How To Stress-Bake with Claire Saffitz

How To! with Mike Pesca

Peach Fish Projects

Education, How To

4.3 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Are you sick of sourdough? Stress-baking the same chocolate chip cookies every week? Our listener Daniel understands—he's been baking like crazy during this pandemic, but is feeling tired and uninspired lately. On this episode of How To!, we bring on Claire Saffitz, pastry chef, beloved host of Bon Appétit's "Gourmet Makes" series, and author of the new cookbook Dessert Person, to hack Daniel's kitchen pantry and find new ways to use familiar ingredients. As Claire and Daniel make miso buttermilk biscuits together over Zoom, Claire not only shares tips for all the amateur chefs out there, but also opens up about how baking helped her learn to manage her anxiety and adapt to difficult situations. These days, we need the biscuits and the lessons. Check out the full recipe.

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0:00.0	Love Krispy Chicken Breast Fillet and Smoky Barbecue Sauce.
0:03.5	Love Cheddar Cheese with Barbecue Sauce.
0:05.2	Love Red Onion and Ousing in Barbecue Sauce.
0:08.0	Everything's better with Barbecue Sauce.
0:10.0	Introducing the New McChrymy Barbecue Smoke House, available until the 21st of November, served after 11 a.m. subject to availability.
0:18.5	Whist.
0:20.5	All right, I'm Jack Grealish.
0:22.2	I think you can listen to music from relaxing to celebrating to
0:26.8	getting yourself prepared. I like all sorts honestly I like hip-hop armbi and then house music as well so yeah there's no
0:33.9	gilwy faces around here.
0:35.4	Jack wears the Bose Quiet Comfort Ultra headphones enjoying his favorite music
0:40.6	with more immersive sound than ever before.
0:43.3	Wow, music's just everything, isn't it?
0:45.3	Get yours at bows.co.
0:47.7	UK. Bose, sound is power.
0:51.0	Have you ever started baking only to like realize halfway through the recipe that you don't have some of the ingredients you need?
0:56.0	Yes, yes, yes, yes, so I think baking is really scary for a lot of people and they get like super freaked out about it and so I feel like my job is to be sort of a guide through the process and to because like I've made all the mistakes I've made the mistakes so that you don't have to And I hope to get people more confidence.
1:14.5	Welcome to how to. I'm Charles Doitt.
1:20.0	Do you remember the early days of the pandemic when everyone seemed to be baking all of the time?
1:24.4	Sourdough, who knew how many people love sourdough?
1:27.2	And yeast, you would go to the grocery store and there would be no yeast left on the shelves.
1:31.9	Everybody was baking. Oh yes, I have been baking up a
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