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

⏱️ 23 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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0:30.4	Have you ever started baking only to like realize halfway through the recipe that you don't have
0:34.6	some of the ingredients you need? 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.
0:57.0	Welcome to how to.
0:58.4	I'm Charles Deweig.
1:03.7	Do you remember the early days of the pandemic when everyone seemed to be baking all of the time?
1:06.7	Sourdough! Who knew how many people love sourdough?
1:11.0	And yeast, you would go to the grocery store and there would be no yeast left on the shelves.
1:13.4	Everybody was baking.
1:19.6	Oh, yes. I have been baking up a storm ever since everything has started.
1:22.4	This is Daniel, a podcast producer at Slate.
1:25.9	And since the pandemic started, his kitchen has been going nonstop.
1:28.0	I baked like four different cakes that I ended up freezing and then throwing most of them away just because I did it for the activity
1:31.3	of making cakes and I've made like cinnamon rolls over and over again. Daniels turned to baking as a
1:37.2	comfort activity, but you can only cook the same cinnamon rolls so many times. So he started
1:43.3	experimenting with more complicated recipes.
1:46.1	I think the weirdest thing is pistachio buns because I had to soak and peel like 12 ounces
1:53.5	of raw pistachios. And luckily I made it through somehow. And was it good? Oh, yeah. I was thrilled.
2:00.7	But it's also easy to get stuck
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