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airwejtilawj

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airwejtilawj··on Are cooking videos making us better cooks?
Of course. The vast majority of "cooking" videos are intended for entertainment, not instruction. I can honestly say that the majority of what I know today about cooking I learned from Youtube, but the most popular videos on Youtube are the most shallow ones, the ones that do three second cuts between unrelated images and spend most of their time showing people's faces instead of the purported subject matter. For most cooking videos, 95% of viewers will never even consider actually doing any cooking based on what they watched. But in spite of that, Youtube is an incredible learning resource for the minority of users who actually want to use it to learn. Maybe that's the best we can hope for.