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Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast

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Join King Arthur’s Jessica Battilana and David Tamarkin as they explore every corner of the world of baking. Each episode dives deep into a different baked good — its history and lore, tips and tricks, trends and takes — and they'll always leave time to answer baking questions from listeners. Along the way they chat with the best bakers in America to get their expert advice.

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It's Thanksgiving Pie Time, featuring Stacey Mei Yan Fong

Season 2 · Episode 7

Monday, November 10, 2025 • Duration 41:46

It’s high time for pie, and we couldn’t be more excited!

David and Jessica kick off the show by sharing some of their best pie tips and tricks, before bringing in a real pie expert — Stacey Mei Yan Fong, author of the award-winning cookbook 50 Pies, 50 States — to offer her advice. We’ve got some great Thanksgiving pie questions to answer, from the best way to prebake your crust to advice for preventing a runny apple pie filling, before closing the show with a Jess-opinion about the other dessert you should make for Thanksgiving and the pies Jessica and David are making this year.

Read David’s article: How My Brother-in-Law Stole Thanksgiving—and How I Got it Back

Find our Pies On-Demand Baking Class

Check out all our pie resources: How to Bake Pie

Learn more about Stacey and her book, and tune in to her Instagram page for her virtual pie hotline

Find everything you need for your holiday pies in our Pie shop

Mix it up this year with Pumpkin Cheesecake Pie

Read PJ’s blog about baking pie crust upside down

Find our Pie Thickener chart

What David’s baking this week: Cranberry Chiffon Pie

What Jessica’s baking this week: Classic Apple Tarte Tatin

Record your question for our Ask the Bakers segment here!

This episode is sponsored by Plugra. Learn more about their premium European-style butter at plugra.com.

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Chocolate, Explained, featuring Amy Guittard

Season 2 · Episode 6

Monday, November 3, 2025 • Duration 39:10

Today, we’re talking about one of the world’s perfect foods: chocolate.

And who better to join us than Amy Guittard of Guittard Chocolate? For her, chocolate literally runs in the family. She explains everything from how chocolate is made to what the percentages on the bag really mean. Then David and Jessica answer this week’s listener questions, sharing their tips for better brownies and choosing cocoas. To close out the show, Jessica is back with this week’s Jess-opinion, in which she finally addresses the elephant in the room: white chocolate. And of course, she and David share the recipes they’re baking this week!

Find our (surprisingly easy!) Rich Chocolate Mousse recipe

Learn more about Guittard chocolate

Find all of our chocolate and cocoa in our Shop (including Guittard!)

On the blog: Types of cocoa, explained

Also on the blog: How to make brownies with shiny crust (or just bake our Fudge Brownies)

Learn more about tempering: A basic guide to tempering chocolate

What David’s baking this week: Fugazzeta

What Jessica’s baking this week: Jalapeño-Cheddar Pull-Apart Bread

All About Birthday Cake, featuring Cheryl Day and Bronwen Wyatt

Season 1 · Episode 3

Monday, May 5, 2025 • Duration 36:44

Today it’s everybody’s birthday, because we’re talking about birthday cakes with two Southern baking superstars.

We’re thrilled to have both Cheryl Day, award-winning cookbook author and former owner of Savannah’s famed Back in the Day Bakery, and Bronwen Wyatt, of Bayou Saint Cakes in New Orleans, join to share their top cake secrets and best tips for beginner birthday cake bakers. In Ask the Bakers, Jessica and David dig into your urgent cake questions, from demystifying the reverse-creaming method to what to do if your cakes keep sinking in the oven. And as always, they close out the episode with a big birthday cake hot take (featuring Jessica’s opiniated protege, our producer Rossi) and the best recipes they’re baking this week.

Find Cheryl’s most recent book here: Cheryl Day’s Treasury of Southern Baking
Follow Cheryl on Instagram
Follow Bronwen on Instagram and Substack
Visit our Cake Made Easy shop page for our favorite tools and ingredients
King Arthur’s 2019 Recipe of the Year: Classic Birthday Cake
Try the reverse-creaming method with Vanilla Birthday Cake and Tender White Cake
Bake Cheryl Day’s Southern Caramel Cake and Old-Fashioned Coconut Cake Find Rossi’s pie book, What David’s baking this week: What Jessica’s baking this week: Record your question for our Ask the Bakers segment !

A Deep Dive Into Pizza, featuring Dan Richer

Season 1 · Episode 2

Monday, April 28, 2025 • Duration 34:28

Today is all about one of our favorite foods: pizza!

Best-selling cookbook author and one of America’s foremost pizza experts Dan Richer stops by the show to share his tips on baking your best pizza at home. Learn about his ideal home oven set up and his tips for nailing your bake. Then listen to David and Jessica answer your biggest pizza questions, from the best way to get a crispy crust to Jessica’s preferred method for reheating pizza. (Spoiler alert: It leaves David shocked.) Finally, they finish up with dueling Jess-opinions about pizza sauces and the recipes they’re baking this week.

Recipes and other links from this episode:

Find Dan’s book here: The Joy of Pizza
Follow Dan on Instagram and visit his James Beard-nominated restaurant Razza in New Jersey
Visit our Pizza Perfection shop page for our favorite tools and ingredients
Our favorite baking steel: Brod & Taylor Bread Steel
King Arthur’s 2020 Recipe of the Year: Crispy Cheesy Pan Pizza
What David’s baking this week: Giant Hostess Cupcake Cake recipe
What Jessica’s baking this week: Peanut Butter Brownies recipe
Record your question for our Ask the Bakers segment here!

Perfecting Chocolate Chip Cookies, featuring Zoë François

Season 1 · Episode 1

Monday, April 28, 2025 • Duration 36:53

We’re kicking off our first season by talking about one of the most quintessential American bakes: chocolate chip cookies!

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, Record your question for our Ask the Bakers segment !

Coming Soon - Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast

Season 1

Tuesday, April 1, 2025 • Duration 02:15

Introducing the official new podcast from King Arthur Baking Company, dropping April 28th! Join King Arthur’s Jessica Battilana and David Tamarkin as they explore every corner of the baking world. Each episode dives deep into a different baked good — its history and lore, tips and tricks, trends and takes — and they'll always leave time to answer baking questions from listeners. Along the way they chat with the best bakers in America to get their expert advice.

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Great Gluten-Free Bread is Possible! featuring Aran Goyoaga

Season 2 · Episode 5

Monday, October 27, 2025 • Duration 39:17

We’re going gluten-free this week and talking about how to make the best gluten-free bread — because we believe everyone deserves great bread.

Aran Goyoaga, author of the stunning new book The Art of Gluten-Free Bread, joins us to talk about her approach to gluten-free bread baking, including some of her favorite flours and tips and tricks. We break down the dizzying world of gluten-free flours, our tips for making gluten-free sourdough, and the differences between gluten-full and gluten-free bread doughs. And as always, we close out the show with Jessica’s Jess-opinion of the week and the (gluten-free!) recipes she and David are baking.

Recipes and other links from this episode:

Find Aran’s book: The Art of Gluten-Free Bread

Learn more about gluten-free flours: Which gluten-free flour should I use?

Read: How to substitute Gluten-Free Bread Flour for regular flour

What David’s baking this week: Gluten-Free Chocolate Mousse Cake with Raspberries

What Jessica’s baking this week: Sunken Berry Almond Cake

Record your question for our Ask the Bakers segment here!

This episode is sponsored by Plugra. Learn more about their premium European-style butter at plugra.com.

Baking with Kids: Fun or Chaos? featuring Samantha Seneviratne

Season 2 · Episode 4

Monday, October 20, 2025 • Duration 36:09

Give kids a baked good, and you’ve fed them for a day. Teach kids to bake, and well ... you know.

We’ve been thinking a lot about baking with kids, because we’ve been hard at work writing a brand-new kids baking cookbook! And despite the mess and the chaos, we think it’s all worth it. So does cookbook author Samantha Seneviratne, who joins the show to chat with Jessica about baking with her adorable son Artie and the advice she has for anyone spending time in the kitchen with a young one. Then we have a very special edition of Ask the Bakers, featuring all questions from kids. (And boy, they’re some good ones.) Jessica shares a Jess-opinion all about the state of the restaurant kid’s menu, and we close out the show with the recipes she and David are baking this week.

Recipes and other links from this episode:

Find our new kids’ cookbook: Sweet & Salty!

Learn more about Sam and her cookbooks here, and bake Sam’s Maple Tahini Chocolate Skillet Cake and Sunken Berry Almond Cake

Learn more about leaveners: What's the difference between baking soda and baking powder?

What David’s baking this week: Easiest Sourdough Discard Crackers

What Jessica’s baking this week: Crispy Cheesy Pan Pizza

Record your question for our Ask the Bakers segment !

What Even is a Fall Bake? featuring Rick Martínez

Season 2 · Episode 3

Monday, October 13, 2025 • Duration 45:42

It’s the best baking season of the year! So we’re celebrating all things fall baking on today’s episode.

First up, producer Rossi Anastopoulo and King Arthur editor Tatiana Bautista join David and Jessica to discuss our new list of the 49 Best Fall Recipes, Ranked. To no one’s surprise, there are a lot of opinions all around! Then cookbook author Rick Martínez stops by to dive deep into Pan de Muerto, the fragrant, buttery bread made to celebrate the fall holiday of Día de los Muertos. During our Ask the Bakers segment, Jessica and David discuss the big fall baking questions: Is it ever worth it to make your own pumpkin purée? What’s the difference between all the cinnamons out there? And is it pronounced PEA-can or puh-CON?! To close the show, we have a story about the oldest apple tree in America and the apple detective who found it (!), a freshly fried Jess-opinion, and the bakes David and Jessica are making this week.

Recipes and other links from this episode:

Get baking with our 49 Best Fall Recipes, Ranked

Our favorite fall recipes: Chili Crisp Cottage Cheese Flatbreads (Tatiana), Sweet Potato Sheet Cake with Marshmallow Frosting (Rossi), Honey Beer Miche (David), and Oatmeal-Date Smash Cookies (Jessica)

Check out our Pan de Muerto recipe

Find Rick’s cookbooks and learn more about his work

The Best of Chinatown Bakeries with Kristina Cho

Season 2 · Episode 2

Monday, October 6, 2025 • Duration 41:21

We’re talking about one of our favorite genres of baking today: the bakes of Chinatown.

From bolo bao to dan tat, we can’t get enough of the gorgeous goods lining the bakery cases of Chinatowns across the US. So of course, we had to have cookbook author Kristina Cho on the show to share more about the history of these bakeries, their place in Chinese American communities, and her tips for making the best versions of these iconic bakes at home. Along the way, David and Jessica share their experiences eating in two of the best Chinatowns in the country, plus their answers to your biggest baking questions (with some crucial help from Kristina!). Jessica has a shockingly positive Jess-opinion for once, and she and David close out the show by sharing the recipes they’re baking this week.

Recipes and other links from this episode:

Find our recipes for Pineapple Buns (Bolo Bao), Hong Kong Egg Tarts, and Red Bean Mooncakes

Learn more about Kristina’s two cookbooks, Mooncakes & Milk Bread and Chinese Enough

For more on steamed buns, check out our blog: Everything you need to know to make steamed buns

Find our Golden Milk Bread recipe in the Big Book of Bread

And for more on tangzhong and milk bread, see our blog: What is milk bread?

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