--- title: Miniature Food Youtube Video: Chimichanga, Soup, Cinnabun description: The YouTuber's videos are a mesmerizing display of miniature cooking, each complex recipe rendered at nearly microscopic scale. canonical: https://time.com/4510677/mini-food-video/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-27T21:13:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:37:05.144Z og:title: Watch a Guy Cook the Tiniest Soup Ever og:description: The YouTuber makes mesmerizingly miniature meals with shocking exactitude. og:url: https://time.com/4510677/mini-food-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch a Guy Cook the Tiniest Soup Ever twitter:description: The YouTuber makes mesmerizingly miniature meals with shocking exactitude. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch This Guy Making Delicious-Looking Soup—Miniature Sized for Ants > Sponsored content. 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Put them together and you get… [Walking With Giants](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYtDWoTeUf1Iwp0xEV1Hgyg/videos), the most binge-worthy YouTube channel you’ve never heard of. In his collection of 28 lovingly shot videos, YouTube creator Jay Baron concocts elaborate, fully-cooked dishes that are sized for the consumption of something tiny. Very tiny, very lucky ants, perhaps. But only if they have an impeccable palate, because this food—a extremely small chimichanga, for instance, or delicate mini cinnamon rolls—looks tasty, too. In a dollhouse-style setup, Baron goes through every step, no matter how mundane. For instance, in his chicken soup video, the minuscule raw chicken cutlet (smaller than a pinky nail) is unpackaged from its clinging Saran wrap; the onion is sliced at a (dangerously) microscopic scale. An Xacto blade has been jerry-rigged into a paring knife, and a teeny copper pot, glistening warmly like anything [Ina Garten would approve of](http://time.com/4389140/bread-is-better-than-ever/?iid=sr-link2), is settled on a doll’s iron stove, within which a tea light functions as the internal furnace. There’s something oddly compelling about Barron’s giant-seeming hands nimbly slicing a baby-baby carrot with exactitude—not to mention that the finished product, served at a doll-sized cafe table, looks like the set of a stop-motion animation. Or perhaps it looks like the [heartwarming cartoon _Ratatouille_](http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1630548,00.html?iid=sr-link2) has been brought, improbably, to life. 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