How to Make the Ultimate Cheese Quiche at Home | ChefSteps

This is the ultimate cheese quiche recipe: a super silky and smooth custard perfectly set in the crispiest and most delicious pie crust you’ve ever had.
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Unlike a lot of the fillings-topped-with-eggs-in-a-pie-crust quiches out there, this one is all about nailing the cooking technique to produce the best possible version of a quiche. There’s just a handful of ingredients, treated correctly, cooked using the appropriate tools and with an eye toward developing the maximum amount of flavor.
0:27 - How to Make the Ultimate Cheese Quiche
2:28 - The Dough
7:06 - Roll and Chill
9:05 - Black Hole Crust
13:14 - Blind Baking
16:45 - Cheesy Custard
22:38 - Trim, Garnish, and Eat
What you’ll need:
- Bread Flour
- Unsalted Butter
- Kosher Salt
- Whole Milk
- Velveeta
- Heavy Cream
- White Pepper
- Gruyère cheese
- Eggs
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[@DoctorMcHerp]

The most important part of this video for me was the pie crust segment. Having a reliable measurement for the pie weights is something I've never seen from any other video or recipe.

[@irishmarine3]

This is EXACTLY the video I've been looking for. I've always wondered how places get their custard consistency like that - you da man Grant

[@CaptainC0rrupt]

That crust is goals 😍 Thx especially for the whole weights per area calculations as it’s something that I’ve suffered from while parbaking rough puff pastry for flans.

[@yvesklay7929]

Swiss citizen here: No Problem of mixing the cheeses together imo. I'm just happy that you buy actual Swiss Made Gruyère since the US government allows selling cheese made in the US under the name "Gruyère". According to them, consumers in the U.S. who asked for Gruyère meant a type of cheese, not a cheese produced in Switzerland...

[@chefsteps]

We only use the best! 🧀

[@estevangonzalez2744]

OMG...WOW, thank you for this video and sharing it with us!!!!!!!! This video is life changing when it comes to pie crust!!!!

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You guys have been doing this a long time. I love it!

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[@davidhalldurham]

Wow, what an excellent video! Thank you, guys.

[@kikomussolini]

I miss this feeling. Hard work, persistence and the final reward. Thank you Cheff!

[@satanismybrother]

Really great video, thanks CS!

[@TashJansson]

what a treat! that custard looks _flawless_

[@TheBeefTrain]

I love any time we get some new Chef Steps content!

[@michelpoulain8335]

This now a classic home recipe. We are a French familly but this recipe has revamp our quiche. We also make croissants or petits pains au chocolat with the extra dough

[@jhsoup4393]

I love the part where everyone get together to eat. Feels so wholesome and warm ❤

[@persianwingman]

Looks yummy 😋

[@wolfingitdown2047]

hyper informative and insightful. Been looking for this video for awhile. Makes sense you guys would post it

[@chefsteps]

Awesome you like the format! Keep an eye out for more!

[@jjadefernans7492]

Simple Perfection, Sir. Thank you for posting!🙏!

[@themuscovyducks]

Grant it's good to see you back!!!

[@_CoasterNinja]

Sick. You guys are the best!

[@honeyfromthebee]

Savory cheesecake

[@JM-rn4cb]

Velveeta cheesecake no less

[@chefsteps]

No bain marie required!

[@stuart207]

💯

[@pianoforte611]

This is the technique I use for tarte au citron both the custard and the crust are almost done by the time I put them together but I've never thought about doing it for quiche.

[@rcmarcelo68]

Hola Grant! Wooooow!!! An amazing video (as always from ChefSteps). What I do really like from all your videos the "tech" approcach! ChefSteps rules!! Cheers from Buenos Aires (AR)

[@arifbagussatriya7402]

I've been waiting for this

[@Wrecktoid]

Awesome!

[@tiacho2893]

I love quiche. And now when I close my eyes and imagine my Platonic ideal quiche, I WILL picture this.

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A decade later, ChefSteps is still providing more useful information in their videos than any other cooking channel.

[@jackfahey4610]

And providing more and more and more. Stop talking

[@got2bjosh]

@@jackfahey4610 Who scorched your pan?

[@Dezmen1992]

I never baked a Quiche before but now i ordered a baking pan to try it! With holes!

[@brendanwhelton]

Liked and subscribed, thank you!

[@maetaylor5677]

im obsessed

[@CarlaLalliMusic123]

love the shade @ "tech bros" eating bad quiche at their breakfast meeting lol

[@chefsteps]

Thanks Carla! (we are tech bros... 😅)

[@grantcrilly3525]

@@chefsteps Have you seen Seattle?! @carla, love that you love:)

[@meowzord]

Hi y’all, made this for Mothers Day. Crust, flawless. Custard, flawless. Flavor? Tastes like Cheese Wiz.

[@manishshankla9562]

I've been trying to reverse engineer my local patisserie's quiche. This is just the video I've been looking for, thanks! .

[@rbu2136]

Did you pick out oven temp?

[@sorscha]

Okay. If I happen to have traditional ceramic pie weights, can I be confident that using them in a single layer should match the weight ratio? Secondly, WTF is Velveeta when it's not at home? Love from Australia (with my Nanna's pie weights) ❤

[@jacobhatfield3630]

The best pie dough trick I was ever taught in a professional kitchen - was the addition of apple cider vinegar in a pie dough. It makes it so much more tender.

[@LinA-it9vd]

I use plain old white vinegar. Works every time.

[@AnKyDang]

this is what I need to learn culinary, I think I will re-subscribe again

[@fedesartorio]

Love the crust technique, the crust looks perfect, and I'm sure the custard is tasty, but I would still try to put some kind of texture in that. Could I add like caramelised onions, broccoli, lardons and such in the filling?

[@Niskovic1]

That crust looks INSANE

[@dinein1970]

Le Pichet, which is right up the street from you, does make an AWESOME quiche

[@sih1095]

Cheers. That is a facinating dough. 👍

[@rbu2136]

Excellent video. I watch a lot of videos and am long-time home cook. Just subscribed. While entertaining…I appreciated the education in the deep art of crusts and custards. FYI, did not see oven temp.

[@Dashitishere22]

I made an account just to see the oven temp, they blind baked at the following: Adjust oven rack to middle position and preheat oven to 400 °F / 204 °C with low fan if using a convection oven, or 425 °F / 218 °C if using a conventional oven. Set a wire rack inside a 1/4 sheet pan. Line chilled pie dough shell with a sheet of aluminum foil, making sure to press foil into corners. Add 636 g dried beans or other pie weights and spread weights evenly across surface of pie dough, pressing lightly at the edges to ensure corners are weighed down. Transfer quiche pan to prepared sheet pan. Bake for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes, lower oven temperature to 325 °F / 163 °C with low fan if using a convection oven, or 350 °F / 177 °C if using a conventional oven. Rotate sheet pan 180 degrees and continue to bake until pie crust is lightly browned and dry blisters have formed along bottom of pie crust, about 30 minutes. TL DR: 30 min at 425 F with conventional oven 30 min at 350 F with conventional oven 30-45 more min at 350 without the foil and weights OR 30 min at 400 F with low fan convection oven 30 min at 325 F with low fan convection 30-45 more min at 325 with low fan convection

[@rbu2136]

Ahhh they are pay walling info. Thank you.

[@Dashitishere22]

@@rbu2136 didn't seem to be paywalled but you did have to make an account for it which automatically subscribes you to email notifications ofc

[@nerdcave0]

Does it matter if the pie weights are metal since metal (presumably) conducts heat better than beans/rice/salt?

[@ReubenNinan]

Can I ask what brand of mixing bowl that is or where I can get it? I love the size and depth of it.

[@iamafractal]

Grant: let’s say I was making something like a sealed meat pie. I’m not sure how it’s possible to blind bake. I want to make a bunch that get par-cooked, frozen then baked off at the end. Any suggestions on how to do that?

[@basic138]

Grant my friend!!! I diid it!! yes its the best crust ever! me and all that ate just said that, without asking ... but... how is to make a closed pie with filling ... with the same cooking time? 😳

[@haydenschultz2093]

Looks like an amazing quiche, but custard quiche + salad != quiche Lorraine. I'll try your techniques, but I'll add lardons, leeks, and nutmeg or perhaps asparagus & mushrooms.

[@cwalker7357]

What is the oven temperature for 30 minutes and after. Appreciate your response. Thanks

[@MattKG12345]

Ive heard of grating frozen butter and mixing into flour for biscuits. Do you think that would fly here as well, GLC?

[@RoryStarr]

I cannot find a pan that style with the high sides. I got the standard quiche sized one (1 inch size) but I can't find the one in the video. Where did you get it?

[@igiveupfine]

oh good god. that looks really good.

[@louisjohnson09]

Help, we do not have Velveeta in New Zealand, any suggestions on what else I could use?

[@aidanjanzen]

I need to know where you got that mixing bowl

[@ramiayoub8975]

making om ali with leftover baked pie crust and enjoy🥰

[@CarelessForce]

So for those of us who don't have access to velveeta, or maybe just want different tasting cheeses, is it reasonable to assume the emulsifiers in it are what's important? Wondering if you could use something like cheddar and add some sodium citrate for similar results

[@vincer7824]

Great question. I imagine so.

[@shenlun]

Grant, I live in Australia, and we don't have velveeta cheese here, what would you suggest as a replacement?

[@chefsteps]

We have an entire guide on melty cheese and how to make almost any cheese melty! www.chefsteps.com/activities/melty-cheese-parametric-analysis

[@nach000x]

Didn't know Keanu Reeves knew how to make the perfect quiche

[@grantcrilly3525]

I do:)

[@franriding6473]

Is there any alternative to velveeta? You can’t buy it here in the uk.

[@TilmanBaumann]

i think I couldn't resist the classic vegetables

[@gregg48]

agreed, and I think they'd work just fine here

[@tyetye]

Bless the camera man at 17:00

[@hovi8050]

A good tip to trim your crust is to use a microplane on the edges. It makes perfect trimmings and will not mess up your knife hitting the metal. Tip from my boyfriend who is a baker ;)

[@gregg48]

there's a few styles of microplane, so which one? does he mean the classic one? the wider, shorter "gourmet" one?

[@hovi8050]

@@gregg48 he use the microplane, long skinnier one. Like the one for zesting lemons!

[@docwhitfield7512]

Where can we get the black quiche pan?

[@zviklein9752]

would love to know the company of that stainless mixing bow Grant is using, and where you get those pastry bars, please.

[@kylhaselbauer7630]

ikea

[@Blazingstar75]

I still prefer it with toppings... far more colorful that way, but I like the ideas to elevate the dish

[@tkdbigmac]

is there anything to sub the Velveeta?

[@Kenny-nu3co]

“It’s just some beans “ 😂

[@suzannebrown945]

❤

[@kitesquid]

At 10:40 the term you were describing is : thermal mass

[@jackwt7340]

Everyone likes crust🥧

[@edwinpantus5574]

I’m definitely going to make this pie after seeing you so it! I’m going to make it vegan, but nonetheless, you inspired me to make an earl grey pie 🙌🏻 Btw next time, try flipping the cardboard box, I believe you used it upside down. Take care!

[@marianapalombo1]

can i freeze this quiche? 🤔

[@etpe4830]

cooking temperatures please?

[@srlim]

Could you use a cast iron pan for the bake?

[@chefsteps]

You could! We tried a few different pans and we endorse the one in the video for best results.

[@thedr00]

Velveeta is not a thing in Europe, what would be a suitable equivalent?

[@tom_something]

I wonder if anyone makes a two-piece pie/tart set where one piece is the pretty, ceramic thing for presentation and serving, and the other is a thin, metal doodad for actually baking the thing properly. The two parts would be designed with precisely the same fluted shape, so you bake it in the metal thing, transfer it to the ceramic thing, and it really does look like it was baked in that. Then everyone thinks you' have mastered baking in a way no mortal can. Also, I love that the formula for the weight comes down to weight (or mass*) per area. That's the same formula as for pressure, and ultimately we _are_ talking about how much downward pressure yields a flaky but tamed crust. I don't know, man. I like math. *Not always interchangeable, but as long as we're somewhere on or near the surface of Earth, and we're under water or something... we can all agree with relative precision how many grams are in a pound.

[@grantcrilly3525]

I like that idea.

[@godaistudios]

What are the odds of you and Frank Proto doing a quiche video the same day? I remember making quiche in culinary school. Not that difficult.

[@chefsteps]

We promise it has nothing to do with the monarchy!

[@godaistudios]

@@chefsteps It's fun seeing the different approaches one after the other anyway. I'm convinced that the best chefs steal from each other and have been doing so for centuries.

[@justind7029]

Anyone have the actual list of ingredients and measurements?

[@tb9144]

What is Velveeta and how can I replace it with ingritients widly available in europe?

[@CarelessForce]

It's a soft cheese with added emulsifiers. No idea about the taste but I imagine you could use whatever cheese you want so long as you add an emulsifier like sodium citrate into the milk/cream, maybe adding a different soft cheese like a cream cheese or cheese spread might be necessary too/instead

[@8il8a]

So how many cheese of both we have to add? That's the main point

[@DeviantmindOG]

Does this mean Chefsteps is going to be making videos on a regular basis again?

[@angellover02171]

doubt it.

[@iWonchan]

didn't you grate a frozen butter block for the biscuit recipe before? why not do that?

[@DavidJohnson-dk3bf]

this guy is really proud of his "cute dish" lol

[@many5473]

I did not understand the weight beans calculation to put on the top of the dought to cook it Someone can explain to me in cm please....?

[@pianoforte611]

How do you deal with pies that have tops like cherry pie? You can't blind bake a top.

[@user-mo7bu8vx3y]

Привет. Где могу найти рецепт?

[@roebucksruin]

What is the emulsifier in Velveeta? Sodium Citrate?

[@justingarner7163]

I think it's sodium hexametaphosphate

[@roebucksruin]

@@justingarner7163 It probably has a few. If the link above is to be believed, sodium citrate is on the list. One could sub out all of the unknowns for a measure of sodium citrate instead.

[@NuMorDeFoame]

Keanu Reeves cooking quiche, nice recommendation.

[@ntq1ty]

Great video, but what kind of pressure unit is 6g / sq inch 🙄

[@grantcrilly3525]

Doesn't make sense? I am trying to communicate that you can measure the precise amount of weigh that is ideal for the blind bake. 6g-10g/ sq inch works really well.

[@ntq1ty]

@@grantcrilly3525 you did communicate it very well, and I enjoyed and appreciated the video. I will even try making it (though I'm not tempted to make a Coronation Quiche variant). I was just gently teasing the very US-centric mix of SI and Imperial quantities in a single unit of measurement.

[@punkdigerati]

Could you just use sodium citrate instead of the Velveeta and more cheese, like a fresh cheddar?

[@CraigsNews]

Where can I get that bowl!

[@kylhaselbauer7630]

ikea

[@vincer7824]

The big metal one?

[@Zedzikk]

Looks delicious, but Bro, you must update your Chrome more often

[@martinmcintyre7623]

Did you try to just like, bake the crust unweighted? And smoosh it down before you put the filling in? I don't think the result would be bad...

[@kambingbesi1011]

Didn't know John Wick started cooking channel

[@alumba]

This is Seattle's Brad Leone

[@chefsteps]

Brad/Grant bro trip video soon?

[@MrWalksindarkness]

why not post an amazon affiliate link to the pan?

[@chefsteps]

www.amazon.com/dp/B0971DX5MN?tag=chefsteps02-20 We've added it in!

[@MrWalksindarkness]

@@chefsteps I bought it, thank you. I had used your old recipe using a springform pan a couple times with good results, but the crust was still underdone, even in your videos you can see the bottom crust is underdone, so I am excited to try this

[@danh9083]

@@chefsteps Dang homie I'm impulse buyin' it

[@smoll.miniatures]

Did I miss the oven temp for the crust?

[@Lina-zj3kk]

I’m looking for it right now. I swear I took notes but I can’t find them…

[@Lina-zj3kk]

Found it. Middle rack. 400 F If convection, 425 F if convention. Bake 30 min. Lower temp to 325 convection, 300 F convention. Rotate pan 180 degrees. Bake 30 min

[@MrDW72]

Didn't know Odesza was a chef too

[@williamfotiou7577]

Velveeta, veeeeeeerrryyy important! lol, I’m surprised that you didn’t get into why. Overall, C’est parfait! 🔪🔪🔪

[@user-vz7li5mf9m]

Who do you bake for? Are you a restaurant?

[@chefsteps]

We’re are a cooking technology company based in the Pike Place Market in Seattle:)

[@CloudfeatherRusticWorks]

That crust with too little weight looks like it'd be great for an apple pie type dessert. That puffy crust and the soft, chewy apples...

[@jongmassey]

Any good substitutes for where velveeta is (thankfully) unavailable?

[@delk82]

Mild cheddar melted with some sodium citrate

[@chefsteps]

We have a great guide on melty cheeses you should check out! www.chefsteps.com/activities/melty-cheese-parametric-analysis

[@andrew1321]

this is sort of like a giant, savory Chinese savory egg tart