How Does Paul Hollywood Dunk His Cookies?

The Sporkful

SiriusXM Podcasts

Arts

4.6 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

On The Great British Bake Off, Paul Hollywood is known for his tough but fair judgments, his piercing blue eyes, and his handshake, which he offers to a contestant only when they really impress him. But before he was ever a TV judge, he was a baker. When he first started doing TV appearances, it was nothing more than “icing on the cake” of his baking career.

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0:00.0	Sirius XM Podcasts.
0:10.0	That's good chocolate. That's really good chocolate. You can smell it. It's the slight
0:16.4	maltiness to it as well.
0:18.0	Paul cracked the chocolate's cooking in half and has the interior. Yeah, that's nice good. A half a millimeter from his nose. I have to try to dunk that. See, that's holding. It's holding well. He dunked into the tea. That's holding. That's like a marine. Oh, that worked. There's a lot of chocolate in that. Wow. Is there such thing as too much chocolate? No. I didn't, I want to thought so, but not in this.
0:38.9	But that's delicious.
0:44.6	This is the Sporkful.
0:46.5	It's not for foodies.
0:47.6	It's for eaters.
0:48.8	I'm Dan Pashman.
0:50.1	Each week on our show, we obsess about food to learn more about people.
0:54.3	Before we get to the show, I want to let you all know that registration for my 26 pasta tour in Italy is now open.
1:01.7	This year's tour, 2025 edition, sold out months in advance, so get on it.
1:06.1	Come eat pasta and so much more with me in Italy.
1:09.1	All the details are at culinary backstreets.com slash sporkful.
1:14.6	All right, let's get to the show.
1:17.0	This week, I'm talking with Paul Hollywood,
1:19.2	a longtime judge on the Great British Bakeoff,
1:21.6	the massively popular show that's known here in the U.S.
1:24.2	as the Great British Baking show.
1:26.3	Same show, just a different name.
1:28.3	When Great British Bake Off premiered on the BBC 15 years ago, there were plenty of skeptics.
1:33.4	A show featuring amateur bakers competing? Who would watch that when there were already so
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