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Cooking has become so popular on platforms such as YouTube, and even on Netflix and Hulu as well. There is no denying the popularity or the consistency in the ratings for cooking rated shows and content volume.

From the traditional cooking tutorial shows, which shows instructional styled segments directed by a highly recognizable cook, baker, or world-recognizable chef showing step-by-step processes on how to cook or bake meals. This is now been formulated, or has evolved, to include cooking competitions, from shows that put the very best in their respective industries head-to-head in fierce competitions, to people who lack any real skills in cooking or baking at all, to see who can flop or find success.

They are usually all win-wins for the shows and the contestants.

Let’s take Netflix for example, and see the Best Netflix food shows ranking, according to IMDB (h/t ScreenRant), in no particular order:

  • The American Barbecue Showdown – 7.2

  • Nadiya’s Time To Eat – 7.3

  • Nailed It! – 7.4

  • Nailed It! Holiday – 7.7

  • Salt Fat Acid Heat – 7.7

  • The Final Table – 7.7

  • The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell – 7.7

  • Chef’s Table: BBQ – 7.8

  • Ugly Delicious – 7.8

  • Street Food: Latin America – 8.0

  • Street Food: Asia – 8.0

  • Cooked – 8.1

  • The Chef Show – 8.2

  • Somebody Feed Phil – 8.2

  • Chef’s Table – 8.6

Popular platforms such as Netflix and Hulu aren’t the only platforms where you can find plenty of cooking content, as the Amazon owned live-streaming platform Twitch surprisingly has a lot of cooking content creators providing premier content in live format.

Sure, they’re not the banner, household names that you would normally associate with cooking or baking, but cooking streams add a new element of entertainment to the cooking show format, in a new, exciting way that can really bring fan interaction, and the overall viewer experience, to brand new heights.

Even big, mainstream, food and eats brands are getting involved, with HelloFresh launching a six-episode series called “Unleash the Feast”, exclusively on Twitch, and it aims to offers viewers a chance to win prizes and to receive discounts and free shipping on HelloFresh meal kits (via their official announcement).

Things get more interesting with the crossover effect, as Esports commentators Soe Gschwind and Guy Blaze hosting the show, bringing the gaming and esports niches to the cooking world. They are joined by Chef Tricia Wang as the Feast Master who guides contestants throughout the competition, with each person making/preparing a HelloFresh meal, all broadcasted over each 75 minute episode.

While Twitch may not be the top choice, or even YouTube for that matter, to find your cooking show fix, Twitch and YouTube are great in the fact that if you feel guilty eating all those delicious meals and treats there are plenty of fitness streams and workout shows to help you burn it off!

Somehow, someway, cooking and fitness oddly go hand in hand.