Grandpa Kitchen

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Grandpa Kitchen is a YouTube channel; established by Narayana Reddy (1946 – 27 October 2019). He was from Telangana, India.[1] In his channel he and his grandchildren cooked large dishes of food intended for orphans, making both Indian and western dishes.[2] The creator's residence is near Hyderabad.[3]

Sanya Jain of NDTV described the resulting dishes as "mega-sized",[3] and Reddy used a wood-fired flame to cook instead of a modern oven. Reddy's son operated the YouTube channel itself. Reddy's trademark clothing consisted of a dhoti and a white shirt,[4] and he also has a white handlebar moustache.[5] Anurag Verma of News 18 wrote that two factors that made him popular on YouTube were the donations of food and the "seemingly modest approach to cooking".[6]

History[edit]

Reddy cooked large meals for members of his family, who visited from more comprehensive conurbations. He started a YouTube channel later catching from other family branches that his meals could be given to other-selves in the district.[2] Prior to his YouTube profession, Reddy was a gardener.[7]

His first video, "King Of 2000 EGGS," was uploaded in August 2017.[2] As of November 1, 2020, the channel built a subscriber base of >8.57 million,[7] with Indian and foreign viewers,[1] and included over 220 videos.[7] His first video was viewed on over 2.6 million occasions. His Patreon, as of that day, had over 1,000 people subscribed to it,[2] and his Facebook had about 5,30,000 subscribed to it.[7] As of 1 November 2020 his most widely viewed video, of him making finger chips (a.k.a. potato chips a.k.a. french fries), had 55 million views.[4] A video showing him preparing a batch of Maggi noodles from 100 packets had a total of 27 million views,[7] and his mutton biryani video had over 13 million views.[6] He also made chicken biryani,[7] fried chicken,[1] chicken noodles,[7] chocolate cakes,[4] donuts,[7] gulab jamuns,[6] hamburgers, lasagne,[1] milkshakes, pancakes,[4] vegan pizza,[5] potato wafers,[7] oreo pudding,[1] and red velvet cake.[7] Members of his family chose to work for him to help produce videos in lieu of their previous employment.[2]

Reddy stopped uploading cooking videos due to health issues; his final before-mentioned video, uploaded on September 20, 2019, denoted "Crispy Potato Fingers".[1] A succeeding video was of him explaining his health predicaments.[6] Preeti Biswas of The Times of India stated he was "visibly diseased" in aforementioned video.[7] Reddy died on October 27, 2019 at age 73.[1] His family notified the public after his entombment ended,[2] via a YouTube video uploaded three days later on October 30,[5] lasting about five minutes.[7] Within 24 hours the video had 89,110 views,[7] and by November 1, 2019, this increased to 3.3 million views and 142,192 comments from people around the world. There were also responses on Reddit threads.[5] His nephew Srikanth Reddy stated he and other members of the family have plans to continue Narayana’s work through making subsequent videos,[2] the first of which was released on November 6, 2019. Now, they are expanding towards exclusively foreign themed foods, starting from Philippine adobo, alongside regular Indian food.[8]

On October 19, 2020, India started on MECQ & MGCQ due to the COVID-19 pandemic in India. Shrikanth Reddy announced that the Grandpa Kitchen channel was being quarantined for 5 months.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 "Narayana Reddy of Grandpa Kitchen who used to cook for orphans passes away". The Times of India. 1 November 2019. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Suri, Manveena; James Griffiths (1 November 2019). "Beloved Indian YouTuber Grandpa Kitchen dies. Millions watched him make epic meals for orphans". CNN. Retrieved 3 November 2019. - Alternate link at CNN Philippines
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Jain, Sanya (1 November 2019). "YouTube's Beloved Grandpa, Who Cooked For Orphans, Dies At 73". NDTV. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Suresh, Haripriya (1 November 2019). "'Grandpa Kitchen' fans around the world mourn Narayana Reddy's death, pay tributes". The News Minute. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Cherian, Dona (1 November 2019). "The grandpa from YouTube's 'Grandpa Kitchen' died, he had over 6 million subscribers". Gulf News. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Verma, Anurag (2 November 2019). "YouTube's Favourite Narayan Reddy Who Made Epic Meals for Orphans on 'Grandpa Kitchen' No More". News 18. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  7. ↑ 7.00 7.01 7.02 7.03 7.04 7.05 7.06 7.07 7.08 7.09 7.10 7.11 7.12 Biswas, Preeti (1 November 2019). "YouTuber grandpa chef, who fed the needy, dies in Telangana". The Times of India. TNN. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
  8. ↑ "Elephant Foot Yam & Mutton Biryani Recipe | How To Make Elephant Foot Yam & Lamb Meat Mixed Biryani". YouTube. Retrieved 8 November 2019.

External links[edit]

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