(this is about coffee) I wonder if Bon Appetit's work from home series was it's downfall. -- (edited)
Posted by
Mop (aka rburriel)
Jul 22 '20, 07:53
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Previously, on Bon Appetit...
Bon Appetit had a disproportionate number of the trending videos on YouTube in 2019 and we haven't heard anything from them in months, since their editor-in-chief stepped down after allegations of racism.
Even before then, there were rumblings of discontent on the internet when the chefs had started cooking from home and their behavior appeared elitist i.e. the chefs complaining about having to wash their own dishes.
I think most telling are the episodes where they brewed their own coffee and made their own grilled cheese sandwiches. When brewing coffee, they were anal in their precision. Precisely measured water and coffee grains. Water boiled to an exact temperature. A lot of "I'd never drink coffee from (blank)!" Yet, when they made grilled cheese (and, to be fair, many of them were very anal about that, too), some cut their sandwiches diagonally and some cut their sandwiches horizontally. When called out for cutting their sandwiches horizontally, the general response was "get over it". Yes, it's pedantic of internet viewers to make a fuss about that. In the end, it makes no real difference. It's just one of those fake arguments the internet likes to engage in (i.e. is a hot dog a sandwich?) but it's something we have control over (unlike, say, getting special cheese for your sandwich or special beans for your coffee). To tell the audience to "get over it" is exactly the wrong response by someone who is otherwise very specific and precise about everything else.
Mop
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