Another day, another costume for Chris as filming season continues.
May 6, 2013 Christopher Kimball dons a devilishly egg-cellent getup while filming a segment introducing an episode all about everyone's favorite ovoid as production continues this week on season 14 of America's Test Kitchen. Tweet | Permalink
It's a true sign of spring at America's Test Kitchen.
May 3, 2013 Christopher Kimball and Julia Collin Davison prepare a charcoal grill to receive a recipe for grilled lamb kofte kebabs as the crew of America's Test Kitchen rolls camera during today's so-called "grill day", during which we film all of the outdoor segments for the upcoming season of America's Test Kitchen in one fell swoop on our "outdoor set" behind the Test Kitchen. (Why film under cover? Setup for filming starts at 4:30 in the morning, and varying sunlight throughout the day can create pretty harsh shadows – the canopy over Chris and Julia helps keep light diffused and constant.) Tweet | Permalink
Being an on-screen cooking expert means being able to multi-task.
May 2, 2013 Julia Collin Davison pours a mixture of heated cream from a saucepan over a bowl of chopped chocolate while explaining the procedure to Christopher Kimball as the two host a segment on how to make a rich chocolate ganache tart during taping of season 14 of America's Test Kitchen. Just goes to show: the on-set banter stops for nothing. Tweet | Permalink
It's the most wonderful time of the year: America's Test Kitchen filming season!
May 1, 2013 Today's the first day of filming for season 14 of America's Test Kitchen! Here, Christopher Kimball and Bridget Lancaster introduce the very first recipe of the two-and-a-half-week shooting season with a bit of science on why pork tastes sweeter than beef. Stay tuned for the answer! Tweet | Permalink
Now the kitchen's all empty – let our TV crew take the stage.
April 30, 2013 No cooking in the Test Kitchen today! Instead, cases, dollies and milk crates full of lighting, camera and other equipment await unpacking as our TV crew gets set to film Season 14 of America's Test Kitchen. With production starting tomorrow, our test cooks are hard at work elsewhere, reading up on the recipes they'll be preparing over the course of filming, which continues over the next two and a half weeks. Tweet | Permalink
When it comes to photo-finish frosting, slow and steady wins the race.
April 29, 2013 Test kitchen cakes and baking specialist Erika Bruce carefully applies a cream cheese-based glaze to a Cranberry Pecan Spice Cake while preparing for a photo shoot for an upcoming issue of Cook's Country. Tweet | Permalink
When you're after the ocean's bounty in a hurry, sometimes you've gotta get physical.
April 26, 2013 Cook's Illustrated test cook Daniel Cellucci takes a meat pounder to a lobster claw while preparing four of the cooked crustaceans for use in a photo shoot for an upcoming recipe for New England-style lobster rolls. (For a more meticulous method of lobster meat removal, check out our instructional video today on The Feed.) Tweet | Permalink
What happens when we've made way too much meringue cake for a taste test?
April 25, 2013 Cook's Country associate editor Rebeccah Marsters, surrounded by leftovers from her most recent taste test of several different recipes for Blitz Torte, labels a clamshell container packed with remnants of the meringue-topped layer cake before placing it into the Test Kitchen's take-home fridge, where it'll be snapped up by a lucky (and hungry) fellow employee. Tweet | Permalink
There's a lot of practice behind the finished dishes on our TV show.
April 24, 2013 Assistant special issues test cook Cecelia Jenkins tops a skillet's worth of chopped beef with cheese as a tray full of rolls stand by to accept their toppings during preparation for filming of season 14 of America's Test Kitchen, which kicks off next week. Over the next few days, our test cooks will practice making the recipes that will appear on the show this season, as Cecelia's doing here with her Philly Cheesesteaks. Tweet | Permalink
Nothing like reading up for the sake of recipe development.
April 23, 2013 From left, Cook's Illustrated test cook Lan Lam, associate editor Andrew Janjigian, and test kitchen intern Brandon Roffis go through a tower of tomes while researching recipes in the America's Test Kitchen library, home to over 4,000 cookbooks and other volumes of food-related reference. Tweet | Permalink
