Cooking Issues with Dave Arnold

Dave Arnold

Booking Overview

This is a host-led culinary advice and food-science show built around listener questions, with occasional deep-dive interviews featuring chefs and restaurant professionals. Credible pitches include chefs, restaurateurs, culinary technologists, and specialists with distinctive expertise in regional cuisines, ingredients, cooking technique, or beverages; booking difficulty is likely medium because guest appearances are selective but do not require celebrity-level prominence.

Metrics

Episodes: 239

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

cookingissuespodcast@gmail.com

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Host

Dave Arnold - Dave Arnold is a food technologist, culinary inventor, author of Liquid Intelligence, and founder of Booker and Dax, known for applying scientific and technical approaches to cooking and cocktails.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Chefs, restaurateurs, and culinary specialists with substantial expertise in regional cuisines, ingredients, cooking techniques, beverages, or food science.

Required Achievements:

Operating or leading a notable restaurant, Developing distinctive expertise in a regional cuisine or culinary technique, Building professional recognition through culinary work or innovation

Recent Guest Discussions

Fidel Caballero - Northern Mexican Cooking, Turkey Butts, Tortas, Flour Tortillas, White Sonora Wheat, Burritos, Moles, Regional Ingredients, And The Cooking Behind Corima And Vato.

Recent Topics

Food, Cooking, Food Science, Cocktails, Restaurants

Episodes

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Cooking Issues with Dave Arnold

NTT: Rules are Meant to Be Broken

September 27, 2026

It’s an All-Tangent Tuesday as Dave and the crew debate the unwritten rules of restaurants: bringing your own crushed red pepper, sneaking food into movie theaters, why some places refuse perfectly reasonable off-menu requests, and whether chimichurri disqualifies steak frites from being steak frites.Then things get technical with grilled lobster, birthday steaks, blood cocktails, yeast percentages, and a deep dive into getting the perfect glossy mahogany crust on homemade pretzels. Plus, Dav...

Tiny Trash Trucks: OG Crew NTT

September 22, 2026

Dave Arnold is joined by Nastassia and Jack for an old-school Cooking Issues episode covering the etiquette of dining alone, phone calls at restaurants, and what guests should—or absolutely should not—bring to a dinner party. The crew gets into garlic fermented in honey and food-safety concerns, the right way to cool and store leftovers, fresh versus dried yeast, and Dave’s plans for an elaborate Peruvian-style rotisserie. Plus: cocktail texture, LA’s chaotic hillside architecture, Majordomo,...

NTT: Back from Lima

September 15, 2026

Dave Arnold is back at Rockefeller Center with the crew, and Nastassia kicks things off with a beer can chicken experiment that went spectacularly wrong: green chicken, burning skin, emergency Popeyes, and a last-minute rescue by Daniel Patterson. Dave also reports back from Lima, with thoughts on Peruvian chicken, ceviche, pisco sours, ancient adobe cities, cocktail bars, and the city’s formidable traffic. Then it’s on to listener questions: getting Flavacol to stick to air-popped popco...

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cookingissuespodcast@gmail.com

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