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Of course. The vast majority of "cooking" videos are intended for entertainment, not instruction. I can honestly say that the majority of what I know today abou
by airwejtilawj 3y ago
Of course. The vast majority of "cooking" videos are intended for entertainment, not instruction. I can honestly say that the majority of what I know today about cooking I learned from Youtube, but the most popular videos on Youtube are the most shallow ones, the ones that do three second cuts between unrelated images and spend most of their time showing people's faces instead of the purported subject matter. For most cooking videos, 95% of viewers will never even consider actually doing any cooking based on what they watched. But in spite of that, Youtube is an incredible learning resource for the minority of users who actually want to use it to learn. Maybe that's the best we can hope for.
- aprentic 3y agoI'd say the area where cooking videos particularly shine is technique and visual assessment. It's much harder to describe the proper motion in text than to just show a video. A still image of dough doesn't show you the elasticity as well as a video does. Areas they're particularly bad for is anything involving data; recipes, ratios, times. Those are all much easier to see in text. They're both pretty bad at teaching "feel". There's no way around tasting and poking at any recipe you're not familiar with. Neither videos nor text will teach you how to do that. They'll tell you it's important but you really just need to do it a bunch.