How to Watch Cooking Channel Without Cable

Cooking Channel sure is a joy to watch, but a pricey cable contract is not a recipe for success. Balance your TV diet by cutting cable and using other simple methods to watch Cooking Channel without cable. Below, we'll lay out everything that you need to know about how to watch Cooking Channel without cable. We're talking about legal methods that will save you money and make it easy for you to watch Cooking Channel on Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, and Chromecast devices – to name just a few. Just follow along step-by-step as we whip up a delightful solution to today's streaming dilemma.

Here are a few of our favorite ways to stream Cooking Channel:

	Price	Channels	Free Trial
#1	$69.99 – $139.99	65+	None	See Offer
#2	$25	60+	7 days	See Offer
#3	$54.99 – $86.96	100+	7 days	See Offer
#4	$35 – $50	30+ – 130+	3 days	See Offer

Cooking Channel is one of those channels that we call “network TV.” That's a term that distinguishes it from “broadcast TV,” which refers to the channels you can pick up over the air using an antenna. Network channels like Cooking Channel are traditionally available only through “multichannel” services, which is a fancy word for the type of service that cable and satellite provide.

But if you need a pay TV multichannel service to watch Cooking Channel, then why are we writing an article called “How to Watch Cooking Channel Without Cable” on a site dedicated to getting rid of old-school pay TV services?

Because not all multichannel services are as awful as cable and satellite! The outdated services we encourage our readers to cut are “legacy” pay TV services. There's a newer type of pay TV service in town, and it's called a “skinny bundle.”

Skinny bundles are live TV multichannel services, so they have something in common with cable and satellite. But they are also different in some very important ways. The most notable difference between skinny bundles and legacy pay TV services is that skinny bundles deliver their content online – they call that “over the top,” or “OTT,” in industry lingo, but you may know it better as simply “streaming.” Yep, these are live TV streaming services.

Now that we understand what sort of services we'll be looking at, we're ready to tackle the subject at hand: how to watch Cooking Channel without cable. Not every skinny bundle will give you a Cooking Channel livestream, but several great ones do. Let's meet the candidates!

First, it was “DIRECTV NOW.” Then it was AT&T TV Now. The “now” has vanished, but AT&T TV remains a great option for watching live TV without cable. Its various bundles include different channels at different price points — choose one that includes Cooking Channel, and you'll be all set to enjoy a Cooking Channel stream, no cable required.

Of all the skinny bundles, Philo might be the skinniest. The idea behind Philo is to make live TV as cheap as possible. To that end, Philo has steered clear of local channels and live sports. Those who don't mind those omissions will find that the decision has left Philo with an incredibly affordable selection of awesome channels. And it has a free trial! Read our review for more on Philo.

You can use fuboTV to watch lots of great channels live without cable, and Cooking Channel is among the networks that fuboTV offers. fuboTV makes things sweeter by offering a free trial, which you can sign up for using the link above. For more on fuboTV, read our review.

As you may have noticed, Cooking Channel doesn't always make the cut with the skinniest of skinny bundles. That's one of the problems with skinny bundles: as they slim down, some of your favorite channels might end up on the outside looking in. Sling TV is designed to solve that problem. It's a custom skinny bundle service that lets you tack “Extras” — small add-on bundles of like-minded channels — to your base package. This setup makes Sling TV an ideal way to watch Cooking Channel without cable. Read our review of Sling TV to learn more.

In general, we only recommend cooking at home. That’s where most people’s kitchens are, for one thing, and you’re going to get some weird looks if you try plugging in a toaster on the subway (or maybe not, if you’re in New York). But while you should leave the cooking at home, you can watch Cooking Channel pretty much anywhere you want. Check out the chart below to see all the devices that you can use to enjoy Cooking Channel without a cable subscription.

There’s a saying that goes like this: Cooking is an art, while baking is a science. We’re not here to judge the veracity of that saying, but we are happy to report that knowing how to watch Cooking Channel without cable is neither a science nor an art. It doesn’t require as much effort as either of those things.

If you’ve read this guide, then you should be pretty clear on the specifics of just how to get a live- stream of Cooking Channel. Try a free trial and start watching all your favorite cooking shows. You don’t even have to preheat the oven first.