How About Another Round Of YouTube Channel Recommendations?

Cafe Society
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Food Wishes and the already mentioned Binging With Babish are two of my favorite cooking shows. (By a strange coincidence, both men are from Rochester, NY, which is where I live, but I didn’t know this when I started watching their channels.) You Suck At Cooking is also good but it’s more entertainment than cooking instructions.

The Try Channel is a recent reboot of the old Facts channel, which shut down last year. Diane Jennings, who’s already been mentioned, is one of the regulars on the channel.

Ten Second Songs is fun. Anthony Vincent is a very talented singer and musician who performs popular songs in the styles of a series of other performers. So if you’ve ever wondered what Fats Domino covering “Smells Like Teen Spirit” would sound like, this is where you should go. Jane Lui at LuieLand is another extremely talented performer but she does her songs more conventionally.

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ASHENS is a very funny and cruelly sarcastic person who does many different reviews and commentaries. Nasty food, pointless product and general idiocy all fall under his withering scrutiny.

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Some people like looking at attractive people. How is that unusual?

I’ll admit that one of the reasons (but not the only one) that I watch Anna Akana’s videos is because she’s good looking.

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Oh, yeah, Food Wishes is another one of my favorites. Some people get a bit annoyed by the Youtuber’s cadence of speech, but I find it endearing. Really good work, well researched, approachable instruction, etc. Everything I’ve ever made from that channel has been delicious.

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I can’t remember if I’ve posted these in the previous thread, and I’m not going to search, so here they are:

I like TabiEats, which is two cheerful, funny Japanese guys trying out interesting snacks, going to restaurants, cooking recipes, and traveling to places in Japan. Also they travel to Hawaii, California and Hong Kong. Various friends may join them, and they’re very likable, too.

I like Squirrel Hunter, an Englishman who specializes in eliminating rats, vermin and invasive American grey squirrels using an air rifle. He has a soothing low-key voice and if his accent were posh-er he could announce British tennis matches.

I also like the The Scott Rea Project, which is an English butcher who started his channel to preserve a record of the art of old-school village butchery before it dies out altogether. He then expanded it to include traditional English recipes and road trips to the countryside and to things like game farms and village bakeries and cheese farms.

I also visit the Try channel mentioned above, daily.

Ooh, I forgot - my latest favorite is Travel Thirsty. Interesting food places in Asia are visited, and there is no narration, music, or flashy editing. Just beautiful clear videos of street food preparation. Special attention is given to a fish market in Okinawa, where fishmongers pick out exotic fish from their wares, butcher them down for the customer (the youtuber), and prepare it in several different interesting and yummy ways.

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A bunch of mine have already been mentioned, but here’s a few more.
Demolition Ranch, it’s essentially a gun channel, but even if you’re not that knowledgeable about guns, even if you don’t like them, a lot of time is devoted to ‘what happens if I shoot this gun at that object’.
OffTheRanch, same person, but this one focuses on projects around his home. He’s just kinda fun to watch, but this channel and his other one VetRanch (he’s a vet), while entertaining, are mostly for the fanboys.

ElectroBoom was already mentioned, so here’s BigCliveDotCom, AvE and ThisOldTony.
Big Clive spends his time tearing apart (or ‘taking to bits’) all kinds of electronics, mostly cheap stuff from China, bought on Ebay. AvE, he spends most of his time taking apart tools. What makes him really interesting is that for as much as he might seem like a bumbling Canadian Ape as he tears things apart with a bit too much enthusiasm, he really knows what he’s talking about. This Old Tony is a machinist. His shows are good, but he draws me in with his editing and odd banter. And along with machinists, don’t forget Abom79. Some of his videos are set in his home shop, the rest are at work where he runs huge (10-15 feet and a foot wide) chunks of metal on a lathe.

If you like welding, there’s WeldingTipsAndTricks, Weld(dot)com and KevinCaron (and yes, I left a ‘big’ one off the list on purpose).

And then we have a selection of random ones.
WaterJetChannel. They cut random objects with a waterjet. Mitchell will probably taste test it.
SmarterEveryDay and SmarterEveryDay2.
PrankstersInLove, a husband and wife duo that prank each other. Really good pranks that. Like, way overboard. They shaved each other’s eyebrows, hair dye or nair in shampoo bottles, I think they’ve both been glued to the toilet etc.

Vsauce, similar (kinda) to SmarterEveryDay
Someone mentioned Tested upthread, VSauce and Adam Savage have done some collaborations. It’s interesting watching the two of them working together. It’s basically Vsauce working things out in his head while Adam can build just about anything.

Lastly, my go to show for car repair is South Main Auto. However, plenty of people also like ScannerDanner, EricTheCarGuy, Scotty Kilmer or SchrodingersBox.

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Awaken with JT Ultra Spiritual Life is a satire site on how to “improve” yourself. Subjects include how to become gluten intolerant and if meat eaters acted like vegans.

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Another one, I didn’t think of it because I’m not subscribed to it, I just buzzed through all the episodes.
The Katering Show.

I first found out about them when I was looking into the Instant Pot and someone (here?) linked to their review of the ThermoMix. BTW, that thing really is $2000. After I got past the language and how they present the recipe, it still took a few episodes before I could tell if it was intended to be a real cooking show or a joke.

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Lindsay Ellis - film studies (sort of)
Todd in the Shadows One hit wonderland and other music reviews
The Great War - The first world war week by week and special episodes
Extra Credits History

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Lindsey Ellis…finally you guys mentioned someone i have heard of.

I’d recommend also Epic Rap battles (on Hiatus) and Comic book girl 19

Also this song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl5TUw7sUBs called Data and Picard. I still cant rename my links. Sorry. I dont know whats up. Some Chrome setting.

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You’ve never heard of Adam Savage?

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Just stumbled onto the Try channel recently. Fun show, the NYC apt ep was hilarious. I was wondering why I kept getting Diane Jennings videos in my “recommended” feed.

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Missed that one.

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Check out James Townsend’s channel. He does videos on 18th century cooking and other crafts.

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I’m big on Council of Geeks lately. Not really a council anymore, but a guy who talks geek stuff, and happens to be LGBT, and brings it up occasionally. I also stumbled upon Matt Baume because of him, who keeps me abreast of gay news, while also has cool stuff to say about gay people in fiction. Sarah Z is also in this ballpark, giving it a more Lindsay Ellis vibe.

I adore Lucahjin’s LPs, but I don’t know if anyone around here likes those. She does them blind, which makes for a lot of fun. She’s currently doing two mystery type games: Danganronpa and Ace Attorney 4. Also SummoningSalt’s videos on speedrunning history are cool. I actually watch lots of cool gaming-related channels, but, again, not sure people are interested in that.

Adam Neely and 12tone are awesome for educational stuff on music, while keeping it relevant to pop culture. Dr Hope’s Sick Notes is fun for medical reviews of medical TV shows. Renegade Cut still does awesome philosophical essays on movies, including over an hour tearing apart the underlying philosophy of the Left Behind movies.

And I will continue to pimp Dice Funk. The first two seasons are still on Renegade Cut, while seasons 3 onward on are a separate Dice Funk channel. It’s a D&D podcast that is more like listening to an improv story, though the mechanics still matter. It can be humorous, dark, fun, etc. It’s done like an anthology, so you can check out any season. This season (4) is set in a bizarro version of modern day, and involves platonic ideals being used to make what are basically superheroes, while fighting against a corporatocracy. While using D&D mechanics.

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I gave him a look-see, and now I’m hooked! He’s hilarious.

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I like Pemberley Digital, where they do vlog versions of Austen and other authors. I’m halfway through “Emma Approved,” which is really fun so far.

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Ooh I get to (I think) be the first to recommend something awesome!

If you’re interested in unsolved mysteries, missing people, and true crime–and enjoy thoroughly researched examinations of the above–you’ve gotta check out LordanARTS, a channel run by John Lordan, who (as of this week) posts three new episodes each week:

  • Brain Scratch, which highlights unsolved crimes, controversies and strange occurrences (e.g., the Dyatlov Pass incident). In each episode, which tend to last ~ 30mins, Lordan painstakingly goes through the research, looking for the most credible sources and ignoring the “woo” stuff. He talks about various theories of law enforcement, relatives, witnesses, and so on. Then he turns it over to his audience, known as “Brainscratchers,” and the commenters (who, for Youtube, are remarkably respectful) continue the discussion.

  • Brain Scratch: Searchlight. This is a spinoff of the above, where Lordan focuses on a missing person case. Once again he talks us through the best sources he can find, and even (in some recent cases) talks to family members. He is extremely respectful and never, ever exploitative. His sympathies are with the (possible) victims and the potentially wrongfully accused.

  • Case Cracked. These shorter episodes (usually about 10 - 15 minutes, but can be shorter or longer) highlight either a previous “Brain Scratch” or “Searchlight” case that’s been solved (most “Searchlight” case updates are not happy ones), or–sometimes–a mystery that would normally have gone into the “Brain Scratch” category, but has apparently been solved.

Every now and then he also produces an “Itchy Mysteries” segment, where he reviews crime/mystery-related films, books or TV series.

One of the reason I recommend this channel so highly is that John Lordan is so thorough, smart, funny and above all, compassionate. His heart goes out to the families and victims in these cases, and he doesn’t play up any of the ghoulish stuff just to attract bigger audiences who enjoy creepy stuff. I love how in-depth he goes into the available data, and explains why certain sources might be biased or flawed but are sometimes the only available avenues for research.

I would love to have a thread devoted to this channel, if enough people here get into it, so we can discuss the various cases and so on.

Anyway. That’s my recommendation. There are many, many episodes to go through, so enjoy yourself in catching up (which you’ll probably never do–he has that big a catalog!).

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What the heck? Vet Ranch is about saving condemned-to-death animals who would be put to sleep if they can’t be treated and saved to find adoptive homes. Doctor Matt from Demolition Ranch is hardly even in it any more, so I don’t understand the fan boy comment.

Donal Skehan, who used to be in the Irish boy band Streetwize but has since moved on to being a popular Irish and British (and now American) television chef.

Say Good Night Kevin. Kevin is a Christian who criticizes Christian themed movies and television from the point of view of critiquing rather than praising.

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Seconding Extra Credits History. Highly recommended.