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I learned how to make perfect pita bread that always puffs up from him.
Love this channel, and so educational too
Hell yeah, thanks for the rec. Considering how much I love Middle Eastern food it's odd how little I can cook, may be time to rectify that and this channel seems like a great entry point.
Odi is the sh*t! I now drink his version of "Arabian peninsula" coffee daily. 🤷♀️
I thought his name was Obi
Glad you mentioned this YouTuber! I love this channel too! I think he makes Middle Eastern food really accessible.
I like ‘Glen and friends’, they have a weekly episode where they cook a recipe from 100 years ago.
for old recipes Townsends has some interesting early american stuff
I watched Townsends build a clay oven once. Super interesting!
Tasting history is good too
Glad to see Glen on here, I love his stuff!
Glen and friends is very wholesome and fun to watch
I like that guy. And he's one of the few Canadian cooking guys on youtube!🤷♀️
Glen always has some knowledgeable comments about each recipe he cooks. He is very relatable. I also like his cocktails series.
We are friends with Glen too.
Glen is amazing. So knowledgeable.
Glen’s weekend waffles are my go to recipe now and I’m a life long waffle lover!
Glen and Friends has my go to video for butchering pigs. It's so helpful.
Recently came across Helen Rennie as a wonderful source for little details she's learned cooking.
Helen Rennie and Cast Iron Chaos are two of my favs🤷♀️
Helen Rennie is the best cooking YouTuber imo. She deserves way more subs.
Yes. And she’s actually really funny too. She gives off competent but still warm vibes. Love her.
Totally!! And on a personal note, she reminds me of my mom. Hahahah.
I second her, she’s absolutely fantastic
She has half a million subscribers. How exactly is she low profile?
I think Aaron and Claire are great. They do Korean food, and assume you have some ingredients lying around you likely don’t, but they are amazing.
All of their recipes I have tried have been great, plus they are a very cute couple.
I love that channel! He's generally very clear about which ingredients are necessary and which can be subbed out or omitted.
Don’t worry ’bout it
Providing alternatives for tough to find outside of Korea ingredients is a help as well he always reinforces his mantra of “you need these ingredients, use these too if you have them to make it even better, but use what you have” to instill confidence. One of the big pluses with his recipes is that so many of the ingredients are used in many different recipes that if you have a core handful of them, there’s a good chance you’ll be able to make a nice portion of them recipes without additional trips to the store.
"CLAIRE!"
Enter petite Claire with huge eyes seeing what Aaron has prepared for her.
Watch as she creates the perfect bite on her long silver spoon.
Gape as she keeps putting more foods on the spoon.
Realize as she opens her mouth to put all the foods into it, that she's actually a leviathan rather than a petite Korean woman.
Then she smiles and says, "Bring me a beer!"
Somewhat popular but off the beaten path - Made with Lau. Fantastic channel on Chinese cooking.
Yesterday I made their broccoli with garlic and ginger. Best broccoli I've ever made, much better texture than what I've achieved before.
Very simple but just a case of doing a couple of extra things made all the difference.
I literally sat and ate the whole head of broccoli.
Then made the same thing again to share with my partner later that day.
Wang Gang, or chefwang, chefwanginternational, for authentic Chinese, especially Sichuan cooking. Short, to the point and easy to follow. The English subtitles are not always accurate, though.
Watch it regularly. His dad is totally down to earth and practical, and really knows his stuff.
Ziangs food workshop is straight up Chinese takeaway hacks from the restaurant
As another point, Chinese Cooking Demystified takes an approach of Chinese Cooking from within China.
That being said Made with Lau is much more the dishes I grew up with.
Yeah, CCD is much more "this is how it's done in China". Sometimes they'll let you know what to sub for ingredients that might be hard to source in America, but generally they're trying to be as faithful to the recipes as they are cooked in China / the surrounding area as possible.
Whereas MWL is a Chinese chef who worked in America for decades, and is like "this is how you find the best eggplant at Costco" and the like.
Chinese Cooking Demystified if you’re interested in really well-researched deep dives into dishes you may never have heard of and enjoy watching people do complex and tedious cooking tasks.
I love their videos, but the ingredient lists can be daunting!
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They also have a playlist on their page that I believe they call "Western supermarket club" that's only recipes that can be made with things readily available at typical American supermarkets
Ooh idk what bits are more daunting but the di san xian could be extra good for you if the ingredients lists put you off.
Or just the stir frying sauce/technique videos
It's just aubergine, potato, pepper, shaoxing wine can sub with sherry, wine or just vinegar if you have to, spring onion can sub leek or onion if need be, cornflour flour, use sesame seeds instead of oil if you have to or leave it out
Sure it wouldn't be the same but it's a relatively easy ingredient list anyway
Recipe here https://www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/s/ryRaZAK5Rl
They have early beginnings writing detailed posts here on Reddit!
how about Sip and Feast. he does good Italian dishes
I really appreciate how he always links to a web version of the recipe.
He’s good, super down to earth good homey stuff you’d find in many Italian American households/kitchens. Similar vibes to Kenji in the sense of stating how he may not be following the recipe exactly, focusing on method, sometimes mentioning what he’ll do differently etc. some YouTubers get super pretentious about how to do a recipe and then the recipe isn’t even accurate - I prefer someone more chill
Not solely Italian, his meatloaf and beef stroganoff are new favorites in my family!
I have made 3 of his soup/stew recipes and they were great hits!!! The sausage and lentil one and the black pepper beef ones were my favorite.
Great to see him getting more popular....he seems like a good guy.
To anyone else frustrated that almost all the most upvoted comments are for channels that have 500k+ subscribers, that's just because people upvote channels they know, so of course more popular ones will be at the top.
There ARE good recommendations in this thread (not saying the highly upvoted channels aren't good, they just aren't small), but you have to basically sort by inverse-popularity and check the ones at the bottom to find the actually small creators.
No one is upvoting those comments because they don't recognize them, which is what you're ostensibly looking for anyway.
I’m happy he’s getting more recognition. He’s doing everything how I would want to.
Aaron & Claire (Korean)
Anti-Chef (amateur cook who tries out difficult recipes, sometimes with painful results)
Chinese Cooking Demystified (Chinese)
Flo Chinyere (Nigerian)
Helen's Recipes (Vietnamese)
Made With Lau (Chinese)
Malaysian Chinese Kitchen (see title)
Manjula's Kitchen (Indian)
Middle Eats (Middle Eastern)
Mrsdrewry's Food (Ghanaian)
Pailin's Kitchen (Thai)
Ranveer Brar (Indian)
Sisi Jemimah's Recipes (Nigerian, Yoruban)
Tasting History With Max Miller (historical recipes and stories surrounding them)
Way of Ramen (take a guess)
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Max Miller is great, I found him a few months ago and have watched tons of them now. I haven't really tried any of the recipes but have been tempted on a few.
Out of all the recipes I've tried, Transylvanian pot roast, the medieval spiced wine, the Sally Lund buns, the dilligrout soup, and the 16th century pumpkin torte are all on permanent rotation in our house.
Max Miller is so cute that he's worth mentioning even despite the (well deserved) big follow he has
u/jmaxmiller I feel like you need to read this.
Awww this makes my night 🥰
Chef Jean Pierre
Well hello fwiends!!
Butter!!!
I've turned siblings and friends onto cooking certain dishes by sending them Chef JP videos. Also learned a ton myself. He was on TV when I was a toddler and I can't say I ever saw him - but he was a diamond in the rough of Covid internet that thankfully stuck around and I love it. You can tell he just loves to make good food.
TLDR - Onyo, Butta, measure carefully, friends.
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Keep it in the freezer for 17 years!
He's my favorite
The only answer this thread needs, to be honest.
People ask me about my bowl of butter. It's for emotional support!
Measure carefully!
I just discovered him via his “make your own butter in 10 minutes” video and I’m in love.
A child could do this!
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https://www.youtube.com/@JaujaCocinaMexicana
Has a lot of subscribers but Jauja has the best authentic Mexican recipes. I also like that her videos are long-form and not crazy experimentation or clickbaity. If you want to learn how to make the real deal Mexican food, this is it.
This looks really good. I love Mexican food but my repertoire is very limited
Ik Rick Bayless is known in some way but he has fewer subscribers and I improved my salsa with him already
Thatdudecancook is great!
It’s interesting how he landed into his niche after doing videos for a while. If you go back to when he started it was completely different. After 2ish years he started hunching over, acting a little more goofy and he took off.
I love how he obviously knows his shit, and can give chef level advice, while also just being a normal guy. He openly says when a specialty ingredient or method just isn’t necessary, instead of acting like you need to use 8 one off ingredients and 7 pans to make a decent dinner.
Internet Shaquille
He certainly isn’t unknown, but he isn’t over the top. Very straightforward videos, to the point.
A while ago, he recommended a friend’s channel which was in the hundreds of views, I thought his videos were really well made. I’ll try to find who that was.
Dude is top tier. No fuss, doesn't make obnoxious statements about having to do things one way or the other, and tries to get people to develop a sense of intuition while cooking. And he also doesn't try to shill expensive shit at you, which I appreciate.
It's pretty funny watching his early stuff compared to the new videos, but there's still a lot of good nuggets in those too (finding substitutions, figuring out recipes, not buying into costly and unnecessary subscriptions).
Like, you look at his tomato sauce recipe video he just made and it's just a quick hit on how to make a better pasta sauce in a few minutes instead of spending like $10 on a jar of Raos. Or the twist on it with the mezcal-gochujang version of a vodka sauce.
I'm really curious who this channel is now.
I liked Internet Shaquille's Easier, Tastier, Prettier series where he goes simple, tip to improve and then slightly more aesthetic.
His What Cooking is Like for Someone Who Doesn't Cook is fun https://youtu.be/Y9mDLhJ_Dao?si=EL6KxI_F1X6kK19b
How to stop hating salads https://youtu.be/UuJX7XLWpaw?si=Iv0T34W4J47TvkF8
And his recent tortilla videos are a good demonstration of his ability to get really nerdy for a bit then take it all back to interesting meta points, principles and practical tips
Found it!
https://youtu.be/Cfic3DPPQSU?si=VrhEqlrwGHQiEZye
I like his style. Similar very straightforward, no bs type of style.
Only shame is he doesn’t have too many videos!
Excellent!
I'm going to try making salsa for dummies hahaha https://youtu.be/f7YBlMguuOE?si=WWQhaufKfz2KG-do
This man has completely resisted the “Mr. Beastification” of cooking YouTube.
Best videos from him are his April Fool's ones. They're ridiculous but a perfect look at what cooking tube looks like
He’s the best in my opinion, he’s so good at making a recipe video that is also perfect to convince you to actually try it, he seems like a really cool dude too
Internet Shaquille is great. Been a fan since his mindblowing unidirectional beef burger concept five or six years ago.
Yeah he researches and offers it up no nonsense. Quality channel.
He has a right well written style that is a breath of fresh air compared to what the YT algorithm pushes.
He’s entertaining, his videos are helpful, and I never feel like he’s posting for any other reason than his passion for the topic. He’s a class act and he taught me to love chickpeas and take care of my cast iron pan!
Yeah, he’s good. Very off beat and original.
the GOAT, has given more cooking knowledge than anyone
NotAnotherCookingShow. I couldn’t stand eating Italian food until I started cooking it myself. This might as well be my Nonna. But he’s a 35 year old New Yorker.
His channel is what got me into cooking when it was on the smaller side, his earlier videos on the basics of Italian cooking are phenomenal
The majority of recipes I've gotten off of YouTube are either from him or Brian Lagerstrom. Both are really good.
As far as absolute hits, Lagerstrom is the GOAT.
This guy is the fucking man. His videos are enjoyable to watch and his recipes are easily repeatable by your average home cook. If there's a youtube channel that after I watch a video and go "yep, im making that" and then drive to the store to buy a handful of ingredients it's this one.
I love this guy. A number of his recipes are in my regular rotation.
Go feed yourself 🤌
I just watched one where he made confit turkey leg. My god, that looked so good.
I love Yeung Man Cooking for super yummy vegan recipes (and I'm not vegan!)
I've made so many of his recipes and they always turn out amazing.
I enjoy the Anti-Chef although I'm not sure how under the radar it is. I find it inspiring to see how he recovers from failures and I tried some new dishes because I figured if he could do it, I could do it.
This has been my recent favorite. He's not afraid to show failures.
Some of his failures are so funny too. It's my favorite new cooking channel.
Seconding Anti Chef. He does a lot from "The Joy of Cooking" books and he messes up...a LOT. He learns a lot and really shows his failures and successes.
I love Jamie so much! It’s the first cooking show my hubby will watch with me and it’s a THING now. Love the content.
FutureCanoe
Rated one through teen. #LigmaFork
Love his radioactive chicken recipes
ok… thank you
Agreed!! His channel has great charm
He lost me when he upgraded his apron. Sorry guy your charm was lost when you upped your production and tools.
I’m a big fan of “cooking with Oma”. She’s a legit Hungarian grandma who makes Hungarian food very simply and delicious. Not fancy. Zero production budget. But, she might as well be anyone’s amazing grandma, and for this, I adore her!! Make her chicken paprikash - you’ll be so happy!
He's pretty popular but falls off the radar a lot because of the algorithm Juns Kitchen
His recent trips to traditional Japanese candy factories have been so cool. Everything he posts is so relaxing.
Is this the same guy that also does a lot of cat videos? They had like 3 or 4 if it's the one I'm thinking of.
I went into the comments, but haven't looked at all of them, but I'm gonna mention My Name Is Andong. He is quirky, but gives a good historic view on the food he makes, and also lives in Germany, so as a Dane, it makes it easier for me to look at equivalents/substitutes
Bong Eats (Bengali)
Sandwiches of History (…sandwiches)
I bet "Bong Eats" gets a lot of views for all the wrong reasons 😁
Pasta Grannies is also great! Despite the title, they also delve into other non--pasta Italian dishes on occasion.
I'm seconding Glen and Friends, Helen Rennie, Aaron and Claire, and Don't Panic Pantry. I'd also like to recommend Jason Farmer (he mostly does Benihana and popular Asian restaurant dishes) and Imamu Room.
Second for Jason Farmer! Great in depth videos.
Surprised not to see Hot Thai Kitchen yet. Pai is very personable and her recipes absolutely authentic, but super approachable.
I think you’re not seeing her because she has 1.8 million subscribers. Not exactly “not already popular” territory.
I agree. I love how she explains techniques and skills. They're transferable to Chinese cooking, imo. Plus, I have most of the ingredients that she uses anyway so it's easy to add it to my "menu".
Agree! I really loved the episode where she goes into the market and explains the differences between different sauces etc and what to look for. Super helpful.
Her YouTube channel is @PailinsKitchen
My favourite deep cut is Mariano’s Cooking. Old Italian guy drinking homemade red wine from plastic cups while making classic Italian dishes in his kitchen. Filmed by his grandson.
Great stuff.
The late Daddy Jack
I loved how he would breathe heavy just from talking. As a former fat line cook I could feel his pain and just loved his style.
Loved him. 😥
Dimitras Dishes for Greek food! She used to own a restaurant in Houston and her food is so authentic but accessible to non-Greeks.
Bruno Albouze. He's approaching 1M subscribers but I've always felt he could be much more popular. French chef, properly trained, posting videos mainly in English. Both savoury and sweet recipes but his patisserie creations are immaculate
He's also hilarious, but I can't tell how much he's intentionally trying to be a caricature of himself or not. Entertaining either way! I watched a lot of videos years ago when I was doing a lot of baking but haven't actually come across any videos of him recently. Must check his channel out again, thanks for reminding me of this guy!
oh he's gotta be super self aware. really funny guy.
Chef David Hsu - Chinese restaurant Style Chinese food. 8K subscribers
Wally Cooks Everything - From NYC. Lives in Thailand. Teaches you how to cook foods he likes to eat. 32K subscribers
Chop Chop: Absorb What Is Useful - My name is Peter Kwong (aka Chef Petey). Cooking and martial arts are my lifelong passions. 55K subscribers
I believe she's left this world now but I used to love watching Great Depression Cooking
Brian Lagerstrom
Joshua Wiseman
Yeah. I wouldn't recommend following this guy.
Is there a specific cuisine(s) you're looking for? I follow a different person for each country.
"I'm gonna show you how to make a better Big Mac at home."
uses $250 worth of ingredients
I don’t really care for the “my way or the wrong way”personality, but I do usually learn something from his videos.
I love how almost every single recommendation is like 750k+ subs. I was expecting (hoping) to find some very small new creators in here, guess I'll check the bottom comments, since almost all the highly upvoted ones are definitely ones I would all consider "popular" already (which in hindsight makes sense, those are the names people recognize and upvote).
EDIT: Instead of just complaining I'll mention a few 200k and under ones that I follow, make sure to check lower voted comments, where the real gems are going to be found in this thread.
ChainBaker - Science focused bread making, fairly straightforward recipes, goes into detail on techniques and such.
Novita Listyani - Another bread focused channel, but with a more Asian (She's Indonesian) instead of European perspective. Also very science based and in depth on techniques and recipes.
Yakitoriguy - If you want to learn really in depth techniques and recipes on how to make Japanese Yakitori, he's a great place for it. From butchery to sauces, and everything in between. Look back through his older videos, where he mostly covers that stuff, more recently since he's covered most of that a lot of his videos are working side-by-side with other chefs and such. He's a working yakitori chef that travels and opens popups.
Novi's Bali Kitchen - Balinese recipes, she speaks English though.
IlBoccaTV - Italian recipes, with a focus on Tuscany, no English spoken or subtitled though, but you can still get the recipes and watch how they do the process.
베지이즈 Vegeis - Korean vegetarian cuisine, lots of fairly short videos with small plate dishes especially. Great if you're trying to get more vegetables into your diet, but don't want the often bland Western vegan food. English subtitles, no actual speaking, but definitely not "Tasty" style recipes, way more in depth.
Bit bigger, but Scott Rea - doesn't seem super well-known outside of the UK. He's based there, and is a butcher who does a lot of interesting butchery breakdowns of different animals as well as various British recipes.
I love ChainBaker! He’s taught me so much!
The Purposeful Pantry has a bunch of videos on food /r/dehydrating. She isn't small but she also won't come up when searching for cooking videos.
Helen Rennie is great
Jaques Pepin is a cooking legend with the most humble and straightforward videos through KQED.
He also has a TON of short, great videos he's been putting out on his Facebook since Covid started. I wish they'd put that content on YouTube and make it searchable, that would be awesome. I've learned so much from those. He's a delight.
Does anybody else find Joshua Wiseman to be an insufferable douchebag
I don’t think he’s a douche but he really leaned hard into short form content over his older more thoughtful style which definitely makes more money. You can never blame a YouTuber for chasing the bag
Grandpa Kitchen
Charlie Anderson might interest you, he does deep dives into specific dishes
I dunno how popular she is, but I really like Emmy (emmymadeinjapan). I like her personality and the variety of things she gets up to
If you know Spanish (or wish to practice your Spanish), De Mi Rancho a Tu Cocina is a wonderful channel I follow. It's just a Mexican grandmother cooking traditional Mexican food on her ranch. I originally heard about her from a video by J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, so you know it's gotta be good :)
Spain on a fork is good. Spain consumes the most meat in Europe but he does a lot of Mediterranean vegetarian or fish recipes
Here's a few I haven't seen mentioned.
Pasta Grammar: Italian.
Arnie tex: Tex Mex, dude is old school, love this guy just doing his thing.
La vaquita: Mexican, it's in Spanish but you can turn on translate.
Fitous Thai kitchen: Thai, great stuff, not great production.
That Dude Can Cook: a little over the top but good content.
Not sure if these match the vibe you're looking for, but my favorite YouTube cooks are:
Brian Lagerstrom, Ethan Chlebowski, Jason Farmer, and Sip and Feast
Easy to watch, good recipes, and tons of information.
(Extra: Benjamin the baker (tiktok/youtube) is wonderful at explaining how different factors can affect the same recipe. (I.e. too much baking powder vs not enough))
Ant's BBQ. A very informative bbq channel with insane production value for their size. As far as I can tell it's a one man operation yet the video is gorgeous, the audio quality is professional, and the editing is high quality. Couple that with a down to earth, super passionate dude, Ant, who has bbq on his mind and needs to tell you about it. I can't say enough good things about the channel he deserves more subs.
I really like Big Has
Daddy Jack's Cooking with the Blues — he's recently deceased, but his channel has hundreds of videos. Extremely low (basically zero) production value, just an old school chef explaining classic dishes in real time. I learned a lot about efficiency of movement in a kitchen by watching his videos.
Unfortunately he stopped making videos a year ago for whatever reason but Sheldo’s kitchen has some awesome recipes and he just seems like a super nice guy. The Bang Bang chicken recipe has been a go-to for a while.
Super old channel (like over 5 yrs ago), but I knew them as Brothers Green but just looked them up and the name is Pro Home Cooks
I guess chef Jean Pierre is popular but he’s the only one I watch right now
My fwends haha
Love SamTheCookingGuy
Buon-A-Petiti, sweet old italian grandma with killer recipes. everything I have made of hers is out of this world if you like Italian.
Rick Bayless. I do not understand why YouTube gives fuckall about him. Makes Mexican food very approachable.
I like All Wings Everything for easy comfort food
Italia Squisita is great too for high end, but often rustic Italian cuisine.
Don’t Panic Pantry
Pretty small channel, Noah is a very good (and well regarded) chef but the videos are still very home cooking-y which i appreciate.
She’s not necessarily low profile for Hispanics, but Jauja Cocina Mexicana has taught me so much in Mexican Cuisine.
My mom is from Mexico, but she doesn’t cook. I’ve made so many of Jauja’s dishes, I tell my mom Jauja is my 2nd mom. Every recipe I’ve made from her has been straight up FIRE and authentic.
If you wanna dive into Fine Dining (especially plating and presentation techniques) I can recommend Chef Majk
If you'd like to try some African dishes that are simple and delicious try "Hawa's Kitchen" on YouTube and also check out the video that she made for Bon Appétit making Digaag Qumbe which is a delicious Somalian curry simmered in a tomato, red pepper, coconut milk and yogurt sauce with veg. A lot of work but SO GOOD and leftovers freeze well
Wilderness Cooking, a guy in an Azerbaijani village cooking and building for the locals
I’m gonna say Ethan chlebowski, even though I think he’s kinda big now. I’ve been subbed since he was Cook with E years ago and only had a few thousand views a video. I like how he’s grown but hasn’t gotten annoying and mainstream like most of the other YouTubers. His gimmick is being sciencey and explaining why X works or why Y is better this way than that way. Also makes some delicious looking stuff. Check him out.
I love how he generally offers up frameworks rather than hard and fast recipes, a lot of his techniques have become mainstays of mine he's great.
I look at Kenji - who’s a professional and has done all the work himself and shows you the outcomes of what he’s found.
And I look at Ethan who’s not a professional, but is seemingly a Kenji disciple and walks us all through his research as he finds it.
Two sides of the same coin that I really enjoy.
Carla Lalli Music. She’s big, but not as big as Joshua and Babish
Camirra’s kitchen is great for soul food/southern cooking
Pretty specific to just sandwiches but “sandwiches of history” is one of my favorite cooking related YT channels with short daily videos exploring sandwiches from all sorts of relic cookbooks
My favorite is Outdoor Chef Life, he fishes then cooks his catch, and makes amazing Japanese food and other types as well, he's such a chill dude
The only one I follow is vincenzos plate, I don't know if he counts as popular.
“nats what i reckon” is hysterical
Auntie Fee has long left us but her videos are great. Looks like a family member has taken over her channel in the past few years that I haven't watched the new stuff so I can't recommend one way or another, but scroll way down and watch her old stuff. You won't regret it.
The wolfepit is a nice break from the usual “haute cuisine”. He basically makes meals (ie: chop suey) or tastes items made cheaply (ie: canned hamburger) or sold cheaply.
I love Barry Lewis. He's an entertaining British guy who cooks from his home kitchen, and he just loves to try interesting things.
Chef Wang- you have to read subtitles for most of his videos, but his food is really cool. He’s got a heap of subscribers, so maybe everyone already knows him or maybe he’s just popular in china.
I like Imamu room, she doesn’t really do how-tos but she has a lot of interesting ways to use and combine ingredients for a meal
ETHAN CHLEBOWSKI. Great videos. In depth food science. Doesnt just tell you to do things, explains why. Has great ideas to make cooking more efficient during week nights and meal prepping etc. Always gain tons of knowledge from him. Learned to dice mirepoix ahead of time and freeze in an ice tray for when I am cooking in a rush. Can just drop in the pan and voila.
Frank Proto from ProtoCooks is a favorite of mine!
i know ethan chlebowski isn’t exactly low profile and has a lot of more food science content but his actual recipes are often really good and can be quite unique!
Cowboy Kent Rollins is great. And he’s an exceptional chef. He won some televised cooking competition with food he’s never seen before & he also beat Bobby Flay in a cook off
Frenchguyalex
a home chef that gets way into food, he traveled the world to find the best meatball/pizza recipes.
Kinda of popular already but I love Chef Jack Ovens.
Candace with The Edgy Veg
Anti-chef is fun. I don't know if he counts as popular or not, but he's a charming Canadian named Jamie doing the 'Julie and Julia' thing - cooking his way through Julia Childs' cookbooks. He also uses a few other chefs but the Jamie and Julia thing is his main schtick. He's also realistic about the recipes, which I like. Things go wrong, some recipes are awful and he admits it, some don't even get completed due to various constraints, but he always tries.
Ethan Chlebowski has a decent amount of subscribers but his content is good and not over the top. Same for not another cooking show, though sometimes he can go off on tangents. There's also chudsbbq.
Middle Eats is great. A couple of Egyptian-born Londoners who are just really passionate about exploring Middle Eastern cuisine.