“Loving, caring, sharing. This is my family.”
Internet's favourite chef grandpa from the massively popular cooking channel "Grandpa Kitchen" on YouTube is no more.
Narayana Reddy aka Grandpa, who hailed from Telangana, breathed his last on October 27. The tragic news was shared with his 6 million subscribers through a video uploaded on his channel on Wednesday.
Started in 2017, "Grandpa Kitchen" found viewers from all over the world who loved to watch Grandpa cook massive portions of meal in just one sitting. Often seen amid a calm backdrop of lush, green fields, his seemingly modest approach to cooking earned Grandpa great popularity on YouTube.
From cooking 500 packets of Maggi in one go to teaching the Internet how to prepare KFC-styled chicken, American lasagna, chicken biryani and other elaborate dishes at low cost at home and even preparing mouth-watering sweet dishes such as Oreo pudding, gulab jamuns - nothing was amiss on grandpa's menu.
But what really resonated with foodies and catapulted him to YouTube fame was the unique reason for setting up his channel.
All the gargantuan proportions of meal that the man cooked (the ones that raked in millions of views) were served to orphans in his community.
"We entertain people by cooking food and donate the proceeds to charities. Our goal is to provide basic necessities like food, clothing, school supplies and birthday gifts to the orphans," the bio on Grandpa Kitchen's Patreon account read.
Grandpa cooked his last meal 'Crispy Potato Fingers', as evident on his channel, last month on September 20 and has been away from cooking duties ever since due to deteriorating health.
Last week, a visibly ailing grandpa made his final appearance on the channel in a live session to give updates regarding his health and the channel.