Cooking Shows

[colinr0380]

We definitely have peanut butter in the UK (my mother used to love it on crackers! Which I think negated the healthy eating choice of eating a Ryvita in the first place, but probably made it tastier!) and keep it near to the jams in the supermarket, but it seems like some sort of abomination to combine the two. What next, peanut butter and chocolate? :-&

(Though it does seem that peanuts are a bit maligned at the moment due to how many people appear to get allergic to them)

[knives]

Is that a Reese’s joke or are you serious?

[accatone]

Marmite is a french stock pot. I couldn‘t stand the peanut butter storyline so took the chance - not too funny, sorry.

[colinr0380]

Is that a Reese’s joke or are you serious?

To quote Grandpa Simpson: "A little from column A, and a little from column B"!

(I'm more a fan of chocolate covered raisins rather than peanuts, you see)

[domino harvey]

Actual footage of Colin delivering his hot take on chocolate covered raisins:

[Feego]

My favorite snack mix is literally chocolate-covered raisins with peanuts.

[colinr0380]

[cdnchris]

(I'm more a fan of chocolate covered raisins rather than peanuts, you see)

My favorite snack mix is literally chocolate-covered raisins with peanuts.

Didn't realize how many disturbed people we have posting here.

[therewillbeblus]

I mean, that’s just the building blocks of sweet and savory trail mix - if we embellish with some chocolate chips and peanut butter chips, I’ll join the brigade

[Feego]

(I'm more a fan of chocolate covered raisins rather than peanuts, you see)

My favorite snack mix is literally chocolate-covered raisins with peanuts.

Didn't realize how many disturbed people we have posting here.

If you like movies and you don’t eat Raisinets, I don’t know what you’re even doing with your life. Also, you haven’t lived until you’ve tried chocolate-covered potato chips.

[therewillbeblus]

Chocolate-covered gummi bears take the cake though

[domino harvey]

WTF. Chris, right click delete the forum pls

[cdnchris]

It might be quicker to just get Elon to buy the site. He'd kill this place in no time.

[Red Screamer]

The best movie snack is not raisins but it IS frozen grapes

[DarkImbecile]

It might be quicker to just get Elon to buy the site. He'd kill this place in no time.

If you can get him to vastly overpay the way he did for Twitter, more power to you

[Murdoch]

If you like movies and you don’t eat Raisinets, I don’t know what you’re even doing with your life.

I just eat around them.

[flyonthewall2983]

I’ve softened my stance in recent years but whenever I’d get onion rings I would just eat the ring.

[domino harvey]

Internet Shaquille comes through with the only April Fools video worth watching for the second year in a row with today's parody of YT tech reviews - if you haven't seen it, his brutal catalog of every bad YT and TikTok cooking channel's tics in last year's video is even better, though it helps to watch a few other Internet Shaquille videos to get the joke of how far removed these are from his usual tone and approach

This year’s video targets well-known and annoying food YouTuber Joshua Weissman

[domino harvey]

After a few years of intermittent YouTube videos, Alton Brown is launching a new weekly series on his channel called Alton Brown Cooks Food

[zedz]

I am generally an unwilling hostage to cooking shows, especially competitive ones, but I was converted to the thrills and charms of the Korean Netflix series Culinary Class Wars. The gimmick is that it's elite chefs against non-elite chefs, but that ends up being more or less a level playing field.

What I liked about it:
It's brutal and concise. We start with 100 contestants, 80 of whom are knocked out in the first round, and it's whittled down to the winner in the next ten episodes. Nobody gets brought back from elimination in a 'surprise twist'.

It's not about personal drama, and it's not sentimental. Everybody behaves themselves, we don't get tear-jerking back stories or feuds. The contestants' personalities emerge and change through the course of the show rather than being manipulated and shoved down our throats. When somebody's eliminated, they just go.

It's really focused on the food, which can be weird and interesting. The contestants come from very different backgrounds, from Michelin-starred chefs to an old grandma who's been cooking in her little bar for decades, to a school dinner lady (brilliant with portioning and prep, unsurprisingly.)

The nature of the challenges are fun and smart (and not ridiculously constrictive), and highlight a range of skills. For instance:

Spoiler

- a team challenge that divides elite chefs from amateurs reveals pretty starkly that the latter are way, way better at teamwork.

- in a 'set up a restaurant for our invited guests' challenge one of the chefs self-eliminates because he cooks pasta correctly. Korean diners don't know about 'al dente' and think it's undercooked, even though the judges are aware that it's been prepared perfectly. Meanwhile, a team that looks at what the customers are dumping in the trash and rework their menu on the fly prevail.