Chabba tends a sizzling pan beneath a baobab
Two cooking Shorts draw unusually fast starts on HADZABE TRIBE LIFE, one observing the cook and another promising a lesson for visitors.
Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 110,958 views a day, 7.8 times a normal first day on this channel (14,241).
Hadzabe bushmen Chabba with most secret bush meals today
A large metal skimmer turns pieces of meat in hot oil, with stones supporting the pan over an open fire. Another man sits behind the cook, watching. On HADZABE TRIBE LIFE, the cooking needs no spoken explanation: the soundtrack is the crackle of the oil.
The Short, titled "Hadzabe bushmen Chabba with most secret bush meals today", has drawn roughly 83,000 views in fourteen hours. That already puts it well beyond the channel's usual full first day for a Short, around 14,000 views.
Despite the title's promise of secrets, this is an observation rather than a recipe. Beneath a baobab tree, the cook turns the food, lifts a substantial piece of meat to inspect it, then continues frying. There are no ingredient captions or spoken instructions.
Chabba's cooking is also drawing attention in a companion upload, "Hadzabe bushmen Chabba teaching visitors bush cooking skills", which has attracted almost the same audience over the same period. Both follow "Chabba's favorite activity is cooking natural bush food", making the person at the pan a recurring presence in the channel's bush diary.
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Where next?
- Channel
- HADZABE TRIBE LIFE
- Subscribers
- 2,330,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 837,312
- Channel views, pace per day
- 231,349 (on a normal day: 105,957)
- Video published
- October 21, 2026
- Video views so far
- 82,847 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 110,958
The numbers
Both cooking Shorts have already passed the channel's usual first-day views, with time still left before their first full day is complete.
💡 Test your knowledge
Which utensil does the cook use to turn the meat?
The cook uses a large slotted metal skimmer to turn and lift pieces from the pan.


