The Stay At Home Chef - what's actually working, and what isn't
Most stats sites hand you a subscriber count and an earnings guess. Neither answers the question that matters: which titles win on this channel, which flop, and what a creator should copy. Here is the honest read, from 69 public uploads. One of the best cooking youtube channels we track. Visit The Stay At Home Chef on YouTube →
How many views does The Stay At Home Chef actually get?
This channel runs on hits: its top 10% of videos pull 45% of all views, so the median upload (198K views) is the floor and the big numbers are the exception.
What is The Stay At Home Chef's most popular video?
Its biggest hit is "Mediterranean Chickpea Salad" at 2.7M views - 13.6× the channel median. The other top performers:
| Video title | Views |
|---|---|
| Mediterranean Chickpea Salad | 2.7M |
| How to Make Perfect Homemade Waffles | 2.6M |
| How to Make Baked Eggplant Parmesan | The Stay At Home Chef | 2.0M |
Which titles work best for The Stay At Home Chef - and which flop?
Same channel, same audience. The gap between these two lists is the title doing the work. Its strongest titles:
And the uploads that underperformed for this channel:
The title patterns that win here
- Words that show up in winners, not flops:
stayhomechef. - Its winning titles run about 8 words; the ones that flop run 7. It gets away with longer, more descriptive titles.
What keywords does The Stay At Home Chef rank on?
Weighted by views, the topics this channel actually pulls traffic on are: stay, home, chef, salad, baked, perfect, homemade, mediterranean. These are the lanes it owns - and the ones a similar channel competes against.
How often does The Stay At Home Chef post, and when?
The Stay At Home Chef publishes about 8.6 videos a week. Its views concentrate on Sun, Wed, Mon, and thin out on Mon. The single best-performing slot is Sun around 19:00.
How long are The Stay At Home Chef's videos?
Typical uploads run about 3 minutes. Broken down by length, its under 5 min videos perform best (268K median views) - the format worth leaning into on this channel.
How does The Stay At Home Chef compare to other cooking channels?
At 198K median views, The Stay At Home Chef runs above the typical cooking channel we track (22K). It is outperforming its niche.
How much does The Stay At Home Chef make? (estimated)
Nobody outside the channel sees the real figure, and ad revenue is only part of it - sponsorships and merch often dwarf it. But from public view counts, The Stay At Home Chef pulls roughly 7.3M long-form views a month, which at a typical $1-4 RPM works out to an estimated $7K-$29K a month in ad revenue (about $88K-$352K a year). Treat it as a ballpark, not a payslip - real creator income varies wildly.
What should a channel like The Stay At Home Chef make next?
Copy what already works here, not generic advice: lean on the under 5 min format, ship on Sun, and build titles around its proven words (stay, home, chef). The median is the bar - the goal of every upload is to clear 198K views.
The Stay At Home Chef stats at a glance
| Subscribers | 1.3M |
| Total views | 204M |
| Videos published | 1K |
| Average views / video | 149K |
| Engagement rate | 1.8% |
| Uploads per week | 8.6 |
| Typical length | 3 min |
| On YouTube since | 2013 (13 yrs) |
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