Name Ann Reardon (maiden name Ann Price)
Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB August 16, 1975. As of 2025, she is around 50 years old.
Wedding & Marriage / Husband / Engaged / Spouse / Partner Check the full bio for relationship details.
Wiki Biography / Profile Background
Introduction :
- Ann Reardon is an Australian YouTuber with a food channel focused on baking.
- She is also a food scientist and dietitian.
- Her YouTube channel, How To Cook That, is one of the top baking channels globally with over 4 million subscribers. She continues to post new videos every second Friday, with her format evolving to include “crazy sweet creations, debunking, and fascinating food science.”
Personal Life : Parents, Family and Education
- Ann Reardon was born Ann Price on August 16, 1975, in Western Australia. She was born to English parents, making her the daughter of immigrants rather than native Australians.
- She has an elder sister, and her passion for baking can be traced to childhood: lollipops were only allowed on birthdays, so her mother taught her to cook. To satisfy her sweet tooth, Ann began creating desserts and soon treated recipe collecting as a personal treasure hunt.
- Ann attended school in Western Australia before studying at Curtin University in Perth from 1992 to 1995. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Nutrition and Food Science, followed by a Postgrad Diploma in Dietetics which certified her as a dietitian.
- She relocated to Sydney, Australia, in 2009 with her family. Ann is married to David “Dave” Reardon, a public speaker, reporter, and novelist. They have three children: James, Matt, and Jedd.
- After the birth of her third son Jedd, complications caused him to lose weight rapidly. At four weeks old, he was hospitalised for surgery, and Ann was advised to feed him every three hours for seven months. The treatment worked, and Jedd recovered.
- In 2018, her eldest son James underwent routine surgery but developed a MRSA superbug infection, leading to internal bleeding, a near-collapsed lung, and the risk of sepsis. He was prescribed nine antibiotics daily and spent over three weeks in the hospital.
- James has since fully recovered and now regularly co-hosts Ann’s kitchen gadget testing videos.
- Ann continues to live in Sydney, Australia.
Work : Career, Income, Salary and Net Worth
- After graduating from Curtin University, Ann worked as a food scientist and dietitian. She later devoted time to working with underprivileged youth in a poverty-stricken area of Western Australia, often welcoming people into her home to teach them cooking skills.
- In 2011, after the birth of her third son, Ann started the How To Cook That website, which featured an online shop and weekly recipes. She soon began uploading videos to YouTube under the same name, and the channel quickly gained popularity. It now has more than four million subscribers, with her posting frequency increasing over the years.
- Her calm, reassuring style has a therapeutic effect on many viewers, with some watching her videos to ease anxiety.
- Ann has received mainstream recognition, with features in Forbes, The Huffington Post, and The Sydney Morning Herald.
- Her debut cookbook Crazy Sweet Creations (released in July 2021) was eagerly awaited and is now on the ckbk platform with built-in YouTube guides, offering everything from Sugar Snow Globe Desserts to Heart Inside Cupcakes while making restaurant-style techniques easy for home bakers.
Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :
- Ann helped her husband, Dave, while he was writing his young adult novel The Deep Enders, just as Dave supported her with YouTube production.
- Ann suffers from solar urticaria, a severe photosensitivity to sunlight that requires her to wear protective clothing outdoors. She is believed to be the only person in Australia with the condition, which affects only about 100,000 people worldwide.
- Some of Reardon’s most popular creations include the viral Instagram cake, as well as themed cakes like The Avengers cake and Doctor Who cake.
- When she launched her blog in 2011, Ann often typed recipes one-handed during late-night feedings with her third son.
- As a child, Ann embraced an active lifestyle, enjoying bike riding and long-distance running through the bush near her home—remarkable given her solar urticaria condition.