Samsung TV / videos / TV COOKING HUB
REVIEW
TV Cooking HUB is a single-purpose recipe channel on Samsung's TV store.
A free cooking-video aggregator from Desoline, sitting in the Tizen videos category alongside the major streaming names but built for one job only: cookery clips on the living-room screen.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 11, 2026 · 3 MIN READ
TV Cooking HUB is the kind of app the Samsung Tizen store quietly rewards: a single-category video channel that puts itself on the home rail of millions of TVs without asking the viewer to type, search, or log in. Desoline shipped it in March 2026 with a small April update, free and ad-supported, and the entire pitch is that cooking video deserves its own tile on the TV.
The proposition is honest about what it is. There is no premium tier, no claim to original programming on the store page, no cross-device anything. A directional pad, a grid of thumbnails, a play surface. That is the whole product. For a household that watches recipe clips on the big screen and does not want to open YouTube to do it, that flow has a small but real advantage — one click from the Tizen home and you are inside the category, no autoplay drift to worry about.
The harder question is what the channel offers that the YouTube app on the same Samsung TV does not, and the store listing in its current state — no description, no screenshots, no rating — does not make the case. A cooking-only tile is a discovery convenience, not a content advantage. If the catalogue deepens and the originals show up, this becomes a real recommendation. Until then, TV Cooking HUB is a polite single-purpose channel that earns a place on the home rail for households that want one and not much more.
A single-purpose Tizen channel that puts cooking video on the TV without making the case for itself against the YouTube app already installed beside it.
FEATURES
TV Cooking HUB is a free, ad-supported video channel published by Desoline through Samsung's Tizen app store, released in March 2026 and last updated in April 2026. It lives in the videos category and is designed to be launched from the Samsung TV home rail and watched at couch distance.
The proposition is narrow: cooking content only. Recipe demonstrations, technique segments, and short-form food clips packaged for ten-foot viewing. There is no live TV, no DVR, no personal accounts, no cross-device handoff from a phone. The remote drives a directional-pad grid of thumbnails and a play surface — that is the entire interaction model.
Desoline is a small Tizen-only publisher with no presence on Apple, Roku, LG webOS, or Android TV. TV Cooking HUB is the kind of app that exists because Samsung's TV store rewards single-category channels with shelf space the bigger platforms do not offer. It is free, runs ads against the catalogue, and asks nothing of the viewer.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
The pitch lands for the use case it actually serves. A Samsung TV owner who wants cooking video on the big screen, without opening YouTube and searching for it, gets a one-button channel that does exactly that. The Tizen home-rail tile makes it discoverable in a way a YouTube playlist never is, and the curation is at least nominally pre-sorted to the category — no autoplay drift into politics or gaming halfway through a chicken recipe.
Free with ads is the right pricing for what this is. Asking for a subscription on a single-vertical recipe channel would be hard to justify; ad-supported is the honest model, and the catalogue lives or dies on whether it can hold attention long enough for the ad reads to make sense.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
The hard question is why this exists when YouTube is one input button away on every Samsung TV sold since 2019, with a deeper cooking catalogue, real channel subscriptions, voice search, and the same zero-dollar price tag. TV Cooking HUB does not publish original content as far as the listing reveals — it is an aggregator competing against the largest video aggregator on the planet on Google's home turf.
Tizen store listings for small-publisher channels of this kind also tend to ship without ratings, without screenshots, and without a written description, which makes the install decision a leap. The store page surfaces an icon and a category, and that is the entire pre-flight check before launching the app on a TV remote.
CONCLUSION
Install TV Cooking HUB if a dedicated cooking tile on the Samsung home rail genuinely changes your viewing habits — for some households it will. Skip it if you already use the Tizen YouTube app, where the same kind of content lives in deeper variety with subscriptions and search wired in. The next thing to watch for is whether Desoline adds enough original or licensed cookery programming to make the single-category bet stick, or whether the channel stays a thin wrapper around content available everywhere else.