When it comes to food, stay away from non-professional channels like Tasty or even websites like Allrecipes.com. The recipes may turn out to be disasters - pro sources always test and retest their recipes.
Alex - he now focuses on series, where he explores how to make something by talking to experts and then experimenting. Some of my favourites are the fried rice and the pasta series. Does not focus on recipes though his earlier content did. youtube | invidious
Climate Town - Does a decent job explaining climate-related topics and still makes them interesting.
Jay Foreman - Very funny map trivia.
JerryRigEverything - A bit too much promotion on some stuff, but really comprehensive tear downs.
MIT OpenCourseWare - learn good.
Pop Culture Detective - Deconstructive pop culture tropes that make you think a lot.
SNES drunk - retrogaming (not just SNES) but well done, 0% additives just prime content.
stacksmashing - electronics trivia and hardcore reverse engineering.
The National Gallery - If you're into history, this is an excellent channel about art trivia. I'm not much into art and this is always top quality for me.
Tom Scott plus - Tom Scott does British telly stuff like playing board games or chasing people on the streets with an apple tag.
Voices of the Past - This is slow, exhaustive history for nerds. Worth it if you want to let the story wash all over you.
Vox - slightly left leaning great journalism, albeit sometimes too brief to explain complex topics.
Weird History - They get some stuff wrong, but it's still entertaining.
Project Farm - Wanna buy an angle grinder? Now you do.
Insider - Had a series of "How Real Is It?" videos that let professionals describe stuff seen in movies, and it is both entertaining and a learning experience.
Corridor - Some stuff of dubious quality but if you're interested in FX, it's good.
LegalEagle - Law is hard, but is law fun?
brian david gilbert - Existential horror camouflaged as comedy.
PBS Space Time - Good but hard space science.
BurtBot - Orcs with normal voices.
Joel Haver - Neat if you're into deadpan humor.
Taskmaster - Probably some of the best british television available in YT.
Bonus round:
Practical Engineering - How stuff is built but explained well enough that even I can understand it.
Plus, use FreeTube, not You Tube. Don't be a slave of their terrible algorythm and all the recommendations will turn out to be of your taste.
Little Chinese Everywhere
I've traveled in China a lot and she goes to places I've never had the opportunity to, asks so many well thought out questions to the locals, and does an excellent job editing it together. Great channel if you like travel stuff
The B1M
Incredible channel about construction and architecture. Because they cover worldwide you get a big of regional information. The videos are high quality with tons of business details you would have to pay for premium subscriptions to get before.
Maigomika
New channel about a couple who moved to a very rural part of Japan and their challenges. It isnt stuffed with info, they let the environment lead the pace and fill in little details here and there. Beautiful imagery with a bit of home cam style that really brings the viewer into their world.
Some More News - a disheveled and sarcastic anchor does a deep dive into a current topic
Contrapoints - an ex-philosopher does a really deep dive into a topic (sometimes a concept or a phenomenon, sometimes a particular person or event), with incredibly high production value and costumes. Unfortunately this means she only puts out 2 videos a year, but they're now usually 1-2 hours long.
Podcasts - some have YT channels, but often no video, so if you're looking for something to watch, this may not be helpful
Behind the Bastards - a deep dive (often 2+ hour+ episodes) into different historical or current terrible people
Maintenance Phase - two journalists talk about various health, diet, and wellness scams and misconceptions
If Books Could Kill (no YT channel) - Michael Hobbes from Maintenance Phase and Peter from 5-4 talk about "airport books"--bad pop science books
You're Wrong About - Sarah Marshall and Michael Hobbes (until late 2021) talk about pop culture misconceptions, everything from O.J. to the Satanic Panic to Iran-Contra and more.
@yousuckatcooking - entertaining cooking and legit recipes! @fortnine - amazing quality motorbike channel. Even if you don’t ride its very educational and entertaining.
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