Tune In, Zone Out: YouTube Street Food Videos are a Meditative Lockdown Distraction Recipe

Sometimes, I spend hours watching vids of people making street Polished Netflix documentaries are all well and good (OK, some of them are good) but there is an under-appreciated genre of food content and it is people cooking with eggs on YouTube. Not chefs, not aspiring TV presenters and not influencers, but people on the street or in breakfast cafes making a hard living cooking the same dish many times This may seem niche – and it is – but deep-diving into the differences in layering between one Mumbai toastie seller and another, or watching an employee at a Korean breakfast cafe flip twenty pieces of toast at a time is strangely Mostly unedited, amateur footage gives a sense of everyday life that shiny documentaries…