Hey! I've been seeing a lot of BA stuff on tumblr and I wanted to get into it, but I don't really know where to start. I always thought it was a reality show on Netflix or something, but it's just on youtube, right? They have more than 1000 videos uploaded, any advice on where to start? Is there any kind of order to them or should I just pick whatever I like? I'd appreciate the help :)
This is going to be kind of a really long answer, and Iâm by no means an authority on this, these are just my thoughts
If anyone else has any feel free to reply or reblog with that of course, or if you have a favorite episode Iâd love some of that heat and Iâm sure any newcomers would appreciate it
TLDR: All BA episodes are available on YouTube. There are no rules and you should absolutely pick what you like, but if youâre the kind of person who likes guidance, hereâs a lot of guidance
Here are the series as of right now:
Almost Every with Amiel Stanek
Andy Explores with Andy Baraghani
Back-to-Back Chef with Carla Lalli Music
From the Test Kitchen with literally the entire test kitchen staff
Gourmet Makes with Claire Saffitz
Itâs Alive with Brad Leone
Making Perfect with A Large Number of the Test Kitchen Crew
Molly Tries with Molly Baz
One of Everything with Alex Delaney (and usually another Test Kitchen Crew guest)
Reverse Engineering with Chris Morocco
Test Kitchen Talks with A Large Number of the Test Kitchen Crew
Those are the big ones as of right now, or at least the ones I envision continuing for the foreseeable future. There are some minor ones that will pop up again eventually of course (Itâs Alive: Goinâ Places, a spinoff, and if youâre a Claire fan thereâs one season so far of Baking School which is really informative) but we are in quarantine so production is on hold (thereâs quarantine-specific content too)
I think what youâve gotta decide also is if youâre a person who finds more pleasure in viewing things in chronological order, or if you find more pleasure in seeing things out of sequence and gradually recognizing recurring jokes and connecting them to their origins (Iâm the second because Iâm the kind of person that could get really into Homestuck but thatâs not necessarily better, different strokes)
So if you like chronological order thereâs kind of two veins you can go: start in a certain time period and work through multiple chefs and series or start in a series you like and go through that
Regarding that first method, I got really into it like the spring of 2019, and what I liked about that stage is that you had these three pretty well-established recurring series (Gourmet Makes with Claire, Itâs Alive with Brad, and Back-to-Back Chef with Carla), but it was also when they started to branch out with more series for the test kitchen crew who didnât have a series yet so you got to see everything grow
And regarding the second one, I think itâs just human nature to pick favorites. So if you dipped into some of the Test Kitchen Talks or Making Perfect and you find a chef that resonates with your own brand of humor, why not dip into their series? Or, each chef also has a spotlight playlist on the BA Youtube channel
Itâs hard to weigh like âwhich series is bestâ because thatâs so subjective, but there are big differences between a series being informative and a series being comedic. Like, if youâre into the food science and the actual cooking, Andy Explores or From the Test Kitchen are going to be more geared toward that than Gourmet Makes, or Itâs Alive, or Reverse Engineering. No matter where you go though, youâre almost always going to see multiple test kitchen members add their own flavor to whatever video, and itâs pretty much always going to be funny because thatâs the blessing of their shift to personality-based content
Thatâs kind of long-winded but like you said, they have a thousand videos uploaded so thereâs about a thousand things to consider if you havenât dipped into it before. And I have a tendency to be long-winded anyway :â)
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