TikTok chefs take “food porn” literally

You know that chicken crossing the road thing? Yes? Hm. What about the one where the chicken gets absolutely bruised by the fingers of a sexy Swiss TikTok influencer? Well, let me tell you all about it.

Between food prep videos and food fetish videos there is a kind of sensual cooking video that redefines the term “food porn”. Watching them feel perverted and naughty: Poultry being punished, dough rising digitally stimulated, and pepper being ground so that my suppressed Catholic self wants to scream, “Leave room for the Holy Spirit!” It’s hard to watch these videos not to watch and be absolutely disgusted with what the algorithm put in my feed. However, if the comments are any indicator, many people welcome such content. Even hungry for it.

“The way I filmed these videos is [by pretending] I’m someone’s significant other,” TikTok user Cedrik Lorenzen told me in an interview.

In one of those carnal culinary TikToks, Lorenzen — a harlequin, handsome Swiss-Australian home cook whose videos regularly surpass two million views — prepares a Sunday roast. You’d be a chaste fool if you thought he’d just put a chicken in the oven, steam the peas and carrots, and call it a day. No, in this video the handsome chef is practically reenacting the plot of fifty shades of grayspanks the undercooked chicken and fingers the peas out of their shells while showing off his chiseled abs to the fullest.

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The videos teeter on the edge of wet and messy (WAM) and splattering food kinks, even borrowing kinks’ hashtags; but they don’t fully resemble the erotic focuses of these fetishes, which are more about feeling aroused when covered in foods like pudding or baked beans. Instead, these videos seem to be Strive to be pampered by a fervently attentive house husband, one who will sternly demand that you put your feet up on the couch while he cooks you a steak. And if you don’t, if you’re a bad girl, he might just punish you.

Lorenzen, although arguably the most popular horny TikTok chef, is one of many. There’s Curious Iris, the hashtags their content with #sapphiccooking; Chef Jay Lyon, a home cook in Miami, who apparently spends less time in front of a stove than he does feed erotically women grapes. These videos have no erotic subtext, they only have text, and this is the kind you would find in the adult-only backroom of a bookstore. “If you were here now, I would eat you” the caption one of Lorenzen’s videos reads.

The finished products in these videos often whet the appetite and more than just eroticism. If I didn’t see fingers digging into each well of the meal, I would certainly be inclined to ask for a bite. “They are violating some health and safety rules,” Lorenzen says, which his commenters often remind him of. “But that’s only part of the fun.” In one video, he did falls a finger in the bowl of brownie batter; in another, while making Eggs Benedict over a glazed donut, he shines into the bowl. Lorenzen often pauses, looks over his shoulder and winks at the viewer.

Currently based in Switzerland, the chef and content creator plans to one day open his own restaurant or hospitality business. There, he clarifies, he will monitor health Rules. Right now, his kinky kitchen vignettes are a way to build a loyal audience. While some users might want to warn him about cross-contamination, there are sure to be many more “I’m pregnant with chicken nuggets” comments after watching him tie up a raw chicken like a BDSM pornstar.

“A lot of the accounts that follow me are people who are very interested in food,” says Lorenzen. “So it’s not just the sex appeal.” While I have no reason not to believe him — and there are plenty of comments on the videos expressing how delicious the end products look (they do!) — it’s clear that most followers who choose to comment will , definitely investing in the sex appeal of his work. “Cryin but not from my eyes,” writes a commenter on a TikTok that shows the chef fill a cannoli in a way that could technically get someone pregnant. “Google how to become fruit,” writes another to a video in which Lorenzen is absolute go to the city on a papaya.

And what might seem like quick steamy meal prep takes anywhere from eight to 12 hours of filming in his home kitchen, Lorenzen explains when I ask how the sausage is made (before, you know, it gets contaminated). In a refreshingly sex-food-positive revelation, he insists all foods can be sexy under the right lighting. “It honestly really comes down to how good your camera is and how good your lighting setup is,” he says. Inspiring.

While I could imagine a papaya lends itself more to sensuality than, say, a Caesar salad, I’ve learned through Horny Food TikTok that any piece of food can be wildly, explicitly, and even graphically sexual. So if you’ve got an appetite for food, for sex, or for both, there’s a special corner of TikTok waiting to take your ass to dinner.