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Sep 24, 2024 | 
americastestkitchen.com | Chase Brightwell
Performance Controls Setup / Cleaning This scale was accurate, reliable, and durable. It was easy to connect to multiple tablets and phones via Bluetooth, and it communicated accurately and efficiently with its accompanying app. The app itself was organized and generally easy to use, with hundreds of customizable cocktail recipes. The app and the scale displays were both a smidge busy during the drink-making process, but we easily grew accustomed to using them together.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
americastestkitchen.com | Chase Brightwell
Hand mixers are a useful addition to any baker's kitchen. We often use them to whip cream, cream together butter and sugar for baked goods, and beat egg whites for meringue. They also take up less storage space than a stand mixer and are much easier to maneuver. We were looking for a mixer that was powerful and easy to use and had a range of speed settings, and we found all that and more in our new winner, the Breville Handy Mix Scraper.
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Mar 4, 2024 | 
americastestkitchen.com | Valerie Li Stack |Lisa McManus |Sarah Sandler |Chase Brightwell
We empower home cooks by inspiring confidence and creativity. Join Us in the KitchenWe rely on science to explain the why and how of cooking. Meet Us in the LabWe bring the rich tapestry of American cooking to your kitchen. Let's Hit the RoadWe rely on science to explain the why and how of cooking. Meet Us in the LabWe empower home cooks by inspiring confidence and creativity. Join Us in the KitchenWe bring the rich tapestry of American cooking to your kitchen. Let's Hit the Road
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Feb 29, 2024 | 
americastestkitchen.com | Chase Brightwell
Equipment We can’t make your move stress-free, but we can help you set yourself up for success. By Published Mar. 1, 2024. Moving to a new home can be stressful. Planning the move and packing for it both take a ton of time and energy—not to mention the sheer exhaustion you may experience after lugging heavy boxes and trying to “pivot” that sofa up the stairs.
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Feb 22, 2024 | 
americastestkitchen.com | Chase Brightwell
Equipment Here’s a hint: your dishwasher may not be enough. By Published Feb. 23, 2024. Large insulated tumblers, such as the ever-popular Stanley, have quickly become many people’s so-called “emotional support water bottles.” The brightly-colored vessels hold a ton of water and keep it cold for hours, and it’s common for many users to tote them everywhere and drink from them nearly 24 hours a day.
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Jan 9, 2024 | 
americastestkitchen.com | Chase Brightwell
Equipment Otherwise hard-to-reach stains don’t stand a chance against this long, agile, and extraordinarily useful brush. If you’re like me, you have a collection of water bottles, travel mugs, soda maker bottles, and other reusable drink vessels that share one thing in common: they’re notoriously tricky to clean. Not every bottle or mug is dishwasher-safe. Even the ones that are can collect gunk or stains at the bottom that require an extra-deep clean every now and then.
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Jan 9, 2024 | 
americastestkitchen.com | Chase Brightwell
The best wine subscription services (popularly known as “wine clubs”) allow wine enthusiasts of all knowledge levels to learn about and try new wines without setting foot in a store. We dug through a crowded market of online options to find and evaluate several clubs, identifying two winners. Wine Folly Club offers monthly deliveries of sommelier-selected wines accompanied by in-depth educational videos. The Wine Access Discovery Club delivers sommelier-chosen wines quarterly.
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Jan 1, 2024 | 
americastestkitchen.com | Chase Brightwell
So-called indoor electric “composters” are designed to dehydrate and grind household food waste, making it less messy and smelly to dispose of. However, these machines aren’t able to recreate conventional composting. Instead of producing stable, nutrient-dense compost that can be safely added to soil, these appliances create dried, ground-up food that requires further curing and decomposition before it can be used for agriculture.
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Dec 17, 2023 | 
americastestkitchen.com | Chase Brightwell
Equipment Cooking even one meal can take your stovetop from clean as a whistle to a greasy mess. Keep your stovetop squeaky clean with our well-tested tips. I recently spent several days covering one of our office’s beautiful, gleaming kitchens—every stovetop and counter—in vegetable oil. It was any clean-freak’s nightmare: the usually spotless, beautiful, perfect-for-TV kitchen completely coated in oil (and marinara sauce!) in order for me to test several cleaning products.
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Dec 10, 2023 | 
americastestkitchen.com | Chase Brightwell
Equipment Contrary to the name, glass cutting boards aren't for cutting. Here's why. By Published Dec. 11, 2023. Every so often, my Reviews Team colleagues and I get a question that makes us react as though we just watched a jump-scare in a horror movie. One such surprisingly popular, altogether terrifying question is: “Why can’t I use a glass cutting board?”OK, maybe I’m being a little overdramatic.
