Careercow Jack Russell Scalfani / Cooking With Jack / Jack on the Go Show / jakatak - YouTube "Celebrity" "Chef", Living Encyclopedia of Gluttony-Induced Maladies, Salmonella Elemental

[Hungry Homeless Handjob]

It looks like this is the recipe that Jack used, courtesy of...The British Onion Producers' Association. (I based this on the references to boiled onions and "dotting" the top with butter, though Jack left out the milk).

EDIT: or I guess it could be this one or this one or whatever. It seems like you have to make an active effort to find a stuffing recipe that doesn't include anything that makes stuffing actually good. Like eggs, or stock, or celery or rosemary...

 

[rubytintedchix]

It’s really hard to screw up stuffing/dressing. That said those onions were cut entirely too big. I know we always rag on Jack for copying Babish, but I think this is really one recipe where he could have done a side by side - one doing the basic English way and one where he did his version of it.

On the other hand, did you hear what he wanted to add at the end? Bacon, raisins, carrots and sell-ree? It would have a disaster. I’m really shocked he didn’t use some bacon up to grease the bottom of the baking dish.

 

[ZipDisk]

He clearly hated it, despite saying otherwise. Suffer fatty!

 

[Wilhelm Bittrich]

Jack hasn’t a single video that has broken 10K views since August - almost four months. It’s also been months since Jack announced that big things were coming for the channel. View counts and recipe and video quality have continued to deteriorate during this time.

Things are bleaker than ever in CwJ land.

Even 10k views with a 485k subscriber channel is abysmally bad. I would love to see the analytics for his channel, specially the average view time, viewer retention and so on, they must be horrifyingly bad and given the fact that almost 2/3 of all YouTube viewers use ad-blockers nowadyas I'm sure he makes less than minimum wage per month with this dead channels.

 

[Bisteca Toblerone]

It’s really hard to screw up stuffing/dressing. That said those onions were cut entirely too big. I know we always rag on Jack for copying Babish, but I think this is really one recipe where he could have done a side by side - one doing the basic English way and one where he did his version of it.

On the other hand, did you hear what he wanted to add at the end? Bacon, raisins, carrots and sell-ree? It would have a disaster. I’m really shocked he didn’t use some bacon up to grease the bottom of the baking dish.

He's saving the bacon up for the Meat Marine, obviously.

 

[ZipDisk]

There's no one to enforce it, but I'd love if someone held Jack to recipes for like six months. Like straight up, bully chef standing by, "YOU FOLLOW RECIPE, FAT BOY"

I'll bet that would get in new viewers "What happens if we take this festering lump, and make him cook by the rules?"
"COOKING, With JACK"

 

[the khat quaffer]

Who the fuck goes on a trip just to hit the gym? Like...I get it if it's promotional shit for a gym or it's a intregal aspect of your job to be stolen (i.e. Wrasslin'), but Jr is absolutely not doing those things.

Jr is out cruising for cocks.

Yeah, he's a regular fucking Pride Fighter.

You have to skip the 4:45. Ordinarily I'd do the due diligence, but I'm on mobile.

Probably depends on where you live more than anything. Most of the gas stations in my area have the usual crap I'd only resort to buying if the only other option was to skip a meal, but there's one near where I used to work that has a quaint little deli inside that does homemade daily specials, like meatloaf and lasagna. The boss bought lunch from there once and I remember it being really good.

Some of the companies with money to spare are revamping gas station cuisine by merging it with restaurants. Kind of like how Pizza Hut had that Wing Street thing going on.
It's becoming increasingly common (for me anyways) to see a gas station with say, an established barbecue pit or chicken joint inside of the store. Less and less oven lamp dogs or moth covered pizza slices next to the soda machines. I think it's pretty much universally known that gas station food is bottom of the barrel, what I don't get is why it took gas station companies so long to figure this out. I guess it's pretty lucrative to have something mildly edible for the 3:00 a.m. meth head traffic. Totally Michelin 3 star.

but the only reason jack even attempted to review the 7/11 taco spot was because he figured they'd give him a lot of food for cheap like the previous place. the worst part about these non-stop tex mex videos is that i know for a fact there are authentic taquerias in and around nashville like the one i described, but these boomers can't seem to quit their addiction to strip mall tex-mex fajitas and whatever tammy always orders. i think fish tacos?

I genuinely wonder if Jack considers himself some kind of celebrity. Right before crying on live tv, he seemed super fucking proud of his YouTube channel being watched in 8 or 20 countries - dollars to donuts I bet he doesn't know what a VPN is, and even if they were legit viewers from however many countries, it doesn't matter. It's not something to really write on your YouTube resume. Just tell us how many subscribers you have and total video views, Jack. I thought it was just weird that he brought that up by the way, it's such an odd thing to be proud of. Really it just shows how out of touch he is with technology.

Really, a bigger accomplishment is his 1700+ page thread on here. And not dying despite eating enough food to feed all of South America with each meal, I guess.

But back to my point. I wonder if Jack has ever used this semi celebrity status to try and get free shit at restaurants. In my past life I worked at a restaurant, and whenever we had shoppers (that's a fancy term for company-sponsored asshole reviewers, basically glorified yelpers) we would really have to make sure to not fuck anything up. Which we rarely did anyways, but some of our more unscrupulous servers may have comped an item here or there for a shopper. But on the whole, random foodie reviewers are basically a cancer and generally, the service industry hates yelpers more than anything on God's green Earth. So there's basically nowhere to go for him but down by trying to show off.

I wonder if he's ever got into a restaurant and been like, "hey it's me Jack Scalfani, big time YouTube chef...maybe you've heard of me? " I would love to see that exchange. On my mother's eyes I bet no one has ever responded positively to that question, and eventually he just gave up and stopped bringing it up altogether. If I'm your server and you bring up that you're a big time youtuber, I'll respond with a vague, saccharine message of approval but then I go into the back and I check you out on my phone. If I'm Jack's server, I'll let the kitchen staff know to make his tenders just how he likes them - extra rare. If anyone knows about this guy in real life, it's from bigger channels making fun of him. "Oh you're that chef from Augustus the Duck's YouTube video! That party cheese salad you made was hilarious, did you actually eat that?"

Deep down, this has to cut him very deeply.

 

[FatJacksFatAssTongue]

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Both spoonfuls of this abomination that Jagoff calls stuffing sound like he’s chewing on an ice cube. Can’t wait for the Bob Crappit Xmas goose upload to drop

 

[Wilhelm Bittrich]

There's no one to enforce it, but I'd love if someone held Jack to recipes for like six months. Like straight up, bully chef standing by, "YOU FOLLOW RECIPE, FAT BOY"

I'll bet that would get in new viewers "What happens if we take this festering lump, and make him cook by the rules?"
"COOKING, With JACK"

TBh, as much as I would love to see that it will never happen. Even with two working arms and full health it wouldn't happen.
Jack, isn't a cook, he isn't even smart enough to wash dishes in a restaurant kitchen, add that to being to lazy to do even the most simple things and his inability to adapt and improve himself and you know why his channels are as they are.
Jack never learned even the most basic things, like how to follow a recipe or to cut a simple onion. His knife work was already bad even before the first stroke.
Imagine Jack being asked to make a dry rub on his own or to make a simple pasta sauce without the canned/bagged crap he always uses, he would utterly fail.
Remember we're talking about a man who can't even cook a chicken breast to the point and gulps them down half raw.

I genuinely wonder if Jack considers himself some kind of celebrity. Right before crying on live tv, he seemed super fucking proud of his YouTube channel being watched in 8 or 20 countries - dollars to donuts I bet he doesn't know what a VPN is, and even if they were legit viewers from however many countries, it doesn't matter. It's not something to really write on your YouTube resume. Just tell us how many subscribers you have and total video views, Jack. I thought it was just weird that he brought that up by the way, it's such an odd thing to be proud of. Really it just shows how out of touch he is with technology.

In the early days of YouTube Jack was a celebrity.
His "Cooking with Jack" channel was established July 2006 and his "Jack on the go" in 2009, he was even invited to the first YouTube creator conventions.
But back then he was one of only a handfull of YouTube cooking channels and he was overtaken by other channels in popularity and viewer count pretty fast.
His decline in views already started in his first year. If you sort his videos by "sort by oldest video" you'll see that his first two videos had 3.1 and 6.5 million views and the next two dropped down to 948k and 154k viewers immediatley, sure, Jack, had one with 13 million views after that, but his overall view count went down and never recovered.
When he established "Jack on the go" in 2009 his channel has his most popular video with 561k views and it peaked in views right there. "Jack on the go" never really took off.
IMHO by 2010-2011 people already had alternatives to watch and "Cooking with Jack" started slowly dying.

But back to my point. I wonder if Jack has ever used this semi celebrity status to try and get free shit at restaurants.

Given how much of an asshole and how big his ego is, he most likely did, at least in his early years. I always assumed the bad reviews he leaves on Google are the result of some business owner not kissing his fat ass.
I'm also pretty sure Jack never went into a real restaurant, all he ever did was chains, small mom & pops and junk food stints. IMHO, a serious restaurant which is good at what they do is also good at keeping "Guests" like Jack out.
Jack's obnoxious attitude and rude way to treat wait staff certainly wouldn't fly in a restaurant outside chains and junk food restaurants.


But as we speak about YouTube and Jack, has he ever even gotten a YouTube Silver Creator Award, for "Cooking with Jack" as all the other content creators with more than 100k and less than 1 million subscribers usually do?
I've never seen him mentioning it.

 

[captkrisma]

But as we speak about YouTube and Jack, has he ever even gotten a YouTube Silver Creator Award, for "Cooking with Jack" as all the other content creators with more than 100k and less than 1 million subscribers usually do?
I've never seen him mentioning it.

That's what kind of grinds my gears too. Damn near every youtuber I've ever seen has had an unboxing video for their button. Hell, some have multiple to show off their next level of subscribers.

Every one though is humble and thanks their fans for making it all possible so maybe that's why Jack never does it. He wants all the credit.

 

[Dave Meltzer]

Jack hasn’t a single video that has broken 10K views since August - almost four months. It’s also been months since Jack announced that big things were coming for the channel. View counts and recipe and video quality have continued to deteriorate during this time.

Things are bleaker than ever in CwJ land.

With the year almost over time to look at Jack's social blade again. His estimated earning have been plummeting this year. He was estimated to earn around 50,000 for the year early in the year. By May this had dropped to 36,000. Now with the year almost over the top end estimate for the year is 27,000. Typically a youtuber will see around 60-75% of the top end estimates. Leaving Jack at around 20,000 for the year. He's making less than a fast food worker in Los Angeles. That isn't even taking what he's paying in groceries to do the show.

 

[rubytintedchix]

TBh, as much as I would love to see that it will never happen. Even with two working arms and full health it wouldn't happen.
Jack, isn't a cook, he isn't even smart enough to wash dishes in a restaurant kitchen, add that to being to lazy to do even the most simple things and his inability to adapt and improve himself and you know why his channels are as they are.
Jack never learned even the most basic things, like how to follow a recipe or to cut a simple onion. His knife work was already bad even before the first stroke.
Imagine Jack being asked to make a dry rub on his own or to make a simple pasta sauce without the canned/bagged crap he always uses, he would utterly fail.
Remember we're talking about a man who can't even cook a chicken breast to the point and gulps them down half raw.

In the early days of YouTube Jack was a celebrity.
His "Cooking with Jack" channel was established July 2006 and his "Jack on the go" in 2009, he was even invited to the first YouTube creator conventions.
But back then he was one of only a handfull of YouTube cooking channels and he was overtaken by other channels in popularity and viewer count pretty fast.
His decline in views already started in his first year. If you sort his videos by "sort by oldest video" you'll see that his first two videos had 3.1 and 6.5 million views and the next two dropped down to 948k and 154k viewers immediatley, sure, Jack, had one with 13 million views after that, but his overall view count went down and never recovered.
When he established "Jack on the go" in 2009 his channel has his most popular video with 561k views and it peaked in views right there. "Jack on the go" never really took off.
IMHO by 2010-2011 people already had alternatives to watch and "Cooking with Jack" started slowly dying.

Given how much of an asshole and how big his ego is, he most likely did, at least in his early years. I always assumed the bad reviews he leaves on Google are the result of some business owner not kissing his fat ass.
I'm also pretty sure Jack never went into a real restaurant, all he ever did was chains, small mom & pops and junk food stints. IMHO, a serious restaurant which is good at what they do is also good at keeping "Guests" like Jack out.
Jack's obnoxious attitude and rude way to treat wait staff certainly wouldn't fly in a restaurant outside chains and junk food restaurants.


But as we speak about YouTube and Jack, has he ever even gotten a YouTube Silver Creator Award, for "Cooking with Jack" as all the other content creators with more than 100k and less than 1 million subscribers usually do?
I've never seen him mentioning it.

Those silver play buttons can be released at YouTube’s discretion, and they have to be “authentic” subscribers. Meaning if Jack ever bought subs, he would be disqualified.

Also, I seem to remember a video of Jack doing a live stream very early on from the new house that the movers damaged a lot of their stuff from the old house - to play Devil’s Advocate, maybe the button was one of these things?

BTW, if you want to see Jack’s knife skills, go watch “how to cut an onion with out crying” which is probably the most autistic way I’ve ever seen to cut a vegetable.

 

[captkrisma]

Jack's Facebook group is less than 1k people as of today. His administration are Big T and /Paul. His actual fan base is most likely less, given that trolls would join just out of morbid curiosity.

Today would have been the best day to have a livestream. Jack chatting to people in Universal Orlando about all the food and fun he's having, meanwhile there were a fuckton of tornadoes that ripped through Tennessee and Kentucky. It'd be more tacky than the Christmas bombing livestream.

 

[rubytintedchix]

Jack's Facebook group is less than 1k people as of today. His administration are Big T and /Paul. His actual fan base is most likely less, given that trolls would join just out of morbid curiosity.

Today would have been the best day to have a livestream. Jack chatting to people in Universal Orlando about all the food and fun he's having, meanwhile there were a fuckton of tornadoes that ripped through Tennessee and Kentucky. It'd be more tacky than the Christmas bombing livestream.

Speaking of….look who’s awake.

 

[AnOminous]

There's no one to enforce it, but I'd love if someone held Jack to recipes for like six months. Like straight up, bully chef standing by, "YOU FOLLOW RECIPE, FAT BOY"

I'll bet that would get in new viewers "What happens if we take this festering lump, and make him cook by the rules?"
"COOKING, With JACK"

And whoever it is punches him in the face every time he commits a Jack-ism, like cross-contaminating ingredients, or taking meat out of the oven still FUCKING RAW or ramming it into his fat fucking face like he's deep-throating it.

I wonder if he's ever got into a restaurant and been like, "hey it's me Jack Scalfani, big time YouTube chef...maybe you've heard of me? "

"You're that raw chicken guy? Have you ever learned to cook meat until it's done? What is WRONG with you?"

 

[Wilhelm Bittrich]

Those silver play buttons can be released at YouTube’s discretion, and they have to be “authentic” subscribers. Meaning if Jack ever bought subs, he would be disqualified.

Also, I seem to remember a video of Jack doing a live stream very early on from the new house that the movers damaged a lot of their stuff from the old house - to play Devil’s Advocate, maybe the button was one of these things?

BTW, if you want to see Jack’s knife skills, go watch “how to cut an onion with out crying” which is probably the most autistic way I’ve ever seen to cut a vegetable.

Yeah I know that video it's a true Jack Scalfani classic right next to his video about peeling an egg the right way. which has 948k views and seriously raises the quetion if Jack's viewer really have been to dumb to cook an egg back in the days.

Yeah, YouTube gives away these arwards at their own discretion, which means if you're a dude like Quarterpounder or Steven Crowder you'll never get one.
Nowadays, if you're buying subscribers YouTube deletes your account for TOS violation without hesitation, they don't take no bullshit anymore from irrelevant channels like Jack's.
When even big YouTubers like Jim Sterling or Boogie1488 bleed subcribers like hell in a very short time but Jack never goes under 485k subs that should raise some eyebrows.

If it is true that the movers damaged the Silver Play Button (if he has one to begin with) he could have requested a new one, as YouTube replaces them in such cases. But OTOH, Jack is so lazy he most likely couldn't even be arsed to do that simple thing.

With the year almost over time to look at Jack's social blade again. His estimated earning have been plummeting this year. He was estimated to earn around 50,000 for the year early in the year. By May this had dropped to 36,000. Now with the year almost over the top end estimate for the year is 27,000. Typically a youtuber will see around 60-75% of the top end estimates. Leaving Jack at around 20,000 for the year. He's making less than a fast food worker in Los Angeles. That isn't even taking what he's paying in groceries to do the show.

Yeah, but these 60-75% top end estimates are before YouTube takes it's cut of 45%. That's one of the reasons why they all use Patreon, Subscribestar etc.
I just found out that my own YouTube channel who isn't even monetized has, regarding Socialblade, an estimated yearly earning of 120 Euros . Gotta search my sides again.
You gotta need to take everything on Socialblade with a huge grain of salt, tbh.


Ok, let's say he makes 27k a year.
27k USD minus YouTubes 45% cut = 14.850 USD/year
14.850/year divided by 12= 1237,50 USD /month
1237,50 divided by 20 work days/month= 61,87 USD /day
61,87 USD divided by 8 hrs= 7,74 (rounded) per work hour

Which means he is making 49 cents more an hour than Tennessee minimum wage which is 7,25 USD/hour and I haven't even consiered US federal/Tennessee state taxes.

His numbers right now if someone wants to even know.

 

[captkrisma]

@rubytintedchix check out the JotG review of Husk. It's peak Jack being a weird asshole. Even their server looks at Jack like he's smoking bath salts when Jack asks if he ever cooks anything in bacon grease. You'd never know by the thumbnail.

 

[rubytintedchix]

@rubytintedchix check out the JotG review of Husk. It's peak Jack being a weird asshole. Even their server looks at Jack like he's smoking bath salts when Jack asks if he ever cooks anything in bacon grease. You'd never know by the thumbnail.

I’ll add it to this week’s playlist!

By the way, PC&TLM are moving the livestream to Sunday at 5pm this week because of some life situations going on. I posted on our social media and we have the video scheduled on YouTube.

We’re moving to somewhere with Fiber!

 

[AnOminous]

When even big YouTubers like Jim Sterling or Boogie1488 bleed subcribers like hell in a very short time but Jack never goes under 485k subs that should raise some eyebrows.

Also note how people like Nick Rekieta routinely have people forcibly unsubscribed to him despite them not having chosen to do that. I've had this happen a couple times.

Degenerate troons run that place.

At some point, this needs to stop. I hope that does not require the use of force, but if it does, so be it.

 

[Adamska]

Those silver play buttons can be released at YouTube’s discretion, and they have to be “authentic” subscribers. Meaning if Jack ever bought subs, he would be disqualified.

Also, I seem to remember a video of Jack doing a live stream very early on from the new house that the movers damaged a lot of their stuff from the old house - to play Devil’s Advocate, maybe the button was one of these things?

BTW, if you want to see Jack’s knife skills, go watch “how to cut an onion with out crying” which is probably the most autistic way I’ve ever seen to cut a vegetable.

So here's the things he's doing wrong.

1. He cuts the root out. The best way to cut an onion is to instead chop the top off, then cut the full bulb in half.
2. Jack cuts the root out in a coring motion rather than as a flat one: that's stupid amounts of wastage.
3. He then doesn't peel the skin; what the actual fuck.
4. Jack then cuts the full length. This is actually what I used to do like an idiot; the trick, and this is why I cut off the tops, is that you cut short of the bulb into strips. Then you do a horizontal cut to further reduce size. That allows you to avoid the root and control your chop size.

Again, he had 15 years to learn. He never did.