Introducing - Things Bakers Know from King Arthur Baking Company
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🗓️ 5 May 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
We are excited to share a new show from the baking experts over at King Arthur Baking Company, called Things Bakers Know! It is entirely family friendly, and is a great listen for passionate bakers of any age. Hosts Jessica and David are joined by best-selling cookbook author Zoë François, who talks about the extensive chocolate chip cookie testing she did for her latest book, Zoë Bakes Cookies, as well as the surprising role cookies played in her family history. Then, Jessica and David answer your burning cookie questions in Ask the Bakers, including tips on the best chocolate to use and the necessary tool you need for consistent cookie baking. They close out the episode with a detour into space, Jessica’s soapbox on why warm chocolate chip cookies are actually bad (!), and the recipes they’re baking this week.
Recipes and other links from this episode:
Find Zoë’s book here: Zoë Bakes Cookies
Follow Zoë on Instagram and Substack
Zoë’s Smash Cookies recipe (the cover star of her book!)
Oatmeal-Date Smash Cookies recipe
King Arthur’s 2024 Recipe of the Year: Supersized, Super-Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies
What David’s baking this week: Sesame Wheat recipe
What Jessica’s baking this week: Roti Canai recipe
Our favorite baking scale: Essential Digital Scale
Shop all our chocolate, from chunks to chips
Record your question for our Ask the Bakers segment here!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello mystery recipe listeners. |
| 0:04.6 | Chad here. I'm popping back onto the feed today to tell you and your grownups about a new show I'm working on with the baking experts over at King Arthur baking company called Things Bakers Know. |
| 0:17.3 | It's entirely family friendly and it's a great listen for passionate bakers of any age. |
| 0:23.6 | Things Bakers Know is a fun and informative, family-friendly show exploring every corner of the baking world. |
| 0:30.3 | Each episode dives deep into a different baked good, its history and lore, tips and tricks, and trends and takes. |
| 0:37.9 | Along the way, host Jessica Bottalana, staff editor and David Tamarkin, editorial director at King Arthur, |
| 0:44.3 | answer baking questions from listeners and chat with the best bakers in America to get their expert advice. |
| 0:50.4 | We even tell the story of a very special cookie that's currently in a museum. |
| 0:55.9 | Things Baker's Know is available wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:59.7 | I'm so excited to play the first episode for you today, all about chocolate chip cookies. |
| 1:06.2 | If you love the show, episode two is out now, and it's all about pizza. |
| 1:10.5 | So go like and subscribe wherever you |
| 1:12.6 | get your podcasts. Thanks, mystery recipe fans. And remember, keep on cooking. First of all, I'm |
| 1:21.6 | shocked that you would order chocolate chip cookies at a restaurant. Every time. Really? If it's on the |
| 1:26.8 | menu, I order. I love the cookie plate. Wow? If it's on the menu, I order it. |
| 1:27.8 | I love the cookie plate. |
| 1:29.0 | Wow. |
| 1:29.8 | But now that you say that, I will say it is often disappointing, but sometimes. |
| 1:36.0 | From King Arthur Baking Company, this is Things Bakers Know. |
| 1:39.1 | I'm Jessica Battalana, staff editor at King Arthur baking. |
| 1:41.7 | And I'm David Tamarkin, King Arthur's editorial director. |
| 1:45.4 | Jessica, what are we doing here? Well, you know, here at King Arthur, we're committed to helping |
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