Cool YouTube cooking channels?

So I moved out recently and discovered I pretty much only know how to prepare scrambled eggs and smoothies.

I’ve been trying to find cool cooking resources online, but most feel like are just either clickbait or advertising me a lot of garbage (that vibe reminds me of toxic fitness channels).

Any good resources you guys may know? It doesn’t necessarily have to be YouTube channels, extra points if it has beginner level recipes, easily findable ingredients or it’s funny to follow. Thanks! :)

klieg2323,
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J. Kenji López-Alt is fantastic. Professional chef who shows a lot of the how and why in his videos. How to do something in the recipe, and why it’s done. Professional chef with a bunch of other paid resources if you end up liking his style

bfg9k,

Nats what I reckon

PhilBro,

Alton Brown/Good Eats

Adam Ragusea

I don’t necessarily use them for specific recipes but they are detailed and explain why they like doing things a certain way. I think that is the biggest thing when you are learning to cook and not just follow recipes.

I’d also put Ann Reardon/How to Cook That in a similar spot but more geared toward baking.

NaturalEnganche,

Sorted Food is great, and they have an app with what they call recipe packs that help a oid food waste

jossbo,
@jossbo@lemmy.ml avatar

Binging with Babish is very cool. He makes food fro TV shows and movies. And he has really sexy arms.

zipzoopaboop,

Cooking with a dog, Nats what I reckon are both fun to watch and easy to follow

marketsnodsbury,

I found Headbanger’s Kitchen pretty accessible when I was researching keto-centric cooking. He also does a lot of Indian dishes and some vegetarian as well.

m.youtube.com/

Horns up! 🤘

Bop,

I’m a sucker for Sauce Stache.

Amazing videos about vegan alternatives to meat; he tries everything and it’s so delicious looking and he’s got a great personality. He also goes deep with a variety of mushrooms which opened my eyes a bit. I’ve been wanting to get my hands on a lobster mushroom ever since I saw this one.

Also the chicken of the woods one is great.

And another random coming video I watched that changed my cooking was this one about knife skills for cutting food.

dQw4w9WgXcQ,

It has had it’s rise and fall, but Bon Appétit has a ton of great videos, both for instructions and entertainment.

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A few years ago, a lot of the chefs came together in some sort of union against the leadership with pretty ugly claims, resulting in most of the chefs leaving Bon Appétit. I’m not sure what the current situation is, maybe we’re morally supposed to stay away from the channel?

Anyways, I love the old videos with Brad Leone, Molly Baz, Claire Saffiz and several others. The videos beyond the major resignation has a completely different feel to it, so I haven’t been following the channel a lot since that.

Squids,

Clair Saffiz now has Her own channel and some of the other former Bon Appetit chefs appear in her videos. Most of them are pretty nice informative cooking videos, but she does occasionally do the “Clair has a mental breakdown while trying to cook something” format like with her gingerbread house video

thebardingreen,
@thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz avatar

Dylan Hollis

You’ll learn some weird history, some things to do and LOTS of things NOT to do.

And you will laugh your goddamn ass off.

www.youtube.com/c/bdylanhollis

PissinSelfNdriveway,

this is a good video of you want to learn and hone good kitchen skills especially knife handling. Jacques Pepin really has some good videos.

PissinSelfNdriveway,

I don’t know if it’s on YouTube but Amazon has one called Oh cook with James May from top gear. It’s pretty entertaining.

ojmcelderry,

One really practical way to learn some new recipes is to use a recipe box service like HelloFresh or Gousto.

They deliver a box with all the required ingredients and easy to follow recipe cards.

For anything that you make & enjoy, you can keep the recipe card and cook it again using store bought ingredients.

These recipe boxes regularly have deals and promotions (e.g. 60% off, refer a friend, etc.) so it doesn’t have to be too expensive.

Or if you don’t want to order one at all, it’s worth knowing that HelloFresh make all their recipes available online for free. So you can download and print off any that you like the sound of, without ever even ordering one of their boxes.

cyberpunk007,

Not sure why someone down voted you but this is an excellent tip

absGeekNZ,
@absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz avatar

This vegan sour cream is really nice, super easy also: youtu.be/8ILzKYAZWGY?list=PLxWGB-fhb7NXHzQPI5dn6k…

Same channel, lasagna with no tomato, for those that can’t eat nightshades. youtu.be/WES5UFjgvQk?list=PLxWGB-fhb7NXHzQPI5dn6k…

TheMightyBlu,
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Jun’s KitchenA little less easy to follow but it’s always a pleasure to watch him cook. You’ll feel jealous of the quality of food he makes for his cats

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