Live cooking · Whangārei, Aotearoa

You're in my kitchen now.

Restaurant-quality food, cooked live. Two nights a week the fire goes on, the wheel spins, and the community decides what hits the pan next.

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Live schedule Tuesday 7:00 PM NZST - Cook night + ingredient wheel Thursday 7:00 PM NZST - The wheel's pick, cooked live
From the stream

Latest from the kitchen

Every dish here was cooked live in front of the community first. Recipes land after the stream.

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SHiFtY - TheSHiFtYChef
The chef

SHiFtY.

Entrepreneur turned live-fire cook, streaming restaurant-quality food from Whangārei - where the community spins the wheel and the wheel decides dinner.

The Journey

Beyond the kitchen.

A mission to travel New Zealand, meet the people behind its food, and turn their stories into original content - with the community along for every step.

Raised so far

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From the pass

Recent plates

A rolling look at what's left the kitchen lately - every plate cooked live on stream.

Hand-cut pasta with burrata
Salmon wellington with crispy rice bites
Market fish, prawns and green-lipped mussels in broth
Glazed salmon rice bowl
Tiramisu
Chicken and brie burger with wedges
Noodles with mushrooms and soft eggs
Soup with flatbreads
The back catalogue

Recipes

Cooked live on stream, written up the way I actually cook - numbered, measured, timed. No life stories before the method.

TheSHiFtYChef · Beyond the kitchen

The Journey

The Journey is my mission to travel New Zealand, meet the people behind its food, tell their stories, and turn those experiences into original content that brings the community along for every step.

Raised so far · liveNZ$0

Current goal

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Goal

Every dollar shown here started with the community - Twitch support has been counted from day one. (Demo mode: figures simulated until the live feed is connected.)

How it works

One goal at a time

Each goal unlocks a real capability - gear that directly raises what the content can be. When a goal completes, the next one is revealed and the RV rolls on. Foundations are already laid; every contribution expands what's possible and how fast we get there.

Phase 01 · Now

Local stories first

Filming with growers and makers around Whangārei - interviews, B-roll, real kitchens. Building the showreel that opens bigger doors.

Phase 02 · Unlocking

The road

Regional then national travel. Live streams from the RV, cooking with producers on their land, connected anywhere via Starlink.

Phase 03 · The vision

Aotearoa, plated

Long-form documentaries, a roadshow cook-and-interview setup, and a library of stories from the people who feed this country.

Recognition

Founding Supporters

Everyone who helps unlock a goal gets counted - on stream, on this page, and in the content the goal makes possible. Introductions and leads count as support too. Opt-in only; stay anonymous if you prefer.

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About

SHiFtY - TheSHiFtYChef Est. Whangārei · NZ Cracking into a crème brûlée

I'm SHiFtY - a chef-at-heart, entrepreneur, and streamer based in Whangārei, at the top of New Zealand.

I've built and sold businesses before. This one is different: TheSHiFtYChef is a live cooking show where the food is genuinely restaurant-quality and the community genuinely runs the kitchen. Channel points spin the ingredient wheel, the wheel picks what I cook, and twice a week we find out together whether it works.

It usually works.

The stream is stage one. The Journey is where it's heading - taking the kitchen on the road to meet the growers, fishers, and makers behind New Zealand's food, and turning their stories into content worth watching. Not a hobby. A build.

Off camera it's family, the garden, and whatever the next project is. On camera: you're in my kitchen now.

2Live streams / week
500+Community strong
100%Cooked live, no edits
1RV pointed at the horizon
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Contact

Producers & growers

If you grow it, catch it, raise it, or make it in Aotearoa - I want to tell that story. Featured producers get long-form coverage, shorts, and a recipe built around what you produce.

Partners

The Journey has room for a small number of Founding Partners whose names travel with it from the start. Serious enquiries only - the fit matters more than the cheque.

Find me live

Fastest way to reach me is in chat - Tuesday and Thursday, 7:00 PM NZST on Twitch.