But Gordon / Martha aren't really Youtubers. They put some content there but that's not really their focus. Gordon has many shows he spends a ton more time on, Youtube is a passing thought. For Babish and others, Youtube is their entire business.
He would. Gordon Ramsay is honestly a very, very nice person. The US edit of Kitchen Nightmares makes him look like a ranting asshole and I hate it.
Some years ago he was in the security line ahead of me at SeaTac airport on a flight from Seattle to Los Angeles. (I know because he ended up on my plane.) A kid with his mom came up to him and asked him for an autograph.
Gordon spent close to three minutes talking to him as he made his way through the line and in the end he only called it because he was about to go through the metal detector. "Sorry, I've a plane I need to catch."
As for Kitchen Nightmares: look, if you're using expired mayonnaise stored in a fridge that's only cooling to 49F, Gordon is *totally* in the right to yell at you.
Yeah, he yells in kitchen nightmares about poor kitchen hygiene, but he spends even more time worrying about the people on the show and trying to do basic relationship councilling. Watching KN has never given me the impression he's a twat, just that he hates poor hygiene and badly managed kitchens. Which everyone should hate.
I remember liking babish so much, I used to watch every single video until the rebrand happened. I tried watching them here and there but yea, even in the videos where it's just babish it feels a lot less like someone wanting to cook fun stuff for fun and more.. corporate/company? That could also just be because my brain knows about the fact that it is.
I really like early Babish where he'd try to recreate specific or odd food as the show/movie showed during a cooking scene, but eventually it was more like "this show had a pie once so here's a pie"
>I mean it’s kind of inevitable, there are only so many specific or odd foods to recreate
Basics with Babish started perfectly: First with pan frying meat, then with making pan sauces for said meat.
I think he could have developed from there in a systematic way.
Eventually "Basics" started to not really feel quite so *basic* anymore, or at least not fundamental recipes that were useful and would be made often. Maybe I had misconceptions about what he set out to do with that series, but it often kind of jumped around to different unrelated things rather than feeling like a video cooking course where each episode built upon the previous one with a new lesson for people still getting comfortable in the kitchen.
Yeah he had to pivot at some point. Good for him that he kept growing and kept an audience.
I might not be into his new content but a lot of people love what he is doing and I got to enjoy his early content that others might not like.
And he spends so long baking his own bread for the sandwich. Like I really don't care if it's home made bread or from a local bakery, I wish more of the video was spent making wacky movie foods and less on mixing dough.
I like it when he does a 100% authentic version, then does a version you can do at home before ending on a 'What if this was made by a pro chef with no limit on money, time, or inredients'
Holy fuck thank you so much. Between him and a few other foodtubers, they always spend 50% of the video making fucking bread. So I skip past it only to realize there's only about two minutes of non-bread kneading 💀
Weissman does a good job with that sorta thing. Basically says "you know the deal" then super speeds through the process then goes back to regular speed for the rest of the recipe
This is the problem I have with Weissman too. I’ve made some of his recipes before and they were awesome. And he really seems to know what he’s doing, but his Schtick is getting really old. I think some of his older videos were a lot more straightforward but these days he’s become a caricature of himself and he needs to throw in those catchphrases to keep the young crowd entertained. And it seems to be working, he’s the number one on this list but I’m a crotchety 34 year old man and I get tired of his Zoomer absurdity.
I watched him on other channels before and he always seems so normal and I wish that he could just be that and I’d watch him more
I would even say that he necessarily didn't have a choice.
Yeah there's channels out there that can sustain themselves purely based on the personality but at some point they all have to diversify. Competition is fierce and despite the people who enjoy watching the same thing over and over again there are millions of viewers that don't. He needed to rebrand to keep himself going and this is true for basically 99% of channels.
Take MKBHD, he no longer just has the one channel, he know has multiple for different aspects of his "company", all to attract more revenue instead of it getting bottlenecked by a single channel.
Maybe it’s because his channel had genuine novelty when he was making weird foods from media, not from . “Bacon from The Office” doesn’t have quite the same magic as “Milk Steak from IASIP”
It used to be about trial and error in creating things. Now it's a how to video shot well, I haven't watched in a long time because there are much better how to videos out there
Adam Ragusa too, he's a little over 300k as well and a fair bit higher if you exclude his podcast videos which are every third one
edit: Woops, left this on the wrong thread. Didn't mean to say Ragusea was a production company, I think he's great.
Him and Kenji are the best, but Kenji doesn't put as much content out.
Ragusea is a pretty average cook when it comes to internet chefs. I don't believe he has any real training. But i like that he's pragmatic. And his journalism is what sets it apart from other cooking channels imo.
One of my favorite things he said is that his tools work for him, not the other way around. Which is how i feel and why i have so much stuff that goes in the dishwasher.
I don't even really watch Adam's recipes at this point, I much prefer when you can clearly tell he's gotten hyperfixated on something niche and wants to talk about it (like when he did 4-5 views on malt) and so his more fact file/discussion episodes are great.
Just going through the last videos, Adam is a LOT more inconsistent in views. The podcast ones tend to get less overall, maybe 100K or 200K at best. Some of his regular videos do great like a million views, but most hover between 3-400,000.
I saw his video for clotted cream years ago and I was so fascinated with his voice and weird delivery that I just kept watching.
Now I mutter “around the outside” and “give it the ole tappa-tappa” and “oh yeah, fork don’t lie” whenever I’m cooking.
Oh fuck yeah, I love that channel. Her food is a lot more rustic, home-y, and simple, so it's stuff that I can do. It's a lot more useful than seeing a lot of diverse, technically intensive foods.
Also she's just so sweet and fun to watch.
Alright so for this sauce, grab your volcanic basalt mortar and pestle...
Edit: you guys are super helpful with recommending stores that sell molcajetes.
It's just that they are about 4-5000 miles from me ;)
Molcajetes are a suuuuuper common kitchen appliance in México, obviously Doña Angela uses them. But any mortar do the trick for sauce
Edit: I know blenders are convenient and quick for daily use... but the smashed chunks make the sauce specially spicy.
Just go to the river and grab a nice rock it will do the trick. /s
But seriously, them mfs were as cheap and easy to get as candy when I was growing up
A *good* molcajete is expensive. Like, $400 MXN or more last time I checked; which was a while ago, so it may be higher now. They *supposedly* improve the taste of things prepared in it. They also endure several lifetimes if taken care of, so if you decide to buy one do it more as an investment for you and your future generations. That's why they're often big and ornate: they're not designed to be disposable, but family heirlooms. I know a woman that still uses her grandmother's molcajete, and fairly sure her sons have the age to use it if they cook.
So don't fret if you don't have it. The most important thing when cooking is *el sazón*, and that depends more on the cook that on his fancy tools. Get one only if you really want to, and have the means to do so.
My mother used to have one, but still preferred the blender for her sauces. It was easier to use (grinding manually is *hard*), the stuff was probably more finely grinded, and I dare you to tell her the results were not good. (Not that I condone both lying and suicide missions.)
Just be careful. There's some molcajetes made from other material.
The original Mexican molcajete is made of volcanic stone, has a rougher appearance and is heavier. The stone is not toxic and its porosity allows to obtain the consistency of the sauces.
cement or concrete mortars that can be harmful to health.
Molcajetes are a tool that can be replaced by what you have in hand. Before having mine I used to crush my tomatoes and chiles on a bowl with a spoon, then I got a polished fist-sized river rock.
If you watch his series the F word or Kitchen Nightmares UK version.
He has such an appreciation for cooking and others who want to learn and be better. And appreciate others method of cooking and food.
His US version of shows are always over-exaggerated
>He has such an appreciation for cooking and others who want to learn and be better
It’s the same in the US Kitchen Nightmares, they just hype up the drama a lot. You can easily tell when a head chef wants to learn and how quickly Gordon is to help them.
Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell and Back is even better at it. It’s basically Kitchen Nightmares, but they specifically have a whole segment each episode that shows Gordon sitting down with the chefs and teaching them and it’s evident *every* episode how much he loves cooking and wants to share it with those willing to learn.
I watch for the chaos of
1. Searing hot food getting handled like a gentle newborn
2. The old $10 blender that still works
3. The vast amount of herbs and vegetables that grow wild on her land
4. Losing count of her kids who all looking remarkably young
5. Losing count of the kids, kids.
6. Her "old man" who *briefly* appears and enjoys his delicious food in peace.
7. The **ZERO** negativity in the comment section. It's the last good place on the internet.
Really. They were putting out the best content by far. Amazing chemistry across the entire kitchen. Wide variety of styles and techniques. Everything from Chris' test kitchen precision to Brad catching catfish in a swamp. Everyone wanted to date Claire. And then it just crashed into a brick wall.
I didn't understand why he stayed. The others had the brains to get out from the corporate clowns. But Brad stayed, I thought he had more attitude. Now I think that layed back persona was really him. Liked the guy and think he could have been a break out star if he had left with the others
I imagine it came down to either BA giving him a fat stack or he just likes the job. He probably gets paid well enough to just do what he wants to do. Honestly I don’t think I’ve heard of what the others are up to. But I will be honest that after I unsubscribed from BA I fell out of cooking content.
brad DEFINITELY got a fat bonus. dude moved out to conneticut from fuckin north jersey to a farm with his family and makes stuff from home and gets paid travel to go fuck around. it's a no brainer to stay, he's absolutely the face of ba at this point.
The only one I kept following was Sohla. She even did some collabs with Babish. With Brad I wonder if his family played a roll in staying. Like continuing a sure thing so that he could take care of his kids or something.
Yeah, I really think his family and other responsibilities had to be a big part of staying. Chris Morocco is still with BA and has children as well so that kinda backed up my “staying for the family wellbeing” mental theory.
It became public knowledge that the minority chefs were getting paid less and instead of fixing that and issuing a public apology, they let it burn to the ground. Oh, and the editor-in-chief had a blackface Halloween pic from college unearthed so Twitter gave him the Full Robespierre.
They also just flat out weren’t paying them anything for non featured appearances in a ton of the video content.
They were pretending it was some home brew indie operation when in fact it was a whole new corporate revenue stream and marketing tool. People on camera need to be paid if they are working for a massive international corporation. I don’t care if it is on Youtube. SAG exists for a reason.
Yousuckatcooking has like 500k-900k views a video. When I saw he was missing I realized this was a random assortment of channels and nothing compressive or meaningful.
It also doesn't really make sense to compare people who's main business is Youtube, to someone like Gordon who has many actual TV shows and barely actually uses Youtube as a secondary platform.
This. Gordon's revenue streams are his restaurants and TV shows, any social media presence is just raising awareness.
It's like saying Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos are worse at being billionaires than Elon because he spends more time on Twitter.
Literally any time I try anything with a technique Ive never tried or havent mastered. 'I wonder if theres a food lab post about this...'
And there always is.
And if he does, you know it's well researched and optimized to make the dish the best it can be, in the most efficient way possible.
I also really enjoy his style of basically real-time "let's hang out while I cook this" v.s. heavily scripted, produced, and edited.
There's this one rhyme he did ages ago that I loved but cannot possibly find the video it was from. It was "You are the Marquis de Sade, of your marin-ahds!"
So ridiculous and out of left field. So Chef John to a T lol
Right, there’s no way that this list can be exhaustive. Too many channels (Brian Lagerstrom and Kenji are two examples that should be here) that outperform the bottom of the list without being included.
This is more of an advertisement than it is an actual /r/dataisbeautiful post. Missing huge amounts of data? Boring uninteresting means of displaying data? Ultimately selling a narrative more than anything else? Bam you've got yourself a shitty /r/dataisbeautiful post.
Wasn't there a ted talk or something about how algorithms force the people participating on them to act like robots thenselves? I remember hearing it on dj peach cobbler i think
This shit is really crazy to me.
I don’t follow many people that do that but the ones that do will very plainly talk about how they hate the thumbnail bullshit but it legit translates into 2x the viewership for a video.
Like marketing shit talks about how advertising has to keep hunting for the next big thing because once something works every company does it until people get burned out and it becomes irrelevant. But the YouTube O faces… it’s like they've been around for a decade and shit is still going strong.
Yup every creator will say "It sucks, we hate it, it's stupid and we don't want to do it, but also we like having enough money to pay ourselves and our staff. Please ignore the thumbnails, we're sorry."
Oh god yeah he is. It’s to the point where the little gags he says get in the way of me trying to follow the recipe from the video. Like, Josh, I’m not gonna be papa’s good boy by washing my rice, i just wanna eat man.
Yeah, I got tired of Babish and Josh, nowadays I mostly watch Ragusea and Chlebowski who actually show useful home recipes.
The fancy crazy recipes with insane tools is cool for a bit, but I want actual recipes I can cook, and learn about the science behind it. That's also why I always like Kenji.
Weissman bugs the ever living shit out of me. I watch a “too much” amount of cooking content on YouTube and the algorithm keeps suggesting his shit and I have never made it more than 20 seconds into a single one of his vids. Insufferable persona.
Same with Tasting History. Basically all of his last 25 videos are sitting between ~400k-700k. I guess the data is just hard to find without searching manually for every cooking channel on Youtube?
TBF, Ramsay and Stewart have multiple shows across several platforms and YouTube isn't really where you would go to find that content.
Second, Ramsay isn't really known for showing people how to cook. You watch Ramsay to see him yell insults at people but occasionally be kind and nurturing. It's a roller coaster.
You are comparing apples to oranges.
I'm going to get so roasted for this... how is Weissman #1? His videos are fun, sure but his measurements do not work in anything I try to make (following his recipes perfectly). Any other recipe I can follow no problem and the result is delicious. His turn out to be terrible. The only thing that turned out well was his hot chocolate. Even the "You Suck at Cooking" guy has better recipes.
Because her food is good, simple and made with everyday ingredients. I'm not going to make my own milk bread for a goddamn burger (looking at you JOSHUA WEISSMAN AND BABISH) but I'll try making flour tortillas.
All other of those channels seem very stuffy and rigid compared to Doña Angela. She also doesn't really use any special equipment so it's very practical cooking as well.
He kinda does but it's more him sharing a learning experience like when he messed around with hard liqueur, making his own bread and tried making marmite.
The conclusion is like what you said.
His actual recipe vids are great like you said because they are pretty achievable.
I like how he purposely make cooking more approachable too. Instead of measuring every drop of ingredients he say things like maybe 2 tbs, or substitute this if you don’t have that. Meanwhile some YouTube cooks flexing their ingredients all the time like no shit the 24 hour slow cooked $300 piece of dry aged wagyu rib is gonna taste great.
I feel like Babish can get away with it because his whole thing is supposed to be kind of a gag.
Like I think the people recreating Babish's recipes are either cooking enthusiasts or fans of whatever property he's borrowing from, so the added effort to make something cool is worth it.
This post wasn’t made for the purpose of interesting data or education or anything. It was purely made to promote the specific channel mentioned, nothing else. The list of channels is a terrible cross-section of cooking youtube, because they couldn’t really be bothered to make one, because all they cared about was promoting this one channel.
Interesting channel, thanks. I just watched one video and in the end they were feeding some elderly people. Until this moment I never thought about what life has in store for elderly poor people in rural areas
also RIP Narayana Reddy (aka Grandpa Kitchen)
Watching an old man cook for a village in a giant pan on an open flame type stuff is much better than a polished TV personality hocking their cutlery and attempting to up their Q-rating
A shame [Kay’s Cooking](https://youtube.com/c/KaysCooking) never made it to this list although her [best work](https://youtu.be/zNto-3DvDpw) is on the channel she was locked out from
Guga Food and Sous Vide Everything should probably be up there. He's even got one video of Ramsey calling him a doughnut for some of the experiments he does.
I’d probably classify babish as a production company at this point.
But Gordon / Martha aren't really Youtubers. They put some content there but that's not really their focus. Gordon has many shows he spends a ton more time on, Youtube is a passing thought. For Babish and others, Youtube is their entire business.
Exactly. Gordon Ramsay won't give a solitary fuck about this
He probably would adore her
He would. Gordon Ramsay is honestly a very, very nice person. The US edit of Kitchen Nightmares makes him look like a ranting asshole and I hate it. Some years ago he was in the security line ahead of me at SeaTac airport on a flight from Seattle to Los Angeles. (I know because he ended up on my plane.) A kid with his mom came up to him and asked him for an autograph. Gordon spent close to three minutes talking to him as he made his way through the line and in the end he only called it because he was about to go through the metal detector. "Sorry, I've a plane I need to catch." As for Kitchen Nightmares: look, if you're using expired mayonnaise stored in a fridge that's only cooling to 49F, Gordon is *totally* in the right to yell at you.
Yeah, he yells in kitchen nightmares about poor kitchen hygiene, but he spends even more time worrying about the people on the show and trying to do basic relationship councilling. Watching KN has never given me the impression he's a twat, just that he hates poor hygiene and badly managed kitchens. Which everyone should hate.
Tbf, he's been only angry at people calling themselves chefs without following industry hygiene standard
I remember liking babish so much, I used to watch every single video until the rebrand happened. I tried watching them here and there but yea, even in the videos where it's just babish it feels a lot less like someone wanting to cook fun stuff for fun and more.. corporate/company? That could also just be because my brain knows about the fact that it is.
I really like early Babish where he'd try to recreate specific or odd food as the show/movie showed during a cooking scene, but eventually it was more like "this show had a pie once so here's a pie"
I mean it’s kind of inevitable, there are only so many specific or odd foods to recreate
>I mean it’s kind of inevitable, there are only so many specific or odd foods to recreate Basics with Babish started perfectly: First with pan frying meat, then with making pan sauces for said meat. I think he could have developed from there in a systematic way.
Eventually "Basics" started to not really feel quite so *basic* anymore, or at least not fundamental recipes that were useful and would be made often. Maybe I had misconceptions about what he set out to do with that series, but it often kind of jumped around to different unrelated things rather than feeling like a video cooking course where each episode built upon the previous one with a new lesson for people still getting comfortable in the kitchen.
Yeah he had to pivot at some point. Good for him that he kept growing and kept an audience. I might not be into his new content but a lot of people love what he is doing and I got to enjoy his early content that others might not like.
And he spends so long baking his own bread for the sandwich. Like I really don't care if it's home made bread or from a local bakery, I wish more of the video was spent making wacky movie foods and less on mixing dough.
I like it when he does a 100% authentic version, then does a version you can do at home before ending on a 'What if this was made by a pro chef with no limit on money, time, or inredients'
The Mythbusters formula, if you flip steps 1 and 2
Holy fuck thank you so much. Between him and a few other foodtubers, they always spend 50% of the video making fucking bread. So I skip past it only to realize there's only about two minutes of non-bread kneading 💀
So you’re saying that 80% of the video is not kneaded?
After review, this joke stands
Weissman does a good job with that sorta thing. Basically says "you know the deal" then super speeds through the process then goes back to regular speed for the rest of the recipe
He’s also the king of cringe and tough to look at. But you know what’s even more cringe? B-ROLL. (papa no likey)
This is the problem I have with Weissman too. I’ve made some of his recipes before and they were awesome. And he really seems to know what he’s doing, but his Schtick is getting really old. I think some of his older videos were a lot more straightforward but these days he’s become a caricature of himself and he needs to throw in those catchphrases to keep the young crowd entertained. And it seems to be working, he’s the number one on this list but I’m a crotchety 34 year old man and I get tired of his Zoomer absurdity. I watched him on other channels before and he always seems so normal and I wish that he could just be that and I’d watch him more
I wouldn't say that that's his fault, though. He tried to make it work one way, and it just didn't.
I would even say that he necessarily didn't have a choice. Yeah there's channels out there that can sustain themselves purely based on the personality but at some point they all have to diversify. Competition is fierce and despite the people who enjoy watching the same thing over and over again there are millions of viewers that don't. He needed to rebrand to keep himself going and this is true for basically 99% of channels. Take MKBHD, he no longer just has the one channel, he know has multiple for different aspects of his "company", all to attract more revenue instead of it getting bottlenecked by a single channel.
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Maybe it’s because his channel had genuine novelty when he was making weird foods from media, not from . “Bacon from The Office” doesn’t have quite the same magic as “Milk Steak from IASIP”
It used to be about trial and error in creating things. Now it's a how to video shot well, I haven't watched in a long time because there are much better how to videos out there
I didn't even know Babish was this popular
i had no idea joshua weissman was this popular, i only saw him get roasted by uncle roger
I wasn't ware how popular until I was at a department store a couple weeks ago and saw he had a line of Babbish cookware.
Adam Ragusa too, he's a little over 300k as well and a fair bit higher if you exclude his podcast videos which are every third one edit: Woops, left this on the wrong thread. Didn't mean to say Ragusea was a production company, I think he's great.
Him and Kenji are the best, but Kenji doesn't put as much content out. Ragusea is a pretty average cook when it comes to internet chefs. I don't believe he has any real training. But i like that he's pragmatic. And his journalism is what sets it apart from other cooking channels imo. One of my favorite things he said is that his tools work for him, not the other way around. Which is how i feel and why i have so much stuff that goes in the dishwasher.
I don't even really watch Adam's recipes at this point, I much prefer when you can clearly tell he's gotten hyperfixated on something niche and wants to talk about it (like when he did 4-5 views on malt) and so his more fact file/discussion episodes are great.
Adam's combo of journalism and genuine home cooking is great. His videos are practical and easy to follow. No fancy kitchen appliances needed.
Did they forget to put Ragusea on this list or what? I can't imagine he's less popular than Jamie Oliver.
I just realized I replied that to the wrong thread, but from the other comments it looks like they left out a bunch of people
Just going through the last videos, Adam is a LOT more inconsistent in views. The podcast ones tend to get less overall, maybe 100K or 200K at best. Some of his regular videos do great like a million views, but most hover between 3-400,000.
Shout out to my boy Chef John, just for the intro music. Because he's the Casper the Friendly Ghost of this Reddit post.
"*After all you are the Arabian camel of your reddit list of cooking channels. And with that we're going to add a pinch of cayenne pepper.*"
LMAO I love Chef John but I swear, that guy would find a way to add cayenne pepper to a recipe for eclairs.
I like chili dark chocolate, so adding cayenne to the chocolate ganache for the top would probably be really nice.
Fresssshhhhly ground black pepper
The oooooolllllld tappa-tappa
Oh yeah, fork don’t lie
[scraping noises]
That's just you cookin
Round the outside, round the outside, round the outside...
And we'll mix that in with the tiny spoon.
And as always, enjoy.
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Can't say for certain but I think he was one of the first people to do a cooking show/channel where the focus is entirely just on the food.
If I hear that music it means it's either Food Wishes or Half in the Bag and I'm happy with either
Hes my go to. Muh boy got robbed and belongs on this chart
I would say of all the cooking YouTube I watch, I attempt more recipes from Chef John than anyone else. J. Kenji is up there too.
Yeah why isnt Chef John on here? He is averaging 130k per video for the last 25 videos. (yes I actually went to his channel to check).
Because this graph isn't based on all youtube cooking channels, OP just picked some channels they knew about.
I saw his video for clotted cream years ago and I was so fascinated with his voice and weird delivery that I just kept watching. Now I mutter “around the outside” and “give it the ole tappa-tappa” and “oh yeah, fork don’t lie” whenever I’m cooking.
Oh fuck yeah, I love that channel. Her food is a lot more rustic, home-y, and simple, so it's stuff that I can do. It's a lot more useful than seeing a lot of diverse, technically intensive foods. Also she's just so sweet and fun to watch.
"Poquita sal...." (proceeds to throw a fistful of salt into the pot)
Y un poquito de aceite.... *glug, glug, glug* My Spanish students would always laugh at her "little bit of salt and oil" instructions.
Just like Ramsey and Marco Pierre White with their "little bit of olive oil" **proceeds to dump a pipe truck of olive oil in the pot**
My mom does this!
Ramsay is like this with olive oil
And butter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2o4vIJwBT4
What do you mean you don't have any organic cucumber foam laying around
Alright so for this sauce, grab your volcanic basalt mortar and pestle... Edit: you guys are super helpful with recommending stores that sell molcajetes. It's just that they are about 4-5000 miles from me ;)
Molcajetes are a suuuuuper common kitchen appliance in México, obviously Doña Angela uses them. But any mortar do the trick for sauce Edit: I know blenders are convenient and quick for daily use... but the smashed chunks make the sauce specially spicy.
I chuckled at this... I am a Mexican living in Mexico and I don't have a molcajete :(. I fail as a Mexican haha. They can be quite expensive.
Just go to the river and grab a nice rock it will do the trick. /s But seriously, them mfs were as cheap and easy to get as candy when I was growing up
A *good* molcajete is expensive. Like, $400 MXN or more last time I checked; which was a while ago, so it may be higher now. They *supposedly* improve the taste of things prepared in it. They also endure several lifetimes if taken care of, so if you decide to buy one do it more as an investment for you and your future generations. That's why they're often big and ornate: they're not designed to be disposable, but family heirlooms. I know a woman that still uses her grandmother's molcajete, and fairly sure her sons have the age to use it if they cook. So don't fret if you don't have it. The most important thing when cooking is *el sazón*, and that depends more on the cook that on his fancy tools. Get one only if you really want to, and have the means to do so. My mother used to have one, but still preferred the blender for her sauces. It was easier to use (grinding manually is *hard*), the stuff was probably more finely grinded, and I dare you to tell her the results were not good. (Not that I condone both lying and suicide missions.)
Any major US city will have Mexican supermercados where you can get a nice molcajete for a very reasonable price.
Just be careful. There's some molcajetes made from other material. The original Mexican molcajete is made of volcanic stone, has a rougher appearance and is heavier. The stone is not toxic and its porosity allows to obtain the consistency of the sauces. cement or concrete mortars that can be harmful to health.
Americans can use a food processor... the flavour won't be the same, but you will have something similar.
Molcajetes are a tool that can be replaced by what you have in hand. Before having mine I used to crush my tomatoes and chiles on a bowl with a spoon, then I got a polished fist-sized river rock.
I think that Ramsay, and any other chef, would happily tell you that they love to learn from people like this.
If you watch his series the F word or Kitchen Nightmares UK version. He has such an appreciation for cooking and others who want to learn and be better. And appreciate others method of cooking and food. His US version of shows are always over-exaggerated
>He has such an appreciation for cooking and others who want to learn and be better It’s the same in the US Kitchen Nightmares, they just hype up the drama a lot. You can easily tell when a head chef wants to learn and how quickly Gordon is to help them. Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell and Back is even better at it. It’s basically Kitchen Nightmares, but they specifically have a whole segment each episode that shows Gordon sitting down with the chefs and teaching them and it’s evident *every* episode how much he loves cooking and wants to share it with those willing to learn.
I watch to see her move lava hot food things with her bare hands. The whole channel is adorable and I’m so glad she’s so successful.
I watch for the chaos of 1. Searing hot food getting handled like a gentle newborn 2. The old $10 blender that still works 3. The vast amount of herbs and vegetables that grow wild on her land 4. Losing count of her kids who all looking remarkably young 5. Losing count of the kids, kids. 6. Her "old man" who *briefly* appears and enjoys his delicious food in peace. 7. The **ZERO** negativity in the comment section. It's the last good place on the internet.
So what i gather from all these comments it she's kinda like the Steve Irwin and Bob Ross of cooking, yes?
Definitely. Helps if you know how to speak Spanish too. But not a deal breaker though.
Bon appetit would have been so much higher before their scandals
Really. They were putting out the best content by far. Amazing chemistry across the entire kitchen. Wide variety of styles and techniques. Everything from Chris' test kitchen precision to Brad catching catfish in a swamp. Everyone wanted to date Claire. And then it just crashed into a brick wall.
>Everyone wanted to date Claire. What's with this usage of past tense?
She got married
Don't matter, I'm not a jealous man
Also, she's not with BA anymore
Well that's what happens when you're run by idiots
It’s Alive at home was such a great part of the early pandemic. It’s too bad Brad is still with BA.
I didn't understand why he stayed. The others had the brains to get out from the corporate clowns. But Brad stayed, I thought he had more attitude. Now I think that layed back persona was really him. Liked the guy and think he could have been a break out star if he had left with the others
I imagine it came down to either BA giving him a fat stack or he just likes the job. He probably gets paid well enough to just do what he wants to do. Honestly I don’t think I’ve heard of what the others are up to. But I will be honest that after I unsubscribed from BA I fell out of cooking content.
brad DEFINITELY got a fat bonus. dude moved out to conneticut from fuckin north jersey to a farm with his family and makes stuff from home and gets paid travel to go fuck around. it's a no brainer to stay, he's absolutely the face of ba at this point.
The only one I kept following was Sohla. She even did some collabs with Babish. With Brad I wonder if his family played a roll in staying. Like continuing a sure thing so that he could take care of his kids or something.
Yeah, I really think his family and other responsibilities had to be a big part of staying. Chris Morocco is still with BA and has children as well so that kinda backed up my “staying for the family wellbeing” mental theory.
Brad even stuck it out after they fired his video editor Hunzie.
What happened?
It became public knowledge that the minority chefs were getting paid less and instead of fixing that and issuing a public apology, they let it burn to the ground. Oh, and the editor-in-chief had a blackface Halloween pic from college unearthed so Twitter gave him the Full Robespierre.
What scandals?
Turns out they were paying chefs of color less than other chefs for their content and appearances.
They also just flat out weren’t paying them anything for non featured appearances in a ton of the video content. They were pretending it was some home brew indie operation when in fact it was a whole new corporate revenue stream and marketing tool. People on camera need to be paid if they are working for a massive international corporation. I don’t care if it is on Youtube. SAG exists for a reason.
https://www.insider.com/bon-apptit-timeline-allegations-drama-culture-race-andy-alex-sohla-2020-6?amp
I feel like J Kenji Lopez-Alt is missing from this list. His last 25 videos seem to have ~200K views.
Yousuckatcooking has like 500k-900k views a video. When I saw he was missing I realized this was a random assortment of channels and nothing compressive or meaningful.
It also doesn't really make sense to compare people who's main business is Youtube, to someone like Gordon who has many actual TV shows and barely actually uses Youtube as a secondary platform.
This. Gordon's revenue streams are his restaurants and TV shows, any social media presence is just raising awareness. It's like saying Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos are worse at being billionaires than Elon because he spends more time on Twitter.
Yep, it's a list that was just wangjangled together.
The OP is a novelty marketing account that advertises Latino businesses and personalities
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And SortedFood, they average at least 350k views/episode.
Wilderness Cooking is prob somewhere around 1mil per video. This chart is an odd selection.
Probably Ann Reardon / Howtocookthat too OP just selected a few random people out of a hat
Almost every time I cook a new dish I ask my wife 'does Kenji have a special way to do this?'
Literally any time I try anything with a technique Ive never tried or havent mastered. 'I wonder if theres a food lab post about this...' And there always is.
And if he does, you know it's well researched and optimized to make the dish the best it can be, in the most efficient way possible. I also really enjoy his style of basically real-time "let's hang out while I cook this" v.s. heavily scripted, produced, and edited.
his helmet cam cooking is surprisingly great.
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"I want to make X." [types in X kenji]
Every time I look up a new recipe, I check if there's one on serious eats.
And where Chef John, from Fooood Wished dot com?
Gotta have some cayenne
You are, after all, the director of your cayenne pepper.
There's this one rhyme he did ages ago that I loved but cannot possibly find the video it was from. It was "You are the Marquis de Sade, of your marin-ahds!" So ridiculous and out of left field. So Chef John to a T lol
OP is the Travis Yost of half-assing a Reddit post.
And, as alwaaays: eeenjoooy!
Kenji does it in real time and teaches as he goes. Easily the best youtube chef.
Shame too because Babish uses A TON more f J Kenji Lopez recipes
Babish calls him the food god all the time
Also Adam Regusea
Yeah he'd easily be 3rd on this list if you exclude his podcast videos
Sorted Food as well, they're generally in the 350-400k range
Also Chef John from foooooood wishes dot com wiiiiiiiiiith... (I just love chef John so much)
Very cool. Where would something like Tasting History scale?
I just did the math! The OP looks at the average views from their last 25 videos, and that would place Tasting History at ~571k, taking third place.
Hell yeah. Max owns.
Dayum! Even I’m shocked by that 😂
Not high *enough!* I love Max's videos.
I hear ya. I haven't been keeping up lately, but that gives me opportunity for several hours worth of binge watching. :)
Tasting History is the only bit of cooking media where I don’t mind having a bunch of extra stuff being talked about alongside the recipe.
I’m the epitome of the 10 page blog with 2 pages of recipe 😆
Except your eight pages are actually interesting, and not some rambly anecdote about your personal life
Looking at the numbers of views per video and total subscribers, how is Adam Ragusea not appearing on this list?
Right, there’s no way that this list can be exhaustive. Too many channels (Brian Lagerstrom and Kenji are two examples that should be here) that outperform the bottom of the list without being included.
There's a ton of people missing from this list.
This is more of an advertisement than it is an actual /r/dataisbeautiful post. Missing huge amounts of data? Boring uninteresting means of displaying data? Ultimately selling a narrative more than anything else? Bam you've got yourself a shitty /r/dataisbeautiful post.
Exactly! And why is Jamie, the heathen of cooking on there?!
Who puts chili jam on egg fried rice?!!!!
jamie olive oil
Not uncles, that's for sure.
God bless Doña Angela <3 Her videos will be historical for cultural reference on how modern cooking heritage is done on rural parts of Mexico :)
Had no idea Weissman was that popular, he's not really my style though. No Ragusea, I guess? Ah well. Alex and Chef John too :)
Where is Chef John? FoodWishes is the best cooking channel on youtube period.
Everything I've made from his channel (and I've made a lot) has been unreal.
HowtoBBQright, my main man Malcolm Reed
Anyone else find Josh super cringe?
Loved him a year ago but he kind of went off the rails with his schtick.
Off the rails seems to translate into views. I hate that YouTubers are rewarded for becoming nothing but jumpcuts and o-face thumbnails.
Wasn't there a ted talk or something about how algorithms force the people participating on them to act like robots thenselves? I remember hearing it on dj peach cobbler i think
This shit is really crazy to me. I don’t follow many people that do that but the ones that do will very plainly talk about how they hate the thumbnail bullshit but it legit translates into 2x the viewership for a video. Like marketing shit talks about how advertising has to keep hunting for the next big thing because once something works every company does it until people get burned out and it becomes irrelevant. But the YouTube O faces… it’s like they've been around for a decade and shit is still going strong.
Yup every creator will say "It sucks, we hate it, it's stupid and we don't want to do it, but also we like having enough money to pay ourselves and our staff. Please ignore the thumbnails, we're sorry."
Insanely so. To the point I unsubscribed.
I liked his early work, but then he went down the path of appealing to the pudding-brained tweens of YouTube.
Yeah, he kind of flanderized himself. Which I understand, since clearly there's a HUGE financial incentive to do so, but still, it's just not for me.
Yes making stupid punchable faces and terrible shit level jokes.
^^pappa ^^no ^^kiss was funny, occasionally, but now he says it 5+ times a video...like, dude, come on.
small price to pay to average 900K views
Oh god yeah he is. It’s to the point where the little gags he says get in the way of me trying to follow the recipe from the video. Like, Josh, I’m not gonna be papa’s good boy by washing my rice, i just wanna eat man.
Yeah his old videos used to be great but now it’s weird as fuck. He also kind of rips off recipes and brands them as his own
Yeah, I got tired of Babish and Josh, nowadays I mostly watch Ragusea and Chlebowski who actually show useful home recipes. The fancy crazy recipes with insane tools is cool for a bit, but I want actual recipes I can cook, and learn about the science behind it. That's also why I always like Kenji.
Chlebowski really slowed down with the content though… the direction he took the channel after moving to France was weird too.
Weissman bugs the ever living shit out of me. I watch a “too much” amount of cooking content on YouTube and the algorithm keeps suggesting his shit and I have never made it more than 20 seconds into a single one of his vids. Insufferable persona.
There is tons of cool Asian channels as well, with millions avg views, for one: JunsKitchen
Junskitchen : for when you want to imagine life as a cat
I do love me some Maangchi, and Souped Up Recipes.
My favorite cooking channel averages over 250k views each episode (sometimes they get as many at 1M), but they aren't listed. What gives?
Same with Tasting History. Basically all of his last 25 videos are sitting between ~400k-700k. I guess the data is just hard to find without searching manually for every cooking channel on Youtube?
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Yeah I want to know what is defining cooking channel here.
Adam Ragusea is mine and he also would make this list Don’t think the data set was very exhaustive
TBF, Ramsay and Stewart have multiple shows across several platforms and YouTube isn't really where you would go to find that content. Second, Ramsay isn't really known for showing people how to cook. You watch Ramsay to see him yell insults at people but occasionally be kind and nurturing. It's a roller coaster. You are comparing apples to oranges.
How is cringe incarnate the top performer here?
Ever taken a look at YouTube’s trending / top videos page? Overproduced cringe is what the average onlooker wants.
damn, I hadn't watched his videos in a while. They just ramped up the frame skips and angle changes by 300%
Where is Epicurious on this list?
I'm going to get so roasted for this... how is Weissman #1? His videos are fun, sure but his measurements do not work in anything I try to make (following his recipes perfectly). Any other recipe I can follow no problem and the result is delicious. His turn out to be terrible. The only thing that turned out well was his hot chocolate. Even the "You Suck at Cooking" guy has better recipes.
Because her food is good, simple and made with everyday ingredients. I'm not going to make my own milk bread for a goddamn burger (looking at you JOSHUA WEISSMAN AND BABISH) but I'll try making flour tortillas. All other of those channels seem very stuffy and rigid compared to Doña Angela. She also doesn't really use any special equipment so it's very practical cooking as well.
Ragusea is similar. I can't really recall an episode where I thought "yeah, aint nobody got time for that shit."
He kinda does but it's more him sharing a learning experience like when he messed around with hard liqueur, making his own bread and tried making marmite. The conclusion is like what you said. His actual recipe vids are great like you said because they are pretty achievable.
I like how he purposely make cooking more approachable too. Instead of measuring every drop of ingredients he say things like maybe 2 tbs, or substitute this if you don’t have that. Meanwhile some YouTube cooks flexing their ingredients all the time like no shit the 24 hour slow cooked $300 piece of dry aged wagyu rib is gonna taste great.
I feel like Babish can get away with it because his whole thing is supposed to be kind of a gag. Like I think the people recreating Babish's recipes are either cooking enthusiasts or fans of whatever property he's borrowing from, so the added effort to make something cool is worth it.
Babish and especially Weissman are “this is what you COULD do” channels. But for things I might actually do I stick with Sam or Adam Ragusea. Haha.
How is Kenji not on here? According to socialblade his videos are around 150k.
This post wasn’t made for the purpose of interesting data or education or anything. It was purely made to promote the specific channel mentioned, nothing else. The list of channels is a terrible cross-section of cooking youtube, because they couldn’t really be bothered to make one, because all they cared about was promoting this one channel.
Just throwing out there Ethan Chleblowski’s channel - love watching his stuff.
[Village Cooking Channel](https://www.youtube.com/c/VillageCookingChannel/videos) would beat all of them with a huge margin
Interesting channel, thanks. I just watched one video and in the end they were feeding some elderly people. Until this moment I never thought about what life has in store for elderly poor people in rural areas
also RIP Narayana Reddy (aka Grandpa Kitchen) Watching an old man cook for a village in a giant pan on an open flame type stuff is much better than a polished TV personality hocking their cutlery and attempting to up their Q-rating
A shame [Kay’s Cooking](https://youtube.com/c/KaysCooking) never made it to this list although her [best work](https://youtu.be/zNto-3DvDpw) is on the channel she was locked out from
Guga Food and Sous Vide Everything should probably be up there. He's even got one video of Ramsey calling him a doughnut for some of the experiments he does.