About 3 weeks ago, my friend posted 3 videos of him cooking breakfast on his YouTube channel. Today, I wanted to talk about the first scene of the first video.
From the first video, it appears as though he's using his phone to record everything, as evident by the lack of his two hands appearing in the frame at the same time. This makes sense, as he is alone throughout the videos and does not have expensive equipment that would allow him to attach a camera to his body.
In the first part of Video 1, Dominic appears to be cutting some potatoes that were skinned off camera. He performs a cutting motion with a large kitchen knife and jump cuts to a frame of the potatoes cut in half. This was presumably done to save time on the video and because of a need for 2 hands. After this, the video cuts to him putting some avocado oil to grease the pan. It is unclear if the stove is on. In the next shot, he is placing the halved potatoes through a vegetable dicer with a clamshell-type mechanism. It is white and green. He continues to put potatoes through this tool to dice the potatoes, but eventually one of the potatoes gets stuck in the dicer because the bottom tank was filled. Initially, he tries to push the potato through, but it fails to move through. However, because he already applied force, it becomes wedged between the blades. Instead of emptying the potatoes into the pan to create more space, he forces it further. This makes the potato more stuck. Finally, he gives up and places the potatoes into the pan to create more space. Interestingly, instead of reattempting to push the potato through the blades with the empty container, he says to the camera "It got stuck..." and tries to pry it out with his hands. He claims that he "didn't think this through at all" and that you can "add it to the hot take of bloopers, wow". He gets it out with relative ease and cuts the potato by hand.
What's intriguing about this particular scene is the fact that he does not realize that the dicer is full, despite already cutting many potatoes beforehand. Also, it's strange that he didn't just put the potato back through the machine, especially since it was already 25% of the way through the blades. It's hard to tell from the video, but perhaps he didn't because potato became mangled from the blade or not in tact enough to go through the tool. It's funny, and should definitely be added to the bloopers.
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