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Reddit mentions of The America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook, Heavy-Duty Revised Edition

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Reddit mentions: 8

We found 8 Reddit mentions of The America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook, Heavy-Duty Revised Edition. Here are the top ones.

The America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook, Heavy-Duty Revised Edition
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  • features more than 1,200 kitchen-tested recipes
  • 1,500 photographs and no-nonsense equipment and ingredient ratings
  • new light recipes chapter
  • from the hit TV show The America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook revised edition
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Found 8 comments on The America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook, Heavy-Duty Revised Edition:

u/Milliez · 7 pointsr/Cooking

Upvote for ATK.

Though if you're new to ATK, I'd stick to their classic red book or green book for healthier options instead of whatever book they happen to have published this year.

u/LouBrown · 4 pointsr/AskMen

My mom was a good cook, and I helped her when growing up. I watched a lot of cooking shows on TV during the summers when I was a kid (see: Frugal Gourmet). I watch a lot of cooking shows now (though I'm pretty sad that Food Network in primetime is just reality TV now). I make many different recipes. A while back after watching Julia and Julia I was inspired to do 52 new recipes over the course of a year. When I eat out at restaurants, I like to try new things. I watch random youtube cooking videos when I get bored.

I believe Stephen King once said you can't be a good writer unless you spend a lot of time reading other people's stuff. There's probably a good analogy there with cooking/eating.

If you want a good cookbook, I recommend this one by America's Test Kitchen. It has recipes for pretty much all standard American cuisine dishes, and it gives good explanation of how/why the recipe works. Plus it's spiral bound- something that's incredibly underrated with cookbooks.

u/debaclex · 3 pointsr/food

I would suggest The America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook. It has tried-and-true step by step instructions for everything you need to do, from peeling peaches for pie to the most flavorful ketchup(!). Lots of photos, and the first cookbook that I've purchased where I just want to go through and make one recipe after another. It has tons of recipes, from ice cream, and main dishes like the chicken pot pies I made last night, to hors d'oeuvres. It explains what tools you may need, and why things are done the way they are. For example, it explains that the key to fluffy biscuits is not overworking the dough. Great tool for learning. Highly recommended.

u/EgregiousWeasel · 2 pointsr/food

You may want to try http://foodgawker.com/ or http://www.tastespotting.com/ to get some ideas.

I really like http://www.cookingforengineers.com/ too. It's like the scientific method applied to cooking. :)

A good all purpose cookbook is America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook. It's relatively cheap, and it has a little bit of everything. There is a lot of information about technique and ingredients, as well as what a well-stocked kitchen should have. Many people recommend How to Cook Everything, but I have never used it, so I can't give an informed opinion.

u/BackFromSollaSollew · 1 pointr/Cooking

This is the book I found it in. I didn't read it online. :/

u/El_Hechizado · 1 pointr/cookingforbeginners

America's Test Kitchen cookbook is a great resource for cooking newbies and first-timers. It contains a ton of easy and delicious recipes, with a minimum of fancy ingredients or techniques, and explains why you have to do things a certain way and spells out cooking-speak in plain English (e.g., what the heck is "al dente?").

This book was a lifesaver senior year in college, when I got shut out of the housing lottery and suddenly found myself with a kitchen and no idea where the heck to start.

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