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First Aired: July 18th, 2017
Status: Continuing
Network: YouTube
Summary: Pastry chef Claire “Half-Sour” Saffitz attempts to make gourmet versions of popular snacks and desserts without the hard-to-pronounce chemical ingredients.
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Season 1
Episode 1: Pastry Chef Attempts to Make a Gourmet Twinkie
Air Date: July 18th, 2017
Summary: Bon Appetit's Senior Food Editor and pastry chef Claire Saffitz attempts to make a gourmet Twinkie without the hard-to-pronounce chemical ingredients. The first test is Genoise cake, an Italian sponge cake. For the creamy filling, Claire uses 7 minute frosting. The second test is yellow cake and buttercream filling. Next comes chiffon cake, a light cake that uses vegetable oil. Finally, with some help from Test Kitchen Manager Brad Leone, Claire decides to "Frankenstein" the recipe.
Episode 2: Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Gushers
Air Date: December 20th, 2017
Summary: Do you gush with curiosity over little, chewable sugar blobs filled with goo? Claire Saffitz deconstructs and improves one of our favorite childhood candies - Gourmet Gushers!
Episode 3: Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Cheetos
Air Date: March 21st, 2018
Summary: You love Cheetos. But do you know how to make them? Pastry chef Claire Saffitz goes on a 3-day experiment to make and improve on Gourmet Cheetos!
Episode 4: Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Kit Kats
Air Date: May 2nd, 2018
Summary: Some nibble away at the chocolate shell first; others may split the wafers apart before eating. They may have their preferences, but what what they may not know is their routines help to reverse engineer what it takes to make one in the first place. Claire Saffitz is up to the challenge to make Gourmet Kit Kats!
Episode 5: Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Skittles
Air Date: June 5th, 2018
Summary: Claire Saffitz takes on another challenge, this time to recreate the tastes of the rainbow... Skittles, Gourmet-style.
Episode 6: Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Lucky Charms
Air Date: June 26th, 2018
Summary: Everyone loves Lucky Charms! Watch Claire's attempt to recreate your favorite childhood cereal.
Episode 7: Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Oreos
Air Date: July 31st, 2018
Summary: What makes the oreo the king of the cookie? Claire attempts to find out as she makes a gourmet version of the greatest sandwich cookie of all time.
Episode 8: Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Twizzlers
Air Date: September 18th, 2018
Summary: Twizzlers come in just about every flavor under the sun, but Claire only has one goal in mind: make a gourmet version of everyone's favorite. That's right -- the original, cherry-ish flavored Twizzler.
Episode 9: Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Sno Balls
Air Date: November 14th, 2018
Summary: Sno Balls. Baby boomers will remember this post-World War II junk food favorite. Claire Saffitz returns to the Test Kitchen to try her hand at making gourmet Sno Balls.
Episode 10: Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Instant Ramen
Air Date: November 29th, 2018
Summary: Claire. Is. Back. AGAIN. And this time she is attempting to make gourmet instant ramen. Everybody loves instant ramen, with its ludicrously salty, umami-rich spice packets and its impossibly wavy fried noodle bricks. Can Claire make a fancy version of this 70%-of-your-daily-sodium snack?
Episode 11: Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Snickers
Air Date: December 21st, 2018
Summary: Nougat. Caramel. Peanuts. Chocolate. The building blocks of a Snickers bar. Each taken alone is simple enough (well maybe not the nougat), but together they become a different monster. Join Claire Saffitz as she attempts to make a gourmet version of a Snickers bar!
Episode 12: Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Pringles
Air Date: January 22nd, 2019
Summary: Pringles. They're the miraculously not greasy potato chips that come in a tube. They're also the original duck face. Join Claire Saffitz as she attempts to make a gourmet version of Pringles! And lest we forget: once you pop the fun don't stop.
Episode 13: Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Ferrero Rocher
Air Date: February 12nd, 2019
Summary: Ok, so Ferrero Rocher chocolates are pretty gourmet already. We get it. But couldn't they be even more gourmet? Join Claire Saffitz in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen as she attempts to make a gourmet-ier version of Ferrero Rocher, everybody's favorite Italian, hazelnut-filled chocolates.
Episode 14: Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
Air Date: March 5th, 2019
Summary: Reese's Pieces, Reese's Miniature Cups, Reese's Sticks, Reese's Big Cups, Reese's Big Cups Stuffed with Crunchy Cookie, Reese's Big Cups Stuffed with Reese's Pieces(!), Reese's Pumpkins and a million other Reese's variants. But there shall only be one Reese's product that Claire gourmet-izes: the classic Reese's Peanut Butter Cup. Join Claire Saffitz in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen as she attempts to make a gourmet version of Reese's.
Episode 15: Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Cheez-Its
Air Date: March 26th, 2019
Summary: Cheez-Its are that snack that your parents let you eat as a kid because they're not chips and therefore must be healthy, right? Join Claire Saffitz in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen as she attempts to make a gourmet version of everybody's favorite quadrilateral, cheesy crackers: Cheez-Its.
Episode 16: Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Peeps
Air Date: April 19th, 2019
Summary: It's that time of year again when peeps are on the menu. Peeps, those little birds full of cushiony marshmallow and coasted with the sugariest of colored sugar, come in all shapes and colors. Join Claire Saffitz in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen as she attempts to make a gourmet version of peeps!!!
Episode 17: Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Almond Joys
Air Date: May 9th, 2019
Summary: Grated coconut may not be everybody's cup of tea, but there is no denying that this candy is an absolute classic. In this episode, Claire Saffitz attempts to make a gourmet version of Almond Joys, that almond, coconut and chocolate Halloween staple.
Episode 18: Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Doritos
Air Date: May 22nd, 2019
Summary: Nacho cheese exists in two states: the melted cheese state and the powdered cheese state*. When it comes to the powdered cheese state, all pale in comparison to Nacho Cheese Doritos, continually perfected by science and consistently beloved by the masses since 1972. Join pastry chef Claire Saffitz in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen as she attempts to take Nacho Cheese Doritos to the next level and make them gourmet!
Episode 19: Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Twix
Air Date: June 13rd, 2019
Summary: Twix. They've at the heart of a debate that goes back more than five decades. Lines have been drawn so intractable that friendships, relationships, even nations have been ruined. No, we're not speaking of the Left vs. Right debate. We're talking about the Conflict of Classification that rages to this day. Yes, is Twix candy or cookie?We don't know, but join Claire Saffitz as she attempts to make a gourmet version of Twix.
Episode 20: Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Starbursts
Air Date: June 20th, 2019
Summary: Join pastry chef Claire Saffitz in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen as she attempts to make gourmet Starbursts.
Episode 21: Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Pop Rocks
Air Date: July 17th, 2019
Summary: Witness the crackling confection taking the world by storm! They're carbonation made solid. That's right folks, they're a modern marvel made to modify your mouth, a sensational symphony of splendid snaps and sparkles soothing your senses and sent straight to your stomach. And now for the first time ever, we present gourmet Pop Rocks, the product of a perfect marriage of scientific ingenuity and culinary craft, made by the clever and creative Claire Saffitz!
Episode 22: Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Pop-Tarts
Air Date: August 7th, 2019
Summary: Is there any way to make Pop-Tarts better? We think so. Join pastry chef Claire Saffitz in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen as she attempts to make gourmet strawberry Pop-Tarts.
Episode 23: Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Pocky
Air Date: August 20th, 2019
Summary: Claire Saffitz had never had Pocky before. And then one day in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen her life changed forever. Her eyes are open and now she has ascended to Pocky level: Tsubu Tsubu (Strawberry Flakes), a level that it usually takes decades to reach. With her work in making a gourmet version of four flavors of Pocky - Chocolate, Matcha, Cookies & Cream and Strawberry Flakes - she is quickly climbing ever upwards in the Pocky Movement. Join Claire as she seeks Pocky Perfection.
Episode 24: Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet M&M's
Air Date: September 11st, 2019
Summary: Join Claire Saffitz in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen as she attempts to make a gourmet version of everybody's favorite chocolate candy that melts in your mouth, not your hand: M&M's!
Episode 25: Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Hot Pockets
Air Date: September 25th, 2019
Summary: Join Claire Saffitz in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen as she attempts to make a gourmet version of Hot Pockets!
Episode 26: Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Sour Patch Kids
Air Date: October 9th, 2019
Summary: Join Claire Saffitz in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen as she attempts to make a gourmet version of Sour Patch Kids!
Episode 27: Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Ruffles
Air Date: October 22nd, 2019
Summary: How do they make those perfect rrridges in Ruffles? Well, that's the question Claire has to answer, isn't it? Join Claire Saffitz in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen as she attempts to make gourmet Ruffles.
Episode 28: Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Takis
Air Date: November 5th, 2019
Summary: Takis are rolled up tortilla chips of surprising intensity. After making gourmet Doritos, Claire was pretty confident she could make gourmet Takis in just one day, but the length of this video might say otherwise. Anyway, join Claire Saffitz in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen as she attempts to make a gourmet version of Takis.
Episode 29: Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Mentos
Air Date: November 14th, 2019
Summary: Making Mentos should be just like making Skittles, right? So this shouldn't take too long... hmm. Join Claire Saffitz in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen as she makes gourmet Mentos.
Episode 30: Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Krispy Kreme Doughnuts
Air Date: November 26th, 2019
Summary: Join Claire Saffitz in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen as she attempts to make a gourmet version of Krispy Kreme doughnuts.
Episode 31: Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Warheads
Air Date: December 3rd, 2019
Summary: How many of you experience sense memory when you think about eating Warheads when you were kids? You know, that sour feeling on the back of your tastebuds? Well, pastry chef Claire Saffitz is setting out to recreate that sensation as she attempts to make gourmet Warheads.
Episode 32: Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Milky Way Bars
Air Date: December 13rd, 2019
Summary: Who else could replicate and gourmet-ize everybody's favorite chocolaty, caramely and nougaty candy bar other than our very own Claire Saffitz? Join her in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen as she attempts to make gourmet Milky Way bars.
Episode 33: Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Pizza Rolls
Air Date: December 24th, 2019
Summary: Gooey inside, crispy outside. That's a pizza roll. (Also, burning the heck out of the roof of your mouth). Join Claire Saffitz in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen as she attempts to make gourmet Totino's Pizza Rolls.
Episode 34: Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Jelly Belly Jelly Beans
Air Date: January 23rd, 2020
Summary: If Chris is the undisputed Test Kitchen super-taster, then Gaby is easily the jelly bean super-taster. Seriously, how did she guess Dr. Pepper? Impossible! Anyway, join pastry chef (and can we call her The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon co-host?) Claire Saffitz in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen as she attempts to make gourmet Jelly Belly jelly beans. This episode is 48 minutes long, so grab a stress ball and tuck in.
Episode 35: Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream
Air Date: January 27th, 2020
Summary: So maybe this episode is a bit like Ferrero Rocher, in which Claire gourmetized an already gourmet treat. But what is wrong gourmetizing that which is already gourmet? Nothing, we say! Join Claire Saffitz in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen as she attempts to make gourmet Ben & Jerry's ice cream.
Episode 36: Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Butterfingers
Air Date: February 11st, 2020
Summary: What do you think? Should Brad join Claire on Gourmet Makes more often? Just think about how differently all of the gourmet snacks would have come out: fermented M&Ms, dry-aged Peeps, campfire Cheetos. Anyway, in this episode, join pastry chef Claire Saffitz in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen as she attempts to make gourmet Butterfingers.
Episode 37: Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Combos
Air Date: February 25th, 2020
Summary: While we have a list of ingredients, nobody really knows how Combos are made. There is little to no information about Combos on the internet, which begs the question: what are they hiding? But not to worry, pastry chef Claire Saffitz is on the case! Join her as she attempts to unpack this mystery and make gourmet Combos!
Episode 38: Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Bagel Bites
Air Date: March 10th, 2020
Summary: In middle school, pastry chef Claire Saffitz basically subsisted on an all-Bagel Bite diet. But will she like them as an adult or is the magic gone? As Alex Delany puts it, they're not good, but you still want more. Join Claire in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen as she attempts to make a gourmet version of her childhood go-to, Bagel Bites.
Episode 39: Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Girl Scout Cookies
Air Date: March 17th, 2020
Summary: Join Claire Saffitz in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen as she attempts to make gourmet Thin Mints, Samoas and Tagalongs. That's right, Claire's making Girl Scout Cookies. Did you know the Girl Scouts started selling cookies back in 1917? But it wasn't until 1951 that the Thin Mint, the cookie most synonymous with the Girl Scouts, was introduced and swept the country like a tidal wave. And now here we are, in the Test Kitchen, watching Claire make them herself. What a time to be alive.
Episode 40: Pastry Chefs Attempt to Make Gourmet Andes Mints
Air Date: April 1st, 2020
Summary: Brad Leone and Chris Morocco are back for another episode of Gourmet Makes. This time, these two guys who have always hosted and always will host Gourmet Makes are attempting to make a gourmet version of Andes Crème De Menthe, America's favorite after dinner mint. Strangely, one of our editors had the idea that Claire Saffitz had always been the host of Gourmet Makes though they couldn't point to a single episode that Claire had hosted. We're all very worried about the editor, because as we all know, Chris and Brad ARE Gourmet Makes.
Episode 41: Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Cadbury Creme Eggs | Gourmet Makes | Bon Appétit
Air Date: April 9th, 2020
Summary: Join pastry chef Claire Saffitz in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen as she attempts to make gourmet Cadbury Creme Eggs. These are the only eggs that rabbits are known to lay (at least that's what Cadbury commercials tell us). However, Claire will try to make these Easter classics without the aid of a bunny.
Episode 42: Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Tater Tots
Air Date: May 5th, 2020
Summary: Pastry chef Claire Saffitz's love for tater tots can't be overstated. Seriously, we tried to overstate it and couldn't come up with anything. The woman loves her tots. But can she take their perfection to a new level? Join Claire in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen as she attempts to make gourmet tater tots.
Episode 43: Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Choco Tacos Part 1
Air Date: May 26th, 2020
Summary: Who's ready for another culinary adventure? Join intrepid pastry explorer Claire Saffitz as she dives into the world of ice cream-filled dessert tacos. Her goal? A gourmet Choco Taco, but of course. Does she have the fortitude and adventurous spirit to complete this gourmet feat or will this new test best her?
Episode 44: Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Choco Tacos Part 2
Air Date: May 28th, 2020
Summary: Well here we are again: Claire in the grips of yet another culinary challenge. Does she have what it takes to complete her gourmet version of Choco Tacos without the benefit of being in the Test Kitchen? The short answer is yes. The long answer is definitely yes, this is Claire Saffitz we're talking about.
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