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Jessica Badalana

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
989 total appearances

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Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast
Cracking the Cheesecake Code, featuring Carla Hall

And it's not terribly sweet.

Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast
Cracking the Cheesecake Code, featuring Carla Hall

But, you know, those sugars on the outside caramelize.

Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast
Cracking the Cheesecake Code, featuring Carla Hall

And you wouldn't get that in a water bath.

Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast
Cracking the Cheesecake Code, featuring Carla Hall

You don't want that in, like, some styles of cheesecake.

Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast
Cracking the Cheesecake Code, featuring Carla Hall

The water bath is there to prevent that from happening.

Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast
Cracking the Cheesecake Code, featuring Carla Hall

But the whole like the whole thing about the bass cheesecake is that it's got this like caramelized crust.

Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast
Cracking the Cheesecake Code, featuring Carla Hall

So that's why it just gets thrown.

Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast
Cracking the Cheesecake Code, featuring Carla Hall

I mean, it truly is one of the easiest and hardest to mess up recipes because you combine everything together in a food processor, whiz it up, dump it in, no crust to a bass cheesecake.

Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast
Cracking the Cheesecake Code, featuring Carla Hall

And then you just blast in the oven.

Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast
Cracking the Cheesecake Code, featuring Carla Hall

So it's very user-friendly.

Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast
Cracking the Cheesecake Code, featuring Carla Hall

You do have to nail... I mean, and that is... If there is a pain point of cheesecake, that is it, right?

Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast
Cracking the Cheesecake Code, featuring Carla Hall

And Carla mentioned a good way to tell.

Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast
Cracking the Cheesecake Code, featuring Carla Hall

You want the... I think she said three inches from the outer edge of your pan should be set when you shake it.

Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast
Cracking the Cheesecake Code, featuring Carla Hall

But the middle should still be like...

Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast
Cracking the Cheesecake Code, featuring Carla Hall

jiggly you know i was just that was hard for you to say well because i was just thinking about i was just going down a mental rabbit hole of remembering that one of my first boyfriends had a water bed oh no yes i should have broken up with him then and there but i did eventually relationship last too long

Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast
Cracking the Cheesecake Code, featuring Carla Hall

I know, waterbeds are gross.

Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast
Cracking the Cheesecake Code, featuring Carla Hall

And then I was thinking, waterbeds are not a thing anymore.

Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast
Cracking the Cheesecake Code, featuring Carla Hall

Because I was going to give a waterbed as, like, the frame of reference for, like, how jiggly.

Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast
Cracking the Cheesecake Code, featuring Carla Hall

And then I was like, do people know?