Just when you think we have reached the height of stupidity, Epicurious (an astonishingly stupid name to begin with) decides to cancel beef because... climate change.
Today we announced that Epicurious is cutting out beef. It won’t appear in new Epi recipes, articles, newsletters, or on social. This isn’t a vendetta against cows or people who eat them. It’s a shift about sustainability; not anti-beef but pro-planet.
Our mission hasn’t changed. As always, we hope to inspire home cooks to be better, smarter, and happier in the kitchen. We understand you’re going to have questions, and we’ve tried to anticipate some of them. We’re also here to continue the conversation.
This is not a cooking site, it is a cult.
Every organization populated by pronouns types eventually becomes indistinguishable, it's the same BLM, climate change, feminism blather that you can't tell from any other or an activist organization.
Bon Appetit did a similar thing where they wiped out their existing talent to make room for people of diversity after the first round of Floyd riots. Amazingly they dropped their viewership by an order of magnitude at a time when interest in home cooking is unusually high and now 90% of their videos is the same low-T white guy anyway. At least one of their previous presenters started her own channel and is consistently outperforming them out of her home.
Unless I'm conflating two separate internet spats, I think that came from Sohla who they shitcanned after that. But before she was at BA, she was with Serious Eats and also caused drama there, some metoo shit if I recall correctly.
Now she's attached to soyboy Babish's channel. Can't wait til she crashes and burns his reddit-tier shit too.
His views have tanked since then. He'll get his previous average views on big specials, and most of his shit does half of what he used to pull. Meanwhile, she rarely gets a tenth of his views. His channel is dying, oh no.
I've noticed this as well.
I think it's in part due to the fact that his channels initial gimmick is kind of worked out. How many "Dish X" from "Show Y" are left to do?
Beyond that, almost every single attempt he's made to expand beyond that format has not gone well. Sohla and the "Babish Culinary Universe" have been cringe.
I say this as someone who genuinely likes Babish too!
His Basics series looked good, though now I turn to Adam Regusia for food ideas.
Look at Ethan Chlebowski. He’s solid as well
I started watching Adam Ragusea's channel fairly recently too. I like his stuff pretty well. One his episodes mentioned the old TV show "Molto Mario" with Mario Batali. It's now almost impossible to find due to Batali being cancelled, but there are some episodes on Youtube. Pretty interesting and have gotten some good recipes.
The other guy I watch sometimes is Joshua Weissman. He's a bit of a douchebag, but solid recipes and technique. Gotten some good stuff from him. (And none of the wokeness that sometimes intrudes on Ragusea or occasionally Babish.)
I'm not subbed to Babish but he shows up in my recommended once in a while. A few days back I saw a recent video of his, on "kitchen tips", with some tiktok thot. It was literally unwatchable, I made it about 5 minutes in and I wanted to strangle both of them. The thot provided zero value and was incredibly awkward, and Babish was acting like a cringy highschooler trying to get into her pants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGSRakRS_J8
Jesus, even just the editing, the style of humor, it's all so different from how his old brand used to be. "No, wordplay is out of the question, as is dry sarcasm. We need big visible camera jokes to make everything seem less stiff, and slapstick humor so that it translates well from China. Act more stupid, and the title needs to be a list of numbers!"
I frickin' hate Sohla. She is such an annoying personality. And yes, she has caused drama at every single place she has been (excepting perhaps Babish).
The good news is that Babish and Sohla have "mutually" agreed to not renew her contract, because Sohla is ... so busy with new projects. Not because her views sucked, yeah.
I say good news because I like Babish, though I feel like within the last year or so he's come close to jumping the shark point.
Babish's content started going downhill when he showed his stupid fucking face. Happens to every content creator. Stay anon, make good shit, it's literally that simple.
I finally got sick of his shit at Troy's casserole from community. Dude didn't even try for the show accurate version, and then did some froufrou bullshit instead of making a casserole. Like nigga you have one job and it's to make food from the tele or movies
That and the channel rename. "Culinary Universe", my man you ain't even a proper chef. Epitome of reddit-tier Dunning-Krugerism
That is such a weird phenomenon I've noticed, as soon as a youtuber shows their face their content turns to shit.
Seen it a few times now.
My thought is that their videos start being more about them and not the content. I don't think it's entirely a conscious change either, but they always end up mugging the camera or doing dumb shit.
And if they start streaming regularly it's completely over. Crit1kal is a good example, I literally can't watch him anymore because his channel is just clips from his twitch streams now. 0 effort
Her recipes suck ass, too
It would be pretty funny if Rea's youtube career get blown up because he gets accused of doing a misconduct to the least attractive woman on the platform.
I liked Claire having big city Jewish girl fits over candy bars and Brad was an entertaining big bear.
The others... Nah. The gay guy with a wife was fussy, the Arab gay just plain irritating. Skinny older Jewish woman was okay, I guess (Carla or something).
But at the same time, if they showed a white person cooking that food, itd be racist. Catch 22
CRT is "heads I win, tails you lose".
Daily reminder to drop Binging with Reddit after he brought on that racist, whiny, black hole of charisma. "Why am I, someone who was hired to test recipies, not getting paid as much as the most popular and fun hosts? Brad isn,xt funny and enjoyable, and you are racist for liking a white man"
Yeah, these websites are idiotic. Beef is very popular still. Epicurious, isn't even a vegan website, so what the fuck are they doing? They're going to kill themselves. Good! LOL.
Aren't Bon Appetit Magazine and Epicurious one and the same? Or at least closely related? When I was teenager(ish) Epicurious had a cooking show I watched and I distinctly remember the host saying "Brought to you by Epicurious and Bon Appetit Magazine." at the end of every show.
EDIT: I got the wording wrong but I got the content right.
Did not know that. Apparently they are distinct companies but with significant overlap in staff (and of course both owned by Conde Nast but who isn't).
If they care so much about the planet, why not stop making your crap in countries with no pollution standards, and then proceeding to ship all those good across the entire planet? This isn't about "saving the planet", it's about crippling the west and turning us all into serfs.
Exactly, "globalism" is the source of 70-90% of the pollution.
"We aren't anti x, we're pro y" this is 99% of the left's thing. "We arent anti white, were pro black, we arent anti babys not dying, we're pro choice, we arent anti europeans we're pro immigrants, we arent anti male we're pro female, we aren't anti well adjusted normal teenagers we're pro trans", every time.
Unless I'm completely misremembering it, there's a line from Shakespeare's Caesar that goes "it's not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more," spoken by Brutus to the crowd after he and his buddies assassinated Caesar.
Either these people are completely ignorant of the cultural significance of that reference, yet still use a line that nearly directly alludes to it, or they think they're going to "right side of history" themselves out of the trouble they're causing.
Seems like their tantrum has done the trick. Looks like plenty of people walking away with their wallets over this one.
Meanwhile, the Bearded Butchers beef video just hit ten million views.
I found some Russian guy the other day, all his videos are just methods of building a fire to cook various forms of meat, has like 25 millions views on every video.
Gonna need a link on that. Seems like useful info.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojgnYDPEU5Y&list=RDCMUCHK357UDDmL6EMTb4YPE7ew&start_radio=1&t=568
Two dudes completely disassemble a buffalo with a common kitchen knife. Awesome.
Just beef?
What about wild "game"?
I bet they'll never "cancel" goat and sheep ....
The push against meat seems to just be against beef and pork, mostly. Stuff turd whirlders like will never be touched, and they'll always make excuses for killing wildlife.
I think they want to inflate the prices of beef and pork with aggressive environmental regulations.
But I thought Chairman Biden said that one burger per month was still allowed!
Did you see all of the “fact checks” correcting the record after that?
These people always deny, deny, deny even as they blatantly do what they deny they are doing. Nobody will be arrested for misgendering someone, until they are, and it’s a good thing. Nobody is taking your games, until they do, and it’s a good thing.
Ideas so good they have to deny their existence. Surely “the right side of history”.
I've seen a screenshot alleging that too (1 burger per month). What is the "correct" version?
Only for members in good standing with the Glorious Party.
Dissidents get nothing!
"Hur dur cow farts are at the core of my ideological identity" lol
Good thing I don't need their help cooking beef. Which I will continue to eat if I have to figure out how to farm it myself.
The government needs to butt out of people's diet. They are corrupted by the food companies and totally suck at it. I mean WTF was the food pyramid? Here eat a shit ton of bread we said it's healthy. I feel so much better on a meat and vegetables diet versus their preferred method of grain processed into neat shapes and put in a flashy box. It's not even expensive like they claim, particularly the fresh vegetables that are some of the cheapest food I buy.
The sacred cow has been replaced with the holy nigger
I had never heard of this website until today. Good luck getting people to look at your recipes when you remove everyone’s favorite meat
What do these people think happens to chicken, pork, and turkey production when beef is off the menu? Guess what, prices skyrocket and farmers scale up to produce more.
That's the plan. Duh.
The German Cat
I used to watch their videos. Well that's a shame. No more.
The name 'epicurious' comes from the word epicurean.
I am aware. But it's combined with 'curious' to make it a pure cringe-dad joke type word.
"Epicurious?"
"Not anymore."
no, you don't get to preach to me about ANYTHING until the china problem is solved.
honk honk beef.
Force starvations Good plan.
It is called Epicurious, so you know it’s a gross lefty site from the outset. The only surprise here is that they let meat remain for so long to begin with.
I like this new rationale strategy - I'm not anti-gun control, I'm pro-self defense and I'm here to continue this important conversation.
Cool. More for me!
What next? Home depot stops selling lumber??
Yes, I want all leftists to abandon red meat, it will mean more for me.
Thanks for using archive.is
Faggots gonna faggot
Ima just leave this here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQU_VPbv_sU
Because eating red meat makes you strong and healthy. People who are strong and healthy don’t want the government to control their lives.
"Everything the government is doing right now is designed to make you fat, weak, stupid, depressed, lazy, and reliant on crumbs they wipe off their plates. Heath replaced by pharmaceuticals. Education replaced by programming. Hard work replaced by handouts. These people hate you."
-Ian Smith, owner of Atilis Gym, who defied New Jersey lockdowns
Inversion is satanic.
"The World" is the opposite of God's kingdom in many ways. It's really bizarre when you start to look into it. The World gives you an identity only after you've proven your worthwhile - Jesus gives you worth and an identity before you've done anything.
So... an identity that means nothing.
More like an idenety so great that there's no possible way you could earn enough to be worth it.
This.
There's an ongoing effort to push things that make people physically unhealthy. Promoting physical health might unironically be one of the best ways to counteract all of this bullshit. Healthier body means a healthier mind.
Exactly. Beef (AS LONG AS ITS GRASS FED) is the best protein for humans. Ironically, anything grass fed IS NOT bad for the planet.
So, if they were being honest, they would be against FACTORY FARMING of all kinds, not just a blanket statement against red meat.
But buh god would going after factory farming make every agri mega corp pull their advertisements and thus would never happen.
He has investments in both Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods. He doesn't have much left of Beyond Meat because he pumped and dumped that shit so hard. There's probably a good story in there if someone were to dig deep. I remember he went on all these tech youtubers channels and hyped it up while the soy goblin hosts declared it was indistinguishable from meat. While this is going on some food youtubers jump in to do taste tests on their own and declare it pretty fucking bad. Hype. Hype. Hype. Big IPO. Bill Gates Foundation sells off its stock at the top and FUCKING crash.
I bought a pack of Beyond Meat Italian sausages a while ago. They were truly fucking awful. I ate three bites then chucked them all in the trash. No real flavor plus mealy texture equals shit.
There's a local vegan place that has awesome Incredible burgers. They're on our regular takeout schedule a couple of times a month.
My kid gets a "plain" version because he doesn't like the toppings. One time they messed up and gave us all plain versions -- just bread, bun, lettuce.. none of their special sauce, none of the caramelized onions, no other toppings, etc.
Turns out an Incredible burger tastes like garbage without all the toppings.
Plain beef burger with nothing on it FTW.
this but unironically
A vegan coworker took me to this vegan restaurant he used to frequent, where everything was vegan versions of recipes that normally would contain meat (eg. vegan burgers, vegan buffalo wings, vegan mayonnaise, etc...). But it was all heavily processed, and I remember telling the guy "why do you come here to pretend you're eating meat but you're eating a bunch of unhealthy processed crap? Aren't you better off finding dishes that aren't pretending to be something they're not?"
Another time I went to this bbq restaurant with another vegan coworker, and the only vegan thing on the menu was a "vegan burger" very similar to the plain impossible burger you described. I had to laugh when I saw this thing, because they clearly had no desire to cater to vegans at all; but I felt bad I dragged this guy along to this restaurant and he had to pay money for it.
Do you have to do the butchering yourself?
Ground beef heart mixed with a bit of fattier meat makes a great chili base.
Properly prepped and cooked, liver can be tolerated.
But kidney is absolute shit.
Well, it's the body's water filter, so it's probably loaded with all kinds of gunk accumulated over the cow's lifetime.
I'm not surprised people like heart and tongue. They're specialized muscle tissue, but still muscle.
Never heard of "Flintstone Steak". Thanks for the info!
Do tongues really end up as dog food? Tongue tacos are the best.
Most, if not all, places that will sell you a cow or half cow will happily cut it up however you want. They usually sell as a bunch of pre-cuts and ground beef, as Mr. FuckCNN said above, but you can always ask for something special.
If you live in places outside of DC, likesay farther out than the farthest sticks of NoVa, many of those same places will also offer a whole or half hog, venison, and sometimes even bison.
I don't know if this is a regional or family thing but giving a newly wed couple a half cow is "the thing to do." It's a fairly modern idea as it implies that the couple has refrigeration/freezer but it's not that far from the idea of a dowry and the husband taking over the herd.
You could probably take it to a local butcher. There are videos on youtube that go into a lot of detail about how to do it.
The zoomers and faggots need something else to fear and virtue signal about now that COVID has been beaten to death by the MSM.