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Thursday, May 24, 2012

America's Test Kitchen Taping w/ Chris Kimball & Bridget Lancaster

My tour of America's Test Kitchen was priceless! 

America's Test Kitchen is located in Brookline, MA.  The entire season is filmed over 3 weeks during the month of May!
I was excited to receive an invitation to attend the tour of the kitchen and a taping session.  Tours are scheduled for the public throughout May.

There are several segments taped throughout the day.  This was for the Carrot Layer Cake show.

Here are some cool pictures:




The Library of Cookbooks





There are 300 cookbooks in library used to develop recipes and for research. The library is divided by types of cuisine. 
The products and equipment recommended are actually used on set.

There are 30 test cooks.  They work on one recipe for weeks and each can make it 40-100 times before it's perfected.  They only change 1 ingredient at a time.  There are 21 taste panel testers who will sample the raw ingredients (e.g. sweet condensed milk) followed by the finished product (e.g. flan) using the different brands.



America's Test Kitchen Enterprise:
Magazines
Websites
TV & Radio

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