Cook's Illustrated Magazine

Cook's Illustrated Magazine

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Cook's Illustrated Magazine: Master the Science of Foolproof Cooking

Eliminate the guesswork in your kitchen with our rigorously tested recipes and 100% unbiased equipment reviews. We make the mistakes so you don't have to—all in a premium, ad-free experience designed for the analytical home chef.

Publisher

America's Test Kitchen LP

Category

Food & Drink

Downloads

56K+

User Rating

3.7/5

Total Ratings

2K+

Locales

15

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Front cover of Cook's Illustrated magazine July August 2017 issue featuring a berry still life painting.

Front cover of Cook's Illustrated magazine July August 2017 issue featuring a berry still life painting.

Thai grilled chicken recipe article in the Cooks Illustrated Magazine app featuring a photo of a whole chicken on a charcoal grill

Thai grilled chicken recipe article in the Cooks Illustrated Magazine app featuring a photo of a whole chicken on a charcoal grill

A page from Cook's Illustrated Magazine showing a guide on how to shop for and store fresh corn with several food myths debunked.

A page from Cook's Illustrated Magazine showing a guide on how to shop for and store fresh corn with several food myths debunked.

Digital recipe page for a fresh fruit tart with ingredients and detailed cooking instructions

Digital recipe page for a fresh fruit tart with ingredients and detailed cooking instructions

Smashed cucumbers recipe with chili oil in the Cooks Illustrated app cooking mode.

Smashed cucumbers recipe with chili oil in the Cooks Illustrated app cooking mode.

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Rigorously Tested Recipes

We make the mistakes so you don't have to. Every dish is tested dozens of times by professional cooks to ensure foolproof results.

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100% Unbiased Reviews

No advertising, ever. Get objective ratings and expanded charts for kitchen equipment and ingredients to help you shop smarter.

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Interactive Cooking Mode

Navigate your iPad hands-free with large-format step-by-step photos and instructional videos that guide you through critical techniques.

Review Analysis

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Sentiment Score

32%
Negative

Summary

The app receives predominantly negative feedback, primarily due to a significant degradation of its functionality and features following recent updates. Users consistently praise the high-quality content, in-depth research, and reliable recipes of the magazine itself. However, they express deep dissatisfaction over the removal of interactive features, step-by-step videos, and saved recipe functionalities, with many complaints noting the app became a static PDF viewer after a "new app update" or changes made "during COVID" (version 2.0). Additionally, subscribers report persistent problems with delayed issue delivery (e.g., the May-June 2024 issue), subscription management, and unresponsive customer support.

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About the app

Everything you need to know about Cook's Illustrated Magazine.

Description

The Cook’s Illustrated Magazine app is your go-to source for foolproof recipes, kitchen tips, and reviews of the best kitchen equipment and supermarket ingredients. Download our free app and select the issue you’d like to buy, or subscribe to receive each new issue as it is released and save 52% off the single issue price. Each issue of Cook’s Illustrated magazine on this app features everything found in the print issue – every recipe, every kitchen quick tip, every equipment review, and every ingredient taste test, all without a single page of advertising so you get unbiased information on every page. In addition, each app issue includes additional app-only features to help guarantee foolproof results in the kitchen, including: •Recipe videos for EVERY article which walks you through each recipe’s critical steps •“Cooking Mode” Slide Shows – large step-by-step color photos showing you the critical aspects of each recipe, designed to be easy to read and understand when you’re cooking in the kitchen •Expanded review charts for all equipment reviews and ingredient taste tests •Plus much more FEATURED IN EVERY ISSUE •Foolproof recipes for everything from appetizers and side dishes to entrees and desserts •Step-by-step illustrations that demonstrate the right way to prepare a recipe •Quick Tips for everything from no-mess tomato chopping to sting-free seeding of hot peppers •Unbiased reviews of cookware, gadgets, and supermarket ingredients •Not a single page of advertising! Cook’s Illustrated Magazine subscriptions available: -1-month subscription available for $1.99 (includes a 7-day Free Trial), automatically renewed until canceled -1-year subscription available for $19.99 (includes a 30-day Free Trial), automatically renewed until canceled -A single issue for $6.99 (non-subscription) All subscriptions start at the end of the applicable free trial period. Payment for your purchase will be charged to your iTunes account after your free trial period. Your subscription will auto-renew unless you turn off auto-renewal from your iTunes account at least 24 hours before the end of your current subscription period. No cancellation of the current issue is allowed during an active subscription period. Free trials are only available upon an initial subscription. Please view our Terms of Use: https://www.americastestkitchen.com/corporate-pages/terms-of-use And our Privacy Policy: https://www.americastestkitchen.com/corporate-pages/privacy-policy About Cook’s Illustrated Cook’s Illustrated, launched in 1993, is located just outside Boston where a team of more than three dozen test cooks, editors, and cookware specialists work in a 2,500-square-foot test kitchen. Our mission is to test recipes over and over again until we understand how and why they work and until we arrive at the “best” version of a particular recipe. The result, we hope, is the best version of a particular recipe, but we realize that only you can be the final judge of our success (or failure). As we like to say in the test kitchen, “We make the mistakes so you don’t have to.” Along with developing recipes, our test kitchen team exhaustively tests kitchen equipment and does blind tastings of supermarket ingredients to tell home cooks which brands to buy…and which to avoid. More than one million Cook’s Illustrated readers rely on Cook’s Illustrated reviews to make smarter decisions about which cooking products and ingredient brands to buy. Cook’s Illustrated recipes, testings, and tastings can be found in Cook’s Illustrated magazine and cookbooks, online at CooksIllustrated.com, or featured on our public television show, America’s Test Kitchen.

Latest Version

2.4

Size

22.1 MB

First Released

May 17, 2012

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