Recipe Development Process
Equipment and Ingredient Testing
Our 50+ test cooks and editors survey home cooks like you to determine what recipes to develop. We also travel the country to learn from local experts and discover what's new.
Our recipe developers blend exhaustive research with the collective cooking knowledge of their test kitchen colleagues to inform their testing roadmap.
We rely on the scientific method to investigate every variable in a recipe, making a dish dozens of times in order to get it right. We want our recipes to be reliable, delicious, and accessible.
Home cooks provide feedback on our working recipes. This feedback helps us know when an in-progress recipe is ready to be published and ensures that our recipes will work for you!
At America’s Test Kitchen?and our brands Cook’s Illustrated and Cook’s Country ?we investigate every aspect of cooking. Recipes. Equipment. Ingredients. Techniques. We ask a lot of questions so that you get reliable recipes and comprehensive cooking info.
Science and culture, head and heart, and knowledge and wisdom are each two sides of the same coin. Our brands dive into the world of cooking, each with a different lens. Together they provide a complete picture.
It all starts and ends with you. You help us decide which recipes to develop and which ingredients and equipment to test. And you tell us when recipes are ready to be published. The over 40,000 home cooks who test our recipes provide our test cooks and editors with invaluable feedback. Thank you!
You'll get 1?2 recipes per month. Test only the ones you want.
Are our recipes too spicy? Are we using too many dishes? Did it take too long? You know best!
The recipes we publish are only failproof because of your feedback and notes.
“ Recipes that always, always work. ”
- The New York Times