America's Test Kitchen — Season 3
Recipes that work.
About this season
Equipment reviews, taste tests, and recipes from the test kitchen to the home cook. A team of test cooks that viewers have come to love and trust deconstruct recipes and reveal the test kitchen’s secrets to foolproof cooking at home.
Episodes (26)
1. Party Foods
Aired 4 January 2003 • 25 min
We turn soggy nachos and candy-sweet sangria into serious party food.
2. Hearty Soups
Aired 11 January 2003 • 25 min
Less is more when it comes to hearty soups.
3. Dressing Up Vegetables
Aired 18 January 2003 • 25 min
We rescue two favorite vegetable dishes from the clutches of the cafeteria.
4. Bistro Basics
Aired 25 January 2003 • 25 min
A taste of real French cooking—without spending all day in the kitchen.
5. Steak House Dinners
Aired 1 February 2003 • 25 min
The perfect steakhouse dinner—salad with creamy blue cheese dressing and seared filet mignon—is often a fantasy. In the real world, the lettuce is limp, the dressing gluey or watery, the steak overcooked or not properly browned, and the sauce characterless. The test kitchen shows you how to solve each of these problems.
6. Chinese Takeout
Aired 8 February 2003 • 25 min
Chinese food at home (without a laundry list of hard-to-find ingredients).
7. Chicken in a Flash
Aired 15 February 2003 • 25 min
Quick and easy chicken dishes.
8. Pasta Classics
Aired 22 February 2003 • 25 min
We return two classic pasta sauces to their original glory.
9. Pasta Quick and Easy
Aired 1 March 2003 • 25 min
Simple ingredients are often the basis of special and uncommonly good dishes.
10. Beef Burgundy
Aired 8 March 2003 • 25 min
Skip the marinade and don't bother to sauté the aromatic vegetables.
11. Texas Chili
Aired 15 March 2003 • 25 min
The best chili: hearty, heavy on the meat, and spicy.
12. American Casseroles
Aired 22 March 2003 • 25 min
The secret to great casseroles: keep the ingredients as fresh tasting as possible.
13. Pork Chops, Two Ways
Aired 29 March 2003 • 25 min
Finding flavor in today's leaner pork.
14. Backyard BBQ
Aired 5 April 2003 • 25 min
Big, juicy, smoky ribs and classic potato salad.
15. Barbecued Salmon
Aired 12 April 2003 • 25 min
We prepare an elegant salmon dish . . . on the grill.
16. Thanksgiving from the Grill
Aired 19 April 2003 • 25 min
Free up your oven and grill a better tasting bird.
17. Holiday Dinner
Aired 26 April 2003 • 25 min
We turn meat and potatoes into something memorable.
18. Ham Dinners
Aired 3 May 2003 • 25 min
Spiral-sliced ham and good green bean casserole. (Really!)
19. Weekend Brunch
Aired 10 May 2003 • 25 min
Brunch that's worth making, even when company isn't coming.
20. Quick Breads
Aired 17 May 2003 • 25 min
It takes more than speed to make the best quick breads.
21. Rustic Bread at Home
Aired 24 May 2003 • 25 min
Hearth-quality bread from a home oven.
22. Cookie Jar Favorites
Aired 31 May 2003 • 25 min
We take two cookie classics and make them great again.
23. Lemon Meringue Pie
Aired 7 June 2003 • 25 min
We solve the problem of soggy crusts and mile-high meringue.
24. Shortcake and Cobbler
Aired 14 June 2003 • 25 min
We perfect two classic summer American desserts.
25. Two Chocolate Cakes
Aired 21 June 2003 • 25 min
One old-fashioned, moist and homely, the other elegant, dense and ethereal.
26. New York Cheese Cake
Aired 28 June 2003 • 25 min
Restraint is key for the perfect New York-style cheesecake.