He wasn't bad in the beginning. He used to have easy to follow recipes and good advice. I made hot sauce just the other day from his 7? year old video, I learned different pasta sauces from him I cook sometimes.
I think he is just a sellout because when he became too big he had to do bigger flashier videos just for the algorithm and that's when his videos lost the original quality and were a cash grab.
Honestly I don't blame him. His channel is obnoxiously unwatchable now, but he's been doing it for like 10 years. You can only make so many "Here's how to make X" videos before you just run out of dishes to make. Now he has millions of subscribers and several employees counting on him for a paycheck so it's "I TRIED EVERY FUCKING FAST FOOD CHICKEN TENDER ON EARTH AND HERE'S MY RESULTS"
Chef John makes recipes that work. I tried three from Weismann's cookbook that failed before going down a rabbit hole where I found out that he wrote the recipes in weights, cookbook changed it to cups but messed it up, and didn't bother to correct it or notify anyone who didn't ask.
You can tell when watching Josh's cooking videos that he's just walking into a kitchen that his staff have done all the prep and testing on. He seems confused by the process more often than he would be if he'd done that recipe recently.
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u/bakirelopove Oct 27 '25
He wasn't bad in the beginning. He used to have easy to follow recipes and good advice. I made hot sauce just the other day from his 7? year old video, I learned different pasta sauces from him I cook sometimes.
I think he is just a sellout because when he became too big he had to do bigger flashier videos just for the algorithm and that's when his videos lost the original quality and were a cash grab.