/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.20389855]

Sort the YouTube cooks into faggot or worth-their-salt categories. Note we're talking skill and what it offers to the viewer here, not faggy presentation or editing skills. I'll go first.
Worth their Salt:
>Kenji
>Bruno
>Lagerstrom
>Chef John
>Andy Cooks
>Aunty Fee
>Internetshaquile
Faggots:
>Babish
>Senpai Kai
>Joshua Weissman
>acooknamedmatt
>Guga
>Ragusea
Honorary not-a-faggot-but-also-not-worth-their-salt:
>Chlebowski
>Chinese Cooking Demystified
>Andong
>Middle Eats
>Cowboy Kent
>That guy from tasting history

[Anonymous No.20389866]

I have never watched a youtube cook and just pull a couple random recipes off a quick google search and pick the one that sounds best if it's something I've never made before.
I would assume all cooks on camera are some sort of entertainer for hobbyists and casuals who want to stop eating frozen isle/fast food/delivered meal package things you assemble yourself.

[Anonymous No.20389876]

>>20389866
so leave the thread dipshit

anyway I like max miller and am kinda getting into arnie tex myself

[Anonymous No.20389883]

>>20389866
Most are as you described but a few are actually good. Chef John for example never shows himself - camera is always on the food prep and cooking so you can see the technique. He does a voiceover made in post while this is happening and the only "entertainer" vibes is a few boomer jokes but they're good natured. Very approachable for new cooks and people just looking for ideas.

[Anonymous No.20389886]

I have no idea who most of these people are, the few names I recognise are people I've never watched and I'm not even sure how to pronounce Ragusea or Babish.
Is it like the island Ragusa, but with the final A replaced with eh-ah? And is it babe-ish or babb-ish?

[Anonymous No.20389894]

>>20389886
In fact, to add to this, the only YouTube cook I've ever watched I only started watching a few days ago, Mary's Test Kitchen. I'm not vegan or even vegetarian but I find it terrifically interesting watching this woman make tofu out of non-soy ingredients.

[Anonymous No.20389900]

>>20389855
My brother got me one of Weissman's cookbooks for christmas and so far everything has been good, I tried the birria tacos recipe last weekend and it was great, worth their salt tier for sure.

[Anonymous No.20389909]

>>20389894
Try Yeung Man cooking - I fucking love meat but I've tried a few of this guys recipes and they are damn good even if they are vegan

[Anonymous No.20389916]

>>20389900
I'm sure his book is tolerable, the main problem with Weissman is his overreliance on niche ingredients unsuited to a home kitchen and his faggy "cwispy daddy" zoomer talk that he constantly does.

[Anonymous No.20389917]

>>20389909
Thanks, but I doubt I will. I stumbled on her after someone here mentioned pumpkin seed tofu a few days ago and found her video making it utterly charming. No idea why.
I didn't intend to do any of the things she does but watching her make tofu is entertaining to me for some reason. I've not watched any of her non-tofu-making videos.

[Anonymous No.20389939]

>>20389855
>no Chef Jean Pierre
kill yourself faggot

[Anonymous No.20390070]

He’s adorable

[Anonymous No.20390270]

>>20389855
Gaithree Devi Luckan is my favorite aunt youtube cook

[Anonymous No.20390283]

>>20389855
InternetShaquile is not a good cook.
He's either just repeating a Kenji recipe, or he's rambling about how to best eat like a retard.

[Anonymous No.20390286]

>>20389855
Kenji is a good cook but the dude is unhinged leftist on twitter

[Anonymous No.20390301]

[Anonymous No.20390312]

>>20390286
Being really good at something, doesn't mean that you're a likable person.
Marco Pierre White was one of the best cooks of his age, but everyone knew the guy was a complete asshole.
Jean-Georges is probably the most successful living restaurateur, and once physically assaulted and broke the nose a lazy dishwasher. But no one would ever call the guy a bad cook.

[Anonymous No.20390617]

>>20389855
Props:
Adam Witt - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xsem4g2IGbQ
Pro Home Cooks - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4QmFtcp25U
Hot Thai Kitchen - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28fw0eBinNs
Marion's Kitchen - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTpzPZajtEU
Sam's Home Kitchen - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZqv5gWEsCQ

Slops:
Sorted Food
Guga
Etc not even mentioning names in case that helps them in some way. You know the ones I mean.

[Anonymous No.20390698]

>>20389916
>I'm sure his book is tolerable, the main problem with Weissman is his overreliance on niche ingredients unsuited to a home kitchen and his faggy "cwispy daddy" zoomer talk that he constantly does.
I got the ebook. It has some of the nerdy preachy lecture kinda stuff he does, but it's a little more serious. His recipes though are very good, see picrel.

[Anonymous No.20390756]

>>20390301
His wife makes me feel so uncomfortable, she's definitely a psycho

[Anonymous No.20390784]

ordinary sausage

[Anonymous No.20390886]

>>20389866
It's for people who don't have friends or loved ones to discuss cooking with. It lets them feel like there's someone encouraging them in their pursuit of cooking when there's no one in their lives. Very sad. I used to read about stuff like this in Korea and Japan in the 00s, but now apparently zoomers are living that way too.

[Anonymous No.20391000]

sandwiches of history

[Anonymous No.20391016]

>>20389855
tasting history guy is a literal faggot

[Anonymous No.20391026]

>>20390886
We will all get to cuddle satan in heaven don't worry mister

[Anonymous No.20391122]

>>20389939
This.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVwQ7GfCaVM

Jean Pierre is like many of the other YT chefs who were Pros in a previous life (Lagerstrom, Weissman) that practice the fundamentals of mise en place, cleaning as you go, paying attention to temperature, etc. but after he retired from his restaurant he operated a private cooking school for many years before starting his channel so he has the presentation and affect of a teacher in how he drills in concepts via humorous repetition and explains them in detail.

He's sort of like Chef John in that way who was former-CIA instructor as well if I recall.

Same deal with Chef Frank Proto who I don't see recommended enough on his own channel and his vids for Epicurious:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apwdsu08drY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zlJNWWJBlU

[Anonymous No.20391503]

>>20390286
This isn't /pol/. I don't go to a restaurant and ask the waiter how the chef voted in the last election or what their view on Roe v. Wade is.

[Anonymous No.20391505]

>>20389855
>>20390617
I don't know why Guga gets so much shit from /ck/. Sure, it's mostly meme content but the steaks look fucking good and the Brazilian uncle humor is wholesome.

[Anonymous No.20391509]

>>20391016
Yeah but he doesn't make it the focus of his content or even really mention it at all. Max gets a pass.

[Anonymous No.20391512]

>>20391122
Weissman was a line cook and it shows - he's skilled but he has way too high an opinion of himself. He's not in the same stratosphere as Chef John or Jean-Pierre or even Lagerstrom.

[Anonymous No.20391519]

preppy kitchen is a literal massive faggot but also worth his salt

[Anonymous No.20391531]

Devine Gaffney and Pro Home Cooks are honoraries. ThatDudeCanCook belongs squarely in the faggot category.

[Anonymous No.20391538]

>>20389855
Worth their salt (people who's recipe's or thought process actually influences how I cook, and what I cook):
Cheblowski
Langerstrom
Chef John
Maangchi
Chinese Cooking Demystified
Kenji
Internet Shaquille
America's Test Kitchen

Faggots (entertainment only with minimal actual value):
Babish
Senpai Kai
Josh Weissman
Guga
David Seymour
Sam the Cooking Guy
Uncle Roger
Sorted Food

Honorary-not-faggot-but-also-not-worth-their-salt:
Chef's Steps
Alex French Guy Cooking
Pro Home Cook
Middle Eats
NYT Cooking
Bon Appetit
Andong

[Anonymous No.20391642]

I remember seeing lagerstrom in faggots lol

[Anonymous No.20391774]

>>20389855
Jack Ovens is worth his salt. No fucking around, no attempts at "comedy", no faggotry, no wasting your time - just sticks to the techniques and gives alternative ingredients when appropriate.

[Anonymous No.20391885]

>>20389855
>>That guy from tasting history

[Anonymous No.20391905]

>>20389855
brian lagerstrom's weeknighting videos are pretty good

[Anonymous No.20392349]

requesting ratings for
>thatdudecancook
>sip and feast
>chef pierre

[Anonymous No.20392359]

>>20392349
Chef Jean-Pierre is great. Keeping with the French theme Jacques Pepin is a great resource; I would recommend his book "La Technique" to anyone that wants to learn cooking essentials

[Anonymous No.20392361]

>>20391774
sounds boring

[Anonymous No.20392552]

>>20392349
CJP would be twice as good if he wasn't drunk all the time.

[Anonymous No.20392579]

I like Max Miller, the Korean glowies spreading food psyops (Aaron and claire) and that Azerbaijani guy who makes shit in the woods using rocks and a machete.

[Anonymous No.20392710]

>No Made With Lau
>No Chinese Cooking Demystified
>No Not Another Cooking Show
do you faggot zoomers even use Youtube or just what the algorithm tells you is currently popular

[Anonymous No.20392743]

>>20389855
Another for the worth-their-salt category: Arnie Tex.
>Delicious recipes
>Actually knows what the fuck he's doing with the food
>Real chill dude
>Cozy videos
Vamanos! BOOM!

[Anonymous No.20392747]

>>20392710
Those 3 channels are all heavily pushed by the algorithm

[Anonymous No.20393026]

>>20392747
>Those 3 channels are all heavily pushed by the algorithm
If it's being heavily pushed by the algorithm, you know it's gonna suck, or be deceptive, shilling some product or agenda, and otherwise be inorganic and forced.
All that shit gets channel-blocked on sight.
I use Blocktube. It is very effective.

[Anonymous No.20393387]

>>20390617
Hot thai kitchen is good cause it makes my dick hard

[Anonymous No.20393473]

>>20389855
>no Ja/ck/
list discarded

[Anonymous No.20393492]

>>20389855
I've heard of like 3 of these people
Agree Babish is a giant fag
But Cowboy Kent is based af

[Anonymous No.20393697]

>>20392349
As a retard non-cook, here is my assessment
>thatdudecancook
He's good, very good even but his videos are sucking recently. If you go back and watch his earlier stuff you'll see how talented he is but he's been relying on more clickbaity stuff recently and rehashing his old videos.
>sip and feast
Guy has good recipes but his whole "hey everyone here's my whole family, we're just a typical suburban family" thing is weird, like I wouldn't showcase my wife/kids over the internet if I could help it. his recipes are relatively simple and easy to do, probably this is one of the main channels I would check if I wanted to make an Italian recipe
>chef pierre
He's good I guess people are complaining about him being drunk, I don't really care I don't notice it to be honest, if he drinks during the shoot it's probably just a glass of wine or two or three, no big deal doesn't seem to have much of an impact on him. His videos are longer and less edited so there's a lot to sit through in terms of him just babbling. The recipes also call for a lot of uncommon ingredients which are difficult to source a lot of the time such as the green peppercorns, juniper berries idk. Still his recipes are top notch at least the ones I've tried, they require a little more effort than the more standard fare but he shows a true dedication to the craft and is clearly more interested in passing down everything he knows about cooking rather than making money, like Jacques Pepin

[Anonymous No.20393720]

>>20389855
i like that gook sometimes but she's not really cooking shit


emmymade

[Anonymous No.20393762]

some people not mentioned

foreign people

https://www.youtube.com/@menwiththepot/videos

https://www.youtube.com/@WILDERNESSCOOKING

https://www.youtube.com/@Ahmetsefinmutfag

https://www.youtube.com/@YORUKKIZININMUTFAGI/videos

https://www.youtube.com/@HacerinLezzetleri

https://www.youtube.com/@Chayniy_domik


sometimes i like his videos not always, he's on the line between good and faggot
https://www.youtube.com/@ChudsBbq

big titted canadian mommy
https://www.youtube.com/@ohyum

i watch this shit at like 2x speed withoout sound
https://www.youtube.com/@Cooking_tree/videos

japanese
https://www.youtube.com/@cookkafemaru/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@chocolate_cacao/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@kitchenprincessbamboo/videos

big titted italian mommy
https://www.youtube.com/@tuttiatavola2016

sushi nip
https://www.youtube.com/@DiariesofaMasterSushiChef

heavy duty bbq
https://www.youtube.com/@howtobbqright

[Anonymous No.20393775]

>>20391885
he likes tasting balls if you catch my drift
if you didn't, he's a fag
still makes good videos

[Anonymous No.20393782]

Steve is the man. /ck/ never mentions his show but his recipes are always interesting and well researched. Plus he's a total autist

[Anonymous No.20393783]

>>20392349
>Thatdudecancook
Grown man with a lisp, extremely embarrassing.

[Anonymous No.20393787]

>>20393783
he doesn't have a lisp

[Anonymous No.20393789]

>>20393783
Almost all professional cooks are alcoholics with no gf. It happens

[Anonymous No.20393809]

>>20393787
Yes you do

[Anonymous No.20393897]

>>20389855
Best cook ever

[Anonymous No.20393909]

>>20393897
He seems like a nice guy but his wife seems like a fat lard who bitches at him about everything

[Anonymous No.20394088]

>>20389855
>all these literal who's
>no mention of /ourguy/

[Anonymous No.20394165]

>>20394088
Literally who?

[Anonymous No.20394210]

>>20393909
Either it's just a character, or the final video on his channel is going to be really wild. (There's only so much you can push an autist with a meat grinder in his basement. I think she'll get at least 4 Ruffalos if he chooses a fattier cut.)

[Anonymous No.20394217]

>>20394165
Looks like some kind of abused underage prostitute, I hope she gets help soon.

[Anonymous No.20394253]

>>20394088
Looks like a trans lesbian

[Anonymous No.20394274]

>>20390070
LGR cooks?

[Anonymous No.20394328]

>>20392349
sip and feast gets a "no salt no faggot" rating for me, but edging on the side of "worth his salt". his cooking seems good and I've made a couple of his recipes before to good success but I don't dig the whole family schtick. I learned a lot about building layers of flavor in my sauces which seriously improved my cooking.

[Anonymous No.20394333]

>>20394210
he isn't even doing sausages most of the time anymore, he can go on forever

[Anonymous No.20394397]

>>20389855
Did you see this thread in the archive and literally just copy and paste it?

[Anonymous No.20394580]

>>20393720
She originally had her channel called emmynadeinjapan because no one wants to watch chinese cunts. Had to change it after backlash because disgusting mainlander

[Anonymous No.20394588]

>>20393762
I like the hiroyuki sushi guy but absolutely cant stand the mongoloid cameraman. Dude just shut the fuck up, he ruins every video

Men with the pot used to be good but its extremely samey each video. Plus when i watched their very first video, they were already using their own branded knives up for sale in stores. Seems off.
>>20394088
Nat is good stuff but he just stopped making videos to write shit cook books. He also kept trying to involve his mrs and shes just an annoying typical newtowner bitch

[Anonymous No.20394610]

>>20393783
>Grown man with a lisp, extremely embarrassing.

Why would you call me out like that? :(

[Anonymous No.20394717]

>>20389855
I don't watch anyone on YouTube except for the guy on Townsends
I liked the baked onion more than I should have

[Anonymous No.20394743]

>>20391016
he's gay, not a faggot

[Anonymous No.20394975]

>>20394397
Who cares what he did - it's a better discussion than arguing over fucking sloppa and the list needs updating every once in a while. 10 new faggots are born on YouTube every minute.

[Anonymous No.20394989]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5alZFPOzdzs
I really like this bong guy. He does absurd "fusion" recipes, mostly Indian food though. He's 100% the most creative person making cooking youtube vids nowadays and it's genuinely fucking bonkers how much effort he puts into 1 video just from cooking time alone. It's like 4-5 recipes in 1.

Another good channel is Sorted food. Been watching them for at least 10 years. It's more of a food entertainment channel but it's good fun.

For people that are learning to cook, Fagusea, Chef John and Lagerstrom are all you really need. Lagerstrom makes the best recipes IMO.

[Anonymous No.20394997]

>>20389916

>"cwispy daddy" zoomer talk

That's millennial coded. Zoomers HATE that shit and complain about much he shoves 'annoying sexual' stuff in his videos.

[Anonymous No.20395191]

>>20394088
Tranny looking faggot that tries way, way too hard.

[Anonymous No.20395195]

>>20394989
Adam "knife skills aren't real" Fagusea is good for learning to cook? Adam "I season my cutting board instead of my steak" Fagusea? That guy?

[Anonymous No.20395206]

>>20389894
>Mary's Test Kitchen
She is incredible comfy to watch. She should be more popular. I like when she was asked what airfryer she uses and she said 'don't buy it, it's shit' but in a nice way.

[Anonymous No.20395220]

>>20394274
Yeah he has the LGR Foods channel where he makes basic sandwiches and stuff. It's kinda dumb but it's wholesome af

[Anonymous No.20395458]

>>20389855
For west Taiwan souped up kitchen is king.
Alvin zhou gets my honorary

[Anonymous No.20395861]

>>20395195
Thats the jew faguesa. Before cooking he was writing for a jewish magazine

[Anonymous No.20395902]

>>20389855
Cowboy Kent is based, Senpai Kai is just a stoned zoomer
but I can't take anything seriously when you don't even mention the king

[Anonymous No.20395903]

>>20395195
Adam "deadlifts 2 plates and thinks he's qualified to make fitness videos" Fagusea? Adam "Here's why I season the bull not my wife" Fagusea? Him?

[Anonymous No.20395908]

>>20392743
True that beaner is based
Also reminder Babish got raped and his GF left him when she found out KEK

[Anonymous No.20395941]

>>20395903
fagusea literally did a vasectomy

imagine

his "wife" looks like a man

[Anonymous No.20395944]

>>20395908
i just knew from the name alone that this dude was a giant faggot
everytime it appears on my main page i just click ignore on the video lmao

[Anonymous No.20395984]

>>20389855
>>Cowboy Kent
Generally great food but you have to exercise if you eat that shit on a daily basis.
>>That guy from tasting history
Dislike him after he failed to follow a recipe on macaroni. The dish called for Parmesan cheese and he was like "i like white cheddar so thats what i'll use". No fuck you, unfollowed.

[Anonymous No.20396071]

>>20395984
^Seething shitalian detected
You're the sort of autist that makes angry comments on comfy Carbonara videos that use cream, aren't you?

[Anonymous No.20396078]

If you enjoy food myth busting and interesting cooking and baking techniques I recommend Ann Reardon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVbkDAw4aJs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6_TWnJQSJE
She's the Snopes of Food YouTube.

>>20393762
>https://www.youtube.com/@chocolate_cacao/videos
I don't think there's another person alive that enjoys chocolate to the degree that dude does.
I love his recipes, though when I see him chopping up Valhrona feves with a Misono UX10 I'm reminded of how poor I am settling for "just" Ghirardelli chips and my $30 chef knife.

[Anonymous No.20396137]

>>20389855
Youtube is a waste of time if you want to learn how to cook unless you speak French, Flemish, Italian, German and/or Italian.

[Anonymous No.20396151]

>>20389886
>Is it like the island Ragusa, but with the final A replaced with eh-ah?
Yes

[Anonymous No.20396154]

>>20392552
Don't spread false rumors

[Anonymous No.20396269]

>>20396154
Just watch the dude.
He's a wino. I don't think he's filmed anything with less than two glasses in him.

[Anonymous No.20396405]

>>20389900
You should try the toast recipe in there.

[Anonymous No.20396429]

>>20389855
>>Kenji
I can't stand this pretentious faggot.

He needs to close his fucking mouth when he's eating, it sounds fucking gross. Like a labrador drinking out of the toilet.

[Anonymous No.20396435]

>>20396137
I literally do speak* all of those** and since Italian is my native language, it's fine that you listed it twice.
>*my German is rusty; I spoke it as a kid but don't get to speak it much the days, though I can still understand it
>** I can understand Dutch and Flemish is pretty much the same dang thing

[Anonymous No.20396438]

>S-Tier:
Cowboy Kent
Jack Scalfani

>slop tier
everyone else, influencers suck in general

[Anonymous No.20396443]

>>20389855
Add to worth their salt:
Stefan from French Cooking Academy. Self-taught but knows what he's doing and presents in an easy to understand and thorough manner.