It was also a play on ‘sauce stash’.” Read our interview with Buzzfeed’s vegan YouTube star Merle O’Neal, who launched Tasty Vegetarian.
I think it was just because I’ve always had a beard. “I don’t even know where the ‘Stache’ came from,” says Thompson. That explains the “Sauce” part of the channel’s name. “It wasn’t anything crazy, you know? It was just going to be overhead videos of me making the sauce recipe.” Like Tasty? “Exactly. So he put his cellphone atop a kitchen cupboard and filmed himself making some chipotle mayo. “And she was like: ‘Why don’t you just make a blog based on your sauce recipes?’” When Thompson would cook dinner for their dates, he would make a sauce to go along with it. After she left her university job to teach yoga full-time, they stayed in touch and soon started dating. “That’s how the ball started rolling with creating Sauce Stache.”Ī post shared by The SauceStache Guy credits Stone as the reason why the channel exists. “It just was so cool to me that she was making a living off of this blog she created about her passion, and I really wanted to get into that,” he recalls. It was at the university where he met Stone, who had a yoga blog at the time. Well, that and his now-fiancée, Monica Stone. It’s that creative and entrepreneurial spirit that drove him towards starting a food channel. At one point, he also developed an iPhone app to avoid sunburn. “I’ve always been somebody that likes to take things apart, build my own things, learn how things are made and make them from scratch,” he says.īefore Sauce Stache, Thompson’s Instagram was called the Cheaper Jeeper, where he would make parts for his Jeep Wrangler from scratch. The 40-year-old is conscious of not calling himself a chef.
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Full Sail’s roots are in Ohio, which is also where Thompson grew up, in the city of Youngstown. Before he started his YouTube channel, the YouTuber was working in the IT department at Florida’s Full Sail University. He wasn’t always the vegan kitchen-Walter White. “What is methylcellulose?” He laughs, explaining: “It’s funny because now, I feel like I’m a methylcellulose dealer.” He once tore apart the Impossible Burger to find all the individual ingredients and how it’s made. His videos focus on recreating - primarily - plant-based meat products with industry-grade ingredients and techniques. Instead of full vegan dishes like most YouTubers do, Thompson has carved a unique space in the area for himself. It validates the geeky image viewers have envisaged and come to love from watching his channel, Sauce Stache. Why did it not work out? “I ended up talking for an hour,” he tells me from the closet-room over Zoom, laughing. He was trying a new format - instead of cooking away plant-based concoctions in his kitchen, the video was an explainer, focused on the science and process behind his experiments in the kitchen. Mark Thompson, however, spent his Sunday sat in what can only be described as a large closet, filming and shelving a video.
Even in the US, the Italy-England final was the most-watched Euro game in history. In Europe, most of us spent last Sunday watching Euro 2020. Ahead of the launch of his first book, Sauce Stache’s Mark Thompson talks imposter syndrome, Gaz Oakley, and the love story that sparked his YouTube channel.
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