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30 Jul
POLL: Video How-To Posts
Posted as Brown Eyed Baker Site News
After all of the positive feedback I received on the How to Decorate Cookies with Royal Icing tutorial I did back in June, I have been taking notes on the suggestions many of you have sent me on future tutorials you’d like to see. How to make bread with yeast and how to cover cakes in fondant have been two of the popular requests. I was all set to take lots of pictures and document the step by step process and then it occurred to me that perhaps a video tutorial would be an even better way to demonstrate some of these techniques. Since I want to please all of you wonderful readers, I would love to have your feedback on the idea.
Q1: Would video how-to tutorials be useful to you? Would you rather have step by step pictures? Or a combination of both?
Q2: What topics would you like to see covered in how-to posts?
Thank you for your feedback!!
I love how to videos. Sometimes pictures don’t accurately reflect exactly how something should be done. A person can get confused with step-by-step pictures. Personally, I’m a visual person and have to see it.
That would be so cool to have a video tutorial! I’M ALL FOR IT!
I’m usually a quiet reader, but I just wanted to say how much I’d love to see how-to videos!
Actually, it would be super to have a royal icing how-to video as well. The pictures were wonderful, but it would be great to see it all in live action. Still working up the courage to decorate with royal icing myself…
K x
I think how to videos are great! Step by step photos are awesome too. But just like the commenter sometimes you cant get everything with the pictures.
I like the idea of How-to videos. I would still like to see one still picture of the finished product and the recipe, that way when I am watching the video, I can still have the recipe in front of me. I also like to save the recipes I like on my desktop, so a finished product picture would be nice to have with my recipe.
I actually prefer pictures unless its something that has to do with motion, like say kneading your dough. You can explain it all you want but seeing it makes a difference. I wanna watch the fondant video badly…lol. I’ve never even tried it, it totally freaks me out!
It will really depend on the type of recipe that you are considering doing. Some may be easier with photos while others may need a step by step video process. The more complex a recipe is the easier it will become if someone is showing you what exactly to do. Can’t wait to see more of your how to videos!
I would love video tutorials, especially of fondant!
It’s funny, I like videos but find myself avoiding them when they’re in my feed – I think it’s because I tend to multi-task ridiculously, and playing video with sound is a bigger commitment than scrolling through a pictorial post. That said, a well-done video is always appreciated!
I think having video tutorials would be great, very helpful, in either form, videos or pictures.
I would prefer a combination of video and step by step photos. The video would be great alone but I am the type who would like photos to use while I am creating the recipe myself. Thanks for providing great recipes and tutorials!
I like the step-by-step instructions with pictures so I can print them out, although for some skills it would also be helpful to have video.
video–yes, I especially like the idea of fondant as I’ve never worked with it and it seems like the “thing to do”. You should even make a homemade marshmallow fondant.
And not to double your work or anything, but I do also like the written step by step instructions on certain things.
I’d definitely watch a video tutorial. Always looking to learn new baking tricks and techniques!
I’m a new stay-at-home dad and I just found your website a little over a month ago. Baked oatmeal was the first thing I tried making & it came out great. Today my wife made the jalapeño cornbread for a chili cook-off.
I personally would love to see a how-to video of making bread with yeast as I cannot get down/understand yeast and how to work with it. I don’t know the difference between “Yeast” and “Active Dry Yeast” and the other types you can buy. When shopping I often get confused as to whether there’s really a difference and what I need to do with each of them to get them to work right. I’ve tried homemade bread several times and each time they’ve come out like a brick (literally).
Fondant would be another amazing thing to do a how-to video on. From what I understand you can really make some nice cakes with fondant and I’d love to try this.
I’m one of the ones who asked for a yeast bread/roll tutorial. I think a video would be SUPER helpful!!!! Some things just can’t be conveyed by pictures. I like your idea of a combination, because the video camera might not be able to capture all angles.
Decorating cookies with Royal Icing.
Making/rolling fondant.
I would love videos with some photos also of the biggest steps so I could look at them without watching the whole video again!
Since we have found you, we have been faithfully watching. We would both love to see videos!
Before we got the laptop I would have said I prefer photos so I could print them and bring them to the kitchen with me. Now that we have a laptop, I say bring on the videos!
Perhaps photos for more simple projects and videos for more complex techniques?