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I make the occasional cooking video. The longest is like seven minutes, the rest hovers around the three minute mark. I don't even know how other people drag videos out that long. Ingredients, preparation, a bad joke or two, done. Then again I'm doing it for fun and don't want to waste peoples time, they could be starving.
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I personally have mixed feelings about "fluff" content in recipes. If it's a rundown of the origins and history of the dish, its evolution, and variations, I'm usually very interested in that as it can and sometimes does have a bearing on how I may want to customize the recipe, or if nothing else, educational content on the history of food is nice. Obviously I appreciate a to the point recipe too, just saying I personally don't mind a bit of context and history. If it's just telling a story about your personal connection to the food though, I think we can stand to skip that or at the very least move it to a dedicated bonus section after the recipe itself.
Oh yes, absolutely! I love doing a bit of research when I'm doing a recipe. I've got a couple of cooking books from the 19th century which are a great source for inspiration and show how dishes evolved, as you say. I'll include that in the videos too with traditional recipes, but that usually doesn't take up much time.
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Sponsorblock + Adblock is a must nowadays. And occasionally participating by submitting segments to sponsorblock, if you can, is a nice way to help.
Personally I've contributed segments (highlights and sponsor mostly) recently and the stats are somewhat disturbing in the sheer quantity of life time savings: