Episode 5: What Makes the Best Muffins?

About this episode

The episode explores the definition of muffins and what makes them exceptional, featuring various recipes.

Making muffins used to be a rite of passage for test cooks and applicants who applied to work at America’s Test Kitchen. So we’ve eaten a lot of them; sweet, savory, and everything in between. In this episode, Lan, Bryan, Nik, and Lidey take on the debate: What is a muffin, and what makes it great? Recipes and reviews mentioned: Best Blueberry Muffins Brown Butter Chocolate Chunk Muffins Sausage-Herb Stuffing Muffin Achieving generously sized bakery-style muffins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Topics covered

• muffins
• baking
• cooking techniques

Keywords

• blueberry muffins
• chocolate chunk muffins
• stuffing muffins
• bakery-style muffins

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Best Blueberry Muffins, Brown Butter Chocolate Chunk Muffins, Sausage-Herb Stuffing Muffin

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