F&^% jar sauce!

April 25, 2020 7:02 AM

It's the swearingest Aussie YouTube cooking channel that we need in these difficult times. Nat's What I Reckon shows you how to make Quarantine Sauce, Carbo-Rona Sauce, Quarantine Spirit Risotto, End of Days Bolognese, Sin Bin Soup and the Crowd Goes Mild Curry. NSFWFH if you have kids or other sensitive humans around.
posted by rory (23 comments total)

This made me intensely homesick, especially when he said to give the risotto "a good belt of white wine”. Happy Anzac Day, you legends.
posted by rory at 7:05 AM on April 25, 2020 [4 favorites]

These are great!
posted by Dip Flash at 7:13 AM on April 25, 2020

I'm gonna make that curry today! Bang it on a plate and Robert's yer fathu's brother, lunch.
posted by OHenryPacey at 8:53 AM on April 25, 2020 [2 favorites]

NSFWFH: brilliant.
posted by heatherlogan at 8:56 AM on April 25, 2020 [3 favorites]

I've been enjoying these a lot on social media. But let's be honest, that's pretty fancy for antipodean cooking. He needs to learn how to speed cook.

Speed cooking: How to catch, smoke, and cook a fish dinner from a moving Camper van/a>
Extreme Speed Cooking (with special celebrity chef Jo Seagar)
Fastest Cook in the World does Quiche Lorraine
Speed Cooking: How to cater for a wedding of 50 in under three minutes

and more (Youtube Playlist)
posted by inflatablekiwi at 9:23 AM on April 25, 2020 [3 favorites]

These are my new favourite cooking videos. I love how he gives people permission to "use what you have, cut it up how you want". When I first started cooking I followed recipes to the letter; I'd hunt down specific ingredients I'd only use once, for that recipe; I'd pull out the measuring spoons for salt and oil. Once I got over all that, cooking was a lot more fun.

Also he has totally awesome knife skills I wanna chop onions like that
posted by invokeuse at 9:55 AM on April 25, 2020 [1 favorite]

"Free range lorikeet broth" is my new sockpuppet name.
posted by Greg_Ace at 10:30 AM on April 25, 2020 [8 favorites]

I love these. F*ck jar sauce.
posted by tectressa at 11:08 AM on April 25, 2020

I kept expecting Welcome to the Jungle to start but really it was the colonial style spice rack in the back that rounded it out for me.
posted by srboisvert at 11:58 AM on April 25, 2020

Sorry dude. I come from a long line of Italian, simmer the homemade sauce all day people. Sometimes I don't feel like doing the dance. After a long period of testing I have found sauce in a jar that is made from San Marzano tomatoes. And it's pretty damn good.
posted by Splunge at 1:26 PM on April 25, 2020

I come from a simmer-the-homemade-sauce-all-day grandmother and I bridled at that sauce, too, but then I thought, well, to be fair, what he ends up with is going to taste exactly like jar sauce.
posted by Don Pepino at 7:33 PM on April 25, 2020

I laughed my arse off at this. All the haters take note that at least he's not putting fucking sugar in it like most half-arsed restaurants do.
posted by ephemerae at 7:51 PM on April 25, 2020 [1 favorite]

I just want to go on record that I am not a hater. I especially liked when he said that just because it's the end of the world doesn't mean you have to eat like a fuckwit. I loled.
posted by Don Pepino at 7:55 PM on April 25, 2020 [4 favorites]

Fuck I love it when he napalmed himself with the cooking chilis. I did that for a pickle brine where lazy ass me put it in the microwave to heat up forgetting I put a tablespoon of chili flake in it. The entire house's sinuses were clear for days.
posted by Homo neanderthalensis at 9:10 PM on April 25, 2020 [1 favorite]

I love how his stock pot lid is a random one that doesn't actually fit, just like mine.

I also loled at the "it doesn't fucking Parramatta".
posted by lollusc at 12:24 AM on April 26, 2020 [1 favorite]

I clicked on the Bolognese because it's a good test of what people like, and IMO, he's legit. (Well except for the rosemary. But I can live with that).
Why are there two different kitchens, though?
posted by mumimor at 1:55 AM on April 26, 2020 [1 favorite]

"Never buy rosemary. Go for a fuckin walk, it grows out the back of pubs." Love this guy. That potato-leek soup looks fantastic.
posted by mediareport at 7:51 AM on April 26, 2020 [4 favorites]

SKILL LIVIL: BEGINNAH. Happy to confirm that the potato-leek soup turned out delicious despite no free range rosemary in Brooklyn.
posted by whuppy at 5:29 PM on April 26, 2020 [1 favorite]

I saw this last week and have taken to saying "fuck that off" more than is probably wise.
posted by hearthpig at 5:06 PM on April 27, 2020

Seriously, I've watched every one of these at least 5 times. It's very much my own cooking style. No pretense. No preciousness. Just good shit. I just wish I had the linguistic panache.
And now I have to say "bang it in a bowl" every time.
posted by rp at 4:12 PM on April 28, 2020 [1 favorite]

Thanks, rory - you've just introduced me to my new favourite Aussie.
posted by lulu68 at 5:29 PM on April 28, 2020

Here's a Grauniad piece about him. Seems like a genuinely interesting bloke.
posted by the duck by the oboe at 4:25 PM on April 29, 2020 [5 favorites]

Two new ones: Wham Bam Thank You Lamb and Chili Con Can't Go Outside.
posted by rory at 5:05 PM on May 11, 2020 [1 favorite]