Ctrl+Alt+Chicken, a cooking show video podcast where the cooks don't know how to cook. Good production values, charismatic hosts, quality animation, multiple cameras—everything you need to make a great cooking show, except for, uh, one missing ingredient. In episode 1, Alex Albrecht (Diggnation, The Screen Savers) and Heather Stewart try to make Chicken Cordon Bleu, get grossed out by raw chicken, then only cook it for 6 minutes. I've never felt so confident in my own cooking abilities. Very entertaining.

It's a great premise for an educational cooking show: Watch inexperienced cooks make mistakes. The premise would have to be managed carefully (if it's intentional), since it naturally degrades over time: As they make more episodes, they will gain cooking experience. Whipping egg whites in episode #30 will be easier than in episode #2.

Also available in the iTunes music podcast store (for free). Search for chicken.

It reminds me a little of Dinner and a Weblog (part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5). It's impressive what a difference six years makes in weblog culture, camera technology, and personal maturity. (The "Dinner and a Movie" reference is especially dated, and makes a couple of those articles rather confusing.) I'd start it up again, but there are too many good food blogs now. And I don't have that webcam any more.

(That pic of L being impressed with my spaghetti is one of my favorite things of all time. She married me! She's my wife now! I'll never get over it.)