Today on America's Test Kitchen: A Poll

which chef is the one i like?

Probably Bridget Lancaster because she's the one who's always getting sassy with Christopher Kimball.

Gah I made a typo in the title. Should obv be Today ON America's Test Kitchen: A Poll.

BL doesn't seem evil, and she doesn't write vain/inane musings about the specialness of OO flour rolled into pasta packets stuffed with savory grown on her Vermont farm, picked just this morning a la CK, so I'm going with her.

Adam Reid seems like a cool dude, but he's kind of sullied by associating with the devil in his red apron so he can't have my vote.

<i>Christopher Kimball's got some dark secrets.</i>

http://www.iwritefunny.com/2011/11/29/cooks-illustrated-the-day-i-killed-a-man/

This is a tough one, I am a little bit in love with Bridget Lancaster, but both Jack Bishop and Adam Reid are always a delight.

What a great team though:

http://kpbs.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/croppedphotos/2011/07/01/ccfatk_cast_t614.jpg

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Sad I missed this poll. He does have some dark secrets.

biggest Chris Kimball wtf is the Cook's Illus. editorial I read once where he spoke somewhat fondly of the practice of cutting off hands as a punishment for theft. Also I think in the same editorial he was snarking about kindergarten graduations.

I can't get behind the hand thing but kindergarten graduations are pretty dumb.

Kimball started off this episode playing "Friend of the Devil" on the guitar and talking about touring with the Dead.

what

going on tour with the dead is very much a time-honored new england prep tradition iirc

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/magazine/cooks-illustrateds-christopher-kimball.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

what

He was introducing a segment on making homemade whole wheat bread. You know. Like the hippies eat.

brownie that article is amazing.

“There were Pygmies in this village,” Kimball recalled. “They were sitting on huge truck tires. I remember one night, we sat around a campfire and we got them high. We took out this huge joint, and everyone smoked dope and got high with a bunch of Pygmies in the Congo.”

i like how the article weaves in the soft boiled egg experiments

here is actual recipe for soft boiled eggs

http://www.macheesmo.com/2012/12/soft-boiled-eggs-a-giveaway/

HUH.

i've started using that method! it's awesome.

i just got turned on to cooks illustrated/atk in the last couple weeks which is funny because it is totally my kind of thing and i never even knew it. i am acquainted with one of atk's producers and am dying to ask her about kimball if i see her around.

i'm making soft boiled tomorrow for breakfast nothing can stop me

I would but we have one egg left and it expired sometime in early February.

I DID IT.

Kris Krimball you are a genius.

had to take my alarm clock out of my bedroom to time it but in the end the egg you make is equal to the yolk you break

I'm so trying this if we ever buy eggs again.

Ooh I made softies this morning by the old "start with the eggs already covered by water" method which I will happily abandon for a faster one. I do have a personal system where I wait until I hear it at a hard boil rattling in the pan, and then I boil it for 6 mins (using phone as a timer) after that. Prob comes out as a 7-minute egg total, which is better for packing and eating cold later but not runny enough for a home breakfast.

BUY EGGS CARL A.

let us spread our yolk amongst the benighted and soften their hearts, it is written

Guess what I bought on the way home from class today?????

Toaster waffles and laundry soap!

But also eggs.

nice

I have successfully made four soft boiled eggs. This is the first time I've ever peeled a soft boiled egg, too. In the past, I always just whacked them in half through the shell and scooped out the insides. I'm not sure that isn't easier, but there is some satisfaction in peeling them.

http://the-toast.net/2013/08/06/a-letter-from-chris-kimball/

"Someone will go missing this winter. They always do. Someone who went missing the last winter back will show up on the frozen edges of Fike’s Pond, but with different-colored eyes this time. They always do."

Two seasons now on Amazon Prime video

oh cool.

i have an invitation to visit the set of this show, should i do it?

omg YES and then you must tell us all about it

Jack Bishop so clearly wants to sleep with Chris; watching them together kills me every time.

lol ok i will see what I can do

Chris Kimball is deranged. Also all of The French Chef is on Prime right now for a totally different kind of deranged.

YES YOU HAVE TO VISIT THE SET OF THE SHOW

What kind of question is that?

Stay out of the dungeon.

And Jack Bishop in the Tasting Lab

i love this guy cuz he always finds a way to trick chris during the tasting segment

i subscribed to the magazine, the show creeps me out.
learned to make awesome banana bread too. thanks americas test kitchen

The Peruvian roasted chicken from season 12 looks delicious

CI has the best quick bread recipes, IMO.

http://www.seriouseats.com/2014/04/back-of-the-house-life-of-a-cooks-illustrated-test-cook.html?ref=excerpt_readmore

My new favorite breakfast in the world is toast with Marmite*, avocado, and an America's Test Kitchen-style soft boiled egg**. So good, you guys.

* FUN FACT years ago there was some kind of cultural exchange on ILX where people sent each other a care package of stuff from their homelands, and my care package was from ENGLAND and included a jar of Marmite and I loved it and now I order it from Amazon (some local grocery stores carry it but none that are convenient to my current location.)
** I find that 7 minutes is preferable for me, because I would rather sacrifice a little bit of yolk runniness to ensure the whites are fully cooked because bleeeeerrrrggggggg.

these guys DO NOT STOP with the email and resubscription notices.

Maybe they can start making spicy recipes now:

http://www.boston.com/entertainment/celebrity/2015/11/16/christopher-kimball-leaving-america-test-kitchen/nSw9CiL64HnguQ1SQSpQvI/story.html

J Kenji Lopez Alt has mentioned how watered down CI/ATK recipes can be, trying to suit a middle American or New England palate.

Working in that kind of kitchen still sounds like an amazing job (until you start dreaming about boiling thousands of eggs to get the perfect one).

Does someone eat all of those eggs

https://whywearesuingchristopherkimball.com/

the actual complaint is a fun read, bunch of middle aged ppl who are clueless about IT trying to steal confidential information by emailing the help desk and asking how to do so.

No! I listened to ATK Radio every week. End of an era :(

“It’s more complex than a former employee going out and starting a new business,” Jack Bishop, ATK’s chief creative officer, said in an interview. That’s because Kimball, one of ATK’s founders, is still considered a partial owner.

“No one is really happy we’re here. Let me start with that. I’m not the only one who has known Chris and worked with Chris for a long time, but we are here because of Chris’s actions,” said Bishop, who also frequently appeared with Kimball in “America’s Test Kitchen” and “Cook’s Country” segments. “It is what it is.”

Damn that's cold. I always assumed the animosity between the two during the tasting segments was playful, but now...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/04/dining/christopher-kimball-americas-test-kitchen-lawsuit.html

Mr. Kimball and his legal team are preparing a response, which is due to the court this month. Otherwise, he’s turning his attention elsewhere.

“Thanksgiving’s coming up,” he said. “I’d like to actually focus on that and Milk Street and everything else we are doing. That’s what’s important.”

Should we revive this or just talk about it on the cheese board’s youtube channels thread? I vote the latter, I think. I have become an ATK fiend; went and got the iphone all with a digital subscription and everything

J Kenji Lopez Alt has mentioned how watered down CI/ATK recipes can be, trying to suit a middle American or New England palate.