NaN/100 votes#1 - Pastry Chef Attempts to Make a Gourmet Twinkie
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 7/18/2017
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.
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NaN/100 votes#2 - Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Gushers
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 12/20/2017
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!
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NaN/100 votes#3 - Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Cheetos
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 3/21/2018
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!
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NaN/100 votes#4 - Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Kit Kats
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 5/2/2018
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!
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NaN/100 votes#5 - Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Skittles
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 6/5/2018
Claire Saffitz takes on another challenge, this time to recreate the tastes of the rainbow... Skittles, Gourmet-style.
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NaN/100 votes#6 - Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Lucky Charms
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 6/26/2018
Everyone loves Lucky Charms! Watch Claire's attempt to recreate your favorite childhood cereal.
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NaN/100 votes#7 - Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Oreos
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 7/31/2018
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.
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NaN/100 votes#8 - Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Twizzlers
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 9/18/2018
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.
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NaN/100 votes#9 - Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Sno Balls
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/14/2018
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.
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NaN/100 votes#10 - Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Instant Ramen
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/29/2018
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?
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NaN/100 votes#11 - Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Snickers
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/21/2018
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!
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NaN/100 votes#12 - Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Pringles
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/22/2019
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.
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NaN/100 votes#13 - Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Ferrero Rocher
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 2/12/2019
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.
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NaN/100 votes#14 - Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 3/5/2019
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.
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NaN/100 votes#15 - Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Cheez-Its
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 3/26/2019
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.
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NaN/100 votes#16 - Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Peeps
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 4/19/2019
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!!!
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NaN/100 votes#17 - Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Almond Joys
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 5/9/2019
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.
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NaN/100 votes#18 - Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Doritos
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 5/22/2019
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!
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NaN/100 votes#19 - Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Twix
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 6/13/2019
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.
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NaN/100 votes#20 - Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Starbursts
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 6/20/2019
Join pastry chef Claire Saffitz in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen as she attempts to make gourmet Starbursts.
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NaN/100 votes#21 - Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Pop Rocks
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 7/17/2019
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!
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NaN/100 votes#22 - Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Pop-Tarts
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 8/7/2019
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.
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NaN/100 votes#23 - Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Pocky
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 8/20/2019
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.
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NaN/100 votes#24 - Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet M&M's
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 9/11/2019
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!
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NaN/100 votes#25 - Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Hot Pockets
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 9/25/2019
Join Claire Saffitz in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen as she attempts to make a gourmet version of Hot Pockets!
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The Best Episodes of Gourmet Makes Season 1
Every episode of Gourmet Makes Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Gourmet Makes Season 1!
Pastry chef Claire “Half-Sour” Saffitz attempts to make gourmet versions of popular snacks and desserts without the hard-to-pronounce chemical ingredients.
Genre:Documentary
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Pastry Chef Attempts to Make a Gourmet Twinkie" is the best rated episode of "Gourmet Makes" season 1. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 7/18/2017. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Gushers".