New! Essential skills + knockout recipes for every cook

So you can eat in (like you're eating out). [America's Test Kitchen] [View in a Web browser]( [Just published! Cookbook + Exclusive Online Lessons. The New Essentials Video Skills Edition.]( [Save 30%]( [Cover Price: $40; Your Price: $28] [order now]( The food you want. The skills you need. Dear friend, Learning to cook usually works like this: You help your parents or grandparents, watch random episodes of cooking shows, and try recipes from magazines or newspapers. Basic, conventional recipes such as roast chicken and apple pie are typically the starting points. But we don’t eat like we used to; we enjoy dishes such as pad thai and vegetable curry in restaurants, and we want to make them at home, too. So the time is right for a collection of modern mainstay recipes and cooking skills that work for every home cook. [This is a must-have for beginner cooks and more experienced ones who wish to sharpen their skills. - Publishers Weekly Starred Review]( [The New Essentials Video Skills Edition]( serves up recipes for the way we eat now. We pair a new lineup of essential recipes—from Bacon and Cheddar Breakfast Sandwiches and Butter-Basted Rib-Eye Steak to Sesame Noodles with Shredded Chicken and Free-Form Summer Fruit Tart—with enhanced “Think Like a Cook” sidebars, each featuring an innovative technique, a useful ingredient note, or a piece of culinary wisdom. Companion video lessons that show you how to prep food like a pro bring the book’s how-to guides to life in your kitchen. Order [The New Essentials Video Skills Edition]( exclusively from America’s Test Kitchen—for a hands-on, learn-by-doing experience that guarantees you’ll become a more complete and confident cook. Your price for the print book and the online lessons is just $28 (the cover price of the book alone is $40, so this is a great deal). My advice to any cook? Stay curious and try new recipes and techniques by cooking your way through [The New Essentials Video Skills Edition](. [Jack Bishop Signature] Jack Bishop Chief Creative Officer Become a more complete & confident cook [save 30%]( Up Front: A Walk Through Your Kitchen Begin with a survey of your surroundings: Take stock of your kitchen equipment and look closely at your pantry (and fridge). You’ll want to establish a solid foundation for successful cooking. Remember that quality doesn’t always mean a higher price. The front section of The New Essentials Cookbook includes a wealth of information and insight along with recommendations for upgrading your kitchen, stocking your pantry, keeping food safe, and more. [Pantry Page Spread]( From 10 Habits of a Good Cook Read the Recipe Carefully and Follow the Directions (at Least the First Time) Avoid being midway through prep only to learn that the dish needs hours of chilling time before serving or that it calls for a special pan you don’t have. Read the recipe through, and follow it exactly the first time you make it (then feel free to improvise). Know the Lingo Some recipes are precise blueprints, specifying particular sizes, shapes, quantities, and cooking times. Other recipes are just rough sketches. In addition to explaining common techniques, we offer a Talk Like a Cook section with often-used terms. From Your Kitchen Starter Kit For those just starting out in the kitchen, The New Essentials Cookbook offers a shopping guide featuring our favorite basic gear. Our Highly Recommended Equipment [Buy Now on Amazon] [OXO Good Grips Non-Stick 12-inch Open Frypan]( OXO Good Grips Non-Stick 12-inch Open Frypan [Buy Now >]( [Victorinox Swiss Army Fibrox Pro 8-inch Chef's Knife]( Victorinox Swiss Army Fibrox Pro 8" Chef’s Knife [Buy Now >]( [Pyrex Smart Essentials Mixing Bowl Set with Colored Lids]( Pyrex Smart Essentials Mixing Bowl Set with Colored Lids [Buy Now >]( Become a more complete & confident cook [save 30%]( Own a knockout repertoire of 200+ essential recipes for every occasion x Roasted Chicken Parts with Lemon and Herbs Using bone-in, skin-on parts insulates the meat, ensuring it will stay juicy in the hot oven. To encourage crispy skin and avoid the flabbiness that plagues some recipes, we brushed the parts with melted butter and elevated them on a wire rack to let the fat be rendered away. think like a cook The crisp, well-browned skin on roast chicken can be the best part of the dish. When you sauté or roast the skin and it reaches temperatures over 300 degrees, a set of reactions takes place in its fats and proteins to produce hundreds of deeply flavored compounds. prep like a cook [Breaking Down a Chicken]( Video Lesson: Is it really worth it to break down and prepare larger cuts of chicken yourself, or should you go for the convenience of the pre-cut versions (short answer—yes, it is worth it.) Learn how to break down a whole chicken into parts, which will come in handy whether you’re roasting or frying. x Hearty Minestrone This Italian classic squeezes every last ounce of flavor out of vegetables and features creamy dried beans and a surprisingly rich broth. V8 juice, though unconventional, adds a wallop of vegetable flavor. Starch released from the beans thickens the soup. Save the rinds of your Parmesan in your freezer and add them to soups like this for added richness. think like a cook Six Principles of Soup Making Soup may seem easy to make, but it’s hard to hide the mistakes. Follow these test kitchen tips for flawless results: 1. Sauté the Aromatics 2. Start with a Good Broth 3. Cut the Vegetables to the Right Size 4. Stagger the Addition of Vegetables 5. Simmer, Don’t Boil 6. Season Before Serving prep like a cook [Cutting Celery]( Video Lesson: Basic knife skills are indispensable in the kitchen, since even cuts mean even cooking. Once you know how to chop, mince, and dice, you will be flying through your prep in no time. It takes practice to get there though, so follow along with these videos to sharpen your skills. x Shrimp Pad Thai With its sweet-and-sour, salty-spicy sauce and plump sweet shrimp, pad thai is Thailand’s best-known rice noodle dish. Making it can be a chore unless you have our recipe. We streamlined the (traditionally long) ingredient list and cut down on the number of steps. Now you can enjoy this takeout favorite at home. think like a cook Fake It Till You Make It There’s a time and place for strict authenticity, but we often strive to mimic authentic flavors and textures with more widely available ingredients and approachable techniques in order to enjoy the dishes we love more often. We simplified our pad thai by mixing some authentic ingredients (such as fish sauce) with creative swaps (such as brown sugar for caramel-like palm sugar and fresh lime juice for sour, fruity tamarind). prep like a cook [Preparing Shrimp]( Video Lesson: Some recipes may call for shrimp to be deveined or peeled before cooking. You can buy easy-to-peel shrimp, but if you can’t find those, you can devein them yourself with a pair of kitchen shears or a pairing knife. x Skillet Apple Crisp An unfussy combination of warm spices, toasty oats, and not-too-sweet apples adds up to autumnal heaven. It also makes a respectable breakfast. Our recipe guarantees tender apples without mushy sauce, and switching from a baking dish to a skillet means you can caramelize the apples over direct heat before you add the topping and bake. think like a cook Choosing the right apple varieties for different cooked applications is key. More tart apples—Cortland, Empire, Granny Smith—hold their shape when cooked (with the exception of McIntosh, which are tart but fall apart when you bake them). Sweeter varieties such as Golden Delicious, Braeburn, and Jonagold will break down when cooked or baked. Use a mix of sweet and tart apples for balanced flavor and texture. prep like a cook [Peeling Apples]( Video Lesson: In addition to choosing the right apples, you have to prepare them correctly. It pays to use a sharp peeler that take away just the outer peel, without digging too much into the actual apple. Become a more complete & confident cook [save 30%]( Inside The New Essentials Video Skills Edition 1. 200+ recipes include a wide variety of modern mainstays from breakfasts through desserts 2. Why This Recipe Works distills the discoveries made during recipe development 3. Streamlined ingredients and clear instructions for every recipe 4. Think Like a Cook sidebars for every recipe share innovative techniques and ingredient information 5. Full-color photos throughout, including the finished dishes and key steps Exclusively yours! Think Like A Cook Video Lessons To be become a more complete and confident cook, you need to fill in any gaps in your culinary knowledge (we all have them!). The best way to do that? Roll up your sleeves, try new techniques, succeed, and repeat. This exclusive collection of video lessons encourages learning while doing. Designed as a companion to The New Essentials Cookbook: A Modern Guide to Better Cooking, you’ll discover the best ways to sharpen and grip your knives and how to prep everything from vegetables and fruit to chicken, fish, and beef like a pro. Let’s get started. [Basic Vegetable Prep Video Lesson]( KNIFE SCHOOL 101 [Control Grip, Force Grip, Control Your Fingertips, For Small Items Keep the Tip Down, For Large Items Lift Blade Up, For Tough Items Use the Heel]( When is food done? Always set a timer, but don’t rely solely on timing to guide your cooking—other types of clues are also incredibly important. Trust your senses alongside the reading of a recipe. When checking for doneness, always check the temperature of the area that will finish cooking last, which is the thickest part or, in some cases, the center. Bones conduct heat, so make sure the thermometer doesn’t touch them. Meat Doneness Temperatures Since the temperature of meat will continue to rise during resting, the meat should be taken off the heat just before it reaches the desired temperature. (This does not apply to poultry, which should be fully cooked before it is removed from the heat.) [Meat Doneness Temperatures Chart]( Become a more complete & confident cook [save 30%]( [Just Published! Cookbook + Exclusive Video Lessons]( We all have gaps in our cooking knowledge—information and skills that would help us cook better if we only knew them. [The New Essentials Video Skills Edition]( features modern mainstay recipes along with the cooking tips and the techniques we’ve discovered over thousands of hours of trial and error in our test kitchen. 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