The honest gap in the most crowded room on the internet

I want to start a cooking YouTube channel, and I know exactly how that sounds — it's the most crowded room on the internet. That's why I'm here. I've cooked professionally for twelve years, mostly in one lane: I can make anything taste incredible out of a terrible kitchen — one burner, no counter space, dollar-store pans, the kitchens real renters actually have. Tell me the truth about the market: what to stay away from because it's saturated dead, where the honest gap is for someone with my exact skill, and then build me the channel that owns it: name and identity, the visual style shot in an actually-bad kitchen as the whole point, brand assets, the first season of episodes, and the growth-and-money plan with real numbers. If the strategy says my idea is wrong and a different angle wins, say so with receipts — I'd rather change course now than in episode forty.