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.
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.