ATK at 25: A Recipe Made from a Mistake (Episode 1)
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America's Test Kitchen
4.4 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
This week on the podcast, we bring you the first episode of our miniseries where we reveal the backstories behind four iconic recipes from America's Test Kitchen's TV show, which is celebrating its 25th season on air.
Episode 1 gives new meaning to a motto we live by: We make the mistakes in the kitchen so you don't have to. Listen to find out how a mistake gave birth to this tried-and-true weeknight recipe.
Looking for more recipes that changed the way America cooks? Check out our 25th Anniversary Cookbook.
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| 0:00.0 | Here in America's test kitchen, we often like to say, we make the mistakes so you don't have to. |
| 0:08.0 | Our entire team is focused on developing the best recipes with the best equipment and ingredients. |
| 0:14.0 | So every day, our test cooks enter the test kitchen, |
| 0:17.0 | ready to find solutions to common cooking problems. |
| 0:21.0 | I think this is one of this awful American syndrome of fear of failure. |
| 0:28.0 | And if you're going to have a sense of fear of failure, you're just never going to learn how to cook. |
| 0:34.0 | We take inspiration from Cooking Show Matriarch Julia Child. |
| 0:37.5 | We lean into failure in the kitchen and ask why and how so we can fix the problem and make a recipe better. |
| 0:44.8 | Because cooking is one failure after another and that's how you finally learn. |
| 0:50.4 | In fact, one of our most popular recipes of all time was born out of a failure in the kitchen. |
| 0:57.0 | All right, so the chicken's been in the oven for about half an hour, and now is the aha moment, |
| 1:01.5 | where we found out the best way to get really moist chicken breast |
| 1:04.8 | without overcooking it. |
| 1:06.8 | This year marks the 25th season of America's test kitchen on public television. |
| 1:12.2 | We've been delivering everything from easy |
| 1:13.9 | week night meals to show-stopping holiday spreads to equipment reviews and more. |
| 1:29.4 | To To celebrate this milestone, we've put together a mini series for proof called ATK at 25 stories behind the iconic recipes. |
| 1:34.0 | I'm your host Jack Bishop, |
| 1:38.0 | longtime cast member on our flagship television show |
| 1:41.0 | at America's Test Kitchen. |
| 1:42.0 | Over the next four episodes, |
| 1:44.0 | we'll be spotlighting some of America's |
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