Favorite YouTube chef? - Actually talented chefs whose recipes you enjoy eating/cooking yourself

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A Cardboard Box said:
Obviously Andrew Rhea. For being self taught he's pretty based. Also isn't afraid to post his fuckups.
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I'd also like to add that Ole Babby also introduced me to a bunch of amazing chefs that I never would've found out about otherwise, like Brad Leone and Joshua Weissman. Brad's not necessarily the best teacher, but his positive energy is absolutely infectious and he's clearly passionate about food, the environment, ethics in agriculture, among countless other things. As for Josh? Well, I wouldn't have a sourdough starter that I feed every day were it not for his video on how to make one. Can't wait to finally make some sourdough bread once my dutch oven comes in the mail.

Other people that I admire thanks to a tangential association with Babish:
  • Claire Saffitz; I ain't a dessert guy, but I loved Gourmet Makes and all the episodes she starred in on It's Alive
  • Chris Morocco; Took me a while to warm up to him, but I can't get enough of the "reverse-engineering" series on BA (conde nast controversy be damned!)
  • Harold Villarosa; the only one of the "new" BA staff that I actually love watching; his chicken adobo recipe was fucking delicious when I tried making it myself.
 
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The Vahchef is my favourite. He's absolutely insane (I suspect he's on uppers or manic) and makes some delicious Indian food.
Chef John from FOOOOOD Wishes daht cahhhhm has good reliable recipes too, I've made a few of his and they turn out nice.
Souped Up Recipes and Chinese Cooking Demystified are good for Chinese food, SUR tests everything a ton of times to make sure the recipe's as good as it can be and gives a lot of tips about food science (when to add fat to dough to get different results with the gluten etc).
 
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I like Hiroyuki Terada, he is a sushi chef that does a lot of videos cooking sushi and other Japanese food with either cheap or budget ingredients. Sushi is one of those foods a lot of people get snobby about so its nice seeing a pro making it with cheapo ingredients and telling people its fine.
Also seems like a chill and humble guy. One of the videos he fucked up a relatively simple omelette thing and was just like "oh well, not to worry, we'll do better next time". Not like that Italian guy who sperged about bad carbonara videos and then fucked it up himself and didn't even acknowledge it or that Adam Ragusea dude who had a nuclear meltdown in the comments after someone made fun of him for using an electric cooker.
 
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A few of mine have already been mentioned (+1 to Babbish, Weissman, Townsend, Chinese Cooking Demystified), but let me toss a couple others out there that I get a lot of mileage out of.

Angelica Jung, who runs Simply Mama Cooks. She's just a latino housewife married to a Korean husband. Her food is mostly "comfort" type food, to me. Not always comfort food I'm used to, but almost always delicious. Stumbled on her looking for a recipe for chili rellenos, been a fan every since.

Josh Scherer, aka Mythical Josh, from the GMM crew. Yeah, his cooking channel is "novelty" cooking, most of it, but I've actually legit learned some things from watching him, he's a blast to watch, and he's got some fun ideas sometimes. Also, his bitchy slap fight with Gordon Ramsey ended in him the victor, so... Nice feather in his cap.

Max Miller. Runs Tasting History. A fairly new channel. He's not into the full historical reenactment like Townsend, but his videos are nice and informative. And the man made garum from scratch in an apartment kitchen, so... He's got some cajones.
 
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I really love Kenji Lopez. He tackles an extreme variety of food including the methods and shortcuts or substitutions you can use. Some of his stuff is very basic while still including some more exotic recipes that require(or at least greatly benefit from) special tools or techniques. I find this gives me something to aspire to while still giving me new and interesting recipes on a fairly regular basis. He also does breakdowns of some of the more specialised equipment like wok burners in case you do want to go all the way.
 
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