But between the slick high-earning professionals and the “who watches this?” novelty accounts, there’s a bunch of unusual, often bizarre cooking personalities out there on YouTube — a passionate and active bunch of amateur and semi-pro chefs who probably aren’t making millions, but whose quirky tutorials are still worth your time. Have a taste!

6 Unusual YouTube Cooking Channels to Try on YouTube

Cooking With Dog (Subscribers: 944k)

If you’ve ever wanted to learn how to cook authentic Japanese delicacies but didn’t want to learn from a human, now’s your chance! Cooking With Dog is “hosted” by poodle Francis, who narrates these zippy, easy-to-follow recipes performed by the nameless (human) chef beside him at the countertop. Unbelievably, this account has been going strong for over seven years, and for sheer deadpan fun and watchability these videos are irresistible. Putting aside the fact that,you know, there’s a dog in it, the cooking tutorials themselves — from gyoza to mochi and matcha creme brulee -- are actually really well executed. If canine instruction is some kind of educational miracle tool, then I really wish I’d had ‘Physics With Dog’ in high school.

Feast of Fiction (Subscribers: 280k)

This channel is, essentially, “cosplay for cooking.” Anchored by boundlessly-enthusiastic chef Jimmy Wong and his equally excitable pals, Feast of Fiction recreates the fictional foods featured or mentioned in movies, books and gaming. From Narnian Turkish Delight and Alice in Wonderland's Drink Me Potion to Super Mario Mushrooms, this channel truly goes off the edge of the nerd map, but it’s hard to quibble with the sheer eagerness and imagination of it all -- especially since I can imagine bookwormy kids particularly delighting in the Harry Potter Pumpkin Pasties and Percy Jackson’s Ambrosia Nectar. Bonus points for the handy full ingredient lists in the video captions, which are normally all too lacking on these kinds of channels.

Great Depression Cooking (Subscribers: 69k)

There are no end of YouTube videos offering tips on cooking within a budget, but this is the real deal: a ninety-something great-grandmother recreating the frugal recipes of her childhood during the Great Depression. Born in 1915 in Chicago to Sicilian immigrants, Clara actually passed away in 2013 at the grand age of 98, but you can still watch her many YouTube tutorials recreating the austere feasts of her 1930s childhood: recipes like the Poor Man’s Meal (basically fried potatoes and hot dogs), Dandelion Salad and a Depression Breakfast of cookies and coffee. Yes, the recipes are pretty plain and these videos, while charming, are slow. But if you’re weirdly fascinated by the idea of recreating recipes that someone, somewhere in your family tree might have relied on (albeit in pretty unfortunate circumstances) almost a century ago, they’re pretty darn interesting from a historical perspective.

Epic Meal Time (Subscribers: 6.7m)

Forget what I said up there about these cooking creators not making millions, because the men behind Epic Meal Time almost certainly are. One of the greatest YouTube food success stories, this bro-tastic channel started in 2010 as a way for a bunch of Canadian pals to showcase their penchant for ridiculously high calorie creations (or, “Jackass in the kitchen,” as their founder puts it.) In 2014 their 721m views were estimated to have earned them $1.3 million, as well as guest appearances from Tony Hawk and Arnold Schwarzenegger. From The Pizza Palace (72,532 calories) to their Breakfast of Booze (18,531 calories), almost all of these recipes are too masochistic to ever recreate yourself in full, but they'll certainly give you some ideas for guilty Friday night gorging.

Vegan Black Metal Chef (Subscribers: 60k)

Too bizarre not to mention, the Vegan Black Metal Chef describes his channel as “a vegan cooking show like no other” — and unless you know of another vegan tutorial channel with recipes entirely communicated through black metal music, he's right. From his dungeon kitchen, the titular Vegan demonstrates how to create vegan delicacies from around the globe like Chipotle Crimson Hell and the Indian Feast of the Gods, aided by a pentagram chopping board and a miniature axe for a vegetable knife. Don’t worry, it's meant to be ridiculous. But if you’re concerned that going vegan might make you humorless, this is probably a good place to dispel that myth, and the dishes themselves actually look pretty tasty bathed in the flickering light of the altar candles. (PSA: if you’re prone to headaches, the “lyrics” are subtitled. Nobody would judge you for watching Vegan Black Metal Chef with the sound off.)

The Meat Men (Subscribers: 3k)

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