A boil up, fry bread and an onion question for Andy Cooks
Andy Hearnden took his kitchen home to New Zealand for parāoa parai and a pork-neck boil up, while a short about dicing onions passed 1.4 million views.
Andy CooksStory of Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
Is the horizontal cut on a diced onion really necessary? 🧅
Twenty-one hours old, "The Boil Up Bro!" was already gathering views almost as fast as anything on the channel. It is a dish straight from Andy Hearnden's New Zealand upbringing: a big pot of bone-in pork neck and bacon bones, simmered with kumara, potatoes, cabbage and watercress. He seasons it with two Australian bush spices, pepperberry and wattleseed, a nod to the country where he has spent most of his career.
The boil up arrived two days after its natural partner. "Parāoa Parai - Fry Bread" is the Māori fried dough that traditionally sits beside the pot, served here warm with golden syrup and salted butter. Put together, the two uploads make a small homecoming meal.
The busiest video of the five is a much simpler one. A short asking whether the horizontal cut on a diced onion is really necessary has passed 1.4 million views in six days, and it still draws more daily views than anything else on the channel. It is the oldest kitchen argument there is, and Andy's channel built its audience on questions like it.
The longer pieces did steady work too. "Restaurant Hacks I Still Use To Make Home Cooking Simple" walks through the stations of a professional kitchen, from prep and grill to fish, larder and garnish. Its tags mention confit garlic, compound butter and kiwifruit as a meat tenderizer. A juicy pork scotch steak, made with the pork promotion channel @GetSomePorkOnYourFork and served over brown-butter polenta, drew about 240,000 views on its first day.
Among cooking channels of a similar size, Chef Tyler and BeardMeatsFood are the ones running well above their usual pace. Andy's channel sits third by subscribers in that group, just over six million.
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The videos drawing views on Andy Cooks right now
- Channel
- Andy Cooks
- Subscribers
- 6,320,000
- Videos published this week
- 5
- Video published
- September 25, 2026
- Video views so far
- 1,452,380
The numbers
Here is how Andy Cooks' week looks in figures.
💡 Test your knowledge
Wattleseed, one of the spices in Andy's boil up, comes from which plant?
Wattleseed is the roasted, ground seed of certain Australian acacias, known in Australia as wattles.
