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naraburns  nihil supernum  1yr ago (text post)   4036 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for February 17, 2023

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Hate to put out the AskReddit tier question. But what did you find to be grossly overrated?

I'm a Chinese food enthusiast and shop far and wide for authentic ingredients to recreate dishes at home. Once I found out that a 'chili oil with beef 'is a thing that exists and is apparently delicious, I immediately hit the Asian grocery store and got some. It was even more enticing to me because said product is not available in North America, well I don't live in a communist country (joke) so I got my hands on some fairly easily.

It was meh. Really did not live up to the hype from the linked video. Regular chili oil with fried minced beef, that's it. Maybe the American who made the video just finds it to be better because he knows there is a forbidden quality to it and his subconscious mind does the work. Obviously, not everyone's tastes are the same. Mildly regretting driving 45 minutes each way to the Asian market for one product.

I tried watching that channel for a while, and bounced pretty quickly for some reason. Not sure why: the methods are decent and the presentation is high quality.

I watch that channel without feeling any noticeable sense of repulsion. But if I were to choose something that bugs me on a subconscious level, it would be the presenter's dweeb voice, It's a perfect "well akkshually" voice 🤓. On another note, I don't know why is that voice so widespread on youtube. Voice is a big thing for me, I just about can't watch foodwishes because Chef John uptalks more than a 13-year-old valley girl, absolute torture for my ears.

I just about can't watch foodwishes because Chef John uptalks more than a 13-year-old valley girl, absolute torture for my ears.

Chef John has become a self-parody at this point. He's already made every dish that was worth it, so the new videos are 95% catchphrases and 5% content.

He put out too many videos, and should have rate limited his uploads a while back. There are only so many things to cook. I stopped watching a long time ago once I realized that his new recipes are starting to become combinations of his previous recipes with slight modifications.

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