Claire Saffitz

For this week's bonus, we're pulling an episode from 2020.

It features one of my favorites, Claire Saffitz, back when she was decoding Cheetos, Oreos, and Twinkies.

Plus, we talk to Ed Currie, the creator of one of the world's very hottest peppers, the Carolina Reaper.

It's a great show, so please take a listen now, and we'll be back later this week with a brand-new episode.

Also coming up, Alex Iannuzzi brews beer at home using only ingredients found in the supermarket.

And we transform chickpeas using a bright Greek recipe.

But first, we're chatting with Claire Saffitz.

She's a pastry chef and also host of Bon Appétit's YouTube series, Gourmet Makes.

I always trust.

Claire Saffitz, you know, used to be at Bon Appétit.

She's good.

Definitely use European butter, like Kerrygold is what I use.

[laughs]

My niece just made croissant.

She followed the Claire Saffitz recipe, which is in The New York Times, and it was very, very, very specific she said-

Mm-hmm

I'd like to request that they come back now because they were right on the precipice of putting in the new kitchen and now they're gone.

They say, excuse me, what's going on? Claire Saffitz is just...

She's pumping out the content weekly, but sometimes like this week it was brief.

It was just corn dogs and an experiment in battering actual corn on the cob in corn batter and then deep frying it.

But w- in that period of time, it was one of the most delightful places on the internet.

Oh, it was so good, and there was Claire Saffitz, who, who made ...

She's the dessert gal.

Yeah.

It went into new ownership as well.

Yeah.

Yeah.We can still go back and appreciate Claire Saffitz trying to make a gumball.

[laughs]