Jack Scalfani

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Jack Russell Scalfani
Jack posing in 2022.
Born	(1967-12-12) December 12, 1967
Residence	2006 Highland Drive, Greenbrier TN
Aliases	jakatak DJ Jack Attack
Spouse	Karen Welch Todd (ex) Tammy Scalfani (1998-current)
Children	Garrett Scalfani (1990) Jack Scalfani II (2000)
Parents	Connie Scalfani† Unknown biological father Otis Blair (Stepfather)
Siblings	Charles Scalfani Jim Scalfani Phyllis Geraci Graziano

Jack Russell Scalfani (born 12 December 1967) is an American YouTube food creator and reviewer, former DJ, failed radio host and producer, ex-sauce entrepreneur and a five-time stroke survivor.

Already as a child, Jack showed an interest in working under the entertainment industry, however none of his first gigs struck gold. Becoming an early adopter of YouTube in an attempt to shill his sauces, Jack finally found a modest global audience in the late 2000s under the alias Cooking with Jack Show as one of the platform's first cooking personalities. As YouTube grew into the cultural juggernaut it became, Jack's refusal to develop beyond his era's format - combined with an apparent rivarly with chefs such as Chef John, Sam the Cooking Guy, and Binging with Babish, none of whom appear to be aware of him - left his channels in long-term decline, as the broader online food-creator space has grown past him. His current frame of reference of YouTube still being The Annoying Orange and Philip DeFranco says enough. By the mid 2010s, public opinion on Jack had significantly soured as more of his deplorable behavior came to light, such as him admitting to choking out his older son over weed use and being a sore loser.

Jack's cooking is characterised by heavy reliance on processed ingredients, a pronounced preference for meat and cheese in volume, and a consistent disregard for established technique. His food reviewing follows a similar pattern, employing a personal rating scale of his own invention. Critical feedback is typically dismissed as "hate," a position Jack has maintained through five strokes, the collapse of his sauce line, the Whisk raid, and other episodes documented across this wiki under the banner of "Food, Family and Fun."

Nowadays, Jack is considered little more than a lolcow - a person to be "milked" for laughs at their expense - while he has admitted to making mere pennies off his newer content and struggling to make ends meet. Unable to deal with his decline, Jack has resorted to psychotic behavior and beliefs to distract himself from his ever-worsening finances and physical health.

Early life

Jack was born in 12 December 1967, being the third and final child of Connie Scalfani. Jack's biological father left early in his life due to reasons unknown even to him, so Jack was raised by his stepdad Otis. The Scalfani family was poor and relied on food stamps to get by.

Jack attended John F. Kennedy High School in La Palma, California, while having computer lessons at Cypress College on the side.

Career

DJing and radio work

Immediately upon finishing high school, Jack took up DJing at nightclubs for seven years. In the early 1990s, Jack became a radio host known as DJ Jack Attack at the now-defunct country music station 94.3 KIK FM, where he hosted a show titled Loving, Losing or Leaving. Jack claims the radio career went south after he mocked Disney's The Mighty Ducks film franchise during a segment, with Disney supposedly forcing the radio company to fire Jack and erase all master tapes of his shows.

GiveMe Entertainment

In 2001, Jack started a production company named GiveMe Entertainent (originally named überBubble), providing voiceover work and other assistance to a variety of creative professionals like singers, songwriters, screenwriters, musicians and chefs. One known client is Glenn Scott Lacey, a composer who wrote music for several television shows, including Transformers: Robots in Disguise and multiple Power Rangers series. GiveMe Entertainment is credited for assisting with the production of the 2011 film Solitary by Greg Derochie, which also happened to be cowritten by Jack's brother Charles.

The company dissolved sometime in the 2010s. In July 2024, Jack began once again to plug GiveMe Entertainment in videos, however it does not appear to function as an actual company anymore.

The Best Sauces

Main article: The Best Sauces

Jack owns a line of sauces he gave the masturbatory name of The Best Sauces You'll Ever Taste. The alleged origin story involved Jack making use of spices left by a chef client who had bailed on GiveMe Entertainment, creating a barbeque sauce that taste-testers called "the best [they] ever tasted." The sauce line expanded to a hot barbeque sauce, a Jamaican jerk sauce, a teriyaki sauce and a seasoning blend.

Wide production of the sauces ended around 2022 as the main manufacturer was unable to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, however some sauce continues to be produced for butcher shops.

YouTube

See also: YouTube channels

Jack was recommended by his brother Charles to create online video content to further promote The Best Sauces. In 2007, Jack uploaded a three-part cooking tip series on YouTube, showing how to cut a pineapple, cut an onion without crying, and peel an egg. The following year, he began uploading more tips and product reviews, birthing the Cooking with Jack Show.

Over the years, Jack has expanded his YouTube empire with channels such as Jack on the Go and F as in Frank.

Personal life

Jack currently lives with Tammy at 2006 Highland Drive in Greenbrier, Tennessee, right next to 103 Thomas Court where Jack Junior and his wife Brianna live.

Jack is in incredibly poor health, having suffered five strokes which have crippled his right side, both blown Achilles tendons, multiple kidney stones, diabetes and a paralysed vocal cord.

Jack is a registered Republican. Although he used to be more politically shy and accepting, Jack had rapidly radicalized himself over the 2020s, self-describing himself as a conspiracy theorist.

Controversies

Child abuse

On an episode of the now-defunct Christian podcast Sunday Evening Coffee, Jack disclosed that he had physically harmed his elder son, Garrett, due to Garrett's marijuana use. Jack alleged that Garrett began using marijuana while interning at a computer store in Huntington Beach, California. According to Jack, Garrett's marijuana consumption led to severe anger management issues and frequent verbal attacks on his stepmother Tammy. Jack accused Garrett of physically confronting both him and Tammy on two separate occasions. He described the first incident, saying he subdued Garrett by forcibly taking him to the ground. In a subsequent altercation, when Garrett allegedly pushed Tammy against a door, Jack recounted how he tackled Garrett to the ground again, threatening his life by forcefully choking him and screaming into his ear. Jack claimed the choking was so intense that it caused Garrett's nose to bleed.

Dangerous canning advice

On 15 January 2016, Jack uploaded a Cooking with Jack video where a guest named Kevin showcase an unsafe canning method, which could result in botulism. The ensuing backlash was intense, with Jack first attempting to amend the video with annotations, before deleting it entirely and privating his social media accounts.

Bizarrely enough, a full decade later on 2 October 2026, Jack doubled down on ignoring safety guidelines on canning, trying a method he called "rebel canning" on some sticks of butter and directly referencing the 2016 video along the way.

Endorsement of a murderer

Read more: Cornerstone Church#Murderchurch Maury

Jack, a performative Christian, is a long-time member and public booster of Cornerstone Church in Madison, Tennessee, an Assemblies of God megachurch led for 27 years by Maury Davis. Jack has promoted a book authored by Davis recounting his "redemption" testimony: a testimony that begins with the events of 27 January 1975, where he stabbed a 54-year-old Sunday School teacher to death after she got paint spilled on his shoe. Despite the prosecution seeking the electric chair or life imprisonment, Davis's defence - which blamed the killing on insanity, drug use and demonic influence - secured a mere manslaughter conviction, to which he got parole after serving roughly eight and a half years due to overcrowding and good behaviour. Davis became senior pastor of Cornerstone Church in 1991, growing it into a megachurch in the process, eventually stepping down in 2018 and assuming the role of a "global pastor" visiting other churches instead.

Jack and his family continue to attend Cornerstone Church and have appeared in the congregation across multiple decades of his content. He has at no point in his public output addressed the Liles murder, the trial, or the manslaughter plea. After Maury Davis left Cornerstone, his son Galen Davis briefly assumed the position of pastor, who has come on Cooking with Jack as a guest in 2020.

Gallery

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  An oddly Mexican-looking child Jack riding a bike.

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  Jack's yearbook photo. Some say that this may be his undocumented first stroke.

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  Young Jack sporting his DJ look.

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  An old group photo, with Jack likely the third person, along with an interesting comment from him.

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  Jack and Tammy's wedding from August 1998.

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  Another picture from the wedding. The artifacting implies this one comes from a VHS tape.

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  Jack and Tammy in 2000 holding awards from the KACC Bowling League.

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  A group photo of the Scalfani siblings from an unknown date.

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  An old profile picture used by Jack on sites like Vimeo.

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  Jack and Tammy sometime in the 2010s.

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  Jack on a voter data aggregation system. Note that these hardly ever appear filled out for normal people.

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  According to the aforementioned system, Jack is the tertiary force in the Scalhousehold.

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  Jack fresh off his fifth stroke.