Multiple pans, some with giant flames licking their sides, sizzle loudly on burners while steaks rest on the side of a large French top-style cooking range. Fast-working hands toss gnocchi in sauce before flipping a pan full of pasta and garnishing it with herbs. Plates clatter into place on a shining metal tabletop, each given a swoosh of sauce before those steaks, sliced smoothly and with precision, are dropped on top.

The lightning-fast video is simultaneously chaotic and thrilling — and a glimpse of yet another weeknight working in the grueling, impressive restaurant industry.

No, this isn’t a scene from “The Bear.” It’s one of a growing collection of bird’s-eye view videos shot on Meta’s AI Ray-Ban glasses by a 21-year-old California line cook. The compelling videos record the day-to-day life of Ryan Gilhuly as he works service at a local bistro in the small, sleepy, well-to-do Los Angeles suburb of Westlake Village on the border of Ventura County.

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Almost every single one of Gilhuly’s fast, fiery videos from the line have gone viral.

Tarzana native Gilhuly has worked at the Moody Rooster, tucked into a strip mall just off Highway 101, since he graduated from high school at 17 (save for a brief five-month stint at another restaurant). Inspired by other cooks at the Moody Rooster who had already started wearing and filming with Meta glasses, Gilhuly started shooting and posting his action-packed cooking videos from the restaurant’s compact open kitchen in June. It’s been a rocket ship since then.

Gilhuly’s POV videos have gained practically unprecedented traction online for both their realness and the voyeuristic itch they satisfy: His Instagram handle, @gilhulycooks, has racked up roughly 930,000 followers in just a few months, and his Reels regularly garner hundreds of thousands of likes. The top 10 most-watched videos in Gilhuly’s Reels feed have a combined viewer count well north of 200 million. Wildly, Gilhuly........

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