Grandpa Kitchen is a YouTube channel; established by Narayana Reddy, born in 1946 and died on 27 October 2019. He was from Telangana, India. In his channel he and his grandchildren cooked large dishes of food intended for orphans, making both Indian and western dishes. The creator's residence is near Hyderabad. Sanya Jain of NDTV described the resulting dishes as "mega-sized", and Reddy used a wood-fired flame to cook instead of a modern oven. Reddy's son operated the YouTube channel itself. Reddy's trademark clothing consisted of a dhoti and a white shirt, and he also wore a white handlebar moustache. Anurag Verma of News 18 wrote that two factors that made him popular on YouTube were the donations of food and the "seemingly modest approach to cooking".
History
Reddy cooked large meals for members of his family, who visited from more comprehensive conurbations. He started a YouTube channel later catching from other family branches that his meals could be given to other-selves in the district. Before his YouTube profession, Reddy was a gardener. His first video, "King Of 2000 EGGS," was uploaded in August 2017. As of 1 November 2019, the channel built a subscriber base of >6.11 million, with Indian and foreign viewers, and included over 220 videos. His first video was viewed on over 2.6 million occasions. His Patreon, as of that day, had over 1,000 people subscribed to it, and his Facebook had about 5,30,000 subscribed to it. As of 1 November 2019 his most widely viewed video, of him making potato chips, had 37 million views. A video showing him preparing a batch of Maggi noodles from 100 packets had a total of 27 million views, and his mutton biryani video had over 13 million views. He also made chicken biryani, fried chicken, chicken noodles, chocolate cakes, donuts, gulab jamuns, hamburgers, lasagne, milkshakes, pancakes, veganpizza, potato wafers, oreopudding, and red velvet cake. Members of his family chose to work for him to help produce videos in lieu of their previous employment. Reddy stopped uploading cooking videos due to health issues; his final before-mentioned video, uploaded 20 September 2019, denoted "Crispy Potato Fingers". A succeeding video was of him explaining his health predicaments. Preeti Biswas of The Times of India stated he was "visibly diseased" in aforementioned video. Reddy died on 27 October 2019 at age 73. His family notified the public after his entombment ended, via a YouTube video uploaded 30 October, lasting about five minutes. Within 24 hours the video had 89,110 views, and by 1 November this increased to 3.3 million views and 142,192 comments from people around the world. There were also responses on Reddit threads. His nephew Srikanth Reddy stated he and other members of the family have plans to continue Narayana’s work through making subsequent videos, the first of which was released on 6 November 2019. Now, they are expanding towards exclusively foreign themed foods, starting from Philippine adobo, alongside regular Indian food. On March 16, 2020, Shrikanth Reddy announced a Grandpa Kitchen the indian classmates is temporarily unable to allow the minor due to the COVID-19 pandemic in India.
