Hi
What are your favourite cooking youtubers? on the other hand do you have some youtubers you despise or don't understand the appeal of? I'll be first:
Nate From the Internet - https://www.youtube.com/@NFTI
Formerly of TKOR/The King of Random, not a cooking channel but he does food comparison videos and the like.
The Kitchen & Jorn Show - https://www.youtube.com/@kitchenandjorn
Kristin and Jen (formerly of Buzzfeed) typically doing cooking competitions (and food taste tests)
Don't Panic Pantry - https://www.youtube.com/@dontpanicpantry
Featuring Noah Galuten, chef and author and a former host on the youtube channel Tasted (if anyone's memories go back that far lol).
Jun's Kitchen - https://www.youtube.com/@JunsKitchen/
Jun's (from Rachel & Jun) channel where he mostly makes different treats and meals for their kitties. Doesn't post often.
Travel Thirsty - https://www.youtube.com/@TravelThirstyBlog
A non-narrated vlog showing up close and personal the creation of mostly Asian dishes from start to finish in various restaurants and countries. CW: Live sea animals (fish, crustaceans, and the like) are frequently dispatched during videos, viewer discretion is advised for those who do not wish to view it.
Masaru - https://www.youtube.com/@masaru.9268
Masaru, a free dive fisherman and new business owner details his life and adventures in Japan from catching, cleaning, and eating all sorts of different sea life he mostly catches himself. Videos are subtitled perfectly and he puts a lot of production value. Also occasionally does random challenge video series.
I love Emmymade. She seems so nice and upbeat in her videos and she covers so many recipes, most of which are very doable or at least weird and interesting(like her hard times stuff). I also like how normal she is in the kitchen. At this point I dont know how much of it is manufactured to make her more "relatable" and how much are organic kitchen errors but it gives her this very normal enthusiastic person just cooking vibe that I dig.
Ann Reardon is another fave. From her tiny miniature(as in model miniature) house with functional kitchen, to her genuinely good looking recipes, to her popular debunking series. Everything she creates is well researched and well tested.
Chinese Cooking Demystified is one of the best English language Chinese cooking channels. They do a great job explaining how to make Chinese food and also provide alternative ingredients
I really enjoy Glen and Friends Cooking. It's a good mix of historical recipes, everyday recipes and methods, and cocktails. His aviation channel is great, too.
You Suck at Cooking is more like a cooking-themed entertainment channel than an actual cooking channel, but its a lot of fun. I think he makes cooking very approachable to people who have never set foot in a kitchen.
For cocktails How to Drink is really fun - totally unconventional and he gets hilariously tipsy. The dude also seems like a sweetie! But when you said experimenting he was my first immediate thought.
The ANTI-CHEF also deserves a shoutout, if only for daring to try to finish a Julia Child's cookbook. Again, not a very conventional chef... if I recall correctly in fact this YouTube channel may be how he is learning to cook... :D
Easy to follow recipes often focusing on stuff the guy used to makewhen he worked a food truck in NYC as well as italian american cooking. Guy is a new yorker with a laid back presentation style that I dig.
Townsends is another neat one. He does a lot of 18th century recipes and in general just like museum village 18th century historian stuff.
Pick Up Limes - they make tasty plant-based recipes while thinking about the nutritious aspect. They have a Youtube channel but you can also check the recipes on their website.
Sebastian Lege. You probably won't understand him (he's German), but he is both a cook and an industrial food designer. So he "cooks" things you can buy in the supermarket and shows the ingredients that industry uses for this. Like using sulphuric acid, acetic acid, and isopentyl alcohol to make a banana milk...