Top Food Influencers on TikTok: The 30 Most-Followed Food Creators (2026)

The most-followed food influencer on TikTok is CZN Burak (@cznburak), the Turkish chef and restaurateur, whose profile displayed 73.2M followers when we read it on October 5, 2026. Japan's Bayashi (54.4M) and Spanish-language cooking creator Surthycooks (41.4M) complete the podium. Every ranked follower count in this article was read live from TikTok's own profile data on October 5, 2026, and is published exactly as TikTok displays it. Any candidate we could not verify on a live profile was left out — the full method is in the methodology section below.

The 30 most-followed food influencers on TikTok

Ranked by the follower count each TikTok profile displayed on October 5, 2026. Where TikTok's rounded display produces a tie, rank order follows displayed total likes. Handles link to the live profiles so you can check today's numbers yourself.

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• Chefs and restaurant names: Gordon Ramsay, Salt Bae, CZN Burak
• Food ASMR and eating shows: Bayashi, Zach Choi, Tommy Winkler
• Baking and pastry: Amaury Guichon
• Restaurant reviews and taste tests: Keith Lee
• Spanish-language cooking: Surthycooks, Robegrill
• Home cooking and recipes: Abir El Saghir, Cooking with Lynja, Albert Cancook, Nick DiGiovanni, Nara Smith

The top 15 food creators on TikTok, one by one

Here is who these creators are and what their profiles actually showed on October 5, 2026: country and language where a source supports it, the signature format, and what the bio and recent uploads say.

1. CZN Burak (@cznburak) — 73.2M followers

Turkish chef and restaurateur Burak Özdemir cooks enormous traditional Turkish and Middle Eastern dishes straight to camera, and his bio doubles as a map of his restaurant branches: İstanbul, Dubai, Birmingham, Madinah and more. He is big enough to appear on Wikipedia's list of the most-followed TikTok accounts overall, which recorded 73.6M as of August 9, 2026 — close to the 73.2M his profile displayed at our read, a reminder that these numbers move week to week. No food creator appears above him on that list — that cross-check is what backs calling him TikTok's most-followed food creator. The account showed 3,230 videos, 1.6B total likes, and an upload as recent as October 1, 2026.

2. Bayashi (@bayashi.tiktok) — 54.4M followers

Japanese creator Hiroaki Nakabayashi, named TikTok Japan Creator of the Year for 2022, posts one-take cooking videos with heavy ASMR appeal. His entire bio reads "I like cheese 🧀". His displayed total of 1.8B likes is the highest of anyone on this list — ahead of even CZN Burak's 1.6B — and he was posting in the days before the read: "Viral Frozen Potato Recipe" on October 3 and "Chopped Hot Honey Chicken Sub" on October 2.

3. Surthycooks (@surthycooks) — 41.4M followers

Lebanese-Venezuelan creator Surthany Hejeij makes step-by-step, Spanish-language home cooking videos — 1,604 of them at our read, with 1.4B total likes. The account is becoming a food business in plain sight: her bio promotes her own food line, and a pinned post announces its dedicated brand account, @cooksbatata. Latest upload: October 5, 2026.

4. Gordon Ramsay (@gordonramsayofficial) — 40.7M followers

The most-followed television chef on this list undersells himself in the bio: "I cook sometimes too.....". The feed mixes recipe clips with Kitchen Nightmares moments — "Give me a walk-in fridge, I’ll find the mold" went up on September 9, 2026 — and has collected 730M likes. For anyone searching famous TikTok chefs, this is the account they usually mean first, even though three creators outrank him.

5. Abir El Saghir (@abir.sag) — 31.3M followers

Lebanon-based chef whose bio promises to "inspire your inner chef." Her pinned videos sit under her #abirzkitchen tag, from cabbage rolls to an Italian lasagne, and her latest upload went up on October 2. 528.7M total likes displayed.

6. Zach Choi (@thezachchoi) — 29M followers

No-talking ASMR cooking and eating: his two most recent videos, episodes of a "Midnight Kitchen" series, were tagged #asmr #cooking. The account carries 575.8M likes across a comparatively lean 552 videos. TikTok showed no verified badge on this profile at read time.

7. Amaury Guichon (@amauryguichon) — 28.5M followers

"The Chocolate Guy," per his bio. Guichon is a pastry chef whose feed is a gallery of large-scale chocolate sculpture builds, released on a clean weekly cadence: "Chocolate Homer" (October 5), "Chocolate Pixar Lamp" (September 28), "Chocolate Barrel" (September 21) and "Chocolate Fuel Bottle" (September 14). 669.5M total likes.

8. Cooking with Lynja (@cookingwithlynja) — 22.2M followers

Lynn Yamada Davis's fast-cut, joke-dense cooking videos made this one of the largest food accounts on TikTok, and it still is: 22.2M followers and 361.3M likes displayed at our read, across 507 videos. Davis died in January 2024 (per Wikipedia, accessed September 3, 2026). The account's most recent upload is dated January 12, 2024 — a tribute addressed to her — and no video after that date appears on the profile. We include the account because it remains live and among the platform's biggest food channels.

9. Keith Lee (@keith_lee125) — 17.3M followers

Candid restaurant taste tests, often of small and family-run spots: his pinned videos include #foodcritic taste tests of Frankensons Pizzeria and The Puddery, and marketing write-ups credit his reviews with measurably moving sales at the restaurants he covers. The ratio — 921.9M total likes against 17.3M followers, across a prolific 4,413 videos — is one of the strongest on this list. His latest upload was a K-Che Tacos taste test (October 4).

10. Robegrill (@robegrill) — 16.8M followers

Robegrill grills and cooks in Spanish under the banner in his bio: "La COMIDA une al MUNDO" — food unites the world — with a link to his best-tacos-in-CDMX picks. He posted "Papas $100 vs $1,000" on October 2, 2026. 464.6M total likes.

11. Albert Cancook (@albert_cancook) — 15.9M followers

Albert Cancook — LA-based, per his bio — builds playful, engineering-minded recipe remixes: "Garlic Pasta" (September 30), "Spiciest Loaded Fries" (September 26), "Chicken Parm Breadstick" (September 19). His own bio lists 29M subscribers on YouTube against 15.9M here — a useful reminder that follower counts are platform-specific, and that cross-network totals are not TikTok counts. 436.7M TikTok likes.

12. Salt Bae (@nusr_et) — 15M followers

Nusret Gökçe, the Turkish chef and butcher behind the Nusr-Et steakhouse chain, is known for the theatrical steak preparation that made him a meme and a brand, and keeps posting under his #saltbae tag, most recently on September 29. His bio was blank at the read. 146M total likes.

13. Nick DiGiovanni (@nick.digiovanni) — 13.8M followers

The MasterChef finalist's bio is five words: "follow if you love food." His feed showed an upload every three to four days — "Testing Dry Aged Steaks" (October 4), "Too Much Butter Chicken" (September 30) — and 423.1M total likes. His collaborations reach across this very list: Cooking with Lynja's catalog includes a truffle-hunting video with him.

14. Nara Smith (@naraazizasmith) — 12.6M followers

From-scratch cooking delivered with a distinct, quiet lifestyle framing. At the read, her bio promoted preorders of her cookbook HOMEMADE, and recent uploads included a late-night pasta video tagged #easyrecipe (October 5) and an Amazon partner post labeled #ad (October 4). At 885.4M total likes on 12.6M followers, few accounts here get more engagement per follower.

15. Tommy Winkler (@tommywinkler) — 12.5M followers

Tommy Winkler posts as "The Food Guy," and his bio sums up the format: "I just eat food." His 3,404 videos back it up — the latest, on October 5, 2026, was a spicy mukbang tagged #daveshotchicken and #asmr — while all three of his pinned videos tag @Jessica Winkler, two of them under #wedding. 714.3M total likes.

Ranks 16–30: the rest of the most-followed food TikTok accounts

Some of the biggest cooking accounts on TikTok sit just outside the top 15. Same rules: every ranked count below is the profile's displayed figure on October 5, 2026.

• 16. Tini (@tinekeyounger) — 12.5M. Tineke Younger's recipe walk-throughs — her mac and cheese went famously viral, per Wikipedia — most recently covered homemade "sick popsicles" (October 4) and chicken noodle soup (October 3); her bio takes cookbook pre-orders. She ties Tommy Winkler at a displayed 12.5M; his higher like total (714.3M vs 591.8M) breaks the tie.
• 17. Emily Mariko (@emilymariko) — 12.1M. Minimalist home cooking made famous by her viral salmon bowl. 856.9M likes.
• 18. Mis Pastelitos (@mispastelitos_) — 12.1M. Gris Verduzco's Mexican baking account; the bio announces the opening of her own pastelería, and an October 1 post asks followers to try the "Popó Princesa" and vote on whether it stays on the menu. She ties Emily Mariko at a displayed 12.1M; Mariko's higher like total (856.9M vs 234.1M) breaks the tie.
• 19. B. Dylan Hollis (@bdylanhollis) — 10.2M. The Bermudian creator bakes vintage recipes for comedy — "Old school cracker magic" — and his bio shouts "BOOKS! 🎉".
• 20. Las Recetas de Simón (@lasrecetasdesimon) — 9.8M. "¡Recetas fáciles para todos los días!": easy everyday Spanish-language recipes, like the corn bizcochuelo he posted October 4.
• 21. Newt (@newt) — 9.7M. Newt Nguyen's sarcastic quick-cut cooking under the bio "lemme cook 🧑🏻‍🍳"; he posted on October 2.
• 22. Sam Way (@samseats) — 9.7M. Fast-paced recipe videos — coconut chicken noodle curry, a 100-layer lasagne, spaghetti carbonara — with every recipe funneled to a newsletter. He ties Newt at a displayed 9.7M; Newt's higher like total (378.1M vs 222.6M) breaks the tie.
• 23. Cedrik Lorenzen (@cedriklorenzen) — 8.6M. Cinematic dessert-making ("ASMR tiramisu layer cake," October 4) with a recipe subscription in the bio and a pinned Le Gruyère AOP ambassadorship post.
• 24. The Golden Balance (@thegoldenbalance) — 8.5M. Ahmad Alzahabi's bio links his restaurant, @eatgoldenboys, and his recipe site, and his pinned post announces his debut cookbook, NOW BISMILLAH!, for pre-order.
• 25. Buddy Valastro (@buddyvalastro) — 8.5M. "I make cake," reads TV's Cake Boss's bio; he uploaded at least three times in the week before the read, one of them captioned "Went into the studio to bake and ended up COOKING".
• 26. Foodgod (@foodgod) — 8.1M. Jonathan Cheban's restaurant-dining and food-culture takes. No upload in the roughly ten weeks before our read (latest: July 27, 2026).
• 27. Notorious Foodie (@notorious_foodie) — 7.8M. Technique-heavy cooking — wagyu donburi, braised beef cheeks, a Gordon Ramsay shepherd's pie — with recipes and cookware linked in the bio.
• 28. Agus Liporace (@kulinaria.recetas) — 7.1M. "Cocinera" — a cook, per her bio — posting full-ingredient recipes like the jam that opened her "semana de frutillas" (strawberry week) on October 5.
• 29. Khairul Aming (@khairulaming) — 7.1M. Malaysian creator and founder of the Sambal Nyet food brand; his bio was literally a Sambal Nyet restock notice at the read, and he posted on October 4. His displayed 7.1M ties Agus Liporace's; her higher like total (202.3M vs 191.9M) breaks the tie.
• 30. Joshua Weissman (@flakeysalt) — 7M. The chef known for "But Better," his series remaking popular food items from scratch, keeps his TikTok bio to three words: "I cook food."

Just below the cut, read the same day: Buse Zeynep (5.9M), Karissa Eats (5.1M), Shereen Pavlides of Cooking with Shereen (5M), Patrick Zeinali (4.6M), Salt Hank (2.5M — named to TikTok's own 2026 Discover List in the Foodies category), and street-food traveler Mark Wiens (2.1M). The Pasta Queen displayed 4.7M at our September 3, 2026 read; we could not re-read her profile on October 5.

Methodology: how this list was built

Most "top food influencers" lists republish each other's numbers. This one does not, and the difference showed up immediately: several counts circulating on well-ranked roundups run up to three times what TikTok actually displays. Here is exactly what we did.

• Every count is a live read at display precision. The list was first built on September 3, 2026, from multiple read passes. The figures published now come from one live read of TikTok's own profile data on October 5, 2026: all 30 ranked profiles at 21:04–21:05 UTC, and six of the accounts just below the cut at 21:06 UTC. Four figures could not be re-read and are labeled as September 3, 2026 reads: The Pasta Queen, Pakoyaso, Shadira Firdausi and ChefBonez. Counts appear exactly as TikTok displays them — "73.2M" stays "73.2M." We never expand a rounded count into digits TikTok did not show.
• No live read, no ranking. A candidate one agency list credits with 11M ("@cozyivn") returned TikTok's does-not-exist page; another claimed at 8.8M matched no findable account. Neither is ranked, and neither is guessed at. The candidate pool itself was assembled from published food-creator lists plus TikTok user search, so an account that appears on no list and never surfaced in search would be missed — below the very top, read this as the best-verified ranking we could build, not a census.
• Original food creators only, worldwide. A "food channel" here means an account whose identity — bio, pinned videos and recent uploads — is the creator's own food content: cooking, baking, recipes, restaurant reviews or food travel, in any language or country. Repost aggregators and brand or publisher kitchens (Tasty and its peers) are excluded, as are celebrity accounts where food is occasional.
• The primarily-food test uses what the profile showed at our read. Two large accounts were read successfully on September 3, 2026, but excluded because their bios and recent feeds at that read were family and daily-life content first: Pakoyaso (19.8M) and Shadira Firdausi (12.3M). ChefBonez (8M at the same read) was left out because his captions made food-primariness unconfirmable from it. These three could not be re-read on October 5, so their figures remain the September 3, 2026 ones. Matty Matheson was excluded at the candidate stage — RUSSH itself notes he doesn't do much cooking on TikTok these days.
• Handles were resolved, not copied. Six candidate handles — including ones printed by other lists — turned out to be namesquatters or empty placeholder accounts. The real profiles — including @mispastelitos_, @notorious_foodie and @kulinaria.recetas — were found through TikTok user search and verified before ranking. Never trust a printed handle.
• Published counts were treated as claims, and several are not TikTok counts at all. One influencer database's cooking list credits The Golden Balance with 13.8M, Patrick Zeinali with 13.4M and Buse Zeynep with 17.2M "followers on social media" — cross-network totals that run roughly 1.6 to three times what each creator's TikTok profile actually displayed at our read (8.5M, 4.6M and 5.9M). Cross-network totals repeated as TikTok counts, and stale data, are the two recurring failure modes — and the reason no number on this page is repeated from another list.
• Ties are broken by displayed total likes. TikTok rounds its display, so identical counts happen (12.5M, 12.1M, 9.7M, 8.5M and 7.1M each appear twice). Where they do, the account with more displayed total likes ranks higher.
• Activity is reported, not hidden. 27 of the 30 accounts posted within the two weeks before the read. The three exceptions are Gordon Ramsay (latest upload September 17, 2026), Foodgod (last upload July 27, 2026) and Cooking with Lynja (inactive since January 2024); the last two are labeled in their entries.
• Profile photos and live links. The creator photos in the visual index at the top of this page were saved from each creator’s live TikTok profile on October 5, 2026, the same day as the counts. Every handle on this page links to the live profile, where today’s counts will have drifted past the October 5 figures this ranking is ordered by — the table records what the ranking was built from.

Food influencer marketing, earnings and how to break in

Three questions travel with this list — what brands should do with it, what these creators earn, and how a new creator gets here. Honest answers to each, grounded in what the 30 profiles above actually show.

What this list tells brands about food influencer marketing

Food is a genuinely global category on TikTok: the top 30 alone spans creators posting in at least four languages, from Mexico City taco guides to Malaysian sambal. Sponsored work is visible right in the reads — Nara Smith's recent uploads include an Amazon partner post labeled #ad, and Cedrik Lorenzen pins a Le Gruyère AOP ambassadorship — so disclosure-labeled brand integration is visible in the reads at multiple tiers of this list.

The vetting lesson is blunter: published follower counts are frequently wrong, as the methodology above shows, so read the profile yourself before you brief an agency. Then look past the count entirely — compare Salt Bae's displayed 146M likes on 15M followers with Keith Lee's 921.9M on 17.3M: similar counts, very different audience behavior.

Run any shortlist through our TikTok engagement rate calculator, and use the cross-platform engagement rate calculator when you are comparing a creator's TikTok against their Instagram or YouTube. One more buyer-education note: follower counts can simply be bought. Our buy TikTok followers guide reviews that market from the buyer's side — the short version is that purchased followers change a number, not watch time, comments or sales, which is exactly why engagement-based vetting beats count-based vetting.

How to become a food influencer on TikTok

The 30 accounts above are a working syllabus. Four patterns repeat. First, a repeatable signature format you could describe in one line: chocolate sculptures (Guichon), vintage recipes played for comedy (Hollis), no-talk ASMR (Choi), candid taste tests (Lee). Second, measured consistency — Guichon ships one sculpture a week, DiGiovanni posts every three to four days, and several accounts post near-daily.

Third, captions that do work: Newt’s pizookie post and Agus Liporace’s strawberry-jam post carry the full ingredient list in the caption, which makes posts like these shareable and searchable. Fourth, an owned next step for the audience — newsletters (Sam Way), cookbooks (Nara Smith, Tini), a food line (Surthycooks), restaurants and packaged brands (The Golden Balance, Khairul Aming). None of this requires a big count to start; it is what the big counts were built from.

How much do food influencers make?

There is no reliable public income figure for any creator on this list, so we will not print one. What the profiles themselves document is the revenue architecture: disclosure-labeled brand partnerships (noted above), books (Nara Smith's HOMEMADE preorder, Tini's cookbook pre-order, Hollis's books), restaurants and food brands (CZN Burak's multi-city branches, the Nusr-Et chain, Sambal Nyet, @eatgoldenboys, the Mis Pastelitos pastelería, Surthycooks' food line), plus subscriptions and newsletters.

Earnings scale with engagement and conversion, not follower count alone. For a range estimate of what a given follower count and engagement rate could earn from brand work, our TikTok money calculator shows the assumptions behind every number instead of promising an income. For what a LIVE gift’s Coins are worth in dollars, our TikTok Coins to USD calculator converts them at the prices TikTok’s own site displayed on that calculator’s read date.

The bottom line

CZN Burak leads TikTok food at a displayed 73.2M followers, Bayashi owns the like count at 1.8B, and the top 30 stretches from candid taste tests to pastry tutorials in Spanish — every ranked figure above read live on October 5, 2026, with the read date attached so you can judge freshness for yourself. Counts move daily; the profiles are linked so you can check today's numbers in one tap. For more platform data and guides, see our TikTok hub and the latest posts in our TikTok category.