Jennifer Garner Cooking Videos/Pet Peeve

[Anonymous]

I love these and I think she’s great, but I CANNOT get past how she typically wears her hair down to cook/bake. All I can think of when I watch is the surprise hairs people must find in the food she prepares! I get that it’s for an Instagram post, but I thought that was the first rule of the kitchen??

Ok sorry. Needed to get that off my chest.

[Anonymous]

That and other things....not having prepped ingredients prior (like softening butter), looking like she does not know what she is doing, calling her mother and asking very basic questions....she seems kind and it's all in fun and i assume her shtick may be self deprication and looking less competent than she is. (because it is after all a "pretend" cooking show). Or she was really a new learner and was comfortable looking like it? Who knows? I am not sure. It may be a generational thing. Having grown up around serious cooks she is hard for me to watch, being adorable, gaining some arrention and showing all the equipment and the high end kitchen seems more the goal here. Everyone has to be a teacher today for some reason...apparently even having celebrity is not enough sometimes, you have to have "learners"...everyone wants to be martha stewart (who I never thought was such a great teacher either, she's a taskmaster who told you what to do....very little open curiosity or flexibility ever shown, except when her mother was on and then we all saw a real, down to earth home cook. Her mother rang true even when sometimes martha did not.) It's a fun gig for social media, not meant to really teach anything real, it's just meant to be fun to watch her do it, I guess.

[Anonymous]

*attention

[Anonymous]

Awhile back I bought a gorgeous kosher cookbook, "The Modern Menu" by Kim Kushner (yes, she married into the family, her politics are not theirs) . The recipes looked gorgeous but she too had her long hair down in several of the pictures and I noticed it immediately. I guess looking great in your book is more important than good kitchen hygiene. It bugged me too, I totally get it.

[Anonymous]

Freya on the bake-off - seems lovely, but that hair!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Freya on the bake-off - seems lovely, but that hair!

Yep. Same with the young woman on the last season—so much hair hanging in the bake!

[Anonymous]

Who is she even? She has started appearing in my feed for some reason and I have never even heard of her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That and other things....not having prepped ingredients prior (like softening butter), looking like she does not know what she is doing, calling her mother and asking very basic questions....she seems kind and it's all in fun and i assume her shtick may be self deprication and looking less competent than she is. (because it is after all a "pretend" cooking show). Or she was really a new learner and was comfortable looking like it? Who knows? I am not sure. It may be a generational thing. Having grown up around serious cooks she is hard for me to watch, being adorable, gaining some arrention and showing all the equipment and the high end kitchen seems more the goal here. Everyone has to be a teacher today for some reason...apparently even having celebrity is not enough sometimes, you have to have "learners"...everyone wants to be martha stewart (who I never thought was such a great teacher either, she's a taskmaster who told you what to do....very little open curiosity or flexibility ever shown, except when her mother was on and then we all saw a real, down to earth home cook. Her mother rang true even when sometimes martha did not.) It's a fun gig for social media, not meant to really teach anything real, it's just meant to be fun to watch her do it, I guess.

You nailed it. I think it’s totally the schtick. She talks a lot about how she loves cooking, so it would seem she would have a little more confidence. I know it’s fun an all, but I prefer women not to model the “helpless/ditzy” role.

[Anonymous]

Have you ever thought about…not watching things that bother you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That and other things....not having prepped ingredients prior (like softening butter), looking like she does not know what she is doing, calling her mother and asking very basic questions....she seems kind and it's all in fun and i assume her shtick may be self deprication and looking less competent than she is. (because it is after all a "pretend" cooking show). Or she was really a new learner and was comfortable looking like it? Who knows? I am not sure. It may be a generational thing. Having grown up around serious cooks she is hard for me to watch, being adorable, gaining some arrention and showing all the equipment and the high end kitchen seems more the goal here. Everyone has to be a teacher today for some reason...apparently even having celebrity is not enough sometimes, you have to have "learners"...everyone wants to be martha stewart (who I never thought was such a great teacher either, she's a taskmaster who told you what to do....very little open curiosity or flexibility ever shown, except when her mother was on and then we all saw a real, down to earth home cook. Her mother rang true even when sometimes martha did not.) It's a fun gig for social media, not meant to really teach anything real, it's just meant to be fun to watch her do it, I guess.

She’s not trying to be a serious cook. At all. That’s the point and why it’s called the “pretend cooking show.” It’s for fun, just real people (i.e., not perfect) in the kitchen. It’s definitely not for people who want to watch serious cooks.

[Anonymous]

I love her. If you don't love her, don't watch.
Simple solution.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Awhile back I bought a gorgeous kosher cookbook, "The Modern Menu" by Kim Kushner (yes, she married into the family, her politics are not theirs) . The recipes looked gorgeous but she too had her long hair down in several of the pictures and I noticed it immediately. I guess looking great in your book is more important than good kitchen hygiene. It bugged me too, I totally get it.

Cookbook pictures are staged. Hair down there wouldn’t bother me at all. In a video, it would.