Home Cooks: Bookmark this Site!
One of my favorite cooking reference sites is America's Test Kitchen . You may be familiar with their wonderful magazine, Cooks Illustrated . They test classic recipes and fine-tune them so they turn out great each time you make them. The magazine offers step-by-step instructions and illustrations for dishes each issue, along with product reviews. When I am ready to make a new kitchen equipment purchase, no matter how small, I check their site for recommendations. A few months ago I had to replace my cookware. I was prepared to save up for a year to buy All-Clad until I read ATK's reviews of a Tramontina set (this link is for the original set rated "Best Buy" in ATK) sold exclusively at...WAL-MART.com! It was a mere fraction of the cost and their only complaint was the sizes of pots offered. Well, both companies read the reviews and quickly produced a line with bigger pots and pans. It is...