Creator / B. Dylan Hollis

"I think I've summoned something."

Cimmanim!

B. Dylan Hollis is a TikTok creator with a secondary YouTube channel. He currently lives in Wyoming, although he was born and raised in Bermuda and many of his videos showcase the area he lived in.

Along with his content showing his life in Bermuda, his musical talents^note he's a jazz pianist and a skilled accordion player, and his antique vehicles, he's best known for making food using old and sometimes unusual recipes, ranging from as early as the Civil War era all the way to the mid to late 20th century, to see how they actually turn out. Some are delicious; others, not so much.

His first cookbook, Baking Yesteryear: The Best Recipes from the 1900s to the 1980s, was released on July 25, 2023.

Compare with Tasting History with Max Miller, the other gay male food historian on YouTube.

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His videos provide examples of:

• Accidental Innuendo: In-Universe, a staple of his humor is latching on to anything in a recipe that sounds vaguely dirty and running with it. "Beat by hand" and "cream," "A 9-inch is preferred," anything involving nuts... The high king of it all is probably the "Candle Salad" video, whose sheer phallic-ness is enough to make him start Corpsing.
• Age-Stereotypical Food: Done both ways:
  • Whenever an older recipe says to do certain things if you're making a recipe "for children" (such as adding additional sugar or sprinkles), he'll gleefully say things along the lines of "I'm a child now" and make the more "childish" version of the recipe.
  • On the other hand, he freely admits to really liking oats because "it tastes like grandparents"^note "Well, not LIKE grandparents--you KNOW WHAT I MEAN!", and he also has a fondness for raisins, nuts, and other things that are sometimes considered "old fashioned" and a Stock "Yuck!" in baked goods.
• Big "NO!": From "Deep Fried Cookie Dough", a cracked "eggy" has most of its shell fall into the mixture, prompting this reaction.
• Big "WHAT?!":
  • In the "Candle Salad" recipe, when a line starts with "for the candle wax", his only response is "The what!?"
  • In the "Pinto Bean Cake" video, he is incredulous that the recipe somehow produced an actual cake:
    What?! It's a cake! HOW??
• Bilingual Bonus: In the "Pinto Bean Cake" recipe, Dylan's exasperation over the recipe causes him to lapse into both Spanish^translation"total nightmare in the kitchen" and German^translation"bean disaster".
• Black Comedy: Often. For example:
  • From "Peanut Butter Pie":
    If I have to beat anything else in this recipe, I'm going to be charged with domestic violence.
  • In a couple of videos, he "French Revolutions" a pineapple (cutting off the top). Similarly, after accidentally tearing off most of the top of his pound cake^note because he didn't flour the Bundt pan before baking it, he says "I really just JFK'd this cake."
  • As he's putting together the ingredients of the whipped cream cake:
    Three large eggs—whites only! Sounds about right for 1936.
  • The "Peanut Pie" is brought to us courtesy of the Karo Kid, who Dylan can only describe as "An infant male escort" due to the picture accompanying the recipe.
  • From the "Shoofly Pie" recipe:
    [as he's trimming the edges of the pie crust] You're gonna die here! Yes!
• Boring, but Practical:
  • Some of the simpler recipes, such as the K-2 Defence Biscuits and "Hoover Stew", are noted to be bland or moderately unenjoyable, but not disgusting and they are easy and cheap to make.
  • He sometimes covers ways to make mundane things, like ranch dressing and almond milk.
• Bonus Material: The YouTube channel has extended videos that go into deep detail about the recipes, including tests to improve them when possible.
• Break Out the Museum Piece: He has a genuine love of cars and appliances from the early to mid-1900s and has several videos showing some of what he has and uses. That said, he's well aware of the issues that come with such dated tech, and lampshades it in the avocado pie video when he uses an electric hand mixer from 1938 and comments that it's only electrocuted him twice.
• Catchphrase:
  • "Gentles and ladymen!", his standard greeting on his YouTube recipe videos.
  • "Good cookie.", typically how he ends off cookie recipes he enjoys.^*For the Australian Anzac biscuits recipe, he used "good biscuit" instead, but it counts.
• Comical Overreacting: His reactions to the dishes he makes, especially the ones that don't taste good, can sometimes get very silly. Enforced, as he notes in his calmer, longer-form YouTube videos, because the primary audience on TikTok wants and expects these sorts of high energy, dramatic, and very over-exaggerated reactions. Some specific examples:
  • The tuna salad jello left him almost dropping the tray on the counter, leaving the room and yelling "Mitchell!"^note the person who created the recipe, and who basically made a cat food recipe on accident off-camera over a crash of something metallic, and commenting "That's not food. This is a war crime."
  • The soured raisin pie left him grimacing, twitching and kicking his stove, and spitting the lone bite he took back into the mixing bowl while looking like he was about to throw up.
  • After spitting out the one bite of the Spaghetti-O Jello ring he took:
    THAT IS UNNATURAL! It's, it's like a morgue! I need a hug.
  • On a much, much more positive note, his response to the chocolate potato cake turning out well:
    *laughs'* YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO WORK! It's incredible, and I'm mad about it!
  • In the same vein, his reaction when the pinto bean cake turns out to be delicious:
    You have no right! NO!
• Companion Cube: A couple of videos have Dylan talking to Frank, a plant in a fish-shaped pot (usually turned so only its goofy smile is towards the camera).
  This recipe is so dead simple that even Frank could do it. You hear that, Frank? Yeah, you're dumb as rocks.
• Cordon Bleugh Chef: Not by any fault of his own, but some of the recipes are absolutely horrid. For example, Jellied Meatloaf, or Pickle Cheesecake.
• Corpsing: There are several videos where Dylan starts laughing at some point due to being caught off guard by a certain ingredient, the way the food turns out, or the general silliness of what he's making, such as:
  • In the "7Up Jello salad" video, he loses it when he turns the "salad" out of the pan onto a plate and then turns the plate to watch it jiggle.
  • The "cheese cookies" video features several cuts of him laughing at the addition of Rice Krispies into the mix.
    Worcestershire! A tablespoon of Tobasco! And two cups—*starts laughing* Plus two cup—*laughs some more* I can't say it! *cracks up* Mmm! Rice Krispies!
  • He doesn't even make it through the intro of the "crusty Spam bake" video before he starts laughing.
  • Dylan dissolves into laughter at several points during the "Candle Salad" video because of how silly and Crosses the Line Twice-esque it is.
  • In his "date cream" video, he broke out in a fit of giggles over an Accidental Innuendo.
    I don't know, I've never made a date cream before. *realizes what he said, laughs uncontrollably* I've never cooked a date cream before!
• Crazy Enough to Work: Some recipes turn out great despite the ingredients and instructions making him think This Is Gonna Suck. Well-known examples include a chocolate mayonnaise cake, a chocolate potato cake, and a bean pie.
  (yelling at said pie) Nothing makes sense anymore! Why are you good?! You have a BAG OF BEANS in you!
• Curse Cut Short: Generally, Dylan's clips cut off swears, with a cut-off "Son of a-" being the most common. Others include:
  • In the "candle salad" video, as he looks at the finished concoction, which looks absurdly phallic and even has white stuff all over it:
    *reading the recipe out loud* "And with that, your candle salad is finished." No shi-
  • As he's making the "Snickers salad":
    Now into the pudding goes a tub of Cool Whip...because we don't give a shi-
  • While giving an exposition on the "seafood mousse", which the recipe card describes as "an elegant and fancy way to elevate family dinners":
    However, upon first glance I would describe it as an ornate pile of sh-
  • In the "Chocolate Syrup Cake", where he repeatedly expresses his shock at using syrup for such a recipe.
    What kind of yankee-doodle-dandy-sh-
  • While making "ranch cornbread" (a cornbread recipe that uses an entire bottle of ranch dressing as a wet ingredient):
    "For a gourmet option—" *Beat* Are you taking the pi-
  • The immortal response to chocolate mayonnaise cake turning out amazingly.
    .....Holy fu-
  • Averted with "Chipped Beef", as he refers to it by its common nickname "shit on a shingle" completely uncensored.
• Deep-Fried Whatever: He's done deep-frying for four things thus far: potato donuts, cookie dough, Oreos, and Creme eggs. He notes that the latter three ring distinctly American (making sure to note that the last one was "born of chippies across the United Kingdom.")—and yet still end up pretty delicious.
• Disproportionate Retribution:
  Now, I say disrespecting doughnuts should carry a life sentence, so let's see if we're going to jail today, huh?^note They turned out amazing.
  • Similarly, anyone diluting or otherwise tampering with peanut butter deserves to be sent "to the gulag", as he mentioned in "Peanut Butter Pie".
• Does Not Like Spam: So far every recipe using literal Spam has been a disaster, mostly because they mixed meaty and fruity flavors in an unholy combination. But the actual thing he consistently dislikes is any use of lard or, to a lesser extent, margarine.
• Double Entendre: A staple of his humor, especially whenever a recipe he's doing has some Accidental Innuendo. A good example: Whenever he's doing a pie recipe that specifies what size pie pan is best, by saying "an 8-inch" or "a 9-inch is preferred," his usual response is something along the lines of, "Honey, don't we all..."
• Double Take:
  • He does one in the "potato candy" recipe when the amount of sugar the recipe calls for clicks.
    "Add 8 to 10 cups of powdered sugar." *cut to him suddenly turning back at his cabinet* Cups? Cups?! Eight is the low end?!
  • He later does another with his "Glorified Rice" video when the recipe says to "quarter the cherries in half" ^note As in cut them in half, then in half again
• Early-Installment Weirdness: One Running Gag from his early videos was that, when a recipe says to "blind bake" a pie or pastry base^note which is just baking the pastry before adding anything else, there would be a Jump Cut to him holding the pie pan while wearing opaque sunglasses and running into his stove or knocking things off his counter, pretending that he is sight-impaired. He remarked "That was rude/distasteful" after a couple of those, and the gag was eventually dropped without comment.
• Engaging Conversation: His response to a cookie recipe including a full tablespoon of vanilla extract is to ask the book, "Are you trying to marry me?"
• Enmity with an Object:
  • He really doesn't like dealing with lard, and grouses about it in almost every video where it's an ingredient. There's even a YouTube short compiling those gripes.
    [from the "Shoofly pie" video] What is it with dead people and their OBSESSION with this?!
    [from the "peanut butter soup" video] You know, in the story of my life, lard is the closest thing I've had to a- *lard flies off teaspoon* -NEMESIS.
    [from the "fried crackers" video] Now we heat up a skillet. With what? A "suitable" amount of lard. There is no "suitable" amount of lard, there never has been, there never will be!
  • He also doesn't care for gelatin, although that's mainly because the dishes that include it tend to be ridiculous "salads" or jellied concoctions that almost always turn out to be vile.
• Expressive Ears: Whenever he tastes something that turns out to be delicious, his ears rise up moments before he starts smiling, something which numerous viewers have noted.
• Extra-Long Episode: Known for his about minute-long TikToks, Dylan makes fifteen-minute plus videos going into great detail on the old recipes that really impress him, such as the 1912 chocolate potato cake, the 1950 tomato soup cake, and the 1932 peanut butter bread.
• Eye Take: He does these occasionally when he tastes something and realizes it's actually really good, such as in the "fake apple pie" and "potato donuts" videos. One that especially stands out is the "magic ice cream" video, where after he tastes it, he briefly crosses his eyes before looking at the camera and smiling.
• Fanservice: While it's not often, he's thrown in some Shirtless Scenes, and in a couple of videos, his tops are cropped short enough to show off some of his abs.
• Formula-Breaking Episode: In the "Apple Cider Cookies" video, he states he specifically chose that recipe because he was pretty sure they'd actually be good (and they were).
  I don't always like to destroy my tastebuds, yanno!
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: In the "deep fried Oreos" video, in some shots near the end you can see that Dylan put his broken clock back on the wall after dropping it.
• Have a Gay Old Time:
  • Makes a "soured milk" pie with actual soured milk, which turned out terribly. "Soured milk" was a 1910-times slang for buttermilk.
  • His cookbook actually refers to certain recipes as "gay" in the classical sense, meaning they're cheerful and fit for parties. Given how old-fashioned they are, it's rather appropriate, and if anyone can get away with using "gay" in its original sense, it'd be a gay man.
• Heartbreak and Ice Cream: Invoked in the "magic ice cream" video as a joke about the recipe dating back to The Great Depression.
  Now in my experience, depression and ice cream are a match made in heaven, so I have high hopes for this!
• I Need a Freaking Drink: His reaction to the "water pie" (a pie in which the filling is nothing but water, sugar, and butter) ends with him popping open a bottle of liquor.
• Inherently Funny Words: He can't make it through the recipe name "crusty Spam bake" without laughing.
• Insistent Terminology: In addition to deliberately mispronouncing the names of spices, he consistently refers to eggs as "eggies", milk as "moo juice", and leavening agents as "floofers" (baking powder and baking soda are thus "floof powder" and "floof soda" respectively).
• It Tastes Like Feet: Some of his reactions to the really bad dishes come in this manner. For instance, the 1939 "war cake" tastes like "a size 10 boot", the 1943 soured raisin pie tastes "like a shower drain...or a bunion", the 1929 "water pie" tastes like "soggy lint", and the 1941 "peanut pie" tastes like "crunchy diesel". One of his most extreme of such reactions is to the "Spam pie" from 1969:
  Salt! Goddamn! Yeah...this is severe. Tastes like an IHOP kitchen floor.
• LOL, 69: His response to "Tang Cookies from 1969"? A long, drawn-out, and then cut short "EYYYYYY—!"
• Love It or Hate It: In-Universe, this is his take on the "Great Northern Nut Loaf"—a nut cake that has significantly more nuts than cake. He says that anyone who doesn't like nuts is going to hate it. "Not me, though!"
• Malaproper: Played for Laughs with his pronunciations of "Cimmanim!"^note cinnamon, "Nilla!" ^note vanilla, and "Ginger!" (pronounced with hard /g/s instead of the typical soft-J /dʒ/ sound)
• Misery Builds Character:
  • In his "Scotcheroos" video, he says he doesn't get the American obsession with breakfast cereal, because "sobbing over a bowl of plain oatmeal" builds character.
  • He generally creams butter and sugar by hand in his videos. He says he does it the hard way "just to feel something."^note In his longer-form videos, however, he explains that he does it by hand to show that you don't need a fancy mixer in order to bake, as he wants everyone to feel they can do it at home regardless of their equipment.
• Mistaken Nationality: He's actually Bermudian, and—despite earlier videos going in depth about it—has to remind viewers that he's often not familiar with certain staples of American cooking. For instance, in his video for snickerdoodles^note Basically a sugar cookie made with cream of tartar and rolled in cinnamon, he remarks that he originally thought they were a kind of dog.
• N-Word Privileges: In his video for the cold oven cake, he pulls out the magazine the recipe came from but hesitates to say the name of the woman who submitted it: Kathy Nigro. He awkwardly calls her "Kathy N."
• No Indoor Voice: Used in his baking videos for added humor, although in his other content this doesn't show up nearly as often. He explains this is because his audience on TikTok both expects and enjoys this trope.
• Non-Indicative Name: He often lampshades whenever he makes a "salad" that involves cups of Cool Whip, marshmallows, chocolate bars or otherwise sweet ingredients.
• Nondescript, Nasty, Nutritious: A World War II-era peanut butter soup recipe prioritized nutritional content over presentation, to put it lightly:
  Today we're servin' up hot beige! Come get your bowl of brown!
• Poverty Food: Most of the Depression-era recipes he tries emphasize economy over pretty much anything else—like in particular, "Milkorno" was made in an experiment to discover what the cheapest food was. Other notable examples are Peanut Butter Soup, which at least tries to be high in macronutrients; and "Poor Man's Rice," a sort of knockoff couscous that many of his commenters noted was trying to replace what's already a common poor man's food. However, he does admit that the Hoover Stew—a giant pot of macaroni, stewed tomatoes, corn, and chopped hot dogs—does turn out an absolutely massive amount of decently tasty food for a very small amount of money. And when he tries a 1940's recipe dubbed "Poor Man's Ice Cream" made of evaporated milk, powdered sugar, and vanilla, he declares, "This is no substitution, this is a masterpiece!"
• Precision F-Strike: The "Dirt Cake" requiring Oreos just has the following reaction from Dylan, followed by befuddled laughter:
  Oh for ____'s sake.
• Product Placement: Ever since his cookbook was announced, he's made a quick plug for it in each of his short videos. To top it off, the YouTube "food of the gods" video features him making the dish using multiple recipes, with the last being the one from his cookbook.
• Queer People Are Funny: He throws a lot of jokes into his baking videos, especially Double Entendres and saucy quips lampshading his being gay and his love life.
  • In the tuna salad jello video, he holds up a large cucumber^note which, to be fair, is one of the ingredients by one end and says "Really, Mitchell?"
  • From the vinegar pie video:
    *pulls out a pie pan* You're gonna want a deep 9-inch. Don't we all.
  • In the "candle salad" video, he cracks up when the recipe calls to cut a ring of pineapple and stand a peeled banana in the hole. There's then a Smash Cut where he's holding one where only the tip of the banana is peeled, and he quips "This one's European". When it's finished, he says the recipe "doesn't tell you how to eat it, so I don't know if I need a knife and fork or I need to tie my hair back." Cue another Smash Cut to Dylan with his back turned, saying a muffled "Good mornin'!", and at the end when he says "Happy Valentine's Day", he has whipped cream on his mouth that he wipes away.
  • From the "magic ice cream" video:
    We begin with one package of raspberry Jello. I’m going to assume we have the same size package. Though the last time I made that mistake, I ended up stunned and quite self-conscious.
    So this took 40 minutes to stiffen up, which means it should see a doctor[...]
  • As he's rolling out dough for a pie crust:
    Are you 9 inches yet?! Said 15-year-old me. [Beat] I wish.
  • The "Valentine's Cream Pie" and "Great Northern nut loaf" videos are loaded with one-liners, such as:
    Mmm-hmm. Now, I can't think of anything better for Valentine's Day than a good old-fashioned cream pie.^note look that term up on Urban Dictionary if you're confused
    For the pie pan, we're going to want a 9-inch. I know I do too.
    [The baked crust] finished a bit early. Happens to the best of us.
    [adding cherries to the pie] Now we get to top...and that's always fun.
    
    [...] I picked this recipe because it has the most nuts I've ever seen. And I've seen my fair share.
    [Filberts] are hazelnuts, and they're my second favorite nut. My favorite nut doesn't come from a plant.
    You know, fruit and nuts do go hand in hand. I would know, I'm both.
    If you hate nuts, I can see you spitting it out. Not me, though!
  • During one of his TikTok livestreams, he showed the audience a houseplant he had smuggled into the U.S. from Bermuda. When he complained that it wasn't growing well, one viewer suggested that he "top the plant".^note they presumably meant "prune", or cut off the top growths Dylan replied, "Top the plant? I know I'm single, but I'm not that desperate."
• Rapid-Fire Comedy: In general, he's capable of cramming a lot of jokes and comedy into the minute or so of video TikTok allows him. It's very noticeable in the "Valentine's Cream Pie" and "Great Northern nut loaf" episodes, which are near-continuous barrages of dirty jokes. It's also a lot more noticeable in his early videos, as he didn't go into much detail about the recipes beyond citing ingredients and focused on making wisecracks.
• Renaissance Man: In addition to being a baker, Dylan is a jazz pianist and arranger, plays three musical instruments (piano, guitar, and accordion), speaks at least four languages (English, Hindi, Indonesian, and Ukrainian), and is an amateur mechanic (he restores vintage cars in his spare time).
• Rouge Angles of Satin: One recipe apparently calls for "scolded milk", prompting him to shout "You useless-!" at his ingredients before correctly adding scalded milk.
  Naw, fam, that ain't no typo. I want you to yell at your milk!
• Running Gag:
  • Referring to baking powder and soda as "floof powder/soda" or "floofers"; cinnamon as "cimmanim"; eggs as "eg-gies"; milk as "moo juice"; butter as "Paula Deen"; and saying "ginger" with hard G's, "(powdered) cocoa" with a posh accent, and "[va]'nilla" in a staccato and high-pitched cutesy manner.
  • Yelling "FIRE!" dramatically when he lights up his stove.
  • When something has to be chilled or frozen overnight, he'll say "Good night!" as he's putting it in and then "Good morning!" as he's taking it out. The exception is the date cream recipe; having previously and inadvertently said that he "never made a date cream before", he takes it out in the evening and says "Good evening. It's dark."
  • Calling things "war crimes". He'll similarly invoke Richard Nixon when he is simply not a fan of a recipe.
  • Yelling at his oven if it beeps at him while he's doing something else.
  • He'll usually say "Get in!" when pouring a thick mixture or batter into a pan or bowl.
  • Saying "Butter go BRRRR!" when creaming butter by hand.
• Self-Deprecating Humor:
  • He's prone to putting quips about the hiccups in his love life in his baking videos.
    A cup of molasses! Sweet, bitter, and meaty...like my ex.
    *removing something from the oven* It finished a bit early...like my ex.
    "Beat until soft." Honey, I don't need instructions...I'm single.
  • In the "chocolate potato cake" video, he notes the recipe calls for him to cream butter to "a pale white" and holds a spoonful near his arm to check.
  • He doesn't hold back on commenting on his flat butt:
    • In the "ice cream cone cupcake" video, as he brings out the cones:
    We fill these up about two thirds of the way, and they need to have a flat bottom...like me.
    • In the "deep fried cookie dough" video, upon realizing "There's no floofers!" (leavening agents such as baking soda/powder):
    So don't bake these, they're gonna be flatter than my butt.
    • In the "peanut butter onion" recipe, the recipe calls for the onion to have a flat bottom; he proceeds to look at his own rear end "for reference".
• Serendipity Writes the Plot: Dylan is primarily a musician. The cooking videos started while in lockdown during the COVID-19 Pandemic. To fight boredom, he filmed himself trying out recipes from an old cookbook he bought from an estate sale, and the rest is history.
• Sincerity Mode:
  • For some of the recipes that turned out to actually be good, he has longer videos on his YouTube channel where he explains their backstories and gives a thorough, less hectic breakdown of how to make them. In some cases, he experiments with the recipe, such as in the video for the "cold oven cake"^note a cake which is baked by putting it in a cold oven and bringing the temperature up to the baking point where, after following the recipe and being surprised at how well it worked, he tries it with a pre-heated oven and finds that the results aren't bad, but aren't as good as just going with the recipe.
  • Sometimes, his reactions are simply not over-the-top. For instance, in the "Coca-Cola Salad" video, he notes that despite tasting bad, the recipe actually does have potential. He notes it comes out pleasantly cheesecake-like, it's just that the ingredients—orange Jello, cream cheese, Coke, and walnuts—just don't have tastes that go together well.
• So Okay, It's Average: His opinion of the dump cake. He doesn't find it as actively offensive as some other things he's made, but the recipe—dump canned filling, box mix, and butter into a pan, and that's it—is so low-effort as to barely count as a recipe in the first place (you don't even mix it, hence the name). He describes it as "baking for people who hate baking" and the end product as "an unenthusiastic cobbler".
  I mean, yeah, it's all right, but it's all WRONG. [...] If you're going to bake, bake! A cake should be an occasion! Not a disfigured DUMP on a plate.
• Soup of Poverty: Invoked in the video for "Hoover Stew", a stew consisting solely of macaroni, stewed tomatoes, corn, and hot dogs cut into medallions. As a recipe of The Great Depression, he notes that it came from a time when "people were pinching pennies until Lincoln wept", and remarks that the recipe makes an enormous amount of bland but filling food and only costs him $6.00.^note roughly 25 cents in 1931 He also lampshades the lack of any spices or seasonings beyond the salt in the water used to cook the macaroni.
  "Dylan", you say, "did people not have spices in the Great Depression?!" [Beat] No...they didn't! Refer to "Depression"!
• Stock "Yuck!":
  • He occasionally lampshades how off-the-wall and disgusting-sounding some of the mixed-food group recipes he tries are.
    A chocolate potato cake from 1912! This is why we don't perform LOBOTOMIES anymore!
    Ham and bananas hollandaise! Welcome to the 70s!
    Nothing says salad like animal collagen!
    A pork belly fruitcake from 1915! Meat in desserts was quite common back then—so was botulism!
  • He's also fond of noting ingredients that people just seem to hate in general.
    [from "Chocolate Potato Cake"] Chocolate. I bet this recipe is just ALL THE WRONG ANSWERS on a baking test!
    [from "Civil War cake"] Add two cups of raisins. It's always the raisins!
    Spam pie from the 1960s! It's a little late in the century for war crimes!
    [from "Baked Bean Pizza"] We can serve this with anchovies or sardines. How about a swift death?
  • Any recipe that involves prunes is going to feature at least one joke about their laxative properties.
    [from "Prune Pie"] Why just live in the Great Depression when you can also have chronic diarrhea?
    [from "Polka Dot Prune Loaf"] So we're either going to be polka dotting the loaf or polka dotting the toilet. I know where I've got my money.
    [from "Roughage Loaf"] This man's really out here making people B-52 their toilets. This is either gonna plug you up or bring the morning thunder.
• Sugar Causes Hyperactivity: He invokes the concept in a couple of videos where the dishes he makes are exceedingly sweet desserts:
  • The "Snickers salad" is a dessert that combines Snickers, apples, vanilla pudding and Cool Whip topping, which overwhelms him with its sweetness when he tastes it.
    Go ahead, feed this to a child—you're gonna yeet them into orbit!
  • The "dirt cake" combines a custardy base with mixed-in Cool Whip, ground-up Oreos, and gummi worms, and has a similar effect on him.
    Whoooo! That's sugar! This will make little kids go feral. Little Johnny's gonna put his tricycle in the Indy 500.
• Tempting Fate:
  • During the "deep fried Oreos" video, Dylan notices that his clock seems to be dead, but drops it while trying to get it down, shattering the face. He just looks at it for a second then deadpans "It is, now."
  • In a more general example, this can apply whenever he isn't expecting a good result from a recipe and then ends up liking it.
• That Came Out Wrong:
  • In the "date cream" video:
    No clue. I've never made a date cream before. *Beat of realisation, then hysterical laughter* I've never cooked a date cream before!
  • In the ANZAC biscuits video:
    One cup of oats! I love oats, they taste like grandparents — I mean, they don't taste like — you know what I mean!
  • In the "Civil War Cake" video:
    Add nuts. HOW MUCH?! I need nut instructions!
  • In the "Spoon Bread" video, he describes the batter as "Wet. Wet and loose!," causing him to pause and look at the camera as he realizes how that sounds.
• This Is Gonna Suck: He's not shy about admitting when he's not looking forward to tasting what he's made, such as "Oh dear. Why do I keep doing this?" just before trying the peach Spam bake, "I am in utter fear" before trying the Spam pie, and his revolted "What a joy." after pouring the jellied meatloaf mix into its bowls to set.
• Throw It In!: He'll often leave a blooper in a video if it will make it more interesting to watch, such as the dropped clock in the "deep fried Oreos" video and, in the pound cake video, when the top of the cake tears off as he drops it out of the pan, leaving him looking stunned for a few seconds.
• Toilet Humor: Along with the aforementioned prune jokes:
  • In the "pork cake" video, as he shows the camera the hideous-looking batter in the bowl, he comments "You ever see a sewage pipe burst?"
  • As he's stirring the batter for the "coal miner cake", he quips "We seem to have made a chamberpot."
  • He's visibly disgusted with pretty much every aspect of the "soured raisin pie" recipe even before he tastes it, and some of his jokes about it go in this direction, such as "What goes well with IBS?!"^note irritable bowel syndrome, in case you're wondering.
• Trademark Favorite Food:
  • He likes to play up his love of various nuts. Part of it is for the obvious Double Entendre humor, but as evidenced by his reactions to "optional nuts" in recipes being to go crazy with them, he does like them a lot.
  • Similarly, he loves vanilla. Accidentally adding several times as much vanilla extract as required to his ice cream cone cupcakes just made it better in his opinion and a recipe calling for a full tablespoon of vanilla extract had him asking if it's trying to marry him.
• Writers Cannot Do Math: Or rather, cookbooks cannot do math in the "Glorified Rice" video, which tells Dylan to "quarter the cherries in half".
  Quarter the cherries...you're gonna make me stroke out, precisely what realm of mathematics do you inhabit?!
• You Keep Using That Word: The "Glorified Rice" recipe says to "gently" cool down the cooked rice ("Opposed to what?! What am I gonna use, a leaf blower?") and to "gently" whip cream ("How do you gently whip cream, you tart? It's like saying gently have a car accident!").
• You Remind Me of X: His fans often note that his appearance and slender build make him greatly resemble Chris Evans' Steve Rogers pre-Super Serum. Lampshaded in the "Poor Man's Pie" video.
  If this is a pie filling, then I'm Captain America!

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