Bon Appetit Test Kitchen

free hunzi

ugh for real

noooooo wtf @ suspending hunzi

what bullshit

this whole 'hotbed of racism' thing has put me off the BA videos and tipped me right over the edge of not at all enjoying its forced chumminess. I haven't watched any of their videos since. I wonder if viewer ratings have declined as a result or if everyone else has simply already forgotten?

They haven't posted a video since then, for one thing

They haven't posted anything since, have they? I'm sure views and subscribers are down, but there are probably a majority that have no idea about any of it.

xp

They have still been posting Epicurious videos though

i never found the chumminess particularly forced? it seemed pretty clear that everyone hated rapaport.

I honestly would be watching the videos if they were posting new vids ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I mean, as long as they haven't fucked Sohla over and were genuinely sorting out the issues that arose last month, I would too, as I love the videos they make.

Same, not holding out hope for them to do the right thing, but I definitely haven't been inspired to bake anything (although it's also summer).

Pretty sure all/most of the stars committed to not allowing BA to make any new footage of them or in some cases not even use existing footage of them until demands were met.

I’ve become a Mythical Kitchen devotee since quarantine began and it’s easily just as fun as the best BATK content if not more so. Possible minus: most of the recipes are nonsense. I just watched the new one where Nicole makes pimento cheese monkey bread, thought “I might try that!” and realized I basically never think that thought about anything Josh makes.

Sohla was on Binging With Babish today!!

i might have to watch. i miss coming home from work and watching a fresh ba video while drinking a beer :/

We’ve been watching a lot of Babish anyway. He has the benefit of falling in the Venn overlap of being on It’s Alive with Brad (making ricotta cheese) and on Food Fears with Josh (pork blood). It’s a shame he’s so mumbly though, it makes it hard to follow what he’s doing at times.

I'm leaving Bon Appétit video. Here's what's been happening over the last few months, and some thoughts. pic.twitter.com/L59blcESLv

— Priya Krishna (@priyakrishna) August 6, 2020

Ugh

More: https://www.businessinsider.com/bon-appetit-test-kitchen-priya-krishna-rick-martinez-2020-8?

Uugghh!!!

Rick, Sohla and Priya are three of the very best.

I don't wanna watch the shows if they aren't on them, and if Conde Nast isn't treating the BIPOC contributors right.

damn Conde Nast are really fucking this up, hey?

rip BA test kitchen

yeah it's fucking dead

time for them to pull a Deadspin

Hope Brad and Clare spin off from the brand quick, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzIqQ75mUWo

I support Sohla doing a tour of every other Youtube food channel

The NY Times had a series with the woman who criticized Chrissy Teigen and Marie Kondo, guessing she won't be doing any videos soon, they should swoop in and steal Sohla.

lol that genius recipes show has become unbearable in lockdown with all the baby/husband crap

This looked stupid but I watched it anyway and actually enjoyed it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=PQV-W_Ut8MY

Feels like I should just start a new thread for “food youtube channels that are not terrible” y/n

Would bookmark

https://gabyskitchen.com/

https://gabyskitchen.com🕸/

Bon Appétit, the multimedia food-journalism outlet that has experienced a summer of racial strife in the workplace, has a new editor in chief: Dawn Davis, a prominent editor and executive who has been one of the few Black power players in the book world.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/27/business/media/bon-appetit-dawn-davis-editor.html

Sohla has joined the Babish Culinary Universe, and it is good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zDZV-jGJ6w

meanwhile BA has attempted a woke relaunch. the metrics are not too encouraging so far and the whole thing has a gross post-Deadspin-exodus vibe, fairly or not.

Absolutelyfuckingnot. RIP

I’d love to confidently boycott it but once the algorithm starts suggesting new Brad videos I’m going to end up watching them

Ew. Brad is the LEAST appealing chef to me. I can barely watch his videos esp when the editors over-hack them.

Sohla said something fascinating a while back. When asked about how the other chefs were responding to the initial airing of the test kitchen inequality, she said something like (and I paraphrase), "Everyone is reacting differently. Some of my colleagues have already put out supportive statements, but, like, Brad just discovered racism yesterday."

Lol Brad strikes me as a real creep

It’s certainly possible to be a creep and a doofus at the same time, that’s true.

I find Brad's incoherence winning, he doesn't seem like a creep but a charming clod IMO

I don't know how much is the peeping on drama element, but the two new videos have 250k views per day so sadly the reboot might work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PsJilIaFio

Sohla has another show

This recipe seemed nuts to me at first -soaking the pasta in stock before cooking??? - but OMG was it delicious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5wxY614qGE

i watched that with interest and i don't even like cooked greens

I often cook my noodles in lightly stock cube'd water

I recently made the best oven fries by soaking the potatoes in hot (not boiling) water for 10 min first, so I'm definitely going to try soaking the pasta before cooking it.

these videos have way too much "having a laugh" in them now

omg just cook