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The contest-winning comedian and podcaster Bobbi Althoff, sharing her kitchen delays while trying to keep up her New Year’s resolution of eating more at home, has come to her public for assistance in her culinary endeavors. In one of her latest clips, Althoff introduced her novice attempt at using a slow cooker to cook a chuck roast, full of humorous doubts and a last-minute request for easy dairy-free recipes from her fans.
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Althoff’s video serves as a perfect specimen of her style: deadpan, dry humor mixed with real-life domestic chaos. She goes over the instructions in a cuddly, bumbling way, questioning the use of the celery and calling the adding of the spices to the meat ‘disgusting’. Among the best comic episodes is when she turns, quite expressionlessly, to talking about having washed her hands ‘for six years’ following the seasoning. All this is happening while she is also realizing that she has layered the ingredients wrong, which is a monumental occasion for a novice in the kitchen. ‘I always mess up,’ she says to the camera before going on to propose to simply toss back all the veggies and take the gamble.
Althoff, faced with a scorching nine-hour cooking period at a low temperature, that she simply could not wait for, went for the six-hour high setting, demonstrating the kind of pragmatic, if not exactly by-the-book, problem-solving that her cooking style embodies. To illustrate that point, she finished her cooking video by saying that she was already in the middle of the process and was sharing it with her viewers so that they could intervene with any major errors before the meal was done. This made her written appeal that went along with the video almost inevitable: ‘Give me all your dairy free slow cooker recipes I’m lazy!!’
The request, made along with her signature genuineness, dives straight into the fundamentals of a very common today problem—the necessity to consume home-cooked meals without having the required time, talent, or patience. In that way, Bobbi Althoff transformed a mere cooking video into a participatory experience by facing the crockpot and calling for help. It is not so much a lesson as an invitation for the audience to share their kitchen cheats and victories.
Bobbi Althoff’s rise to fame has largely depended on her exceptionally clumsy, minimalistic humor—sometimes through her absolutely awkward interviews with celebrities. But this plunge into daily life seems to be a sheer continuation of that character, being the same blind, slightly puzzled look upon the banal task of roast-making. The humor is produced not through the perfect performance but through the honest, slightly chaotic effort. Besides, her asking for non-dairy recipes subtly admits the restrictions but still keeps it as not a major topic preventing a light and open atmosphere.
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The video serves as a reminder that even the internet celebs, who are recognized for their surrealities, face the same dull hardships as everybody else. Bobbi Althoff’s specific encounter with the crockpot is evidence that it is easier to have a good time and take the journey of a New Year’s resolution together than to reach the destination. The final outcome of Althoff in the roast is still to be seen but her ability to attract the audience with a simple and relatable plea is already clear. Her recent collaboration with Trevor Wallace was similarly humorous, and she also made headlines with a new fashion shoot that drew both support and criticism. Looking ahead, Althoff has declared 2026 her year of no excuses, and another video with Trevor Wallace sparked laughter and debate.
