Crash Test Kitchen

Crash Test Kitchen creators Waz and Lenny

Crash Test Kitchen (CTK) is the original video cooking podcast and video blog (vlog) as featured in Time Magazine. It features creators Waz and Lenny - Australian amateur chefs or 'foodies' living in London, England. CTK provides short programs in multiple formats for viewers to follow the adventures (always humorously including all the mistakes with the successes) of Waz and Lenny in their kitchen. New videos are usually posted once a month.

CTK was started in 2005 by Waz and Lenny who were then living in Australia. They then moved to Canada where the program continued to gain success and the podcast became a featured video podcast on iTunes. The program had a short stint 'on the road' across Canada before the move to London. The web site features archived videos dating back to April 2005, as well as a 'Best of' CTK list. Comments can be left on the site at the bottom of the viewing page for each program.

In the 16 December 2006 issue of Time Magazine, the annual 'Person of the Year' title was given to 'You', meaning the public, particularly independent content creators who used the Internet to post various videos, audio clips, photos, etc and have had an impact on local or global communities. Among several nominated people to represent 'You' were "the Un-Emerils" Waz and Lenny for their success with CTK.^[1] 612 ABC News Radio in Brisbane picked up the story as well and an interview with the couple in the Brisbane studio aired 20 December 2006.^[2]

On 6 June 2007,^[3] CTK appeared for the first time on the Word of Mouth page, the food blog for the Guardian Unlimited. Then on 21 September 2007,^[4] CTK appeared again, this time in embedded podcast, in order to "crash test" Ross Dobson's spicy vegetable soup, extracted from The Observer's Observer Food Monthly.^[5]

References

1. ^ Grossman, Lev (2006-12-16). "Person of the Year". Time Magazine. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1570724,00.html. Retrieved 2006-12-16. 
2. ^ Johnston, Tony. "612 ABC News Brisbane". ABC News. http://www.abc.net.au/brisbane/stories/s1815766.htm. Retrieved 2006-12-20. ^{[dead link]}
3. ^ "Word of Mouth". Guardian Unlimited (London). 2007-06-06. http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/food/2007/06/pass_the_mike_darling.html. Retrieved 2007-06-06. 
4. ^ "Word of Mouth". Guardian Unlimited (London). 2007-09-21. http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/food/2007/09/video_soupy_time.html#more. Retrieved 2007-09-21. 
5. ^ Dobson, Ross (2007-09-23). "September 2007 Recipes". The Observer Food Monthly (London). http://observer.guardian.co.uk/foodmonthly/story/0,,2172412,00.html. Retrieved 2007-09-24. 

External links

• Official site