Abuela Carmen's Kitchen

Traditional Puerto Rican recipes in 25-step countdown videos

Home cooks who want traditional Puerto Rican and Caribbean dishes, including Puerto Rican families looking for the recipes their grandparents made, and viewers who like measured, step-by-step methods and Christmas dishes (inferred from titles, chapters and the about text; no audience statistics are available).

• Realistic avatar
• A photorealistic older woman with grey hair pulled back, a warm smile, a floral blouse and a light apron, framed from the chest up in a bright white kitchen with the finished dish held up or in front of her. The avatar shows her mid-speech in a wood-cabinet kitchen with a flag on the wall.

One dish per video: a family anecdote, why the usual method fails, the fix in a paragraph, then 25 numbered steps counted down from #25 to #1 with chapter markers, closing on the one-line secret from the story and a promise of more measured recipes.

• Rice and bean staples: arroz con gandules, rice, beans, sofrito
• Stews and chicken: pollo guisado, carne guisada, arroz con pollo
• Pork, pasteles and fried dishes: pernil, pasteles, mofongo, tostones
• Christmas sweets and drinks: arroz con dulce, tembleque, coquito
• 25-dish history lists of Puerto Rican food in Harlem and New York kitchens

• Never Make [X] This Way Again. Try This Old Puerto Rican Trick From the Bronx Instead
• Most People Are Cooking [X] Wrong! Try These Puerto Rican Tricks for Perfect [X] Every Time
• 25 Foods That Kept Puerto Rican Families Going in [decade] [place]

Letterboxed frame with a white caption band on top: 4 to 6 bold uppercase words, black with one red key phrase, often a command or the dish name. The smiling grey-haired persona sits on the left and the finished dish fills the lower right, in a bright white kitchen.

• 12 of 17 uploads share one 'Never [X] Again' title formula, as do 7 of the 10 most viewed videos, including all of the top 5
• A named grandmother persona with a backstory in the about text; the two transcript excerpts open with a family anecdote and hold the key tip for the end.
• High output: one upload a day for 14 days (Sep 30 to Oct 13), 10 of them recipe videos of 16 to 18 minutes.
• Descriptions of 14 of 17 videos carry numbered chapters from #25 down to #1, giving each video the same predictable shape.
• Thumbnails repeat one layout in 10 of 10 stills: white caption band, one red key phrase, the smiling persona and the finished dish.