Not sure when this started, but it’s in nearly every food reel/video where they sear a grilled cheese or literally anything, but mainly bread. It’s not even that I don’t like the sound, I just find it annoying.
I can see with my own damn eyes that it is browned and crispy, you do not need to take your knife to it and scrape it so I can hear that it is browned and crispy.
It’s also unfair and insulting to deaf people who’ve never heard what noise that makes. They only know the feeling of crunch.
I’m joking about that last part lol. If anything, the deaf are lucky they can’t hear that shit.
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Mostly true but when I see a steak and they use that “black” seasoning I’m suspicious there is actually a good crust on it
I have no stakes in this and couldn’t say whether this is a popular opinion or not, but if you find the sound annoying, how is it not the case that you don’t like the sound?
I mean, it literally has a point. You called it in your post title.
You can’t complain about something being pointless while in the same fucking sentence calling out the point of it.
Someone has never watch Chef “Fork don’t lie” John
I feel like this started to happen more after Gordon Ramsay did it on Masterchef – but to be fair, he scraped an apple pie to interact with Christine Ha (who is legally blind).
And it’s heartbreaking to watch these cooks saturate that crispy surface with some sort of sauce, totally destroying the crispiness they just worked so hard to achieve.
Certain little noises really annoy me and this is one of them. Scrapping fried food in videos. Like, yeah we can tell it’s crispy by the color and crust alone.
Sounds like Tik tok brainrot. Never seen such a thing.
it isn’t pointless.
Eating involves more senses than just taste. Hearing how crispy something is when you expect it to be crispy can highten the anticipation for something scrumptious.
Max Miller on Tasting History always jokes about how some people hate when he shows his hard-tack clip (link below)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3VmehJ6Vn0
You must hate this guy. LOL
Something can be browned and still not be crispy, a steak is a good example of that. There’s been studies on how we use all our senses for food, it’s not just taste and smell, visual and sound enhances that as well so it very much has a point, and people do it because people like it.
I think its just that some people like to hear it for the ASMR…. i dont understand having strong feelings about it either way lol
What if you can’t see with your eyes, though?
No matter what you watch on a TV screen, monitor, cell phone screen, laptop screen, movie theater screen, etc – TV shows, sports events, movies, videos, etc – if you don’t add sounds it would take away from the viewing experience. You already miss out on the smells and other tactile experiences by watching “it” on a screen. As life goes on, we get older, we learn to associate different sounds with different situations and experiences.
Example: If you are playing a video game that is centered around a war/battle and the sounds of shooting, bombs, ect and all you heard was people talking you would miss a lot of the total experience. Just watching the bullet exiting from the gun but not hearing it doesn’t add to the overall experience.
Example: If you watch a pro football game on TV (think Super Bowl) and you took all of the sounds out of the game except people talking it would be a very bland experience. The sounds of the crowd, whistles, etc add to the over all experience of watching the game.
And that follows true with cooking shows. If the only thing you heard on the show was someone talking it would definitely lack substance. If you hear the sound of the crisp crunch of the grilled cheese it creates the memory of the texture, smells and overall experience of knowing when the sandwich is grilled to your perfection. That’s the same with a steak or burger. The sound that is shared with you while watching the show reminds you of a beautiful crust when the meat is grilled to your satisfaction. What about the sound of someone breaking a chip in two? Or what about the sound of a crispy piece of southern fried chicken?
Sounds add to our experiences in life.
I think it’s an ASMR thing but I hate it
It’s a trend for sure. All about marketing. Tap tap, nervous fingers, ASMR, etc. whatever. I agree it’s annoying and I dislike it. My wife however loves ASMR.
To each is own.
I don’t watch cooking content but I do this anyway with the turner to make sure it’s crispy enough.
Is this just a social media trend, bc I’ve never seen a single person do this in real life.
The point is to prove the sear/crisp.
I do find those sounds interesting on certain recipes(fried foods, bread, etc). But I do not trust those 3 minute quick videos with clearly fake noise and an iffy recipe/process.