PickVidsBest Cooking & food Videos
The 41 Cooking & food videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 10 introductory, 0 intermediate, 31 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a tutorial. What they share is that the steps themselves are the content, and you do them while watching. Channels you will keep seeing include James Hoffmann, Adam Ragusea, Technology Connections.
15 Mistakes Most Beginner Sourdough Bakers Make
LifebyMikeG lists 15 common mistakes beginner sourdough bakers make, with advice on fixing sticky, wet dough and other issues.
End of Days Bolognese
A short, sweary cooking video in which Nat makes a quick bolognese using simple pantry ingredients.
How to Make a $1500 Sandwich in Only 6 Months
A man spends six months and $1500 making a chicken sandwich entirely from scratch: growing vegetables, making salt from seawater, milking a cow for cheese, grinding wheat, collecting honey and killing a chicken.
I Did Caffeine Analysis: Some Unexpected Results!
James Hoffmann runs caffeine analyzer tests comparing filter versus espresso, extraction over time, steep time, instant coffee and light versus dark roast.
Making an international standard cup of tea
Tom Scott follows the ISO 3103 / BS 6008 standard to make an international standard cup of tea, using specialist tasting equipment.
Synthesizing Chicken Noodle Soup From Pure Chemicals
The Thought Emporium synthesizes chicken noodle soup from pure chemicals, following an original patent for artificial chicken flavor.
WORLD'S BEST AIR FRIES (Weird Trick, But It Works!)
Chef Chris Young shows a simplified triple-cooked method for making crisp frozen fries in an air fryer, based on Heston Blumenthal's technique.
Nagoya Robot Ramen
A short clip of a ramen restaurant in Nagoya where robot arms cook the noodles.
How It's Made - Canola Oil
A short 'How It's Made' television segment showing the industrial process of turning canola seed into cooking oil.
Automatic Hamburger Machine - 50 Years Ahead of Its Time!
A circa-1964 film showing AMF's AMFare system, which ordered, cooked and packaged hamburgers, fries, shakes and more automatically for a pilot fast-food operation.
Perfectly Replicating Coca Cola (It Took Me A Year)
LabCoatz uses mass spectrometry, with help from other science YouTubers, to reverse engineer the Coca-Cola flavor and builds a chemically-identical replica.
Sean Brock And Anthony Bourdain Eat At The Waffle House
A short clip from Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown in which he and chef Sean Brock end a long night of drinking at a Charleston Waffle House.
Gas stoves aren't really that fast - even standard electric is faster!
Technology Connections tests how quickly gas, induction and standard electric stoves boil water, with CO2 measurements and a discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of each.
Jamie Oliver Shows School Kids How Chicken Nuggets are made
Jamie Oliver shows school kids how chicken nuggets are made by blending skin and mechanically reclaimed meat, as part of his school lunch campaign.
Soylent: How I Stopped Eating for 30 Days
A Motherboard documentary in which a reporter lives on nothing but Soylent for 30 days after founder Rob Rhinehart's own experiment.
A real, not-clickbaity, average Chinese wet market
Chinese Cooking Demystified shows an ordinary, everyday Chinese wet market to counter sensationalized coverage during the early pandemic, with a pinned comment adding nuance.
The Making Of 'Gutter Oil'
A Radio Free Asia report from its China food safety series on how "gutter oil" is recovered from sewers and waste and sold on to cheap restaurants and street vendors.