Bon Appétit - Making Perfect Season 2: Thanksgiving
Rather than post this new season's episodes individually as they came out, I decided to wait until it was complete before I submitted anything. The final episode came out yesterday, so here is the season in its entirety. Enjoy!
Here are all the episodes in order:
What Makes the Perfect Thanksgiving Meal? | Making Perfect: Thanksgiving - Prologue
Brad and Andy Try to Make the Perfect Turkey & Cranberry Sauce | Making Perfect: Thanksgiving Ep 1
Molly and Carla Try to Make the Perfect Mashed Potatoes & Gravy | Making Perfect: Thanksgiving Ep 2
Chris and Rick Try to Make the Perfect Stuffing | Making Perfect: Thanksgiving Ep 3
Claire & Christina Try to Make the Perfect Thanksgiving Sides | Making Perfect: Thanksgiving Ep 4
Claire & Brad Make the Perfect Thanksgiving Pie | Making Perfect: Thanksgiving Ep 5
The BA Test Kitchen Makes the Perfect Thanksgiving Meal | Making Perfect: Thanksgiving Finale
p.s. The reason this is a text topic is because it turns out the BA playlist of this season, which I originally submitted, is out of order and so I decided to delete that and resubmit this.
This is a great series and I don't even celebrate Thanksgiving. I'm so impressed with BA's upping of their video game over the last couple of years. I was reading an interview with Chris Morocco just last night where he talks about their pivot from print to online, to video. They're probably my favourite food channel on YT, their very well pitched mix of likeable presenters, quality production and strong (but not overly strong) focus on the food really works for me.
After watching Brad and Andy's video on cooking turkey I'm going to cook one for christmas for the first time in... probably ever.
I've mentioned before on my comments here that I think BA is absolutely killing it when it comes to video content and that they are making some of the best videos on YouTube.
In the last few years of watching their videos, I've learned so much from them. It's definitely inspired me to try new things in the kitchen.
Their Making Perfect Thanksgiving videos have been full of "Oh, I would have never thought to try that!" moments for me. It's given me a lot to try this year.
Yeah, BA is easily my favorite cooking channel on YouTube now, and has been since I first discovered It's Alive a few years ago. Their personalities are great, they seem to genuinely have fun together, the editing is often hilarious, and their recipes aren't typically crazy over-complicated either.
Ditto. It's just a shame that Canadian Thanksgiving has already passed or I would have tried to make some of these dishes for it. Although I am with Brad that pumpkin pie is the best pie, and and it makes no sense we only do it once a year... so I might just try to make their pecan hybrid version from this series regardless. :P
There are so many cooking channels, but i agree: BA is doing really good work. The chemistry between presenters is amazing (especially Claire and Brad), and they do food that I want to cook.
I used to enjoy Alex French Guy Cooking but he started over-using narrative (I'm going to try to make X; oh no, it didn't work, will it ever work; I try again; hooray it worked) and it gets a bit tedious.
Sorted Food is ok, but I don't learn much about cooking from them and I think there's only one recipe that I've tried from them, and for me sometimes the braying blokey laughter gets a bit much.
Staff Canteen is interesting, but I'm never going to cook anything they make.
I think the only channel I watch that does food I'd want to cook is Babish.
Yeah, Alex is getting a bit clickbaity in his videos and it's really annoying. I still enjoy his content, but it's definitely getting harder.
p.s. You should check out Glen & Friends. He and his wife have very mellow, pleasant personalities, they are fellow Canucks from Ontario (where I live), and also do really accessible recipes (and cocktails ;).
It makes me so sad when I hear North Americans talk about pie. I always feel like they're missing out on real pies. Dessert pies with fruit in are fine, but they are the lowest form of pie. Especially topless ones (hint: it's not a pumpkin pie, it's a pumpkin tart). Fruit pies are the cheap date, the warm lager, the budget airline seat of the pie world. The best pie is unquestionably steak and ale pie and I'll remonarchise any former colonies who try to claim otherwise. ;-P
You know we have meat pies in North America too, right? ;)
And while my favorite "desert pie" is pumpkin, my favorite meat pie is chicken pot pie. But I would be hard pressed to decide which is my favorite of the two simply because of how different they are. A traditional Cornish pasty is definitely a close second for me in terms of meat pies, though. I lived in the UK for several years and practically lived off those things. :P
That. Is. Not. A. Pie. It's a casserole with a silly pastry hat on
Also I can assure you that the residents of Cornwall have strong opinions on whether pasties are pies. They are not pies.
I know you guys have proper pies really. But they never seem to get spoken about much. :)
My whole family is obsessed with the BA channel. The last time were all together for the holidays, we spent almost two whole days watching their videos.
Chris' blind taste reverse engineering videos are amongst my favorite content on the internet at the moment. It was especially hilarious to see him ironically correctly ascribe one of the dishes to the actual author (Guy Fieri) about 5 minutes in.
I made this vegetarian stuffing yesterday, which is pretty much just stuffing sans sausage. Though, I did add some vegetarian sausage to the mix. Came out pretty well, except that I initially didn't use enough vegetable stock...and I could've probably made my bread pieces smaller and used more of them.
Anyway, I plan on making that at my family's Thanksgiving dinner. I'll be competing against my mother's non-vegetarian stuffing. 👨🍳
Just noticed an additional semi-related video was posted by WIRED the other day:
Bon Appétit's Brad & Chris Answer Thanksgiving Questions From Twitter | Tech Support | WIRED