Cooking Food On The Internet For Fun And Profit

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

"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

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

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

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

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"

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

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.)

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”.

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.

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.

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,.

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

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