I’ve added my favorite YouTube channels in the comments below. (Feel free to check them out!) But, my preferences aside, what YouTube channel(s) do you want more people to see?
Cooking:
Anti-Chef: Jamie tries to cook from cookbooks if the greatest, but he’s not a chef or anything, and you see all his mistakes, such as his recent deboning of a chicken, where he mistakenly de-meated it as well and had to venture out for a new chicken. It isn’t bits, just a guy that wants to cook but isn’t always so good about following directions, but he learns skiing the way.
Food Wishes: Chef John was a chef, and he makes a wide variety of things in easy to understand ways. He’s got lots of catch phrases and such, but he’s old so they’re endearing instead of obnoxious. His speech pattern can be somewhat off-putting to some, but I got used to it, and he’s just trying to be upbeat.
Tool Reviews:
Project Farm: Putting tools, small outdoor machinery, oils, batteries, bungee cords, etc through the paces to replicate real world use and some materials testing. It’s pretty fun for a review, and shows what tools are good at their price points.
Music:
David Hilowitz Music: I don’t care about his actual music so much, but he makes obscure instruments or repairs broken ones he finds in the trash and ends up with very unique things. He also makes sample libraries from all sorts of things, musical or otherwise, so you can play a version of all his weird stuff.
Cars / General Mayhem:
Garage 54: Some Russian guys with old Soviet cars that do strange Frankenstein experiments with them. Welding 4 engines together, tires made of various objects, all kinds of horrific and entertaining things!
Chef John’s recipes are always spot on; it’s rare for me to make something of his I don’t like. Sometimes they require a bit of extra effort, but he always tries to make his recipes as accessible as possible, talking about what shortcuts are appropriate.
You reminded me I forgot to mention he goes into more info about the how and why of his recipes in his blog posts linked in the comments too!
They are actually helpful if you want to know more.
Project Farm is the reviewer that I wish reviewed everything I want to ever buy.
I enjoy the abuse testing, because even if it isn’t always scientific, we all tend to use what we have in hand other than the proper tool at times.
His corrosion and UV testing is also great stuff that many review places overlook.
I’d definitely love if he had a better that reviewed more household and entertainment/hobby items!
Let’s see, Nexpo if you like horror of any kind, DevilArtemis if you like anime or high quality animations, Jordan Howlett if you want fast food secrets, and Casual Geographic if you like animal facts even if they hurt.
Characters Welcome- ‘Totally not a cult’ and ‘Two trenchcoats inside of a kid’
How is science and futurism with Isaac Arthur (SFIA) not getting more love? They are probably the highest quality and most educational videos on the entirety of YouTube. And while all of the videos cover the future, they cover wildly different topics and fields.
What will space travel actually be like? Will we live in space? What about new space sports? How will space effects our diets? What about AI? How will it effect our lives and hobbies? Mind uploading? Clark tech? Dyson swarms? O’Neill cylinders? Could the entire universe be a hallucination?
Also shout-out to PBS spacetime
I also like Primal Space when it comes to space videos. His animation are amazing
How is science and futurism with Isaac Arthur (SFIA) not getting more love?
Tbf, Isaac Arthur will sometimes propose ideas that absolutely no hope of working such as orbital loops. While I get that he’s not an engineer, videos like that tend to be a blemish on his reputation.
Legal Eagle is great at explaining current events and their Legal implications, he also does reviews on movies or shows to explain how they portray law vs reality.
Ordinary Sausage makes sausage out of everything and generally does cooking experiments in a quick and humorous way
Bobby Fingers is a mix of artisan videos where he expertly hand crafts dioramas (mostly) of events while making funny and interesting comments, but he adds some pizazz and production to the whole thing that makes it very engaging.
Bobby fingers came in swinging with high production value from day 1. He doesn’t have many videos but the quality of them is so good.
Kill tony - stand up comedy
Outdoor boys - bushcraft
Channel 5 - journalism
Beard meats food or matt stonie - eating challanges
Cold ones - funny dumb memes
Mental outlaw or hated one or surveillance report - privacy content
David bombal or pc security channel - pc security
The linux experiment or distrotube - linux content
Gman lives or pyrocynical - long form gaming videos
Big lez show - tv show made in ms paint
Sheiy - urban exploring
Lockpicking lawyer - lockpicking content
Healthy gamer gg - content about mental health by a qualified doctor
Louis rossman - right to repair and simmilar content
Bald and bankrupt or geowizard - travel content
Cart narcs - man pretending to be a robot shaming people for leaving shopping carts and littering in car parks
Captin disilluaion - special effecrs content
Coffeezilla - internet detectives
Some ordinary gamer or penguinz0 - commentary
Micheal reeves or mark rober or i did a thing - making cool stuff
Dont hug me im scared - short horror show (also has a tv show now)
Edit: adding more suggestions and spaces between suggestions
Mighty car mods - https://youtube.com/@mightycarmods
A couple of Aussie blokes and their mates having some wholesome fun mucking about with cars bought sight unseen from the internet.
Bill Hammack explains engineering concepts and household items clearly.
(All licenced under Creative Commons BY)
MobileTechReview (https://www.youtube.com/@mobiletechreview ), Lisa’s reviews feel the most authentic to me without too much bullshit and they always helped me with my buying decisions.
A couple of random suggestions:
Summoning Salt - Video essays detailing world record speedrun history across a variety of games. Videos are easy to understand and assume you aren’t intimately familiar with the games in question. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i1AHCaokqhg
RRC Restorations - A Scottish bloke that does really in depth restorations of mostly cars and motorcycles, very relaxing and a joy to watch without any flashy filter. Just a super talented guy doing cool things in his little workshop. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JJSjy4OciLs
Motion in Art - Film essays similar to some of your other favourites that might be of interest.
Art Deco - Analysis, investigation and explanation of art, including the history and context in which paintings were made, themes and motifs, and details that you almost certainly missed when looking at art as a layperson. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m3hM6Qw8Nf4
Fredrik Knudsen - Making the series Down The Rabbithole, which are dives into a variety of topics, including tech and history. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UCgoxQCf5Jg
Lemmino - Video essays on conspiracies and mysteries, all are very interesting and worth watching. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5u7euN1HTuU
Love down the rabbit hole
While ill, and stuck on the couch, I watched the entire Eve Online video in 1 sitting. All 6+ hours of it.
https://youtu.be/oPlzbfIRRqI?si=QCEbIn4QUfXX1mv3
If you have 12 hours of idle time, there’s a fantastic video on The Phantom Menace that really added to my appreciation for it. Bread Circus is amazing
Despite him being on the side of the canadian freedom truckers AVE has some of the best power tool teardowns
Yeah, anything with DewClaw was great, the tool breakdowns are usually good, but he’s lost the plot a bit lately.
Forget YouTube and Google by extension. Imagine if you spend all those hours watching something that improves your mind and capabilities: https://ocw.mit.edu
Work on yourself, friends.
There are plenty of self improvement videos.
Laden with ads and an algorithm to keep you watching as long as possible. A decade ago you could look something up on YouTube and find a quick video and be done. Now even the most basic answer is a ten minute video, which is required for monetization.
Get off of YouTube, it’s junk.
Sorry I was joking. It didn’t land.
I know better vibes going on here
Yeah, what was I thinking suggesting people try to improve themselves 🤷
Oooh! I think I’m gunna learn me some Machine Learning for Inverse Graphics.
Science: Steve Mould
History: timeline, odyssey, war stories, told in stone, vasile luga, get.factual
Music: cercle
Geopolitics: Caspian Report
Aviation: mustard
Biographies: the people profiles
Caspian report is crap opinions passing as geopolitical knowledge and analysis. I have watched a few of his vids. and the guy doesn’t know what is really happening in other foreign countries, but it doesn’t stop him from writing 30 mn long bullshit videos and impressing an audience that is just as uneducated about those subjects as him. i.e Any one who claims to know everything about every other country in the world is a FRAUD.
Curious why do you assume it’s just the narrator’s lone opinion and not the narrator describing the research performed by a team of people on the subject of each episode?
What’s your best geopolitics channel then? Or is the very idea of one also a fraud to you?
Caspian Report is fantastic
Noah Caldwell-Gervais
https://youtube.com/@broadcaststsatic
Detailed video reviews of games primarily focusing on the narrative.
