Well, thanks to Dewesq55 's delicious-looking post on a technique for smoking pork chops on the SUWYC topic, I went down a J.Kenji Lopez-Alt rabbit hole today and discovered that he has his own cooking channel on Patreon. Many of his more recent recipes available on You Tube can only be actually viewed (or downloaded) on Patreon. There's a Patreon app as well, if you prefer to recipe surf browserless.
What I like about it is that the recipes are written with fewer words but more info that I often find on the Serious Eats website. They're more cogent. Each recipe that I've looked at so far has video content as well, which is nice. There's a freshness about the whole setup. Plus I like slipping the You Tube leash.
On Patreon, you can see his recipes for free, or you can opt into one of a tier of monthly subscription levels, many of which cost less than a drink from Starbucks. You can also make an annual payment at your subscription level for a 50% reduction in the fee.
Personally, I just wanted to give a bit back to Kenji for all the years he has helped to upgrade my cooking, as well as for the hundreds of recipes that I've downloaded from his sites. So I signed up at the $5 a month subscription level. The amount of content offered at that level is probably all I have time for.
The recipes download perfectly into Paprika which is also an essential.
As I was busy enjoying the site, shirking my morning duties as I did so, I came across a post of his from December 2024, entitled Dear Alcohol, We Need to Talk. As I read that letter, I felt so sad to learn that he is a victim of the bad side of alcohol use, and felt like high-fiveing (do people still do that?) him on his recovery path. Certainly he looks much different than he used to. Sounds like he feels different too. His life is better in so many ways.
I admire his courage for posting about his journey with his abuse of alcohol use and his recovery strategies. The abuse of alcohol (and drugs) is not an uncommon thing among chefs, from what I read, and among people in so many other walks of life as well. He says he has found some chef friends to help him along recovery road.
Anyway, on to his wonderful recipes--there are many there on Patreon, and more to come. I'm looking forward to receiving the weekly newsletter from him. I can think of a couple of food-related newsletters that I need to jettison off anyway, to lighten the load on my email inbox. It will be a good tradeoff.
Kathryn
What I like about it is that the recipes are written with fewer words but more info that I often find on the Serious Eats website. They're more cogent. Each recipe that I've looked at so far has video content as well, which is nice. There's a freshness about the whole setup. Plus I like slipping the You Tube leash.
On Patreon, you can see his recipes for free, or you can opt into one of a tier of monthly subscription levels, many of which cost less than a drink from Starbucks. You can also make an annual payment at your subscription level for a 50% reduction in the fee.
Personally, I just wanted to give a bit back to Kenji for all the years he has helped to upgrade my cooking, as well as for the hundreds of recipes that I've downloaded from his sites. So I signed up at the $5 a month subscription level. The amount of content offered at that level is probably all I have time for.
The recipes download perfectly into Paprika which is also an essential.
As I was busy enjoying the site, shirking my morning duties as I did so, I came across a post of his from December 2024, entitled Dear Alcohol, We Need to Talk. As I read that letter, I felt so sad to learn that he is a victim of the bad side of alcohol use, and felt like high-fiveing (do people still do that?) him on his recovery path. Certainly he looks much different than he used to. Sounds like he feels different too. His life is better in so many ways.
I admire his courage for posting about his journey with his abuse of alcohol use and his recovery strategies. The abuse of alcohol (and drugs) is not an uncommon thing among chefs, from what I read, and among people in so many other walks of life as well. He says he has found some chef friends to help him along recovery road.
Anyway, on to his wonderful recipes--there are many there on Patreon, and more to come. I'm looking forward to receiving the weekly newsletter from him. I can think of a couple of food-related newsletters that I need to jettison off anyway, to lighten the load on my email inbox. It will be a good tradeoff.
Kathryn
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