I just discovered this podcast and am really enjoying it! I shared it to my Facebook groups, so hopefully you’ll get even more listeners. Looking forward to more episodes!

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Dave Arnold turns out to be a super great host and have a ton of great anecdotes from food to history. The show varies in format (guests vs questions vs vendors), so I recommend trying a couple episodes. If you are curious about food science, hydrocolloids, or you just enjoy industry stories, it’s a great podcast.

Why does the host even invite a guest? I was really looking forward to hearing from the Anova guy about the Precision Oven, but the host spent the entire time telling the guest things that he should have been asking. Also, all the stories and rants and I’m just left with “ug…”

I respect education. However education without tact, good taste, or wisdom can come off as adolescent arrogance in any case. Perhaps if Dave achieved all that he did while working full time behind a kitchen line his achievement and knowledge would be truly impressive and touching and truly fine tuned and tempered and worth listening to. Yes I used too many ‘and’s’ and that’s ok.

Top to bottom, every episode has been interesting and informative. Entertaining to the point of making you laugh aloud, yet sublimely nerdy and technical at times.

Can’t get enough of this show. Food nerdery at its best. You wanna hang out with these people. Though they probably don’t want hang out with you.

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Love this podcast for the witty banter and solid and interesting info on cooking “issues”. Listen every Tuesday or whenever it’s available to stream. If you are interested in food in any shape or form, be it chef, home cook or just a foodie this should be in your queue!

I’m enjoying the content but not enjoying the pattern of treating Nastassia as the scapegoat.

Dave is really good about disseminating information and his knowledge of food and all things related is wildly vast and so helpful. I cannot stand Nastassia becuase all she does is sigh and make disruptive comments and noises that are simply irritating, I suppose she's just providing non sequiturs. Anyway, I want to like her and I keep hoping that I will at the end of every episode but I just can't stand her uselessness. Oh and I like the "Classics in the Field" segment and I've actually ordered some books because of it.

Come for the engaging, accessible, intelligent conversation about enjoying food; stay for the humor, the rants, and the personality.

seriously not the voice I want to be hearing

This is one of my favorites in all genrese. Dave is AMAZING. The energy is so right.

I got more out of the show back when they spent most of the hour talking about cooking issues, with the occasional amusing tangent. When Dave is in top form, his knowledge, creativity, passionately held opinions on food, and sense of humor make for truly compelling and informative listening. In recent months though, it feels like the show has become 85% off-topic chatter, and I often find myself identifying with the sometimes exasperated sounding producer as he struggles to keep the show focused. Dave, Hammer, et al are likeable and often very funny, but I miss getting to the end of an episode and feeling like I’ve spent an hour deepening my knowledge of cooking issues.

Very educational and fun! As a starting chef, this has opened my eyes to the modern way of cooking while making it all relatable! Keep it up!

An amazing blend of in depth cooking, cook tech, and general food knowledge mixed with absolutely hilarious horsing around between Dave, the Hammer, and the intrepid engineers in the booth. No single source has taught me more about cooking.

Food & Cocktail Science

Just found this podcast and couldn't get beyond the first 10 minutes. I was put off by the host's know it all & judgmental attitude. Not for me.

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Always informative and fun format too!

Dave gives thorough, in-depth, well-researched answers to nearly every food or cooking related question that listeners throw his way. I listen to several food call-in Q&A shows, and quite often I think—damn, this caller needs to get on Cooking Issues, because Chris or Lynn or Bridget or whomever doesn’t have a clue what they’re talking about. But Dave always does!

I first encountered Dave Arnold from his YouTube instructional on how to saber a champagne bottle. Although I was aware of his bar, Booker & Dax, and purchased a Searzall from his Kickstarter campaign, I had no idea he hosted a podcast. I'm surprised Cooking Issues is not one of the top food podcast, especially when many of the ones on the iTunes rankings are defunct. Its affiliation with Heritage Radio is great and I now subscribe to many other Heritage Radio podcast. Dave is an excellent story teller and has the patience to explain the science of food to non-professionals. His rapport with Natasha "The Hammer" Lopez and "Others" is also great. I look forward to Cooking Issues every week. My only quibble is that the Heritage Radio website doesn't have a link to where we can ask questions. Also, I can't find a link on the website to the "chatroom" they speak of.

The rants and tangents that the host goes on are by far the most informative and entertaining making this pod cast a wealth of knowledge.

Wow—Dave—this guy is a mile a minute fun. Half the time topics are way over my head but I love to listen. Jack—the Hammer—the cast feels like family.

A must listen for anybody interested in food. Gives you a different way to look at food and the whole culinary scene. So addictive!!

Funny, fascinating and informative. One of my favorites.

This guy's in over his head. When asked about the HEALTH pro & cons of egg yolks, he could tell the caller, "They taste good," but couldn't explain that the yolk contains all of the cholesterol for an egg, which is about 185mg, but also contains about 3g of protein, almost half the protein of an entire egg. Besides protein, the yolk contains the majority of the nutrition in an egg including vitamin D, phosphorus, riboflavin, choline, and selenium. He also hates wraps across the board, which, by definition, must include burritos. He does give good advice on how to use equipment, he simply doesn't know food.

This podcast is not only a lot of fun, but you will definately learn something you didn't know while you are enjoying the banter. Lots of knowledge presented in a unique way from Dave Arnold.

The best!!!

… provided you can keep up with Dave. ;^>

I'm new to cooking, and I have a growing interest in all the science behind it, and so Dave's encyclopedic knowledge and rapid-fire delivery is almost too much. But he's never unwilling to explain what he's talking about for those of us who are just learning, and Nastassia is always ready to keep him in check. Dave, keep being your mile-a-minute self, I'm learning a ton and enjoying the banter.

The cooking issues team does an amazing job. Dave and Nastassia do a fantastic job answering food science and cooking related questions with a fun and laid back atmosphere. Vegan face for the win!

Love the show, amazing technical detail in fun presentation. Everything from salting food to molecular crap I don't comprehend but love anyway! Rock on David and excellent production crew! Funny, appetizing and informative.

So much information I listen to the podcast every morning-- learning more all the time. Great job Dave, Nastasha, and The Cooking Issues team.

This is a great podcast if you're interested in food and the science behind it. If you can, catch it live on The Heritage Radio Network online. You can call in live or submit a question ahead of time

Top shelf podcast if you are interested in food science. Love the tone and quick extemporaneous but in depth answers to questions that focus on the newer techniques. Really glad to have found this podcast.

Very informative information coming from people who actually know what they are talking about. Not just fun to listen to, but inspiring as well. I wish you great success with this new endeavor!