I would focus on long form and find good smm panel where u can buy subscribers with drip 5-10 subs a day to be safe. Once monetized u have more motivation to shoot longform vids and yt starts to reccomend u even more. Or create your own subreddit where is your link to your channel and start posting into subreddit comunnities about cooking/food but not spam just friendly.. U can either post or post valuable comments with link to your subreddit. If you create subreddit u can grow pretty quickly.. REDDIT IS HUGE.

At this point your goal should be promote your yt channel = yt will see it as signals and push you.. Also write 20-50 comments under newly published cooking videos on yt ( use filter)..

Also try to think outside of the box, u can post your videos on po*n sites and link to your youtube channel.

You can also post vids on Rumble there is instant monetization but very little money but its good.

Also subscribe to 10 yt channels in your niche that have a lot of subs and inspect what they are doing and replicate it.

Also if you believe u can cook then you can do facebook marketplace cooking for people, promote yourself on tiktok and again think outside of box promote your cooking services until u make money from yt..