The 7 best YouTube cooking channels to up your culinary game
Internet of Yumdigs into all the things that make us drool while we're checking our feeds.
There are a lot — a lot —of cooking videos on YouTube. Like anything else on the internet, they're not all good, but the best of the genre will teach you basic cooking skills, help you expand your culinary knowledge, and be entertaining to boot.
If you want to amp up your cooking knowledge and food skills but aren't sure where to begin, check out these seven YouTube cooking channels. Whether you want a recipe to cook a grand pork roast for your entire family or just learn how to chop an onion correctly, they'll help you out in a pinch (of salt).
1. Bon Appétit
Shows like "Gourmet Makes" and "Back to Back Chef" have turned the Bon Appétittest kitchen staff into wholesome internet celebrities. But there are plenty of useful cooking tutorials on the channel even if you're not looking to replicate Doritos from scratch. (If you are, we salute you.) From pantry-food-staple meals like pasta with tomatoes and chickpeas to basic skills like sharpening kitchen knives, there's a ton to learn on this channel — and you get to do it with all your test kitchen faves like Claire Saffitz, Molly Baz, Brad Leone, and all the rest.
2. Binging with Babish
You might know Andrew Rea's cooking channel for its painstaking recreation of famous food dishes from movies and TV shows. But the YouTube channel is also home to "Basics with Babish," a source of completely-from-scratch recipes for simple dishes like chili, carbonara, and latkes.
Rea makes sure to explain the utility of each ingredient, which is helpful for people who want to learn not only how to follow a recipe, but also how to improvise dishes in the future. Rea's format is also particularly good for cooking tutorials, combining the close-up intimacy of Tasty recipe videos (see below) with the big personality of classic cooking shows.
3. Steve the Bartender
Australian bartender Steve Roennfeldt has every single cocktail recipe you could possibly imagine on his channel, from classic martinis to drinks that I've never heard of but that have extremely fun names like Missionary's Downfall and Pink Panther's Milk. (Can you tell I've got a lot to learn from Steve?)
Videos are also divided by spirit on the channel's homepage, which is useful for people who want a cocktail but only have a single bottle of old gin inside their apartment. And yes, there is a quarantine cocktail tutorial. Thank God.
4. New York Times Cooking
Yes, you have to pay for an NYT Cooking subscription (and that's not a bad idea!) but you can watch the NYT Cooking YouTube channel for free. It's a food video wonderland, too: You'll find all the best Alison Roman recipe favorites, every pie you could ever imagine, and mouth-watering macro shots for days. You might even be inspired to make a batch of elaborate Christmas cookies in the middle of spring.
There are also a lot of fun non-recipe one-offs, from a tour of baker Erin Jeanne McDowell's kitchen to Melissa Clark's nonjudgmental, actually helpful guide to eating less meat in 2020.
5. Tasty
Buzzfeed's Tasty changed the cooking video space forever with its signature overhead filming style which, of course, is now all over the place. While you might know Tasty primarily for its over-the-top recipes from the viral video era (remember when every food video seemed to involve chicken, bacon, cheddar, and pizza dough?), its YouTube channel is much, much more than that.
Two of Tasty's particular strengths on the platform are pantry food cooking — take this tutorial, for instance, where producer Katie Aubin makes a dessert out of only pantry ingredients — and gadget reviews, which help viewers decide which niche kitchen tools are actually good shortcuts and which are all talk. (Here's a great one about onion-chopping gadgets for those of us prone to allium-induced crying.)
6. Maangchi
Maangchi, whose real name is Emily Kim, isn't just YouTube's queen of Korean cuisine: She's probably YouTube's queen of cuisine in general. Known for her glamorous headpieces, warm onscreen presence, and uncompromising approach to traditional Korean cooking, Maangchi will either teach you something new or scratch a deep nostalgia itch. Also her eye-makeup game is phenomenal.
7. J. Kenji López-Alt
Award-winning chef and The Food Labauthor J. Kenji López-Alt also runs a YouTube channel full of informative, easy-to-follow POV recipe videos. We're particular fans of the channel's "late night" cooking clips. No, we have not made late-night macaroni and cheese this good (yet), but López-Alt makes us think we can cook it no problem. And we'll never reheat pizza in anything but a skillet again. Bonus: You can expect cameos from dogs. A blessing!
TopicsYouTube
(责任编辑:产品中心)
-
Webb telescope discovers 6 rogue worlds. They didn't form the way you'd expect.
Sometimes, planets go rogue. Scientists used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to spot six of ...[详细] -
雅安日报讯近日,雅安农商银行名山支行黑竹分理处召开辖区内金融服务联络员季度工作交流会,会议就如何提升分理处综合金融服务功能,增强金融服务水平,积极拓展业务市场,帮助群众增强理性投资意识、远离非法集资等 ...[详细]
-
中华民族一家亲!中央民族歌舞团慰问演出走进连南_南方+_南方plus中华民族一家亲,欢歌载舞庆县庆。11月27日,中央民族歌舞团走进连南瑶族自治县开展庆祝连南瑶族自治县成立70周年慰问演出。演员们用精 ...[详细]
-
雅安日报讯近日,市公安局名山区分局黑竹派出所成功帮助一名走失儿童回到家人的怀抱,受到群众的一致好评。7月20日下午2点多,黑竹派出所接群众报警称:在黑竹镇王山村沙场的村道上发现一名走失的女童,年龄在五 ...[详细]
-
CPUs Don't Matter For 4K Gaming... Wrong!
Something we hear a lot these days, especially when it comes to CPU benchmarking, is that CPU perfor ...[详细] -
来自大山的米香!连山丝苗米参展深圳博览会_南方+_南方plus12月1日至3日,2023全球高端食品及优质农产品深圳)博览会在深圳举行。清远市连山壮族瑶族自治县两家龙头携多款丝苗米亮相参展,向各地消费 ...[详细]
-
铜中百年华诞,校友拳拳爱心_南方+_南方plus百载芳华,硕果累累,以史育人,振奋精神。2023年11月18日,在铜盂中学成功举办了庆祝建校100周年庆典大会。 铜盂中学发起的爱心捐赠公告得到社会各界 ...[详细]
-
灾后重建,宝兴县委办公室副主任彭勇在属于自己的岗位上,持续保持着工作的高效运转,确保了重建工作的上下有效衔接。目前,他又被借调到县重建办工作。自抗震救灾转入灾后重建阶段后,彭勇积极协助做好县重建办组建 ...[详细]
-
29 Dive Bars, Saloons, and Taverns Where the Vibe Is Unbeatable
From hand-sculpted ice spheres to baroque cocktails made with everything from olive oil–washed gin t ...[详细] -
购房者在购房过程中会遇到一些专业术语,多数购房者对这些专业术语并不了解,有些购房者甚至因为在签订购房合同时由于对专业术语的不懂,而引起法律纠纷。为此,记者针对二手房交易过程中遇到的各种专业术语,进行了 ...[详细]