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, 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 Binging with 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.

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. 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.

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, composers and chefs. The company assisted with the production of the 2011 film Solitary by Greg Derochie, which also happened to be co-written by Jack's brother Charles.

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 owned a line of sauces and seasoning called 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.

The company dissolved around 2021 as production was hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.

YouTube

See also: YouTube channels

Jack was recommended by 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 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 and diabetes.

Jack is a registered Republican and self-describes 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 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.

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.

Endorsement of a murderer

See also: 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, when it had approximately 250 members, and grew it into a megachurch with a 3,200-seat sanctuary and a televised ministry. Davis eventually stepped down in 2018, 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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  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.