11 Cooking Shows on YouTube You Should Be Watching
Nerdy Nummies reigns as the most popular baking channel on YouTube with nearly 5 million followers. On the program, host Rosanna Pansino whips up everything from pizza cake to sushi cupcakes to mustache candy pops. The common denominator is always cuteness, underscored by Pansino’s signature delivery. Nerdy Nummies’s audience skews young, although Pansino is in her early 30s. “They’re the youngest demographic that you can track on YouTube: 13- to 17-year-old females,” she told Food & Wine. “But the fan mail that I get in my PO box, they’re all from moms and from kids who are two years old, three years old, four years old. They’re like, “Hi, my name’s Ashley, I’m eight. Can you make panda face?” And I’m like, OK!” (Photo: rosannapansino/Facebook)
Food television is more scripted and predictable than ever, but the vivacious spirit of Julia Child — known just as much for her show-stopping beef bourguignon as her kitchen flubs — lives on in the funny, perfectly imperfect cooking shows of YouTube. Not even Julia would have seen this coming.
Above, we break down our favorite shows, from cutesy Nerdy Nummies to booze-fueled Drunk Kitchen to bro-centric Epic Meal Time. We’re not sure Julia would always be a fan, but millions of subscribers prove that the future of food programming is likely on the Internet.
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