food youtube channels that are not terrible

Babish is now the Babish Culinary Universe

We are LOVING Stump Sohla. I can’t wait to see what else they come up with now they have a full studio and crew.

(the latest one where she makes a 7 course tasting menu with only bodega ingredients was kind of a rerun of a bunch of Mythical Kitchen tricks)

(which is totally great actually)

not stating an opinion as to whether food52 is terrible or not terrible but i don't feel like working today and just refreshed my pie crust knowledge with this appropriately slow paced (v long) video. i have been improving over the past few years but i think i am brave enough to try mixing it by hand now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1fJ3GsmQBg

I’ve added Chilli Chump to my short list. He’s earnest and monomaniacal and that’s good enough for me.

Same for George Motz, the Burger Scholar, even though he sometimes gives me MAGA waves; maybe that’s just where he’s from.

I hope this livestream of sohla making thanksgiving food on babish lasts for a whole week

even though andrew keeps drinking blue moon which is just sad

this is just going to be the tombot talks about sohla thread

her one-handed boozy brunch today was very impressive and also made me miss going out for brunch, a lot

CLAIRE SAFFITZ IS BACK WITH A NEW CHANNEL

I dont know how OK people are with comedy cooking YTs but I love this guy (my partner HATES him fwiw).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwP6HyGavLs

Meyhem Lauren is my new favorite youtube chef (he’s on the munchies channel which is overall hit-or-miss)

Oh wait he has his own channel!!! YAY

omg his shirts. where does he get his clothes

my parents and i watch country life vlog religiously, in which an azerbaijani woman (turkic likely?) who lives on a farm makes traditional dishes using early 20th century techniques. often her husband helps her, her mom usually watches from the side and sometimes her children visit from the city. she always leaves a plate or two out for the ppl behind the camera. the dishes are similar enough to the persian / turkish / georgian food i grew up with to be recognizable but also different enough to provoke curiosity and conversation. there is no narration or dialogue, unless you count the times when grandma is facetiming relatives or begins to reminisce and ramble on about who knows what

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCIix6MklfJ

guess that link is busted, maybe this one works better?

youtube.com/channel/UCIix6MklfJFywa_36iDj8Sw

i love that kind of channel, and this is like my favorite kind of food, thanks for that one

I'm on hour 3 of watching this channel, very pleasant rainy Sunday viewing

I like matty. Has that kind of off-putting energy that an addict in recovery can have,but seems genuine and good-hearted.

I first got into his videos when he did a butter chicken for vice (i think) that looked hells of delicious. But I found a little of him went a verrrrrry long way and that his most recent videos (one is seemingly him having a breakdown after his sponsors quit the show after he made lots of jokes about diarrhea while making a meal) have strong "bad Chris Farley character" vibe.

George Motz kind of aggravated me till he started doing his episodes during lockdown and it was clear he is just bad dad joeks and his daughter was RHDE through every episode she had to shoot. Then I found him endearing.

There's a comedian who keeps appearing in the First We Feast shows who's always showing off his garage full of vintage VWs, and he seems immensely unfunny.

The Mythical Kitchen shows are pretty great. I don't think I'd ever cook anything they cook, but it's very entertaining to watch them, the man guy - looks like a nerd on roids - is funny, and he also clearly has unimpeachable cooking chops.

Sohla has been great of late. That any bean, any green, any pasta dish of hers has quickly become a mainstay here, and I'm glad she's on Babish's channel. I interviewed Babish for a story on his show and the BA vida a year or two ago, and he was very sweet and genuine. I slightly wonder if the grisly demise of the classic BA Kitchen period has besmirched the stars of their shows - loved Claire and Brad et al, but don't really wanna watch 'em in the light of what went down.

Sue Hulk - sometimes with Count Dankula (who has his own channel) is very very Scottish but they're so... real

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC0dEenZnbL

Oh, and you can't link to a channel like that. Nice.

oh, and there's snoring pug in the background sometimes too

Oh cool recommendation for the Nazi pug guy, I’ll make sure to check that out if I can get past that and literally everything else about him.

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I honestly just found this funny scottish lady cooking stuff and didn't know anything about whatever you're saying? (even so, his historical heroes series looks interesting) - what am I missing?

oh god - ok, I'm googling... :(

forgot if i posted this elsewhere but i have been watching this lady since i started canning tomatoes (she uses a method that should not be used if you hate botulism but the process was fun to watch anyway.) here is a calamari salad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAirutWHbFA

Alison Roman has a new channel, very much along the lines of her NYT stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z84j41b5Z7s

Another miniseries from Sohla

finally im gonna learn how to make pizza on a shield

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IkskAAJ1rE

my parents and i watch country life vlog religiously,

Both my cats are completely transfixed by this channel now. It’s so good.

it's amazing, that one time when the guy made blue tea from purple basil and squeezed a lemon into it i screamed, 10/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_J4e58eoyY

haha Middle Eats came into my feed recently as well

He’s great!

I also like Nadia Gilbert for Middle Eastern stuff and Refika Birgül for Turkish.

I love Matty Matheson for ultimate no frills comfort food and his videos are fun
i dunno if he’s for everyone but i love him

i am def making these chicken wings holy shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AMQbxBZohY

I've moved on to Tiktok chefs instead, specifically Cult Flav, who I am loyal to but they've clearly become influencers who probably have a book deal and possibly a tv show in their future, and the much more lo-fi @2peoplecooking, a lovely gentle couple who live in Asbury Park and have cooked together professionally and make nice Friday night dinners in their apartment and invite you in.

I'm a fan of Sohla and Ham El-Waylly, both together and separately. Sohla was a Bon Appetit test kitchen guru, both are now with NYT and have many things on the youtubes including the awesome challenge show where they are given a bag of something odd (like green jello or hot pockets) and have to make a 3 course meal in 45 minutes.

I’m back

Very happy that Carla Lalli Music has her own YT channel and substack now, hoping her recent divorce brings her happiness

Also I finally discovered Guga. That guy is ridiculous

Today I learned that Carla is getting divorced. I hope she gets to keep the backyard pizza oven (and the back yard). <3 her

She’s the best

Oh the other protein-forward guy I started following is Sam The Cooking Guy. I will probably never cook anything he makes on his channel, but he and his kids are funny to me

Hahahaha. When I saw you ref Matty Matheson in the politics thread I knew it would only be a matter of time before this one got a revive.

Very happy that Carla Lalli Music has her own YT channel and substack now, hoping her recent divorce brings her happiness

Other people I discovered have their own channels in the intervening years:

- No Expert with Emily Duncan, of mild epicurious fame

- Protocooks with Chef Frank Proto, also a regular on epicurious

- the SO YOU WANNA GET FAT podcast, which is two new york chefs mostly doing reactions to tiktoks so it doesn’t make much sense that they call it a podcast, but when they talk aboutthe restaurant business it’s actually kind of edifying

Ha! I sort of love Emily and Frank is good too, tho I prefer the Mexican pro-chef, he is fantastic

He’s great. I wish he had a channel of his own.

Chef Elizabeth Haigh just handling fresh ground turmeric while wearing a white top and no apron - holy shit the courage

Saul!! Saul deserves his own show. I think what happens to chefs who get famous is that someone convinces them to publish their own cookbooks, and vaya con dios but I think what's so great about Saul is his mannerisms and sense of humor and there's a lot of ways that could NOT come through in a book. But he deserves success.

Oh always loved Emily on their Three Levels Of Chef series.

I just came across this Cadence Gao video. Is he worth a follow? He seems kinda edge-lordy but sincere in intent. Is this just how people talk these days?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWDqAjNz0p4

Oh dear. He’s def not for me based on that vid.

Chinese Cooking Demystified is absolutely top notch, I recommend you follow that instead!

I don't use YT a lot but I enjoy following Jon Kung on Tt. He just seems very cool. And he's a Michigander.

http://www.youtube.com/@jonkung

I might like Matty M in theory but I cannot be yelled at. I'm instantly exhausted.

I liked him early on but I kind of feel he got exhausted and felt the need to keep the shtick up to keep his Vice base interested but it often feels like he's phoning in the wackiness, the over-the-top-ness and I'd rather he'd just cook. All the comedy stuff in his YT vids is the stuff that makes me tire quickly of his YT vids.

I recently discovered the ex-Buzzfeed Worth It? dudes and very much enjoy their videos. They've started their own thing together - I may even have first come across it via this thread, and while, early on, the main white dude feels like he got his vibe wholesale from Joel McHale, pretty soon in the friendship between the three guys and their love for what their doing becomes very infectious. They're eating out rather than cooking themselves, but still, good "to have in the background while I myself am cooking" which is kind of why I go to Babish et al in the first place.

damn, that guy in the Chinese vegan food somehow figured out how to say "pronouns" with a hard r

Chinese vegan food video, I mean

The Elijah Wood episode of Last meals is really, really good.