You don't need a cable bill to keep watching Tastemade. Here's every way to stream it online, and how to do it for free.
Reviewed and updated August 2026 by our cord-cutting team · 7 options
Founded in 2012, Tastemade is one of the few channels that started with the advent of social media. Now it's mostly active as a channel touting both original and licensed shows, including Jamie Oliver: Cooking for Less and Gordon Ramsay's Home Cooking. Tastemade is available to watch on a number of live TV streaming services, some of them (like MyFree DIRECTV) for free. Below, we round up all the streaming services you can use to watch Tastemade.
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Yes, with a free trial. Tastemade is on DIRECTV, and you can watch it free for DIRECTV's 5-day free trial. Cancel before it ends and you pay nothing.
DIRECTV plans
Yes, with a free trial. Tastemade is on Philo, and you can watch it free for Philo's 7-day free trial. Cancel before it ends and you pay nothing.
Philo is one of the most interesting ways to cut the cord out there: it offers over 70 channels for as little as $25. If you don’t watch sports or a lot of local TV, but want access to everything else, it’s the perfect Live TV option. Their Bundle+ subscription adds access to AMC+, HBO Max, and Discovery+.
It carries no sports and no local channels, so it only covers entertainment and lifestyle networks.
Philo plans
Yes, with a free trial. Tastemade is on Fubo, and you can watch it free for Fubo's 7-day free trial. Cancel before it ends and you pay nothing.
Fubo is a live TV and on-demand streaming service. The platform had it beginning as a soccer stream service, but it quickly became popular as a viable alternative to expensive cable subscriptions in the U.S, offering an attractive bundle of more than 100 live channels as well as an endless array of on-demand movies.
It leans heavily on sports, and a regional sports fee of a few dollars up to about $17 by ZIP gets added on top.
Fubo plans
Yes, with a free trial. Tastemade is on YouTube TV, and you can watch it free for YouTube TV's 7-day free trial. Cancel before it ends and you pay nothing.
Youtube TV has quickly grown into one of the best choices for Live TV, offering both local and national channels like ESPN, CNN, Comedy Central, and others. Youtube TV’s marketing claims that by getting the platform, you could save up to $500 a year on cable. One major draw of the platform is unlimited cloud DVR storage that’s included in the $82.99 plan.
It’s also one of the most widely available Live TV streaming services, as you can get it on virtually every device from Fire TV to XBOX to Smart TV brands like LG.
At around $83 a month it's one of the priciest options, and add-ons push the bill past $100 fast.
YouTube TV plans
No. Sling TV doesn't carry Tastemade.
No. Hulu + Live TV doesn't carry Tastemade.
No. Paramount+ doesn't carry Tastemade.
No. Peacock doesn't carry Tastemade.
No. Frndly TV doesn't carry Tastemade.
No. Disney+ only streams the Disney family (ABC, FX, Nat Geo, ESPN and the Disney kids channels), and Tastemade isn’t part of it. The best way to watch Tastemade without cable is YouTube TV above (free-trial).
No. HBO Max only streams the Warner Bros. Discovery family (HBO, Discovery, HGTV, TNT, CNN and the rest), and Tastemade isn’t part of it. The best way to watch Tastemade without cable is YouTube TV above (free-trial).
No. There’s no Prime Video Channels add-on for Tastemade, so Prime can’t stream it on demand or live. The best way to watch Tastemade without cable is YouTube TV above (free-trial).
The honest way to watch Tastemade for free is a free trial, and the trick is not to spend them one at a time. Start one, then start the next when it ends, and you can string together a few weeks of free live TV back to back, usually enough to cover a tournament or a playoff run without paying for a month.
| Service | From | Free trial | Plans | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DIRECTV |
$94.99/mo | 5 days | 4 | Get it |
| Philo |
$28/mo | 7 days | 1 | Get it |
| Fubo |
$84.99/mo | 7 days | 2 | Get it |
| YouTube TV |
$9.99/mo | 7 days | 2 | Get it |
Tastemade and the US services that carry it are geo-locked to the United States, so your login stops working the moment you leave the country. A VPN fixes that: connect to a US server and the service sees a US address again. The catch is that streaming platforms actively block most VPN traffic, so the VPN you pick matters far more than the service does. These three reliably get back in:
A huge US server network (thousands of IPs across 15-plus cities) with SmartPlay DNS baked into every server, so streaming just works without extra setup. The best value of the top tier on a two-year plan.
Best for streaming Tastemade with: Philo
Get NordVPN →The budget pick, and the one to get if the whole household travels: it allows unlimited simultaneous devices on one account, plus a Smart DNS for TVs. Reliable with the on-demand and lifestyle services.
Best for streaming Tastemade with: YouTube TV, Philo
Get Surfshark →Whichever you pick, connect to a US city first, then sign in to Tastemade or the service that carries it as normal. Choose a VPN with a money-back window so you can confirm it un-blocks Tastemade before you commit.
No. Tastemade is a cable channel and doesn't broadcast over the air, so an antenna can't pick it up. An antenna only gets the free broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, PBS, The CW), which pair nicely with one of the services above; check which of those reach your address here.
Every service that carries Tastemade runs on the major streaming platforms, so you can watch on just about any TV, phone, or console. Here's how, device by device:
On Roku, you can watch Tastemade through DIRECTV, Philo, Fubo, and YouTube TV. To set it up, add the channel from the Roku Channel Store, sign in, and open Tastemade in the live guide.
On Amazon Fire TV, you can watch Tastemade through DIRECTV, Philo, Fubo, and YouTube TV. To set it up, download the app from the Amazon Appstore, sign in, and open Tastemade in the live guide.
On Apple TV, you can watch Tastemade through DIRECTV, Philo, Fubo, and YouTube TV. To set it up, install the app from the App Store, sign in, and open Tastemade in the live guide.
On Android TV & Google TV, you can watch Tastemade through DIRECTV, Philo, Fubo, and YouTube TV. To set it up, grab the app from the Google Play Store, sign in, and open Tastemade in the live guide.
On Chromecast, you can watch Tastemade through Philo and Fubo. The gap: DIRECTV and YouTube TV don't offer a Chromecast app. To set it up, cast it from your phone or use the built-in Google TV app, sign in, and open Tastemade in the live guide.
On Samsung & LG smart TVs, you can watch Tastemade through DIRECTV, Philo, and YouTube TV. The gap: Fubo doesn't offer a Samsung & LG smart TVs app. To set it up, install the app from your TV's own store (Tizen or webOS), sign in, and open Tastemade in the live guide.
On phones & tablets, you can watch Tastemade through DIRECTV, Philo, Fubo, and YouTube TV. To set it up, download the app from the App Store or Google Play, sign in, and open Tastemade in the live guide.
On game consoles, you can watch Tastemade through YouTube TV. The gap: DIRECTV, Philo, and Fubo don't offer a game consoles app. To set it up, download the app from the Xbox or PlayStation store, sign in, and open Tastemade in the live guide.
Cheapest is the question everyone starts with, and it's the wrong place to stop. A $35 plan that drops Tastemade the month after you sign up hasn't saved you anything. So the first number we pay attention to is the real one, what you owe after the introductory month ends, not the figure in the ad. From there it comes down to whether the channels you actually want sit in the base plan or get stranded in an add-on, how the service behaves day to day (a slow app and a useless DVR wear on you faster than you'd expect), and how much of a fight it puts up when you decide to leave.
Whatever lands at the top of a list like this is the service that gets most of that right for the most people. Once in a while that's also the cheapest one. Usually it isn't.
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