Edit: found the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CshkecuFfMc
Another favourite of mine is J. Kenji Lopez-Alt [1], or Kenji as everyone calls him . Really nice and non-pretentious guy. Tons of great advice for beginners. His cookbook even goes into details like how to stock and organize your fridge!
I think one of his most endearing qualities is that he doesn’t hide his mistakes. He leaves them in the video and talks about them and how to recover. Far too often we see TV shows about people making mistakes in the kitchen and getting reamed out by the celebrity chef or having a meltdown of their own.
Mistakes are inevitable in the kitchen, especially when you’re just starting out. Feeling really bad about it is a pretty surefire way to lose interest in learning to cook.
Your standards for cleanliness might be unnecessarily higher, but don't you think it's a bit disingenuous to call his cooking "unclean"?
Why are you taking my observations personally? It doesn't make sense.
And I'm not taking it personally btw, I just think it's silly to claim you know more about kitchen hygiene than a literal professional.
That's my gripe. I enjoy his videos on the whole. I wouldn't eat at his house or restaurant but I enjoy his videos.