{"product_id":"the-best-recipe","title":"The Best Recipe","description":"\u003cp\u003eFounded in 1980  Cooks Illustrated (formerly Cooks Magazine) has emerged as \"Americas Test Kitchen \" renowned for its near-obsessive 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 in-depth 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 methods. In 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 bakery-style high-rise muffins and the way to make that restaurant favorite  warm  fallen chocolate cake  at home  with only a few minutes of preparation. The 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 pasta. The 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 one-stop cooking school and your favorite kitchen reference.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44945399578677,"sku":"ByrdShop_0936184388","price":27.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780936184388.jpg?v=1769887313","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-best-recipe","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}