<story><title>Are cooking videos making us better cooks?</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/07/dining/cooking-videos-tiktok.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mabbo</author><text>The absolute pinnacle of cooking video chefs today has to be J. Kenji Lopez-Alt[0], in large part because of his use of first person view.&lt;p&gt;He straps a go-pro to this head and you see what he sees while he cooks. There&amp;#x27;s no cuts or retakes (unless he&amp;#x27;s waiting for something to cook or gets interrupted by his kids). There&amp;#x27;s no swaps. And it&amp;#x27;s all real- he&amp;#x27;s cooking dinner for his family.&lt;p&gt;And it doesn&amp;#x27;t always go perfectly. (See the excellent video titled &amp;quot;Doesn&amp;#x27;t matter, still pizza&amp;quot;).&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m a better cook for what I&amp;#x27;ve learned watching him cook.&lt;p&gt;[0] - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;m.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;@JKenjiLopezAlt&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;m.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;@JKenjiLopezAlt&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dagw</author><text>While I&amp;#x27;m a huge fan of J. Kenji Lopez-Alt and Serious Eats is my go to web site before cooking just about anything, nothing I&amp;#x27;ve seen before or since beats Alton Brown and Good Eats when it comes to video based cooking education.</text></comment>
<story><title>Are cooking videos making us better cooks?</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/07/dining/cooking-videos-tiktok.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mabbo</author><text>The absolute pinnacle of cooking video chefs today has to be J. Kenji Lopez-Alt[0], in large part because of his use of first person view.&lt;p&gt;He straps a go-pro to this head and you see what he sees while he cooks. There&amp;#x27;s no cuts or retakes (unless he&amp;#x27;s waiting for something to cook or gets interrupted by his kids). There&amp;#x27;s no swaps. And it&amp;#x27;s all real- he&amp;#x27;s cooking dinner for his family.&lt;p&gt;And it doesn&amp;#x27;t always go perfectly. (See the excellent video titled &amp;quot;Doesn&amp;#x27;t matter, still pizza&amp;quot;).&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m a better cook for what I&amp;#x27;ve learned watching him cook.&lt;p&gt;[0] - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;m.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;@JKenjiLopezAlt&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;m.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;@JKenjiLopezAlt&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kevinmchugh</author><text>I found his written work (which is how he built his following) _much_ more useful, but part of that&amp;#x27;s just about how I process information. Certainly it&amp;#x27;s valuable to be able to see how certain things are done, and it&amp;#x27;s hard for cooks to describe techniques sometimes.</text></comment>