Adam Ragusea

Adam Ragusea is a former journalist and journalism teacher who turned a small cooking channel into one of the most-watched home cooking voices on YouTube. His approach is the opposite of restaurant cooking: practical food for people who cook every day, explained with curiosity about why things work and a healthy scepticism of rules that do not hold up.

His burger videos are few but thorough. He has a basic thick burger for the grill or the pan, made from loosely packed, freshly ground chuck with at least 20% fat, and a companion video on thin burger patties, with a quarter pound of beef per patty and two patties per person. His salmon burger video, one of his most popular recipes, adds a detour into astaxanthin, the pigment that makes salmon pink.

Every video comes with the full written recipe in the description, including the substitutions he actually uses at home, such as smoked gouda in place of American cheese.