Binging With Babish - AKA How Would This Taste IRL

[变性黑鬼]

I watched a couple of Alvin's videos before Babish picked him up. Took me a while to figure it out since he almost never talks in his old videos.

One step closer to becoming the Cooking with Alvin channel.

Babish's video this week was a hour and half long super cut of every thanksgiving episode.

It looks like the fucking meat cake from the horror card game Inscryption.

I normally think Alvin is the strongest member of the team, but this looks like a pile of shit on a plate.

 

[NoReturn]

This is why you don't go the hospital for mental health shit, especially willingly. There's a good chance you'll leave more fucked up than when you went in. Better off saving that 8k they'll charge you and put it towards an actual shrink instead

he lives in the area of NYC where they get shot for just looking at cops wrong

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if I recall correctly there are only a handful of dedicated mental-health urgent care locations in the entire US. Everything else is general urgent care or an ER.
Looking at Google maps, it looks like the closest one to Babish is in either Chicago or North Carolina. So unless he wanted to hop on a plane in the middle of a psychotic breakdown, he definitely ended up somewhere that wasn't cut out for what he was going through.

 

[FedPostalService]

He was sleep deprived and going to a hospital was his solution? I guess he wasn't in a clear state of mind but this seems too obvious to me, am I missing something? Where was his girlfriend? Did his friends not pull his ass to bed? Fucking new yorkers

By the way, sedation doesn't help you sleep whatsoever, it just stops your consciousness. It doesn't constitute rest whatsoever. You're better off popping a sleeping pill if you're fucked.

I hate to be “that guy” but I’ve had friends go through pretty bad mental health episodes and completely mask it. One of my best friends checked himself into a hospital without a sign to anyone that he was really suffering.

He’s a real man though and didn’t get bummed by a socio-economic problem person during his time there.

 

[Party Hat Wurmple]

I'm not psychotic enough to make fun of a guy just because he had a mental breakdown and got molested in the shithole that is mental hospitals.

Maybe you aren't, but I AM!!!!! Binging with Babish? More Bulging with BaBITCH! Amiright fellas?

In all seriousness, I don't give a rats anus. He cooks and make videos on YouTube for more money than he deserves and he's lost touch with his viewers a long time ago. Ever since this faggot started with the Culinary University bullcrap it's been nothing but downhill. No Buttbitch, nobody with a reasonable kitchen owns a fucking truffle slicer. Most restaurants don't own a fucking truffle slicer. Nobody with a reasonable kitchen owns a fucking mandolin for that matter. Nobody cooks with a fucking Rolex on either. You could simply take off your overpriced goyshit for the videos but you don't. You take pride in it. Breaking down due to mental health and getting sexually assaulted is just confirming the growing suspicion he may be another YouTube sex pest.

 

[SiggerNlayer]

It looks like the fucking meat cake from the horror card game Inscryption.
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I normally think Alvin is the strongest member of the team, but this looks like a pile of shit on a plate.

Yeah that's 'ethnic' street food. It's kind of all just shit on a plate.

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

All this tells me is I shouldn't even ironically watch his videos, that'd still be giving him too much. Way to signal how utterly batshit your road ahead is. Not that we needed a further reminder.

 

[TheOtherSideofMakeBelieve]

Even with it he should have the most gains in the first year due to simply having more to lose, but he is still massively fat. I do wonder if it would have helped if he would have worked out and at least converted some of the fat to muscle.

Sorry for replying to a year-old post but this is something I have experience with.

Spoiler: weight loss sperging

In my personal experience, exercise doesn't do much for weight loss and it's basically impossible to put on muscle while losing weight, you'd have to do alternating periods of bulking and burning. Not to say exercise isn't good as part of the weight loss journey, it does prevent the muscle that you do have from atrophying especially if coupled with a high(ish) protein diet so that your body doesn't consume your muscles to make up for a lack of protein. The most valuable part of it though is that it makes regaining the weight harder, at least for me.

You can also only lose it so fast before your body starts fighting back. When I got into good enough shape to add extended workout sessions to my rotation (like 60-120 minutes of alternating moderate-high intensity cardio with one day off a week and one 'til I gave out' workout on the weekend that typically took around three hours) I almost completely stopped losing weight in spite of only eating 15-1600 calories a day, like a pound a week despite what should have been a massive deficit. On top of that my performance kept getting worse and worse and I was in constant muscle pain that just wouldn't go away even if I took multiple days in a row off. I didn't start losing weight again until I found a meal/exercise-logging app and when I plugged in my numbers it basically said "Hey dumbass you need to eat more" and within two days of eating as much as it told me to eat (22-2500 calories most days and as much as 5000 on the fall-out days) it started falling off again. Still slower than before I started working out but I didn't feel like I was dying all the time

My opinion, and obviously everyone is different, if weight loss is the only thing you care about just aim for about 1500 calories a day, via intermittent fasting if that's something you can tolerate, and walk as much as you can so that you're not stressing your body but you're also not allowing your body to hit full conservation mode

Since I came here after finding out that Babish got diddled I will add that I will absolutely lmfao if we find out that he got Blacked with Babish after his virtue signaling on BLM. Still a shame regardless so I'd appreciate at least a bit of dark humor coming out of the situation

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

I'm not psychotic enough to make fun of a guy just because he had a mental breakdown and got molested in the shithole that is mental hospitals.

The situation itself is so absurd there is a bit of comedy in it without A-logging. And if we look at it seriously it's another example a Youtuber meltdown, but this time it is extra bizarre since Babish is in the easiest niche a content creator can have and he still went cray cray - he is is own boss, he doesn't use copyrighted material, he doesn't say any politics, he doesn't need to leave his apartment or interact with anyone and he probably makes bank with his sponsors. People would kill for such a day job, and no fucking way he has any near the pressure actual restaurant chefs have.

 

[Lizard Pope]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if I recall correctly there are only a handful of dedicated mental-health urgent care locations in the entire US. Everything else is general urgent care or an ER.

Eh, there's (at least) two inpatient facilities in my city, and it ain't the biggest city around by a long shot.
Source: trust me, bro. (Seriously, just trust me on this.)

 

[McMitch]

no fucking way he has any near the pressure actual restaurant chefs have.

Well considering he doesn't even need the food he makes to actually taste good…

 

[变性黑鬼]

Babish is in the easiest niche a content creator can have

This is very true! Even the most inflammatory members of this site probably enjoy a good food video. I remember long ago Ethan Klein joking on the h3h3 podcast that the algorithm should "send 'em over to Babish." Because his humor was too edgy at the time.

he doesn't say any politics, he doesn't need to leave his apartment or interact with anyone and he probably makes bank with his sponsors

This is where the fuck-up begins. This retard has recently been putting free plugs for the Hollywood writer's strike just before his vapid food video content (usually enjoyed by millions).

The "Babish Cinematic Universe" is also a massive fucking disaster because he chose to go out and interact with people. We have the gay cuban sex weirdo series, the Soy Boys series, and my personal least favorite: The Football Food series. Apologies if I don't title them accurately. I mostly know them from sighing in disappointment and Cntrl+W'ing off the video tab after my SponsorBlock extension finishes filtering out his lame refrigerator ads.

There's a reason this shit has only 8 videos (and Soy Boys mercifully only 6) while the two main series have 150+ episodes. Also, the Max Miller collab is notably not in its own playlist, but in one of the main ones.

You may not have even seen a single episode of the weird gay Cuban sex weirdo's series. Clearly, very few people have, but it unfortunately exists. It's got nothing to do with the Babish formula AT ALL. He talks about shying away from creative risks in his post where admits to being diddled by a nigger, but I think he's taking too many risks if anything.

You got big thanks to covid, you invested in your weird friends because you were lonely, and now the covid internet money has dried up, and you're having a breakdown because you can't pay off your "friends" anymore.

no fucking way he has any near the pressure actual restaurant chefs have.

I will defend him here because he's clearly a self-motivated workaholic. You try juggling the dual tasks of cooking food and recording it, and then do not simply share it to your buddies in the group chat, but to millions.

I would respect him, but he lives in New York (the original sin) and checked himself into a mental hospital hoping to "be sedated" (compounding sin) and then got diddled by a nigger (unforgivable sin).

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

I will defend him here because he's clearly a self-motivated workaholic. You try juggling the dual tasks of cooking food and recording it, and then do not simply share it to your buddies in the group chat, but to millions.

I would respect him, but he lives in New York (the original sin) and checked himself into a mental hospital hoping to "be sedated" (compounding sin) and then got diddled by a nigger (unforgivable sin).

I dunno, I was with a coworker who's wife was a chef and he told me how the profession was filled with coke junkies with the amount of work they need to do and the hours. Kinda puts a youtuber to shame.

I still can't see how much recording you need to do per video. I don't remember him doing any extremely hard techniques, and at least once he just redid experimenting in-episode (plus there is the "I fucked up series").

 

[JamusActimus]

It looks like the fucking meat cake from the horror card game Inscryption.
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I normally think Alvin is the strongest member of the team, but this looks like a pile of shit on a plate.

This post is perfect

 

[JamusActimus]

I still can't see how much recording you need to do per video. I don't remember him doing any extremely hard techniques, and at least once he just redid experimenting in-episode (plus there is the "I fucked up series").

He was a team doing stuff like filming and editing.

He even has someone testing and trying receipe before he tries them on camera.

 

[Pizdec]

No, you just make bad videos now and your viewers don't like your friends.

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I disagree, I like Alvin Zou, and I like the things he's filmed. His XXX hour recipe videos are interesting, and his documentaries he's done on small, local eateries are equally interesting. The problem that arises is that I come to see silly cooking idea from movie that Babish attempts to recreate, not Alvin doing some silly food idea from an anime or game that I don't give two fucks about.

I stopped paying attention to Babish's videos strangely around the same time he said, last year, and shocker, he fucking lost his shit when he decided to pick up the mantle of Bon Appetite by hiring the minority hire who got bullied and whinged so hard it made Conde Nast shit themselves a bit, brought in literally whos to do their own shows, and made Alvin substitute whilst he was in the loony bin.

 

[Noxe]

Binging with Lilith

 

[Tragi-Chan]

We have the gay cuban sex weirdo series, the Soy Boys series, and my personal least favorite: The Football Food series. Apologies if I don't title them accurately. I mostly know them from sighing in disappointment and Cntrl+W'ing off the video tab after my SponsorBlock extension finishes filtering out his lame refrigerator ads.

I couldn’t stand Soy Boys. Healthy vegan food I could get behind, but the series was wanky navel-gazing with a bit of cooking thrown in here and there. I have no idea what the point of the last episode even was, they certainly didn’t give enough information to recreate the recipe.

 

[CHARizard]

When Babish switched to that culinary universe thing I stopped watching. He was entertaining but his recipes bordered on unusable for most people, its why I switched to easier to follow channels. It sucks he had such a huge breakdown, he doesnt seem like a terrible person, but publicizing it just makes it seem like he wants pity points.

 

[Alexander Thaut]

When Babish switched to that culinary universe thing I stopped watching. He was entertaining but his recipes bordered on unusable for most people, its why I switched to easier to follow channels. It sucks he had such a huge breakdown, he doesnt seem like a terrible person, but publicizing it just makes it seem like he wants pity points.

I think publicizing it is just a symptom of the fucked up pervasiveness of social media/work as a creator. It probably didn't occur to him that he shouldn't have done that.

Either way, Babish hasn't been a jackass, his content's inoffensive cooking vids with the occasional bit of useful info. I don't have the time or desire to binge him and usually watch Adam Ragusea, Townsends, Kent Rollins, or Max Miller (Tasting History) if I just wanna chill with culinary/cooking stuff.

 

[Hungry Homeless Handjob]

I'm pretty sure Babish made the channel originally because he was depressed from a previous breakup and decided to do the train to break out of the funk, so him being this mental isn't surprising.

I'm guessing it was actually a divorce, you can see in his very first videos he's wearing a wedding ring. Not sure if he's ever actually said it, I haven't watched this guy's videos since he started Basics With Babish.