Written by David Roberts
Reviewed by Lucas Walter
Updated
The top food YouTubers in 2026 are Nick DiGiovanni, Chef Tyler, BeardMeatsFood, Bayashi, and Joshua Weissman. This list ranks 53 food YouTubers by median views across their recent videos, not by subscriber count. Each one was found by searching across hundreds of thousands of top-performing videos in the food niche.
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| Rank | Creator | Subscribers | Median views | Engagement | Known for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nick DiGiovanni @NickDiGiovanni | 48M | 28M | 1.3% | Big-budget cooking challenges |
| 2 | Chef Tyler @Chef__Tyler | 7.1M | 6.7M | 3.5% | Price ladders and food pranks |
| 3 | BeardMeatsFood @Beardmeatsfood | 6.9M | 6.5M | 2.2% | Restaurant eating challenges |
| 4 | Bayashi @BayashiTV_ | 37M | 3.4M | 2.5% | Cooking with no talking |
| 5 | Joshua Weissman @JoshuaWeissman | 11M | 3.2M | 2.1% | Taste tests and recipe hacks |
| 6 | Meatlicious @Meatlicious_ | 1.4M | 3.1M | 2.5% | School-lunch recipe stories |
| 7 | Max the Meat Guy @MaxtheMeatGuy | 10M | 2.9M | 2.1% | Meat cooking and taste tests |
| 8 | LukeDidThat @LukeDidThat | 24M | 2.7M | 1.3% | Spicy snack challenges |
| 9 | Albert CanCook @albert_cancook | 29M | 2.5M | 2.7% | Quick recipe Shorts with guests |
| 10 | Ben Chelin @recipeincaption | 494K | 2.3M | 2.5% | One-dish recipe Shorts |
| 11 | Dylan Huynh @Dylan | 1.3M | 2M | 2.1% | Ordering across restaurant menus |
| 12 | Uncle Roger @mrnigelng | 11M | 1.7M | 3.1% | Comic reviews of other cooks |
| 13 | Little Remy Food @littleremyfood | 4.1M | 1.6M | 2.8% | Viral recipe tests |
| 14 | Mark Wiens @MarkWiens | 12M | 1.5M | 2.2% | Street food around the world |
| 15 | Zermatt Neo @ZermattNeo | 4.6M | 1.5M | 4.1% | Giant plates eaten solo |
| 16 | FutureCanoe @FutureCanoe | 4.9M | 1.2M | 4.7% | Testing other people’s recipes |
| 17 | Patrick Zeinali @patrickzeinali | 9.5M | 1.1M | 3.2% | Novelty bakes and taste tests |
| 18 | Kim&Liz Too @kimliztoo | 5.5M | 969K | 2.1% | Eating games and family skits |
| 19 | Louis Gantus @louisgantus | 2.6M | 911K | 4.6% | Cooking pranks and remakes |
| 20 | Danny Kim @DannyGrubs | 3.4M | 868K | 3.9% | Side-by-side dishes and kitchen stories |
| 21 | Guga Foods @GugaFoods | 5.9M | 823K | 1.9% | Steak and dry-aging experiments |
| 22 | Jack’s Dining Room @jacksdiningroom | 1.1M | 771K | 3% | Restaurant verdicts in seconds |
| 23 | DuB Family @DuBFamily___ | 1.8M | 752K | 2% | Investigating restaurant menus |
| 24 | Doobydobap @Doobydobap | 4.5M | 732K | 3.7% | Korean home cooking and food travel |
| 25 | Iron Chef Dad @ironchefdad | 4.3M | 700K | 3.2% | A chef remakes fast food |
| 26 | Ahmad Noori @dr.vegann | 1.2M | 650K | 1.8% | Vegan recipe Shorts |
| 27 | Andy Cooks @andy_cooks | 6.3M | 645K | 2.7% | A trained chef’s home recipes |
| 28 | Big Nibbles @bignibbles | 1.2M | 608K | 3.8% | Food history Shorts |
| 29 | Gary Eats @GaryEats | 543K | 602K | 2.5% | Long restaurant reviews |
| 30 | LifebyMikeG @LifebyMikeG | 5.4M | 599K | 3.1% | Cooking systems and preserving |
| 31 | galvsfood @galvsfood | 978K | 531K | 4.6% | Big orders and what they cost |
| 32 | Ethan Chlebowski @EthanChlebowski | 2.5M | 521K | 3.2% | Why recipes work |
| 33 | Tim Laielli @barefoodtim | 1.2M | 519K | 6.6% | A week of meals in one afternoon |
| 34 | Katina Eats Kilos @KatinaEatsKilos | 1.2M | 508K | 3.2% | Timed restaurant challenges |
| 35 | Josh Slavin @JoshSlavin | 1.5M | 504K | 3.4% | What a day of eating costs abroad |
| 36 | Jorts Kitchen @JortsKitchen | 1.1M | 468K | 3.1% | Barbecue and comfort food |
| 37 | King Kenny @KingKennyMore | 470K | 447K | 2.1% | Fast-food taste tests with a guest |
| 38 | Catherine Zhang @catherine.desserts | 748K | 445K | 2.8% | A dessert shop’s product tests |
| 39 | Nutrient Matters @nutrientmatters | 2.1M | 441K | 4.5% | One-pan dinners with a voiceover |
| 40 | IamfromKorea @iamfromkorea | 3.9M | 430K | 2% | Food games with friends |
| 41 | Ashley Markle @ashleymarkletreats | 509K | 426K | 1.9% | Desserts from supermarket shortcuts |
| 42 | Emily Mariko @EmilyMariko | 1.6M | 410K | 3% | Quiet home cooking |
| 43 | Hailey Kim @Haileyateit | 267K | 399K | 1.5% | Noodle recipes with eating sounds |
| 44 | Louis Howard @LouisHowardpt | 1.3M | 391K | 5.5% | Rating high-protein recipes |
| 45 | Ahmad Alzahabi @thegoldenbalance | 3.6M | 382K | 3.6% | Recipe Shorts and travel-cook films |
| 46 | Owen Han @owen.han | 1.2M | 368K | 2.4% | Sandwich builds |
| 47 | Steve1989MREInfo @Steve1989MRE | 2.3M | 356K | 3.7% | Military ration tastings |
| 48 | Brennen Taylor @BrennenTaylor | 3.8M | 334K | 2.5% | Small-town food crawls |
| 49 | Zach Choi @ZachChoi | 34M | 324K | 2.9% | Cooking and eating ASMR |
| 50 | Eating With Tod @eatingwithtod | 520K | 304K | 3.2% | London restaurants and US food crawls |
| 51 | McBang @McBangASMR | 7M | 303K | 1% | Fast-food mukbang |
| 52 | Jas & Kam @jtk_spotz | 420K | 298K | 5.8% | A married couple eats chain food |
| 53 | TheReportOfTheWeek @TheReportOfTheWeek | 3M | 277K | 5.3% | Formal fast-food reviews |
The best food YouTubers aren’t simply the channels with the most subscribers. YouTube shows videos to people based on how the video performs individually, not just based on who subscribes to the channel. As a result, a small or midsized channel can reach more people than one several times its size.
That’s why we rank food YouTubers by median views of their videos (the average number of people a typical video reaches). As of October 2026, the five most watched are Nick DiGiovanni, Chef Tyler, BeardMeatsFood, Bayashi, and Joshua Weissman.
Grouped by what each channel makes: cooking stunts, recipes, reviews, eating out, eating challenges, and videos with no talking. The number beside each name is the creator’s overall rank.
Each dish is built around a test, a trick, or a price. A product can be the thing on trial.
Cooking challenges staged at scale, often with other YouTubers as guests. Shorts on gadgets and “1 second vs 1 hour” tests fill the weeks between the long videos.
1 sponsored video in the last 90 days, in snacks.
Shorts that climb a price ladder (“$3 vs $83”) or trick family members into eating something. A grilled cheese that doubles in size each day is a running series.
11 sponsored videos in the last 90 days, in cheese, cookware, air fryers, and travel data plans.
Long taste tests of rare, fast, and restaurant food, cut between recipe-hack Shorts from a home kitchen. Owns a restaurant and sells a cookbook.
1 sponsored video in the last 90 days, in coffee.
Meat cooked at a large scale, from exotic animals to steak, plus fast-food rankings and viewer recipe tests. Sells a jerky brand and taco kits of its own.
5 sponsored videos in the last 90 days, in apps, meal kits, and mobile plans.
An amateur cook tests viral recipes and edible experiments with candy, cookies, and gelatin to see how hard they are at home. Talking “storytime” clips sit between the bakes.
No sponsored videos found in the last 90 days.
Cooks viral and viewer-sent recipes in a home kitchen and rates them, mostly hands and voiceover with fast comic edits. Now and then a food tour of New York.
5 sponsored videos in the last 90 days, in kitchenware, mattresses, and meal kits.
Bright countertop videos of layered cakes, “3 levels of” comparisons, and taste tests of odd food. Sells a cookbook of easy recipes.
4 sponsored videos in the last 90 days, in legal services.
Fast-cut Shorts that remake, rank, or sneak something into food for family and friends. A dad and a brother are the usual targets.
5 sponsored videos in the last 90 days, in cheese, instant noodles, olive oil, and frozen food.
Shorts that cook a Korean dish beside another country’s version. Long documentaries cook for strangers, night-shift workers, and restaurant crews.
7 sponsored videos in the last 90 days, in health apps, cookware, travel data plans, banking apps, hotels, and frozen food.
Steak experiments on a backyard grill, from dry-aging in odd wrappers to blind taste panels with guests. Sells a cookbook and a line of products at Walmart.
9 sponsored videos in the last 90 days, in kitchen knives, supplements, coffee, apps, and online shopping.
A father-and-son cooking channel: the son brings fast food and odd ingredients, and the chef father remakes them. Cheap-against-expensive tests and giant produce too.
3 sponsored videos in the last 90 days, in audiobooks and streaming.
Shorts that cook food that no longer exists, death-row meals, and the school dinners of different decades. Each one asks a question of food history and answers it on camera.
1 sponsored video in the last 90 days.
One dish per upload, with the recipe in the description. The natural home for an ingredient or a pan.
Every Short is a recipe told as a family story, from a wagyu lunchbox to brisket mac and cheese. Narrated over the smoker and the kitchen counter, with the recipes on a paid newsletter.
No sponsored videos found in the last 90 days.
Fast-cut recipe Shorts of pizza, pasta, and sandwiches, often cooked with another creator. No long video since early 2024.
5 sponsored videos in the last 90 days, in bread, food apps, and air travel.
One dish per Short, cooked fast in a home kitchen with the full recipe in the description. Sometimes cooks with a sister or a partner brand’s product.
4 sponsored videos in the last 90 days, in cookware, snacks, pantry goods, and supplements.
Vegan recipe Shorts on a home countertop, each linked to a written recipe on a free blog. A doctor stepping away from medicine, by the channel’s own account.
No sponsored videos found in the last 90 days.
A restaurant-trained chef cooks weeknight dinners and settles steak and egg questions, with the quantities in every description. Sells a cookbook and its own cookware.
12 sponsored videos in the last 90 days, in cookware, fresh food, snacks, tourism, and website builders.
Calm videos on cooking systems, from freezer cubes to a week of lunches and groceries made from scratch, shot at home and in the garden. Formerly Pro Home Cooks.
5 sponsored videos in the last 90 days, in bone broth, cookware, home goods, and banking apps.
One cooking question per video, answered with side-by-side tests and tastings in a home kitchen. Runs a cooking app of its own.
3 sponsored videos in the last 90 days, in bread, skincare, and mobile plans.
A weekly Short that cooks a family’s meals for the week in one afternoon, talking to camera the whole time. The recipes go out free as a meal plan.
3 sponsored videos in the last 90 days, in chicken and cookware.
Barbecue and comfort-food Shorts from the smoker and the stove, narrated over tight shots with the recipe in the caption. Often fixes or remakes a classic dish.
3 sponsored videos in the last 90 days, in barbecue pellets.
Point-of-view dessert Shorts: developing ice creams for a dessert shop, tasting viral sweets, and trips to food expos. A former dessert-competition contestant.
3 sponsored videos in the last 90 days, in freelance hiring and cosmetics.
Overhead recipe Shorts of chicken dinners, pies, and one-pan meals, with a voiceover and no face on screen. The recipes are on the channel’s own site.
No sponsored videos found in the last 90 days.
A dessert Short most nights, built on cookie dough, candy bars, and cake mix and filmed from above the counter. A second channel posts savory snacks the same way.
1 sponsored video in the last 90 days, in ice cream cones.
A fat-loss coach and a co-host cook other creators’ high-protein recipes, rate them out of ten, and give the macros per serving. Banter-heavy Shorts from a home kitchen.
No sponsored videos found in the last 90 days.
Recipe Shorts with every ingredient in the description, from breakfast burritos to a mother’s lentil soup. Long films cook in Jordan, Jamaica, Syria, and Palestine.
2 sponsored videos in the last 90 days, in kitchen appliances and advocacy.
Sandwich-first cooking Shorts with a fast voiceover, a numbered sandwich series, and a bite at the end. Sells a sandwich cookbook.
2 sponsored videos in the last 90 days, in restaurant chains and supplements.
A verdict on someone else’s food, from fast-food chains to military rations. Five of these seven post mostly long videos.
A comedian’s character watches another cook’s video and heckles the technique, from celebrity chefs to street food. Shorts are cut from the same reviews.
3 sponsored videos in the last 90 days, in VPNs and grills.
Long videos that test a whole menu, from chains and stadiums to an airline’s first class, and hire chefs to cook. Talking-head investigation, then eating on camera.
7 sponsored videos in the last 90 days, in apps, online shopping, and event tickets.
Twenty-minute reviews filmed inside one restaurant or chain at a time, in the UK and on US road trips. The About text says “NO PAID REVIEWS.”
1 sponsored video in the last 90 days, in travel data plans.
Long taste tests of chain menus and viral foods with a guest, ranked as they go. Short clips and the odd non-food upload in between.
5 sponsored videos in the last 90 days, in banking apps and reward apps.
Opens old and current military rations on a table, explains each part and its history, and tastes it. The About text says “No paid sponsorship’s.”
No sponsored videos found in the last 90 days.
A married couple eats chain-menu food to camera in the car or at home, arguing and joking over each bite. More than a Short a day.
2 sponsored videos in the last 90 days, in packaged food and restaurant chains.
Long, formal single-take reviews of chain food, eaten in a car or at a table, with a measured verdict at the end. Also hosts a shortwave radio show.
No sponsored videos found in the last 90 days.
Restaurants, markets, and food trucks, filmed where the food is served, from Tennessee to Greenland.
Long videos that order across one restaurant’s menu and rank the dishes as they arrive. Filmed in dining rooms in the US, Mexico, and China.
6 sponsored videos in the last 90 days, in banking apps, socks, and travel data plans.
Food documentaries that eat through markets, village kitchens, and famous restaurants, most recently in Afghanistan, the Philippines, and Greenland. Two uploads a week, half of them Shorts.
1 sponsored video in the last 90 days, in travel data plans.
Restaurant and street-food Shorts cut down to the price and the verdict, filmed in dining rooms and markets around the world. Also runs a food festival of its own.
1 sponsored video in the last 90 days, in soft drinks.
Weeks of Korean home cooking from a family kitchen, and long street-food films from Malaysia, Japan, and India. Instant-noodle rankings in between.
4 sponsored videos in the last 90 days, in home goods, therapy apps, travel data plans, and apps.
Point-of-view Shorts of everything eaten in a day in Asian and European cities, with the price of each stop. Long food tours compare what the same money buys.
7 sponsored videos in the last 90 days, in travel data plans, tourism boards, and reward apps.
Drives Tennessee and nearby states for 24 hours of food trucks, gas stations, diners, and chains. Handheld vlogs with reactions to camera.
No sponsored videos found in the last 90 days.
A British host reviews London restaurants and flies to US cities for crawls of famous dishes, often with a TV food host. Long reviews and Shorts from the same trips.
5 sponsored videos in the last 90 days, in tourism boards and travel data plans.
Oversized plates, timed records, and eating games. The amount is the story.
A weekly long video from one restaurant and one oversized challenge, timed from the first bite. Filmed in the UK, Europe, and North America.
No sponsored videos found in the last 90 days.
Shorts that eat giant or extra-hot versions of packaged snacks, in “Giant or Tiny” and “1 Second vs 1 Hour” formats. Most are set to music and crunching.
No sponsored videos found in the last 90 days.
Seven- to ten-kilogram plates at hawker stalls and restaurants, eaten alone in one sitting. Each challenge comes out as a Short and as a full video.
2 sponsored videos in the last 90 days, in sushi.
Eating Shorts built on family skits, with a mom and a grandma played for laughs over candy, ramen, and hot pot. Most end in a race or a game for the last bite.
No sponsored videos found in the last 90 days.
Eating Shorts from hotel rooms, cars, and chain restaurants: giant room-service orders, the bill at the end, and cheat-day check-ins.
3 sponsored videos in the last 90 days, in fast food, protein snacks, and energy drinks.
A competitive eater takes on one restaurant’s challenge or record per video, mostly in the US and the UK. A countdown runs until the plate is empty or time is up.
No sponsored videos found in the last 90 days.
Food-game Shorts with friends: blind taste tests, wasabi roulette, guessing food by its sound, and chain-restaurant runs in LA and Seoul. Co-founded a snack brand.
4 sponsored videos in the last 90 days, in bakery chains, mobile games, and cosmetics.
Close-up eating Shorts of fast food and chocolate with no talking, and the occasional long eating show with soft narration.
No sponsored videos found in the last 90 days.
Cooking and eating with no narration, so an upload works in any language.
Close-up Shorts of one dish at a time, cooked and eaten to the sound of the kitchen. Long “best of” compilations collect the Shorts.
1 sponsored video in the last 90 days, in vegetables.
Quiet home-cooking Shorts with one-word titles: grilled cheese, tomato soup, a salmon bowl. The same kitchen and the same overhead angle every time.
No sponsored videos found in the last 90 days.
Noodle, dumpling, and one-pan pasta Shorts with no narration, just music and the sound of eating. Long ingredient lists in each description.
3 sponsored videos in the last 90 days, in sparkling drinks and instant noodles.
Sizzling, slicing, and close-microphone eating with no talking, under the caption “would you eat this?” A long “Midnight Kitchen” series cooks steak and pork belly the same way.
No sponsored videos found in the last 90 days.
We analyzed the 552 videos these 53 creators published on YouTube in the last 30 days. Of those, 49 beat their creator’s usual views by 3× or more.
Here is how this month’s breakouts open, read from what each video says in its first seconds, or from its caption when nobody speaks.
“Did Jamie Oliver ruin school dinners?”
Big Nibbles opened three breakouts this way, asking whether Jamie Oliver, Michelle Obama, or Margaret Thatcher ruined school lunches and then cooking the trays to find out.
Big Nibbles 8.6M views · 14.1× their usualThe other breakouts that open on a judgment state it outright. Gary Eats starts the channel’s worst review with “Holy cow” and calls the plate vile, and Jorts Kitchen says a remake was “so much better.”
A judgment in the first line is rarer in these channels’ usual uploads.
“would you eat this?”
The month had 11 breakouts with no narration: all 4 of Zach Choi’s, 3 of Bayashi’s, and Shorts from Ashley Markle, Emily Mariko, and Ahmad Noori. The caption does the talking, and on Zach Choi’s it asks the viewer a question.
Zach Choi 1.8M views · 5.4× their usualFor a brand, that means the product has to be clear from the pan, the package, and the first bite.
Silent uploads are less common among these creators’ usual uploads than among their breakouts.
“Is it possible to bake a cookie bear that will actually hold its shape in the oven?”
These openings say what the cook is about to try. Louis Gantus opened two breakouts on a trick, starting with “Can I trick my best friend into eating bugs?” Andy Cooks began, “I’m on a mission to learn how to make lechon and this is my first attempt.”
Little Remy Food 9.3M views · 5.9× their usualLong videos open the same way. LifebyMikeG’s breakout set out to make common grocery staples from scratch “to see which ones are actually worth making at home.”
These creators announce a test in their usual uploads too, only less often.
Andy Cooks: “Here’s every way to fry an egg, that’s actually practical” reached 9.5M views, 14.7× their usual.
Patrick Zeinali: “Chocolate versus milk” reached 14M views, 12.8× their usual.
IamfromKorea: “Don’t pick the WASABI challenge🔥🔥” reached 5.4M views, 12.6× their usual.
This table shows what the food channels on this list do at each size on YouTube. Use it to judge whether a creator’s numbers are strong for their tier.
| Tier | Subscribers | Median views | Engagement | Videos a week | Sponsored videos |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mid | 100K to 500K | 423K | 2.3% | 0.9 | 17% |
| Macro | 500K to 2M | 514K | 3% | 1.8 | 8% |
| Mega | 2M to 10M | 716K | 3.2% | 1.9 | 12% |
| Mega | Over 10M | 2.7M | 2.2% | 1.2 | 7% |
The figures are medians across these 53 channels, from each channel’s recent videos. “Sponsored videos” is the share of videos in the 90 days to Oct 25, 2026, that carry a paid-promotion label or a stated sponsor, or are part of a brand campaign.
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Many food channels sell a cookbook, a seasoning, cookware, or a paid recipe app. Read the About text and the links in a few descriptions before you pitch: a channel with its own knives or spice blend is unlikely to put a competitor’s in the pan.
YouTube asks creators to declare paid promotions, and a declared video shows a disclosure label when it starts. Open a channel’s labeled uploads and compare their views with its median. Some food channels run a sponsor in nearly every upload, and others take none.
A channel with no narration reaches viewers in any language, but it cannot explain a new flavor or a nutrition claim. If the product needs a sentence of explanation, choose a channel that talks.
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We rank by median views across each channel’s recent videos, long videos and Shorts together, so one viral video can’t lift a channel up the list. Channels from any country qualify if they speak English or no words at all, and if food is the subject of at least half of their recent uploads.
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As of October 2026 the top five food YouTubers by median views are Nick DiGiovanni, Chef Tyler, BeardMeatsFood, Bayashi, and Joshua Weissman.
Nick DiGiovanni leads by both measures, with about 28M views on a typical video and 48M subscribers, the most of any channel here.
Among the channels that cook on camera, the five with the highest median views are Nick DiGiovanni, Chef Tyler, Joshua Weissman, Meatlicious, and Max the Meat Guy.
By hand, search YouTube for the dish or the ingredient you sell, open the channels that cook it, and compare their recent views instead of their subscribers. Klint answers the same question directly: ask it for recipe channels that cooked with a pan brand in the last 90 days, and it lists each channel with its median views and sponsored uploads.
There is no list price. The fee depends on the channel’s median views, the format (a Short, a mention inside a long video, or a whole video built around the product), and whether the product goes into the dish or is only shown. Food brands often send product with the fee, and long-video deals are usually priced per video.
The list ranks people known for their own YouTube videos, so television chefs such as Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver are not on it. Binging with Babish, Sam the Cooking Guy, and Food Wishes posted often but fell under the floor of 250,000 median views, and Matt Stonie posted five times in 90 days, one fewer than the list requires.
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