Cooking with Kya grew out of short TikTok cooking videos in which the creator shares simple home recipes in a direct, personality-led style. Clips from those videos were reused as reaction sounds, especially in food edits where the intro sets up a cooking attempt before the result is shown. Because the phrase is short and easy to recognise, it travelled beyond recipe videos into comedy edits, duets and kitchen fails. It remains popular as a quick shorthand for home cooking content rather than as a full recipe or song.