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Dinner SOS by Bon Appétit

Inside the Test Kitchen: Lemon Bars

Dinner SOS by Bon Appétit

Bon Appétit

Food, Arts

4.22.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Most weeks on the show, we help out home cooks who have had a kitchen fail. This week, the "fail" is coming from inside the test kitchen. Test Kitchen Editor Kendra Vaculin joins Chris to chat about the fraught recipe development process of Kendra's Foolproof Lemon Bars — which was caught on camera as part of our "How I Developed" video series. Chris and Kendra also share how the team works together in the Bon Appetit test kitchen to bring you recipes you'll be excited to cook at home.

The Recipe: Foolproof Lemon Bars

The Video: "Developing These Perfect Lemon Bars Nearly Broke Me"

Transcript

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0:00.0

Kendra. Yes. We've had a lot of conversations about lemon bars before you develop them after you develop them and we're here and during and during yeah

0:11.1

Sorry no while for I I forgot maybe the most important part.

0:15.8

And here we are still talking about lemon bars like six months later.

0:19.8

Yeah.

0:20.1

Yeah.S. The show where we help you save dinner, or whatever you're cooking.

0:36.0

I'm Chris Morocco, food director of Bonapetit and Epicurious.

0:41.0

Now, as you know, most weeks on the show, we feel calls from home cooks who have had some

0:46.5

kitchen fails. But this week, the fail is coming from inside the house, so to speak.

0:52.1

I'm joined here by Kendra Vaculin.

0:55.0

Hi Kendra. Hello. I'm delighted to have you here today, and here's the plan.

1:02.0

We're going to take a video you did for our

1:04.8

how I developed series back in the fall,

1:07.2

and I'm going to make you watch parts of it back.

1:09.4

Oh my God.

1:10.4

Really relive that experience.

1:12.0

It's going to be fun, I think.

1:14.0

But first, I want to talk a bit about what it is we do up there in the test kitchen

1:19.0

when there aren't any cameras pointing at us.

1:22.0

And, you know, I don't know if folks know this, but our test

1:26.1

kitchen is where we develop and test every recipe that gets published,

1:32.6

notwithstanding a handful of recipes that we do

1:35.0

that are excerpted from cookbooks,

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