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title: '100 QUESTIONS answered in 1 HOUR'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=WrUAMSHwUVU'
video_id: 'WrUAMSHwUVU'
date: 2026-06-28
duration_sec: 3975
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# 100 QUESTIONS answered in 1 HOUR

> Source: [100 QUESTIONS answered in 1 HOUR](https://youtube.com/watch?v=WrUAMSHwUVU)

## Summary

In this live Q&A session, Steve (The Food Freak) answers 100 viewer questions in one hour, sharing personal stories, cooking advice, and his journey from dishwasher to successful YouTuber.

### Key Points

- **Live Stream Setup** [0:02] — Steve explains he's doing a live stream instead of a regular video due to sponsor approvals and a busy schedule.
- **Biggest Food Influences** [2:52] — He names Anthony Bourdain, Francis Mallmann, and Chef's Table as major inspirations, along with Netflix's Taco Chronicles.
- **First Job in Cooking** [4:31] — His first job was as a dishwasher at a golf course restaurant, which gave him his first taste of kitchen work.
- **Advice for Home Cooks** [6:11] — Knife skills and a well-stocked pantry (rice, grains, pastas, vinegars, oils) are the two things that immediately improve cooking.
- **Following His Dream** [9:42] — After a broken engagement and lost business deal, he bet on himself to start the cooking show, using 10 years of accumulated skills.
- **Culinary Background** [13:42] — He started a food blog to document learning to cook, then ran a food truck with his brother, which taught him real culinary chops.
- **Learning Philosophy** [16:10] — He emphasizes that he's always learning and that cooking is a journey where everyone is on the same boat at different levels.
- **Full-Time Income** [24:30] — YouTube became his full-time income gradually; he used his photography, videography, and marketing skills to support himself early on.
- **Living at Home** [26:35] — He still lives with his parents to pour money into the show, advising others to strip commitments if needed to pursue a dream.
- **Seeing Recipes Made** [33:34] — He loves when viewers post his recipes on Instagram because it shows the recipes aren't intimidating and builds community.
- **Advice for Food Bloggers** [34:31] — Have a genuine 'why' beyond views or notoriety; bring unique value and share it with others.
- **Must-Have Kitchen Tools** [36:00] — A good cutting board (thick, large), a decent chef's knife (around $30), and quality tongs are essential.
- **Importance of Mistakes** [50:56] — Mistakes are painful but shape who you are; they are essential for growth.
- **Favorite Knife** [51:32] — His go-to is the 8-inch Victorinox chef's knife ($30) because it's humble and approachable.
- **Upcoming Brisket Video** [55:51] — He's shooting a smoked brisket video using the Aaron Franklin method on a non-offset smoker.

## Transcript

hello
are we there how you guys doing
thanks for coming I think we're live
mute that okay alright what's up guys
how's everyone doing I hope you guys got
like a margarita or something you know
it's like a little late at night I
couldn't get a video done I have to do
it I gotta make a living right so I'm
getting some sponsors and and they
require approval and I usually work up
until the moment the video goes alive so
in order to get that video approved for
Thursday I figured I'd just do a live
stream and lieu of a video I have a
couple of big videos I have to do so
they're kind of like taking up a lot of
planning and you know things are a
little bit crazy right now
thanks for sort of being patient or
slowed down with comments answering
comments it's just been a little bit
hard so I thought I'd just do a live
stream it's like you know a little
before bedtime I'm in my PJs I just
showered and I figured I'd just sort of
answer your questions so the way it's
going to work is we've got some
moderators in the chat cooking with CJ
and Monica Rodriguez these are my homies
they're gonna run the chat and Monica's
gonna ask questions so if you want to
get her attention
tag Monica Rodriguez and she's gonna
organize questions pass them along to me
and I'll do my best to answer as many as
I can
I don't know we'll see how long I can go
for those of you guys in Europe I'm
sorry it's so late I had you know I woke
up with a gash in my tire and I couldn't
spend the day dealing with it so I had
to keep filling air in it like
three times throughout the day and then
this afternoon I drove it and got it to
get worked on and pick it up in the
morning so anyway well done blabbering
cheers to all you guys have made it
thank you for all the support you guys
have been really amazing so let's just
figure out the questions let me see over
here Monica's got some questions
Monica make sure that you put the name
of the person who asked the question so
I can acknowledge them first question
who are your biggest food influencers
I'm assuming you mean like influences
that's case I'd have to say obviously
Anthony Bourdain sat at the heat and
Gary's eggs company they sent me this
thing and this is probably the coolest
gift I've ever gotten
especially from a company so just so you
guys know Pete and Gary's eggs are like
they're cool they know what's up and
they got good eggs so this guy Francis
maehlman he's he was in the first season
of chefs table it cooks with fire he's
big sort of elaborate outdoor seems I'm
really influenced by him I'm pretty much
influenced by anyone who's ever been on
a chef's table episode food influences
there's so many I mean I just like I
enjoy just when I'm bored I sort of just
like find some video online hopefully
Netflix has like a this new thing they
had taco chronicles that's been such a
big inspiration every episode is sort of
like an episode on tacos and it's shot
sort of in the same style as chef's
table so that's that's the kind of stuff
that I'm really inspired by it's really
hard for me to pick out there's like so
many chefs and and food people that I
love
it's it's hard I mean anyway
I'm moving on to another one first job
that encouraged you to want to cook I
actually in high school my first job was
actually a dishwasher at like a
nineteenth hole kind of restaurant on a
golf course and I love golf so it's sort
of a cool thing to do it was sort of a
you would think a dishwasher job is sort
of like a rough job but I somehow loved
it I like the I liked working in that
sort of environment I didn't have too
much responsibility to like screw
anything out but every now and then I
would be asked to help with the chef I'm
liking a meat chicken chicken fry up
some chicken fingers make a salad help
prep and I was sort of my first exposure
to it and you know it's just a summer
job I don't really care that much but he
did enjoy it you know people would party
after the shift and have drinks and
stuff like that so I sort of been I like
that idea of like work hard play hard so
that's probably my first like I probably
gave me my first taste of what I do now
when something you've never made but
would love to make and make perfect
baking want to get better at baking I
don't know much about baking if you guys
saw my mature video 4 3 6 8 I obviously
don't know like what the Cherno is
supposed to look like so I screwed that
up so I'm just baking general hat is
what is one thing you think home cook
should do immediately took up their
cooking game knife skills definitely
knife skills if you're good at with a
knife then like the 30 minutes of prep
you would normally do like chopping
everything up takes you 5 minutes and
and you get cooking quicker and then
it's like a barrier to entry that you're
moving you know you're just
faster prepping everything you can get
organized quicker it'll change your game
also having a pantry like really really
think about a pantry like Rice's grains
pastas vinegars oils things you can just
quickly make a starch that you can just
go out and buy a vegetable and a protein
and then you have a dinner so like you
know quinoa is barley farro rice white
rice brown rice just get a variety of
these things and you can sort of mix it
up that way
favorite pizza in New York is Rubirosa
vodka pie or Shore with some pepperoni
on it maybe but I'm just like I like it
plain I think it's really interesting to
switch up the sauce to a vodka sauce
which is obviously delicious sorry we I
don't have any names coming so I can't
acknowledge anything Monica what are you
doing over here I don't pay you the big
bucks to leave out names what this
reminds you of your childhood the most
it's got to be shoot it's gotta be pasta
and meatballs I remember going to my
grandma's house and pretty much like the
only thing I remember her ever making
for us was pot roast and pasta and
meatballs and exhausted and stuff like
that my mom's grandma didn't reaches to
my grandpa here my mom's grandpa was
German so my mom's mom did it make so
much Italian like I don't remember her
make killing Italian dishes my dad's mom
was more of an Italian cook and you know
she she was sort of gave me the only
sort of feeling of like you know sunday
family meatball dinner whenever I went
up to visit them so that was definitely
my first really favorite meal I think
these favorite thing to eat or make I
hate olives and coconut but like I like
olive oil and coconut water so who knows
but I can taste coconut from a mile away
I just I cannot stand it I can't believe
people actually eat it like I put dead
stuff when I'm like on a beach and it
likes I can smell it so it's like
whenever I taste it it smells like you
know suntan lotion essentially oh it's
gross not so big into like lots of offal
and like you know sweetbreads stuff like
that not my favorite
okay she's I hear we got a lot of
questions coming in we get like batches
coming in like crazy so bear with me how
are you able to take a step and follow
your dream uh well I sort of had no
choice I spent ten years sort of like
meandering and figuring out things and
trying different things and then before
the show happened sort of I guess the
end of 2017 beginning of 2018 I was
running a production company and I just
gotten like a big a big deal with like
runs Oni and like no yolks noodles and
like a family of regional pasta brands
that is under that and and that was like
a ton of money I was gonna really yeah
it'll live comfortably
I was also engaged at the time six
months away from getting married and I
the marriage fell apart a wedding
engagement fell apart and be my
production that client I had a new
director of marketing and like halted
all operations pretty much halting my
life to an incredible stop and and so I
needed I had like I was like basically
back against the wall what's something
I've always wanted to do never did
didn't care about what anybody thought
of what would happen I sort of just knew
I had it in me and
I bet on myself and you know I had ten
years of skills like the things you see
me do it's not because I'm like a
magician like I've been doing this for
years and I've been practicing and
somehow it all just came together in
this sort of I don't know I felt like
just channeling right I didn't think
much it was just like channeling
something that was in me and letting it
out and not being afraid to sort of have
a not be liked or have people in my life
judged me for what I was doing it did
seem crazy to people my life when I was
like hey in light of what just happened
I'm gonna go start like the best cooking
show that there ever was in my opinion
or try to most people in my life are
sort of looking at me like what the hell
are you doing like are you about to just
ruin your life so I was sort of in the
hole and this was my big bet to get
myself out of it and 1617 months later
it seems to be paying off pretty well so
I'm grateful for all of you you've
really helped me pull me out of a ditch
that you know at the time I really
didn't think I was going to get out of
and and so yeah I mean very grateful to
all of you it's why I care so much it's
why I get upset when I can't answer
every comment it's part of my service
like really try to figure out how as I
grow to still stay in touch with you
guys but now I'm just saying if you
really need to reach me reach me on a
direct message on Instagram at the food
freak with two K's but yeah I mean I'm
very grateful for all of you so that's
that story get that out of the way now
you know that about me it's like you
know I'm like an open book now it's
crazy
what else what's your favorite food
movie scene I just re-watched chef
because that Netflix show that came on
and I just love that movie we keep the
first half of that movie basically the
shot scene where he was cooking that's
some of the best
cinema or Shore but there's so many
great ones favorite sandwich
in and out burger has to be I know I
it's probably because I can't get it I
can't really I can make it close but I
cannot make what they make I don't have
the ingredients and and since it's like
a forbidden fruit it has to be my
favorite thing tell us more about your
culinary background when I graduated
college I worked in advertising I hated
it it sucked and at the same time I
learned about food how food was produced
in this company mainly you know for evil
bad dirty companies I started to figure
out what was going on that debate is for
another time but basically that got me
cooking when I was miserable my job in
advertising I wanted to plan a food
truck get my way out of there and so I
thought if I was planning the food truck
I might as well document my cooking and
so I started this food blog the food
freak to learn how to figure out how to
cook and I documented it and it was very
much at the time not people didn't use
photos and recipes and cookbooks so I
took I'm Dyslexic if you can't tell by
all the misspellings in the videos so I
took the idea of like lots of pictures I
wanted to show people the visual of the
recipe and I did that for a year then I
started the food truck with my brother
and another guy were both chefs so just
being next to them rubbed off on me we
were put in some pretty rough situations
and I was basically thrown into the fire
and I survived I came out the other side
like capable of like having culinary
chops and then over the next few years I
had a production company specializing in
food and I cooked for myself and just
developed over time and before you know
and you're cooking for 10 years and
you're pretty decent at it and if you
keep learning and studying new things
like the show has really elevated my
cooking like it wasn't even this good at
cooking 16 months ago it's because I
feel pressure to get better and like
when I make a pasta recipe I want to
really nail the pasta recipe so I'm
going to do research
study and figure out all the ways that
there ought to make it and if there's a
way that's traditional that I can make
easier for our home cook then like I'm
really thinking in that world so it's
just constant evolution like I'll get
better as I go along and I hope as you
see me get better
you're like oh I can get better too and
like I don't ever want to be you you
guys think I'm like above any of you
guys like I'm in a different stage maybe
than you are if you're some of you who
watch me are probably above me like I
know other creators who have YouTube
channels that like I'm not as good at
technically and I go to them
friends that and I ask them stuff you
know are you so I'm always learning the
show isn't like I am Gordon Ramsay and
I'm teaching you as an expert on
everything like I'm doing my diligence
I'm studying I'm getting better and
that's what cooking is I mean nobody
knows at all and that's what I think is
great about it we're on the same boat
we're just like kind of in different
levels and we can inspire each other and
push each other to get better and at the
end of the day the goal is to just enjoy
life more like the whole reason I do
this is because I enjoy life through
food people who I've entertained for
enjoy the food I prepared because I feel
like a pair with love and care and I
want them to thoroughly enjoy it and by
doing that I get pleasure out of it I
enjoy my time when I entertain and it's
just something that I I feel like you
know when you can cook your family a
meal your friends it's something every
human who may not do that now might
experience that down the road and be
like holy crap like this is the best
thing ever how did I not do this before
so yeah that's that man I'm just getting
drowned in comments and killed over here
Bobby buns how tall you 5 8 there's out
karela did you go to culinary school no
Lindsay asked do you bake will you ever
see on the channel I I do bake I'm not
great at it when I bake I'll have no
confidence and you'll see it and it'll
be sort of like learning and outside of
recipes that maybe me and my family that
I've done
what's your favorite cooking channel in
YouTube
Alex French guy cooking has one of the
best for sure I really like the bone
Appetit people who else there's so many
I mean I'm watching Italia squiz eita
I'm there like an Italian YouTube
channel and I do a lot of it is just in
Italian it's not in English some of them
have subtitles watch that a lot I really
I just like scrolling YouTube all of the
cooking stuff I watch a lot of grandmas
when I did my Mexican Street corn I
watched like a little camera footage
from Mexican Street corn benders watch
how they actually like prepared it once
the corn was cooked so yeah I mean
that's it what cuisine would you like to
explore and try cooking I try to explore
all the ones that I like I'd like to get
better at Asian I don't know I'm aid the
style of Asian with like the wok cooking
becomes difficult at home so that is
something I'd like to get better at
that's it besides favorite sauces
besides the Verde probably just like a
rich wine reduction sauce on a steak
like a holiday something simple like
that there is the sauce at a restaurant
called Marc Forgione in New York City
it's called sauce proposal it's like a
soy lime butter emulsion that goes on a
halibut and it is like the most
ridiculous sauce ever
I've tried to make it have come close
I'll probably work on it and I'll try
and share and figure it out on the
channel some point you had a chance to
cook the Tony Bourdain what would you
cook for I don't know I would
I was cooking for him I want to cook
pasta and see what he thought angel you
and
jooheon nuyen as a 19 year old do you
think YouTube is one of the best ways to
have a chance in the culinary industry
like going to culinary school to see if
you have a chance at it I don't know
because I sort of cut my teeth in the
hellish situation of running a food
truck in a brutal to do in a brutal city
so at the end of it I realized I didn't
want to be in culinary school or like
being a restaurant but culinary school
is expensive and it's you still have to
get a job afterwards and do all that I
don't know I think everybody has a
different path my path was sort of I
learned best on my own I learned with my
eyes so like watching people do things
and having internet available and being
able to just steal things with my eyes
is a better way for me to learn you sort
of have to just know if you want really
at that top knowledge I would go to
culinary school I mean my brother went
there made him a great cook it's like
sort of bulletproof with your favorite
meal to eat not just to cook barbecue
and love eating barbecue and I love
cooking it but I can't really eat a lot
of it after spent 12 hours cooking it so
somebody's making it for me I can chow
down we never make lasagna by tech daily
yes I will J and hums asks pita bread I
can't get it to puff what am I doing
wrong I don't know I've never made pita
bread I the store seems to have them
better than I feel like I can make them
or I just haven't made them yet I
haven't figured that out but we'll do it
on the show eventually and and hopefully
we can solve that for you kickin know
what did you eat today what did I eat
today oh so Friday Thursday's video
spaghetti alle vongole Oh spaghetti
clamps I had that for lunch and I was
panicking the end of the day I was
rushing so I just ordered a Shake Shack
burger and fries
I've never been in Italy before yes I
lived there for three months in college
in Florence
I'm via the Navy so if anyone from here
is on Florence I used to live across
from this place called Yami Yami it was
a kebab shop that was the best place
ever they were the only people in the
city who tried to help me learn to speak
Italian and they closed and you ever go
to Italy visit this street via Bonetti
and ERI and it was one of my favorite
streets it was such a it was a an
apartment I guess the school had for us
exchange students and it was like they
couldn't put us in a cooler a better
spot and it was so awesome what's the
most intimidating dish you've made so
far when you practice the most
oh shoot I don't know I'm gonna skip
that cuz I can't think of an answer fast
enough what's your absolute favorite
dessert of all time I don't know I'm a
huge dessert person I like cake they are
just like that did these obscure weird
desserts in New York City when you go
out to dinner well it's like it doesn't
look or sound amazing but like it just
blows your mind like I like things with
texture so lots of texture so like
somebody makes like a s'more dish but
recreates it I love stuff like that
here's one thing I wonder nice time
so these are like written a little weird
so I can't breathe him and understand
the quick enough so I'm just gonna skip
math you asked how are you I'm okay
apparently Lisa's like this Capricorn
Eclipse some astrology thing which is
I'm using to justify a weird week I'm
having but all good thank you
starvin STR bns has YouTube transition
to be your full-time income
it was my full-time income since I
started a channel even when I was making
no income from it but I was always
working with a company or doing
something that was bringing income in so
whether it was MOT the channels
monetized like you're gonna see the next
video sponsored like that hasn't always
been the case it's starting to become
more the case now but before I was just
like using my photography skills my
videography skills my marketing skills
all that stuff to just make sure I was
bringing money somehow through my
production company whether it was small
or big or whatever that was keeping me
afloat now how have you managed to live
in New York on your own before better
financial opportunities I lived at home
I after my bad breakup and that thing
happened I was like I'm gonna do I'm
gonna if I can if I think I'm gonna
start this channel and I can do it
better I want to have no I want to have
no stressors right so even if I could
have moved into the city I wouldn't have
hadn't found a better kitchen that would
have like maids I would have had a good
kitchen
I couldn't have barbecued outside which
is how I make money
and then I would have just paid money to
live in the kitchen live in the city in
apartment in the city and reversed
commute back and forth and I'm just
throwing money away when I need to be
pouring it into the show so I mean I'm
still living out of my parents house
right now I'm don't know how I don't
know where I'm gonna bring the show and
so that's stressing me out so instead of
actually doing something about it
I don't do anything about I just static
status quo things have been getting
crazy right now so like I really
eventually I have to find a new home for
the show
that's too big of a task for me to
handle right now too busy just trying to
figure out how to make the that this is
a business for me so I'm trying to make
that viable which is working it just
takes organization and time and I still
have to kind of get the show rolling so
that's sort of where I'm at now I
suggest anybody do it if you feel like
it's like a weird thing don't if you're
gonna mooch off your parents then yeah
that's bad but if you've got something
you got to do and you're feeling like
you can't do it with your current
commitments then strip out your
commitments that's it's not a big deal
the only people who are going to judge
you with people who like care about
stupid crap so you know you do what you
got to do for the future
you know everybody's so tied up in the
now we don't have enough long-term
thinkers like think about your life in
the long term like I'm trying I'm my
goal is to have a month in Hawaii every
year because I have a house there that
I'm gonna do a Hawaii edition on the
show I can't afford that now it's a
dream and that's part something I want
to do that's fun for the show I'm
working towards that so I'm doing what I
have to do now so that we can have lots
of fun down the road without any sort of
restrictions so that's that's that where
we are here I've seen the weekday sauce
I've seen weekday sauce where Sunday
sauce it's coming it's just not that
time it's summer like I'm not gonna you
don't you don't cook things on the stove
in the summer for like hours all day you
know that's a fall you know Sunday
football kind of thing so we'll get to
it listen to any music doing cooking
keep you in the mood when the process
gets long yeah I have look me up on
Spotify Steve casado
I have playlists and also kind of fun
stuff but good music do you think you'll
be doing
Spanish recipes ooh yeah I like Spanish
recipes Terry hey Carrie
how you doing much love have you found
the most amazing what have you found the
most amazing since your channel has
taken off and what are you planning to
keep - what do you plan to do to keep up
the momentum oh I've got a spaghetti
dish coming up on Thursday and those
seem to do really well if you guys
haven't noticed that that's sort of
where most of the growth has come from
it's been great like I think the biggest
thing it's done for me personally is
it's taken something that has been like
risky and I grown fast but like from
where I was coming from like I I was
trying to go guns blazing select I was
sort of growing slow so you guys have
sort of helped create a viability to my
life and that's been the biggest change
since all of this momentum and that is
huge you know I mean like your acute
basically saving a life so you should
all be very you should all know how
grateful I am so again I'll keep saying
it till the day I die I was wondering if
Steve had any recipes for super hot hot
sauce no but like I I know what you're
saying like maybe we'll do that down the
road and I don't mean I just don't eat
super super hot so it's like I don't
know why I'm doing that much Brian Brian
Sellars Brian how was your experience at
v68 so much fun so I was like I just
speak at three six eight this last week
and there was a speech on identity so I
ten minutes to speak and I wrote this
whole thing was gonna take like 45
minutes to say I was panicking and I
called Brian who gives motivational
speeches and he's amazing and should go
check him out and I was like I don't
know how to do this like how do I even
gonna figure this out talking through it
he was like dude your visual just not a
PowerPoint do photos a lot so I did that
he saved it I still
delivered like I wanted to but he helped
make it what it was and thought much
loved him it was a great experience I
mean six months ago I was going there
super nervous not knowing anybody
thinking nobody cared about me and then
now I was asked to speak at this thing
and had people listen to me it was sort
of surreal but it was amazing and very
fortunate to have some friends over
there
it's always fun kind of going there and
mingling with other Creators I'm really
interested in figuring out and working
with them to do a food thing so I can
sort of bring creators from around the
country that I know and I've made
friends with and maybe we could do
something fun so I want to do that I'm
just scared of planning something like
that it's just like I get that freaks me
out I really want to do it but I don't
know how to plan it so we'll see truly
do you like potatoes yes I love potatoes
and my favorite what do you think of
Indian cuisine I like it I don't know
much about it I wish there's more
texture I don't I don't love how it's
all sauces right like obviously like the
chicken with sauces are good but I wish
there's more texture there's this one
thing like that
it's called al ago B it's like fried
cauliflower and like this tangy tomato
sauce
it's delicious that's one of my favorite
things it's cauliflower that like eats
like chicken where are you from New York
Westchester just above the city have you
ever done pomodoro sauce that was spicy
not from a pepper but the basil no I
don't understand that one
sterling Gonzales I'm in culinary school
now any tips
other than gaining experience you can
give myself or other students you like
if I personally think that ever a lot of
chefs
they're always in competition with one
another they're like it's a convict it's
like a race to the top who can be the
best chef I would try and just like
build a different dynamic in that world
like be less competitive be more
supportive and if you want to excel in a
kitchen I would care more to show more
care show up early leave late like be
the one who cares more than the other
I'm trying to do that myself a little
bit as like a youtuber like I'm trying
to care a little bit more so I would
give that advice to literally anybody
who is trying to figure that something
out like that well whatever you're doing
just care a little bit more um do you
like when people make and post your
recipes I love it you make my recipes
make sure you go on Instagram make a
story and tag me in it the food freak -
the food freak with two K's that's my
favorite do you know why my favorite
because it's showing me that you guys
don't like there's an these recipes
aren't intimidating it's showing I'm
able to track progression of these
people who I make build relationships
with and see their skills get better so
for me as like just sort of to make sure
I'm doing a good job I like to see that
and what I think it does is encourages
people who are seeing that to make more
recipes and they're like oh look at all
these people cooking like why aren't I
cooking it's like a social like a
collective social guilt that we're
imparting on others who haven't started
cooking it so I love that Rob Laura
Morales what advice could you offer to
aspiring food bloggers to get started I
have an idea but would appreciate your
advice well it's like what do you okay
why why are you doing what you're doing
ask yourself that question if you have a
good answer with it then like
then you're on a good track if you if
you're doing something like food
blogging you're doing something like
this and you don't really have this
thing this reason why that is out that
is that doesn't include views well you
know notoriety or anything like that
you have a genuine reason for doing what
you're doing then I think you have a
really good shot of being successful on
it I think you can be successful if you
have those superficial motivations of
course it exists people are famous
because of doing ridiculous stuff but
like you need to have a why and I would
think bring the value like whatever
you're doing figure out how how its
highlighting a thing you are uniquely
better at than most people and then
share that value with those people so
that they can get as good as you that's
to me sort of what I try to do and seems
like if you're genuine about it it
resonates with people so that's my
advice I'm moving into my first
apartment
Amy Han I'm moving into my first
apartment after college this year what I
must have kitchen tools favorite cutting
boards if said for a new cook
I would it depends on a budget obviously
budgets play a huge factor because I'm
about to tell you what my favorite
cutting boards of whose board and they
can range from $50 to $250 a good
cutting board that has some thickness to
it is important has such a good size to
it not like one of those small ones
where everything is rolling off of it a
good night I have an Amazon store if you
guys don't know it's in the description
of every video and in that store I have
things I'm grilling a section for
cooking equipment and in the cooking
equipment I'll have a variety of knives
that are used like I set of knives that
you don't see in the show that a
personal that I have that are expensive
you'll see the set of knives that are
the Victoria Knox chef's knives that I
have they'll be there my cutting boards
will be there and then I have different
price points for all of those things and
I have a lot of stuff there
so if you really want to shop I get a
little percentage of the money from
there you don't have to buy this stuff
that I have in there these are
suggestions right some of them aren't
probably the greatest things I just
wanted to have this idea of like what
you should have there as some of the
things that I use like I don't go out
and buy the best spatula all the time
you know I mean so I'm still able to
cook well so you don't need to buy the
best stuff necessarily but you will find
like tongs cheap tongs are cheap and
they don't really work well so like
maybe spend a little bit money on tongs
and the cutting board you know a good
knife all that kind of stuff and a good
knife shouldn't cost you $150 a good
night should cost you around 30 bucks so
all that stuff should be down in the
description of all of my videos if you
ever want to check it out okay where's
the best burger in New York City Minetta
tavern black or label burger or ever had
them another Minetta tavern Black Label
burger I've never had it although I want
to try it the best burger I don't know
Shake Shack maybe but know like it's
good but I don't know I don't have a
good answer I cook a lot I don't get out
in the city that often anymore fresh
corn or flour tortillas
if it's fresh I preferred make flour at
home but like I think fresh if I'm going
out to a taqueria and they're making it
I think I'll get fresh corn for sure
9:40 I will do this for a little bit
longer I'm like blocking it I feel like
dizzy from answering questions
let's see guilty pleasure Oreos and
Doritos dude Oreos 100% anyone who picks
Doritos or Oreos is out of their mind
what's your favorite Greek food gyro
gear
I say gyro but I don't want anyone think
I don't know how to properly said like I
also know mozzarella is not pronounced
mozzarella but like I'm not in Italy
right now so and I don't need to move
satay Allah you know like I don't I
don't have to go there
I'm not Giada what would your last meal
be on earth probably rigatoni and
meatballs or like a whole brisket to
myself do you ever watch chef tom I
don't know who chef Thomas Andrew Jim Oh
Jimmy Chow do you have any more pop-up
event videos future four three six eight
no but like we're talking about some
ideas and potential stuff so nothing on
the books as of yet which I'm sort of
happy about some sort of crazy right now
and I don't really need to do a huge
like hundred person around right now so
that's good
you ever watched Sam the cooking guy
I'll be honest I found your videos by
clicking you're fully capitalized name
thinking it was his best mistake ever
yeah I changed it all the full
capitalized yeah I do watch them yeah
he's a good guy he makes a lot of videos
so I I respect the hustle haven't talked
to him though so I'm sure eventually
will touch base black rampage do you
have a crème brûlée recipe no thing and
thank you for the super chat but just
saw that and if anything if I saw some
stupid shots and I didn't recognize I
didn't acknowledge you thank you so much
I really appreciate it I'm sort of
focused on the questions and not really
looking at what's going on the chat so
toughest part about YouTube best part
about YouTube toughest part is the focus
it takes to edit sometimes I just like
cannot start right it's going to be a
long editing process and I'll wake up
early I wake up like 6 o'clock and be
like I'm gonna get a jump on editing
you know just like I'll get my coffee
and like my sort of newspaper in the
morning is the front page of YouTube and
and it basically it's a bad habit but I
start my day with a YouTube but I feel
like it just sort of is like there's so
much potential inspiration to get right
in the morning so I like to sort of
consume but um you know I always get it
done if it's maybe a little an hour too
late
it's an hour too late but it takes a lot
so as I've gotten along I've stopped
putting so much pressure on myself to
really like you know hit the same mark
every time in terms of like the release
date so I have like that I'm ahead of
the game it's going to be released at 6
p.m. if I'm running late probably 8 p.m.
and if I'm really slammed it's gonna be
released at 10 p.m. and that's sort of
how I gauge when our video is going to
be released Oh God have you ever made
tacos al pastor no but I actually am
talking to this guy named grill works by
been on Instagram he builds an awesome
wood fire like Benny kit Santa
maria-style kind of I mean I don't even
want to call them grills they're just
like it's not like a form factor of the
grill that you see they're like
something seen a restaurant and I asked
him about it like it was barbecuing with
him this weekend and he's like dude I'm
making one and so I really want to get
or figure out how to make I think they
call it thrombo like the vertical spits
but with real charcoal not like propane
right so like it could be real charcoal
if you watch the tacos chronicles on
Netflix you'll see it that's what I was
thinking about it all that stuff so yeah
and tacos al pastor is my all-time
favorite if you ever go into New York
City and you want the best tacos
probably in like the country I think
thank you I don't know how you can make
them better
it's loves tacos number one at Chelsea
Market they have an Adubato al Pastora
type taco on the spit it's the best go
there run there it's like the East Coast
in and out for me I get least so what
tips would you have to give a 16 year
old Baker chef just be to be a sponge
like don't put pressure on yourself just
experience like your ability to be a
great Baker or chef will be determined
by your life experiences so have a have
a life live a life do things go places
try stuff you need people like have all
of that let that inspire you go to learn
the technicalities of whatever you're
going to do but be an inspired person
like somebody who can find inspiration
easily these things help you like I to
be honest like when I work in
advertising there was a bit there people
said they were in the advertising world
you are a business person or you are
creative and you often don't have the
you know sort of
you're not you know I've both and that
screwed me up a lot when I was working
there and I broke out of that and found
that look I'm a creative person new know
what it might fit in my life new so it's
and when you think about creativity I
think about it's just like a bigger pool
of knowledge right like I can be
creative because I've watched every food
video thing that's ever been made so
that I could take the thing that I like
about this one and the thing I like
about this one and this one and this one
and who are like these elements of a
YouTube blog and all this kind of stuff
and then I take that and spiral it into
this lens that I have in my head that
only I have and out comes this video and
it's the same with a chef or a baker or
whatever it is so that's what I would
say are you learning minimum you know I
dia is yes eventually superhero yes I
like the name - Jonathan's sigh pot are
you interested in Sumy cooking yes I'd
do it for the holidays like turkey that
we don't cook with whole turkeys in my
house like it's stupid I did a video on
it because like I know people want to
send a piece but we're over it after
years of doing it take the breasts off
you take the legs off or like sue V or
confit the legs overnight and then just
roast the roasted breasts wrap them and
don't that and that's it so I'll do more
of it on a day to day cooking I don't
really cook with it like on a nightly
basis though daddy Dutch Kent my man
can't beat me in the battle of the
kitchens he is the victor I told him
when he won I told him when he beat me I
was like if you don't win this whole
thing
I'm never even talk to you again so
shout out to Kent a daddy that's
barbecue or having real chops in the
kitchen being a badass when is the last
time you made shrimp carbonara shrimp
pasta carbonara not since I burnt the
hell out of my hand and I probably won't
make it
anytime soon
at 9:48 about 10 more minutes of this I
think I can handle at that Emma I'm a
bowline buck my cousin
what's up Emma anyway you're getting
Dave on your channel yeah ventually
we'll get there you know him though he's
a loose cannon and who knows uh an EC
will see a car with your brother two
questions after I just answered that
Jonathan sigh pot are you better at
production or cooking probably cooking
like I know what you mean I'm good at
production but I need to tell you like
I'm not good I'm not a good editor right
like I edit like a an editor from the
movie editor from the 1950s like I mean
not doing anything fancy notated
graphics nothing is swooping in or doing
anything crazy like I'm literally just
taking footage chopping it retiming it
different speeds reversing it just doing
all of the basic things that I can very
basic stuff that's like I'm it's a lot
of what I'm doing is I'm thinking about
it when I'm holding the camera and
shooting it so like the things you see
that are cool maybe have been
premeditated and our camera movements
that I'll figure it out but cooking is
my thing I got eights what I feel like
if I don't know something in production
like I'm lost I have to go ask somebody
else if I don't know something in
cooking I can sort of feel it out or you
know it's just I'm more confident than
that for sure Alex or zko Orozco when
you make a Chipotle cream sauce for
tacos it's referred to as orange sauce
in the Bay Area yeah I'll do a taco with
that in it eventually but you know I'm
not crazy about that I usually like a
salsa verde or something like that but
yeah
eh-eh asked what would you impress cook
to impress a date
generally if I was going to impress a
date I cook the thing that they think
they they like the least and then make
them like it but
something simple always do something
simple and light nothing heavy so like a
fish fish would be good or pasta I got a
very simple pasta like blow them away
with how simple something can be and how
good it can be what advice could you
offer aspiring food bloggers get started
all right I think you already I think I
already answered that yeah
favorite cookbook got it I don't know I
don't know it I'm gonna skip that Lilly
Hale are you single yes told you the
story don't ask questions like that come
on can you do them any do more videos on
knife skills like deboning chicken fling
fish yeah I admittedly am NOT like a pro
at that stuff but I do know my way
around it and yeah we'll do more of that
stuff Raphael Noli sear oven or reverse
sear it depends on the cut and how much
time I have if I have the time reverse
sear usually how important is making
mistakes Bryan sellers yeah I mean
pretty much my life is a big amalgam of
mistakes up until this point so I would
have to say yeah it's pretty important
mistakes are everything and it sucks
because mistakes are painful in the
moment and you know you it's hard to
admit them but when you look back you
have to you can't you can't help but
realize like those mistakes are sort of
what make you who you are and it's those
burns right the stings the scars you
remember that you remember that stuff so
it stays with you and it is it makes you
you are so I think it's important zesty
what is your favorite knife it's gotta
be the one I use on the show that 8-inch
Victorinox chef's knife it's $30 it is
been with me when we started the show we
got the we started the food truck we did
those knives when I started the show I
wanted to use a knife that was very
humble that anybody no one would be like
hey you know using that crazy knife I
can't do what you do now I'm using them
literally the most approachable knife
you can while still like paying
attention to like a well-made knife you
know answer this one before you go
Gabrielle I'd be era have you ever
thought about writing a cookbook yes
I've always thought about it I didn't
think it was viable up until very recent
thump until very recently it's a big
ordeal right I talked to somebody who
was like you can't he just wrote a book
and he's like they will only allow 7% of
the content you already have to be in
the book so unless I can get a deal that
could be like the story of how the show
came to be and then like in depth of the
recipes and all that kind of stuff of
what I've already done I don't know if
I'm gonna do it anytime soon because I
don't know without without a lot of help
or a the show taking a hit focusing on a
book like I just don't know if that's in
the cards right now I enjoy doing the
videos they're more important to me
right now and I'm starting to do
sponsored videos now so when you get
people to come on to the show and so
like I really want to focus on building
that out and and yeah so eventually
we'll figure something out I did have an
idea if like a coffee table picture
forward cookbook that was like a
cookbook second because I don't think
people even use cookbooks and like I
like the idea of like something that's
meant to be out all the time not like in
your shelf like something that sits on
your coffee table maybe I'll do
something like that I don't know
will you ever collaborate with babish
I'm we're in New York I've emailed him
he didn't responds so that's on him I'm
not reaching out again until I hear from
him so it's on babby as that you would
say is patreon link is patreon worth the
effort for me or for you for me I don't
I'm not like I actually might put the
speech I just gave up on patreon so my
page on people can watch but for me if
you're giving me money on patreon it's
because you want to make sure I I can
live so I can do more of the show it's
not so that you can get special like I
clearly AM doing a lot of work so it's
like I I think it's most people
understand like I'm not I can't make
exclusive content there you know I mean
I have played social media I gotta keep
I'm only one man
I'm doing everything so that is like
that is so like I can be happy he don't
need like I can invest in the show that
my businesses is prospering like I don't
suggest anybody be a patreon a patron if
your title money or struggling paying
bills like that's not what I'm asking
for for those other people who just feel
like they want to they want to help and
and so that's that I mean that I
appreciate it when whelps if if you're
asking if it's worth it for you it's
that's a question for yourself an email
idea is for home date night dinner
Mitchell Luke
yeah like maybe the tuna tartare do the
tuna tartare you just did down the show
that's a it's a nice romantic daylight
meal where are we are you planning on
making smoked brisket cream yes I'm
actually shooting it this weekend
it's another sponsored thing and I have
to really like it's two days of shooting
I wanna I'm gonna show a method of doing
it overnight and I'm gonna do it more or
less in the Aaron Franklin method just
not on an offset smoker so I'm really
excited about that
cowboy blog asks what are some good
cleaning tips for wood chopping box I
just you could use salt or lemon on the
show I just use hot water quickly like
not drenching the board and some light
soap just so the board stays nice like
I've already resigned to the idea that
I'm gonna go through cutting boards like
crazy because of how I treat it and I
don't expect you guys to like slam your
knives into your cutting boards maybe do
it once get a photo a bit a video or
something but like don't do it like I do
it's literally will ship the board apart
it's not good so yeah that's just how I
do it nothing crazy super chat Joker
productions thank you so much really
appreciate it Mac or PC Mac little
better or for worse I don't know you
know whether you pick up your camera
skills Tom W I I picked up a camera and
I've figured out the skills I used the
taste my own taste right like my
creative taste like when I go to a store
and I'm like oh I like that rug versus
the ugly rug like I just rely on
whatever that is tell me what's a good
photo and then I can look at it and be
like oh those gross photo and like as
you get better you're every photo you
used to do that worse like
the photos I took in the beginning of
the show and hate now so it it's just
you know just happens like that what are
some future recipe that we can expect
coming up on your channel I don't know I
don't have a really good I don't have a
good layout yet the fall is coming in
the fall I really structure intensely
because of the holidays and stuff like
that just get ready for the holidays I
know a lot of you guys are new here if
you want to see what the holidays are
like go back to my December videos you
know see how I do holiday videos and my
birthday is December 27 December is my
month I love Christmas I go crazy and I
do the same for Thanksgiving in the
whole month so November December all
holiday Isaac Goldman what's up Isaac
Isaac's a talented graphic designer
any thoughts on cooking with cannabis
we'll see what the laws what happens
with the laws like you know where I'm in
New York where we live in the Stone Age
over here so so we'll see I don't know
if I can even legally do that right now
so we'll see I know everyone else is
doing it take tastemade does it all
these people are doing it so it's trendy
so we'll say Isaac fun would you make a
meal prep series for college students
yes but I don't know what kind of where
can you where do you cook way to college
students cook like in a dorm or do their
kitchens that's a question I need
answered can we get a decent chicken
breast recipe Fred yeah yeah we can do
that I never make like a just a chicken
breast usually I do something to it I
don't like a thick chicken so I'll make
a thin cuts and marinated do something
Jeff Caston my buddy Jeff what's up man
how you doing what are you gonna do a
pop-up
in the city I'm trying to do something
at three six eight I don't know if I can
even cook there but I was gonna do
grilled cheese when rent the front half
and just with panini presses bang out
grilled cheese is so easy wouldn't
really take much hopefully we can do
something like that
Andrew Tom did you ever try john
travolta pasta in Florence and no what
is that but when we heard of that Oh
Chandler Starr you talk a lot about good
olive oil which I look for in a good
olive oil other than the price tag what
makes a good olive oil versus poor olive
oil well go to the store and buy
yourself a $2.00 cheapo cheapest olive
oil you can then for the sake of
comparison
buy yourself a decent one like one that
is from Italy right imported from Italy
it's really hard to tell you have to I
don't know where you live or what your
is available for you but you have to try
them right you get them get a little
piece of bread a little salt and taste
them which one you like better you don't
want to cook you don't want to cook with
super flavorful olive oil you want to
make all of dressings and stuff like
that with them but it's good to have a
good high smoke point oil like a grape
seed oil or a canola oil vegetable oil a
good olive oil which is just like you're
making sure it's coming from a decent
place it's not like you know packaged in
you know wherever I don't know I mean
like it's really weird it's it's hard
you have to a lot of what shopping is
its marketing right it's a bottle how
nice is that bottle look I don't always
think because a bottle is nice it's good
but I a lot of instances it's a good
indication so yeah I just try try it out
figure you gotta you gotta find your own
way you know what is your ethnic
background and 75% Italian and a little
bit German
have you ever thought about opening your
own place or I'm more focused on YouTube
I've been there done that with the food
truck and I don't think that was the way
for me a few more about I would have I'm
gonna answer 100 questions I gotta get
to 100 I'm just delirious right now who
is your favorite CJ was your favorite
bald youtuber named CJ huh obviously
obviously it's CJ come on can I go like
moderator CJ I see the CJ with the Bluth
ring please go subscribe to his channel
show him some love you know do all that
he does a live stream every Thursday
it's called the hot seat I've been on it
I'm gonna be on it again so make sure
you go show him some love okay
97 cut off the questions no more
questions
always here you talk about food truck
what's the story behind that any horror
stories yes I feel like that's like um
should we see Jay Monica we gotta do a
whole food truck QA story
I guess the story of it I don't know
that's like it's a whole thing like it's
too much to get into right now what
software do you use to edit Final Cut
Pro number 99 oh my god Brian Brian
Baker must not know me he asks what's
your favorite NFL team can you guys just
tell him in the chat because like I
thought it was so obvious it's painful
for me to have to explain that what's
your take on French cuisine Antoine
Bordeaux oh I like it it's rich amazing
it takes a lot of time but like those
that French sauce reduction sauces
butter all that kind of stuff potatoes
delicious never been in Paris but from
what I
tell the restaurants I've been through
in New York it's been great okay that
was an hour 100 questions in an hour
oh wow well that was fun
I'm beat I got spaghetti alle vongole to
edit tomorrow and into Thursday and then
making my brisket and then we'll get
we're just gonna get into a roll guys
we're just getting started I feel I
literally feel like this is a game like
I just learned stretching right you know
so we got crazy stuff in the future I'm
so happy all you are here I love you all
I hope this was helpful but Elena why
are you asking questions like I'm not
gonna add I'm not going to answer
Elena's question cuz I can't end on 101
this isn't the movie is it a Dalmatian
smoothie I like it nice and I like to
end on 100 I can barely get a word out
anymore so yeah honestly thank you guys
so much I got so much love for all of
you I appreciate all of you being here
keep cooking keep sending me those
photos of you cooking on Instagram the
food freak - Caze all that stuff's going
to be in the description of all my
videos and maybe we'll do this more
often I had to kind of you know pop my
cherry doing this just sitting here
talking to myself essentially feels
weird sort of delirious but um thank you
appreciate all you being here all you
guys who stayed up late anyone from
Europe thank you love you I'll see you
guys on Thursday with spaghetti alle
vongole