The Best Recipe Editors of Cooks Illustrated Magazine and John Burgoyne

Founded in 1980, Cooks Illustrated formerly Cooks Magazine has emerged as Americas Test Kitchen, renowned for its nearobsessive dedication to finding the best methods of American home cooking Over the years, weve tested 80 recipes for chocolate chip cookies, more than 70 recipes for gumbo, 40 versions of the peanut butter cookie, and more than 20 versions of such simple recipes as coleslaw, roast chicken, and hash brown potatoes The Best Recipe is a collection of the editors picks from the pages of Cooks Illustrated The recipes have been edited, organized, and annotated with indepth descriptions of how we developed the best recipe And they appear alongside dozens of equipment ratings and taste tests of supermarket foods, as well as more than 200 illustrations demonstrating the most efficient food preparation methodsIn The Best Recipe, we invite you into our test kitchen, where you will stand at our elbow as we try to develop the best macaroni and cheese or the best split pea soup Youll discover how to make a foolproof yellow cake, a perfectly cooked prime rib roast, and homemade bread in under two hours Youll find out how to solve the problem of watery coleslaw, overcooked turkey breast, acidic salad dressing, dull tomato sauce, sticky white rice, dry turkey burgers, tough scrambled eggs, and sunken birthday cakes You will also find the secret to bakerystyle highrise muffins and the way to make that restaurant favorite, warm, fallen chocolate cake, at home, with only a few minutes of preparationThe Best Recipe also gives you useful tips on purchasing cookware based on extensive test kitchen evaluations, including pie plates, food processors, standing mixers, chefs knives, skillets, vegetable peelers, and Dutch ovens We also explain the science of cooking how to cream butter and why, how baking powder works, the difference between semisweet and bittersweet chocolate and offer tips on purchasing canned chicken stock, canned tomatoes, flour, butter, and dried pastaThe editors of Cooks Illustrated have performed thousands of hours of kitchen testing to bring you a cookbook that not only provides the best recipes but also tells you how they came to be that way Let The Best Recipe become your onestop cooking school and your favorite kitchen reference ISBN10: 0936184388 ISBN13: 9780936184388Material Type: hardcover