ATK is awesome- taught me to cook!
I love Americas Test Kitchen. I never learned to cook until my 30s. The book and videos are great- they show you how a recipe or product goes well and how/why it doesn't. Often they explain the science behind it too! I'm a big fan. Hooray.
Great Kitchen Basic Training!
I am a big fan of cooking videos and I feel that I have learned a lot from watching them. This disk is called "Best Weeknight Recipes." While it's true that nothing prepared here is too complicated to make on a weeknight, not everything quite falls into the category of 30 minute meals. It could have also been called "Kitchen Basic Training", and that is really the reason I liked it so much. In addition to offering appetizing meal choices, the recipes teach basic kitchen techniques for a number of standard preparations. Eleven recipes are presented. If you go through them all you will learn to pan-roast chicken, pan-sear a steak or shrimp, and make skillet pork chops. You'll first brine the chicken and the pork to make them juicer when cooked. You'll make pan sauces from the bits left in the pan after cooking the beef and the chicken. There's also a simple beef and vegetable stir fry. This covers a lot of the important techniques to master when making the transition from beginning to...
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