/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.14282900]

I was not a regular /ck/ visitor. Did /ck/ hate Babish right from the start or they started to hate him when be became more popular?

[Anonymous No.14282902]

I didn't hear about you until you started advertising your channel here.

[Anonymous No.14282907]

1st of /ck/ is a bunch of fat losers that don't know how to cook

2nd of all Babish is based

3rd of all be a chad and do what you like to do, not something /ck/ wants you to do.

[Anonymous No.14282942]

>>14282907
yes

no

yes

[Anonymous No.14282953]

His videos are well-made and some of his recipes are really good.

The only thing that really irks me about him is that he is clearly not a goofy, charismatic guy and insists on trying to present himself in that way. There is nothing wrong with not being particularly charismatic, I just wish he'd show more of his natural personality.

The best way to exemplify what I mean is to watch any videos he's made with Brad Leone. Perfect example of natural charisma being matched with forced charisma. Brad looks relaxed and happy the whole way through. Babish looks like he's anxious as fuck and desperately trying to calculate where to put his hands and what to say next to achieve maximum goofiness.

[Anonymous No.14282975]

>>14282900
I hate all e-celebs.

[Anonymous No.14282978]

>>14282942
your opinion doesn't matte,r you fuck. look at the 1st. also make your own business off of youtube in fucking new york cost of living. get gud you sad fuck.

[Anonymous No.14283003]

>>14282900
i learned a lot when i started watching his shit, but eventually you start to recognize the formula and despise it.

[Anonymous No.14283010]

>>14282900
It's good intro material, but besides that, his personality and videos are just insufferable.

[Anonymous No.14283087]

>>14282900
We love Babish, the only ones who hate him are Fagusea's reddit shills

[Anonymous No.14283340]

>>14282953
Well he's got a background in advertising, he probably knows too much theory about what people like and how goofy people act for him to actually be natural about it since being natural "Isnt what the people want"

[Anonymous No.14283353]

>>14283087
>here on the “chan” we love our ecelebs
>those other guys are reddit losers
kill yourself

[Anonymous No.14283434]

I hate how he uses kosher salt for everything. The whole point of kosher salt is for curing meats, for normal dishes regular iodized salt makes for sense.

[Anonymous No.14283696]

I like his videos, hate him as a person. Typical brooklyn poofta hipster, some fanook who wears smart casual everywhere he goes, who thinks baldness makes him look like a man when he looks like he dates white men exclusively

[Anonymous No.14283698]

>>14282907
hello based department???

[Anonymous No.14283880]

It's pretty obvious that he's not a cooking guy, and it annoys me that people think he's amazing at it. He's not. His fingers are too... shy? Hesitant? Most of this videos are him trying out a recipe from America's Test Kitchen; he can follow a recipe, but his skill is amateur at best. The cannoli episode was especially painful.

When you watch his videos, he seems like some guy from film school that was thrown into a kitchen with fancy gadgets he could play with, and I'm right, because he said in an interview,

"I’m a filmmaker, not a cook. And I had watched a whole lot of food videos on YouTube and I saw a gap in the market, where food content was not food-oriented enough, in my mind. So I decided that I would make this show specifically about the food."

But if I'm going to be honest, I'm still subscribed. I like the production and entertainment values.

[Anonymous No.14283897]

>>14282953

Are you a woman? That is such a female way of thinking.

No one would give a shit about his videos if he didn't put as much effort into his videos. The fake personality is part of the effort required to make something that people would watch.

[Anonymous No.14283914]

>>14283897
Nayrt, but I cringe every time Babish tries to be funny. It's okay to not do a weird celebrity impression, his radio drawl carries the show fine.

[Anonymous No.14283950]

>>14282907
enjoy your hipster memefood. babish has always been arrogant lo-fi trash

[Anonymous No.14283958]

>>14283914
You can tell that Brad's videos are shot in an improvisational style. It's actually a little surprising how many people are uncomfortable operating like this.

Babish is calculated and painstakingly edited anti-comedy.

[Anonymous No.14283977]

>>14282900
I've always disliked him because he doesn't make content I give a shit about. It's all meme bullshit recipes named after tv shows prepared specifically for reddit so /u/oliverbabish can respond to every comment even though he didn't make the thread. nothing he does is particularly good or clever, it's just dumb pop culture shit

[Anonymous No.14283984]

>>14283977
here's an example. what the fuck is even the point in this?

[Anonymous No.14283992]

>>14282900
what watch is he wearing there? i usually see him in a 116610

[Anonymous No.14284134]

No particular hate here.
He's vaguely amusing, and mostly doesn't give awful advice.

[Anonymous No.14284177]

>>14282900
>2020
>Not letting those flavours get to know each other 5 times per dish
Do you even cook?

[Anonymous No.14284182]

>>14282900
I like his basics videos but yeah I really don't care for the meme TV-show recipes

[Anonymous No.14284219]

>>14282900
He seems really disingenuous in all his videos.
Also, whenever he is on screen with other people you can kind of tell that they all hate him.
Like when he was in the test kitchen and started having a meltdown, accusing people of hiding whisks and making fun of him.
And the other people just kinda shook their head going "what the hell is this manlet going on about?"

[Anonymous No.14284234]

>>14282900
Personally, I think he got too popular and started chasing things that get views over things he actually wants to make. The early videos have a very different energy to the newer ones and it feels more honest, somehow.

[Anonymous No.14284254]

>>14283984
its more fun when hes making shit like rum ham and crazy cartoon food. its fucking pointless when hes making "Buttered Noodles from famous television show Community"

[Anonymous No.14284258]

>>14284219
Well when i give it some more thought i feel like his persona during his shows that make him feel uppity.

When he's interacting with other people he feels more awkward and geeky. If you compartmentalize these two behaviors by understanding that his standard videos are just him acting as a tryhard cook, it's not too bad.

I think he's decent, it's just that whatever he teaches you he probably learned a week ago for the video, not an actual food chef like chef john that will give his own take on a dish.

Even Fagusea feels like he's done the recipes he presents quite a few time before making a video of them. With Andrew it feels like he only made it like once or twice, especially in basics.

[Anonymous No.14284302]

>>14284254
I agree but I've never made it through a single one of his videos. making "calzones from seinfeld" is just making calzones. there's nothing special about it just because it was mentioned in a show. he just looks up a recipe.

[Anonymous No.14284327]

>>14283897
no I'm just autistic and analyze people all the time so I can learn how to act natural

[Anonymous No.14284351]

>>14282900
he makes good quality videos with great production value and technique. It's great entertainment and he's made some good recipes in the past. 4chan just hates anything popular because they mistake that for a personality.

the one legit criticism I've seen if him is that he just takes other people's recipes and then had better production value. He just makes stuff from Food Lab, Bon Appatite and such.

[Anonymous No.14284383]

>>14283950
>lemme just stuff as many 4chan buzzwords in here as possible, you guys accept me right?
lurk more faggot

[Anonymous No.14284392]

>>14282900
popular = bad

[Anonymous No.14286237]

>>14282953
He was also horrible on hot ones

[Anonymous No.14286250]

>>14282900
The issue with Babish and most social media cooking is due to the lack of flavor in images. We don't know how good something smells or tastes the only thing we have to go off of is looks. Because of this food needs to become overly produced visually to make up for it. Take for example Babish's constant requirement to do cross sections or when he didn't pour sauce properly, and looked like a fool, to get a more pleasing angle for the viewer.
This is also why so many places are doing amazing with meh-tier yet photogenic food. Look at all the average tasting but whimsical looking milkshakes on social media.
Then again this probably all started with shows like Cake Boss.

[Anonymous No.14286255]

>>14283977
But that is literally what his content was from the get go.

[Anonymous No.14286269]

>>14282953
>his natural personality
He's naturally a boring fuck

[Anonymous No.14286270]

>>14282900
at first people thought it was gimmicky especially since we didn't know he had the head and face of a hipster

[Anonymous No.14286300]

Reeks of low t faggot. No personality or passion. I would rather watch some stupid shit like badlands chugs, at least that fat negro seems to be enjoying himself.

[Anonymous No.14286482]

>>14286255
and I've always disliked him

[Anonymous No.14286584]

>>14282900
Honestly Andrew I didn't hate you until I came on here and saw you making a thread like this one.

[Anonymous No.14286619]

>>14284327
lol poor little autist. you will never be normal.

............and that's a good thing

[Anonymous No.14286626]

popular like everything else here, you get popular, the contrarians get upset

[Anonymous No.14286632]

>>14282900
I always hated this faggot.

[Anonymous No.14286646]

>>14282900
>Did /ck/ hate Babish right from the start
The contrarian edgelords and the ones that just hate youtubers in general did. The rest either don't give a shit at all (and probably still don't) or came to dislike him because of below.

>or they started to hate him when be became more popular?
You mean:
>Do the haters hate him because he be became more popular?
No, they hate him because of the changes he made when he became more popular.
Possibly because he was getting a git pudgy, he went on a diet kick and probably decided then that "Binging" was an unhealthy thing to call a channel that he wanted to be more responsible with his diet in. He started Basics with Babish and Being with Babish around the same time, maybe Basis was earlier, I don't know or care.
Basics is ok but anyone in /ck/ that takes cooking seriously isn't really learning anything from that but "Being with..." is what /ck/ tends to regard as cancer.
It's friendship-simulator stuff, it's him being a camwhore without stripping for us, milking viewers by convincing them that he cares about them and likes them. It's Patreon instead of ad-views.
I don't even care about sponsorship but patreon pisses me off, it's "Make me rich because I cook something now and then".
Combined with some flexing about status symbols that the internet has bought him like giving his brother a Tesla and something about a watch, these are the things that create resentment.

I still watch the regular cooking videos if there's something interesting on them.

[Anonymous No.14286658]

>>14286584
>threads about people I dislike are always made by said people
what a world you must live in faggot

[Anonymous No.14286659]

>>14282900
Goddamn Babish has some nice fucking arms

[Anonymous No.14286680]

>>14286659
All of the people I have met with tattoos are NPC/mental problems/druggie garbage. I am glad people have tattoos, it tells me to stay the fuck away from them.

[Anonymous No.14286693]

>>14283984
>what the fuck is even the point in this?
>3.9M views
>what the fuck is even the point in this?
But you already showed what the point is.

Or as was better said by Laurence Olivier, pic related

[Anonymous No.14287929]

>>14282900
>hate Babish right from the start
if you dont instinctively want to demolish the face of this soylent negative-T-level fronthole licking living meme of a bitch faggot then youre an even bigger faggot yourself