What Happened!!!

Ruby007_342890

What happened to this company, were is all the cool chefs and videos creators, were is the spirit.

I would like to see back the company that inspired us all to get in the kitchen and start cooking.

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Brandon_Byrd_40557

It's broken my heart to watch a James Beard Award-winning online cooking school devolve into whatever ChefSteps is now. (What are they doing now?)

I came to this site just after Modernist Cuisine at Home launched. At the time, the only circulators on the market were from PolyScience, and I was cooking using a PID controlled rice cooker. ChefSteps is what convinced me to shell out the big bucks for the PolyScience Pro. They're also why I decided to invest in a chamber vacuum over an edge sealer. Waring Xtreme blender? Chris Young's videos on the physics of blending got me that one. I don't know when it happend exactly, but I've got a full set of Darto pans and it's all ChefStep's fault. Grant's Facebook Live video grilling yakitori in a hotel pan eventually resulted in my spending too much money on a konro and binchotan. The sharpening course is what nudged me to purchasing a set of stones and probably helped ignite my current passion for J-knives. Grant is defintely why I own a honesuki. I think of him whenever I french bones. (If that's not a bromantic sentence, I don't know what is). "Moustache = Empowerment" indeed.

ChefSteps inspired me to take pliers to turkey tendons, and use meat glue to roll chickens into perfectly cooked tubes -- and then deep fry them. To spend weeks curing brisket, belly, pastrami. They're the reason that Methocel F-50 is in my fish and chips. Their kouign amann video empowered my wife to make laminated dough for the first time. ChefSteps made it seem perfectly sane to stock my pantry with four types of carrageenan. Or to carbonate fruit with dry ice. I've never cooked a suckling pig in a trashbag, but if I ever do, you'd better believe that ChefSteps had everything to do with it.

Do you remember the Gaggle Roaster? Do you remember the Wall of Fire? Do you remember Chris Young explaining how evaporative cooling can cause liquid nitrogen to freeze into solid ice at low atmospheric pressures? Watching that nitrogen ice form and then explode?

That was the good shit.

This site used to be unbelievable. Now it's all too believable.

Come back to us.

Please.

joseph.morell

Could not agree more. Lets keep this thread going and get the Chefsteps crew to notice us!

Colton_Qualls_108837

I reached out to their support directly a few months prior and they reassured me that they would eventually return to their roots here on this site.

No specifics were given and most of the conversation was aligning with my disappointment that the group had departed so strongly from their roots and abandoned the site and their community (outside of Joule, though that appears marginal in involvement as well).

I do hope they carry through, I would love to see the site and group return to the roots that drew us all in with fascination and curiosity. The times that this group has inspired my intrigue is countless.

Ideally it will be sooner rather than later. Keep in mind it has been several months at this point and it's difficult to not see that interaction with support as little more than glad-handing.

brian_martin2001

They need to stop into the forum to actually notice what's going on here. Their presence here is far and few between, and seems to be exclusively the bugs and features. That, and a few more days and this post with be pushed further and further down, and eventually lost into the older posts.

Brandon_Byrd_40557

Yeah... this “new” forum is super sad, both in its design and in its ChefSteps employee participation. The old forum was so much better in both regards. Why in the world is this forum still in beta? Sad!

dvukovic

It's a shame to let this place die off, but obviously that is inevitably happening for 2 years now.

geemcwee

Hear hear

brian_martin2001

When they respond to folks on Facebook, they always say that they're super busy creating new fantastical content for the app.

rene

I could'nt agree more - however now when the Joule are actually shipping to Denmark (and I got two - yes!), my love of ChefSteps have rekindled

Disregarding how much i also love the ideas they put in the Joule app (which i do) - i also really miss the "old" ChefSteps - the playfull bunch who taught me so much about cooking on the edge.

SeriousEats helps me a bit - but i miss videos with "the guys"

Bob_Dolen_Death_852515

It's only been 10 months since their last video.... where do you get 2 years from? ...btw that's 10 months from today.... sept 2018...

dvukovic

You mean 10 months from their last Joule commercial? For two years now we don't have any quality content.

brian_martin2001

If you compare these current videos to their older videos, there is a lot less heart and love for what is going on. They used to be quite active posting far more often with more interesting content, and active here in the forum as well. You haven't been here long enough to remember what this place used to be like.

dvukovic

I would not want to jinx them but it seems that the old ChefSteps is back