super off about that episode. Nadiya will always be my fave British Bakeoff contestant, she makes bomb ass food and seems like a really cool person.

    • @qwertyasf
      @qwertyasf 2 года назад +154

      Just look at the disaster that was Japanese week.

    • @xxsosbrigadexx12
      @xxsosbrigadexx12 2 года назад +122

      @@qwertyasf no. stop. that didn't happen. I refuse to believe it. wtf why who thought that was a good idea.

    • @lucyc5844
      @lucyc5844 2 года назад +110

      Same with Masterchef. Judges praise the hell out of dishes that are perfectly normal dishes in other cultures. Treating a lot of lesser-known Asian dishes like they’re something new and exotic that the contestants invented all by themselves.

  • @samniel
    @samniel 4 года назад +1720

    I love that you mentioned Ann Reardon and her husband, she doesn't JUST debunk 5-minute crafts and blossom, she also posts her own creations along with the recipes. My favourite cooking channels are usually the educational or at least edutainment ones,.

    • @cynthiaverjovskymarcotte1379
      @cynthiaverjovskymarcotte1379 4 года назад +23

      Love her so much. :-)

    • @krankarvolund7771
      @krankarvolund7771 4 года назад +27

      And she's being copied by 5-minutes craft and all :p

    • @milovarquiel
      @milovarquiel 4 года назад +40

      I love her channel because she teachs you how to do all the recipes and how to achieve the level of a pastry chef, her channel is awesome.

    • @Naliamegod
      @Naliamegod 4 года назад +26

      Ann Reardon is the cool Australian aunt I wish I had

    • @toastlover
      @toastlover 4 года назад +13

      How to Cook That is the only cooking channel I watch.

  • @not.applicable.
    @not.applicable. 4 года назад +758

    This feels like it should be a companion piece to Lindsay Ellis' "manufacturing authenticity" video, lol.

    • @SunflowerSpotlight
      @SunflowerSpotlight 4 года назад +33

      I loved that. I miss Lindsay’s material. 😭

    • @sebastienlee9754
      @sebastienlee9754 4 года назад +20

      Man About Cake? More like Man About Fake!!!

    • @ChineseCookingDemystified
      @ChineseCookingDemystified 4 года назад +38

      Warning: do not watch "manufacturing authenticity" if you like Bon Appetit's videos. It's a great video, but it will absolutely ruin BA's content to the point of borderline unwatchability

    • @zam5487
      @zam5487 4 года назад +12

      @northern_lights They actually work together all the time, but Its usually off screen stuff. I know Dan helped film and edit Linday's Hobbit videos

    • @YourFaceisPretty
      @YourFaceisPretty 4 года назад +2

      The algorithm has made it so (it's my next suggested video.)

  • @aze4308
    @aze4308 6 месяцев назад +90

    i love the implication that dan just cleaned a table silently before looking up, saying “and not just because she spoke french”, and going back to cleaning

  • @slipperynickels
    @slipperynickels Год назад +71

    i kinda love how long the "do urine-drinking diets" caption is on the screen before dan actually says it. the anticipation is wild.

  • @zelbinian
    @zelbinian 4 года назад +867

    Dunno how many folks are appreciating the planning it took to get that "And not just because she spoke French" response to the voice over but... this guy did.

    • @gateauxq4604
      @gateauxq4604 3 года назад +36

      I totally appreciated it! Ultimately probably not too hard to do in post but the added touch was appreciated

    • @SirRebrl
      @SirRebrl 3 года назад +35

      The video before and after that statement is accelerated, so I doubt it would be very challenging to position the statement at the correct point in the voice over audio, but it is a delight all the same.

    • @soupisfornoobs4081
      @soupisfornoobs4081 3 года назад +27

      @SandboxArrow so.. what, did you dig through the guy's subscriptions so you can make some comment on their political ideology? Very admirable, what can I say

    • @MesiterSode
      @MesiterSode 3 года назад +3

      My mind started grinding as soon as he responded to the voiceover.

    • @Cheezbuckets
      @Cheezbuckets 3 года назад +19

      @SandboxArrow Are you lost? You seem lost. Philosophy Tube has a top comment on this video. Philosophy Tube has top comments on several of Dan’s videos. Philosophy Tube and “leftism” in general is no stranger to Folding Ideas!

  • @skyclaw
    @skyclaw 4 года назад +459

    You can’t cook food on the Internet; it doesn’t get hot enough.

    • @LimeyLassen
      @LimeyLassen 4 года назад +37

      My modem could warm up a tortilla at least

    • @thrownstair
      @thrownstair 4 года назад +18

      If takes had energy we could use Twitter to flambé.

    • @GuerillaBunny
      @GuerillaBunny 4 года назад +34

      Also too much salt.

    • @amphioxusanniversary
      @amphioxusanniversary 4 года назад +17

      You haven't met my laptop

    • @horrorhotel1999
      @horrorhotel1999 3 года назад +5

      Think again: they are currently building a facility to pasteurize milk at my local server farm because they can use the waste heat of the internet to do so.
      The internet is responsible for more greenhouse gases than all of aerial traffic. There is some serious power being used by it

  • @cosmo2590
    @cosmo2590 3 года назад +299

    seeing that woman list all those ~incredible properties~ of açaí as a brazilian just hit different lmfao

    • @sycration
      @sycration Год назад +17

      I am an american with sefardic/ladino jewish brazilian parents and that part was very strange too. I remember being taken to a brazilian restaurant market in miami and having açaí na tigela as a kid!

    • @juniperrodley9843
      @juniperrodley9843 10 месяцев назад +12

      Not Brazilian or anything, but even I was listening to her say that and going "???? it's just a fruit???"

    • @L3X1N
      @L3X1N 6 месяцев назад +11

      @@juniperrodley9843 Y'know, if you wanna get technical, açaí really _does_ check about half of that list... just like most other fruits.

    • @juniperrodley9843
      @juniperrodley9843 6 месяцев назад +6

      ​@@L3X1Nikr? people go on about all the amazing health benefits of x or y food and I just sit here like "yeah, eating food tends to benefit you"

  • @jaicro89
    @jaicro89 3 года назад +2174

    i just want to say, that there is a Mexican cooking chanel called: "de mi rancho a tu cocina", is just an granny showing old cooking recipes and is one of the biggest cooking channels in the platform.... is awesome and as a latino it makes me proud.

    • @ClaudiaNW
      @ClaudiaNW 2 года назад +16

      It is a great channel!!

    • @Jlukecampos
      @Jlukecampos 2 года назад +28

      Thanks for the recommendation!

    • @lunayen
      @lunayen 2 года назад +2

      Yay?

    • @UnreasonableOpinions
      @UnreasonableOpinions 2 года назад +75

      I really enjoy old people recipes and cooking instructions, because most of them have the benefit of decades of experience and shortages of staple ingredients to be very effective at make-work recipes. Only have one pan? Cook in this order instead so you don't have to clean. Missing this ingredient? That one can substitute if you do it this way, and add this to make it taste right again. Have a terrible oven or cooktop with a low maximum temperature? Here's how to adjust. Don't worry about precise measures, just learn how to check the consistency as you go and you can add more or less at each step, except this one you want to be careful for.
      If I'm in a formal kitchen, the professional chef's recipe will work best. But if we're in a small house or out camping, the granny recipe will always be easier and better.

    • @deletedTestimony
      @deletedTestimony 2 года назад +17

      Now that's what I'm talking about. Thank God for the Abuelas

  • @tiagodarkpeasant
    @tiagodarkpeasant 4 года назад +1526

    as someone living in the place were Açaí comes from, it only gives energy, because it is heavy on calories and most people rest after eating it, it is rarely recommended to treat any disease, just for athletes, the legend around it comes from a tribe that survived a famine on Açaí alone

    • @elafimilo8199
      @elafimilo8199 3 года назад +157

      Yeah. That one probably didn't need a citation. 😂 "Boosting energy" is what food is for.

    • @peccantis
      @peccantis 3 года назад +192

      "Famine is survivable if you have this."
      "What is food?"

    • @phoenixfritzinger9185
      @phoenixfritzinger9185 3 года назад +28

      I just like it because I think açaí tastes good

    • @waltermays5551
      @waltermays5551 3 года назад +58

      Açai is a perfectly good ingredient, just like, any other fruit

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L 3 года назад +21

      god damn my mother bought so many overpriced packets of açai and goji berries

  • @spiderside3892
    @spiderside3892 4 года назад +439

    the pure existentialism you're able to infuse in nearly every video is awe-inspiring

    • @Kilroyan
      @Kilroyan 4 года назад +1

      just how I feel.

    • @Jonnywaffles64
      @Jonnywaffles64 4 года назад +3

      What about this is existential?

    • @FFKonoko
      @FFKonoko 4 года назад +15

      @@Jonnywaffles64 in the traditional sense of a philosophical theory or approach emphasizing individual people as free and responsible agents determining their own development through acts of the will?
      I suppose one could say he does treat people as free and responsible people that made these cooking shows the way they are through acts of will... but that's a huge stretch.
      But what Riordon probably meant to say is that the videos were instilling him with an existential crisis. IE making him question whether his life has meaning, purpose, or value, due to watching even these basic cooking shows get comprehensively broken down in ways he didn't expect.

    • @balls261
      @balls261 4 года назад +4

      @@FFKonoko Feels like people just throw that word around too much thee days. I think people often just use it as a synonym for intellectual or heady....

  • @redvelvetunderground
    @redvelvetunderground Год назад +154

    as someone who's experienced an overdose in her life it still mystifies me that activated charcoal drinks became such a craze at one point and people are still discovering the hard way that it negatively counteracts their medications asfsdfdfdsf

    • @sl5897
      @sl5897 10 месяцев назад +27

      YEAH and the trend is so strange because u can get the same color using black sesame, AND it adds an actual flavor too

  • @cofeejoe2882
    @cofeejoe2882 2 года назад +781

    As someone in a 3rd world country
    This hit hard. Every time i watch a cooking video i realize i rarely have half the ingredients needed available. My country has trouble importing foods and companies export all our best foods so we rarely have access to them...

    • @thesyclemonte6571
      @thesyclemonte6571 Год назад +3

      Wot like England?

    • @joshuaolian1245
      @joshuaolian1245 Год назад

      @rogerstheterrible what do you mean?

    • @visassess8607
      @visassess8607 Год назад +11

      @rogerstheterrible Pretty accessible to most Americans which is his demographic.

    • @ColonizerChan
      @ColonizerChan Год назад +5

      ​@@visassess8607
      This pretty much. Adam has lived in big cities in the south. Go bout an hour from town and it'll be something unrecognizable, sparce, and making stew out of squirrels which is pretty solid. Brunswick stew to be specific

    • @vash47
      @vash47 Год назад

      @@visassess8607 *white US males

  • @lousielouise8716
    @lousielouise8716 4 года назад +299

    One of my favorite food channels is
    “Chinese Cooking Demystified”. It breaks down the language barrier. I was often educated simply by knowing what ingredients go into complex dishes. It’s also cool to learn what ingredients you have in common with another culture’s food.

    • @IAmTheUltimateRuler
      @IAmTheUltimateRuler 4 года назад +24

      Yes! I was so happy to see them in here as a positive example.

    • @jolksjumbojemi
      @jolksjumbojemi 4 года назад +7

      absolutely a mine of knowledge they are, especially right now. love seeing appreciation for them.

    • @sweetpeabee4983
      @sweetpeabee4983 4 года назад +9

      ...i needed this recommendation so much as a wen mang lmao, thank you!! Now I can stop calling my mother every time I go to the Asian market like "I CAN'T READ ANYTHING HELP what should I buy???"

    • @TheSongwritingCat
      @TheSongwritingCat 4 года назад +25

      Because of the way a lot of cooking videos are filmed (disembodied hands, voiceover with occasional subtitles, recipe in the description) I've actually ended up watching more cooking videos that aren't in English. It's an interesting way that the format has helped break down the need for an English-speaking mediator to present recipes to a presumed English-speaking audience.

  • @SlendysWatchingMe
    @SlendysWatchingMe 4 года назад +472

    I had a Moment with the phrase "vegan celery" before I realized it was a joke.

    • @Aaron-kj8dv
      @Aaron-kj8dv 4 года назад +20

      I don't know if it was a joke, but I laughed out loud when I saw it. It's like when you see "gluten free" on vegetables or ice cream or something.

    • @ThexDynastxQueen
      @ThexDynastxQueen 4 года назад +11

      Same. I starting trying to figure out how could celery not already be Vegan then he made it into a pickle so I figured _"Oh I just read it wro-wait a minute Vegan Avocado?!!"_ then finally caught the joke.
      Thank goodness I never saw 5min craft videos and am too lazy to try them anyways lol.

    • @gateauxq4604
      @gateauxq4604 3 года назад +1

      And then my befuddlement at why he was pouring vinegar on it 🤦

    • @agihammerthief8953
      @agihammerthief8953 3 года назад +7

      I only eat non-vegan celery, it is anointed with blood when planted and burn offerings of a hundred cattle are made on the day of harvest, and every piece of celery is injected with a mixture of raw eggs

    • @aturchomicz821
      @aturchomicz821 3 года назад

      @@agihammerthief8953 lol www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCarnism/comments/iy6soy/plant_milk_is_weird_and_gross_id_rather_fondle/

  • @King24223
    @King24223 2 года назад +607

    Just going back through your older content after binging your NFT video three times, you really are one of the absolute best informative/deconstructive writers out there.
    Keep doing the work.

    • @coritymoszek849
      @coritymoszek849 2 года назад +30

      I also just discovered Dan’s channel after the NFT video. Isn’t it wild how he can make a 2+ hour video feel genuinely fun to watch, and not at all tedious?

    • @jkasturias
      @jkasturias 2 года назад +18

      Welcome to the community mate! Might I recommend Dan's video on Colonialism in Minecraft if you havent seen it yet. Really, really good!

    • @LadyShinga
      @LadyShinga 2 года назад +4

      I've been doing the same thing :D love all of this stuff, so much to see

    • @reagansido5823
      @reagansido5823 2 года назад +5

      Same, but I'm up to ten watches of the NFT video. goddamn is it addicting.

  • @absolutebunny
    @absolutebunny Год назад +201

    As far as food representation, the best example I can think of is trying to find vegetarian or vegan versions of recipes. They always assume that if you're not eating meat then you also want less fat, less carbs, and other diet culture practices. Like no Helen I didn't look up a homemade vegan corndog recipe to airfry it dammit just tell me how deep the oil needs to be

    • @moleperson
      @moleperson 9 месяцев назад +36

      Trueee. I’m tryna decrease my meat intake, not because I want to be healthy, but because I don’t like the taste of meat and I object morally to the meat industry. And let me tell you, unhealthy vegetarian/vegan food is weirdly hard to find? Like, just because I don’t want meat, doesn’t mean I’m opposed to feeling greasy when I eat.

    • @jellysecret
      @jellysecret 8 месяцев назад +45

      the worst one for me is when restaurants take out all the seasonings and flavor from their token vegan dish. im a vegetarian not a vampire, wheres the damn garlic!

    • @armleg
      @armleg 8 месяцев назад +26

      @@moleperson The only junk they'll serve to non-meat-eaters is goddamn falafel and I'm SICK OF IT. My pro tip is that a good and greased-up Indian restaurant will supply all the indulgent vegetarian junk food you could ever dream of. They served me a deep-fried mushroom once. And they have pakoras. Enough said.

    • @Stellafera
      @Stellafera 8 месяцев назад +5

      As someone trying to eat enough for a workout routine and transition to using less meat, the struggle is realll

    • @whosindee
      @whosindee 5 месяцев назад +7

      one inch of good quality peanut oil heated to 375 (use a candy or deep fryer thermometer) and jiffy cornbread mix made with plant based milk will have you swimming in corn dogs. add some elote seasoning to give it a little extra!

  • @frozenbean
    @frozenbean 4 года назад +333

    Back in uni, we had an elder from the nearby first nation come in and talk at length to our Canadian Art history class about the historical politics of fry bread. Concurrently, the Harper goverment were slowly dismantling the Truth & Reconciliation talks. I haven't been able to eat it since.

    • @levierina
      @levierina 4 года назад +18

      Is there like an article or video on the subject? Maybe not only about this dish but generally about politics of cuisine of first nation and other indigenous peoples?

    • @gateauxq4604
      @gateauxq4604 4 года назад +14

      But hey Trudeau ‘fixed it’!!!
      And now we’re just giving them covid-filledblankets with no lne of the healthcare the US govt promised HEYOOOO
      North America really deserves to burn just for the govt treatment of the native populations. We’re hot garbage for it. The US constantly breaking ‘permanent’ treaties is absurd and nauseating.

    • @gateauxq4604
      @gateauxq4604 4 года назад +24

      Levierina a basic google search will net a lot of results but ‘first nations canada reconciliation’ is a good place to start, as is looking up the recipes from the 1800s
      Native people were forced to create after being forced into reservations and being given government rations. Trading buffalo and berries for white flour and whatever other scraps the government gave them in the name of expansionism (and taking native lands away from the people who lived there) is really disgusting; all of it really but the story of how frybread was made is one example of many about how they have worked hard to adapt despite so much white brutality towards their people.

    • @KawlinRolfe
      @KawlinRolfe 4 года назад +29

      As an indigenous person, with lot's of family still living in 'res', I'll confirm that it is still a staple snack/dessert. It's cheap to make, and goes great with honey or maple syrup. It's still a huge part of general culture (in terms of diet/culinary cuisine) for a lot of communities.
      That ramble is just a way to say, I see it as a food that is great to support.
      Fun fact: I found out that in Eskasoni Cape Breton, they sometimes refer to it as 'four-cent'. Cape Breton was primarily a mining community/port of call being Sydney, and a fairly isolated/northern location, meant that people used rationed items to make easy-to-disperse foods. 'Four-cent' was a bread that could be bought or sold for about four cents. It's basically bannock, maybe closer to scones but quite similar. (Originally from NWT, now living on the east coast.)

    • @frozenbean
      @frozenbean 4 года назад +10

      @@KawlinRolfe For sure - it's more that bannock is associated with a really awful time and experience in my life and can't eat it at all anymore. A large part of the discussion was the health concerns in displaced communities here on the west coast, like heart conditions and diabetes. It was eye opening to me, since part of my family is Mi'kmaq, and I hadn't really heard anyone talk about that stuff before then. I remember bannock being great with maple syrup though.

  • @krmillustrations512
    @krmillustrations512 4 года назад +312

    Re: the video that showed rubbing soap into a nail hole...that's a cheapie college trick for spackling a hole without the spackle
    Will it last? No.
    Will it last long enough to get your security deposit back? Probably?

  • @KarmaSwiss
    @KarmaSwiss 2 года назад +89

    The comedic timing with that drinking pee bit is exactly why I subbed to this channel

    • @bottyhammer
      @bottyhammer 11 месяцев назад +17

      And it's not cooking - it's just taking the piss

    • @vonriel1822
      @vonriel1822 11 месяцев назад +5

      @@bottyhammer Oh, _you._

  • @merchantarthurn
    @merchantarthurn 3 года назад +124

    "Bon Appetite is unlikely to-" oh this aged well huh

  • @VestaBlackclaw
    @VestaBlackclaw 3 года назад +496

    "Bon Appetit wouldn't do something controversial"
    Maybe not the chefs, but hooo boy...their editor in chief......

    • @ngominh259
      @ngominh259 2 года назад +11

      Honestly he gives off that smug vibes every clip. Glad to see everyone is happier now.

    • @honeycatacomb1191
      @honeycatacomb1191 2 года назад +1

      FE3H!!!

    • @moleperson
      @moleperson 9 месяцев назад +1

      Wait what happened??

    • @VestaBlackclaw
      @VestaBlackclaw 9 месяцев назад +16

      @@moleperson Few things tbh. One of the initial controversies was their editor in chief, Adam Rapoport, was caught in brownface at a party, and then things spiralled. It turned out that they weren't paying their employees of color fairly, and having them do major camera appearances for way way less than the white guest chefs. White chefs were more likely to land exclusive shows on the channel, and many employees of color were underpaid and harassed. Pretty sure they also removed sections from their cookbook publications that included ethnic recipes. Conde Nast VP also turned out to be racist and homophobic and resigned along with Rapoport. Bunch of big names from the channel - like Gabby, Priya, and Claire - left and made their own channels. Like, so many people left that they had to restructure the channel. Apparently they recently unionized which is a good step, but it still doesn't seem like they've addressed the core issue that wound up gutting them.

    • @moleperson
      @moleperson 9 месяцев назад +9

      @@VestaBlackclaw Damnnn, that’s serious stuff. I mean glad that it got exposed, since now the people affected could have an easier time standing up for themselves, but still horrible that it happened :(

  • @okayjay997
    @okayjay997 4 года назад +1175

    It's funny you mention Bon appetit at this moment. They're boycotting the head of their company right now for racial discrimination lmao. Hindsight though, this video is from last month.

    • @anisaerah
      @anisaerah 3 года назад +25

      I'm glad that I saw this comment when I went looking for it

    • @AnaMaria-wt3ix
      @AnaMaria-wt3ix 3 года назад +60

      And now all the poc creators have quit the RUclips channel. That escalated rather quickly.

    • @Matt_the_pirate
      @Matt_the_pirate 3 года назад +41

      Ikr, I'm watching this sometime after I watched The Collapse of Bon Apetit by Jack Saint. Funny indeed.

    • @greenyawgmoth
      @greenyawgmoth 3 года назад +20

      I got to 2:44 and thought "man, that aged poorly." With everything Adam Rappaport (and Conde Nast in general) has done and continues to do to be as BIPOC-unfriendly as possible, they may as well be baking pies in the shape of swastikas.

    • @SarahBoyd1
      @SarahBoyd1 3 года назад +30

      What the video didn't discuss directly but something that I deeply appreciate is the filming in a messy kitchen at the end. Making housework invisible and setting unrealistic standards for home interiors, both serve a particular worldview. Nice to have that casually recognized as well.

  • @acetrigger1337
    @acetrigger1337 3 года назад +58

    i watched enough Alton Brown to know that there are two types of "Food Shows":
    >one that values food for the look
    >one that values food for the taste

  • @williamaitken7533
    @williamaitken7533 2 года назад +172

    I LOVE the fact that you featured Food Wishes, Chinese Cooking Demystified, and J. Townsend in this video.
    I learned like 95% of what I know from watching Food Wishes. It's the channel I ALWAYS recommend to new cooks because it's real food you can actually make (and should make!). Chinese Cooking Demystified opened my eyes to an entire cuisine that is basically unapproachable from a suburban American perspective. And the historical element of 18th century cooking makes me appreciative of the advances we've made (and also has given me some useful tricks for cooking while camping!)

    • @botondhetyey159
      @botondhetyey159 Год назад +5

      The cooking series that got me into cooking is Life of Boris on youtube. Admittedly he is a comedy channel, but his recipes are very great and authentic, and since he is like, just some guy, he also cooks in a way you or I would.
      E.g. in one of his recipes, he points out that you can make the whole dish using just a single pot, which makes it great for students, who often don't have more.

    • @sycration
      @sycration Год назад +1

      I am not sure what you mean by 'suburban american'. does the recipe change depending on where you make it?

    • @williamaitken7533
      @williamaitken7533 Год назад +6

      @@sycration I live in a place where the only Chinese restaurants are "takeout Chinese". The Chinese food that people in China eat is pretty different! Before I watched Chinese Cooking Demystified, I really had no way to approach the cuisine. It's a lot of flavors and ingredients that I had never experienced before in America.
      So really it's that their channel helped me learn about food that was totally foreign to me.

    • @michaelmcnally1242
      @michaelmcnally1242 Год назад +5

      "Souped Up Recipes" has great Chinese videos (in English), "Pailin's Kitchen" for Thai, and of course "Maangchi" for Korean food. Personally the crazy videos with blue food etc seem dumb to me and not worth my time; I just want the food.

    • @ppppppqqqppp
      @ppppppqqqppp Год назад +4

      ​@@sycration it literally does actually.
      Different places have different ingredients available, and the even same ingredient from two different geographical locations will often be quite different.

  • @Allstarchickensuit
    @Allstarchickensuit 4 года назад +210

    Dan mentioning How to Cook That is the weird crossover I needed tbh - her videos are great and her entire thing is favouring fact and quality over quick entertainment. Watching her videos made me think differently about cooking - just like watching Dan's has changed the way I look at Media

    • @nadiabishop5650
      @nadiabishop5650 4 года назад +4

      This comment made me think of other weird cross overs that my.... ummm diverse subscription list could produce 😂

    • @TheAlison1456
      @TheAlison1456 4 года назад

      I might like that channel then. Well, I'm assuming the channel is less about just recipes and more about cooking. Cuz I'm sick of 'informational' cooking channels that are just recipes, which is a big reason why I don't care to watch them.
      - Sigh, it was just recipes. Plus it's mostly candy!

    • @Spamhard
      @Spamhard 4 года назад +4

      @@TheAlison1456 They do several videos debunking the "food hacks" type videos, and also call them out on how extremely dangerous a lot of them are. But the bulk of their content is really good cakes and baking. She's a wizard when it comes to making super cool looking desserts and cakes. It's a good channel because it's just a small family run one with surprisingly high quality and production, where they focus on quality over quantity. She's even admitted herself that youtube screws over their channel because they can't compete with producing as many videos as the algorithm expects and can't compete with the cooking channels that have huge budgets behind them and can churn out content almost daily. They're definitely worth a watch!

  • @BobHoss4
    @BobHoss4 4 года назад +217

    Watching aluminum foil get put in the microwave gave me a small stroke, well done

    • @penguinpingu3807
      @penguinpingu3807 2 года назад +9

      That's is something that 5 minutes craft will certainly do. Like bleaching a strawberry to make it white.

    • @Polymeron
      @Polymeron 2 года назад +3

      @@penguinpingu3807 And there was the one mixing strawberries with razor blades. Because who doesn't want to accidentally swallow a razor blade...

  • @fntthesmth423
    @fntthesmth423 2 года назад +39

    "A pizza pop is just a tiny calzone" is the extent of my knowledge of pizza pops

    • @fresanegra77
      @fresanegra77 4 месяца назад

      And a calzone could be called an empanada, cheburek, dumpling, or anything of the sorts really

  • @whatsthisidonteven
    @whatsthisidonteven 2 года назад +85

    I'd watch a cooking show by Dan Olson.
    I'd also watch a dish-washing show by Dan Olson.

  • @aberrantwhimsy
    @aberrantwhimsy 4 года назад +303

    ...if a pizza pocket is a tiny calzone, does that mean pizza rolls are the tiniest calzones?

    • @SamRandolph
      @SamRandolph 4 года назад +24

      This is like the expanding brain meme, but backwards and for pizza dumplings.

    • @fortheloveofketchup
      @fortheloveofketchup 4 года назад +17

      [ben wyatt intensifies]

    • @amphioxusanniversary
      @amphioxusanniversary 4 года назад +2

      No those are burritos

    • @sockatume
      @sockatume 4 года назад +5

      The scientific term is calzino.

    • @alexandercrews1194
      @alexandercrews1194 4 года назад +4

      Tell me this: What is a pizza pocket? Put your hand in your pocket. Does it feel like pizza in there? No, because it's not the same.

  • @somedragonbastard
    @somedragonbastard 4 года назад +74

    Listening to the bit about fried bread made me think of a project I did for my baking class. We had to write 2 papers, one on a foreign country's food culture (I did Pakistan) and one on American food culture. As I was writing, it got me thinking about why so many American staples are high in fat and carbohydrates, with less vegetables, and then it hit me. *People could afford fat and flour.* Especially in the south, you see these foods made from cheap ingredients because people were too poor to afford even to grow vegetables and keep animals like chickens. That's why biscuits, mashed potatoes, cornbread, and other similar foods are so damn common. People make what they can afford.

  • @DarkSoulsSauron
    @DarkSoulsSauron 3 года назад +126

    and he turned himself into a vegan celery. funniest shit i've ever seen

  • @marafolse8347
    @marafolse8347 3 года назад +18

    The huge pause to look existentially into the distance after the urine drinking guy had me giggling to no END

  • @midgelywid
    @midgelywid 4 года назад +88

    Glad you mentioned Ann Reardon. Her videos on the subject of false and even potentially dangerous craft/cooking videos churned out by shady companies are instructive, scientific, level-headed, and always well researched.

  • @xerk2945
    @xerk2945 4 года назад +412

    I love Townsends so much. I think they're kind of brilliant because the spectacle is huge, but the recipes themselves can usually be made quite simply with modern day equipment.

    • @odiousmelodious2410
      @odiousmelodious2410 2 года назад +14

      my ex wouldn't watch Townsends with me bc of the outfits. She just said she can't and mumbled something about white people

    • @ipodhty
      @ipodhty 2 года назад +54

      @@odiousmelodious2410 which is funny since he has actually done really interesting videos with a expert about the food of the enslaved

    • @drunkenfarmerjohn42
      @drunkenfarmerjohn42 2 года назад +26

      With noting, the cooking stuff is a side project. Townsend's bread and butter is the reenactment and theatre community. The cooking really is just a passion project of one of their people.

  • @0shadowbadger
    @0shadowbadger 3 года назад +14

    When he started playing the food show clips I instinctively looked for the skip ad button for youtube on my phone.

  • @tommys20
    @tommys20 Год назад +46

    Finally. After all these years, they made a vegan avocado, and a vegan cellery!

  • @TheLittleLostLamb
    @TheLittleLostLamb 4 года назад +1648

    The most furstrating thing about wellness videos is that they perfectly resonate how health and capitalism do not coincide. I have a chronic health condition which currently can only be appeased with strict dietary measures, it is hell to try to navigate because different companies and independent creators want to make it seem like every product they advertise can cure all. I already have a brainfog ontop all my other symptoms, so navigating what is actually healthy and what is advertised as healthy but will not help my problem is hell. Plus, all of this stuff is incredibly expensive, the amounts of times i have spent 20 euros on a product (food or suppliment) only for it to make me sicker is endless. This industry literally thrives off confusing chronically ill people and giving abled people a "holier than thou" complex.

    • @SirArthurTheGreat
      @SirArthurTheGreat 3 года назад +64

      I’m not sure of what your condition is but I sympathize with your plight. I have ADHD which is less restrictive, but opened my eyes to the confusing world of nootropics and supplements. There are so many chemicals without FDA regulated claims, so many that could do immense good or harm depending on tons of variables. At least it makes mindfulness easier the note aware I become of how complex biochemistry is lol

    • @bencebaranyi6910
      @bencebaranyi6910 3 года назад +13

      yes the problem with cooking is capitalism, because under communism your niche disease would be perfectly catered to

    • @SirArthurTheGreat
      @SirArthurTheGreat 3 года назад +158

      @@bencebaranyi6910 hey, there’s more than two economic theories dumbass

    • @jaymiddleton1782
      @jaymiddleton1782 3 года назад +192

      @@bencebaranyi6910 “hey this problem with capitalism can’t exist because communism is bad.”

    • @tinyetoile5503
      @tinyetoile5503 3 года назад +70

      @@SirArthurTheGreat It's so strange how doctors will sometimes neglect to tell patients about dietary restrictions they need to make while on certain meds too- I had to learn that vitamin C can interfere with ADHD meds from the internet!

  • @Electroporcupine
    @Electroporcupine 3 года назад +56

    Man, he released this just barely in time to miss Bon Appetit's implosion.

  • @Mono789
    @Mono789 2 года назад +30

    You had me dying of laughter when you put an avocado wrapped in foil into the microwave. Way to poke fun at those type of videos.

  • @karfsma778
    @karfsma778 4 года назад +175

    00:35 "you can use a clean plate, but it's just not the same" Look. I'm gonna have to ask you to take down this directed personal assault

  • @fangirlfortheages5940
    @fangirlfortheages5940 4 года назад +363

    “I drank my own urine every single day for two years.”
    I think it is absolutely a food video. It’s his diet!

    • @rekindle7602
      @rekindle7602 4 года назад +42

      But urine is definitely not vegan. It's an animal product!

    • @sycastells1212
      @sycastells1212 4 года назад +4

      But is it a cooking video?

    • @renaissancewoman3770
      @renaissancewoman3770 4 года назад +7

      @@rekindle7602 it's vegan if it's his own urine and he consents to him drinking it right?

    • @ProjectThunderclaw
      @ProjectThunderclaw 4 года назад +13

      @@renaissancewoman3770 not all vegans are vegan strictly on moral grounds, and those that are don't necessarily base their morals on choice or suffering.
      For example, quite a few vegans believe that animal products contain "toxins" that will damage their bodies, or have some kind of (pseudo-)religious belief that those foods are spiritually tainted.
      Environmental concerns are also common, although I don't think that would prevent you from drinking your own piss unless there's some subtlety if waste management I'm unaware of.
      Or they might just be absolutists for practical reasons. It's easier to follow a dietary guideline to the letter than to waste time parsing the ethical and physical ramifications of each individual ingredient
      (P.s. I'm sorry I used this many words to explain that piss is not vegan)

    • @yudithcaron8053
      @yudithcaron8053 4 года назад

      He didn't cook it or prep it in any way. That's not a cooking video. More like a wellness video or a "Brad Tries" kind of video.

  • @melissahughes4205
    @melissahughes4205 3 года назад +63

    Folding Ideas: mentions the politics of food
    Me: remembers the kerfuffle when Townsends made an orange fool

    • @bluexephosfan970
      @bluexephosfan970 3 года назад +2

      Oh? I cant imagine Townsend's being controversial, what happened?

    • @RTGell
      @RTGell 3 года назад +19

      There’s an episode filmed at Mt Vernon about a desert called an Orange Fool and people assumed it was about Then-President Trump because of his, well, kind of orange skin tone.
      In fact, it was just about a desert that George Washington may have had.

    • @kaithosmer3494
      @kaithosmer3494 3 года назад +20

      His disapointment in his audience in the followup was heartbreaking. Sometimes historical food is just food

  • @AntiVectorTV
    @AntiVectorTV 2 года назад +30

    He didn't show the full footage of his cola can opening because it unfortunately resulted in a pickle.

  • @alicesonorbe1762
    @alicesonorbe1762 4 года назад +323

    As an avid watcher of food related RUclips content, there are some channels that I watch for the ~lack~ of spectacle. They’re soothing. Chef John from Food Wishes and Adam Ragusea make cooking feel accessible- their personalities are part of the draw, but it’s not because they’re super dynamic, it’s because they’re grounded.

    • @captainjoy8976
      @captainjoy8976 3 года назад +7

      Have you ever seen Adam liaw? He's very knowledgeable and it's like watching someone reading a beautiful bedtime story to you :D

    • @GuiiSanttoss
      @GuiiSanttoss 3 года назад +49

      Internet Shaquille is another great example.
      I'd wager his videos fit the 3 pillars, in fact.

    • @AndromedaD
      @AndromedaD 3 года назад +41

      You Suck at Cooking is one of the most accessable cooking channel I've found. It's high spectacle, but he also used a lot of easier recipes that use stuff you probably have in your home.

    • @mageyeah7763
      @mageyeah7763 3 года назад +28

      Chef John..... two videos a week for 14 years....

    • @iprobablyforgotsomething
      @iprobablyforgotsomething 2 года назад +7

      The YT versions of Bob Ross, eh?

  • @sonicthehedgegod
    @sonicthehedgegod 4 года назад +110

    RIP Auntie Fee, my favorite fucking youtube cook - she’s definitely worth mentioning because she went fairly viral and completely avoided the form of almost all other food-related content. if only she lived a little longer she’d be dominating the food channel market rn tbh, cuz i feel like food and cooking channels really took over youtube completely JUST after her passing. She dodged a lot of the complications of filming by just skipping them altogether and just having the most raw and direct presentation possible. Very few creators have tried to follow in her footsteps, and those that have (while still good) clearly wear her influence on their sleeve. I miss her presence on here so much tbh.

  • @TalysAlankil
    @TalysAlankil 3 года назад +8

    fun fact about that marie antoinette aside: in french the urban legend is that she said "qu'ils mangent de la brioche" (let them eat brioche), which at least makes more sense as an alternative to bread. But if memory serves, "let them eat cake" actually came first, because the whole thing was made up anyway.

  • @ericamays5434
    @ericamays5434 2 года назад +26

    I'm rewatching this and honestly, I never caught how much fun Dan was having with the editing

  • @Nagoragama
    @Nagoragama 4 года назад +87

    I love BrutalMoose's cooking videos, whether he's cooking and trying various frozen dinners or cooking weird recipes from old 70's cookbooks. He's got wacky editing and a fun personality that makes every one of them fun to watch.

    • @4dultw1thj0b
      @4dultw1thj0b 4 года назад +13

      He's such a delight!

    • @jolksjumbojemi
      @jolksjumbojemi 4 года назад +8

      brutalmoose is a treasure, wish he embraced food videos more often

    • @Wet-Milk
      @Wet-Milk 4 года назад +12

      @@jolksjumbojemi eh i love them too but he has talked about how he doesnt want to get burned out by doing a single thing like he did with game reviews a while ago. He really enjoys the variety and i enjoy them too

  • @samanthajr4648
    @samanthajr4648 4 года назад +530

    I literally just handed in a term paper where I discussed content farms like Blossom and Five Minute Crafts in terms of Jameson's ideas of late capitalism and Adorno's ideas of the culture industry. So imagine my shock when this comes up the day after I email it to my professor.

    • @ninawth
      @ninawth 3 года назад +1

      Were you happy with your grade?

    • @samanthajr4648
      @samanthajr4648 3 года назад +49

      @@ninawth Yeah, actually! My professor even suggested I try to get it published 😱

    • @heatweve
      @heatweve 3 года назад +8

      i'd really like to read it

    • @montymcgee7087
      @montymcgee7087 3 года назад +5

      I'd like to read this too, if it's convenient for you to share

    • @rozaduck
      @rozaduck 3 года назад +9

      If you do get it published, that sounds like an interesting read.

  • @absolutebunny
    @absolutebunny Год назад +5

    18:06 doing the "presentation hands" gesture after taking the pickle out of the microwave is fucking sending me

  • @Default78334
    @Default78334 2 года назад +39

    That bit on the three pillars explains pretty much exactly what happened to Joshua Weissman's channel. His recipes have always been pretty rigorous though perhaps a bit too reflective of his time in fine dining and a bit more involved than most home cooks are interested in trying on their own. As the channel grew, he realized that most of his audience had little to no interest in actually cooking for themselves, and preferred instead to watch him flex and meme, so he leaned hard into the personality and spectacle. The information content is still good, but that's not really what 90% of his audience is there for.
    Edit: and conversely why Glen and Friends had so much trouble getting traction. Glen doesn't lean much on spectacle and his most popular videos are his most "spectacular" (recreating Coca-Cola and recreating the original KFC recipe).

  • @PhilosophyTube
    @PhilosophyTube 4 года назад +2377

    Rosencrantz and Guildenstern references? Ah, a man of culture I see

    • @soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342
      @soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342 4 года назад +28

      Lol you wonderful man you.

    • @Nick0Kyuubi0Narion
      @Nick0Kyuubi0Narion 4 года назад +44

      Philosophy Tube came down here looking for this and of course it's the thespian who caught it

    • @FaceofEvil6
      @FaceofEvil6 4 года назад +22

      Was wondering who would comment on it first and of course it's Abby

    • @jackgude3969
      @jackgude3969 4 года назад +17

      As an idiot... can someone point out the reference?

    • @Nick0Kyuubi0Narion
      @Nick0Kyuubi0Narion 4 года назад +37

      @@jackgude3969 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, by Tom Stoppard. There's a film version with Tim Roth and Gary Oldman and by gar I am too gay not to mention it.

  • @abramthiessen8749
    @abramthiessen8749 4 года назад +126

    The history of Bannock is interesting. I didn't know that they were made ubiquitous due to rations.
    It is also a minor note that in the Territories, we don't exactly have reserves, we have communities. However, the more I research it and think of it from experience, the communities are actually very similar to reserves. The communities, were also often created when people were forcibly resettled with false promises (see treaties), but usually not to remove them from more valuable land and put them out of sight, but rather to keep them in place so that they would be easier to control and assimilate (see residential schools). Or for arctic sovereignty.

    • @timothymclean
      @timothymclean 3 года назад +4

      The difference is that "communities" isn't a word used to designate areas which we've left untouched for the animals and such.
      Not sure how much to read into that. Or _what_ to read into that.

    • @GladiusTR
      @GladiusTR 3 года назад +10

      That's just cultural genocide with a friendlier name

    • @lesliefrancis8307
      @lesliefrancis8307 2 года назад +2

      Yellowknifer here. Nice to see more northerners in the comments

  • @julianlaresch6266
    @julianlaresch6266 Год назад +27

    I like to watch tasting history with max Miller because he goes into the historical and political context of the foods that he prepares as well as trying to the best of his ability to obtain authentic ingredients

  • @c-5921
    @c-5921 3 года назад +23

    I wanna shout out De Mi Rancho a Tu Cocina. Even if you don't speak Spanish, you can still follow the recipes because there's no measurements. Just a grandma making food for her family almost in real time.

  • @1980rlquinn
    @1980rlquinn 4 года назад +28

    I'm surprised YSAC didn't get a mention. It's always a delightfully self-aware cooking adventure.

  • @MegCazalet
    @MegCazalet 4 года назад +191

    Ann Reardon’s 200-year-old cake recipe was FASCINATING. I love her videos, she and Dave have a great variety of clever concepts, but best of all, they have an adorable relationship.

    • @SandersChicken
      @SandersChicken 2 года назад +2

      Ann Reardon is amazing

    • @benny_lemon5123
      @benny_lemon5123 2 года назад +1

      I love her stuff, and Dave is such a champ for taste testing all her cooking debunks lol

  • @bobafettjr85
    @bobafettjr85 Год назад +6

    18:02 I was genuinely mind boggled because you did such a great job at the satire I didn't immediately recognize that it was your microwave.

  • @Red-yt2dk
    @Red-yt2dk Год назад +32

    Tasting History with Max Miller seems like the show that best does all these things.

    • @sycration
      @sycration Год назад

      cultural appropriation of ancient babylon

    • @Red-yt2dk
      @Red-yt2dk Год назад +3

      bro what

    • @sycration
      @sycration Год назад

      @@Red-yt2dk how iz ze weather in Moscow, comrade?

    • @farkasmactavish
      @farkasmactavish 4 месяца назад +2

      ​@@sycrationIronically, as someone adapting a tall people joke, you're the one who's clearly high.

  • @seatheparade
    @seatheparade 4 года назад +557

    I love How to Cook That and am so glad you pointed out her investigative vids (and her own baking/cooking vids)! I have mad respect for anyone who tries to be as truthful/accurate as possible since this platforma dn social media in general constantly rewards misinformation. In this time, that's a conscious choice and a struggle for so many, especially in the food media industry

    • @kevinwells9751
      @kevinwells9751 3 года назад +34

      I also love How to Cook That, Anne does a great job of balancing information and spectacle. She is very talented at making incredible and strange looking cakes/cookies/etc., but also talks about how things are actually done, does the great investigative videos, and many other interesting off shoots.

    • @mrlapageisyourman
      @mrlapageisyourman 3 года назад +6

      @@kevinwells9751 I'd also like to add that Ann has a great personality as well. I find her very charming.

    • @maymay2769
      @maymay2769 3 года назад +5

      Its a shame she strayed from her original content, not my cup of tea anymore but at least she found some success

  • @NekoJesusPie
    @NekoJesusPie 4 года назад +283

    Girl. I learned to cook from Townsend’s. I love that channel to death and most of what I cook is 18th century. It also exists in a highly political environment and may the good lord have mercy on the poor soul who reads his comments of weird white suppremacists who get mad when slaves are mentioned in a channel about early American history. I make his sourdough from leven at least once week.

    • @duffman18
      @duffman18 4 года назад +98

      Yeah he got a lot of shit in the comments on a video where he made some recipe that was called like "The Big Orange" or something. Loads of morons were like "omg why are you shitting on the President, Hilary lost, get over it". When it was just a recipe that used a lot of orange in it, a recipe made centuries ago. It's ridiculous, they see attacks wherever they look, and invent them out of nothing at all. Townsend is just a really nice guy who likes historical reenactment and cooking, he's like the Bob Ross of ancient recipes

    • @JackgarPrime
      @JackgarPrime 4 года назад +23

      Is that the one shown in here with the guy dressed in colonial garb? I have no exposure at all to cooking youtube, but that one seemed interesting to me.

    • @kattkatt744
      @kattkatt744 4 года назад +37

      @@JackgarPrime Yes, Townsends is the one in colonial garb. It's a lovely show that really does history justice.

    • @CanalTremocos
      @CanalTremocos 4 года назад +36

      let me add to this Townsend's appreciation thread. I love how while every other channel tries to hide it's corporate nature Townsends's own's it and uses it as a plus. In that regard, it's oddly similar to Bon Appétit.

    • @geckovonparsley8200
      @geckovonparsley8200 4 года назад +24

      @@duffman18 It was the "orange fool", right? (fool being a type of custard, if I recall correctly)

  • @Xamag
    @Xamag Год назад +8

    I want you to know that it's been 2 years but I still come back to the segment at 18:03 because the visual comedy of putting pickle rick into a microwave and getting out a real pickle lives in my brain rent free. I can't hear people talk about shitty craft videos without flashing back to this and cracking up. Flawless.

  • @bigmackdombles6348
    @bigmackdombles6348 6 месяцев назад +3

    Waiting 13 seconds to break the silence starting at 7:53 was brilliant. I laughed really hard somewhere in there. Thanks for that.

  • @catharticreverie
    @catharticreverie 4 года назад +316

    as an asian person, i really love how goji berries have essentially been gentrified by the white wellness industry and made them like so much more expensive

    • @bumblebramblebranch
      @bumblebramblebranch 4 года назад +87

      I thought it was funny (in a sad way) how where I live (Sweden) goji berries became trendy as a superfood not only amongst people who think they're into wellness, but also those who you can barely say hi to before they start talking about how environmentally conscious they are and that if you don't adhere to their way of living you're personally responsible for global climate change. like ok so instead of picking blueberries in the forest next to where you live, you bought berries from the other side of the world??? genius

    • @hannavignolo6454
      @hannavignolo6454 4 года назад +45

      this is capitalism and racism at its core

    • @GuerillaBunny
      @GuerillaBunny 4 года назад +7

      @@bumblebramblebranch To be fair, transportation, when done right, is a fairly small part of the total environmental impact of a product, including food. I don't know if goji berries fall into that category, though. As a dried product they might.

    • @bumblebramblebranch
      @bumblebramblebranch 4 года назад +41

      ​@@GuerillaBunny it might be so but it's completely unnecessary in this case as people weren't buying them because they loved the flavor but because they contain a lot of vitamin c, just like blueberries that grow all over the country and anyone is allowed to pick them in any forest. so for those who pretend to be so environmentally friendly they could've cut down that co2 emission by a 100%

    • @GuerillaBunny
      @GuerillaBunny 4 года назад +7

      @@bumblebramblebranch In the case of their vitamin C supply, sure. But when it's something like beans vs. meat as a source of protein, beans will beat meat regardless of the distance, when done right (ie. cargo ships). Environmentalism can be pretty complicated, but you're right, in the case of one berry versus another, it's pretty simple.

  • @mendali
    @mendali 4 года назад +62

    Elsa Frozen Superfood Joker Eats Charcoal Acai Burger with Batman

    • @tangothembo8198
      @tangothembo8198 4 года назад +12

      I flashed through all stages of grief 2 1/2 times finally landing on depression, then doing a hard left turn into denial. Have a nice day.

    • @amphioxusanniversary
      @amphioxusanniversary 4 года назад +5

      Wait - is Batman on the burger or eating the burger?

    • @blarg2429
      @blarg2429 4 года назад +5

      @@amphioxusanniversary Yes. Both.

  • @Eyasgea
    @Eyasgea 3 года назад +23

    I really enjoy the simple homemade cooking videos, sometimes you just want a cheap and easy cheesecake recipe not a 50min video with gold flakes as finishing touches

  • @purple-flowers
    @purple-flowers Год назад +2

    I love Kenji Lopez-Alt's cooking videos bc he's cooking in real time with a gopro on his head.

  • @nerveagent1905
    @nerveagent1905 4 года назад +206

    Who DOESN'T leave the kettle on?
    What if company comes over?

    • @Lomky
      @Lomky 4 года назад +9

      where else would it even go?!

    • @CaffeinatedBecca
      @CaffeinatedBecca 4 года назад +21

      Who puts a kettle in a cabinet? Kettles belong on stove tops or counters if they're electric

    • @eimazd
      @eimazd 4 года назад +7

      During quarantine? They'd better not!

    • @WlatPziupp
      @WlatPziupp 4 года назад +19

      I keep at least 9 liters of water consistently boiling just in case I ever get visitors. Hasn't happened in 8 years, but who knows!?

    • @steinistein8611
      @steinistein8611 4 года назад +8

      @@WlatPziupp the day you take it off the visitors will come, it's a law of physic!

  • @BigGhilz
    @BigGhilz 4 года назад +86

    Oh man I love John Townsends' videos and Chef John, glad of the nod you gave them. Great video too. Gave me a lot to think about as someone who watches ALOT of cooking videos.

    • @erraticonteuse
      @erraticonteuse 4 года назад +26

      Townsends is also great because he's doing both history and honestly just trying to run his local business. And as someone who grew up going between Colonial Williamsburg and, like, all of Boston, I love that kind of kitschy 18-century crap, so I'm glad there's at least one whole store in the Midwest that's staying open due to RUclips.

    • @Aaron-kj8dv
      @Aaron-kj8dv 4 года назад +2

      I never saw Townsend but he looks fun and I'll check him out and Chef John kicks ass

  • @desflat
    @desflat 3 года назад +20

    Rewatching this video after watching Jack Saint's video on Bob Appétit hits different

  • @cookies23z
    @cookies23z 2 года назад +4

    I love how the pause right after "I drank my own urine for 2 years" is just enough for me to find the contemplation funny, then calm myself down a bit.

  • @vit78ify
    @vit78ify 4 года назад +160

    I think it says something that the first thing I thought when I read the title was "oh, this video will be about Bon Appetit". I don't know what it says, not even if it's about me, about youtube or about society in general, but it definetely says something.

    • @penname8441
      @penname8441 4 года назад +16

      Same. I thought this would be analysis of Bon Appetit and tbh I would've been very okay with watching that video.

    • @chancehosler1503
      @chancehosler1503 4 года назад +28

      The part where he eats the pizza pop is a pretty big reference to bon appetit's 'every way to cook a (blank)' series- he talks abt the food exactly how that guy does

    • @seanthebluesheep
      @seanthebluesheep 4 года назад +27

      Broadly speaking it probably says that BA is a powerhouse in the youtube cooking channel sphere. With the backing of a separate revenue stream from the magazine, they (and Conde Nast in general, including Epicurious, GQ, Wired, Vanity Fair and them.) are able to devote resources including filming crews, editors, professional spaces, equipment, and even multiple hosts. This allows them to push out content at a rate that comes closer to the content farms that shovel consumable impulse or anger fueled material than anyone else is really able.
      Along with strong brand relations, professional quality SEO, and content producers with years, even decades of experience, they have created a community for themselves such that they're one of the first cooking channels you might think of.

    • @dogmouthhorse
      @dogmouthhorse 4 года назад +2

      i mean you werent really wrong!!!! first thing we got was a reference to amiels videos!!

    • @WarMomPT
      @WarMomPT 4 года назад +9

      It's kinda a reflection of culture at large. I've been watching BA Test Kitchen for a few years and it was a real 'wait, what' moment when I started seeing compilations, gifs, memes and a 'Bon Appetit fandom posting in the style of tumblr' happen.
      ...Dear god, am I a hipster? 'I was watching It's Alive before people made Brad gifs'?

  • @emmaghows3841
    @emmaghows3841 4 года назад +211

    I feel like you've read my mind. There was a channel that popped up in my feed that featured a 5-minute chocolate cake with " No Oven, No Eggs, No Butter, No Milk, No Cake Pan." And the perfect cake in the thumbnail even has a mirror glaze sort of thing going on. The video has 10 million views. I watched half the video, and nope, I have absolutely no faith that that cake is supposed to taste good. And of course, with the pandemic, everyone's suddenly a baker now trying to make do now. Would love an investigation video of that channel, because the number of views that their other videos have is mind-boggling. Edit: now that I'm watching Ann Reardon's video, can I just do a chef's kiss to the grey plate reference hahaha.

    • @totiny3262
      @totiny3262 4 года назад +2

      Lol no cake pan?? How does that work?
      Also do you remember the channel name or the bid name I'm interested

    • @stahppls2293
      @stahppls2293 4 года назад +3

      @@totiny3262 i don't remember the channel basically she sogged up cookies and mushed them into a vaguely cake shape

    • @Tina-Brune
      @Tina-Brune 4 года назад +13

      I could do a good chocolate cake with no oven, no eggs, no butter, no milk and no cake pan or I could do a good chocolate cake in 5 minutes (ok more like 10 minutes + cooking)
      But it's impossible to do both, if only because the first one requires cunning vegan tricks and cunning vegan tricks are time consuming

    • @emmaghows3841
      @emmaghows3841 4 года назад +2

      @@totiny3262 she put it in a big round Tupperware sort of thing and microwaved it for 5 minutes XD. (Supposedly.) Believe it or not, then she came out with a "lockdown" version lololol that was no chocolate, no flour, no anything... apparently because she just used cookies, milk, and one more ingredient I can't remember. I don't really want to give that channel views, but if you insist, just search for "5-minute chocolate cake" and you should see the thumbnail I'm talking about right away.

    • @emmaghows3841
      @emmaghows3841 4 года назад +6

      @@Tina-Brune I hear you with the cunning vegan tricks, I've even tried a couple, but no, this video is not about cunning vegan tricks, fast or not XD

  • @henriquejambu
    @henriquejambu 2 года назад +9

    6:56 if açaí could do all that all the people in the Northern region of Brazil would be the healthiest since lots of us drink it everyday 😂

  • @ShinmaWa1
    @ShinmaWa1 Год назад +2

    The fact you didn't get more props for the EXCELLENT "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" reference is a crime.

    • @coffee3879
      @coffee3879 Год назад

      is it weird that I feel proud for getting the reference?

  • @Kapenguin448
    @Kapenguin448 4 года назад +195

    And here we are, in a world where Bon Appetit is now tainted.

    • @penname8441
      @penname8441 3 года назад +50

      I prefer to think of it less as tainted but the dirt swept under the rug now has a chance to get swept out of the house instead of attracting secret mold

    • @ItsSomeDeadGuy
      @ItsSomeDeadGuy 3 года назад +2

      Thanks 2020

  • @rekindle7602
    @rekindle7602 4 года назад +83

    "vegan celery" was so funny I had to pause the video to finish laughing

  • @mightygregdoge
    @mightygregdoge 2 года назад +8

    I cannot say how much I love rewatching this video. Like, I rewatch many of Dan's videos. But I never expected how much I'd enjoy a video on the phenomenon of cooking shows.

  • @Sardonic_Sadist
    @Sardonic_Sadist 2 года назад +9

    I've been a big fan of yours for a while now, and last semester in college I was cast in the role of The Player in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead. This is my first time rewatching this video since then and I lost my shit at the reference. I was like "HOLY FUCK THAT'S MY LINE!!" and it made me incredibly happy. Just wanted to let you know :)

  • @recklessted
    @recklessted 4 года назад +126

    Was not expecting to see Jas. Townsend & Son in this video, but glad they made the cut.

    • @octopodesrex
      @octopodesrex 4 года назад +22

      Savoring those flavors and aromas of the 18th century!

    • @peterprime2140
      @peterprime2140 4 года назад +23

      @@octopodesrex *NUTMEG INTENSIFIES*

    • @aichmalotizo9873
      @aichmalotizo9873 4 года назад +12

      I can't believe Babish didn't make the cut. Had Chinese Cooking Demystified though, and they're great

    • @flametitan100
      @flametitan100 4 года назад +7

      One of these days I really want to try some of those townsend recipes. Is there a spectacle element to it? Of course, but there's something fun about trying those recipes out, knowing that in one point of time, _that was the norm._ It's as much about heritage as it is food, it seems.

    • @redactedname247
      @redactedname247 4 года назад +5

      Genuinely one of the most wholesome corners of the internet. Love those videos.

  • @rosecocca524
    @rosecocca524 4 года назад +95

    He is ALMOST as passionate about doing media reviews, as he is about making his pizza pops.

  • @Tine_of_Nice_Dreams
    @Tine_of_Nice_Dreams 2 года назад +11

    Using the microwave to create endless pickles had me laughing, such a good joke after watching some of those content farms use the microwave as their magician's hat

  • @jbftcmof
    @jbftcmof 3 года назад +5

    "[B]read and cake are inert objects with no will of their own..."
    Tell that to the sourdough starter behind my fridge.

  • @matthewmcneany
    @matthewmcneany 4 года назад +92

    "These berries help boost my energy" - no shit sherlock that's how food works.

    • @DrOctatonic
      @DrOctatonic 4 года назад

      There’s a difference between the “energy” you get off caffeinated soda and something loaded with fiber and micronutrients. Not all foods are created equal.
      Speaking of which, why is Dan nitpicking? Does he really need a citation that certain foods can potentially lower obesity and help with recovery (inflammation)? There’s a world of difference between, presumably, Dan’s diet, and some health nuts diet. You may think it’s dumb, but the proof is in the pudding.

    • @vlogerhood
      @vlogerhood 4 года назад +15

      @@DrOctatonic Yes, he does. Because literally none of that is true. I mean I understand you have bought fully into the diet industrial complex's propaganda so you take its bullshit as given and not needing proof. But in reality none of those claims have been substantiated in rigorous and repeatable scientific experiments.

    • @CarbonKevin
      @CarbonKevin 4 года назад +12

      @@DrOctatonic fiber doesn't boost energy and for all intents and purposes, neither do micronutrients. Berries contain. sugar, and sugar is energy. It's not any deeper than that.

    • @DrOctatonic
      @DrOctatonic 4 года назад

      vlogerhood I bought into what? You don’t know a thing about me. I’m talking about the science. There are have been plenty of studies that certain foods *will* help with various health issues. If you think you can continue eating preservative-laced food with hypertension, you’ll be in a world of hurt pretty quick.
      There’s no denialism here-certain foods will absolutely aid in recovery and have lasting health benefits. Do you honestly believe Cheetos are the same as spinach? Foh.

    • @matthewmcneany
      @matthewmcneany 4 года назад +6

      ​@@DrOctatonic It is however definitionally true that what makes something food (& drink) is that the body can break it down in order to release energy, it just seemed funny that ironically in a list of somewhat dubious claims about a specific food in which the presenter clearly didn't mean this but rather the claim was that the food made the consumer feel more invigorated over a prolonged period of time the presenter also included an accidental explanation of what food was - but now I've explained the joke so thoroughly I've sucked all fun and humour from the original serendipitous happenstance as to have wasted both our time. Alas, hoist on my own petard.