My Favourite Cooking Channels
Cooking is one of my favourite hobbies. I love baking cakes, making dough and attempting to flip pancakes. However, my inspiration doesn’t come from nothing. My inspirations are fed by various Youtube channels, all of which do cooking and baking in a different way.
Nino’s Home
A lot of people love Nino’s Home because they think Nino is cute and want to read the subtitles, that tend to roast the viewer. Nino is very much aware that his videos bring in a lot of fangirling and he does a lot to cater to them. I… I’m not a fan of that. I just want to see a nice, calming cooking video. A lot of what Nino does is quite sweet, with a lot of effort put into both the cooking and the filming, while also being quite rough with the ‘roasting’ and insults in the English subtitles.
With the subtitles off, Nino’s Home turns into a gentle, considerate and rather quiet little cooking channel with a large variety of different dishes he’s made over the years. Nino also has a very cute cat that he ‘shares’ his freshly cooked food with. While the cat may seem like it hates everyone and everything, especially since it’s often dressed up, it is however a very well-behaved kitten.
Ordinary Sausage
This is a channel that my brother suggested to me, since he knows I love sausages. Ordinary Sausage is, as the name suggests, a sausage specialist. The vast majority of Ordinary Sausage’s videos are him making sausages out of different things. Not just simple things like different meats, sometimes Ordinary Sausage goes all out and makes something… well, not everything he tries comes out as edible. Putting a whole fish, including scales and eyeballs, isn’t a good idea. But thanks to Ordinary Sausage, I know that beef tongue, powdered egg and sashimi all make for great sausage fillings.
However, lately, Ordinary Sausage has been doing non-sausage episodes, where he tries weird and whacky things. Funnily enough, it was Ordinary Sausage who was the inspiration behind Noodle Cheese. Because he tried boiling spaghetti in a pan of milk.
Barry Lewis
I’ve been watching Barry Lewis for a while now, back when his channel was called My Virgin Kitchen. Barry is a friend of Ashens, and they did various videos together, and I ended up subscribing because of Ashens. Barry’s cooking style, unlike the previous entries, is much more chaotic and random, somehow more so than Ordinary Sausage. There’s not always a plan for what Barry is attempting to make but you can guarantee that there will be some mess. Barry also tries both food hacks and recipes he finds trending on social media to see if they work, but his best playlist is probably his gadget-testing series.
What’s refreshing about Barry Lewis though is that he’s willing to fuck things up on camera. He actually keeps his mistakes in, rather than cutting them out. I’ll be honest though, kinda not a fan of when he gets his kids involved. Things get a little too hyperactive when the kids join in.
How to Cook That
By far the most helpful channel though is How to Cook That, often shortened to H2CT. I originally discovered H2CT a few years back when I was looking up how to make a Minecraft-themed cake. But I stuck around for the debunking videos that Ann Reardon produces. Pretty much every H2CT episode is well-thought-out, properly planned and, more importantly, educational. Ann delicately explains what she is doing as she does, it, the science behind cooking AND explains why hacks and the like don’t work in a calm, understandable manner.
What’s also cool is that Ann has also published a beautiful cookbook, which is available on Amazon. From what I’ve seen of it, it’s gorgeous, and I plan on buying a copy for myself at some point. Either way, H2CT is a great educational channel, presented in a clear and friendly way.
There we go. Some cooking channels you should all have a look at.