Nick DiGiovanni

Nick DiGiovanni reached the finale of MasterChef in 2019 and then built one of the largest food audiences anywhere online, with a channel that sits above 46 million subscribers. His short videos mix proper technique with spectacle: world-record attempts, celebrity guests and dishes scaled up or down to absurd sizes.

Burgers show up in both directions. The world’s smallest burger, made with Shaquille O’Neal, is among his most-watched shorts, and a $500 wagyu take on the MrBeast Burger sits at the other end of the price scale. He has cooked the Krabby Patty more than once, along with a burger for Mr. Krabs himself, and a run of wagyu sliders and crispy smash burgers.

His long burger video is a tour of the burgers that claim to be the best in the world, from Louis’ Lunch, where the American hamburger may have started, and Gordon Ramsay Burger to Hamburger America’s onion burger, the dry-aged burger at Peter Luger, a robot-made burger and a black truffle burger.