This week on the channel +7.2M views this week

Chef Thomson's kitchen cart Michael needs a multi-tool intervention

Strawberry salads and a plastic-wrap discussion follow the repair in the busiest of his two new uploads.

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One of the reasons I ALWAYS have a multi-tool in the kitchen

Chef Thomson tightens a loose screw before getting to the strawberries. His wobbly kitchen cart has a name, Michael, and its lean supplies a neat demonstration of why he carries a multi-tool at work.

"One of the reasons I ALWAYS have a multi-tool in the kitchen" has reached roughly 2.3 million views. The Short moves from that quick repair to plating salads ahead of service, loading them onto a speed rack and circling the whole thing with plastic wrap. Cameron Thomson then anticipates the questions about wrapping techniques and plastic waste before the comments can get there.

Viewers have plenty to contribute anyway. Alongside jokes about Michael's smooth lean, bakery workers describe reusable fabric covers and dedicated rack bags. Others share the small toolkits they bring to work. It is a kitchen-maintenance clip that has become a conversation about the equipment behind the food.

His other new upload, "Making watermelon sashimi in school 🍉", takes the week back to culinary class, with a smaller audience. Outside the new releases, the mushroom-foraging trip with a professional chef and the culinary-school fishing outing remain substantial daily draws. The field trips have not finished their work.

Across the channel, the week brought roughly 7.2 million views while the subscriber count held steady. Daily viewing is a little above its usual level. That weekly audience is substantial among similarly sized cooking channels: COOKING WITH SHEREEN and lifeofcian also drew millions, while ChefSteps had a quieter week. For Thomson, the busiest new lesson involved neither a knife nor a recipe, but a loose screw.

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What viewers say

Cart was leaning so smooth it was criminal 😅😂😂😂
@ghostpodgameingSee it on YouTube
I bring a backpack to work. It has a small ratchet set and a screwdriver with multiple bits. The ratchet set alone has come in handy dozens of times.
@angrytvrobot6130See it on YouTube
I used to be a baker and he had special bags that slipped over those racks for proofing.
@souperman72See it on YouTube

5 more comments

i haven’t actually laughed at a short in so long but seeing it lean after you called it micheal got me
@izzyuwuowoSee it on YouTube
I work with a lot of bread dough that needs to proof at room temp but can’t be left in open in air because it’ll form a skin, so we have big fabric covers for the speed racks that unzip in the front for easy access
@Damien1121See it on YouTube
Instead of putting plastic over the top I often just use a baking sheet on the top rack. Covers the top to prevent anything getting on the food and saves just a little plastic
@virtualhimeji462See it on YouTube
My dad was a chef for decades (owned his own award winning restaurants, worked in some of the most exclusive environments) before moving on to being the head of department on board cruise ships. The only thing he has always carried from the day he entered culinary college in 1966 until today? A multitool.
@hannahxx17See it on YouTube
He reminds me of link, he always has everything in his back pocket.
@IukeperezSee it on YouTube

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The videos drawing views on Chef Thomson right now

Making watermelon sashimi in school 🍉239,773 views · 2026-10-13

Foraging for wild mushrooms with a professional chef 🍄‍🟫4,128,310 views

Going fishing in culinary school 🎣4,419,946 views

The facts

Channel: Chef Thomson
Subscribers: 1,450,000
Channel views, last 7 days: 7,170,475
Videos published this week: 2
Video published: October 13, 2026
Video views so far: 2,288,089
Views on its first day: 306,647

The numbers

Here is how Chef Thomson's uploads and audience moved over the past week.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

7,170,475

3,804,949

3,536,848

1,421,628

NOT ANOTHER COOKING SHOW

1,060,797

827,517

555,475

305,375

179,544

subscribers

1,450,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

1,407,938,278

views per day

1,196,878

typical day: 1,090,860

first-day views of each video posted this week

One of the reasons I ALWAYS have a mult…

306,647

Making watermelon sashimi in school 🍉

117,422

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

1,550,000

1,480,000

1,470,000

1,460,000

1,450,000

NOT ANOTHER COOKING SHOW

1,420,000

Early American

1,380,000

The TRY Channel

1,380,000

ChefSteps

1,380,000

As of October 20, 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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