Bakes, Booze & Babish: Our Favourite YouTube Food Channels

Once upon a time, there were cookery books. Then came the TV cookery show and celebrity chefs. But for home cooks and avid foodies in the 21st century looking to stay on the cutting edge, the best culinary content today is found online. Here are some of our favourite YouTube cookery channels.

Binging With Babish

Ever found yourself salivating over the delicious dishes being devoured on your favourite TV shows and wished you could reach through the screen and steal a bite? Well, now you can! Intrepid chef Andrew Rae has painstakingly fathomed out how to reproduce some of TV's finest feasts including the perfect sandwich from Adventure Time and some of the most memorable Burgers of the Day from Bob's Burgers. It may sound like a gimmick, but Rae applies gourmet precision to his TV homages, so expect nothing less than top-notch cookery tuition as you learn how to make Rick And Morty's Szechuan Sauce or Homer Simpson's Moon Waffles.

My Drunk Kitchen

No YouTube cookery list would be complete without hooning heroine Harto and her loose unit mates. For the past six years, she's been getting on the grog, chucking back the terps, and attempting to cook stuff while getting gradually more and more shitfaced. Sceptics might say Harto is a one-trick pony, but what a pony! While we can't recommend imbibing excessive amounts of alcohol before using dangerous kitchen appliances and scorching cooking surfaces, we defy you to watch My Drunk Kitchen and not fall into a binge watching shame spiral lasting many hours - it is side-splittingly, rib-ticklingly, mouth-wateringly wonderful. You may not end up with a particularly well-made meal, but you'll be heartily fed with more LOLs than you can handle.

The Scran Line

Homegrown hero Nick Paterakis has made an art form of the humble cupcake. His baking tutorials are as beautiful as they are delicious - this is a chef who has style and substance in equal measure. The Scran Line also boasts a huge following on other social media platforms, including a whopping 276,000 Instagram followers! So what's the secret of The Scran Line's success? Baking channels are ten a penny, but what stands Paterakis apart from the crowd are the vivid colours, beautiful camera work, and stylish, wildly inventive designs of his art-cakes. The channel already has some impressive followers, including Lady Gaga. Paws up for The Scran Line y'all!