A chef who measures
A Russian chef on TikTok cooking everything from chanterelle fricassee to roasted carrots with apricot sauce, with a gram-by-gram recipe under every video.
What it is
A TikTok cooking account run by a professional chef, published under the name "Рецепты просто песня" (roughly "Recipes, easy as a song"). The videos are short, but each caption is a proper recipe card: every ingredient in grams, salt and sugar measured to the gram, and the steps in order. Everything is in Russian, and about 2.5 million people follow the account.
Why we picked it
It sits in a nice middle ground between restaurant precision and everyday home cooking. Lazy cottage-cheese dumplings come with a persimmon sauce. Carrots get marinated in maple syrup, roasted, and served with a dried-apricot and sumac sauce, a good plant-based dish. Then there are truly simple things too: berry mors, a marbled cottage-cheese bake, chicken fricassee with chanterelles. One of our favorites takes on the idea that river fish tastes bad and turns pike and carp into juicy fish mince.
The real selling point is the measurements. Because the chef writes down grams even for salt, the dish tends to come out the way it looks on screen, not "season to taste and hope." On his Telegram channel he mentions fifteen years in the trade, and it shows in how calm and organized the videos are. We didn't spot product ads in the recent posts; the feed is simply food.
Where to start
- The river-fish video: how to make juicy mince from pike and carp.
- Lazy cottage-cheese dumplings with persimmon sauce for a special breakfast.
- Roasted carrots with dried-apricot sauce if you want something meat-free.
- Chicken thigh fricassee with chanterelles or button mushrooms.
- Berry mors for an easy autumn drink.
Who it's for
Home cooks who have the basics down and want to try something a step more interesting without special equipment. People tired of recipes that say "a pinch of this, a handful of that." And anyone who can read some Russian or doesn't mind running captions through a translator, since the ingredient lists are easy to decode.
Quick answers
Do I need a TikTok account? You can browse the profile without one, but full captions are easier to read in the app.
Where are the measurements? In the caption under each video: an ingredient list with weights plus short notes.
Is it still active? Yes. The latest video went up in late September 2026, and new recipes appear several times a month.
