Foolproof Cooking Kit
Master Your Meals
Get the essential tools for cooking smarter, faster, and more creatively. Check temperature instantly, measure ingredients precisely, and keep track of cooking times with absolute accuracy with tools used in our test kitchen and in professional kitchens. 100 Techniques offers our must-have techniques for saving time and boosting flavor, along with 200 all-time favorite recipes that put them to work.
"Worth its weight in gold for the practical cook who wants to feel confident about putting good food on the table."
— Detroit News
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Kitchen Tested
Easy to Use
Durable
Giftable
This Set Includes:
Cook Along with Bridget and Julia
Enjoy mastering a new recipe while tuning in to and following along with new episodes of America’s Test Kitchen with all-new recipes. Every recipe that has appeared on the show is in this cookbook, along with the test kitchen's indispensable notes and tips. You’ll also find a shopping guide that shows what ingredients the ATK Reviews team recommends so that you can re-create the exact dish you see on your screen.
New and Improved Shopping Guide
Enjoy mastering a new recipe while tuning in to and following along with new episodes of America’s Test Kitchen with all-new recipes. Every recipe that has appeared on the show is in this cookbook, along with the test kitchen's indispensable notes and tips. You’ll also find a shopping guide that shows what ingredients the ATK Reviews team recommends so that you can re-create the exact dish you see on your screen.
A Simple Citrus Peel
Hold a citrus strip horizontal, pith side facing you, near the surface of your cocktail. Pinch the zest to express oils onto the cocktail and then rub the outer edge of the glass with the peel.
This Kit Includes:
Thermoworks ThermoPop, Red
OXO Good Grips Triple Timer
OXO Good Grips 11 lb Food Scale with Pull Out Display
100 Techniques Cookbook
Review Key:Good Fair Poor
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ThermoWorks ThermoPop
Speed
Accuracy
Durability
Ease of Use
Our former inexpensive winner had another strong showing. It was dead accurate and extremely fast. Compared with fancier models, this model felt like driving a standard car. The display does rotate and has a backlight, but you have to stop and press a button for both functions. You have to be more careful when holding its small lollipop-shaped head, but it makes the best of its size with a grippy, ergonomic design that's reasonably secure and easy to push and pull out of dense foods. Because the head is so small, this model did put our hands a little closer to the heat.
Features: Manually operated screen rotation, manual backlight
Average read time: 3 sec
Average margin of error in testing: 0.07° at 32°F, 0.29° at 125°F
Range: −58°F to 572°F
Probe length: 4.5 in
Best Multiple-Event Timer
OXO Good Grips Triple Timer
Accuracy
Ease of Use
Display and Alerts
Cleanup and Durability
This compact triple-event timer is accurate and easy to use. The screen displays all three events at once (no scrolling required). It’s easy to set and adjust the individual events because each one has its own button, and a pair of horizontal bars on the screen brackets the event being modified. We like that each event makes a unique sound—one beep for the first event, two beeps for the second event, and three beeps for the third event—and that the volume is adjustable. Our only quibble is that the digits on the screen are slightly smaller than ideal.
Extra Features: Stopwatch, adjustable volume, unique beep pattern for each timer, memory
Number of Events: 3
Tracks Elapsed Time: Yes
Maximum Duration: 99 hr, 59 min, 59 sec
Dimensions: 3 x 4¼ x 2¼ in
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OXO Good Grips 11 lb Food Scale with Pull Out Display
Cleanup
Accuracy
Durability
Legibility
Ease of Use
The redesigned version of the OXO scale is accurate and had all the features that made the old model our favorite: sturdy construction, responsive buttons, and a removable platform for easy cleaning. The screen can still be pulled out nearly 4 inches when weighing oversize items. Instead of a backlight setting, the screen now has brightly lit digits on a dark background, which we found even easier to read than the old model’s screen. OXO also added two display options for weight. Users can choose to view ounces only (24 oz), pounds and ounces (1 lb 8 oz), grams only (2500 g), or kilograms and grams (2 kg 500 g), which comes in handy when doubling a recipe. The scale now uses decimals rather than fractions, so it’s more precise and easier to read.
Material: Stainless Steel
Units Displayed: pounds/ounces, ounces, kilograms/grams, gram
Maximum Weight: 11 pounds
Weight: 2.2 lbs
ATK
100 Techniques Cookbook
Durability
The first book entirely on technique from America's Test Kitchen features 100 innovative techniques that will transform your cooking life, paired with more than 200 innovative recipes that put the techniques into real-world, home-kitchen applications. From making the most tender burger patties to grill-roasting an entire ham; from making pan sauces to dry-aging your own beef; and from griddling the fluffiest pancakes to tempering chocolate, making caramel, and baking French pastry, the test cooks of ATK show you the way.
Recipes: 225
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
Item Number: CF25
A Simple Citrus Peel
Hold a citrus strip horizontal, pith side facing you, near the surface of your cocktail. Pinch the zest to express oils onto the cocktail and then rub the outer edge of the glass with the peel.