Hi bold bakers, you have been watching us in this kitchen if you can believe it for
almost eight years, which I think tallies up 500 videos hundreds of millions of video
views you know we are sad but excited that that this chapter is going to be coming to
an end yeah most of you know that we actually bought a house and we remodeled that kitchen
and so Gem This is the last video in this kitchen Yep, we're moving to another part
of LA and kitchen that we're building to like be good for production like you said 500 videos
have been made here and I just think back to the beginning when it was just Kevin was
just you and I think back to the crazy times where we had just started Bigger Bolger Baking,
though so many things went right and so many things like we're out of our control like
we're in a tiny kitchen here in LA we have no air conditioning for instance.
We did so many ice cream videos and I remember standing of the kitchen or the house has to
be closed off big for sound and literally melting in front of the camera well that was
the first ice cream video that that we did and you ended up doing that was your became
your famous two ingredient homemade ice cream recipes videos, six individual recipes.
So in the early days a Bigger Bolder Baking we packed so many recipes into one video and
so that one video ended up taking us two and a half days to film Yeah, because you had
to make the ice cream remake the ice cream.
It was melting like you said because of the heat and everything was crazy.
So what happened you vowed I'd never do it again.
Never do it again forever again.
It was an ice cream videos.
And now being one of our biggest videos that video is you know 10s of millions and million
plus views on that video.
See Gemma I remember even much further much earlier some videos that people didn't really
see I just started filming you in the kitchen because I bought a Canon 70 D camera.
I had never filmed you know episodes like this one of the first videos I actually filmed
the view was D boning a chicken.
Do you remember that?
Do you remember doing that?
Oh my god, he boning a chicken.
I remember I remember.
Remember, are we going to show a clip?
I remember there was cupcakes was that Bigger Bolder Baking the cupcakes.
So we've got to share that cupcake episode because little Do people know it's an unlisted
video, it was a pre Bigger Bolder Baking by about a few weeks, I remember very clearly
it was 90 degrees in the house.
And just to put my hand up and say I'm like cake decorator.
I was making a cupcake bouquet
in 90 degree heat with butter cream, that as we were filming, it slid off the cupcakes
because they were held up in the air.
It I would pipe and it would just go new and slide off.
I only could decorate the front of us because everything fell off the back.
So the gorgeous cupcake bouquet that you saw in the thumbnail and in the video was beautiful,
pristine, there was no back there was no cupcakes.
There was nothing.
It was just melting in front of your eyes.
One of my moments is can I talk about the Halloween video?
Okay.
It was around the Halloween time and YouTube was running a big promotion with the director
Guillermo del Toro, the whole thing was, they built a set at the YouTube Spaces, their production
studio in Los Angeles.
And you could enter for the possibility to shoot an episode there a story, whatever it
may be.
And so I wrote a script.
And it was called the recipe about you going home to Ireland to a family house and ending
up discovering it's haunted.
And you know, just like any other amazing movie, of course, it had, you know, the grandest
vision.
Overall, what we actually shot ended up being a lot different than what we originally imagined.
Yeah.
And the good news, though, was is is that, you know, we at least were able to edit something
out of it.
And I specifically remember we were we were traveling in the northeast, we were on vacation,
and we had to submit that video by a certain date.
So the team was working on editing and all that but the edit that came in and what they
showed us was scary.
It was scarier than the footage.
We had to create some sort of connection with the kitchen.
It originally was just filmed at the YouTube space.
It was just a story.
So we ended up creating it as more of a dream.
But the problem was, is we arrived here?
I think, like the night before the video was due to be launched.
We had to film it at night.
Yeah.
So we had to like close things up and make it look like nighttime and make it a reason
for it to be nighttime.
And then there was a whole reveal at the end and all that.
So you have to go back and watch the video for the reveal.
Don't but but let's just say I didn't quite turn into the Martin Scorsese or Quentin Tarantino
of, of recipe videos.
Maybe not.
Yeah, maybe not yet.
Yeah, not yet.
Not yet.
When was the moment you guys realized that Kevin was not going to shoot and edit the
episodes anymore?
No, my gosh.
I'll talk first about the shooting of the recipes was stressful for many reasons.
Number one is we're married.
We're also living in a small house.
It's a small house, I would get stressed out about am I going to miss the shot?
Am I going to miss the brown sugar going in at the right time?
Am I going to miss it?
You know, and the thing is, we rarely did, we rarely would have to redo anything or whatever.
But it was stressful.
And so I would end up spending hours editing.
Because I wasn't a trained editor.
I was taught myself.
Two o'clock in the morning later than that.
We ended up hiring on first official production employee who ended up shooting all the episodes.
Yeah.
And then she would edit as well.
And that took so much stress away from me as far as that goes and seems like a like
forever lifetime ago.
Yeah, Gemma, when was the moment you realize that you needed a new kitchen.
I think it's I think it's being Irish, but I maybe and a woman.
But my tolerance is pretty high for like, putting up with stuff with the point that
we realized we need a bigger kitchen was when we started doing our bulk shoots.
After like a few days, our fridge is packed full of stuff, we have to have set up another
table in our sitting room, like how's the desserts, just know where to put anything,
we couldn't buy a certain amount of butter because we had no room to put the ball sharp
with the amount of production that we wanted to get out of here.
Because we want to produce new content on Bigger Bolder Baking every day.
And we can't do that in this kitchen.
The space would not allow us, like you said we had we had both a high tolerance, you know
for this and people have asked for a kitchen tour.
No, this is the kitchen like when it comes down to it.
And then also it's just it's giving us the ability to, I would say tell more recipe stories
which is again allow you to to make a recipe from beginning to end more easily.
You can't do that in this kitchen.
Because the stoves over here.
The stove tops here the oven.
You've got counters here you got sink, all that sort of stuff.
Like Jim said, You open the fridge, I opened the fridge the other day and ice cream fall
on my foot and that didn't feel good.
Even moving to a bigger and bolder kitchen, if you will.
The recipes are still going to be accessible.
The you're not going to use you know, tons of gadgets and things you don't need necessarily.
You're going to be able to make I just have more room to create.
Exactly.
Which is the whole point of this.
Yeah.
All right, Gem.
So it's been in popular demand.
We've heard it for years.
What do you think about actually finally getting a kitchen tour?
Okay, that's to us because there's nothing we can lose.
So here is our kitchen.
I don't know if you can tell but it's really tiny.
We have very little counter space.
So what we used to do for Bigger Bolder Baking, excuse me because we're packing right now,
but we would move a card here, put a piece of wood and I would stand here and do the
videos and then after the videos were done, we put the cars back we have no counter space.
So we had to really work with what we have.
And we've got like white cupboards which have these this houses from the 70s 50s 50s.
Very, very old cupboards and full of nooks and crannies.
And if you go over here we have an islands.
We will do food photography on this.
You have our pantry and a tiny, tiny patch.
We only have a couple of cupboards Think of all the baking that I do and we only have
a couple of cupboards to have.
I've got like 25 pound bags of flour or 25 pound bags of sugar.
It's crazy.
So this is our life in one room.
We've been in this house for eight years built a business had a baby.
So much has gone on and this is this is our life all packed up into boxes.
This is our living room, and where we watch TV and George plays and we spend a lot of
time in this room.
And waffles.
If you've ever walked by our highest waffles would be sitting in the window up on his little
perch, making sure that everybody was doing what they're supposed to be doing.
So follow me through here.
I'll show you back here.
And we have a little hallway.
One bathroom.
You're not seeing in their bedroom.
Enjoyed through the house.
It used to be the office before it was George's room and it still is live workspace.
These are all my wooden boards for food photography.
The houses aren't 1100 Square fees a little bit more, less, less.
And one bedroom one bathroom one Oh, sorry, two bedrooms, this room and kitchen I'm sitting
room and we made it all work.
So it's very tiny.
We're definitely upgrading as we move to the new house.
We're getting three times the amount of space.
I'm very excited, very sad.
But you know it's a journey and you guys are along for the ride.
So let's sets you up.
The next chapter brings Should I go into the master bedroom.
Well show the rest of the house he wants to know, I didn't I didn't want to move outside
the kitchen but I thought it was a kitchen tour.
No, we just said kitchen tour.
Yes.
For one million subscribers that was up on the wall in the office.
This is our bedroom.
I worked a lot from the bed.
I love to sit on the bed, watch the office and do my work.
And this is Kevin's office table.
He has to set up his desk in here once Georgie came along.
Yeah.
So this is this is a is it was small, but we made it work and onwards and upwards as
my mom would say.