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|data2  = 103 Thomas Court, Greenbrier TN
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'''Jack Russell Scalfani''' (born December 12, 1967) is a well-known personality in the Youtube cooking show sphere, famous for his horrible cooking and culinary incompetence. A thrice-stricken [[The strokes|stroke]] survivor, his ambitions in the realms of radio as a failed DJ and [[The Best Sauces|sauce entrepreneurship]], Jack makes his journey far from typical. As the creator of the Cooking with Jack Show, Jack has become somewhat of an outsider among cooking enthusiasts, often pushing the boundaries between audacious and disasterous.
'''Jack Russell Scalfani''' (born 12 December 1967) is an American YouTube food [[Cooking with Jack|creator]] and [[Jack on the Go|reviewer]], failed DJ and producer, [[The Best Sauces|ex-sauce entrepreneur]] and a five-time [[The strokes|stroke survivor]].


Embarking on a cooking journey with limited skill and knowledge, Jack's excessive overconfidence in the kitchen and [[Jack and Reviews|food reviewing]] has resulted in serious health problems and a blatant disregard for the culinary arts. Jack peaked in the mid-2000s, at a time when he was among the few YouTube chefs with a cooking show, capitalizing on the platform's novelty. However, his refusal to innovate and his insistence on clinging to his past fame have not aged well, especially as newer YouTube chefs have surged in popularity, amassing subscribers in the millions. [[Cooking with Jack (Youtube series)|His stubborn pursuit of fame on YouTube]], clinging to the mid-2000s style of YouTube expertise and editing, has placed him in an unrealistic rivalry with renowned chefs such as Chef John, Sam the Cooking Guy, Babish, and others. This approach has led to a significant decline in viewer interest, underscoring his diminishing relevance in a community that appreciates expertise and innovation.
An early adopter of YouTube, Jack found a modest audience in the mid-2000s as one of the platform's first cooking personalities. His refusal to develop beyond that era's format - combined with a stated rivalry with chefs such as Chef John, Sam the Cooking Guy, and Babish, none of whom appear to be aware of him - has left his channels in long-term decline as the broader food-creator space has grown past him.


Jack's cooking attempts have mostly shown a lack of basic kitchen skills, emphasizing quantity and a love for meat and cheese over quality. This disregard for culinary excellence has made it difficult for him to appreciate the complex flavors that gourmet food offers, often settling for simple taste tests or unsophisticated food ratings.
Jack's [[Dishes|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 [[Jack and reviews|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 [[The Best Sauces|collapse of his sauce line]], the [[Whisk raid]], and other episodes documented across this wiki under the banner of "Food, Family and Fun."


Jack's cooking style also leans heavily on processed and ready-made ingredients, which shows a significant disconnection from the true art of cooking, preferring ease over skill. His infamous barbecue sauce, which relies on artificial additives, is a clear sign of his average approach, distancing him further from the cooking community.
==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 unspecified reasons, so Jack was raised by his stepdad Otis. The Scalfani family was poor and relied on food stamps to get by.<ref name="foodfightwritebio">https://foodfightwrite2014.sched.com/speaker/jackscalfani</ref>


At the heart of Jack's public persona is a noticeable indifference to improving his cooking, using his platform mainly for profit rather than a real love for food. This attitude, along with his refusal to accept constructive criticism, often labeling it as "hate," highlights his denial of the truth.
Jack attended John F. Kennedy High School in La Palma, California, while having computer lessons at Cypress College on the side.<ref name="foodfightwritebio"/>


Despite his efforts to appear as a promoter of "Food, Fun, and Family", Jack's real nature becomes apparent when faced with criticism, showing a personality marked by defensiveness and hostility.
==Career==
===DJing and radio work===
Immediately upon finishing high school, Jack took up DJing at nightclubs for seven years. Jack became a radio host at 94.3 KIK FM in the early 1990's, known as DJ Jack Attack, 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.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDgpWKzfp9Y</ref>


== Early life ==
===GiveMeEntertainment===
TBA
In 2001, Jack started a production company named GiveMeEntertainent (originally named überBubble<ref>https://discord.com/channels/957778017277595689/1278011213875253268/1354230952724795583</ref>), providing voiceover work and other assistance. The company was the distributor of the 2011 film ''Solitary'' by Greg Derochie, which also happened to be co-written by Jack's brother [[Charles Scalfani|Charles]].


== Education ==
===The Best Sauces===
TBA
<small>''Main article: [[The Best Sauces]]''</small>
[[File:Jack Scalfani yearbook photo.png|none|thumb|Some say that this may be Jack's undocumented first stroke.]]


== Career ==
Jack owned a line of sauces and seasoning called The Best Sauces You'll Ever Taste. The company dissolved around 2021.
TBA; failed DJ stint, voiceover work, producer etc


== Controversies ==
===YouTube===
<small>''See also: [[YouTube channels]]''</small>


=== Child Abuse ===
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, using the videos as a way to shill his line of sauces, birthing the ''Cooking with Jack Show''.
In an episode of the now-defunct Christian podcast 'Sunday Evening Coffee', Jack disclosed that he had abused his elder son, [[Garrett Scalfani|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 Scalfani|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.<ref>https://youtu.be/UUvYcUbxzYI</ref>


== List of Jack's health issues and ailments ==
==Personal life==
To be added.
Jack currently lives at [[2006 Highland Drive]] with Tammy, right next to [[103 Thomas Court]] where [[Jack Scalfani II|Junior]] and [[Brianna Scalfani|Brianna]] live.
 
Jack is a [[Jack and politics|registered Republican]].
 
==Controversies==
===Child abuse===
On an episode of the now-defunct Christian podcast ''[[Sunday Evening Coffee]]'', Jack disclosed that he had abused 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.<ref>https://youtu.be/UUvYcUbxzYI</ref>
 
===Food safety===
On a now-deleted 2016 ''Cooking with Jack'' video, Jack had a guest named Kevin showcase an unsafe canning method, which could result in botulism.<ref>https://mega.nz/folder/AedG3KBD#_JOIR6Gs2hPFx_0M3ZFz5A/file/JP8n2YaQ</ref>
 
===Endorsement of a murderer===
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, on multiple occasions, promoted a book authored by Davis recounting his "redemption" testimony: a testimony that begins with the events of 27 January 1975.
 
On that date, an 18-year-old Davis and an accomplice, Ricky Payne, entered a vacant house in Irving, Texas, under the pretence of inspecting it for purchase. The home was being shown to them by Jo Ella Liles, a 54-year-old Sunday School teacher whose husband managed the property. After Davis spilled paint on his boots, he stabbed Liles repeatedly with a buck knife, severing her carotid artery and windpipe and slicing into her spinal cord, nearly decapitating her. Payne witnessed the killing without intervening. Davis then took his bloodied clothes to a dry cleaner and went to lunch. He was arrested the following day and admitted his guilt to his father by phone, saying, "Daddy, I'm in jail for murder. And I'm guilty."<ref>Hargrove, Brantley. "A grieving son finds no justice on Rev. Maury Davis' path to redemption." ''Nashville Scene'', 16 April 2009. https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/a-grieving-son-finds-no-justice-on-rev-maury-davis-path-to-redemption/article_49a25371-a201-5abd-a205-b3e31b5b41b0.html</ref>
 
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 manslaughter conviction with a maximum 20-year sentence. He was paroled after serving roughly eight and a half years, citing prison overcrowding and good behaviour, and was a free man at age 27. He claims to have undergone a jailhouse conversion to Christianity during the trial.<ref name="wikipedia-davis">"Maury Davis." ''Wikipedia''. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maury_Davis</ref>
 
Davis became senior pastor of Cornerstone Church in 1991, when it had approximately 250 members, and grew it into a megachurch with a 3,200-seat sanctuary and a televised ministry.<ref>Exum, Roy. "Roy Exum: Who Is To Judge?" ''Chattanoogan'', 20 April 2009. https://www.chattanoogan.com/2009/4/20/149332/Roy-Exum-Who-Is-To-Judge.aspx</ref>He stepped down from the senior pastor role in 2018 and now operates as a "global pastor," travelling and consulting. Ron Liles, the only son of Jo Ella Liles, has described watching Davis preach as watching "Satan's angel," telling the ''Nashville Scene'' in 2009 that "the price of his spiritual rebirth, his professed salvation, was the blood" of his mother.<ref>Strang, Stephen. "How God Turned a Convicted Murderer Into an AG Megachurch Pastor." ''Charisma Magazine''. https://mycharisma.com/blogs/the-strang-report/how-god-turned-a-convicted-murderer-into-an-ag-megachurch-pastor/</ref><ref>Bouie, Jamelle. "Two killings, but just one shot at redemption." ''The Washington Post'', 16 January 2015. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/01/16/two-killings-but-just-one-shot-at-redemption/</ref>
 
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, the manslaughter plea, or Ron Liles' position on his pastor.
 
==Gallery==
<gallery mode=nolines>
Young jack on bike 1.png|An oddly Mexican-looking child Jack riding a bike.
Jack Scalfani yearbook photo.png|Jack's yearbook photo. Some say that this may be his undocumented first stroke.
Jack in the 80's.jpg|Young Jack sporting his DJ look.
Jack white powder.png|An old group photo, with Jack likely the third person, along with an interesting comment from him.
Jack-tammy-marriage.jpg|Jack and Tammy's wedding from August 1998.
Jack Tammy KACC 2000.jpg|Jack and Tammy in 2000 holding awards from the KACC Bowling League.
Jack Charles Jim Phyllis pic.jpg|A group photo of the Scalfani siblings from an unknown date.
Old Jack profile pic.png|An old profile picture used by Jack on sites like Vimeo.
Jack Tammy SEC.png|Jack and Tammy sometime in the 2010s.
Jack voter file.png|Jack on a voter data aggregation system. Note that these hardly ever appear filled out for normal people.<ref>https://discord.com/channels/957778017277595689/1278011213875253268/1292283300483960923</ref>
Inferred rank in household of 3rd.png|According to the aforementioned system, Jack is the tertiary force in the Scalhousehold.<ref>https://discord.com/channels/957778017277595689/1278011213875253268/1292283750251630596</ref>
Jack Recovering In Hospital.png|Jack fresh off his [[fifth stroke]].
</gallery>
 
==References==
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== References ==
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[[Category:People]]
[[Category:Scalfanis]]
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“ I'm just a regular guy. ”
Jack, lying.
Jack Russell Scalfani

Jack posing in 2022.

Born (1967-12-12) December 12, 1967

(age 58)

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 (stepdad)
Siblings Charles Scalfani
Jim Scalfani
Phyllis Geraci Graziano

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

An early adopter of YouTube, Jack found a modest audience in the mid-2000s as one of the platform's first cooking personalities. His refusal to develop beyond that era's format - combined with a stated rivalry with chefs such as Chef John, Sam the Cooking Guy, and Babish, none of whom appear to be aware of him - has left his channels in long-term decline as the broader food-creator space has grown past him.

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 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."

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 unspecified reasons, so Jack was raised by his stepdad Otis. The Scalfani family was poor and relied on food stamps to get by.[1]

Jack attended John F. Kennedy High School in La Palma, California, while having computer lessons at Cypress College on the side.[1]

Career

DJing and radio work

Immediately upon finishing high school, Jack took up DJing at nightclubs for seven years. Jack became a radio host at 94.3 KIK FM in the early 1990's, known as DJ Jack Attack, 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.[2]

GiveMeEntertainment

In 2001, Jack started a production company named GiveMeEntertainent (originally named überBubble[3]), providing voiceover work and other assistance. The company was the distributor of the 2011 film Solitary by Greg Derochie, which also happened to be co-written by Jack's brother Charles.

The Best Sauces

Main article: The Best Sauces

Jack owned a line of sauces and seasoning called The Best Sauces You'll Ever Taste. The company dissolved around 2021.

YouTube

See also: YouTube channels

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, using the videos as a way to shill his line of sauces, birthing the Cooking with Jack Show.

Personal life

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

Jack is a registered Republican.

Controversies

Child abuse

On an episode of the now-defunct Christian podcast Sunday Evening Coffee, Jack disclosed that he had abused 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.[4]

Food safety

On a now-deleted 2016 Cooking with Jack video, Jack had a guest named Kevin showcase an unsafe canning method, which could result in botulism.[5]

Endorsement of a murderer

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, on multiple occasions, promoted a book authored by Davis recounting his "redemption" testimony: a testimony that begins with the events of 27 January 1975.

On that date, an 18-year-old Davis and an accomplice, Ricky Payne, entered a vacant house in Irving, Texas, under the pretence of inspecting it for purchase. The home was being shown to them by Jo Ella Liles, a 54-year-old Sunday School teacher whose husband managed the property. After Davis spilled paint on his boots, he stabbed Liles repeatedly with a buck knife, severing her carotid artery and windpipe and slicing into her spinal cord, nearly decapitating her. Payne witnessed the killing without intervening. Davis then took his bloodied clothes to a dry cleaner and went to lunch. He was arrested the following day and admitted his guilt to his father by phone, saying, "Daddy, I'm in jail for murder. And I'm guilty."[6]

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 manslaughter conviction with a maximum 20-year sentence. He was paroled after serving roughly eight and a half years, citing prison overcrowding and good behaviour, and was a free man at age 27. He claims to have undergone a jailhouse conversion to Christianity during the trial.[7]

Davis became senior pastor of Cornerstone Church in 1991, when it had approximately 250 members, and grew it into a megachurch with a 3,200-seat sanctuary and a televised ministry.[8]He stepped down from the senior pastor role in 2018 and now operates as a "global pastor," travelling and consulting. Ron Liles, the only son of Jo Ella Liles, has described watching Davis preach as watching "Satan's angel," telling the Nashville Scene in 2009 that "the price of his spiritual rebirth, his professed salvation, was the blood" of his mother.[9][10]

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, the manslaughter plea, or Ron Liles' position on his pastor.

Gallery

  • An oddly Mexican-looking child Jack riding a bike.

    An oddly Mexican-looking child Jack riding a bike.

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

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

  • Young Jack sporting his DJ look.

    Young Jack sporting his DJ look.

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

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

  • Jack and Tammy's wedding from August 1998.

    Jack and Tammy's wedding from August 1998.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Jack and Tammy sometime in the 2010s.

    Jack and Tammy sometime in the 2010s.

  • Jack on a voter data aggregation system. Note that these hardly ever appear filled out for normal people.[11]

    Jack on a voter data aggregation system. Note that these hardly ever appear filled out for normal people.[11]

  • According to the aforementioned system, Jack is the tertiary force in the Scalhousehold.[12]

    According to the aforementioned system, Jack is the tertiary force in the Scalhousehold.[12]

  • Jack fresh off his fifth stroke.

    Jack fresh off his fifth stroke.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://foodfightwrite2014.sched.com/speaker/jackscalfani
  2. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDgpWKzfp9Y
  3. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/957778017277595689/1278011213875253268/1354230952724795583
  4. ↑ https://youtu.be/UUvYcUbxzYI
  5. ↑ https://mega.nz/folder/AedG3KBD#_JOIR6Gs2hPFx_0M3ZFz5A/file/JP8n2YaQ
  6. ↑ Hargrove, Brantley. "A grieving son finds no justice on Rev. Maury Davis' path to redemption." Nashville Scene, 16 April 2009. https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/a-grieving-son-finds-no-justice-on-rev-maury-davis-path-to-redemption/article_49a25371-a201-5abd-a205-b3e31b5b41b0.html
  7. ↑ "Maury Davis." Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maury_Davis
  8. ↑ Exum, Roy. "Roy Exum: Who Is To Judge?" Chattanoogan, 20 April 2009. https://www.chattanoogan.com/2009/4/20/149332/Roy-Exum-Who-Is-To-Judge.aspx
  9. ↑ Strang, Stephen. "How God Turned a Convicted Murderer Into an AG Megachurch Pastor." Charisma Magazine. https://mycharisma.com/blogs/the-strang-report/how-god-turned-a-convicted-murderer-into-an-ag-megachurch-pastor/
  10. ↑ Bouie, Jamelle. "Two killings, but just one shot at redemption." The Washington Post, 16 January 2015. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/01/16/two-killings-but-just-one-shot-at-redemption/
  11. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/957778017277595689/1278011213875253268/1292283300483960923
  12. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/957778017277595689/1278011213875253268/1292283750251630596
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