Cook's Illustrated is dedicated to finding the best methods for preparing foolproof home-cooked meals.

Our 2,500 square foot test kitchen — the same kitchen in which we film our public television show, America's Test Kitchen — has three dozen full-time test cooks whose 9 to 5 job (well maybe 7 to 6 on baking days) is testing and retesting recipes 20, 30, sometimes 50 times until we can offer our readers a recipe we're confident will work every time. We also offer ratings and reviews of cookware and kitchen equipment. And because Cook's Illustrated is 100% advertising FREE, you get unbiased, objective information.

Try the recipes at home and see for yourself why we've gotten so much praise from the food press, which has hailed Cook's as “a gem, notable for both the quality of its recipes and for the obsessiveness of its recipe testing... its serious-but-not-stuffy attitude and its unrelenting focus makes us all better—and better informed—cooks.”