Cook’s Illustrated
By America's Test Kitchen
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Description
Get RECIPES THAT WORK®:
Need a foolproof recipe for dinner tonight? From Pan-Seared Thick Cut Strip Steaks or Crisp Roast Chicken to Grilled Salmon or Pasta with Creamy Tomato Sauce we have you covered. Standing in the supermarket and don’t know which brand of extra virgin olive oil to buy? Cook’s Illustrated reviews will tell you which brand took top honors for its “fruity flavor and excellent balance” and which brand “tasted like motor oil”.
The Cook’s Illustrated app arms you with 50 of Cook’s Illustrated’s all-time best recipes, along with a collection of popular and practical supermarket taste test reviews, recipe videos, and kitchen timer and shopping list features.
A practical companion to a CooksIllustrated.com membership, the Cook’s Illustrated app gives CooksIllustrated.com premium members access to all of the members-only recipes, recipe specific videos, and ingredient reviews available on CooksIllustrated.com.
APP FEATURES:
- 50 of our all-time best recipes, covering appetizers and main courses to side dishes, breakfasts, and desserts.
- Recipes developed in America’s Test Kitchen, America’s most trusted test kitchen
- Browse recipes by cuisine or category
- Recipe overview videos for every recipe
- Dozens of taste test reviews for supermarket ingredients
- Shopping list feature expandable to accommodate additional items
- Start and manage multiple kitchen timers
- Organize recipes and taste tests in your “Favorites”
- CooksIllustrated.com members can log in to access all members-only recipe and taste test content
- Favorites content automatically synched up with CooksIlustrated.com members’ Favorites content organized online
- Share app’s free recipes and ingredient reviews via email or Facebook
ABOUT COOK'S ILLUSTRATED:
Cook’s Illustrated, launched in 1993, is located just outside Boston where a team of more than three dozen test cooks, editors, and cookware specialists work in a 2,500-square-foot test kitchen. Our mission is to test recipes over and over again until we understand how and why they work and until we arrive at the “best” version of a particular recipe.
We start the process of testing each recipe with a complete lack of conviction, which means that we accept no claim, no theory, no technique, and no recipe at face value. We simply assemble as many variations as possible, test half a dozen of the most promising, and taste the results blind. We then construct our own hybrid recipe and continue to test it, varying the ingredients, techniques, and cooking times until we reach a consensus. The result, we hope, is the best version of a particular recipe, but we realize that only you can be the final judge of our success (or failure). As we like to say in the test kitchen, “We make the mistakes so you don’t have to.”
Along with developing recipes, our test kitchen team exhaustively tests kitchen equipment and does blind tastings of supermarket ingredients to tell home cooks which brands to buy…and which to avoid. More than one million Cook’s Illustrated readers rely on Cook’s Illustrated reviews to make smarter decisions about which cooking products and ingredient brands to buy.
Cook’s Illustrated recipes, testings, and tastings can be found in Cook’s Illustrated magazine and cookbooks, online at CooksIllustrated.com, or featured on our public television show, America’s Test Kitchen.
What's New in Version 1.1
- Audible alerts signal the completion of kitchen timer(s)
- Improved syncing of “Favorites” content between app and CooksIllustrated.com online membership
- Step-by-step instructions, including videos and photos, now available for many recipes
- Airplay enabled
- Stability improvements
- Minor bug fixes
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Customer Reviews
Not really any good
I pay to subscribe to the print Edition of Cooks and still dont get access to the web side without paying a bunch more! So the ap is a big letdown, I refuse to pay double to see a web site. No other magazines do thIs. They need to value their subscribers more. There are plenty of free recipe websites.
Huge disappointment
I love the show and the magazine so I splurged and bought the Membership so I could have access to all the recipes. I threw away 30 bucks. It crashes constantly and neither the search nor save functions work properly. It is supposed to log you in automatically but that only works half the time too.
Tons of bugs
This is fraught with bugs. From problems saving favorites to problems with the app freezing and not reloading, considering that I am paying over $25 per year for cooks illustrated.com, this is unacceptable. To add insult to injury, no one responded to my email over a week ago asking for app support.
I would complain that there is no iPad version, but given the problems with the iPhone app, I am not even sure I would waste my time with an iPad version.
Chris Kimball, Could you please fix this?
- Free
- Category: Lifestyle
- Updated: Jul 28, 2011
- Version: 1.1
- Size: 2.6 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Boston Common Press LP
- © 2011 America's Test Kitchen
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 4.0 or later.
