Apple pie but it's an apple lie: Shef_Phoenix's trick dessert

The big grape guy's three uploads ran from fried chicken around the world to a $60 loaf he calls dumb.

Channel: Shef_PhoenixStory of October 2, 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.

Fried chicken around the world

Shef_Phoenix, who describes himself as the big grape guy who cooks food and tries to make you laugh, put out three videos, and the newest one is a pun before it is a recipe. "Apple pie but it's an apple lie" went up on October 1 and passed a third of a million views inside its first day, the quickest start of the three.

The week opened with "Fried chicken around the world," a global tour of one of the most argued-over foods there is. It is now past three million views and still drawing a steady crowd a week later. In between came "I made the dumb $60 bread," a title that settles the verdict before the oven door even opens. It took more than a million views on its first day, nearly matching the chicken's opening.

The whole channel ran a little under its usual daily pace, which for Shef_Phoenix still means millions of views a day across a library closing in on a billion. That puts him far ahead of most of the cooking channels near his size. Recipe30 and Rainbow Plant Life count their days in tens of thousands. The busy neighbor this week is Chef Thomson, running at about twice his own usual level.

What ties the three together is the joke built into each title: a dish with a twist, a price tag with an opinion, or a single food carried across borders. Fall baking, it seems, now includes a pie that may not be one.

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The videos drawing views on Shef_Phoenix right now

I made the dumb $60 bread1,846,257 views · 2026-09-29 Apple pie but it’s an apple lie355,989 views · 2026-10-01

The numbers

Here are the figures behind Shef_Phoenix's three new videos and his channel's week.

subscribers

1,510,000

total views

976,287,009

views per day

4,759,289

typical day: 5,301,477

this week's videos (first-day views)

Fried chicken around the world

1,508,747

I made the dumb $60 bread

1,346,269

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

Recipe30

1,650,000

Rainbow Plant Life

1,550,000

Shef_Phoenix

1,510,000

Mini Cakes

1,480,000

COOKING WITH SHEREEN

1,460,000

lifeofcian

1,450,000

Chef Thomson

1,440,000

Early American

1,380,000

The TRY Channel

1,380,000

As of October 2, 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.

Where next?

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