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Preparing food is a cross-cultural expression of love and creativity. It’s no surprise that the number of videos about cooking has grown exponentially over the past decade. There are chefs who have created their own cooking channels, amateur cooks who have organically gained followers with each post, and vegans who started sharing their favorite recipes upon the request of like-minded viewers. Whatever their background and training, these cooking vloggers have racked up big audiences with their easy-to-follow meal prep, helpful tips, and delicious meals, snacks, and desserts.

Follow these top cooking vloggers on YouTube or TikTok

Cooking vloggers share how-to videos on cooking techniques, popular dishes, mouthwatering desserts and even the best kitchen tools to use.

Chef Billy Parisi

As a classically trained chef, Billy Parisi shares cooking techniques and homemade recipes that almost anyone can make. This Shake influencer shares simple, four-ingredient chocolate peanut butter balls and upgrades to old favorites like tuna salad made with grilled ahi. There are also plenty of fancier dishes that you can make for VIP guests, like bone-in dried cherry and sourdough stuffed pork chops and a classic beef Wellington.

Dorothy Kern

Prefer baking to cooking? Dorothy’s tested-to-perfection recipes cover traditional cookies and brownies, as well as new twists on old favorites, like creme brulee cookie bars and salted caramel pecan chocolate ganache pie. The Shake influencer and author, whose book “Crazy for Cookies, Brownies, and Bars” comes out in February 2022, also shares useful tips on everything from how to freeze cookies to zesting a lemon.

Brendan Jay Sullivan

Pizza is one of the most versatile foods on the planet and pizza chef Brendan knows how to keep his videos interesting! This Shake influencer keeps his 311.6K TikTok followers entertained by making a variety of pizzas — from spinach pesto to homemade fig and blue cheese. But he also reviews local pizzerias and covers a range of pizza-related videos, including one about a pizza vending machine.

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Chef Matt Broussard

Amassing 4.8 million followers on TikTok is no easy feat, but if you’re Chef Matt, simply cooking a steak to perfection is enough to keep people coming back for more. Beyond the drool-worthy cooking there are also practical tips, like how to roast garlic and sharpening your knives. Even his everyday foods, like the fish sandwich with cheese, is elevated by Chef Matt thanks to fresh cod, specialty salts, and pickled green tomatoes.

Tatyana Nesteruk

Tatyana is the author of “Beyond Borscht” and “The European Cake Cookbook” so her 557K YouTube subscribers know they’ll get only finely tuned recipes. Bakers follow her for unique desserts, like ricotta blueberry cheesecake and raspberry caramel mousse cake. Home chefs who love Eastern European cuisine tune in for how-to videos on smoked salmon piroshki and Ukrainian stewed beef and potatoes. But there’s also an entire channel dedicated to unique macaron recipes worthy of even the pickiest home bakers with a sweet tooth, like this coconut lime macaron with lime butter cream and lime curd filling. 

Jenne Claiborne

Sharing its name with her cookbook, Jenne’s “Sweet Potato Soul” YouTube channel has drawn 686K subscribers with her unique and tasty vegan recipes. Although her older videos focused on what she eats in a day, she gradually started sharing her favorite vegan recipes, with meals starting at just $2 each. There’s an entire playlist dedicated to vegan breakfasts, like these Japanese pancakes, and some mouthwatering desserts, like this vegan beet brownie.

Alexis Gabriel Ainouz

With a goal to “recreate perfect food,” self-taught home cook Alex does his homework by discovering a food’s history, learning the recipe, and mastering the techniques. He’s tried replicating the 1 million layer puff pastry and improving Gordon Ramsay’s beef Wellington. Even his “fails” —like his epic attempts to master making fried rice — are entertaining to his 1.79 million YouTube subscribers. 

Chef Jean-Pierre

With 54 years of culinary expertise as a professional chef and instructor, Chef Jean-Pierre has found his new calling one of the top YouTube cooking vloggers. With a mission to teach his 477K subscribers the how and why of cooking, he shares tips on dicing an onion, peeling and seeding a tomato, and how to equip your kitchen with pots and pans. But it’s his incredible recipes, such as beef bourguignon and traditional Ratatouille that steal the show. 

Martha Stewart

Arguably one of the best-known bakers and cooks around the world, Martha had a built-in following that translated to 780K YouTube subscribers. As you might expect, there are some traditional recipes, like old-fashioned lemon-sugar cookies and one-pot pasta dinner. But there are also videos offering techniques on braising and how to keep basil fresh. Don’t miss the pomegranate “Marthatina” recipe, which was shared as part of her “Homeschool with Martha” playlist to help get viewers through the pandemic lockdowns.

Ryoya Takashima

Motivating his 2.43 million YouTube subscribers to find “world peace through the food choices we make,” Japan-based Ryoya produces vegan cooking videos that even meat eaters can get on board with. Set to calming music or no music for the ASMR effects, his videos are both relaxing and inspiring, offering a depth of flavor sometimes missing in modern meals. From eggplant and tomato curry to homemade chickpea miso, the recipes are sometimes both simplistic and satisfying. Although they’re older, his videos on how he built his own kitchen are worthy of your time too.

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