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by suranyami 1237 days ago
"thatdudecancook" (terrible name, I know!) has shown me some amazingly simple techniques that have radically improved my cooking:

https://www.youtube.com/@thatdudecancook

If you're into Chinese cooking, then the Chinese Cooking Demystified channel is excellent. This is not your lemon chicken from the mall food court… They deep-dive into all the regional cuisines and present non-mainland-China-friendly recipes and techniques. It's a real eye-opener.

https://www.youtube.com/@ChineseCookingDemystified

+1 for Adam Regusea and J-Kenji Lopez-Alt.

For coffee, as others have said, James Hoffman, but also check out Lance Hendrick if you want crazy amounts of detail:

https://www.youtube.com/@LanceHedrick

Aaron & Claire regularly produce ultra-simple, fast, imaginative Korean dishes:

https://www.youtube.com/@AaronandClaire

Ann Reardon does some interesting baking-oriented stuff, but even better, her debunking videos are the real gold:

https://www.youtube.com/@HowToCookThat

I'm getting into BBQ & smoking (bought a Kamado) and found SmokingDadBBQ informative:

https://www.youtube.com/@SmokingDadBBQ

For something really out-there, Wilderness Cooking (again, a terrible name) is intriguing. It's this guy living in what looks like a pretty remote village in Azerbaijan doing traditional outdoor feasts. Warning: not even remotely vegetarian-friendly.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj4KP216972cPp2w_BAHy8g