A 3-year-old chef is winning millions of hearts online for his cuteness overloaded cooking videos on TikTok. Little Chef Illirian Kameraj from Great Neck, New York, has been cooking with his mom, Dorentina, since he was barely 1. Since the pandemic began, his mother has been sharing his meal preparation videos on TikTok and Instagram.
The adorable cooking videos show Illirian preparing meals from scratch like roasted potatoes, filet mignon, rack of lamb, roast chicken and beef Wellington. Wearing a chef’s hat with ‘Chef Illirian’ written over it and an apron can be seen prepping meals by chopping with safe chopping tools.
As per Today, his mother shared he started with the easy stuff like cupcakes and then moved to roasted chicken.She revealed that the toddler fell in love with baking after watching a video on his favorite YouTube channel Blippi where Lior the Baker showed his viewers how to make bread and pastries which got him to try his hand at cooking too.
His mother told they have made roast chicken four times as he likes to marinate, massage and stuff it. She adds that the little guy started cooking to keep himself happy and entertained during the lockdown. In March last year, they started cooking more when Dorentina decided to share the videos of mother-son duo baking cupcakes online. Their friends suggested the parents to dedicate separate accounts to his cooking which led to @Illirian_cooks on Instagram, with more than 50,000 followers and another on TikTok.
Take a look at the adorable chef’s cooking videos here:https://www.instagram.com/ilirian_cooks/
Dorentina doesn’t allow his son to use a knife, put safety first, so he uses a chopping machine or other tools. She explains that he loves to slam the chopping machine. “I can’t touch it — if he sees it out in the kitchen, he goes and gets it.” She says that kids are capable of so much but parents don’t allow their kids to try stuff.Illirian recently tried his hands at Gordon Ramsay’s recipes tagging him in a number of his videos to get the British Chef’s attention.