Juniper, coriander and a 48-hour bath: ChefSteps takes on pastrami

A ten-piece chicken breakdown that saves the oysters opened the week, and a two-week-old salt bread video is still drawing a steady crowd.

Channel: ChefStepsStory of October 3, 2026Trari Newsroom

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.

Learn To Make The Juciest Pastrami

ChefSteps spent its week on two very different jobs for a knife and a kitchen. First came "How to Butcher a Chicken: 10-Piece Country Cut," a guide built around the oysters, the two small nuggets of dark meat where the thigh meets the backbone. The description makes the case that a lot of cooks leave them behind, and the country cut keeps them riding along with the thighs, with the back saved for stock. One commenter had a word for the cameraman, and another thought the whole method lacked finesse, which tells you how seriously this crowd takes its poultry.

Then, on October 2, pastrami. "Learn To Make The Juciest Pastrami" (the spelling is the channel's) pairs a long smoke with a sous vide cook, the house specialty of a channel that has always treated the kitchen like a lab. The rub is coriander, black pepper and juniper, and there are two timings to pick from: 48 hours at 147 °F, which the description names as the team's favorite, or a leaner 24 hours at 162 °F. You can even swap the order, smoking last for a barkier crust. Twelve hours in, it was past 7,000 views and already the channel's busiest video of the moment.

The salt bread has not gone anywhere, though. "We Cracked the Code on Viral Salt Bread (Shio Pan)," Tim Chin's take on the buttery Japanese roll with a rice flour glaze to keep the crust crisp, is two weeks old and has passed 165,000 views.

Overall the channel is running right about at its usual pace. Among cooking channels of its size, Chef Thomson and Cooking with Shereen are having the loud weeks, while ChefSteps, like Early American and The Stay At Home Chef, keeps a calmer, steady rhythm.

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The videos drawing views on ChefSteps right now

How to Butcher a Chicken: 10-Piece Country Cut18,026 views · 2026-09-28 We Cracked the Code on Viral Salt Bread (Shio Pan)165,517 views Master The Japanese Shio Pan19,770 views

The numbers

Here is how ChefSteps' week looks in numbers.

subscribers

1,380,000

total views

195,124,548

views per day

30,001

typical day: 30,796

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

COOKING WITH SHEREEN

1,460,000

lifeofcian

1,450,000

Chef Thomson

1,440,000

ChefSteps

1,380,000

Early American

1,380,000

The TRY Channel

1,380,000

NYT Cooking

1,340,000

Jimi Jackson

1,340,000

The Stay At Home Chef

1,330,000

As of October 3, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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