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Cooking up a storm on YouTube

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It started with wanting a recipe for "cube latte" - hot, frothy milk poured over a frozen cube of brewed coffee. Korean food guru Hanse has the perfect how-to video, which clocks in at less than four minutes and features no distracting music or ads.

But there's many a slip between cup and lip, especially when YouTube's "autoplay" algorithm kicks in.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on September 04, 2018, with the headline Cooking up a storm on YouTube. Subscribe