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Favorite YouTube Cooking Channels


Just Chuck

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I really enjoy cooking shows on YouTube. They're a great way to take my mind off the rest of life and wind down in the evening.   And, I pick up skills to entertain friends and family. (And, I've gotten laid so many times because I was a good cook!)

 
I want to share some of my favorite YouTube channels for cooking stuff. Please reply with some others that I should check out!
 
All thing BBQ - They prepare things on BBQ grills that I wouldn't have imagined as BBQ and it's all amazing:
https://www.youtube.com/@allthingsbbq

Cowboy Kent Rollins - He's a real cattle ranch cook who now runs a cooking school. He's from far southwestern Oklahoma, so he talks like a lot of my extended family on my dad's side. (He actually kind of reminds me of my dad.). He does a lot of cast iron cooking out of doors.
https://www.youtube.com/@CowboyKentRollins

Chris Young - is a chef with a scientific background. His clips on how to grill, sear, or brown a steak are fantastic!
https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisYoungCooks

Kenji Alt Lopez - Kenji is another chef with a scientific background. He understands the chemistry and physics of the cooking he's doing. He's personable and entertaining. He cooks in his own real-world home kitchen or patio. So, the everything he does seems very relatable:
https://www.youtube.com/@JKenjiLopezAlt

Sam the Cooking Guy - He cooks a lot of diverse things and he's also funny. He does a lot of cooking on an outdoor flattop grill.
https://www.youtube.com/@samthecookingguy

Townsends - It's as much a history program as a cooking show. Townsend & Son is a company that sells 18th century (American Revolutionary War era) reproduction items. James Townsend does a lot of 18th century cooking. A lot of the recipes and cooking are delicious. Some are just historically interesting. He has a good charismatic vibe too.
https://www.youtube.com/@townsends
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I like several of those food porn channels with German or Eastern European women.  The recipes are spotty - some terrific, some not so great.  The women always show a lot of cleavage and they never show their faces, no speaking, soft background music  - very relaxing.   Probably the best recipe I have gotten is one for chicken paprikash that I have made over and over again.  

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Pasta Grannies

Elderly homecooks in Italy, usually preparing homemade pasta dishes.  A lifetime of skill and experience in those hands.

Chinese Cooking Demystified

Steph+Chris, he's American, she's Chinese, both are adorable.  Currently based in Thailand, deep dive into the hows why and wheres of Chinese regional cooking.

Souped Up Recipes

Simplified Chinese home cooking for the western kitchen

Pailins Kitchen

Pailin Chongchitnant, beautiful and charming, demos authentic Thai home cooking

Not Another Cooking Show

Stephen Cusato, bro-ish scion of a cooking family, wonky deconstructions of complicated cooking

Orsara Recipes

Pasquale Sciarappa, retired Italian chef from old country.  Demos straightforward and simple Italian home cooking from NJ

My Name Is Andong

Arseny Knaifel, adorable Russian-Jewish-German cub based in Berlin does deep dives into world dishes that interest him.  Not as active on YT as he used to be, but there's a lot of back content there.

I'll stop now.

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I got into watching YouTube cooking videos when I tried keto a while ago and still watch these two channels despite neither cooking nor being on keto:

https://www.youtube.com/@LowCarbLove

She is clearly loves what she does and her food usually looks really good!

https://www.youtube.com/@RahulKamat

His cooking is not explicitly keto or even low carb, but it’s low calorie/high protein and also usually looks tasty.  Also doesn’t hurt that he’s hot.

 

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Although she did not get her start on YouTube, I absolutely love Nigella Lawson and the Nigella Bites series. People love to hate on food shows that weave a story to each episode, but I think when done right, it works. Personally, her eloquence is what sold me with the series. 

(Subsequent shows didn't have as much charm as Nigella Bites, admittedly.)

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