{"id":14543,"date":"2024-05-21T10:37:25","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T08:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/21\/i-have-finally-mastered-a-tiktok-recipe-for-bao-buns-but-they-take-almost-five-hours-zoe-williams\/"},"modified":"2024-05-21T10:37:25","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T08:37:25","slug":"i-have-finally-mastered-a-tiktok-recipe-for-bao-buns-but-they-take-almost-five-hours-zoe-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/21\/i-have-finally-mastered-a-tiktok-recipe-for-bao-buns-but-they-take-almost-five-hours-zoe-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"I have finally mastered a TikTok recipe for bao buns \u2013 but they take almost five hours | Zoe Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What am I doing with my one wild and precious life? Struggling to follow fast, frantic cookery instructions and developing a whole new swearing habit<\/p>\n<p>I have been following the rise of the bao bun very keenly \u2013 the pallid little puffballs are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/article\/2024\/may\/20\/sales-of-bao-buns-on-a-roll-as-britons-fall-in-love-with-asian-treat\">enjoying a boom<\/a> in Britain\u2019s snack sector \u2013 on account of the fact that I learned to make them myself. It took me a long time and made me question a lot of things, including my soundness of mind. For anyone without teenagers in their house, there is a new frontier in knowledge exchange, which is the TikTok recipe. It\u2019s like a regular recipe, except with a twist: it\u2019s also like the world\u2019s hardest IQ test.<\/p>\n<p>The posters are mainly American and the dishes are mainly Korean (or air-fryer-based). The TikTokkers will tell you in broad terms what the ingredients are, but incredibly fast and <a href=\"https:\/\/vm.tiktok.com\/ZGeX5wQWe\/\">often with swearing<\/a>. Think of the craft segments on Blue Peter \u2013 painstakingly described, with one they made earlier \u2013 then make it 150 times faster and much bluer.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/commentisfree\/article\/2024\/may\/21\/finally-mastered-tiktok-recipe-bao-buns-but-almost-five-hours\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/53c02e9cd1dfd97280405a552ee30c1467c6f3a2\/0_312_7216_4330\/master\/7216.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=c89a0ebf18df731216045447d5bcd13c\" title=\"I have finally mastered a TikTok recipe for bao buns \u2013 but they take almost five hours | Zoe Williams\" \/>What am I doing with my one wild and precious life? Struggling to follow fast, frantic cookery instructions and developing a whole new swearing habit<br \/>\nI have been following the rise of the bao bun very keenly \u2013 the pallid little puffballs are enjoying a boom in Britain\u2019s snack sector \u2013 on account of the fact that I learned to make them myself. It took me a long time and made me question a lot of things, including my soundness of mind. For anyone without teenagers in their house, there is a new frontier in knowledge exchange, which is the TikTok recipe. It\u2019s like a regular recipe, except with a twist: it\u2019s also like the world\u2019s hardest IQ test.<br \/>\nThe posters are mainly American and the dishes are mainly Korean (or air-fryer-based). The TikTokkers will tell you in broad terms what the ingredients are, but incredibly fast and often with swearing. Think of the craft segments on Blue Peter \u2013 painstakingly described, with one they made earlier \u2013 then make it 150 times faster and much bluer. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What am I doing with my one wild and precious life? Struggling to follow fast, frantic cookery instructions and developing a whole new swearing habit I have been following the rise of the bao bun very keenly \u2013 the pallid little puffballs are enjoying a boom in Britain\u2019s snack sector \u2013 on account of the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/21\/i-have-finally-mastered-a-tiktok-recipe-for-bao-buns-but-they-take-almost-five-hours-zoe-williams\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I have finally mastered a TikTok recipe for bao buns \u2013 but they take almost five hours | Zoe Williams<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14543"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}