Looks good! One time a. friend had “build your own” poke bowls at her house with tuna she got from a restaurant supply store and seasoning from Hawaii. I was a little skeptical but they were so good; she also has a fancy rice cooker and the rice was perfect.
I tried to cook skin-on salmon like Kenji suggests in the Food Lab but it did not come out that great; I normally poach my salmon and overcook it slightly but my wife would rather have it that way. Maybe now that I have my Thermapen I can cook it a little less.
Baking salmon is almost fool proof. Such a high fat content gives you a huge margin for error. It’s like pork. I pan fry salmon steaks and bellies and basically deep fry the collars but bake everything else.
A side is delicious when baked anywhere from 20-35 minutes I find. That’s pretty forgiving imo. If you crutch it with foil and oil it’s basically invincible.
When I baked salmon it usually takes about 15 minutes (pull at 120F internal temp) in a 400F oven uncovered. Doesn’t dry out at all if you don’t overcook it.
Yes, it’s not hard to get a good result but there are some variables. I find it harder to cook thick salmon fillets such that the middle is cooked but the outside is not dry.
This one is weird. Its portrayed as a “blackface” story but the published image looks more like he was dressed in a stereotypical way. Of course it still “counts” but I was expecting something more egregious. It sounds like his actual behavior as editor was racist and the picture was more of a tool to bring all that to life.
Maximum lols - his wife posted the picture on her Instagram.
This one sucks as I was a big fan of his and their video series. Hopefully they fix it. They had added several non-white people over the past year but it was still pretty white.
Yeah, it seems like the Rapo photo was just the signal for Sohla (and others) to start dropping truth bombs about the whole culture.
I also saw some chatter on Twitter about Delaney having a cake with the Confederate Flag on it in an old Tmblr, but couldn’t be bothered to dig too deep into that story.
Among the regular cast are two people of Indian ancestry, one of Mexican and one of Persian ancestry. It is odd there are no African Americans. There is one black woman who is a producer on camera once in a while but not main cast member.
its always like that. you gonna get 50000 stories on how a great white guy was fired for a Halloween custom from the 7th grade and then you realize the whole management were routinely suppressing people of color while profiting off their work.
I would support any vehicle that lets Sohla truly indulge her creative side, because she seems to love to take big swings. I think it was the recent video on fancifying boxed brownies where most of the cooks added brown butter and some nuts and Sohla was like, “well I tried to turn the mix into licorice, but that was a fail, so here are my churos…”
Yeah it’s hard to talk about fair payment on a personality driven platform like Youtube. Brad and Claire’s shows are undeniably the reason the channel exploded. The average viewer was kids and man/womanchildren with very little cooking experience - they weren’t watching for any particular expertise or credentials. Claire is sold as a “pro” but neither of their creds are particularly obvious and they don’t dress in chef coats.
So when BA hires infinite real talent behind the scenes to do all of the hard work do they deserve to make as much money as the celebs? Probably not. Once they start poking their heads on camera and you start profiting off of new audiences and “trendy” or “exotic” [double barf] exploitation you probably should be cutting them a check.
Sohla is obviously an expert chef. Christina too. Priya on the other hand is much more of a home cook. Then you have people like Delaney who aren’t really good at anything but he stole a popular youtube trend and now gets millions of hits on his copied show. It’ll be interesting to see if BA has the nuance and integrity to differentiate between their contributions.
