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June 22, 2008

Food Online

Online video is exploding. I’ve been watching quality videos online for awhile now and am looking for more in an effort to basically never have to purchase cable.

Todays mission for myself was to find some shows online all about Food. Tips & Tricks, Science of Food, Recipes, and whatever else.

Unfortunately, the internet is plauged with boring and un-imaginative videos from people all over the world telling you how to cook something awesome. Don’t get me wrong, I thank you for trying and being different but seriously, yawn.

However! There is good news. There are many interesting and well produced cooking shows out there that only took me a bit of looking around to find.

First, I found the best sources of quality online food shows to be from: blip.tv, iTunes directory, and vimeo.com. I recommend you check out those sites and do your own looking around for what interests you, but here’s some of my top picks from what I found. Since there is no direct url for these shows, I will put in brackets where I found them:

Epicurious: Food & Drink: (iTunes) These are small 2-3 minutes tips and tricks and simple recipes. Epicurious is a great site for recipes and the guys from there have done some high quality, well produced and enjoyable videos. If you’re looking to learn some neat tricks or need to figure out how to make a sauce or syrup, searching through it’s massive episode directory will help you out.

Food Science: (iTunes) Neat show that has 5-8 minute clips about how food and science go together. Let’s you truly understand why bread rises, why sauces thicken, and so on.

Le Gourmet TV: (iTunes) Fancy! A nice show with quality hosts that is not as snobby as the title may percieve. They do a mix of recipes, reviews, and tips/tricks.

Restaurant Food Fast: (blip.tv) Not the highest quality in terms of playback but pretty good. From what I have seen, he purely does recipes and they are generally very simple. Good if you’re looking for something basic and fun to do

Hands on Food: (blip.tv) Only a few episodes in but looks promising. Well done videos and very simple recipes. The host seems like an enjoyable guy to hang out with and is usually pretty excited when doing his videos. I like this, as it’s not common in the videos I’ve seen.

That covers a few unique and interesting cooking shows I’ve found online so far. I’m still looking, but the free stuff is very limited in quantity and quality!

Online video intrigues me greatly and I’ve been contemplating doing it myself. With my allergies, I have to expirement constantly with different recipes and I may try my hand on some videos to hopefully help people out. But that won’t be for another month or so until I settle down in my new place later this month.