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Just wanna say that I'm a huge fan of Kenji. His Youtube channel is simple, interesting and the opposite of snob. A true food passionate that is doing whatever

Just wanna say that I'm a huge fan of Kenji. His Youtube channel is simple, interesting and the opposite of snob. A true food passionate that is doing whatever he can to go against gate keeping. He's been inspiring me to cook more (and successful at it!) for a couple years. https://www.youtube.com/user/kenjialt https://www.youtube.com/user/kenjialt

tootie 5y ago
He's talking about this story on a reddit thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/nwtg18/j_kenji_l%C3%B3pezalt_is_seattles_most_powerful_food/h1g4wvi/?context=3 https://old.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/nwtg18/j_kenji_l%C...
- malwarebytess 5y ago
  The reason I read his work is because it respects my time, no faff. Seems like he takes some care to do this. >If I don’t like something, I simply don’t write about it. you do a much better service by leading people to great places they may not have heard of than telling them to avoid a place they probably weren’t going to go to anyway
jghn 5y ago
I've been following Kenji since his earliest days on SeriousEats. He's great, and I'm so glad he has had the opportunity to change all of our lives for the better. I'm not a fan of watching video content, much prefer reading text. My Kenji consumption has dropped by quite a bit since he's moved to mostly Youtube. He's doing what he wants/loves though, and that's what matters.
- sondr3 5y ago
  I agree with you in that I prefer written material most of the time, but for food I actually prefer video over text. Mostly because it allows me to see and get a feel for the workflow, the timings and such that are impossible to get across from just a recipe. Especially for baking videos have been great because when it says “should be tacky to the touch but not sticky” it’s always “how sticky is sticky, what is tacky, how do I know what it feels like etc” and seeing a baker doing it helps immensely. Once I’ve gotten a good grasp for the process though I far prefer using a recipe.
  - jghn 5y ago
    Fair point. If there's a new-to-me technique or something else tricky I 100% agree. As in sometimes I have the opposite complaint where even reading a recipe it's still unclear what I should be doing. For instance there are times when I finally see a recipe made on Americas Test Kitchen/Milk Street/etc I realize I've been doing it wrong. I suppose what I'm saying is I want the text recipe first, and perhaps the video. From what I've seen on the Youtube channel the video is provided and sometimes the written recipe.
  - ethbr0 5y ago
    Watched for the first time just now. I love the PoV videos! It's really helpful to see just what the hands are doing, and no cuts. The biggest gaps in written IMHO tend to be (a) things people do but don't realize they do, (b) things people do but assume everyone else already knows, (c) things people do more efficiently but don't think to mention (obvious example: use a cook time break to clean prep-ware).
    - rootusrootus 5y ago
      > I love the PoV videos! I would much prefer a stable camera video. The PoV videos are unwatchable for me unless I take dramamine.
      - ethbr0 5y ago
        Desktop, laptop, or mobile? I was watching on mobile, so had a stable reference for most of my field of view.
      - jasonwatkinspdx 5y ago
        Do you think using one of the newer action style cameras that does horizon leveling would help?
        rootusrootus 5y ago
        Yep, anything that stabilizes the picture would help immensely. It's when the camera is panning around showing what he's looking at while my head is actually stationary that it triggers severe motion sickness.
- yen223 5y ago
  I've gotten more educational value out of his cooking videos, where he straps on a GoPro and cooks a dish, than from most recipe posts. There are nuances about the cooking process that textual recipes simply lack the bandwidth to capture.
- jshmrsn 5y ago
  He is working on a new book, focused on cooking with woks. So more reading to be done some time soonish.

tootie 5y ago

He's talking about this story on a reddit thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/nwtg18/j_kenji_l%C3%B3pezalt_is_seattles_most_powerful_food/h1g4wvi/?context=3 https://old.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/nwtg18/j_kenji_l%C...

malwarebytess 5y ago
The reason I read his work is because it respects my time, no faff. Seems like he takes some care to do this. >If I don’t like something, I simply don’t write about it. you do a much better service by leading people to great places they may not have heard of than telling them to avoid a place they probably weren’t going to go to anyway

jghn 5y ago

I've been following Kenji since his earliest days on SeriousEats. He's great, and I'm so glad he has had the opportunity to change all of our lives for the better. I'm not a fan of watching video content, much prefer reading text. My Kenji consumption has dropped by quite a bit since he's moved to mostly Youtube. He's doing what he wants/loves though, and that's what matters.

sondr3 5y ago
I agree with you in that I prefer written material most of the time, but for food I actually prefer video over text. Mostly because it allows me to see and get a feel for the workflow, the timings and such that are impossible to get across from just a recipe. Especially for baking videos have been great because when it says “should be tacky to the touch but not sticky” it’s always “how sticky is sticky, what is tacky, how do I know what it feels like etc” and seeing a baker doing it helps immensely. Once I’ve gotten a good grasp for the process though I far prefer using a recipe.
- jghn 5y ago
  Fair point. If there's a new-to-me technique or something else tricky I 100% agree. As in sometimes I have the opposite complaint where even reading a recipe it's still unclear what I should be doing. For instance there are times when I finally see a recipe made on Americas Test Kitchen/Milk Street/etc I realize I've been doing it wrong. I suppose what I'm saying is I want the text recipe first, and perhaps the video. From what I've seen on the Youtube channel the video is provided and sometimes the written recipe.
- ethbr0 5y ago
  Watched for the first time just now. I love the PoV videos! It's really helpful to see just what the hands are doing, and no cuts. The biggest gaps in written IMHO tend to be (a) things people do but don't realize they do, (b) things people do but assume everyone else already knows, (c) things people do more efficiently but don't think to mention (obvious example: use a cook time break to clean prep-ware).
  - rootusrootus 5y ago
    > I love the PoV videos! I would much prefer a stable camera video. The PoV videos are unwatchable for me unless I take dramamine.
    - ethbr0 5y ago
      Desktop, laptop, or mobile? I was watching on mobile, so had a stable reference for most of my field of view.
    - jasonwatkinspdx 5y ago
      Do you think using one of the newer action style cameras that does horizon leveling would help?
      - rootusrootus 5y ago
        Yep, anything that stabilizes the picture would help immensely. It's when the camera is panning around showing what he's looking at while my head is actually stationary that it triggers severe motion sickness.
yen223 5y ago
I've gotten more educational value out of his cooking videos, where he straps on a GoPro and cooks a dish, than from most recipe posts. There are nuances about the cooking process that textual recipes simply lack the bandwidth to capture.
jshmrsn 5y ago
He is working on a new book, focused on cooking with woks. So more reading to be done some time soonish.