Dig in, Discover, and Cook
In a salad rut? For a change of pace, turn up the heat.
We wanted a seared lettuce dish with slight char and bold flavors that wasn't wet and overly wilted.
Is it OK to refreeze store-bough puff pastry dough? Here’s the definitive answer.
Here's the key to refreezing thawed puff pastry dough.
This lasagna-like casserole is sure to please all ages.
Its success relies on good-quality store-bought fresh cheese ravioli, which cooks in minutes.
These hearty vegetarian sandwiches will make you fall in love with eggplant all over again.
This sandwich is inspired by one sold at Cutty's, a beloved Boston-area sandwich shop known for its inventive and downright delicious offerings. In it, the briny carrot-olive spread adds flavor and crunch while gluing the sandwich together.
An impressive, one-pan meal for a crowd? It's possible.
We played around with ways to elevate the dish, trying compound butters, spice rubs, and tangy sauces, but simply brushing bone-in breasts with oil and seasoning them with salt and pepper won us over.
5 Things in Your Home You Can Clean With Vinegar (and 2 You Shouldn’t)
This humble pantry ingredient just might be the key to a spick-and-span home.
Have 15 minutes? This tangy meze comes together with the push of a button.
We defied tradition with this lush, salty Greek-style dip by using cow's-milk feta instead of a true Greek feta made with sheep's or goat's milk or a combination thereof.
This easy-to-prepare slow-cooker beef filling makes a great weeknight meal.
We turned to chuck roast, with its big beefy flavor, as the basis for the filling because it becomes meltingly tender and shreddable in the slow cooker—plus it's inexpensive and easy to find.
Once you roast your gnocchi, you’ll never go back to boiling again!
Kids can take the lead in prepping this easy weeknight one-pan dinner.
Frito Pie, Walking Tacos . . . Whatever You Call It, It’s Delicious and Easy.
Fritos plus homemade chili make a satisfying dinner in a bag.
This creamy, smoky roasted eggplant dip is easy to make and infinitely customizable.
Baba ghanoush is delightfully adaptable, and it inspired us to make a zesty eggplant dip with scallions, cilantro, and pepper flakes.
A gluten-free cookie with all the chocolate flavor you can ask for.
There are two big issues with most gluten-free cookies: off-flavors and a dry, tough texture. But given the huge amount of flavor and moisture melted chocolate provides, you'd think that making a great gluten-free chocolate cookie would be easy. Not so fast. Even the most promising recipes we tried failed us, with subpar flavor and a pervasive dry texture. So we started by amping up the chocolate flavor; in addition to melted chocolate, we loaded our dough with chips, cocoa powder, and a little espresso powder. To address the texture, we began by tinkering with the sugar. Cookies made with all granulated sugar were too crisp, while those made with all brown sugar were flimsy and unpleasantly moist. A combination worked best: ¼ cup of granulated sugar (along with xanthan gum) provided sufficient structure, and ¾ cup of brown sugar boosted chewiness. Still, the cookies weren't chewy enough, so we turned our attention to the butter. We switched out 5 tablespoons of butter for vegetable oil to achieve the proper ratio of saturated to unsaturated fat that delivered the chewy cookies we were after.
This impressive potato dish is surprisingly easy to prepare in the air fryer.
Essentially baked potatoes but par-sliced into thin, even segments that create a fanlike shape, our air-fried potato fans become extra-crispy on the outside while their interiors remain fluffy and moist.
Pasta cloaked in a creamy, lemony sauce makes for a decadent weeknight meal.
Vigorously stirring the pasta sloughed off some starch to create a glossy, creamy sauce.
Use plant-based meat to replicate the ultimate fast-food burger patty.
There’s a reason beyond mere convenience why fast-food burgers are so beloved—it’s the particular combination of salty, crispy, sweet, sour, pickled, savory, and meaty that fast-food chains do so well. Here, we use plant-based meat to replicate that ultimate fast-food-style burger patty: pressed thin and deeply browned to crispy deliciousness. Cooking the patties in a blazing-hot skillet triggers the Maillard reaction, a process (signaled by browning) that causes the proteins and sugars in food to recombine and form hundreds of new flavor compounds. The result: super savory, drool-worthy burgers.
America’s Test Kitchen: For the Love of Cooking
Cook with test kitchen recipes and resources and become a better cook, guaranteed. Learn how and why recipes work, and get all the secrets for easier cooking and great flavor AND save money and time on shopping and food prep. Have questions that aren’t answered? Contact us. We’d love to hear from you.
Our work is supported by home cooks; we do not accept outside advertising. In addition to developing failproof recipes, we test supermarket ingredients and equipment to find the best-quality products. We’ve been an independent, unbiased, and trusted resource for cooking information and expertise since 1993.
Try an All-Access Membership free for 14 days and get 30-years worth of recipes, up-to-date product reviews, how-to videos, and TV show episodes plus the members’ app and free shipping from our shop. Experience the difference that 100%-reliable recipes and resources make as you cook and shop.
As we like to say in the test kitchen, “We make the mistakes so that you don’t have to.” Every new test kitchen recipe begins as a blank page: We accept no claim, no technique, and no prior recipe as sacred. We simply assemble as many variations as possible, test a half dozen of the most promising, and taste the results. We then construct our own recipe and continue to test it, varying ingredients, techniques, and cooking times. Once we have the best-tasting recipe that’s 100% failproof, we share it with 50,000 at-home volunteer recipe testers. They provide feedback on the clarity of the instructions and the results and tell us whether they’d make the recipe again. Only recipes that score high make it through to you.
The answer is every kind of recipe. We have you covered with more than 14,000 tested and perfected recipes. Get definitive versions of simple roast chicken (turn the oven off partway through roasting for a moist bird) and baked potatoes (we baked 400 to find the key to guaranteed fluffy interiors), and find multiday baking projects, sweet and savory favorites, globally inspired recipes, and recipes for special diets (gluten-free, paleo, vegetarian, vegan, and dairy-free). We add dozens of all-new recipes to our sites every month, including recipes from our iconic magazines, TV shows, and best-selling cookbooks.
Everyone can view the recipes, reviews, and episodes from the latest seasons of our TV shows without a membership. More ways to sample the world’s best cooking resources:
- Subscribe to our email newsletters with links to more test kitchen samples.
- Everything featured daily on our home page is free to you.
- Get a 14-day free trial membership for instant access to everything across our sites.
