Baking, Cooking And Food Podcasts

Are you hooked on podcasts? Baking and food-related podcasts cover everything from recipes, tips and tricks, food news and stories, food history, cooking science, and more. Whether you are looking for a little food-centric distraction or you want to learn more about food and cooking, these baking and cooking podcasts are for you.

These are the best food and baking podcasts that will inspire, motivate, and even educate you on the subject of baking, followed by a list of podcasts dedicated to cooking, careers in food, the history of food and cooking, and even restaurant news.

Jump to:

• Best Baking Podcasts
• Best Food Science Podcasts And Educational Food Podcasts
• Podcasts Dedicated To Cooking
• Inspirational Food Podcasts
• Food Podcasts Dedicated To Cookbooks
• Podcasts About Food Business and Food Blogging
• Even More Food And Cooking Podcasts
• What Food And Baking Podcasts Are You Listening To These Days?

Best Baking Podcasts

Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast

King Arthur Baking Company has a podcast called Things Bakers Know (on Spotify or Apple), which combines recipe categories with interviews with reputable bakers like Claire Saffitz and Aran Goyoaga. You'll learn about everything from birthday cake (with Cheryl Day and Bronwen Wyatt) to pizza (with Wylie Dufresne), and even seasonal episodes like holiday cookies (with Dan Pelosi).

Bake This Book

Hosted by Erik Fabian, a home baker and cookbook lover, Bake This Book (on Spotify or Apple) focuses on bread books with interviews with bread cookbook authors and discussions generally revolving around sourdough. If you are into baking bread and sourdough at home, this podcast is for you!

Baking Scraps

On Baking Scraps (listen on Spotify or Apple), you will get recipes, tips and tricks, and also reviews of baking show episodes, mainly The Great Canadian Baking Show. The hosts interview contestants, getting behind-the-scenes insight into competing on a baking show.

Pastry Arts Podcast

You will hear interviews with the best pastry chefs and bakers on the Pastry Arts Podcast (listen on Spotify or Apple), from famous bloggers Joy the Baker and Maurizio Leo to baking book authors like Philip Khoury and Rose Levy Berenbaum, and pastry chefs like Thomas Haas. So many great interviews!

She's My Cherry Pie

The delightfully entertaining baker and author Jessie Sheehan hosts the baking podcast She's My Cherry Pie (on Spotify or Apple). She shares her tips and tricks and interviews baking experts on niche recipe topics like the Paris-Brest dessert with Edd Kimber, and classic cheesecake with Sally from Sally's Baking Addiction.

Knead To Know

Gemma Stafford of Bigger Bolder Baking hosts the Knead To Know podcast (on Spotify or Apple), where she covers seasonally relevant baking topics from holiday dinner rolls to Thanksgiving pies to the secrets to ice cream (homemade versus store-bought versus ice cream shops).

Preheated Podcast (on hiatus)

When I started to listen to the Preheated podcast (on Spotify or Apple), I felt like I'd found "my people". Each week, hosts Andrea Ballard and Stefin Kohn challenge each other to make a new recipe. The next week, they discuss their experience following the recipe, the issues they had, the discrepancies, what they loved about the baked goods they made, and what they hated... I've been randomly listening to episodes over the last month or so, catching up on the old and the new, and I am in love. This podcast is fun, informative, and I like following along on their baking adventures. I love listening to their recipe analysis, especially when they really investigate the wording of some recipes. I find this particularly relevant because I write recipes almost every day and always wonder whether what I write makes sense. The Preheated Baking podcast was a favourite of mine, though sadly, it's no longer produced.

Stir The Pot by Edd Kimber of The Boy Who Bakes (on hiatus)

Edd Kimber (a contestant/winner of the first season of the Great British Baking Show) has worked on a lot of cool things, and the Stir The Pot podcast (on Spotify or Apple) is one of them. In each episode, Edd interviews bakers, food stylists, and writers. Most, but not all, the people Edd Kimber interviews are bakers, and I find it so interesting to listen to his conversations with other professionals. I really admire all the great work Edd Kimber is doing and I hope for more episodes.

The Crumb-Bake from Scratch (on hiatus)

The Crumb - Bake from Scratch (on Spotify or Apple) is hosted by Brian Hart Hoffman of Bake from Scratch magazine and Kyle Grace, featuring talented bakers and trailblazers, like Zoë François, Shauna Sever, and Joanne Chang, among others. Episodes are always informative and filled with baking tips and tricks, and lots of baking inspiration. There is so much to learn from these talented bakers.

Flour Hour Baking Podcast (on hiatus)

Flour Hour (on Spotify) is hosted by two bakers who were contestants on the first season of the Great American Baking Show: Amanda Faber and Jeremiah Duarte Bills. Amanda and Jeremiah start every episode recapping what they've been baking, their challenges, baking successes and baking failures. I love hearing about their experiences in the kitchen. I always learn a little something from them. Then, the hosts continue the episode with an interview of an influential baker, like Brian Hart Hoffman, editor of Bake from Scratch magazine (Episode 14),  Zoë François (Episode 8), The Artful Baker Cenk Sönmezsoy (Episode 23). Again, this podcast has a lot to offer with information and insight from bakers who work in the industry, either writing recipes and cookbooks or baking professionally. You can follow the Flour Hour podcast on Facebook and Twitter.

The Baking Podcast (on hiatus)

I haven't listened to as many episodes of The Baking Podcast (on Spotify or Apple), but I thought I'd give it a mention too since this is another podcast dedicated to baking. This podcast has two hosts: Melody, a.k.a "the business girl," and Taunya, a.k.a. "the baker girl". I gather Melody isn't a baker nor as familiar with baking as is Taunya, but they own a bakery together, Covet Artisan Bakery located in Sonoma County, California. Each episode is dedicated to a different recipe or technique and the hosts discuss the history of the baked good or the recipe, plus tips and tricks to keep in mind... There was an episode dedicated to chocolate after Taunya took a class with Valrhona where she learned to temper chocolate. That was really informative.

Best Food Science Podcasts And Educational Food Podcasts

Gastropod

Co-hosts Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley explore the history and science behind food on Gastropod (on Spotify or Apple). Episodes may cover hot topics (white vs whole wheat bread) and trends or rumours (like does your metabolism slow?). I always learn something new from this podcast!

The Food Science Addict Podcast

Get the science behind the food we eat on the Food Science Addict podcast (on Spotify or Apple), which answers questions like why does popcorn pop, how to become a food scientist, and the food chemistry behind the film Julie & Julia.

Cooking Issues

Heritage Radio has many great food podcasts, but Cooking Issues podcast, hosted by Dave Arnold and Nastassia Lopez (on Spotify or Apple) might be my favourite. I have laughed out loud by myself on the street while listening to this podcast many, many times (the episode where Dave and Nastassia are arguing over whether all the listeners are married men who hide kitchen tools from their wives and secretly order kitchen gadgets; the time Dave discusses his obsession with the bagpipes and his wife's reaction when he was learning to play at home-so damn funny!). This show makes me laugh a lot, but I don't just listen to get a giggle. Dave Arnold is very passionate and smart. I always learn a little something each episode, not that I'm about to rig a SodaStream from Amazon to pump more gas into water to make it super carbonated like he does, but I digress...

Modernist Breadcrumbs (on hiatus)

I find the topics explored in Modernist Breadcrumbs (on Spotify or Apple) are quite underdeveloped, yet interesting enough that I devoured the first episodes. Modernist Breadcrumbs is especially geared for those of us who may never get their hands on the Modernist Bread books, which cost around $600 for the entire set. The podcast will do while I wait to become a millionaire so that I can acquire the set of books from Amazon. Bread topics covered span milling grains, shaping bread... The content includes the history of bread-making, but also modern breakthroughs. The show is quite fascinating with interviews from revered cookbook authors, like Maria Speck, world-renowned bakery owners, like Apollonia Poilâne, and of course, Nathan Myhrvold himself. If you love bread (and can't afford the 5-volume book set), then you'll enjoy the podcast for sure.

PROOF Podcast (on hiatus)

America's Test Kitchen produced a podcast about food called Proof (on Spotify or Spotify). Each episode is around 30 to 40 minutes, exploring the science of flavour in funky jelly beans, non-Newtonian fluids like ketchup, the rise and fall of celery, the science behind cravings, etc. Just like with Modernist Breadcrumbs, Proof mixes history, pop culture, science, and more to put together well-rounded episodes about the foods we eat.

Serious Eats "Special Sauce" with Ed Levine

Kenji Lopez Alt & Stella Parks are often featured on Special Sauce podcast (on Spotify or Apple) so you know it's going to be full of detailed info, cooking and baking tips & tricks, and more.

The Food Programme by BBC Radio

Noteworthy episodes of The Food Programme (on Spotify or Apple) include Eating Animals Part 1: The Future of Meat, and Eating Animals Part 2: A Meat Q & A. Both these episodes blew my mind and made me question everything that the media portrays and also made me rethink what I should focus on in 2020 in terms of groceries and buying food. I also loved an episode in 2019 about the nutrition of ballet dancers and what it takes to fuel these athletes.

The Food Chain by BBC Radio

The Food Chain podcast by the BBC (on Spotify or Apple) explores topics about food business, science, culture, and more, from how to include more fibre in your diet (and why you should or shouldn't) to ingredient deep-dives (like exploring turmeric, black pepper, garlic, etc.). Ever wonder why eggs got so expensive? They dedicated an episode to "Eggonomics"!

Smart Mouth

Smart Mouth (on Spotify or Apple) is hosted by Katherine Spiers who brings on different guests each week, and together they go over the origins of certain recipes and dishes and their history. Guests have included Gail Simmons, Jessie Sheehan, and Shauna Sever, among others. I've learned a ton from this podcast. Many of the episodes have to do with baking, but even if they don't, the content is still fascinating! There was an episode dedicated to learning what the difference is between pies, crisps, crumbles, grunts, buckles, cobblers, pandoughdies, shortcakes, sonkers, and more. Turns out there are so many fruit desserts topped with dough that I was completely unaware of, and they are all a little different!

Podcasts Dedicated To Cooking

The Joy Of Cooking Podcast

On their podcast, The Joy Of Cooking (on Spotify or Apple), John Becker (the great-grandson of Irma S. Rombauer who wrote the original Joy Of Cooking) and his wife Megan Scott interview chefs and food business owners about all kinds of food topics that would interest home bakers and cooks, from pie to safe canning, to what to pack on camping trips.

The Recipe With Kenji And Deb

Hosted by Deb Perelman (of Smitten Kitchen) and J. Kenji López-Alt (Serious Eats, The Food Lab, The Wok) (on Spotify or Apple) will somewhat obsessively make a recipe a zillion times to figure out how to best approach it.

The Dinner Plan

Hosted by Maggie Hoffman, The Dinner Plan (on Spotify or Apple) interviews cookbook authors and chefs to find out how they get through all the cooking for the week, whether that's shortcuts that they might take, meal prep tips, how to avoid boredom, or how to keep cooking fun.

Home Cooking

This is a new food podcast and it is fantastic. Home Cooking (on Spotify or Apple) is hosted by Samin Nosrat and Hrishikesh Hirway and this podcast is a joy to listen to. The hosts answer cooking questions and stories as we navigate our way through social distancing and quarantine cooking. This show is dedicated to making great food during difficult times and helping listeners eat well. Episode 2 features Stella Parks (of Serious Eats and Bravetart) who consults on baking questions. Lots of laughs here and loads to learn too.

Food Friends

The episodes of Food Friends (on Spotify or Apple) aren't too long and often highlight interesting recipes that I want to make, hosted by two personal chefs Kari and Sonya.

Weeknight Kitchen with Melissa Clark (on hiatus)

Short and sweet is the name of the game when it comes to Melissa Clark's Weeknight Kitchen podcast (on Spotify and Apple), and I couldn't agree more. This is a podcast for those who don't have a whole hour to listen to podcasts, let alone to cook dinner every night. You'll get tips and tricks so you can dominate dinner during the week without drowning.

The Bon Appétit Foodcast

Bon Appétit Foodcast (on Spotify or Apple) is a complement to Bon Appétit (BA) magazine, with interviews with chefs, BA test kitchen chefs, writers, and more. I love when they do a deep-dive into a recipe or a story from the magazine, like in episode 195 where Adam Rapoport interviews Chris Morocco about the Christmas cookies he developed for the December 2018 issue, the behind-the-scenes of how they ended up with the final recipes, the ingredients they used, what they modified in the classic recipes and why. So much info in these episodes and there's always something to learn. The BA Bake Club episodes will interest bakers, where they dive into the recipe development process, what worked, what failed, and what they learned on the road to coming up with a particular baking recipe they featured that month.

Christopher Kimball's Milk Street Radio

Christopher Kimball's Milk Street magazine is also a podcast (on Spotify or Apple), and it's a great mix of science and information, with guests including a flavour chemist, Sara Moulton, Claudia Fleming, Sam Sifton, Yotam Ottolenghi, Nigella Lawson, and more. Each episode has a theme and includes a call-in portion to answer listener questions. In one episode, a listener called in seeking help for making seedless jams and they discussed using old-school food mills to purée the fruit and remove the seeds, with tricks for emptying the food mill when it's full (spoiler alert: turn the mill handle in the opposite direction to lift all the food that gets stuck on the filter!).

The Splendid Table

Hosted by Francis Lam, The Splendid Table on Spotify (or Apple) ties food, cooking and culture, showcasing best-selling authors, scientists, and even astronauts. I especially enjoyed a recent episode with Martin Yan, who I grew up watching (I learned I could peel ginger with a spoon watching his tv show!).

What's Gaby Cooking (on hiatus)

Of course, the What's Gaby Cooking podcast is hosted by Gaby Dalkin herself (on Spotify or Apple). She started this podcast to help her readers navigate the difficult period when we all had to stay at home and limit even our grocery shopping trips. She covers topics from food storage, utensils, almond flour, etc., and some deep-dive episodes have interviews with industry experts. For example, the episode dedicated to flour featured an interview with Grant of Chef Steps.

Inspirational Food Podcasts

Radio Cherry Bomb podcast

I spent my vacation listening to old episodes of Radio Cherry Bomb (Spotify or Apple) and I loved every single one. It comforted me, inspired me, kept me interested, and gave me all the good feelings you would hope to gain from listening to a good podcast. I especially enjoyed the recent episodes with Deb Perelman of Smitten Kitchen and Lily Diamond of Kale & Caramel. I was inspired by the episode with Samin Nosrat on the process of writing her book Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat (I ordered my copy of the book from Amazon after listening to this episode). I played an older episode with Martha Stewart twice because I found it so fascinating. She's a funny lady, full of wisdom and business insight.

Eater's Digest (formerly known as The Eater Upsell podcast)

I have downloaded a lot of old and new episodes of Eater's Digest podcast, and I listen to it off and on (on Spotify or Apple). I was inspired by the interview with Francis Lam who is a cookbook editor and used to write for Gourmet. As I constantly ponder writing a cookbook, I found that episode very useful. Eater Upsell features interviews with so many awesome food personalities, like Alton Brown, Ottolenghi, Melissa Clark, Nathan Myhrvold, and the list goes on. The questions the interviewers ask are really insightful and always elicit some fantastic responses. Definitely a great listen!

Keep Calm and Cook On by Julia Turshen (on hiatus)

Julia Turshen has written some very popular cookbooks under her own name and she is also the writer behind Gwyneth Paltrow's cookbooks, which I find fascinating. Side note: Julia Turshen seems pretty chill and has a very soothing voice, and so I find it very calming to listen to her when I'm walking the dog. Her podcast is Keep Calm and Cook On with Julia Turshen (on Spotify or Apple).

Violet Sessions by Claire Ptak (on hiatus)

Claire Ptak is a bakery owner in London (previously from California). She even made the royal wedding cake for Harry & Megan's wedding! Her podcast is mostly interviews (on Spotify).

Sporkful by Dan Pashman

Sporkful has the slogan that it's a podcast not for foodies, it's for eaters. Dan Pashman hosts some great interviews on this podcast (like a food-focused interview with Bill Nye the Science Guy), but also covers topics that are in the news, like the latest GMO apple to hit the market, called the Cosmic Crisp.

Spilled Milk

The Spilled Milk podcast, hosted by Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton, has been around since 2010! Every week, Molly and Matthew do a deep dive into a food topic, share recipes, food memories, research on the topic, and make a lot of jokes. Spilled Milk always makes me laugh, while learning a little too. This podcast makes me laugh out loud and I highly recommend it (on Spotify or Apple).

Food Podcasts Dedicated To Cookbooks

1. Salt & Spine podcast (on Spotify or Apple) is hosted by Brian Hogan Stewart where he interviews published cookbook authors.. My favourite episode was the interview with Rose Levy Beranbaum and Woody Wolston because you really got a real sense of how Rose Levy Beranbaum operates, her methods, her recipe testing, etc. It was a fascinating episode!
2. Cookbook Love podcast (on Spotify or Spotify), hosted by Maggie Green is dedicated to all those that love cookbooks because the cookbook is not dead! The podcast is for cookbook readers, buyers, collectors, and clubs, with great interviews with cookbook authors and cookbook editors, as well as short episodes dedicated to the importance of cookbook headnotes, steps to becoming a cookbook author, writing style, and more. There's so much useful information for those thinking about writing cookbooks, but also so many snippets of what goes into a cookbook, the behind-the-scenes.

Podcasts About Food Business and Food Blogging

Food Blogger Pro Podcast

Food Blogger Pro Podcast (on Spotify) is hosted by Bjork Ostrom (the husband of blogger Lindsay Ostrom of the successful food blog Pinch of Yum). I found episodes about branding and SEO really helpful, but Bjork also talks about business books he recommends, organization tips & trips, productivity apps to try, and more. This is a great podcast to listen to whether you want to start a food blog or have been blogging for years.

Chopped Podcast

Warning! The intros in some Chopped podcast episodes can be a little long (at the worst, an intro to an episode clocked in at a whopping 15 minutes!) but if you skip forward, you will learn a lot (on Spotify). There's an episode about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) with Casey Markee that I've listened to about 3 times because it's so packed with useful information and helpful tips. I'll probably listen to it another dozen times to be honest because SEO seems so difficult for me.

Eat Capture Share podcast

Eat Capture Share podcast (on Spotify) is hosted by Kimberly Espinel from The Little Plantation, Kimberley shares her expertise about food blogging and Instagram and interviews experts so we can gain insight into building, growing, and monetizing food blogs and Instagram.

Raw Milk-The Creative Business Podcast

Raw Milk-The Creative Business Podcast is by Beth Kirby (the creator of the gorgeous food blog Local Milk) and though it's not dedicated to food blogging specifically, it's about creative businesses and food blogging is one of those.

The Sweet Scoop by Tessa Arias (on hiatus)

The Sweet Scoop by Tessa Arias (on Spotify) though this one hasn't been updated in a long while, I found it really informative, and spoiler alert: it takes A TON of work to run a successful food blog and Tessa and her guests go through a lot of the ups and downs and how to make a go of it.

Theory of Content (on hiatus)

Theory of Content is hosted by Amber Bracegirdle and Joshua Unseth (on Apple), and it's all about SEO and blogging, how to maintain a successful blog and how to drive traffic from Google search. Josh and Amber spend a lot of time answering blogger questions and reminding us all that we should focus on creating more content that answers blog reader questions and user intent, instead of worrying that our blogs are broken.

Keep It Quirky podcast (on hiatus)

Keep It Quirky podcast by Katie Quinn (on Spotify or Apple) is a podcast about creativity & entrepreneurship, food & travel, and the discipline and drive it takes to create. Katie Quinn has interviewed so many interesting people on her show, from Fuchsia Dunlop (renowned cookbook author who is British but writes books about Chinese and Asian cuisines) to Pippa Murray founder of the nut butter company Pip & Nut who was selling nut butters before it was so trendy.

Second Life

Second Life is not exactly about food, but this podcast is about women pivoting in life and changing careers, and many of the guests are in the food business, from Alison Roman, Christina Tosi, Kerry Diamond, Amanda Hesser, etc. So if you are interested in the career paths of some of the world's greatest women in food, give it a listen (on Spotify or Apple)!

Even More Food And Cooking Podcasts

1. Communal Table by Food & Wine magazine (on hiatus) (on Spotify)
2. Carbface (on Spotify)
3. A Taste of the Past by Heritage Radio (on Spotify)
4. The Food Podcast by Lindsay Cameron Wilson (on Spotify)
5. This is Taste with Aliza Abarbanel and Matt Rodbard (on Spotify) about food and culture. With over 700 episodes, there's something for everybody!

What Food And Baking Podcasts Are You Listening To These Days?

Let me know! I'm always looking for new sources of inspiration!

What podcasts are you listening to these days? Now that I have given you a peek into the cooking and food podcasts I've been listening to these days, do you have any others to recommend to me? And if you prefer to read books, be sure to consult my list of top baking books about the science of baking. This is a list of great baking references that will keep you learning and help you troubleshoot recipes. You can also take online baking classes to develop new skills and to keep practicing.