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Good cooks. We all know one. They're confident. They move with purpose—but without effort. They seem to create something from nothing. Most of all, though, they feed us well. Good cooks are great friends to have.
We created America's Test Kitchen Cooking School because we know how good it feels to be successful in the kitchen and we want to help people become better cooks. Using our unique methods, revolutionary techniques and cutting edge technology, we'll arm you with the knowledge and skills that you can carry forward to be a confident and successful cook for years to come.
Enrolling in our online cooking school is easy; a monthly membership starts at just $19.95. As a member, you'll have access to the complete catalog of more than 100 courses, and you can take as many classes at a time as you'd like. If you choose, you can also have access to our test kitchen instructors—available to answer your questions, guide you through the material, and provide feedback on your assignments—for $39.95 a month (including the monthly membership). Click here to sign up for your 14-Day FREE TRIAL to lock in this membership rate.
This is a great time to join. In addition to current courses about sautéing, roasting, pies, soups, stir-fries, and more, we've just added new courses on our unique approach to grilling. While you can now choose from a wide array of grills that resemble spaceships and promise to do everything but serve the food, grilling remains the most elemental cooking technique—preparing food over a gas-fed flame or white-hot charcoal. As any backyard cook with a set of tongs and a less-than-fully confident feeling in his or her bones knows, these particular elements can be tough to master. Food cooks quickly, sometimes too quickly, or it cooks unevenly and you end up holding your breath as your guests cut into their steak (or chicken or vegetables).
Our new Introduction to Grilling Technique Lesson covers the benefits and drawbacks of charcoal versus gas, as well as basic and not-so-basic cooking methods that guarantee the precision of cooking indoors and the smoky flavor and charred surfaces you can only get on an outdoor grill.
In our new Recipe Lessons, we focus on three popular, but potentially tricky, go-to grilling recipes. Perfect Grilled Steaks are tender pieces of beef with a deeply caramelized, well-formed crust. We'll show you how salt and cornstarch work in tandem to season and promote dark browning, and why the freezer is the perfect pit stop on the way to the ideal steak. The steaks are served with an unusual sauce from Argentina called chimichurri. Made with fresh herbs, vinegar, and olive oil, it's a vibrant addition that complements the richness of the beef perfectly.
Grilled Bone-In Chicken Breasts are another summertime favorite, promising moist meat coated with a delectable glaze or sauce, a ready-made star for your meal. The challenge here is cooking the chicken—with its slow-to-cook thick end and quick-cooking tapered end—evenly. Brining the chicken breasts first helps retain moisture and season the meat. Creating a multilevel fire enables even cooking, and waiting to add the glaze or sauce until the right moment prevents its sugars from burning.
We're all trying to eat lighter, and grilled fish infused with a slightly smoky flavor is the perfect centerpiece of a healthy meal cooked outdoors. Too bad fish is notoriously hard to grill—it cooks quickly and a sticky grate usually transforms a whole piece of fish into inelegant shards. Our lesson on Foolproof Grilled Salmon will teach you guaranteed-to-work methods for cooking salmon or any thick, firm-fleshed white fish, such as red snapper, grouper, halibut, and sea bass.
For most people, the concept of online education is new. Our online cooking school offers significant benefits, as it combines the very best of what you'd expect from "traditional" cooking classes with the myriad benefits that technology offers AND one-on-one personal interaction with our real test cooks. You really do get the best of both worlds.
Here are some of the benefits of our online cooking school:
We teach you to cook—not just make recipes—and guarantee a lifetime of better cooking.
The goal of our cooking school is not to teach you how to make recipes. The goal is to teach you the how's and why's of cooking through our recipes. So, when you learn how to properly brown meat (like in the Chicken Saltimbocca recipe in our lesson on sautéing), you're learning a skill necessary for thousands of recipes spanning multiple techniques including braising, broiling, frying, grilling, roasting, and sautéing. We'll teach you how to think like a test cook, ask the right questions, break a recipe down into its component parts, and, eventually, get to the point where you can improvise in the kitchen. Start your 14-Day FREE TRIAL now.
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