Local lads lift lid on byte-sized barbecues
Rachel Wells
July 3, 2011
Aussie Griller, or Karl Petersen, has joined the growing ranks of Australian men with their own cooking channel on YouTube.
Aussie Griller, or Karl Petersen, has joined the growing ranks of Australian men with their own cooking channel on YouTube. Photo: Craig Sillitoe
Australian men are heating up internet cooking channels.
''ALL right, guys, we've got some awesome winter man food here,'' says Aussie Griller, as he goes about making a 'Man Stew' of beef, bacon, beer and potato on a Weber barbecue.
Aussie Griller, or Karl Petersen as he is otherwise known, is a Melbourne-based customer service worker who last September launched his own cooking channel, specialising in simple man-friendly meals, on YouTube.
In doing so, he joined a growing number of Australian men - most of them amateur cooks - to have launched their own YouTube cooking channels, attracting millions of global viewers.
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''We have definitely noticed a rise in the number of Australian men hosting their own cooking channels,'' says YouTube spokeswoman Kate Mason. ''There are quite a few of them out there now and some of them have got a really significant global audience.''
One of the most popular is Perth-based father of one, Rob Nixon. In 2008, while working as ground staff at Perth Airport, he launched Nicko's Kitchen ''as a bit of a hobby''. Almost three years later he has two more channels, Nicko's Bakery and Nicko's Baby Food, and almost half a million viewers a week.
His channels, which are based around ''simple foods that anyone can make'', are now so popular here and overseas that just over a year ago he quit his job to work on them full-time. He films five cooking shows a week and now makes a living out of it.
''I've always been passionate about my cooking,'' says the 28-year-old, ''so I thought I'd start making a few cooking videos and a few people started watching them and then a few more and then before I knew it this little hobby of mine became a full-time job.''
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