Pepin Debone Chicken.flv
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN calls it the single best cooking video on the internet and suggests it as a skill worth practicing for an hour.
What it is
Jacques Pepin demonstrates deboning a whole chicken, quickly and with complete control. It is a short, wordless-feeling technique demo that shows a skill most cooks never learn.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 3 different months, 2016 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec tptacek · 2016-11 · on “Jacques Pepin, unlike other celebrity chefs, will actually teach you how to cook”
Recurring reminder that Pepin's chicken deboning video is the best cooking video that has ever or will ever be put on the Internet: [this video]
Strong rec tptacek · 2021-06 · on “J. Kenji López-Alt is Seattle’s reluctant powerful food influencer”
That video is amazing and taught me how to make omelets. Of course, Pépin is also responsible for the single greatest cooking video on the Internet: [this video]
Recommends IvyMike · 2019-11 · on “Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can learn in an hour?”
One minute: what a dechoker is and how to use it: [LINK] One hour (because as easy as it looks you're gonna have to do it at least 4 times): deboning a chicken: [this video]
Cites anon9001 · 2019-08 · on “Ask HN: Best resources to gain math intuition?”
3blue1brown is a special kind of awesome. I'd love to filter the internet by "content that can give you insights right now that would otherwise take years of study in a specific discipline to even know exists". Another that I saw recently on an HN comment (thanks tptacek) is [this video] A quick google for "3blue1brown awesome github" (my usual strategy for finding good similar content) landed me here: [LINK] The awesome lists are pretty good starting points for finding good content, but there's a ton of them of variable quality, so you end up with stuff like this: [LINK] (which has 68 forks...)
Cites rwl4 · 2023-05 · on “GIL Strang's final lecture at MIT”
Wow! I'm not sure how I missed that back in the day. Here's the video transcoded on YouTube for anybody else who's curious: [this video]