My Favourite Cooking Channels
I like to cook. Most of the time, I cook twice a day, for lunch and for dinner. In the mean time, I happen to watch a lot of cooking channels as well. While I don’t always follow the recipes these channels post, I do use them for inspiration when I don’t know what to cook. That being said, I find myself always missing an ingredient or two. Anyway, here are some cooking channels I recommend.
Barry Lewis
Barry Lewis is a cook who does all sorts of weird stuff. Originally named My Virgin Kitchen, Barry tries all kinds of things. He doesn’t have a single theme, but a lot of different themes, such as testing Tiktok foods, imitating foods from various fast food chains, trying out weird cookbooks and also testing an absolute ton of gadgets. I personally watch for the gadget testing videos, as well as his series of “4321 recipes” where he cooks three dishes and a drink using only three ingredients for each dish. While I can’t recreate them myself (a lot of the ingredients are really expensive for where I live), they make for great inspirations.
However, what I also find amusing is that Barry Lewis is a bit of a klutz. User error is quite common and he often manages to make a massive mess, or spill things and stuff like that. His family (a wife and two kids) also regularly get involved, making even more mess.
Honestly though, part of the reason why I like Barry Lewis is because he reminds me of my uncle. Kind, sweet, clumsy and a good dad. Even if my cousins are both adults now, compared to Barry’s much younger children.
How To Cook That
How To Cook That is a channel that leans towards baking and decorating cakes and desserts, but it has does a huge amount of different things that it’s hard to pin down. Ann Reardon, the lovely Australian running the channel, has cooked all sorts of weird things, and not just modern things as well. She is a fan of old cooking books and has put together all sorts, from making her own thickener from fish bladders, to huge ancient feasts to doing ‘cake rescues’ where Ann shows you how to fix a cake when things go wrong. She has also published a cookbook, featuring a myriad of sweet recipes, not just cakes, but all sorts of deserts.
Ann Reardon though is sometimes better known as a life hack tester. Her most popular videos are ones that test food-based life hacks that appear on viral messes like Tiktok or mass-produced content farms like 5 Minute Crafts. Being a food scientist, not only does Ann prove that these hacks do or don’t work, but she’ll also give you a proper reason as to why these hacks do or don’t work.
Tasting History with Max Miller
I’ve never really been a history buff, but Max Miller does a great job of combining food and history into one tasty dish. I’ve been watching Max Miller on and off since he started about two years ago, and it’s great to see that he’s still going strong. While both Ann Reardon and Max Miller both do historical meals, Max dedicates every episode to a single dish, and his recipes span the entire course of history, to ancient Sumerian beer all the way to the meals they had on the Titanic, as well as old versions of modern foods like macaroni cheese and pizza.
I personally like the ancient Roman dishes that Max Miller creates, especially since he tries to get them as accurate as possible. The guy is also going as far as to make his own Garum, a Roman sauce made from fermenting fish for a long, long time. His dedication and accuracy are important, but he also gives tips on what to do if you can’t get specific ingredients.
And, just like Ann Reardon and Barry Lewis, Max Miller has managed to get a book published, filled with, well, recipes and history.
Nino’s Home
While not as regular as the previous channels, Nino’s Home is nice because it’s rather atmospheric. Nino cooks a variety of eastern dishes mostly in silence, allowing us to hear not just the cooking and sizzling of food, but the ambience outside as well, like the sound of rain or crickets. He also has an adorable cat who patiently sits there while Nino guzzles down the lovely food he just created.
Well, it’s calm as long as you don’t turn on the subtitles. In the subtitles, Nino roasts the viewer while giving out the instructions. A lot of people in the comments seem to be there for the insults as well as the food, but I am not a fan, and would rather just watch the guy cook.
And there we have it, several cooking channels you should look at. Even if you don’t like cooking, these channels are at least worth looking at. There’s plenty of entertainment to be had.