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Music to Cook To

This took a couple days to playlist, a couple hours to prep, two hours to shoot, and a lifetime to upload. My heart goes out to anyone who produces long-form content in 4K. This was brutal!!! Please enjoy :)

Cooking for a Non-Cooker

• The number one hardest part about teaching is avoiding assumptions about what your learner already knows. This was the hardest part of my desk job, and it's the inspiration behind this vid.
• This is the shrimp dish I cooked on cam, and it's fantastic: 2022-10-27 17:51:35 +0000 UTC View Post

What to Drink When You're Not Drinking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuXuqi2wDy0

This is a short I wrote after spending one month trying a dozen different bitters and a half dozen different hop waters. I really wanted to love the Napa Valley bi...

Pretty Smoothies - Early Access & Notes

• If you're gonna make just one of these recipes, let it be the Blue Cloud one. The Turmeric and Beet smoothie is delicious to me but I could see a lot of people being turned off by the earthiness.
• I don't understand the appeal of bee pollen. What's the deal with that stuff? It just ...
  2022-10-13 03:06:12 +0000 UTC View Post

Is Stock Trading Just Gambling?

I'm going to Las Vegas tomorrow to employ my favorite "Three Point Molly" craps strategy. But you can't really strategize in a game about rolling dice, right? 

E-Rose, iThorn, & Cyberbud Part 2

The first time I posted an E-rose iThorn it was in bonus video format, but I think it should live on in text format from now on so $3 patrons can read them. Here's what's in this week's edition:

• Rose: A Youtuber changing what it means to "vlog" or "react"
• Thorn: A Ne...
  2022-09-14 19:49:47 +0000 UTC View Post

Carajillo Shakerato Early Access + Notes

• I get to sit on this one for a full week while I look for reasons to edit it before it goes live.
• This might be my most context-heavy video ever(?) The actual recipe is just "Take a shot of liquid A and shake it with a shot of liquid B", but most of this video is actually about exp...
  2022-09-12 14:29:22 +0000 UTC View Post

One Good Thing & One Bad Thing - Online Edition

Seasonal allergies are back, baby!

Rose: The new king of boiler room sets
Thorn: Channel 5 YouTube comments

Fire Extinguisher Early Access & Notes

• I kept asking if it would be weird to put an ad at the end of a fire safety video and people kept answering "no". The reason I still didn't add one is that not having to wait for approval means I can post this immediately. This won't be an early access where patrons can enjoy exclusivity fo...
  2022-09-04 18:38:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Auggy Vloggy Doggy Part 2

Topics Covered:

• The drag queen that blew up Arizona politics
• My new favorite way to oil your cutting board
• Replacing alcohol with mushrooms
• Barkley is finally ready

Curry Paste

Originally, I wanted to make this video about all the ways to use up pesto. I ended up swapping it over to curry paste because I think its suggested uses are far more novel. You can do most of these things with pesto as well, and you could even bake it into bread. I also considered making this a ...

How to Enjoy Making Salads

This one's gonna take a long while to get annotated, captioned, chaptered up, and full of salad links, so use this valuable time to post your guaranteed-to-be-a-top-comment comments. Also, no ad at the end of this video! This not-a-recession's got hands 

In Defense of Air Fryers

I posted about this on instagram and it drove people crazy so I'm doubling down by sharing it with a 2000% wider audience:
https://youtube.com/shorts/L5m1_889qaQ

Tasting Waters with A Celebrity Water Sommelier

I never would have guessed that a late-night impulse buy of six water bottles would lead to a 90-minute tasting session and one of my favorite Patron-only bonus videos.

Vegas Trip Stories

A stranger's wild hissy fit, some blue men, and big news in the never-ending quest to be able to sell custom ceramics!

(This manufacturer also produces some sage green and speckled grey glazes, so I will order some more samples before deciding what to do.)

Culinary Uses for Dry Ice

• There's a very funny moment I had to edit out of the video* where I drop a chunk of dry ice into the blender. It touches the metal blade and makes a loud high-pitched squeal, which visibly terrifies me. You can see me jump and recoil like a big baby, and then Darla's head pops up and rotate...
  2022-07-07 16:28:41 +0000 UTC View Post

Dall-E Mini Makes Me Unreasonably Mad

On the complaint docket for today:

• Darla
• AI Image Bot Ripoffs
• YouTube Ad Agencies
• Miranda Rights

Burger for One :(

• Please enjoy the newest Patreon benefit: cursed thumbnails
• I don't think the world needs another burger video, at least in terms of pure instruction. The reason I made this is more to build context around why I make this style of burger at home. The cleanup is much easier since the...
  2022-06-21 17:03:56 +0000 UTC View Post

Pasta Primavera Early Access + Notes

• I started recording this video not knowing that I had a brand new ant infestation in my kitchen. Darla keeps digging stuff up and bringing it into the house, and her latest gift attracted a whole bunch of ants. I was too locked in to break down and take care of the ants, so I'm actually bei...
  2022-06-09 17:52:42 +0000 UTC View Post

Foodtube Woes of Early June

Topics covered in this rant slash mope sesh include:

• Does instagram finally stink enough to quit?
• Why are voicemail greetings so freakin long?
• Will I ever post a YouTube short that doesn't get wildly misunderstood?
• Lessons learned after one year of joblessne...
  2022-06-06 23:31:38 +0000 UTC View Post

Should You Trust My Advice?

I go to DeFalcos to get my chili paste because it's a good excuse to buy one of their eggplant parm sandwiches, but Amazon has it for the exact same price.

Knife Sharpening Early Access & Notes

• The least pleasurable of these options to use was the Ruixin Pro table-mounted sharpener thing.
• I cut myself shooting this video! (I started bleeding a bit after slicing a finger on the cardboard while trying to get all these knives to fit in the envelope)
• The Knife Aid we...
  2022-05-31 14:41:03 +0000 UTC View Post

Tomorrow is the Season Premiere of Pizza Wars

I was supposed to be episode 2, but they made a last-minute switch. My episode comes out TOMORROW on the First We Feast YouTube channel!

This is a short I knocked out today for a a couple reasons:

1. I want to direct my audience to the video once it's out

2. I wanted to tell thi...