How I lost everything and bet on myself
33sThis raw, vulnerable story of hitting rock bottom and taking a huge risk is highly relatable and inspiring.
▶ Play ClipIn 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.
Steve explains he's doing a live stream instead of a regular video due to sponsor approvals and a busy schedule.
He names Anthony Bourdain, Francis Mallmann, and Chef's Table as major inspirations, along with Netflix's Taco Chronicles.
His first job was as a dishwasher at a golf course restaurant, which gave him his first taste of kitchen work.
Knife skills and a well-stocked pantry (rice, grains, pastas, vinegars, oils) are the two things that immediately improve cooking.
After a broken engagement and lost business deal, he bet on himself to start the cooking show, using 10 years of accumulated skills.
He started a food blog to document learning to cook, then ran a food truck with his brother, which taught him real culinary chops.
He emphasizes that he's always learning and that cooking is a journey where everyone is on the same boat at different levels.
YouTube became his full-time income gradually; he used his photography, videography, and marketing skills to support himself early on.
He still lives with his parents to pour money into the show, advising others to strip commitments if needed to pursue a dream.
He loves when viewers post his recipes on Instagram because it shows the recipes aren't intimidating and builds community.
Have a genuine 'why' beyond views or notoriety; bring unique value and share it with others.
A good cutting board (thick, large), a decent chef's knife (around $30), and quality tongs are essential.
Mistakes are painful but shape who you are; they are essential for growth.
His go-to is the 8-inch Victorinox chef's knife ($30) because it's humble and approachable.
He's shooting a smoked brisket video using the Aaron Franklin method on a non-offset smoker.
"Title is accurate: he genuinely answers 100 questions in one hour during a live stream."
What was Steve's first job in the food industry?
Dishwasher at a golf course restaurant.
4:31
What two things does Steve recommend home cooks improve immediately?
Knife skills and having a well-stocked pantry.
6:11
What event prompted Steve to start his cooking show?
A broken engagement and a lost business deal left him with his back against the wall.
9:42
What knife does Steve use on the show and how much does it cost?
8-inch Victorinox chef's knife, around $30.
51:32
What is Steve's advice for aspiring food bloggers regarding motivation?
Have a genuine 'why' beyond views or notoriety; bring unique value.
34:31
Why does Steve still live with his parents?
To pour money into the show and avoid financial stressors.
26:35
What does Steve think is the most important thing for a cutting board?
It should be thick and large enough so ingredients don't roll off.
36:00
What is Steve's favorite pizza in New York?
Rubirosa vodka pie.
7:12
What two foods does Steve hate?
Olives and coconut.
8:49
What is Steve's favorite meal to eat (not cook)?
Barbecue, because someone else makes it.
21:15
Betting on Himself
Describes the pivotal moment when he decided to start the show after personal and professional setbacks.
9:42Always Learning
Emphasizes that cooking is a continuous learning journey and he is not an expert.
16:10Sacrifices for the Dream
Honest admission of living with parents to invest in the channel, encouraging long-term thinking.
26:35Value of Mistakes
Stresses that mistakes shape character and are essential for growth.
50:56Humble Tools
Uses a $30 knife to show that expensive equipment isn't necessary for great cooking.
51:32[00:02] hello
[00:03] are we there how you guys doing
[00:08] thanks for coming I think we're live
[00:13] mute that okay alright what's up guys
[00:18] how's everyone doing I hope you guys got
[00:22] like a margarita or something you know
[00:25] it's like a little late at night I
[00:26] couldn't get a video done I have to do
[00:29] it I gotta make a living right so I'm
[00:34] getting some sponsors and and they
[00:38] require approval and I usually work up
[00:40] until the moment the video goes alive so
[00:44] in order to get that video approved for
[00:47] Thursday I figured I'd just do a live
[00:49] stream and lieu of a video I have a
[00:53] couple of big videos I have to do so
[00:55] they're kind of like taking up a lot of
[00:58] planning and you know things are a
[01:01] little bit crazy right now
[01:02] thanks for sort of being patient or
[01:05] slowed down with comments answering
[01:07] comments it's just been a little bit
[01:11] hard so I thought I'd just do a live
[01:14] stream it's like you know a little
[01:15] before bedtime I'm in my PJs I just
[01:18] showered and I figured I'd just sort of
[01:21] answer your questions so the way it's
[01:25] going to work is we've got some
[01:26] moderators in the chat cooking with CJ
[01:30] and Monica Rodriguez these are my homies
[01:34] they're gonna run the chat and Monica's
[01:38] gonna ask questions so if you want to
[01:40] get her attention
[01:41] tag Monica Rodriguez and she's gonna
[01:45] organize questions pass them along to me
[01:47] and I'll do my best to answer as many as
[01:50] I can
[01:52] I don't know we'll see how long I can go
[01:57] for those of you guys in Europe I'm
[01:59] sorry it's so late I had you know I woke
[02:04] up with a gash in my tire and I couldn't
[02:07] spend the day dealing with it so I had
[02:10] to keep filling air in it like
[02:12] three times throughout the day and then
[02:14] this afternoon I drove it and got it to
[02:18] get worked on and pick it up in the
[02:20] morning so anyway well done blabbering
[02:23] cheers to all you guys have made it
[02:26] thank you for all the support you guys
[02:30] have been really amazing so let's just
[02:33] figure out the questions let me see over
[02:37] here Monica's got some questions
[02:42] Monica make sure that you put the name
[02:45] of the person who asked the question so
[02:48] I can acknowledge them first question
[02:52] who are your biggest food influencers
[02:56] I'm assuming you mean like influences
[03:01] that's case I'd have to say obviously
[03:04] Anthony Bourdain sat at the heat and
[03:09] Gary's eggs company they sent me this
[03:11] thing and this is probably the coolest
[03:13] gift I've ever gotten
[03:15] especially from a company so just so you
[03:19] guys know Pete and Gary's eggs are like
[03:21] they're cool they know what's up and
[03:23] they got good eggs so this guy Francis
[03:27] maehlman he's he was in the first season
[03:30] of chefs table it cooks with fire he's
[03:32] big sort of elaborate outdoor seems I'm
[03:35] really influenced by him I'm pretty much
[03:37] influenced by anyone who's ever been on
[03:39] a chef's table episode food influences
[03:47] there's so many I mean I just like I
[03:49] enjoy just when I'm bored I sort of just
[03:54] like find some video online hopefully
[03:57] Netflix has like a this new thing they
[04:00] had taco chronicles that's been such a
[04:05] big inspiration every episode is sort of
[04:07] like an episode on tacos and it's shot
[04:10] sort of in the same style as chef's
[04:12] table so that's that's the kind of stuff
[04:16] that I'm really inspired by it's really
[04:17] hard for me to pick out there's like so
[04:19] many chefs and and food people that I
[04:22] love
[04:24] it's it's hard I mean anyway
[04:28] I'm moving on to another one first job
[04:31] that encouraged you to want to cook I
[04:34] actually in high school my first job was
[04:37] actually a dishwasher at like a
[04:39] nineteenth hole kind of restaurant on a
[04:42] golf course and I love golf so it's sort
[04:45] of a cool thing to do it was sort of a
[04:49] you would think a dishwasher job is sort
[04:51] of like a rough job but I somehow loved
[04:54] it I like the I liked working in that
[04:57] sort of environment I didn't have too
[05:00] much responsibility to like screw
[05:01] anything out but every now and then I
[05:04] would be asked to help with the chef I'm
[05:07] liking a meat chicken chicken fry up
[05:10] some chicken fingers make a salad help
[05:14] prep and I was sort of my first exposure
[05:16] to it and you know it's just a summer
[05:19] job I don't really care that much but he
[05:22] did enjoy it you know people would party
[05:25] after the shift and have drinks and
[05:27] stuff like that so I sort of been I like
[05:30] that idea of like work hard play hard so
[05:37] that's probably my first like I probably
[05:40] gave me my first taste of what I do now
[05:43] when something you've never made but
[05:45] would love to make and make perfect
[05:48] baking want to get better at baking I
[05:51] don't know much about baking if you guys
[05:54] saw my mature video 4 3 6 8 I obviously
[06:00] don't know like what the Cherno is
[06:02] supposed to look like so I screwed that
[06:04] up so I'm just baking general hat is
[06:11] what is one thing you think home cook
[06:14] should do immediately took up their
[06:15] cooking game knife skills definitely
[06:19] knife skills if you're good at with a
[06:22] knife then like the 30 minutes of prep
[06:24] you would normally do like chopping
[06:26] everything up takes you 5 minutes and
[06:29] and you get cooking quicker and then
[06:32] it's like a barrier to entry that you're
[06:35] moving you know you're just
[06:37] faster prepping everything you can get
[06:39] organized quicker it'll change your game
[06:42] also having a pantry like really really
[06:45] think about a pantry like Rice's grains
[06:48] pastas vinegars oils things you can just
[06:54] quickly make a starch that you can just
[06:57] go out and buy a vegetable and a protein
[07:00] and then you have a dinner so like you
[07:02] know quinoa is barley farro rice white
[07:05] rice brown rice just get a variety of
[07:07] these things and you can sort of mix it
[07:08] up that way
[07:12] favorite pizza in New York is Rubirosa
[07:17] vodka pie or Shore with some pepperoni
[07:20] on it maybe but I'm just like I like it
[07:22] plain I think it's really interesting to
[07:25] switch up the sauce to a vodka sauce
[07:28] which is obviously delicious sorry we I
[07:33] don't have any names coming so I can't
[07:36] acknowledge anything Monica what are you
[07:39] doing over here I don't pay you the big
[07:42] bucks to leave out names what this
[07:46] reminds you of your childhood the most
[07:49] it's got to be shoot it's gotta be pasta
[07:59] and meatballs I remember going to my
[08:03] grandma's house and pretty much like the
[08:06] only thing I remember her ever making
[08:08] for us was pot roast and pasta and
[08:11] meatballs and exhausted and stuff like
[08:12] that my mom's grandma didn't reaches to
[08:18] my grandpa here my mom's grandpa was
[08:21] German so my mom's mom did it make so
[08:24] much Italian like I don't remember her
[08:26] make killing Italian dishes my dad's mom
[08:28] was more of an Italian cook and you know
[08:33] she she was sort of gave me the only
[08:36] sort of feeling of like you know sunday
[08:38] family meatball dinner whenever I went
[08:42] up to visit them so that was definitely
[08:44] my first really favorite meal I think
[08:49] these favorite thing to eat or make I
[08:52] hate olives and coconut but like I like
[08:59] olive oil and coconut water so who knows
[09:03] but I can taste coconut from a mile away
[09:05] I just I cannot stand it I can't believe
[09:08] people actually eat it like I put dead
[09:11] stuff when I'm like on a beach and it
[09:13] likes I can smell it so it's like
[09:15] whenever I taste it it smells like you
[09:17] know suntan lotion essentially oh it's
[09:19] gross not so big into like lots of offal
[09:24] and like you know sweetbreads stuff like
[09:27] that not my favorite
[09:33] okay she's I hear we got a lot of
[09:35] questions coming in we get like batches
[09:37] coming in like crazy so bear with me how
[09:42] are you able to take a step and follow
[09:45] your dream uh well I sort of had no
[09:48] choice I spent ten years sort of like
[09:53] meandering and figuring out things and
[09:55] trying different things and then before
[09:58] the show happened sort of I guess the
[10:02] end of 2017 beginning of 2018 I was
[10:05] running a production company and I just
[10:07] gotten like a big a big deal with like
[10:09] runs Oni and like no yolks noodles and
[10:12] like a family of regional pasta brands
[10:15] that is under that and and that was like
[10:18] a ton of money I was gonna really yeah
[10:21] it'll live comfortably
[10:22] I was also engaged at the time six
[10:26] months away from getting married and I
[10:29] the marriage fell apart a wedding
[10:31] engagement fell apart and be my
[10:34] production that client I had a new
[10:37] director of marketing and like halted
[10:38] all operations pretty much halting my
[10:41] life to an incredible stop and and so I
[10:45] needed I had like I was like basically
[10:48] back against the wall what's something
[10:51] I've always wanted to do never did
[10:53] didn't care about what anybody thought
[10:55] of what would happen I sort of just knew
[10:59] I had it in me and
[11:01] I bet on myself and you know I had ten
[11:04] years of skills like the things you see
[11:06] me do it's not because I'm like a
[11:08] magician like I've been doing this for
[11:11] years and I've been practicing and
[11:13] somehow it all just came together in
[11:15] this sort of I don't know I felt like
[11:18] just channeling right I didn't think
[11:21] much it was just like channeling
[11:22] something that was in me and letting it
[11:25] out and not being afraid to sort of have
[11:28] a not be liked or have people in my life
[11:31] judged me for what I was doing it did
[11:33] seem crazy to people my life when I was
[11:37] like hey in light of what just happened
[11:39] I'm gonna go start like the best cooking
[11:40] show that there ever was in my opinion
[11:42] or try to most people in my life are
[11:44] sort of looking at me like what the hell
[11:46] are you doing like are you about to just
[11:48] ruin your life so I was sort of in the
[11:53] hole and this was my big bet to get
[11:57] myself out of it and 1617 months later
[12:01] it seems to be paying off pretty well so
[12:03] I'm grateful for all of you you've
[12:05] really helped me pull me out of a ditch
[12:08] that you know at the time I really
[12:11] didn't think I was going to get out of
[12:12] and and so yeah I mean very grateful to
[12:16] all of you it's why I care so much it's
[12:19] why I get upset when I can't answer
[12:21] every comment it's part of my service
[12:24] like really try to figure out how as I
[12:28] grow to still stay in touch with you
[12:30] guys but now I'm just saying if you
[12:34] really need to reach me reach me on a
[12:36] direct message on Instagram at the food
[12:38] freak with two K's but yeah I mean I'm
[12:42] very grateful for all of you so that's
[12:45] that story get that out of the way now
[12:48] you know that about me it's like you
[12:51] know I'm like an open book now it's
[12:52] crazy
[12:53] what else what's your favorite food
[12:56] movie scene I just re-watched chef
[12:58] because that Netflix show that came on
[13:02] and I just love that movie we keep the
[13:07] first half of that movie basically the
[13:11] shot scene where he was cooking that's
[13:13] some of the best
[13:14] cinema or Shore but there's so many
[13:18] great ones favorite sandwich
[13:21] in and out burger has to be I know I
[13:24] it's probably because I can't get it I
[13:27] can't really I can make it close but I
[13:29] cannot make what they make I don't have
[13:31] the ingredients and and since it's like
[13:35] a forbidden fruit it has to be my
[13:37] favorite thing tell us more about your
[13:42] culinary background when I graduated
[13:47] college I worked in advertising I hated
[13:49] it it sucked and at the same time I
[13:52] learned about food how food was produced
[13:54] in this company mainly you know for evil
[13:57] bad dirty companies I started to figure
[14:00] out what was going on that debate is for
[14:04] another time but basically that got me
[14:06] cooking when I was miserable my job in
[14:08] advertising I wanted to plan a food
[14:10] truck get my way out of there and so I
[14:13] thought if I was planning the food truck
[14:15] I might as well document my cooking and
[14:16] so I started this food blog the food
[14:20] freak to learn how to figure out how to
[14:23] cook and I documented it and it was very
[14:25] much at the time not people didn't use
[14:27] photos and recipes and cookbooks so I
[14:29] took I'm Dyslexic if you can't tell by
[14:32] all the misspellings in the videos so I
[14:35] took the idea of like lots of pictures I
[14:37] wanted to show people the visual of the
[14:39] recipe and I did that for a year then I
[14:42] started the food truck with my brother
[14:43] and another guy were both chefs so just
[14:46] being next to them rubbed off on me we
[14:49] were put in some pretty rough situations
[14:50] and I was basically thrown into the fire
[14:52] and I survived I came out the other side
[14:55] like capable of like having culinary
[14:58] chops and then over the next few years I
[15:00] had a production company specializing in
[15:02] food and I cooked for myself and just
[15:04] developed over time and before you know
[15:06] and you're cooking for 10 years and
[15:08] you're pretty decent at it and if you
[15:10] keep learning and studying new things
[15:12] like the show has really elevated my
[15:15] cooking like it wasn't even this good at
[15:17] cooking 16 months ago it's because I
[15:19] feel pressure to get better and like
[15:22] when I make a pasta recipe I want to
[15:24] really nail the pasta recipe so I'm
[15:26] going to do research
[15:27] study and figure out all the ways that
[15:30] there ought to make it and if there's a
[15:31] way that's traditional that I can make
[15:33] easier for our home cook then like I'm
[15:35] really thinking in that world so it's
[15:40] just constant evolution like I'll get
[15:42] better as I go along and I hope as you
[15:44] see me get better
[15:45] you're like oh I can get better too and
[15:48] like I don't ever want to be you you
[15:50] guys think I'm like above any of you
[15:52] guys like I'm in a different stage maybe
[15:54] than you are if you're some of you who
[15:56] watch me are probably above me like I
[15:58] know other creators who have YouTube
[16:00] channels that like I'm not as good at
[16:02] technically and I go to them
[16:05] friends that and I ask them stuff you
[16:08] know are you so I'm always learning the
[16:10] show isn't like I am Gordon Ramsay and
[16:12] I'm teaching you as an expert on
[16:14] everything like I'm doing my diligence
[16:16] I'm studying I'm getting better and
[16:18] that's what cooking is I mean nobody
[16:20] knows at all and that's what I think is
[16:23] great about it we're on the same boat
[16:25] we're just like kind of in different
[16:26] levels and we can inspire each other and
[16:29] push each other to get better and at the
[16:32] end of the day the goal is to just enjoy
[16:34] life more like the whole reason I do
[16:36] this is because I enjoy life through
[16:38] food people who I've entertained for
[16:40] enjoy the food I prepared because I feel
[16:43] like a pair with love and care and I
[16:46] want them to thoroughly enjoy it and by
[16:48] doing that I get pleasure out of it I
[16:50] enjoy my time when I entertain and it's
[16:53] just something that I I feel like you
[16:56] know when you can cook your family a
[16:57] meal your friends it's something every
[16:59] human who may not do that now might
[17:02] experience that down the road and be
[17:04] like holy crap like this is the best
[17:06] thing ever how did I not do this before
[17:09] so yeah that's that man I'm just getting
[17:13] drowned in comments and killed over here
[17:16] Bobby buns how tall you 5 8 there's out
[17:20] karela did you go to culinary school no
[17:23] Lindsay asked do you bake will you ever
[17:27] see on the channel I I do bake I'm not
[17:29] great at it when I bake I'll have no
[17:32] confidence and you'll see it and it'll
[17:33] be sort of like learning and outside of
[17:37] recipes that maybe me and my family that
[17:39] I've done
[17:41] what's your favorite cooking channel in
[17:42] YouTube
[17:46] Alex French guy cooking has one of the
[17:48] best for sure I really like the bone
[17:53] Appetit people who else there's so many
[18:04] I mean I'm watching Italia squiz eita
[18:12] I'm there like an Italian YouTube
[18:15] channel and I do a lot of it is just in
[18:19] Italian it's not in English some of them
[18:22] have subtitles watch that a lot I really
[18:24] I just like scrolling YouTube all of the
[18:28] cooking stuff I watch a lot of grandmas
[18:31] when I did my Mexican Street corn I
[18:34] watched like a little camera footage
[18:36] from Mexican Street corn benders watch
[18:38] how they actually like prepared it once
[18:41] the corn was cooked so yeah I mean
[18:46] that's it what cuisine would you like to
[18:50] explore and try cooking I try to explore
[18:55] all the ones that I like I'd like to get
[18:57] better at Asian I don't know I'm aid the
[19:00] style of Asian with like the wok cooking
[19:02] becomes difficult at home so that is
[19:07] something I'd like to get better at
[19:10] that's it besides favorite sauces
[19:19] besides the Verde probably just like a
[19:22] rich wine reduction sauce on a steak
[19:25] like a holiday something simple like
[19:27] that there is the sauce at a restaurant
[19:30] called Marc Forgione in New York City
[19:32] it's called sauce proposal it's like a
[19:34] soy lime butter emulsion that goes on a
[19:39] halibut and it is like the most
[19:41] ridiculous sauce ever
[19:42] I've tried to make it have come close
[19:44] I'll probably work on it and I'll try
[19:46] and share and figure it out on the
[19:48] channel some point you had a chance to
[19:52] cook the Tony Bourdain what would you
[19:54] cook for I don't know I would
[19:58] I was cooking for him I want to cook
[20:00] pasta and see what he thought angel you
[20:05] and
[20:06] jooheon nuyen as a 19 year old do you
[20:11] think YouTube is one of the best ways to
[20:13] have a chance in the culinary industry
[20:15] like going to culinary school to see if
[20:17] you have a chance at it I don't know
[20:21] because I sort of cut my teeth in the
[20:24] hellish situation of running a food
[20:26] truck in a brutal to do in a brutal city
[20:30] so at the end of it I realized I didn't
[20:33] want to be in culinary school or like
[20:34] being a restaurant but culinary school
[20:37] is expensive and it's you still have to
[20:42] get a job afterwards and do all that I
[20:44] don't know I think everybody has a
[20:46] different path my path was sort of I
[20:49] learned best on my own I learned with my
[20:52] eyes so like watching people do things
[20:54] and having internet available and being
[20:56] able to just steal things with my eyes
[20:58] is a better way for me to learn you sort
[21:01] of have to just know if you want really
[21:03] at that top knowledge I would go to
[21:06] culinary school I mean my brother went
[21:08] there made him a great cook it's like
[21:09] sort of bulletproof with your favorite
[21:15] meal to eat not just to cook barbecue
[21:17] and love eating barbecue and I love
[21:21] cooking it but I can't really eat a lot
[21:23] of it after spent 12 hours cooking it so
[21:26] somebody's making it for me I can chow
[21:28] down we never make lasagna by tech daily
[21:31] yes I will J and hums asks pita bread I
[21:37] can't get it to puff what am I doing
[21:41] wrong I don't know I've never made pita
[21:42] bread I the store seems to have them
[21:44] better than I feel like I can make them
[21:46] or I just haven't made them yet I
[21:48] haven't figured that out but we'll do it
[21:49] on the show eventually and and hopefully
[21:53] we can solve that for you kickin know
[21:57] what did you eat today what did I eat
[22:00] today oh so Friday Thursday's video
[22:05] spaghetti alle vongole Oh spaghetti
[22:07] clamps I had that for lunch and I was
[22:10] panicking the end of the day I was
[22:11] rushing so I just ordered a Shake Shack
[22:13] burger and fries
[22:19] I've never been in Italy before yes I
[22:21] lived there for three months in college
[22:23] in Florence
[22:24] I'm via the Navy so if anyone from here
[22:28] is on Florence I used to live across
[22:30] from this place called Yami Yami it was
[22:32] a kebab shop that was the best place
[22:34] ever they were the only people in the
[22:35] city who tried to help me learn to speak
[22:38] Italian and they closed and you ever go
[22:42] to Italy visit this street via Bonetti
[22:44] and ERI and it was one of my favorite
[22:48] streets it was such a it was a an
[22:51] apartment I guess the school had for us
[22:54] exchange students and it was like they
[22:57] couldn't put us in a cooler a better
[22:59] spot and it was so awesome what's the
[23:03] most intimidating dish you've made so
[23:05] far when you practice the most
[23:10] oh shoot I don't know I'm gonna skip
[23:17] that cuz I can't think of an answer fast
[23:19] enough what's your absolute favorite
[23:22] dessert of all time I don't know I'm a
[23:29] huge dessert person I like cake they are
[23:36] just like that did these obscure weird
[23:38] desserts in New York City when you go
[23:39] out to dinner well it's like it doesn't
[23:42] look or sound amazing but like it just
[23:44] blows your mind like I like things with
[23:46] texture so lots of texture so like
[23:49] somebody makes like a s'more dish but
[23:51] recreates it I love stuff like that
[23:57] here's one thing I wonder nice time
[24:05] so these are like written a little weird
[24:07] so I can't breathe him and understand
[24:09] the quick enough so I'm just gonna skip
[24:11] math you asked how are you I'm okay
[24:14] apparently Lisa's like this Capricorn
[24:16] Eclipse some astrology thing which is
[24:18] I'm using to justify a weird week I'm
[24:21] having but all good thank you
[24:24] starvin STR bns has YouTube transition
[24:29] to be your full-time income
[24:30] it was my full-time income since I
[24:32] started a channel even when I was making
[24:34] no income from it but I was always
[24:35] working with a company or doing
[24:38] something that was bringing income in so
[24:40] whether it was MOT the channels
[24:41] monetized like you're gonna see the next
[24:43] video sponsored like that hasn't always
[24:45] been the case it's starting to become
[24:47] more the case now but before I was just
[24:49] like using my photography skills my
[24:51] videography skills my marketing skills
[24:53] all that stuff to just make sure I was
[24:55] bringing money somehow through my
[24:57] production company whether it was small
[24:58] or big or whatever that was keeping me
[25:01] afloat now how have you managed to live
[25:10] in New York on your own before better
[25:12] financial opportunities I lived at home
[25:15] I after my bad breakup and that thing
[25:18] happened I was like I'm gonna do I'm
[25:19] gonna if I can if I think I'm gonna
[25:21] start this channel and I can do it
[25:23] better I want to have no I want to have
[25:27] no stressors right so even if I could
[25:30] have moved into the city I wouldn't have
[25:33] hadn't found a better kitchen that would
[25:35] have like maids I would have had a good
[25:37] kitchen
[25:37] I couldn't have barbecued outside which
[25:39] is how I make money
[25:41] and then I would have just paid money to
[25:43] live in the kitchen live in the city in
[25:45] apartment in the city and reversed
[25:47] commute back and forth and I'm just
[25:48] throwing money away when I need to be
[25:50] pouring it into the show so I mean I'm
[25:54] still living out of my parents house
[25:56] right now I'm don't know how I don't
[25:59] know where I'm gonna bring the show and
[26:01] so that's stressing me out so instead of
[26:04] actually doing something about it
[26:05] I don't do anything about I just static
[26:07] status quo things have been getting
[26:09] crazy right now so like I really
[26:11] eventually I have to find a new home for
[26:14] the show
[26:15] that's too big of a task for me to
[26:17] handle right now too busy just trying to
[26:20] figure out how to make the that this is
[26:23] a business for me so I'm trying to make
[26:25] that viable which is working it just
[26:28] takes organization and time and I still
[26:30] have to kind of get the show rolling so
[26:32] that's sort of where I'm at now I
[26:35] suggest anybody do it if you feel like
[26:37] it's like a weird thing don't if you're
[26:39] gonna mooch off your parents then yeah
[26:41] that's bad but if you've got something
[26:43] you got to do and you're feeling like
[26:45] you can't do it with your current
[26:46] commitments then strip out your
[26:48] commitments that's it's not a big deal
[26:50] the only people who are going to judge
[26:52] you with people who like care about
[26:54] stupid crap so you know you do what you
[26:58] got to do for the future
[27:00] you know everybody's so tied up in the
[27:02] now we don't have enough long-term
[27:04] thinkers like think about your life in
[27:06] the long term like I'm trying I'm my
[27:08] goal is to have a month in Hawaii every
[27:11] year because I have a house there that
[27:13] I'm gonna do a Hawaii edition on the
[27:14] show I can't afford that now it's a
[27:17] dream and that's part something I want
[27:18] to do that's fun for the show I'm
[27:20] working towards that so I'm doing what I
[27:22] have to do now so that we can have lots
[27:24] of fun down the road without any sort of
[27:26] restrictions so that's that's that where
[27:33] we are here I've seen the weekday sauce
[27:40] I've seen weekday sauce where Sunday
[27:43] sauce it's coming it's just not that
[27:45] time it's summer like I'm not gonna you
[27:48] don't you don't cook things on the stove
[27:50] in the summer for like hours all day you
[27:53] know that's a fall you know Sunday
[27:55] football kind of thing so we'll get to
[27:57] it listen to any music doing cooking
[28:00] keep you in the mood when the process
[28:02] gets long yeah I have look me up on
[28:06] Spotify Steve casado
[28:08] I have playlists and also kind of fun
[28:11] stuff but good music do you think you'll
[28:14] be doing
[28:15] Spanish recipes ooh yeah I like Spanish
[28:17] recipes Terry hey Carrie
[28:19] how you doing much love have you found
[28:22] the most amazing what have you found the
[28:26] most amazing since your channel has
[28:28] taken off and what are you planning to
[28:30] keep - what do you plan to do to keep up
[28:32] the momentum oh I've got a spaghetti
[28:34] dish coming up on Thursday and those
[28:37] seem to do really well if you guys
[28:40] haven't noticed that that's sort of
[28:41] where most of the growth has come from
[28:44] it's been great like I think the biggest
[28:47] thing it's done for me personally is
[28:49] it's taken something that has been like
[28:52] risky and I grown fast but like from
[28:55] where I was coming from like I I was
[28:57] trying to go guns blazing select I was
[28:59] sort of growing slow so you guys have
[29:01] sort of helped create a viability to my
[29:04] life and that's been the biggest change
[29:07] since all of this momentum and that is
[29:10] huge you know I mean like your acute
[29:12] basically saving a life so you should
[29:15] all be very you should all know how
[29:21] grateful I am so again I'll keep saying
[29:24] it till the day I die I was wondering if
[29:28] Steve had any recipes for super hot hot
[29:30] sauce no but like I I know what you're
[29:34] saying like maybe we'll do that down the
[29:36] road and I don't mean I just don't eat
[29:39] super super hot so it's like I don't
[29:40] know why I'm doing that much Brian Brian
[29:46] Sellars Brian how was your experience at
[29:49] v68 so much fun so I was like I just
[29:53] speak at three six eight this last week
[29:55] and there was a speech on identity so I
[30:03] ten minutes to speak and I wrote this
[30:05] whole thing was gonna take like 45
[30:06] minutes to say I was panicking and I
[30:09] called Brian who gives motivational
[30:11] speeches and he's amazing and should go
[30:13] check him out and I was like I don't
[30:17] know how to do this like how do I even
[30:19] gonna figure this out talking through it
[30:21] he was like dude your visual just not a
[30:22] PowerPoint do photos a lot so I did that
[30:25] he saved it I still
[30:28] delivered like I wanted to but he helped
[30:30] make it what it was and thought much
[30:33] loved him it was a great experience I
[30:35] mean six months ago I was going there
[30:37] super nervous not knowing anybody
[30:39] thinking nobody cared about me and then
[30:41] now I was asked to speak at this thing
[30:44] and had people listen to me it was sort
[30:46] of surreal but it was amazing and very
[30:50] fortunate to have some friends over
[30:53] there
[30:54] it's always fun kind of going there and
[30:56] mingling with other Creators I'm really
[30:59] interested in figuring out and working
[31:01] with them to do a food thing so I can
[31:02] sort of bring creators from around the
[31:05] country that I know and I've made
[31:08] friends with and maybe we could do
[31:09] something fun so I want to do that I'm
[31:12] just scared of planning something like
[31:14] that it's just like I get that freaks me
[31:16] out I really want to do it but I don't
[31:18] know how to plan it so we'll see truly
[31:23] do you like potatoes yes I love potatoes
[31:26] and my favorite what do you think of
[31:30] Indian cuisine I like it I don't know
[31:33] much about it I wish there's more
[31:36] texture I don't I don't love how it's
[31:38] all sauces right like obviously like the
[31:42] chicken with sauces are good but I wish
[31:45] there's more texture there's this one
[31:47] thing like that
[31:47] it's called al ago B it's like fried
[31:51] cauliflower and like this tangy tomato
[31:53] sauce
[31:54] it's delicious that's one of my favorite
[31:57] things it's cauliflower that like eats
[31:58] like chicken where are you from New York
[32:03] Westchester just above the city have you
[32:09] ever done pomodoro sauce that was spicy
[32:11] not from a pepper but the basil no I
[32:15] don't understand that one
[32:20] sterling Gonzales I'm in culinary school
[32:24] now any tips
[32:27] other than gaining experience you can
[32:29] give myself or other students you like
[32:35] if I personally think that ever a lot of
[32:38] chefs
[32:39] they're always in competition with one
[32:41] another they're like it's a convict it's
[32:45] like a race to the top who can be the
[32:47] best chef I would try and just like
[32:50] build a different dynamic in that world
[32:52] like be less competitive be more
[32:54] supportive and if you want to excel in a
[32:59] kitchen I would care more to show more
[33:01] care show up early leave late like be
[33:06] the one who cares more than the other
[33:08] I'm trying to do that myself a little
[33:10] bit as like a youtuber like I'm trying
[33:15] to care a little bit more so I would
[33:20] give that advice to literally anybody
[33:21] who is trying to figure that something
[33:23] out like that well whatever you're doing
[33:26] just care a little bit more um do you
[33:34] like when people make and post your
[33:35] recipes I love it you make my recipes
[33:37] make sure you go on Instagram make a
[33:39] story and tag me in it the food freak -
[33:42] the food freak with two K's that's my
[33:45] favorite do you know why my favorite
[33:47] because it's showing me that you guys
[33:50] don't like there's an these recipes
[33:52] aren't intimidating it's showing I'm
[33:54] able to track progression of these
[33:56] people who I make build relationships
[33:59] with and see their skills get better so
[34:01] for me as like just sort of to make sure
[34:05] I'm doing a good job I like to see that
[34:09] and what I think it does is encourages
[34:13] people who are seeing that to make more
[34:14] recipes and they're like oh look at all
[34:16] these people cooking like why aren't I
[34:17] cooking it's like a social like a
[34:19] collective social guilt that we're
[34:21] imparting on others who haven't started
[34:24] cooking it so I love that Rob Laura
[34:31] Morales what advice could you offer to
[34:36] aspiring food bloggers to get started I
[34:38] have an idea but would appreciate your
[34:40] advice well it's like what do you okay
[34:45] why why are you doing what you're doing
[34:48] ask yourself that question if you have a
[34:50] good answer with it then like
[34:52] then you're on a good track if you if
[34:56] you're doing something like food
[34:58] blogging you're doing something like
[34:59] this and you don't really have this
[35:02] thing this reason why that is out that
[35:05] is that doesn't include views well you
[35:09] know notoriety or anything like that
[35:11] you have a genuine reason for doing what
[35:13] you're doing then I think you have a
[35:15] really good shot of being successful on
[35:17] it I think you can be successful if you
[35:20] have those superficial motivations of
[35:23] course it exists people are famous
[35:26] because of doing ridiculous stuff but
[35:29] like you need to have a why and I would
[35:32] think bring the value like whatever
[35:34] you're doing figure out how how its
[35:38] highlighting a thing you are uniquely
[35:40] better at than most people and then
[35:42] share that value with those people so
[35:45] that they can get as good as you that's
[35:48] to me sort of what I try to do and seems
[35:51] like if you're genuine about it it
[35:53] resonates with people so that's my
[35:57] advice I'm moving into my first
[35:59] apartment
[36:00] Amy Han I'm moving into my first
[36:02] apartment after college this year what I
[36:05] must have kitchen tools favorite cutting
[36:07] boards if said for a new cook
[36:10] I would it depends on a budget obviously
[36:13] budgets play a huge factor because I'm
[36:16] about to tell you what my favorite
[36:17] cutting boards of whose board and they
[36:19] can range from $50 to $250 a good
[36:25] cutting board that has some thickness to
[36:26] it is important has such a good size to
[36:29] it not like one of those small ones
[36:30] where everything is rolling off of it a
[36:32] good night I have an Amazon store if you
[36:36] guys don't know it's in the description
[36:37] of every video and in that store I have
[36:41] things I'm grilling a section for
[36:43] cooking equipment and in the cooking
[36:46] equipment I'll have a variety of knives
[36:48] that are used like I set of knives that
[36:49] you don't see in the show that a
[36:51] personal that I have that are expensive
[36:53] you'll see the set of knives that are
[36:55] the Victoria Knox chef's knives that I
[36:57] have they'll be there my cutting boards
[36:59] will be there and then I have different
[37:00] price points for all of those things and
[37:03] I have a lot of stuff there
[37:06] so if you really want to shop I get a
[37:09] little percentage of the money from
[37:11] there you don't have to buy this stuff
[37:12] that I have in there these are
[37:14] suggestions right some of them aren't
[37:17] probably the greatest things I just
[37:20] wanted to have this idea of like what
[37:22] you should have there as some of the
[37:26] things that I use like I don't go out
[37:27] and buy the best spatula all the time
[37:30] you know I mean so I'm still able to
[37:32] cook well so you don't need to buy the
[37:34] best stuff necessarily but you will find
[37:36] like tongs cheap tongs are cheap and
[37:39] they don't really work well so like
[37:41] maybe spend a little bit money on tongs
[37:43] and the cutting board you know a good
[37:45] knife all that kind of stuff and a good
[37:47] knife shouldn't cost you $150 a good
[37:49] night should cost you around 30 bucks so
[37:51] all that stuff should be down in the
[37:53] description of all of my videos if you
[37:55] ever want to check it out okay where's
[38:00] the best burger in New York City Minetta
[38:03] tavern black or label burger or ever had
[38:06] them another Minetta tavern Black Label
[38:08] burger I've never had it although I want
[38:10] to try it the best burger I don't know
[38:19] Shake Shack maybe but know like it's
[38:23] good but I don't know I don't have a
[38:27] good answer I cook a lot I don't get out
[38:29] in the city that often anymore fresh
[38:32] corn or flour tortillas
[38:35] if it's fresh I preferred make flour at
[38:41] home but like I think fresh if I'm going
[38:44] out to a taqueria and they're making it
[38:47] I think I'll get fresh corn for sure
[38:52] 9:40 I will do this for a little bit
[38:55] longer I'm like blocking it I feel like
[38:57] dizzy from answering questions
[39:00] let's see guilty pleasure Oreos and
[39:05] Doritos dude Oreos 100% anyone who picks
[39:10] Doritos or Oreos is out of their mind
[39:15] what's your favorite Greek food gyro
[39:18] gear
[39:19] I say gyro but I don't want anyone think
[39:22] I don't know how to properly said like I
[39:25] also know mozzarella is not pronounced
[39:28] mozzarella but like I'm not in Italy
[39:30] right now so and I don't need to move
[39:33] satay Allah you know like I don't I
[39:35] don't have to go there
[39:36] I'm not Giada what would your last meal
[39:41] be on earth probably rigatoni and
[39:43] meatballs or like a whole brisket to
[39:45] myself do you ever watch chef tom I
[39:49] don't know who chef Thomas Andrew Jim Oh
[39:53] Jimmy Chow do you have any more pop-up
[39:58] event videos future four three six eight
[40:01] no but like we're talking about some
[40:05] ideas and potential stuff so nothing on
[40:09] the books as of yet which I'm sort of
[40:11] happy about some sort of crazy right now
[40:13] and I don't really need to do a huge
[40:16] like hundred person around right now so
[40:18] that's good
[40:19] you ever watched Sam the cooking guy
[40:22] I'll be honest I found your videos by
[40:24] clicking you're fully capitalized name
[40:26] thinking it was his best mistake ever
[40:29] yeah I changed it all the full
[40:31] capitalized yeah I do watch them yeah
[40:35] he's a good guy he makes a lot of videos
[40:40] so I I respect the hustle haven't talked
[40:45] to him though so I'm sure eventually
[40:48] will touch base black rampage do you
[40:52] have a crème brûlée recipe no thing and
[40:55] thank you for the super chat but just
[40:57] saw that and if anything if I saw some
[40:59] stupid shots and I didn't recognize I
[41:00] didn't acknowledge you thank you so much
[41:02] I really appreciate it I'm sort of
[41:04] focused on the questions and not really
[41:06] looking at what's going on the chat so
[41:10] toughest part about YouTube best part
[41:12] about YouTube toughest part is the focus
[41:18] it takes to edit sometimes I just like
[41:21] cannot start right it's going to be a
[41:25] long editing process and I'll wake up
[41:27] early I wake up like 6 o'clock and be
[41:29] like I'm gonna get a jump on editing
[41:31] you know just like I'll get my coffee
[41:33] and like my sort of newspaper in the
[41:35] morning is the front page of YouTube and
[41:37] and it basically it's a bad habit but I
[41:40] start my day with a YouTube but I feel
[41:46] like it just sort of is like there's so
[41:47] much potential inspiration to get right
[41:49] in the morning so I like to sort of
[41:52] consume but um you know I always get it
[41:55] done if it's maybe a little an hour too
[41:57] late
[41:58] it's an hour too late but it takes a lot
[42:00] so as I've gotten along I've stopped
[42:03] putting so much pressure on myself to
[42:04] really like you know hit the same mark
[42:07] every time in terms of like the release
[42:09] date so I have like that I'm ahead of
[42:11] the game it's going to be released at 6
[42:13] p.m. if I'm running late probably 8 p.m.
[42:16] and if I'm really slammed it's gonna be
[42:18] released at 10 p.m. and that's sort of
[42:22] how I gauge when our video is going to
[42:24] be released Oh God have you ever made
[42:38] tacos al pastor no but I actually am
[42:41] talking to this guy named grill works by
[42:45] been on Instagram he builds an awesome
[42:47] wood fire like Benny kit Santa
[42:53] maria-style kind of I mean I don't even
[42:56] want to call them grills they're just
[42:57] like it's not like a form factor of the
[42:59] grill that you see they're like
[43:01] something seen a restaurant and I asked
[43:03] him about it like it was barbecuing with
[43:05] him this weekend and he's like dude I'm
[43:08] making one and so I really want to get
[43:10] or figure out how to make I think they
[43:14] call it thrombo like the vertical spits
[43:17] but with real charcoal not like propane
[43:20] right so like it could be real charcoal
[43:22] if you watch the tacos chronicles on
[43:25] Netflix you'll see it that's what I was
[43:27] thinking about it all that stuff so yeah
[43:29] and tacos al pastor is my all-time
[43:31] favorite if you ever go into New York
[43:33] City and you want the best tacos
[43:35] probably in like the country I think
[43:37] thank you I don't know how you can make
[43:40] them better
[43:40] it's loves tacos number one at Chelsea
[43:43] Market they have an Adubato al Pastora
[43:46] type taco on the spit it's the best go
[43:50] there run there it's like the East Coast
[43:52] in and out for me I get least so what
[43:58] tips would you have to give a 16 year
[44:00] old Baker chef just be to be a sponge
[44:05] like don't put pressure on yourself just
[44:08] experience like your ability to be a
[44:11] great Baker or chef will be determined
[44:13] by your life experiences so have a have
[44:16] a life live a life do things go places
[44:19] try stuff you need people like have all
[44:22] of that let that inspire you go to learn
[44:27] the technicalities of whatever you're
[44:29] going to do but be an inspired person
[44:31] like somebody who can find inspiration
[44:33] easily these things help you like I to
[44:39] be honest like when I work in
[44:40] advertising there was a bit there people
[44:42] said they were in the advertising world
[44:44] you are a business person or you are
[44:46] creative and you often don't have the
[44:48] you know sort of
[44:50] you're not you know I've both and that
[44:53] screwed me up a lot when I was working
[44:54] there and I broke out of that and found
[44:57] that look I'm a creative person new know
[44:59] what it might fit in my life new so it's
[45:03] and when you think about creativity I
[45:06] think about it's just like a bigger pool
[45:07] of knowledge right like I can be
[45:10] creative because I've watched every food
[45:12] video thing that's ever been made so
[45:15] that I could take the thing that I like
[45:17] about this one and the thing I like
[45:18] about this one and this one and this one
[45:20] and who are like these elements of a
[45:22] YouTube blog and all this kind of stuff
[45:24] and then I take that and spiral it into
[45:27] this lens that I have in my head that
[45:30] only I have and out comes this video and
[45:33] it's the same with a chef or a baker or
[45:36] whatever it is so that's what I would
[45:38] say are you learning minimum you know I
[45:45] dia is yes eventually superhero yes I
[45:48] like the name - Jonathan's sigh pot are
[45:53] you interested in Sumy cooking yes I'd
[45:54] do it for the holidays like turkey that
[45:58] we don't cook with whole turkeys in my
[45:59] house like it's stupid I did a video on
[46:02] it because like I know people want to
[46:04] send a piece but we're over it after
[46:07] years of doing it take the breasts off
[46:09] you take the legs off or like sue V or
[46:11] confit the legs overnight and then just
[46:15] roast the roasted breasts wrap them and
[46:18] don't that and that's it so I'll do more
[46:21] of it on a day to day cooking I don't
[46:23] really cook with it like on a nightly
[46:25] basis though daddy Dutch Kent my man
[46:29] can't beat me in the battle of the
[46:32] kitchens he is the victor I told him
[46:35] when he won I told him when he beat me I
[46:37] was like if you don't win this whole
[46:40] thing
[46:40] I'm never even talk to you again so
[46:42] shout out to Kent a daddy that's
[46:44] barbecue or having real chops in the
[46:48] kitchen being a badass when is the last
[46:51] time you made shrimp carbonara shrimp
[46:53] pasta carbonara not since I burnt the
[46:57] hell out of my hand and I probably won't
[47:00] make it
[47:00] anytime soon
[47:03] at 9:48 about 10 more minutes of this I
[47:07] think I can handle at that Emma I'm a
[47:12] bowline buck my cousin
[47:15] what's up Emma anyway you're getting
[47:18] Dave on your channel yeah ventually
[47:19] we'll get there you know him though he's
[47:21] a loose cannon and who knows uh an EC
[47:27] will see a car with your brother two
[47:29] questions after I just answered that
[47:32] Jonathan sigh pot are you better at
[47:35] production or cooking probably cooking
[47:41] like I know what you mean I'm good at
[47:44] production but I need to tell you like
[47:45] I'm not good I'm not a good editor right
[47:47] like I edit like a an editor from the
[47:50] movie editor from the 1950s like I mean
[47:52] not doing anything fancy notated
[47:55] graphics nothing is swooping in or doing
[47:57] anything crazy like I'm literally just
[47:59] taking footage chopping it retiming it
[48:02] different speeds reversing it just doing
[48:05] all of the basic things that I can very
[48:09] basic stuff that's like I'm it's a lot
[48:11] of what I'm doing is I'm thinking about
[48:13] it when I'm holding the camera and
[48:14] shooting it so like the things you see
[48:17] that are cool maybe have been
[48:18] premeditated and our camera movements
[48:21] that I'll figure it out but cooking is
[48:23] my thing I got eights what I feel like
[48:25] if I don't know something in production
[48:28] like I'm lost I have to go ask somebody
[48:29] else if I don't know something in
[48:31] cooking I can sort of feel it out or you
[48:33] know it's just I'm more confident than
[48:35] that for sure Alex or zko Orozco when
[48:41] you make a Chipotle cream sauce for
[48:43] tacos it's referred to as orange sauce
[48:46] in the Bay Area yeah I'll do a taco with
[48:48] that in it eventually but you know I'm
[48:51] not crazy about that I usually like a
[48:55] salsa verde or something like that but
[48:57] yeah
[49:00] eh-eh asked what would you impress cook
[49:02] to impress a date
[49:04] generally if I was going to impress a
[49:06] date I cook the thing that they think
[49:08] they they like the least and then make
[49:10] them like it but
[49:15] something simple always do something
[49:17] simple and light nothing heavy so like a
[49:23] fish fish would be good or pasta I got a
[49:26] very simple pasta like blow them away
[49:28] with how simple something can be and how
[49:30] good it can be what advice could you
[49:37] offer aspiring food bloggers get started
[49:39] all right I think you already I think I
[49:42] already answered that yeah
[49:44] favorite cookbook got it I don't know I
[49:52] don't know it I'm gonna skip that Lilly
[49:58] Hale are you single yes told you the
[50:01] story don't ask questions like that come
[50:04] on can you do them any do more videos on
[50:10] knife skills like deboning chicken fling
[50:13] fish yeah I admittedly am NOT like a pro
[50:17] at that stuff but I do know my way
[50:20] around it and yeah we'll do more of that
[50:24] stuff Raphael Noli sear oven or reverse
[50:31] sear it depends on the cut and how much
[50:36] time I have if I have the time reverse
[50:39] sear usually how important is making
[50:43] mistakes Bryan sellers yeah I mean
[50:46] pretty much my life is a big amalgam of
[50:49] mistakes up until this point so I would
[50:52] have to say yeah it's pretty important
[50:56] mistakes are everything and it sucks
[50:59] because mistakes are painful in the
[51:01] moment and you know you it's hard to
[51:06] admit them but when you look back you
[51:08] have to you can't you can't help but
[51:10] realize like those mistakes are sort of
[51:14] what make you who you are and it's those
[51:17] burns right the stings the scars you
[51:20] remember that you remember that stuff so
[51:23] it stays with you and it is it makes you
[51:28] you are so I think it's important zesty
[51:32] what is your favorite knife it's gotta
[51:35] be the one I use on the show that 8-inch
[51:36] Victorinox chef's knife it's $30 it is
[51:40] been with me when we started the show we
[51:43] got the we started the food truck we did
[51:45] those knives when I started the show I
[51:48] wanted to use a knife that was very
[51:49] humble that anybody no one would be like
[51:52] hey you know using that crazy knife I
[51:54] can't do what you do now I'm using them
[51:56] literally the most approachable knife
[51:58] you can while still like paying
[51:59] attention to like a well-made knife you
[52:04] know answer this one before you go
[52:07] Gabrielle I'd be era have you ever
[52:10] thought about writing a cookbook yes
[52:12] I've always thought about it I didn't
[52:14] think it was viable up until very recent
[52:17] thump until very recently it's a big
[52:21] ordeal right I talked to somebody who
[52:24] was like you can't he just wrote a book
[52:26] and he's like they will only allow 7% of
[52:29] the content you already have to be in
[52:32] the book so unless I can get a deal that
[52:35] could be like the story of how the show
[52:37] came to be and then like in depth of the
[52:39] recipes and all that kind of stuff of
[52:42] what I've already done I don't know if
[52:44] I'm gonna do it anytime soon because I
[52:45] don't know without without a lot of help
[52:48] or a the show taking a hit focusing on a
[52:53] book like I just don't know if that's in
[52:55] the cards right now I enjoy doing the
[52:57] videos they're more important to me
[52:58] right now and I'm starting to do
[53:01] sponsored videos now so when you get
[53:02] people to come on to the show and so
[53:06] like I really want to focus on building
[53:07] that out and and yeah so eventually
[53:12] we'll figure something out I did have an
[53:14] idea if like a coffee table picture
[53:17] forward cookbook that was like a
[53:20] cookbook second because I don't think
[53:21] people even use cookbooks and like I
[53:24] like the idea of like something that's
[53:26] meant to be out all the time not like in
[53:28] your shelf like something that sits on
[53:31] your coffee table maybe I'll do
[53:33] something like that I don't know
[53:37] will you ever collaborate with babish
[53:40] I'm we're in New York I've emailed him
[53:44] he didn't responds so that's on him I'm
[53:47] not reaching out again until I hear from
[53:49] him so it's on babby as that you would
[53:53] say is patreon link is patreon worth the
[54:01] effort for me or for you for me I don't
[54:06] I'm not like I actually might put the
[54:08] speech I just gave up on patreon so my
[54:10] page on people can watch but for me if
[54:15] you're giving me money on patreon it's
[54:17] because you want to make sure I I can
[54:19] live so I can do more of the show it's
[54:22] not so that you can get special like I
[54:25] clearly AM doing a lot of work so it's
[54:28] like I I think it's most people
[54:30] understand like I'm not I can't make
[54:33] exclusive content there you know I mean
[54:36] I have played social media I gotta keep
[54:38] I'm only one man
[54:39] I'm doing everything so that is like
[54:43] that is so like I can be happy he don't
[54:45] need like I can invest in the show that
[54:47] my businesses is prospering like I don't
[54:52] suggest anybody be a patreon a patron if
[54:55] your title money or struggling paying
[54:58] bills like that's not what I'm asking
[55:00] for for those other people who just feel
[55:02] like they want to they want to help and
[55:05] and so that's that I mean that I
[55:08] appreciate it when whelps if if you're
[55:11] asking if it's worth it for you it's
[55:13] that's a question for yourself an email
[55:18] idea is for home date night dinner
[55:20] Mitchell Luke
[55:25] yeah like maybe the tuna tartare do the
[55:29] tuna tartare you just did down the show
[55:32] that's a it's a nice romantic daylight
[55:35] meal where are we are you planning on
[55:51] making smoked brisket cream yes I'm
[55:53] actually shooting it this weekend
[55:56] it's another sponsored thing and I have
[55:59] to really like it's two days of shooting
[56:00] I wanna I'm gonna show a method of doing
[56:02] it overnight and I'm gonna do it more or
[56:07] less in the Aaron Franklin method just
[56:09] not on an offset smoker so I'm really
[56:11] excited about that
[56:13] cowboy blog asks what are some good
[56:15] cleaning tips for wood chopping box I
[56:19] just you could use salt or lemon on the
[56:22] show I just use hot water quickly like
[56:25] not drenching the board and some light
[56:28] soap just so the board stays nice like
[56:30] I've already resigned to the idea that
[56:33] I'm gonna go through cutting boards like
[56:35] crazy because of how I treat it and I
[56:37] don't expect you guys to like slam your
[56:39] knives into your cutting boards maybe do
[56:41] it once get a photo a bit a video or
[56:43] something but like don't do it like I do
[56:44] it's literally will ship the board apart
[56:47] it's not good so yeah that's just how I
[56:52] do it nothing crazy super chat Joker
[56:58] productions thank you so much really
[57:00] appreciate it Mac or PC Mac little
[57:05] better or for worse I don't know you
[57:06] know whether you pick up your camera
[57:08] skills Tom W I I picked up a camera and
[57:14] I've figured out the skills I used the
[57:18] taste my own taste right like my
[57:20] creative taste like when I go to a store
[57:23] and I'm like oh I like that rug versus
[57:25] the ugly rug like I just rely on
[57:26] whatever that is tell me what's a good
[57:29] photo and then I can look at it and be
[57:31] like oh those gross photo and like as
[57:33] you get better you're every photo you
[57:35] used to do that worse like
[57:36] the photos I took in the beginning of
[57:38] the show and hate now so it it's just
[57:41] you know just happens like that what are
[57:44] some future recipe that we can expect
[57:46] coming up on your channel I don't know I
[57:51] don't have a really good I don't have a
[57:53] good layout yet the fall is coming in
[57:55] the fall I really structure intensely
[57:59] because of the holidays and stuff like
[58:01] that just get ready for the holidays I
[58:03] know a lot of you guys are new here if
[58:05] you want to see what the holidays are
[58:06] like go back to my December videos you
[58:09] know see how I do holiday videos and my
[58:12] birthday is December 27 December is my
[58:14] month I love Christmas I go crazy and I
[58:19] do the same for Thanksgiving in the
[58:21] whole month so November December all
[58:23] holiday Isaac Goldman what's up Isaac
[58:30] Isaac's a talented graphic designer
[58:34] any thoughts on cooking with cannabis
[58:37] we'll see what the laws what happens
[58:39] with the laws like you know where I'm in
[58:42] New York where we live in the Stone Age
[58:44] over here so so we'll see I don't know
[58:49] if I can even legally do that right now
[58:51] so we'll see I know everyone else is
[58:55] doing it take tastemade does it all
[58:59] these people are doing it so it's trendy
[59:03] so we'll say Isaac fun would you make a
[59:06] meal prep series for college students
[59:08] yes but I don't know what kind of where
[59:12] can you where do you cook way to college
[59:14] students cook like in a dorm or do their
[59:19] kitchens that's a question I need
[59:21] answered can we get a decent chicken
[59:25] breast recipe Fred yeah yeah we can do
[59:30] that I never make like a just a chicken
[59:33] breast usually I do something to it I
[59:37] don't like a thick chicken so I'll make
[59:40] a thin cuts and marinated do something
[59:43] Jeff Caston my buddy Jeff what's up man
[59:47] how you doing what are you gonna do a
[59:49] pop-up
[59:50] in the city I'm trying to do something
[59:52] at three six eight I don't know if I can
[59:53] even cook there but I was gonna do
[59:55] grilled cheese when rent the front half
[59:57] and just with panini presses bang out
[1:00:00] grilled cheese is so easy wouldn't
[1:00:01] really take much hopefully we can do
[1:00:03] something like that
[1:00:08] Andrew Tom did you ever try john
[1:00:10] travolta pasta in Florence and no what
[1:00:12] is that but when we heard of that Oh
[1:00:19] Chandler Starr you talk a lot about good
[1:00:22] olive oil which I look for in a good
[1:00:24] olive oil other than the price tag what
[1:00:28] makes a good olive oil versus poor olive
[1:00:30] oil well go to the store and buy
[1:00:33] yourself a $2.00 cheapo cheapest olive
[1:00:36] oil you can then for the sake of
[1:00:38] comparison
[1:00:39] buy yourself a decent one like one that
[1:00:42] is from Italy right imported from Italy
[1:00:46] it's really hard to tell you have to I
[1:00:48] don't know where you live or what your
[1:00:50] is available for you but you have to try
[1:00:52] them right you get them get a little
[1:00:54] piece of bread a little salt and taste
[1:00:56] them which one you like better you don't
[1:00:59] want to cook you don't want to cook with
[1:01:00] super flavorful olive oil you want to
[1:01:02] make all of dressings and stuff like
[1:01:05] that with them but it's good to have a
[1:01:10] good high smoke point oil like a grape
[1:01:14] seed oil or a canola oil vegetable oil a
[1:01:17] good olive oil which is just like you're
[1:01:20] making sure it's coming from a decent
[1:01:23] place it's not like you know packaged in
[1:01:25] you know wherever I don't know I mean
[1:01:30] like it's really weird it's it's hard
[1:01:32] you have to a lot of what shopping is
[1:01:35] its marketing right it's a bottle how
[1:01:37] nice is that bottle look I don't always
[1:01:39] think because a bottle is nice it's good
[1:01:42] but I a lot of instances it's a good
[1:01:46] indication so yeah I just try try it out
[1:01:51] figure you gotta you gotta find your own
[1:01:53] way you know what is your ethnic
[1:01:56] background and 75% Italian and a little
[1:01:58] bit German
[1:02:00] have you ever thought about opening your
[1:02:02] own place or I'm more focused on YouTube
[1:02:06] I've been there done that with the food
[1:02:08] truck and I don't think that was the way
[1:02:10] for me a few more about I would have I'm
[1:02:14] gonna answer 100 questions I gotta get
[1:02:17] to 100 I'm just delirious right now who
[1:02:25] is your favorite CJ was your favorite
[1:02:27] bald youtuber named CJ huh obviously
[1:02:30] obviously it's CJ come on can I go like
[1:02:35] moderator CJ I see the CJ with the Bluth
[1:02:38] ring please go subscribe to his channel
[1:02:41] show him some love you know do all that
[1:02:44] he does a live stream every Thursday
[1:02:46] it's called the hot seat I've been on it
[1:02:48] I'm gonna be on it again so make sure
[1:02:51] you go show him some love okay
[1:02:55] 97 cut off the questions no more
[1:02:58] questions
[1:03:01] always here you talk about food truck
[1:03:03] what's the story behind that any horror
[1:03:06] stories yes I feel like that's like um
[1:03:08] should we see Jay Monica we gotta do a
[1:03:12] whole food truck QA story
[1:03:15] I guess the story of it I don't know
[1:03:17] that's like it's a whole thing like it's
[1:03:21] too much to get into right now what
[1:03:24] software do you use to edit Final Cut
[1:03:26] Pro number 99 oh my god Brian Brian
[1:03:31] Baker must not know me he asks what's
[1:03:34] your favorite NFL team can you guys just
[1:03:36] tell him in the chat because like I
[1:03:39] thought it was so obvious it's painful
[1:03:41] for me to have to explain that what's
[1:03:47] your take on French cuisine Antoine
[1:03:49] Bordeaux oh I like it it's rich amazing
[1:03:59] it takes a lot of time but like those
[1:04:04] that French sauce reduction sauces
[1:04:06] butter all that kind of stuff potatoes
[1:04:09] delicious never been in Paris but from
[1:04:12] what I
[1:04:13] tell the restaurants I've been through
[1:04:14] in New York it's been great okay that
[1:04:18] was an hour 100 questions in an hour
[1:04:20] oh wow well that was fun
[1:04:29] I'm beat I got spaghetti alle vongole to
[1:04:36] edit tomorrow and into Thursday and then
[1:04:40] making my brisket and then we'll get
[1:04:43] we're just gonna get into a roll guys
[1:04:44] we're just getting started I feel I
[1:04:46] literally feel like this is a game like
[1:04:49] I just learned stretching right you know
[1:04:51] so we got crazy stuff in the future I'm
[1:04:56] so happy all you are here I love you all
[1:05:00] I hope this was helpful but Elena why
[1:05:07] are you asking questions like I'm not
[1:05:09] gonna add I'm not going to answer
[1:05:10] Elena's question cuz I can't end on 101
[1:05:13] this isn't the movie is it a Dalmatian
[1:05:16] smoothie I like it nice and I like to
[1:05:20] end on 100 I can barely get a word out
[1:05:23] anymore so yeah honestly thank you guys
[1:05:28] so much I got so much love for all of
[1:05:32] you I appreciate all of you being here
[1:05:35] keep cooking keep sending me those
[1:05:38] photos of you cooking on Instagram the
[1:05:42] food freak - Caze all that stuff's going
[1:05:45] to be in the description of all my
[1:05:48] videos and maybe we'll do this more
[1:05:52] often I had to kind of you know pop my
[1:05:56] cherry doing this just sitting here
[1:05:58] talking to myself essentially feels
[1:06:00] weird sort of delirious but um thank you
[1:06:04] appreciate all you being here all you
[1:06:06] guys who stayed up late anyone from
[1:06:08] Europe thank you love you I'll see you
[1:06:11] guys on Thursday with spaghetti alle
[1:06:13] vongole
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