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In short: yes.

In more detail: The biggest strength of Kamikaze Cookery was you guys sitting around talking and being funny. That and the interesting cooking-related infos (obviously). It’s not that the rest was bad, but I honestly think that 99% of the fun was just watching a group of witty people cooking with science. If you keep that and put the nice intro from the first season in front of it (I thought it was very amusing), you’ll have a very enjoyable show.

I thought the sound was perfectly all right in the first season, by the way. I’m sure there were a few bumps here and there, but nothing really awful. Today’s episode is a bit more problematic in that respect, but I’m sure you can work that out.

As for the live shows, I thought the first one was great fun. I do think it would be much nicer to put together some of the clips into an actual episode, though. It doesn’t have to be something you put thirty hours of editing into – it can just be the clips you released in chronological order, plus a few photos, and maybe an amusing voiceover. That shouldn’t kill you postproduction-wise, but it would feel more satisfying to the fans.

And my wife would like me to say that she wants to know more about the piña colada.

All of the above sound good. I enjoyed the live show (though didn’t watch it live) and its format – the text interspersed with pictures was a brilliant way of getting across the interesting bits of cooking complicated recipe without the boring bits, showing the fiddly bits and giving plenty of opportunity for humour.

I wouldn’t mind seeing more “live” stuff, but I honestly think you’re going to need a separate sound recording system in order to pull it off right.

Thanks for all the great comments, guys! This is really encouraging – we’ll definitely be doing more and soon now.

Sound – yep, the sound here is awful. I’m using the built-in mic on the camera, basically because I’m being lazy, and I wanted to see how it came out (clipping-tastic). We’ll be back to the Rode VideoMic for future stuff.

Jonas – That’s very interesting to hear. Sitting around and being funny we can do! We’ll look into more loosely-edited stuff. It’s also worth noting that we don’t yet know how much an improved workflow with the new camera will speed things up – might be quite a bit.

Victor – Yeah, the sound for the last live thing had huge Issues. We’re going to work on it. We might even find an Actual Sound Guy to give us some help!

Dougal – yeah, the camera’s awesome, isn’t it? That’s with no artificial lighting and only one light source, too.

Fhtagn – very interesting. The text/video combinations are easier to produce, too – glad to hear they work, and I can see the reasoning why.

Overall – I’m going to chat to Paul and Alex. I think we might look at doing another live thing as our next project, and then look at doing an episode (perhaps the long-delayed Liquid Nitrogen) in the near future.

Keep the comments coming if you have more!

Hi, Jonas’s wife speaking.
Just wanted to say that I love your show. Whatever you do, don’t stop making it. Normal Person vs. was always my favourite part, but I also loved the live event, though I understand that I only got really crazy after I left. I’m greatly looking forward to whatever Kamikaze Cookery will come up with in the future.
Also, the new camera looks great but I’m with Simon on the sound question.

Ops… It, I mean. It got crazy after I left.

Also, my wife meant to say “oops”, not “ops”. I’m sorry. She can’t help it, apparently. But she does like your show.

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Also – do you think the chocolate mousse thing would work with some kind of mint stuff rather than orange juice?

PJW

Yay for using actual real orange juice like Tropicana and not the annoying irradiated stuff in the box that most folks in the UK seem to like shudder. I want to say, hey folks, WWII ended a long time ago, and Italy is pretty close by! Fruit needn’t be rationed! I remember when I was there 10 years ago, all I could find in terms of real orange juice was blood orange Tropicana, which was nice to drink, but I’m not sure how it would do in this particular recipe.

I kinda didn’t hear exactly what the instructions were on when to stop whisking, but I think otherwise the recipe looks really easy.

As for KKC. I appreciate the amount of work you put into stuff. I wouldn’t mind a lot of informal stuff and all night craziness with the occasional produced episode. :)

Video blogs! Keep ’em coming!

But consider investing in a mini-tripod or something so we can have a nice “not-up-your-nose-cam” view. Yeah? =o)

Nice! I ’ve tried successfully a few times the chocolate – water mixture chantilly (with a liitle bit of butter…) but never the chocolate – orange chantilly.

P.S. I never managed to do it with with white chocolate, have you?

I think the video blog format is excellent. What would really make it the format for KKC is videos where the three of you interact – that’s what makes KKC for me.

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