How do you translate 作ってみたら in 妹がチーズドックを作ってみたら兄がwwww?

Question

It would seem to me the sentence says "little sister makes cheese dokku (whatever that food is) and .. big brother ... ?

I can't understand 作ってみたら . Is みたら the tara conditional form of 見る? Is it another thing? By intuition I would guess he's trying to say that she makes the cheese dokku and he uploads it to internet (youtube) to be seen? perhaps? but I can't make literally sense of the phrase. If みたら is a verb in conditional form, which verb it is and how does it fit in the sentence?

Answer 1

te-form + みる is "to try ～ing" or "to ～ (and see what happens)". This みる is a subsidiary verb.

• What is the difference between "verb＋て＋みる" and "verb＋(よ)う+とする"?

みたら is the "past conditional" form of みる, but this form often just means "when" or "and".

• Differences among -たら、なら、-んだったら、-えば, etc

  Use like ～と to show a sequential, cause-and-effect relationship between the two clauses

• How to know if ～たら is hypothetical or temporal

  In these examples, the たら verb happened and caused the main verb

• Other uses of the たら conditional

  While it is a 'conditional' it has a broader meaning than just 'if'.

Therefore:

妹がチーズドッグを作る。
My sister makes a cheese dog.

妹がチーズドッグを作ってみる。
My sister tries making a cheese dog.

妹がチーズドッグを作ってみた。
My sister tried making a cheese dog.

妹がチーズドッグを作ってみたら、…
When my sister tried making a cheese dog, ...
My sister made a cheese dog (as a test/practice), and ...