Cooking YouTubers you hate - You know the ones

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FedPostalService said:
I think the problem is that unless you have a very autistic interest in cooking then it’s not very interesting when done properly.

That’s when you see people over compensate.

It teaches people a lot of bad habits too. It looks cool and gives things a bit of movement and urgency watching people chop as they’re cooking but for Christ’s sake they should be teaching people mise en place which makes cooking a million times easier.
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I don't want to be entertained I want to see the cooking to see if I want to make it. I hate influencers and "content creators". I wish the internet was more like it was when it first came out. Used by mostly professionals.
 
FedPostalService said:
I think the problem is that unless you have a very autistic interest in cooking then it’s not very interesting when done properly.

That’s when you see people over compensate.

It teaches people a lot of bad habits too. It looks cool and gives things a bit of movement and urgency watching people chop as they’re cooking but for Christ’s sake they should be teaching people mise en place which makes cooking a million times easier.
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I don't think that's it; most of these people want to be "celebrity chefs" but without the personality or talent to back it up. (This is endemic to e-celebs in general).

If you look at something at Emeril Live, a show popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s and perhaps Food Network's biggest star, Emeril Lagasse was more spectacle than chef. If you look up any old clips if you're not familiar you can easily see why some people thought of him as obnoxious and there are probably a bunch of fossilized Internet threads hating on him. On the other hand, spectacle as it was, Lagasse had a career. He was an executive chef of long-time New Orleans restaurant Commander's Palace and later opened his own restaurant, by the time Emeril Live began production he had already made six cookbooks.

On the other hand, something more down to earth, like The French Chef or Good Eats, Julia Child and Alton Brown respectively, could show someone how to make something while still having an interesting and likable personality, with the formats of their programs being innovative enough to run for multiple seasons.

This is where these YouTube food shows fall short. Rarely is there talent involved—extensive editing covers up mistakes (I should mention that Good Eats had a full staff with multiple stages going on, with what went in the oven in one scene not the same thing coming out, but at the same time this was explained in a behind-the-scenes episode) and these people ALL suck. They don't have inherent talent and in some cases are remarkably average, they're not that informative, and they're not that likable.
 
Most YouTube chefs suck. Cooking is seriously not all that difficult. The only time I will watch a YouTube cooking video is for something I have never done before if I am unsure (like when I broke down a whole chicken for the first time). Otherwise, just google a recipe and see if it sounds/looks good and if so, give it a go and try and improve it the next time if you want.
 
There She Glows said:
I don't hate Kenji Alt-Lopez because he's very talented and I've learned a lot from him but the man seems to be headed for his own lolcow thread and possible troon out arc and when it happens I'll be posting there.
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He’s a very privileged rich kid in denial who uses his biracial background and politics to avoid admitting it. Good cook, huge faggot who needs to accept that he’s a bit of a faggot and let his kid play contact sports.

Hyphenated names are signs of a deeply, deeply insecure or insane person. I don’t give a shit why, just take your spouses name or do some flower child name merging.
 
Chadmonk4421 said:
Finally, something that could kill the Joshua Weissman fag

Tldr: Stole recipes, wasn't ever involved in the cooking practice, his culinary experience he relies on was actually a month being a prep cook, nowhere close to being a chief.

Alot of extra shit about his gay personality, but we know that from his videos
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Someone else described Weissman berating them for not buying the precise ingredient Weissman requested and that getting the wrong thing was the quickest way to get him mad, and threats of violence soon followed. On the other hand, another former staff member told me that Weissman would become angry if employees spent too long looking for a specific item and didn’t just buy a generic alternative. There was no winning for Weissman’s staff.​

Jesus, I feel bad for his staff.
 
Babish doesn't even post cooking videos anymore, it's all just constant slop. He has a video where he eats all the overpriced slop at that star wars attraction in Disney.
 
I skim through Babish's reviewslop and there's a 50/50 chance I land on a section with him making inappropriate or unfunny jokes with his crew members. It all feels so forced, like they're trying to recreate the peak of the BA Test Kitchen. Knowing what we know now about Joshua Weissman, I'm sure it's only a matter of time before someone has something to say about Babish. Hate that bald headed prick.
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Mr. Sausage, don't let me down.
 
I have a love/hate with Ordinary Sausage. His voice is obnoxious, half of his videos' run times are ads, he isn't funny (ok, sometimes he is a little funny), but I find myself indelibly drawn back once again to see his latest culinary abomination, whatever that may be.

One I don't like that I didn't see get mentioned is Future Canoe. Hate his fake, disinterested voice or the fact that he unironically made his pfp an NPC. Even if he is being self aware, it just makes me hate him more.
 
Valstrax said:
Jesus, I feel bad for his staff.
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I always treat these "former employee experiences" with a grain of salt as there's always an axe to grind (especially accusations of "ableism" or "transphobia") but holy shit, that is damning, he comes off as nothing less than a talentless douchebag.
 
I would watch Weissman occasionally while I was drunk as slop content, he did a decent job masking how inept he is. I always got a douchey vibe from him, but to hear that all his arrogance is from being a line chef for a short period of time is kinda sickening. He acts like he's a Michelin star chef or something.

And I obviously wouldn't care about random accusations if he could actually cook, but apparently he can't at all. What a hack. I guess I should've figured from him rating "salt levels" not being high enough at fucking fast food restaurants.
 
KMFDM Sucks said:
Adam Ragusea, I used to watch a handful of his videos that went over more practical home cooking ideas but over time his channel devolved into the same old fart-huffing liberal faggotry, all this while he lived in the south for the economic benefits really irked me.
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His left wing faggotry, preachiness, and the fact that he keeps looking at the camera with a deer-in-headlights bewildered stare makes his shit unwatchable. I thought it would be decent based on the thumbnails and image titles but NO
 
Freshly Baked Socks said:
I hate Pepper Belly Pete and I used to get fooled by algorithm suggestions to watch his videos. I was seeking down-home southern cooking videos, but every time I see him fry up some sort of goyslop, it always turns into a commercial for his zippy zap hawt sauce, or some other seasoning he vends. It feels like the cheapest of commercials.
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Using unusual/rare/expensive ingredients in any recipe is one way to get on my YouTube shit list, but using hot sauce or seasoning is irritating, especially as ALL the seasoning is some sort of grey label salt/black pepper/onion powder/garlic powder mix, maybe some paprika or chili powder.

H3H3 Podcast Higlights said:
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Vegan food always has that uncanny-valley look to it. That vegan french dip looks like literal shit though.
 
Seems like the word on Joshua Weissman being self-centered recipe stealing and slop making asshole is starting to spread.
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Xarpho's Return said:
Using unusual/rare/expensive ingredients in any recipe is one way to get on my YouTube shit list, but using hot sauce or seasoning is irritating, especially as ALL the seasoning is some sort of grey label salt/black pepper/onion powder/garlic powder mix, maybe some paprika or chili powder.
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It seems as though every "outdoors" (smoking and grilling) youtuber has some sort of blend/rub that they use half the bottle of in every video. The more egregious one is the Dan-O's guy.
 
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