Learn how to cook just about anything with this easy-to-follow cookbook for beginners-featuring 80 themed courses, 400 recipes, and 200+ kitchen hacks and skills for cooking at home!
Go to cooking school in your own kitchen! In this cookbook for beginners and experienced cooks, America's Test Kitchen teaches you cooking basics, from poaching the perfect egg to making Italian pasta from scratch. Learn how to cook with:
• 80+ focused courses, from Pizza and Fried Rice to Fish on the Grill
• Insights on cooking techniques, key takeaways, and the food science of each course
• Demonstrations of a wide range of skills, progressing from basic to more advanced
• Easy-to-digest sections, so you can stop reading and start cooking!
• Infographic pages that dive deeper into each recipe and their ingredients
Why should you salt food at multiple stages during the cooking process? How is olive oil really produced, and why do mushrooms benefit from water when sauteing? Come learn all this and more with The New Cooking School-your ultimate guide to cooking basics and kitchen hacks for cooking at home.
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America's Test Kitchen publishes award-winning cookbooks, along with Cook's Illustrated and Cook's Country magazines and produces public television's top-rated shows, America's Test Kitchen and Cook's Country. It is also home to an interactive online cooking school that gives students direct access to test kitchen experts. Its goal is to teach essential recipes and skills that will make home cooks more confident in the kitchen.
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Great cooks never stop learning.
Go to cooking school in your own kitchen with over 80 themed courses to learn more than 200 skills and cook 400 recipes
This all-new exploration of the fundamentals of cooking is perfect for anyone (from brand-new to experienced cooks) who wants to learn not just the "hows" but also the "whys" of cooking. Why does pizza bake better on a stone? Why do mushrooms benefit from water when sautéing? Why should you salt food at multiple stages during the cooking process?
More than 80 focused courses let you dive into your favorite topics, whether it's Pizza, Fried Rice, Fish on the Grill, or Birthday Cake, and take a mini-bootcamp on the subject, each introduced by an ATK test cook. The courses are presented in easily digestible sections so you don't have to read a lot before you pick up your knife and start cooking. Cooking principles, technique, key takeaways, food science, and more are woven into each course so you learn as you cook. Jump into a class on Fresh Italian Pasta to learn how to:
• make fresh pasta from scratch without a machine
• cut fettucine and make Fettucine Alfredo
• make a classic marinara sauce and basil pesto
Infographic pages take you farther behind recipes and ingredients: See how olive oil is really produced, or how temperature affects the state of butter (and why firm, soft, and melted butter behave differently in cooking). Every chapter progresses from the basics of the best way to poach a perfect egg and make chicken broth to upping your game with huevos rancheros and mastering the elusive roast chicken. If you want to feel accomplished and really know how to cook, come learn with America's Test Kitchen.