Test Kitchen Favorites: The 2007 Companion Cookbook to the Hit TV Show

by America's Test Kitchen (Editor), John Burgoyne (Illustrator), Daniel J. Van Ackere (Photographer)

Presents evaluations of cooking products and equipment and provides recipes for main meals, soups, and desserts, with detailed instruction on preparation and technique for each dish.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction, Food

339 pages, Hardcover

First published November 30, 2006

About the author

America's Test Kitchen, based in a brand new state-of-the-art 60,000 sq. ft. facility with over 15,000 sq. ft. of test kitchens and studio space, in Boston's Seaport District, is dedicated to finding the very best recipes for home cooks. Over 50 full-time (admittedly obsessive) test cooks spend their days testing recipes 30, 40, up to 100 times, tweaking every variable until they understand how and why recipes work. They also test cookware and supermarket ingredients so viewers can bypass marketing hype and buy the best quality products. As the home of Cook's Illustrated and Cook's Country magazines, and publisher of more than one dozen cookbooks each year, America's Test Kitchen has earned the respect of the publishing industry, the culinary world, and millions of home cooks. America's Test Kitchen the television show launched in 2001, and the company added a second television program, Cook's Country, in 2008.

Discover, learn, and expand your cooking repertoire with Julia Collin Davison, Bridget Lancaster, Jack Bishop, Dan Souza, Lisa McManus, Tucker Shaw, Bryan Roof, and our fabulous team of test cooks!

Learn more at https://www.americastestkitchen.com/.

Reviews

[Inder · Rating 5 out of 5]

We love these guys. We now have the 2009 companion (which I couldn't find on Goodreads yet), and it looks awesome. The mix of great comfort food recipes and science-y precision and testing really gets me excited. So excited I'll even read about pork loins. Dad, you would love these books (and the associated "Best of" series) - they are a cooking engineer's dream. Although Deborah Madison will get you through, I know you would enjoy branching out into this series. Lots of great chemistry and physics here.

[Lbaker · Rating 4 out of 5]

Many of these recipes are too detail oriented and finicky for everyday, however, if you want to make a spectacular and decadent chocolate cake, it is definitely worth the trouble.

I watch this program and enjoy the tips, the one about adding extra water to pie crust has enabled me to make pie again! The show and the book both make day to day to cooking too onerous, though for special occasions it is nice to have a reference that pulls out all the stops and guides you carefully through each step.

[Joelen · Rating 5 out of 5]

The ATK series have never failed me. Each recipe comes out perfect each and every time! I also appreciate the addition of cooking/baking tips, equipment ratings and overall summary of what they were trying to achieve with each recipe, what worked, what didn't and why. These books do far more than slap a recipe on a page. They provide you the reasoning as to why the recipe is written, why it works and what to avoid.

[Mckinley · Rating 4 out of 5]

A lot on techniques and that sort of stuff. Not so much for me recipe-wise. Like the menu book better.