Alex Aïnouz

Alex Aïnouz
Other nameFrench Guy Cooking
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Channel
Years active2013–2024
Subscribers2.09 million
Views239 million
Last updated: 23 September, 2025

Alexis Gabriel Aïnouz, also known by the alias French Guy Cooking, is a French food YouTuber. He makes cooking tutorials involving spins on French dishes with a focus on experimentation, and also makes short-form docuseries documenting his process of learning new techniques and recipes. He runs his YouTube channel in English to reach a wider audience, and promote French culinary culture abroad. Aïnouz is a self-taught cook with an electrical engineering background with experience in marketing. He debuted on YouTube in 2013. His recipes for croissants and brioche were published by The Times in London in 2018. He won the award for "Best Food" at the 11th Shorty Awards in 2019. He is a regular contributor to Milk Street Radio.

References

  1. ↑ "Perspective - 'Just a French Guy Cooking': Making the humble omelette easy". France 24. 2018-12-20. Archived from the original on 2020-10-13. Retrieved 2020-10-17.
  2. ↑ Kleinman, Jake (27 November 2019). "French Guy Cooking: Alex Ainouz wants to inspire you to cook — by failing". Inverse. Archived from the original on 2020-09-19. Retrieved 2020-10-17.
  3. ↑ "FOOD: YouTube star Alex Ainouz talks about his new cookbook". Worcester News. 15 September 2018. Retrieved 2020-10-17.
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  5. ↑ "FOOD: YouTube star Alex Ainouz talks about his new cookbook". Worcester News. 15 September 2018. Archived from the original on 2021-03-31. Retrieved 2020-10-17.
  6. 1 2 "Les YouTubeurs à suivre: Alex, le "French Guy Cooking" qui va vous faire aimer la cuisine". BFMTV (in French). Archived from the original on 2020-07-31. Retrieved 2020-10-17.
  7. ↑ Aïnouz, Alexis Gabriel (September 8, 2018). "Cheat's croissant and foolproof brioche: the easiest French recipes: Croissants made with shop-bought pastry and an onion soup that doesn't take hours of slow cooking. The French cook Alexis Gabriel Aïnouz shares his favourite fuss-free recipes". The Times. London. Retrieved September 28, 2021.
  8. ↑ "Alex French Guy Cooking: Winner in FOOD". Shorty Awards. 2019. Retrieved September 28, 2021. It comes as no surprise that one of the biggest names in YouTube food inspiration is a young Parisian named Alex. Armed with a healthy-ish obsession of instant ramen, a passionate love for home cooking and 860K+ YouTube subs, Alex's fresh spin on cooking instructionals make complex French classics easy to create.
  9. ↑ "Friends of Milk Street: Alex Aïnouz". Christopher Kimball's Milk Street. Retrieved September 28, 2021. Whether it's creative recipes, impossible challenges, geeky experiments and over-engineered DIYs, Alex focuses on bringing inspiration, confidence and fun back into cooking.