Steven Gao
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About
Professional chef and cooking content creator also known online as StevenMotoCooks and known for his TikTok and Instagram content of culinary school lessons, cooking techniques, recipe experiments, day-in-the-life chef videos, restaurant training clips, and honest reflections of working in the kitchen with over 550,000 TikTok followers and 1.1 million Instagram followers.
Before fame
He graduated from Rutgers University in 2023 with a degree in computer science and graphic design. He realized that his happiest college memories came from cooking for friends which led him to enroll at the Institute of Culinary Education in New York City for the 2023-2024 term. He began documenting his culinary school journey on TikTok and Instagram in September 2023.
Trivia
He created The Culinary Dream Scholarship in collaboration with the Institute of Culinary Education to support aspiring cooks. He also launched Steven's Merry Cookmas Giveaway featuring brands such as Le Creuset, Miyabi, Hedley & Bennett, Vitamix, Breville, Brightland, Gozney, and Hestan Culinary. He used his previous experience making volleyball training videos in college to shape his cooking video style.
Family life
He is from the United States.
Associated with
He and Nick DiGiovanni are both chefs and social media content creators known for making cooking education accessible online.
