Jenn Wohletz

The Thunderdome, shown here in its original location, has taken to the web.

The Thunderdome, Occupy Denver's onetime kitchen and an erstwhile mobile vegan experience, is known for a lot of things -- dick jokes and anarchist sentiments included -- but gentility is not one of them. This explains why, in the group's new series of cooking videos, the time lapse between pressing "play" and hearing an F-bomb is exactly twelve seconds.

Fronted by loud and sarcastic Thunderdome cooks Justin "Crunchy" Gwin and Pat Marsden, the two videos produced so far teach viewers the ins and outs of creating handmade pasta and aloo gobi while navigating through cracks about JFK and Outback Steakhouse. Inexpertly edited and occasionally long-winded, the videos find the two chefs and a handful of friends laying out the steps to their dishes in traditional Thunderdome fashion: through one-liners and lengthy anecdotes.

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Five. That's how many times the specials board describing the Nuclear Roll at Osaka Sushi said "very" before "spicy." Ten. That's how many ice cubes were on the plate owner Jay Chung gave me before I started inhaling this tuna roll topped with liquid fire. "Just in case," he said with a chuckle.

Thirty. That's how many minutes passed after I finished the thing before my mouth started to feel normal again.

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