Favorite YouTube Cooking Channels

[+ Just Chuck]

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

[MikeBiDude]

Jeremy Mad Scientist BBQ

https://youtube.com/@MadScientistBBQ?si=CLyelVDbfEqRIuO-

Masienda - Mexican masa, Tortillas, more 

https://youtube.com/@Masienda?si=Oguw8-zerjto_5UE

[+ Just Chuck]

Rick Bayless - some of the clearest and best explained Mexican cooking I've ever seen:

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

[Danny-Darko]

CiCi Li, Asian Home Cooking 🍜🥡🥟🥢🥮🥠 

https://www.youtube.com/@CiCiLi 

[TonyDown]

Maangchi has been around a long time with millions of fans.  She is so sweet.  Her recipes look delicious.

 

[Rudynate]

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.  

[56harrisond]

Joshua Weissman - On YouTube and IG creating food entertainment, developing original recipes while cooking everything (seriously everything) from scratch.

https://youtube.com/@JoshuaWeissman

https://www.instagram.com/joshuaweissman/

[56harrisond]

Binging with Babish combines Andrew Rea's love of film and cooking. Videos recreate the foods in movies and television, with a twist.

https://m.youtube.com/@babishculinaryuniverse

[Becket]

andy_cooks. 

Australian guy. He hollers out, "Babe, what do you want for lunch?" She replies, then he whips it up. You get a fast forward 20 second presentation. It's really cute.

[+ BenjaminNicholas]

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

No commentary.  4K footage.  Every kind of food throughout South Korea.

[+ Just Chuck]

Food Wishes:  https://www.youtube.com/@foodwishes

A huge range of foods. Lots of European recipes.

[+ robear]

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.

[ShortCutie7]

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.

 

[alrajee]

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.)

[+ Just Chuck]

Mythical Kitchen (Where host/chef Josh Scherer makes it so the food isn't the only thing that's hot) isn't entirely a cooking show but it's focused on food.

Scherer is not only incredibly sexy looking, he's charming, funny, and smart too.  He does cook and demonstrate cooking methods in the channel but he also has some incredibly good interviews in his "Last Meals" playlist where he sits down with celebrities and enjoys the foods that they picked if this was to be their last meal alive. (The Gabriel "Fluffy" Iglesias last meal is super fun.)   He has several playlists of different categories of shows and I've loved every one of them that I've watched so far.

[seattlebottom]

If John McEnroe had a cooking show this would be it.

 

https://youtube.com/@antichef?si=8Dineh3SHFxGQYRm

[+ aeikaryoko]

Some of my go tos:

https://youtube.com/@seonkyounglongest?si=G-AkIY8v1_Cyi5Uw

https://youtube.com/@quangtran.?si=NcntpDNpB-ZbeeGr

https://youtube.com/@aaronandclaire?si=VXAIuZGxm85NvYQy

[whatdoidowiththisagain]

On 12/27/2023 at 12:31 AM, TonyDown said:

Maangchi has been around a long time with millions of fans.  She is so sweet.  Her recipes look delicious.

 

i LOVE her! her kimchi jiggae recipe (the original easy one) is my favorite go to easy meal on cold lazy nights

[+ Drew Collins]

Marco Medici.

I READILY admit 100% that I follow and am interested in him for other reasons apart from his chef skills, but I do enjoy watching him clothed and cooking too...

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

[TonyDown]

TheSpicyNonna is a fun vlog, with lots of delicious Italian recipes.  The grandson is adorable.   Both grandparents are from Italy.   The grandmother cooks. The grandfather is multi talented.  The granddaughter has a popular dog grooming vlog.  They live in Canada, I believe around Niagra Falls.

 

[+ Alabastrine]

Made with Lau
https://www.youtube.com/c/madewithlau

Excellent channel for Chinese cooking, they got a James Beard Award recently.

 

[+ Just Chuck]

Tasting History with Max Miller is a really fun channel.  He presents researched recipes from history.  Some recipes turn out great and some show why they are relegated to history.  He puts all of the recipes into some historic context with the who, what, when, why, where, and how.

A couple of my favorite videos of his are:

The True History of Deep Dish Pizza and 

The Fake (and real) History of Potato Chips

And, I think he's really an attractive guy too.  Those eyes and beaming smile positively dazzle me.