What Cooking Shows/Channels do you watch?

[Jmz_33]

Like what the title says, what Cooking content do you watch?

 

[Justtocheck]

Everything by Anthony Bourdain. F.

 

[Bob Page]

This Aussie named Gavin Webber makes cheese. It's quite entertaining to watch, actually.

 

[Bunny Tracks]

Back when I had TV, I used to know which day of the week it was by checking what was on Food Network. If Chopped was on it was Tuesday, if Beat Bobby Flay was on it was Thursday, and if Guy's Grocery Games was on it was Sunday. My point is that I watched so much Food Network that it basically became my calendar.

I still watch those shows pretty frequently if I can find them on YouTube, but I've stopped watching Chopped as much since it seems like every episode for the past three years has been a theme episode.

I also like the Spring/Halloween/Holiday Baking Championships. Whenever I go over to my friend's for his Halloween party we usually just chill on the couch, and watch that. Same with Unique Eats, Unique Sweets, The Best Thing I Ever Ate, Cutthroat Kitchen, etc. Whenever I hang out at his house we're usually watching some shit on Food Network, or TLC. Good times.

For channels I just watch Binging With Babish, and How To Drink. Nothing else, really.

 

[Puck]

Guga foods

now lets dew it

 

[SmileyTimeDayCare]

Cowboy Kent Rollins has taught me a ton about cooking outside. He's a little cough folksy but fun.

French Cooking Academy is enjoyable and informative.

Sous-vide Everything/Guga Foods...really likes beef. A lot.

Bon Appetit is informative especially when Claire tries to make gourmet versions of stuff like hot pockets. It actually inspired me to try to do it(it was a fucking disaster).

The Wolfe Pit is a fun channel. A dude who has a disease that impacts his ability to use his hands and still out cooks Jack Scalafini. He's been doing a series of budget meals and has a huge series of dollar store food reviews. He can get a little...meh but generally good.

I hate to admit it but Binging With Babish and Basics with Babish is informative. He gets on my nerves but he does a good show.

@chainlinktrillionaire Do you know what happened to Ninja? Why did he stop showing up on the show and now they do it exclusively out of Guga's house?

 

[soft kitty]

I love me some Kitchen Nightmares, Hell's Kitchen and MasterChef.

 

[The Cunting Death]

Good Eats

 

[CrystalRoserade]

Personally, I loved Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives, and any show that has travelling while trying food. Another show in the same area that I like is Carnival Eats. While Noah Cappe is a bit spastic at times, I more like the show for the foods presented. I'm a sucker for carnival and fair food. Also, the cooking and baking competitions. Haven't seen Great British Baking Show, yet, but I'm considering getting into it.
As for cooking youtube channels, I love watching Cooking With Jun, Binging/Basics with Babish, and more ASMR-like cooking channels like mosogourmet. While they're not exactly 'cooking' in the traditional sense, I also like seeing people do those Japanese candy making kits.

 

[Alpacawitz]

Like a happy Marco Pierre White

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

I watch CultMoo who have this loud dudebro theme going on but they kept the quality at least consistent.

EmmyMadeinJapan is an obvious go-to if you like wholesome humor and seeing someone light up to "cute food" very amusingly.

Binging with Babish, I have to agree the guy is starting to implement humor with his monotone that just does not match the theme of the show, and I fucking hate it when he has sponsors, he doesn't know how to segue in a way that isn't annoying.

Adam Ragusea, I mentioned this before as well. Aside from the fact he sponsored Target who have absolutely lopsided pricing everything to a ridiculous portion (not much better than Walmart), and shilling for local colleges/universities or other places I'm far flung from contributes nothing, his stuff is useful.

OnlyInJapan is fun, the guy is a total white nerd that is so excited for the simple foods in Japan.

 

[Jason Wynn]

Back in the day I used to watch Good Eats with Alton Brown. Kinda corny, but it was a great show in helping teach a young guy how to get started cooking.

 

[Mr. Skeltal]

The BBC Kitchen Nightmares was a great show without all of the string section stings and baseless drama of the US version. That and Gordon actually showed off some recipes that someone at home could feasibly make. Gordon Ramsay's youtube channel is pretty good for inspiration.

I like Binging with Babish for good recipe ideas, his Basics series is a great way to learn new techniques. I love custard and needlessly complex pastry, so that Portuguese egg custard tart he made in his most recent episode looks like a great recipe to try and fail at until I get it right.

 

[MembersSchoolPizza]

God. So many. It's the biggest single use I make of Youtube these days.

Already mentioned:

Gavin Webber. God gave him a gift. He makes cheese. He makes cheese very well.

emmymadeinjapan. Her content is kinda all over the map - some kitchen gadget reviews, some fast food taste tests, some bizarre recipes, some food challenges, you name it. But she's very watchable.

The Wolfe Pit. Kinda... "the cooking channel for poor rednecks", or something, but he does good work, and props on him for doing it while being nearly a quadriplegic.

Binging with Babish. He does a few series on the same channel, but the two main ones are Binging and Basics - Binging is fancy recipes or weird ones, often things mentioned in movies or TV shows, while basics is more straight-up cooking fundamentals and easy recipes. I don't have any problem with his personality or humor like some people here seem to, his occasional shilling does annoy me a little, but meh, I know Youtube has gone to shit for trying to make a living in the last few years.

A few others...

Simply Mama Cooks. A mixed Mexican-Korean American family, she cooks a kind of eclectic mix of stuff from all three cultures, but her videos are easy to follow, watchable, and frequently turn out very well.

BBQ Pit Boys. Their food will kill you, but these are My People.

Townsends. This whole channel is actually a PR thing for a store that sells re-enactment supplies, but fuck it. It's great. Tons of old, colonial era recipes, and they go the whole way for authenticity. He does do some other stuff, like visiting old historical sites, talking about old clothing, building old buildings, things like that. A fun channel all around, I find.

Scott Rea. This guy does meat. Butchering it, cooking it, curing it, turning it into sausage, you name it. Meat.

Magic Ingredients. Channel is in Chinese, but there are good English subtitles. Mostly chinese recipes, well presented, and tasty.

And two special mentions, because both are "living dead" channels... Both of them are still around and occasionally put out content, but aren't what they once were after the death of a host or mascot.

Cooking with Dog. Originally a Japanese cooking channel, the "gimmick" was the "host" was a dog called Francis who always sat on the counter while the real host was cooking. Sadly Francis died a few years ago. The channel still continues, but it hasn't been as prolific since.

Grandpa Kitchen. Old Indian guy who cooked huge batches of food over a fire in the middle of a field and gave it to a local orphanage or school or something. He didn't speak English really, I'm pretty sure the entire thing was conceived, set up, and ran by his son or grandson or whoever it was with him in the videos, but he was charming and fun to watch. Sadly he died a couple months ago. Channel is still there and putting out new content, but I haven't bothered to watch it since he died.

 

[Orion Balls]

18th Century Cooking at Jas. Townsend and Sons. There are a lot of really interesting styles, and historical information. Most of the recipes are great for camping. And making your own earth oven is always a fun thing to do!

 

[Constellationzero]

I absolutely love Townsends. The host is genial, seems to have a genuine love of learning, is able to admit when he's "gotten it wrong" and find/share correct information. Best of all, he doesn't come off as an attention whore. When guests are featured, he does his introductions and he lets them take the spotlight. Fantastic for highlighting historical museums/sites worth visiting!!

I also enjoy English Heritage for its take on historical cooking.

 

[Sundae]

My favorite cooking channel is Pitmaster X on youtube. Not only is he a good cook, he enjoys doing it.

The only problem is watching his videos makes me hungry.

 

[ricecake]

Back in the day I used to watch Good Eats with Alton Brown. Kinda corny, but it was a great show in helping teach a young guy how to get started cooking.

It's a great show to learn the basics of food science. My mother is an absolute shit cook but my brothers and I are all good-to-great cooks because we watched Good Eats religiously as young teens. I still trust Alton Brown as a final authority when I have a food question. I made his Delta style tamales last weekend and they were bangin'.

Speaking of corny, I really like Chef John/Food Wishes as far as YouTube cooking channels.

 

[Whatthefuck]

A lot of mine have already been mentioned, but I'll add Maangchi. She's an adorable Korean lady on YT who cooks traditional Korean dishes. Great production value and if you don't smile while watching her then you probably have no soul. She also has a couple of cookbooks and a blog.

Oh, and Sam the Cooking Guy. He's on YT and he's basically the Anti-Jack Scalfani.

 

[Absolutego]

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