Binging With Babish - AKA How Would This Taste IRL

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My only problem with Babish is his reliance on elaborate/expensive kitchen appliances. Of course it's nice to have good equipment, but you can make do with Ol' Reliable : good chef's knife, table and some quality pans, skillet. Perhaps an electric mixer. If you pull out a sous vide i'm clicking off. This right here is a true and honest cooking channel:

I think it's fine to have expensive equipment, but you should always show an alternative/cheaper method first for your audience who nine times out of ten don't have said expensive equipment. You shouldn't flaunt about it too, just be humble and show that it's okay to use less pricey options, as long as it tastes good and you have fun then it's alright.
 
I think it's fine to have expensive equipment, but you should always show an alternative/cheaper method first for your audience who nine times out of ten don't have said expensive equipment. You shouldn't flaunt about it too, just be humble and show that it's okay to use less pricey options, as long as it tastes good and you have fun then it's alright.
Exactly! I instantly nope the fuck out of videos where the host grabs an "emulsifier" to make mayo. Or a 500$ knife that he doesn't even know how to hold. It's overcomplicating stuff and it's pretentious. You can make hollandaise without even bain marie if you're competent. Your steak will be tender if you know your cuts and know temperature control. If you're making a cooking video, your objective should be actually teach the basilaris before handling fancy stuff.
 
My only problem with Babish is his reliance on elaborate/expensive kitchen appliances. Of course it's nice to have good equipment, but you can make do with Ol' Reliable : good chef's knife, table and some quality pans, skillet. Perhaps an electric mixer. If you pull out a sous vide i'm clicking off. This right here is a true and honest cooking channel:

Based Chef Jean-Pierre enjoyer. I love his videos. You’ll learn more in one of his videos that one hundred Babbish videos.
 
Exactly! I instantly nope the fuck out of videos where the host grabs an "emulsifier" to make mayo. Or a 500$ knife that he doesn't even know how to hold. It's overcomplicating stuff and it's pretentious. You can make hollandaise without even bain marie if you're competent. Your steak will be tender if you know your cuts and know temperature control. If you're making a cooking video, your objective should be actually teach the basilaris before handling fancy stuff.

Rhea was never a chef; only cooked due to mommy issues, and has zero skills to fall back on - He was a bald faggot who had a girlfriend and/or one of his two wives leave him once he decided he was going to be a Youtube chef instead of working for a living. The guy and his "Food from cartoon, but real" gimmick is what Jack Scalfani could have been if he had been born gay, instead of gay and retarded. That he presumes to tell people how to cook is absurd - He has the equivalent of a culinary degree in Youtube.
 
Rhea was never a chef; only cooked due to mommy issues, and has zero skills to fall back on - He was a bald faggot who had a girlfriend and/or one of his two wives leave him once he decided he was going to be a Youtube chef instead of working for a living. The guy and his "Food from cartoon, but real" gimmick is what Jack Scalfani could have been if he had been born gay, instead of gay and retarded. That he presumes to tell people how to cook is absurd - He has the equivalent of a culinary degree in Youtube.
Tbf, unlike most fields you can cook well without being a professional chef (especially when doing those niche recipes). He could probably eke out a living for being a Z grade celebrity as long as he keeps his dick from crazy/children.
 
Again: His chef-LARPing ass bought a waffle iron just so he could film himself throwing it in the trash because caramelized sugar "ruined" the surface. Just soak the cooking surface in water, as you would with any nonstick cookware with hardened sugar stuck to it. It's 101-level shit, but this guy is too busy contriving dramatic twists and turns in his recipe videos to give a fuck about reality.
 
Rhea was never a chef; only cooked due to mommy issues, and has zero skills to fall back on - He was a bald faggot who had a girlfriend and/or one of his two wives leave him once he decided he was going to be a Youtube chef instead of working for a living. The guy and his "Food from cartoon, but real" gimmick is what Jack Scalfani could have been if he had been born gay, instead of gay and retarded. That he presumes to tell people how to cook is absurd - He has the equivalent of a culinary degree in Youtube.
To be honest i've never looked into his certifications or work history, but regarding what you said, you're better of watching a chef that is a youtuber than a youtuber that is a "chef".

The Fallow guys: Michelin stars under their belts, no fancy shit or theatrics, just skill at cooking and teaching. Being a chef is 50% knowing how to cook, the rest is knowing how to teach, you will orient newbies in your station etc... Youtube showoffs think being a chef is synonym of "i cook gud"

 
Rhea became pozzed beyond belief, ruined the good thing he had going, then got culturally enriched by a large Afro-American male after wasting hospital resources instead of taking some sleeping pills. Not saying these events are connected, but he certainly got the New York experience.
 
I think instant ramen might be the ultimate goyslop, even worse than nuggets and pizza, which at least contain traces of natural materials. It's just pure carbs and sodium with traces of weaboo to boot.
 
Poor Babish

He's been reduced to doing top ten frozen food lists. Like so many Jew Tubers that gained fame during Covid when everyone had nothing to do but now he's on the downward slide as people just aren't watching as much Jew Tuber junk as they did.
 
I think instant ramen might be the ultimate goyslop, even worse than nuggets and pizza, which at least contain traces of natural materials. It's just pure carbs and sodium with traces of weaboo to boot.
I disagree and/or agree on this! A lot of the newer instant ramen packets include a little plastic pouch of fat. And if you actually try and put in the effort, you can add vegetables and proteins to your instant ramen broth to compliment the inherent flavors for a very tiny price! Back when eggs were affordable, I would add a soft-boiled egg or two, and some blanched veggies. The only real downside is the insane amount of sodium that resulted in my heart pounding in my chest after eating the meal.

Most of the "instant ramen hacks" involve either throwing away the flavoring packet, or pouring a shitload of cheese on the noodles, or both. I say use the flavors from the packet and build on them from what is in your fridge. Don't drink all the broth if you don't want heart palpitations!

Latest video! I hate these nigger burgers.
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We were just speaking of SLOP and here is Alvin producing the worst of this shit. Even though it's nearly all MEAT, it's still SLOP. More like diarrhea: The Burger.

Alvin is usually pretty good, but this is just Daddy Babish 2. Next, he's going to get diddled at the insane asylum to copy him.
 
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Watching one of Babish's 2 hour cook-along video and I think I like it? I am a Babish softie. Even if I don't like his new content his old stuff is most cooking YouTube I watch.

It's just him with 3 cameras: Usual "Banish" angle [which he talked about liking how that is proliferating through YouTube], a closeup robot camera that is tracking his body and face, and a closeup camera.

Nice and low-key background noise and it's well edited. A few things I've heard so far:

- His recipe website has 25,000 subscribers.
- 3 years on and he's still doing the dumb Bed & Babish. still in the Building the House steps.
 
Isn't Italian food in Japan infamous for being really shit?

Also in general I'm sick of Japan overexposure in cooking shows. Yeah they have some good dishes but everything else is more show than taste. The recipe in question is basically tomato paste, cream and shrimp stock.
Food is going to vary anywhere the farther you get from the point of origin. Italian food in America is vastly different from food from the actual country even when it is made by authentic Italians. Like any non-Japanese food, Italian food in Japan usually is just their own spin on it. Some of it might be a cool take on it, others won't. You have to decide for yourself if you like it or not.

In general I am tired of everyone trying to make Asian food bigger than it is. Everything over in that region tends to be more bland and simple.

As far as the discussion of how Babish is doing, I feel one of his problems is that he didn't anticipate the work that was involved in being a YouTuber. Which has happened with a lot of content creators online. He was probably just expecting it to be a breeze and that he wouldn't really have to do any work at all. He would just sit back and let the money roll in. Instead he is realizing that there is still work involved like there is with any job. This includes stuff he can't handle: brainstorming creative ideas for regular content and basically having to be a businessman by managing everything that is going on.
 
Food is going to vary anywhere the farther you get from the point of origin. Italian food in America is vastly different from food from the actual country even when it is made by authentic Italians. Like any non-Japanese food, Italian food in Japan usually is just their own spin on it. Some of it might be a cool take on it, others won't. You have to decide for yourself if you like it or not.
Of course, but it can always veer off to the point it's just gross on average unless you go to a place that brings authentic version of the kitchen. In the case of Italian food in Japan the argument is that they sweeten it way too much to the point it loses a lot of the flavour.
 
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