My Top 10 Cooking Channels on YouTube
April 11, 2020
In no particular order, I love these channels because they teach, inspire and literally make me salivate. If you’re looking for culinary inspiration or simply enjoy zoning out watching people cook, you will find some new channels to subscribe to here below.
De Mi Rancho a Tu Cocina
Doña Angela from Michoacan, Mexico showcases on her channel De Mi Rancho a Tu Cocina/ From My Ranch To Your Home how to prepare her home cooked meals often sourcing ingredients from her land. She cooks with only fresh, never processed, ingredients and freshly milled corn for her tortillas. Her fire-fed stove is impressive and I’m convinced her food tastes that much better because of it.
Kdeb Cooking
Kdeb Cooking, hailing from Thailand, is drool-worthy as much as it is interesting to watch. The young boy cooking prepares everything outdoors over a wood fire and his use of different proteins and cooking techniques are striking. At the end of every video he eats his food and that’s when you know he created a masterpiece.
Bon Appetit Test Kitchen
The BA Test Kitchen is an impressive bunch with a lot of cooking knowledge and personality. They are recipe developers and editors working out of the 35th floor of the 1 World Trade Center writing and creating for Bon Appetit Magazine, as well as Healthyish and Basically. For many years they were virtually unknown to the public until their day-to-day activities were filmed.
Alison Roman with the New York Times
Alison Roman’s cooking style is straight forward, uncomplicated and approachable. Shot out of her small NYC apartment, Roman shows us how to make often French/ Italian inspired meals. She loves to host her friends regardless of the size of her place and shares how she pulls it off without having to be fancy. For example, like using her (thoroughly cleaned) bathtub to hold drinks and have her friends pick up the ice before coming over.
小穎美食
小穎美食 according to Google Translate means Xiaoying Food. This is a Chinese food blog that is heavy on creatively using fresh veggies. I appreciate how healthy and fresh everything always looks. 小穎美食 is great for vegetarians or those looking to introduce more veggies into their diet. All the videos are in Chinese, so for many it is difficult to get precise directions and measurements, but it definitely serves as inspiration for combining different ingredients and seeing the range of ways to use them.
Maangchi
Emily Kim has been called the Julia Child of Korean cooking and is a gift to the interwebs. Following her divorce she says she became addicted to online gaming and her children convinced her to channel her online energy into something healthier. She started her YouTube channel Maanghi in 2007 and now graces us with her fun personality, eccentric style and delicious Korean cooking.
Dulce Delight
The Brazilian, NYC based pastry chef Raiza Costa started her YouTube channel called Dulce Delight after completing pastry school. With her art and culinary background she created some of the most colorful and creative videos I’ve ever seen. She shot, edited, and did the graphics all on her own. After much success, she now has a show on a large Brazilian network.
Cooking Tree
Cooking Tree is one of the most relaxing and visually enjoyable things to watch on YouTube, in my opinion. And if you’re into ASMR then you’ll definitely be a fan. In this South Korean, no-bake pastry channel there is no talking and you never know who’s making the edible art. Get ready to be amazed at just how beautiful their creations are.
Grandpa Kitchen
Known for preparing massive amounts of food, the Grandpa Kitchen channel was led by Narayana Reddy who has since passed in 2019. Narayana would prepare Indian and Western dishes for a local orphanage with the help of his grandchildren. Since his passing, his family has continued cooking and uploading videos. The team effort, the cause, and the fact everything is always cooked wood-fired makes Grandpa Kitchen videos some of the best circulating.
Pasta Grannies
Pasta Grannies is a project put together by Vicky Benson who was doing research in Italy and realized cooking traditions weren’t being passed down to younger generations like they once were. She wanted to capture nonnas cooking in their home kitchens creating the dishes they have done for years. Here you will see regional differences in pasta shapes, sauces and cheese. Traditions captured for us to see- what a joy.