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Best YouTube Cooking Channels. Screen-grab courtesy of Pailin's Kitchen (Hot Thai Kitchen).

10 Best YouTube Cooking Channels from Pailin’s Kitchen to Pasta Grannies

Our 10 best YouTube cooking channels include everything from Thai chef Pailin ‘Pai’ Chongchitnant’s Thai cooking channel Pailin’s Kitchen AKA Hot Thai Kitchen and the Pasta Grannies’ Italian pasta-making channel starring rolling pin-wielding Italian nonnas from across Italy to the Shenzhen-based Chinese Cooking Demystified channel and Paris-based Alexis Gabriel Aïnouz’s French Guy Cooking channel.

It’s no surprise that we’ve all been watching a lot of YouTube cooking channels during the pandemic. I, for one, have very much missed spending time hanging out in chefs’ kitchens as we used to pre-pandemic, not to mention eating our way around cities, grazing at markets and food stalls, as we did as part of our work as food and travel writers.

These YouTube cooking channels have gone some way in making up for that, providing a great way to travel vicariously while enabling me to pick up some cooking tips, learn some new techniques and just generally build up an appetite. If you’re a food lover and keen home cook, these are the 10 best YouTube Cooking Channels I watch, which I highly recommend you check out if you’re not already a fan.

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10 Best YouTube Cooking Channels from Pailin’s Kitchen to Pasta Grannies

Pailin’s Kitchen

Thai chef Pailin ‘Pai’ Chongchitnant, who relocated from Thailand to Canada, has one of the best YouTube cooking channels for Thai food on YouTube. If ever I want a basic, straightforward recipe for a classic Thai dish and one of David Thompson’s recipes in his Thai Street Food or Thai Food cookbooks has a million ingredients and 30 steps, I head straight to Pai’s Thai cooking channel. 

With her sunny disposition, bright personality and cooking chops, Pai is a breath of fresh air, setting her apart from the myriad performers presenting cooking channels on YouTube. You’ll find some great recipes on Pai’s channel and loads of tips on how to get by when you can’t source the fresh Southeast Asian ingredients in North America that she can access at home in Thailand. 

Note that while Pai’s channel is called Pailin’s Kitchen, it’s branded ‘Hot Thai Kitchen’ and she has cookbook of the same name out.
Channel:
Pailins Kitchen YouTube Channel

Favourite Video:
How to Make Authentic Pad Thai in 5 Mins!
Book:

Pasta Grannies

Pasta Grannies is Lara’s pick of the best YouTube cooking channels and it’s another one of my favourite YouTube food channels. It’s not often you find a cooking channel where the stars are not on Tick Tok or spruiking their own cookbooks. These Pasta Grannies are simply amazing nonne who have been making handmade pasta with a rolling pin forever.

The essence of the show is that the presenter, who really lets the pasta grannies shine, goes into the homes of these wonderful Italian cooks and they make their favourite traditional Italian dish, which is typically a fresh handmade pasta, but occasionally an Italian soup or Italian bread.

Just like Lara and her mother and her Russian-Ukrainian grandma, the Pasta Grannies rarely use kitchen scales to make their pasta dough. It’s all done by feeling the dough and then rolling it our with a huge Italian mattarello (rolling pin). I never tire of watching them make pasta dough with the traditional Italian method. It really is an art.

As you can’t roll out sheets of pasta dough wider than your mattarello, often the women move to a larger mattarello – typically over a metre long and as wide as the table they’re making the pasta on!

As the grannies prepare their dishes, we get to hear about their lives and how they survived wars and famine and their stories of making the most of cucina povera or Italian peasant cooking. Every episode is a fascinating cooking and culinary history lesson.
Channel:
Pasta Grannies
Favourite Video:
Enjoy 3 Sicilian Pasta Grannies making ‘pasta con le sarde’!

YummyBoy

Based in South Korea but recently posting from Thailand, YummyBoy assures his audience that he’s “always trying to make a good video” which understates his elaborate deep dives into South Korean fast food, which easily make his Korean food channel another the best YouTube cooking channels.

What surprises me most from his videos is the use of premium ingredients by the food stalls and restaurants featured – they’re not buying in pre-made patties but grinding their own patties. There is way more brining, marinating and bread-making from the shops than you’d expect to us if you’re familiar with Asian street food cooking.

Another aspect that fascinates me is the quantities of meat many of these places go through in a day, such as half a dozen whole pork shoulders or pork belly rolls, often in the same restaurant. There is a real ‘whatever makes it work’ ethic of the eateries they’re filming. They have also developed their own techniques for food prep and do a huge numbers of plates, which is often breathtaking to see.
Channel:
YummyBoy
Favourite Video:
Spicy Chicken Burger – Korean Street Food

FoodGeek

Sune, a tattooed food geek and musician from Copenhagen, Denmark, mainly posts about variations on sourdough recipes on FoodGeek, another of the best YouTube cooking channels for home bakers. He really gets into A/B testing his excellent base sourdough recipe against other brands of flour, additions, bakeware, and timing of bread baking.

While Sune bakes other recipes such as brownies, banana bread and waffles, I really love it when he tries other people’s baking recipes, such as Claire Saffitz’ sourdough bread or when he tries a Japanese milk bread recipe.

While it really is a cooking channel for baking geeks, I never tire of watching Sune make his beautiful sourdough in a domestic oven. This is a very inspiring YouTube baking channel if you want to get into sourdough baking.
Channel:
FoodGeek
Favourite Video:
Foodgeek Master Recipe for Artisan Sourdough Bread

Chinese Cooking Demystified

Chinese Cooking Demystified is another of the best YouTube cooking channels, ran by a formerly China-based couple – Chris is a long-term expat American, Steph is from Guangzhou in China – who have recently relocated to Bangkok where they’ll continue to explore Chinese cooking.

Steph and Chris lived in Shenzhen and it was from there that they established their authentic Chinese cooking channel. They really take a deep dive into regional Chinese dishes with subjects such as how to make your own noodles and sauces from scratch and debunking myths about Chinese cooking along the way.

While the Chinese Cooking Demystified couple stay faithful to Chinese dishes, they provide substitutes and offer advice for viewers based outside Asia, such as using Italian 00 flour when you can’t find their recommended flour to make Chinese dishes.

Chris has a great dry sense of humour while Steph has that real feel for making sure the recipes they share will produce dishes that taste as authentic as they do in the places where they eat them.
Channel:
Chinese Cooking Demystified
Favourite Video:
Biang Biang Noodles, with Chili oil topping (油泼面)

French Guy Cooking

This inquisitive French cook, Alexis Gabriel Aïnouz, or just ‘Alex’ to his devoted viewers, lives in Paris, has an engineering background, and has been exploring global dishes and techniques from around the world for several years now.

The French Guy Cooking always applies theory to his deconstruction of dishes and takes deep dives into his food subjects, whether it’s pizza, ramen noodles or fried rice, to name but a few.

He often travels to the source to learn the basics of things like making mozzarella or forging a knife. These deep dives tend to make up a series of food videos as he tries to perfect each dish or cooking technique with a MacGyver-like approach to problem-solving.

I’ve been watching Alex’s videos for several years as the production quality has improved and these days it’s a very slick operation. He has a popular cookbook out now too.
Channel:
French Guy Cooking
Favourite Video:
4 Instant Ramen Hacks
Book:
Just a French Guy Cooking

Made With Lau

Made with Lau features an endearing old-school Chinese restaurant chef who emigrated to New York from Guangzhou in 1981 and it’s another one of the best YouTube cooking channels. 

Exploring Chinese dishes that ‘Daddy Lau’ made for over 50 years of cooking in his successful Chinese restaurant, the videos are peppered with ingredient and dish history and tips from the family table as they dig into his dishes.

Conceived and filmed by his son, Randy, who has a background in digital marketing, Daddy Lau’s videos are narrated in Cantonese as he makes the dishes, however, there are excellent subtitles. Randy leaves everything to his dad, unless a dish warrants a deep dive into the methods Daddy Lau uses to prepare or cook ingredients.

Daddy Lau looks like he really enjoys making the dishes and the discussions that the family has while eating, which is sometimes cut into the cooking process, gives a wonderful insight into their frugal beginnings in China and their hardworking lives in their adopted United States.
Channel:
Made With Lau
Favourite Video:

Our Top 3 Dim Sum Recipes

 

Italia Squisita

A great Italian food channel that shows viewers how to cook classic Italian dishes with no compromise, Italia Squisita is another of the best YouTube cooking channels. Quite often the videos will show you three different takes of a classic dish such as Cacio e Pepe, Original vs. Foolproof vs. Gourmet.

This is a great example of how they craft the videos, starting with the simplest authentic version and somewhat cheekily correcting the well-known cooking channel “Binging with Babish” (now rather pretentiously called “Babish Culinary Universe”) on how to make Cacio e Pepe correctly.

Chef Luciano Monosilio from Luciano Cucina Italiana in Rome then replicates the foolproof recipe he uses in his restaurant and then makes a ‘gourmet’ version of this simple yet deceptively difficult to master dish.

Note that the videos are all in Italian, but even though I can understand them, I keep the captions on. I genuinely get excited by every new video they drop and if you watch anything on this Italian cooking channel, watch one of the Italian Chefs’ Reaction series, where they look at the most popular Italian recipe videos and proceed to have nervous breakdowns as people screw up classic Italian recipes.
Channel:
Italia Squisita
Favourite Video:
Risotto: Italian chefs’ reaction to the most popular videos in world!

All Things BBQ

Chef Tom from “atbbq dot com” is all about ‘all things BBQ’. While this barbecue channel does product reviews, it’s really secondary to Tom’s amazing barbecue recipes and tips and tricks. Expect lots of butchery, brining, marinating, barbecue sauce-making, and geeky barbecue charcoal tips.

I personally love Tom’s butchery tips to prepare cuts for the barbecue. This guy knows his way around a cut of meat, whether it’s beef, pork or chicken. He takes his craft very seriously and is one of the only barbecue chefs who constantly checks his cooking temperatures.

While Tom uses a lot of barbecue seasoning (as most barbecue chefs do), he makes a lot of barbecue sauces, marinades and brines to create these dishes. However, it’s not all big chunks of meat, this barbecue channel is about anything that can be cooked on a barbecue, so there are cooking videos on everything from prosciutto wrapped asparagus to roasted oysters to a smoked crown roast of lamb.
Channel:
All Things BBQ
Favourite Video:
Pulled Pork Tacos with Smoked Arbol Salsa

Cowboy Kent Rollins

Cowboy Kent Rollins does catering for cowboys on cattle drives so this guy is the real deal. He’s been a ranch cook since 1992 and cooks from a charming old chuck wagon with his oven ‘Bertha’ and covers cowboy classics with a little Tex-Mex and Mexican thrown in.

Using Dutch ovens and other cast iron cookware, Cowboy Kent covers way more than classic cowboy meals and cooks everything from Tacos al Pastor to Red Velvet Cake. His no-nonsense delivery (and real Texas cowboy accent), homespun philosophy, corny dad jokes, and honest cooking always win me over.

One thing I really like about his videos, which makes this one of the best YouTube cooking channels for me, is that he leaves in the little mistakes we all make, such as when he’s poaching eggs and they don’t turn out perfectly shaped, yet they’re still perfectly cooked.

His tips for the recipes are always helpful and I love that his puppies sit patiently waiting for some handouts. They are so adorable, if a little cheeky sometimes.
Channel:
Cowboy Kent Rollins
Favourite Video:
Best Barbacoa Tacos Ever

Do you watch any of the best YouTube cooking channels on my list or do you have other cooking channels you recommend? Please do let us know in the comments below.

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Terence Carter is an editorial food and travel photographer and infrequent travel writer with a love of photographing people, places and plates of food. After living in the Middle East for a dozen years, he settled in South-East Asia a dozen years ago with his wife, travel and food writer and sometime magazine editor Lara Dunston.

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  1. Wendy says

    August 18, 2022 at 11:47 pm

    LOVE Pasta Grannies! Can’t wait for the new book. Will definitely check out some of your other recos, Terrence. Thanks for compiling this. Wen.

  2. Lara Dunston says

    August 18, 2022 at 11:53 pm

    Hi Wendy, I’m a big fan of the Pasta Grannies, too. I’ve been very lucky to have had a peek of the book thanks to the publicist and it looks fab! Also looking forward to getting my hands on it and cooking from it. Thanks on behalf of Terence for dropping by to leave a comment :)

  3. Tony Chow says

    August 19, 2022 at 12:12 am

    I’m an avid viewer of Hot Thai Kitchen and Made with Lau. Agree with Terrance’s insights. I do not know Chinese Demystified Cooking but I will be looking those guys up. Thank you Terrance.

  4. Lara Dunston says

    August 19, 2022 at 12:21 am

    Hi Tony, good to hear! I have not seen any of those yet myself. I have to confess that I’ve only watched Pasta Grannies, but I’ll also be taking a look. I’ll pass on your comment to Terence. Thanks for taking the time to drop by and leave a comment :)

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Still looking for Christmas cooking inspo? Check o Still looking for Christmas cooking inspo? Check out our seafood recipe collection, especially if you celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve with a fish focused meal in the Southern Italian tradition, transformed by Italian-Americans into the Feast of the Seven Fishes, or like Australians, who celebrate Christmas in the sweltering summer, feast on seafood for Christmas Day lunch, we’ve got lots of easy seafood recipes for you.

Our recipes include a classic prawn cocktail, blini with smoked salmon, a ceviche-style appetiser, and devilled eggs with caviar. We’ve also got recipes for fish soup, seafood pies and pastas, salmon tray bake, and crispy salmon with creamy mashed potatoes.

You’ll find the recipes here: https://grantourismotravels.com/seafood-recipes-for-christmas-eve-and-christmas-day-menus/
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If you’re still looking for food inspo for Chris If you’re still looking for food inspo for Christmas Eve or Christmas Day meals, my smoked salmon ‘carpaccio’ recipe is one of dozens of recipes in this compilation of our best Christmas recipes (link below). 

The Christmas recipe compilation includes collections of our best Christmas breakfast recipes, best Christmas brunch recipes, best Christmas starter recipes, best Christmas cocktails, best Christmas dessert recipes, and homemade edible Christmas gifts and more.

My smoked salmon carpaccio recipe makes an easy elegant appetiser that’s made in minutes. If you’re having guests over, you can make the dish ahead by assembling the salmon, capers and pickled onions, and refrigerate it, then pour on the dressing just before serving. 

Provide toasted baguette slices and bowls of additional capers, pickles and dressing, so guests can customise their carpaccio. And open the bubbly!

You’ll find that recipe and many more Christmas recipes here: https://grantourismotravels.com/best-christmas-recipes/ (link in bio if you’re seeing this on IG)

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If you haven’t visited our site in a while, I sh If you haven’t visited our site in a while, I shared a collection of recipes for homemade edible Christmas gifts — for condiments, hot sauces, chilli oils, a whole array of pickles, spice blends, chilli salt, furakake seasoning, and spicy snacks, such as our Cambodian and Vietnamese roasted peanuts. 

I love giving homemade edibles as gifts as much as I love receiving them. Who wouldn’t appreciate jars filled with their favourite chilli oils, hot sauces, piquant pickles, and spicy peanuts that loved-ones have taken the time to make? 

Aside from the gesture and affordability of gifting homemade edibles, you’re minimising waste. You can use recycled jars or if buying new mason jars or clip-top Kilner jars, you know they’ll get repurposed.

No need for wrapping, just attach some Christmas baubles or tinsel to the lid. I used squares of Cambodian kramas (cotton scarves), which can be repurposed as napkins or drink coasters, and tied a ribbon or two around the lids, and attached last year’s Christmas tree decorations to some.

You’ll find the recipes here: https://grantourismotravels.com/homemade-edible-christmas-gifts/ (link in bio if you’re seeing this on IG)

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This crab omelette is a decadent eggs dish that’ This crab omelette is a decadent eggs dish that’s perfect if you’re just back from the fish markets armed with luxurious fresh crab meat. It’s a little sweet, a little spicy, and very, very moreish.

Our crab omelette recipe was one of our 22 most popular egg recipes of 2022 on our website Grantourismo and it’s no surprise. It’s appeared more times than any other egg recipes on our annual round-ups of most popular recipes since Terence launched Weekend Eggs when we launched Grantourismo in 2010.

If you’re an eggs lover, do check out the recipe collection. It includes egg recipes from right around the world, from recipes for classic kopitiam eggs from Singapore and Malaysia and egg curries from India and Myanmar to all kinds of egg recipes from Thailand, Japan, Korea, China, Mexico, USA, Australia, UK, and Ireland.

And do browse our Weekend Eggs archives for further eggspiration (sorry). We have hundreds of egg recipes from the 13 year-old series of recipes for quintessential egg dishes from around the world, which we started on our 2010 year-long global grand tour focused on slow, local and experiential travel. 

We’re hoping 2023 will be the year we can finally publish the Weekend Eggs cookbook we’ve talked about for years based on that series. After we can find a publisher for the Cambodia cookbook of course... :( 

Recipe collection here (and proper link to Grantourismo in our bio):
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I’m late to share this, but a few days ago Angko I’m late to share this, but a few days ago Angkor Archaeological Park, home to stupendous Angkor Wat, pictured, celebrated 30 years of its UNESCO World Heritage listing. 

That’s as good an excuse as any to put this magnificent, sprawling archaeological site on your travel list this year.

While riverside Siem Reap, your base for exploring Angkor is bustling once more, there are still nowhere near the visitors of the last busy high season months of December-January 2018-2019 when there were 290,000 visitors. 

Last month there were just 55,000 visitors and December feels a little quieter. A tour guide friend said there were about 150 people at Angkor Wat for sunrise a few days ago.

If you’re looking for tips to visiting Angkor, Siem Reap and Cambodia, just ask us a question in the comments below or check Grantourismo as we’ve got loads of info on our site. Click through to the link in the bio and explore our Cambodia guide or search for ‘Angkor’. 

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Our soy ginger chicken recipe will make you sticky Our soy ginger chicken recipe will make you sticky, flavourful and succulent chicken thighs that are fantastic with steamed rice, Chinese greens or a salad, such as a Southeast Asian slaw. 

The chicken can be marinated for up to 24 hours before cooking, which ensures it’s packed with flavour, then it can be cooked on a barbecue or in a pan.

Terence’s soy ginger chicken recipe is one of our favourite recipes for a quick and easy meal. I love the sound of the sizzling thighs in the pan, and the warming aromas wafting through the apartment. 

It’s amazing how such flavourful juicy chicken thighs come from such a quick and easy recipe.

Recipe here (and proper link to Grantourismo in our bio): https://grantourismotravels.com/soy-ginger-chicken-recipe/

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Who can guess the ingredients and what we’re mak Who can guess the ingredients and what we’re making with my market haul from Psar Samaki in Siem Reap — all for a whopping 10,000 riel (US$2.50)?! 

Birds-eye chillies thrown in for free! They were on my list but the seller I spent most at (5,000 riel!) scooped up a handful and slipped them into my bag. She was my last stop and knew what I was making.

My Khmer is poor, even after all our years in Cambodia, as I don’t learn languages with the ease I did in my 20s, plus I’m mentally exhausted after researching and writing all day. I have a better vocabulary of Old and Middle Khmer than modern Khmer from studying the ancient inscriptions for the Cambodian culinary history component of our cookbook I’m writing.

So when one seller totalled my purchases I thought she said 5,000 riel but she handed back 4,500 riel! The sum total of two huge bunches of herbs and kaffir lime leaves was 500 riel.

Tip: if visiting Siem Reap, use Khmer riel for local shopping. We’ve mainly used riel since the pandemic started— rarely use US$ now as market sellers quote prices in riels, as do local shops and bakeries, and I tip tuk tuk drivers in riels. I find prices quoted in riels are lower.

Psar Samaki is cheaper than Psar Leu, which is cheaper than Psar Chas, as it’s a wholesale market, which means the produce is fresher. I see veggies arriving, piled high in the back of vehicles, with dirt still on them — as I did on this trip. 

The scent of a mountain of incredibly aromatic pineapples offloaded from the back of a dusty ute was so heady they smelt like they’d just been cut. More exotic European style veggies arrive by big trucks in boxes labelled in Vietnamese (from Dalat) and Mandarin (from China), such as beautiful snow-white cauliflower I spotted.

Note: the freshest produce is sold on the dirt road at the back of the market.

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My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recip My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recipe makes tender meatballs doused in a delightfully tangy-sweet sauce, sprinkled with crispy fried shallots, with carrot-daikon, crunchy cucumber and fragrant herbs. 

The dish is inspired by bún chả, a Hanoi specialty, but it’s not bún chả. No matter what Google or food bloggers tell you. Names are important, especially when cooking and writing about cuisines not our own.

This is an authentic bún chả recipe:  https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-bun-cha-recipe/ You’ll need to get the outdoor BBQ/grill going to do proper smoky bún chả meat patties (not meatballs).

My meatball noodle bowl is perhaps more closely related to dishes such as a Central Vietnam cousin bún thịt nướng (pork skewers on rice noodles in a bowl) and a Southern relation bún bò Nam Bộ (beef atop rice noodles, sprinkled with fried shallots (Nam Bộ=Southern Vietnam) though neither include meatballs. 

Xíu mại= meatballs although they’re different in flavour to mine, which taste more like bún chả patties. Xíu mại remind me of Southern Italian meatballs in tomato sauce.

In Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, home to millions of Khmer, there’s bánh tằm xíu mại. Bánh tằm=silk worm noodles. They’re topped with meatballs, cucumber, daikon, carrot, fresh herbs, crispy fried onions. Difference: cold noodles doused in a sauce of coconut cream and fish sauce. 

Remove the meatballs, add chopped fried spring rolls and it’s Cambodia’s banh sung, which is a rice noodle salad similar to Vietnam’s bún chả giò :) 

Recipe here: (link in bio) https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-meatballs-and-rice-noodles-recipe/

For more on these culinary connections you’ll have to wait for our Cambodian cookbook and culinary history. In a hurry to know? Come support the project on Patreon. (link in bio)

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It is pure coincidence that Pepper’s eye colour It is pure coincidence that Pepper’s eye colour matches the furnishings of our rented apartment. So, no, I did not colour-coordinate the interiors to match our cat’s eyes. 

I keep getting DMs from pet clothing brands wanting to “partner” with Pepper and send her free cat clothes and cat accessories. Although she did wear a kerchief for a few years in her more adventurous fashion-forward teenage years, I cannot see this cat in clothes now, can you? 

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