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ITT We recommend YouTube cooking shows!

Truant

Truant

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Forget Game of Thrones. This is my jam. YouTube cooking shows. I've always been interested in food and YouTube has helped me become a pretty decent home cook. I can pretty much cook a restaurant-quality meal for my friends and family without really knowing a recipe, just by learning techniques and base recipes from YouTube.

So, with that in mind, show me your favorite YouTube cooking/food channels. I'm not gonna include huge channels like BonAppetit, Babish or SeriousEats, because everybody knows them already.

1. Chef Clayton Chapman



This is one of the most underrated channels (food or otherwise) on YouTube. This dude is super talented and very likable. I like a show that doesn't just focus on recipes, but also techniques, pantry prep and so on.

2. The Townsends



Bit of a weird one, but I love this channel. It's basically a show that deals with 18th century lifestyle and cooking. They make old-ass recipes from the civil war, medieval europe and much more, using the same ingredients and techniques as they did back then. It's really interesting to see how certain things have remained the same for hundreds of years, and how people still enjoyed a lot of the same stuff we eat today.

3. Food Wishes

https://youtu.be/2QuVUjCyWbU

Probably the most well known in this list, but I'm gonna include it because Chef John is awesome. This guy has taught me so much about basic cooking, using tried and true french techniques and base recipes that will benefit your cooking immensely. He's also pretty funny in an awkward dad-humor kinda way (the joke at the start of the above video is a good example). See if you like it. After all, you are the Tom Cruise of which cooking channel to use.
 
uzipukki

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It's Alive with Brad on Bon Appetits channel.
 
WascallyWabbit

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On more of the entertainment level, you should check out Bon Appetit's gourmet makes. They basically get a pastry chef to make gourmet versions of snacks like kit kats, cheetos, etc.
Awesome stuff. I don't really bake but it's fascinating to see the techniques she uses
 
btags

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I feel like it is sort of well known, but SORTEDfood on youtube is fun if you are looking for something that is more entertaining rather than focused on teaching you cooking stuff (not that they don't do that, but I wouldn't say it is the focus of their channel).
 
FlowersisBritish

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I'm pretty big on Binging with Babish. Of all the cooking shows I've watched, his are usually the ones that i get the most mileage from. I've cooked lots of tasty stuff thanks to him. I think one of my favorite episdoes is when he recreated a lot of foods used in Always Sunny in Philedelphia and its just a really fun episode.



I've also been really big on How to Drink, which, while not cooking, is a fun cocktail show and the guy who does it has some crazy fun charisma. Right now he's doing a Game of Thrones inspired series for as long as the final season is running and the drink look pretty tasty.

 
djplaeskool

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Shout outs to Grandpa Kitchen



Not quite as instructional as others, but still a joy to watch him and his family make copious amounts of food for local orphans.
 
grang

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Chef John, Bon Appetit, and Binging with Babish are all great

Gonna throw Bruno Albouze out there, he does a lot of traditional homestyle French dishes, some pretty exceptional desserts, baking, and some basics (stocks, techniques, etc).



 
FlowersisBritish

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Another few quick cause I can only do two at a time recommendations. You Suck at Cooking is hilarious and simple recipes literally anyone can do. This is one of the more complicated ones, even that is pretty easy tbh



And while he's not on any specific cooking show, Matty Matheson is a loud, big, tattooed guy that makes delicious food. he recently came out with a great cookbook and I'd say look him up on youtube, there's a bunch with him. While maybe a bit late in the season for a french onion soup, he's got a great recipe I ended up incorporating parts of into my own and it was one of the tastiest things I've ever eaten.

 
Shedinja

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I've made (and enjoyed) a few of Seonkyoung Longest's recipes.



Cooking videos make up a big part of my YouTube watch history. Not just the instructional ones, but fun ones like Buzzfeed's series where they challenge a chef to make a 3-course meal with a household appliance. Here's the one where she used a coffee maker.
 

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julia crawford

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BrokenFiction said:
Full disclosure - the creator of this series is my best friend from childhood, but I'd love the show regardless:

Hilah Cooking - focused on easy recipes. Not too complicated. Great to learn from.

https://www.youtube.com/user/hilahcooking

Here's an early one.

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I, i'm going to be honest, from time to time i find myself hoping Hilah is doing good because damn some of those older episodes were really like "hope everything's alright with her"
 
RatskyWatsky

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Love these channels and made many of their recipes with stellar results:

Scrumdiddlyumptious


Get Curried


Taste, The Chinese Recipes Show


Munchies
 
pinkurocket

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Joy of Baking is by far my most favourite baking channel. The host is amazing. She's been doing this since 2011!
The recipes are superb, and she explains everything in great detail (like measurements both in weight and volume like cups etc). There's no flashy youtuber shenanigans, it's to the point and even when I don't bake much, I enjoy watching her videos for that homely feel. Here's a recent video of something I actually tried to make, and it was so good.

 
Marshall

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WascallyWabbit said:
On more of the entertainment level, you should check out Bon Appetit's gourmet makes. They basically get a pastry chef to make gourmet versions of snacks like kit kats, cheetos, etc.
Awesome stuff. I don't really bake but it's fascinating to see the techniques she uses
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I came here to post this. Claire is awesome.
 
TojoT

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Some good suggestions in here. I'm a fan of food wishes, which has been mentioned.

I don't think Adam Liaw has been mentioned yet. I've been cooking a lot of East/SE Asian lately and his Buldak (fire chicken) recipe has become a favourite.

 
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