Zac Young Biography
Zach Young is an American pastry chef and television personality. He has appeared in several baking shows on his Food Network and his Cooking channel, most notably on Top His Chef. Only desserts and unique sweets.
How old is Zac Young? – Age
He will turn 40 on November 18, 2022. He was born in 1982 in Portland, Maine, USA.
Zac Young Family – Education
Jonathan Rebel Young and Susan Rebel Young gave birth to Zack. Ever since he was a child, he wanted to learn to make bread because his mother, who was vegan, had never baked biscuits for him. After participating in community children’s theater from 3rd grade through his 8th grade, Young enrolled at Walnut Hill School of the Arts in Natick, Massachusetts.
Zac Young Education
Young attended the Walnut Hill School of the Arts in Natick, Massachusetts, where he attended grades 3-8 and participated in local children’s theater productions. He briefly worked as a costume designer before Young decided that baking was his true passion. He then moved to New York City in 2003 and enrolled in the Culinary Education Institute, graduating in 2006.
Zac Young Net Worth
His estimated net worth is $5 million.
Zac Young Career
After graduating from the Institute of Culinary Education, Young worked at Bouchon Bakery under Sebastien Luxel and Richard Capizzi. He then got a job as a pastry chef at Butter. Young studied at Philippe Parc at Valrhona, France, with Michel Cruisel and Philippe Gibre. Young was promoted to senior pastry chef at Flex Mussels on the Upper East Side in 2009. So he ran a seasonal donut shop at Grand Central Station.
In 2012, Young was hired by David Burke his group as a senior pastry chef. This group he later renamed to Craveable Hospitality Group. Jean Martinez, pastry chef at Young and David Burke Fabrik, created his PieCaken dessert in 2015.
A piecake is a combination of spice pie, pumpkin pie and pecan pie that was originally intended to be sold sliced in restaurants. Layers are held together with cinnamon buttercream and topped with apple pie filling. The Wall Street Journal described the pie as “a hybrid of pumpkin pie, pecan pie and upside-down apple pie.”
Zac Young TV Shows
♦ 2017-2021 – Halloween Baking Championship
♦ 2017-2019 – Chopped
♦ 2017-2018 – Bakers vs. Fakers
♦ 2016-2020 – Beat Bobby Flay
♦ 2011-2017 – Unique Sweets
♦ 2010 – Top Chef: Just Desserts