Steph Chen: Founder and CEO of Anyday

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🗓️ 11 July 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Steph Chen is the founder and CEO of Anyday—a modern cookware brand that makes products just for the microwave. Anyday dishes help you poach, toast, blanch, and even simmer food using the humble microwave. So far, the company has amassed major fans, including Momofuku founder David Chang. Steph was born in Hong Kong and moved to California when she was just three years old. After college, her father invited her to join the family business. Instead, she chose to explore a few different lives: Steph cooked in a restaurant in Hong Kong, worked at a plant-based company called Eat Just, and has even assisted Alice Waters at her iconic Chez Panisse. This episode, hear Steph’s journey to creating her own cookware line centered around the microwave, and why she’s betting big on this overlooked kitchen appliance.

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0:44.3	Hi everyone, I'm Hillary Kerr, the co-founder and chief content officer of Who Outwear.
0:50.3	And this is Second Life, a podcast spotlighting women who have truly inspiring
0:56.0	careers. We're talking about their work journeys, what they've learned from the
0:59.8	process of setting aside their doubts or fears, and what happens when they
1:04.4	embark on their second life. Chances are there's an appliance in your kitchen
1:09.4	that you're seriously underusing. It's easy, it's inexpensive, and it uses as
1:17.0	much as 80% less energy than your oven. It's your microwave. And our next guest
1:22.5	is Betty Bigonet. Steph Chen is the founder and CEO of Any Day, a new modern
1:29.7	cookware brand that makes products just for the microwave. And well yes, you can
1:34.8	use these dishes to heat up leftovers of course. Their primary purpose is to
1:39.8	help you make things from scratch in the microwave. Any day dishes help you
1:45.1	poach toast, blanch, even simmer, using a microwave. The line is quite edited.
1:52.8	There are just five styles that you can buy either individually or in a set.
1:57.6	And each product is plastic-free and dishwasher friendly. And they've attracted
2:03.6	quite a loyal clientele. Even David Chen, you know, the founder of the Momofuku
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