Brian Lagerstrom

Brian Lagerstrom is a former professional chef and bread baker who moved his cooking to YouTube in 2020. His videos are calm and methodical, and every one comes with the full recipe in the description, weighed in grams, with notes on substitutions and why each step matters.

His burgers reflect the baker’s background. He grinds his own beef, often from boneless short ribs, and spent years on a potato burger bun made with riced baked potato and dough conditioner. His Oklahoma onion burger is one of his most-watched videos, and the list also includes the smash burger he calls the only burger he makes at home, a thick grilled cheeseburger on homemade sesame buns and a crispy thick burger done three ways. Chicken and fish sandwiches round it out: buffalo chicken with blue cheese sauce, fried chicken with buttermilk ranch and a beer-battered cod sandwich.