Can I make "Impossible" Japanese Omurice ? (my toughest challenge yet...) 

Like Uncle did...

Even uncle roger did a better video than alex. Disappointing.

That was prime alex unfortunately

Well, his latest videos are getting less and less interesting unfortunately 😢

Yeah, this time felt especially forced. Him pretending to not know how to make an omelette at the start of the video, deliberately massively overcooking it. And pretending to be surprised that heat might be important. It's not the first time he's faked the journey, but this time felt especially egregious, like he thinks we're complete idiots.

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@@mrwho995 We know he's got skills as a chef, well beyond that first attempt! Especially since he was up to the standards of Jacques Pepin in the past. Episodes like this are a bit too contrived. I love Alex's DIY explorations and experimental spirit, when it comes from a genuine place... Like hacking into the controls of an oven or 3d printing parts to make his own machine...Or just really trying to get to the bottom of something, without the act.

@@mrwho995 Agreed. That massively overcooked omelette at the start was clearly him pretending to be an average home cook and not the practiced cook that we know him to be.

He's trying to follow the old format while clearly not doing any of the leg work he used to do. The whole channel just feels phoned in and has since at least the end of the ramen series almost a year ago now.

Thank you for your excellent comment. I think he just ignores us.

I don't get it. What do you mean by this exactly?

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Now I understand and I say Bravo Sir if your a lad and Bravo Mss if your a woman !

​@@hidde3064just read other comments. This creator fell off

He makes a big deal about learning how to make an omelette and meet Jacques and learns a tip from him… and then purposely burns the next one to setup a video. “Oh no. I underestimated the Japanese omelette!!”

Needs to create content even though there's nothing inside...

Try it and film it lets see you get it not overcooked the first time. You clearly dont understand what hes trying to do, a firm skin but thin skin, and moist inside. Its a steep gradiente. Lets see you do it bozo.

Agree, but even then he did a 'reset' a couple of years ago, has invested in a whole new kitchen set up and yet the content quality has still nose dived. It just doesn't feel genuine anymore, it is contrived and deliberately and unconvincingly melodramatic. Also agree with another comment that I'm pretty close to unsubbing AGAIN - I unsubbed at the start of the fried rice series cos he was just making a mountain out of a molehill - all the contributions from experts said "just use whatever left overs you have in the fridge - that's what fried rice is all about" - Alex proceeded with angsty editing and posturing and makes a whole series out of it. This was, I believe, the beginning of the end of this channel but I came back to give it another shot. It has really got to improve to keep its audience.

I think that the sponsor is ironically not helpful with what needs to be done and this is Alex's cry for genuine depression without us actually knowing it. As much as there is fantastic stuff out on the Internet, I think that Alex is losing sight of genuine curiosity and is chasing whatever is popular at the moment. From what I could tell, all of the cooking channels that I have been subbed to have lost my attention and interest for this reason. A lot of the content that I have been seeing feels more... corporatized. Perhaps this explains his diversification of money as his channel needs to support a team of people. He needs a separate channel that gives him a way to express his creative freedom... like a channel that dives into the process of his engineering marvels for cooking, as he has been stuck in a creative backsliding situation. He also needs a channel to vent his frustrations. He can keep his "Cooking" channel and "Engineering" channel separate and be unified with what fascinating stuff there is out on the market for the average home cook. If there is a shred of inspiration that needs to come out, it is the fact that Alex needs to move himself away from eggs in general (as unfortunate as this seems), as he has put all of his eggs into one basket, which is this channel (metaphorically and literally). He is in fact trapped by the RU-vid algorithm and stuck creatively.

Complètement d’accord avec toi comme on dit en français c’est du réchauffé il est loin le temps où on suivait un réelle aventure comme celle de la mozzarella avec de vrai expérience et pas un montage comme celui la. Dommage aussi de de retrouver dans ce studio tout asceptisé où sont passé les perceuses l’imprimante 3D le blue fridge.. on est presque revenu au début de la chaîne avec les recettes. J’exagère mais le RU-vid game commence à lessiver cette chaîne. Je suis près à attendre plusieurs semaine pour de bon contenu comme à un certain moment de la chaîne. Keep it real

The cinematic / professional videos ironically ruined this channel. Now it's not about genuine information about cooking anymore, and instead just flashy effects and storytelling :(

Hard but there's no other way to tell the truth

Still step is very underrated, but essential.

Fuiyoh!

Also super fresh eggs

@@Ravenblues goes without saying 😉

You have taught me more than this.

If anything it would've been more interesting to make the video about the entire omurice dish itself. I mean it basically combines 3 series he has made before into a single dish, dunno why he gotta do the drama of learning to cook the eggs from scratch.

Yeah sadly since he started with the more "cinematic" videos, the quality of the information content dropped a lot. He is slowly turning into another brainrot channel :/

@@Mobin92 It hurts my soul that I have to agree

YESSS, THIS! 😒

This shit is so sad jesus christ Also look at his sad puppy lifeless eyes, what happened to our man...

@@MegaChickenPunch Maybe he should use some BetterHelp that he's trying to push onto his viewers.

Yes, thank You! I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed this. I thought something is weird 😄

not only was it empty its also crusted over with old dried up coffee residue

And also he didn't have to go to Japan, to learn from Chef Moto personally, or go to a farm and pick out the best eggs, or go to a skillet factory and forge his own skillet from scratch, and then make his own chopsticks to go with the perfect pan, and then adapt a stove from parts he shipped in from china, and build it with scrap metal, and then finally make an omelet breaking down the science of albumin structure on blue fridge theory.

@@lewismaddock1654 In the next episode, he learns how to make eggs himself, from master chicken.

​@@lewismaddock1654 LOL!!! You're right! It is very unusual that we didn't go through the normal process.

Also about three different watches i think

@@MarcoDaporta Blue shirt + 2 pair of black watches, or atleast at different places, Blue shirt+ brown watches, Gray shirt with black watches and Gray shirt with brown watches

True. Not every video has to start from point zero. It's like he is not taking into account all the other culinary adventures he's had.

I liked it. And I learned a lot. Its nice that I didn't get lost and I feel like he made the mistakes I would have made.

@@adamwilson2345 He could have skipped the initial bit and still told the audience why he was using an increased heat and how it impacts the timing of cooking the eggs. Teaching while accepting the fact that he has learned a lot and can apply that knowledge.

yeah it's just for the show. it's all planned beforehand to make a good story. he's a youtuber after all.

It was obvious from the first omlette that he was leaving it over the heat too much. Even with this editing, the thing I noticed was that the japanese chef took the pan off the heat when he was flipping the omlette, and he was way overcooking his eggs.... Basics, basics, basics....

I was pretty good at making french omelettes but after a year of not cooking it, my first try was also relly bad. Also a carbon steel pan can make this extra difficult

If you notice the omelet he cooks in the pan is not the same one he dumps from the pan into the plate. Jump cut from a neat and tidy omelet in the pan to a sticky mess he tries to pour onto the plate at 2:00. This is just sad.

he does it for the drama effect and its cringe AF.

So you prefer a 3 min video. Of course he can do it. Actually I'm sure that he tried and learn it before starting to shoot the video itself. This is just a scenario.

@@thenewexeptor of course I prefer a 3 min video, quality over quantity my whole life.

They may not know

He's probably fixed into a certain number of partner videos. Breaking a contract could get you blacklisted from future sponsorships, not just from the same company but others as well. Hopefully once he's done with the contract required number of videos we don't see them again.

Better Help is predatory and shit, but, they are pretty aggressive in offering up creator partnerships, and pay well. As much as I hate it, I can understand when creators take a deal to keep the $ rolling in, particularly if it's attractive and they're naive to just how bad the company is (might not learn just how bad they are until after signing the contract).

What happened with betterhelp?

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He's doing it because he always tries to make his videos into stories, which is usually not bad thing, but i agree that in this video it was a little bit forced tho

Sure but from an amateur viewpoint one of the most educational thing about Alex's videos is seeing every pitfall imaginable when it comes to cooking. What some find obvious might not be so clear to someone else.

Surely you weren't under the impression that we all believed he routinely fails at every new thing he attempts in every way possible before eventually succeeding? Of course it's faked to a certain extent. That's how most popular edutainment works these days. Are you not entertained?

Yes, this all felt a bit staged and inauthentic.

​@@juho020202 Then maybe he should point them out instead of acting it badly and making unnecessary drama out of self-explanatory stuff..

Just skip it, nobody forces you to click the link

And I bet that helps him :D

It's called a contract

Alex is literally taking money away from betterhelp by taking a sponsorship 😂

​@@matthewgiallourakis7645Thats Not how sponsorships Work. He generates them more Money then He gets. Otherwise they wouldnt make another Sponsoring

Cope. Nobody is telling you to use em.

@@dadsquatch79 Alex is telling us to use them.

@ oh, so you're a zombie who can't think for himself?

@@dadsquatch79 Personally, I think there's a responsability to not share potentially harmful info when you have a large following, especially when dealing with topics such as mental health. Some people are in a delicate place. You may think otherwise.

@ I do. Think for yourself. If Alex suddenly started advertising for Nike, I'm not gonna go out and buy some shoes because "he told me to". God, you people are soft

Yeah, it's such a shame. I think I'm one more bad video away from just completely forgetting about this channel. It just isn't good anymore.

Not to mention at 2:00 he cuts from the pan with a slightly overcooked but at least "neat and tidy" omelet with nothing stuck to the pan, to attempting to dump a bunch of rubbery eggs stuck to a completely messy pan. They're not the same omelet. That's just lazy editing.

It’s always been the case. The “answer” he claims to discover at the end is usually a couple of google searches away. Mostly he researches it reads/watches about out how it’s done then has a first couple of attempts where he really hams up how wrong he gets it. Then makes a couple of intentional missteps where he goes totally in the wrong direction, then finally “discovers” the correct way to do it (which he would have known from the beginning by doing a few minutes of research). This video is actually not as bad from that perspective as he definitely would have had to make a lot of omelettes to perfect the technique - which is definitely a difficult one to master.

is the poor guy not allowed a haircut?

Because it seems like he is acting

Because he doesn’t care. He’s already very rich and is just milking whatever he can until the channel dies. All his videos are getting a ton of dislikes and have been for quite a while. He clearly doesn’t have an inspiration for new and exciting content, so he just does random topics related to cooking. All that matters is that he can squeeze another sponsorship in.

for example. uncle rogor launched video with similar topic just few days ago. (not saying the contents are the same)

You mean the security stuff?

Why don't you tell what he should look at instead? What's the problem with being sponsored by "better help"? Please tell us as you seem to know something...

@@IronFreeeit’s a scam, that’s what. Google some reviews

It's called having a contract. Everyone complains about the ads but doesn't understand the first thing about actually having a sponsor.

Who cares ?

lol.. hows your channel going?

@@aarondavidson6409 perfect! Thank you for the genuine interest 🤗

@@aarondavidson6409 stop with the asslicking cringelord

True. I've come to the same conclusions, but the high heat conductivity might not be necessary, as both Motokichi's signature skillets are pretty thick and made of iron.

@@Mattvieir It probably helps a lot though if you aren't skilled enough yet to do it quickly. You can create the thin skin on high heat, take the pan off the fire, and then have a lot of time to do the folding without stressing.

This is interesting! Wasn't that just a different kind of egg? There are some Japanese eggs with many different properties. Do you have the link of the video?

I never have time to make true demi-glace at home, so I do the quick/cheat version.

@@danieldonathan3361 I use an ultrasonic cleaner to make stock.

It's much easier to buy some real, low salt beef stock and reduce it.

Haiyaa

Yep!

Why should he review a cheap ad for BetterHelp?

He is well capable of it! And then people would celebrate the high value series !

Doesnt matter. He shouldve cut ties with them immediately. He lives on the internet so he can't feign ignorance. He makes more than enough money off Patreon, Merch, Adsense and other sponsors.

Can you just enjoy the video? You are NOT paying betterhelp by watching the video, betterhelp is paying alex to let you enjoy it. That’s it.

@@riccardotonetti8391 He might as well advertise porn sites, drugs, alcohol, tobacco and guns. Those pay well.

Really? Cope hard.

​@@Avetarxthen you will complain more lol

@@Avetarxmegahyperbole

Alex is already an Honorary Great Uncle lol! Maybe not an omurice Uncle, but when you've been praised by Jaques Pépin himself you're at the very least an Uncle

No, of course not.

Cope

@@dadsquatch79 Well, at least you give better mental health advice than Better Help.

@@dadsquatch79 spamming lifeless boomer get a hike jesus christ

The croissant and mother sauce series are complete. If you look at the playlists he makes it clear in the videos they're the last episodes. Ramen, yeah, not sure what happened to that one.

@@mrwho995 They may be completed as much as Alex intends to, but I feel that he didn't wrap up the loose ends. For example he built a cool croissant rolling machine, but I don't remember him actually making a batch of croissants with it. The sauces series, he did not go yo Italy and learn about sauce tomate like he referred to in his podcast.

@@wyattholm5720 Yeah fair point, looking back I can remember thinking some of his series ended a bit abruptly

No, it must be a conspiracy.

Its very hard to be a genuine person and not promote scammers who sell very private and personal info.

Give him another episode.....

I must admit, I don't like it too ^^

@2:05- Okay, we're off to a good start! 😂🤣 lmfao

True story.