Cooking, Comedy, Chaos: Food Content Creator Carries 1 Million-Plus Followers Into Guest Chef Dinner

Riding the appeal of her wild and sometimes wacky social media cooking videos, the Ohio native built her audience up to more than 1 million followers.

Food content creator Desarae Legros shows ingredients she'll use to create her signature Brinner Burger while filming a TikTok video in her kitchen in Monongahela, Pennsylvania on Wednesday, March 4, 2026. Steve Mellon/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette/TNS

PITTSBURGH—After suffering a disabling ankle injury in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, Desarae Legros left behind her childhood dream of owning a restaurant and became a food content creator instead.

Riding the appeal of her wild and sometimes wacky social media cooking videos, the Ohio native built her audience up to more than 1 million followers across platforms in just five years.