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Think this classic of tender meat and rich gravy topped with mashed potatoes is the ultimate comfort food? The cook who has spent 5 hours preparing it might disagree. The traditional version of this dish of meat and gravy topped with mashed potatoes is time-consuming to make, and the end product is a bit heavy for modern palates. We streamlined the process by building and serving the pie in one skillet and by using lean ground beef rather than braised chunks of meat. To keep the meat tender…

Eggplant is something of a blank canvas. It is neutral in flavor, but it sucks up whatever flavors you cook it with. Eggplant is something of a blank canvas. It is neutral in flavor, but it sucks up whatever flavors you cook it with. That quality makes eggplant ideal for stir-fries, which feature deeply savory sauces that cling to each vegetable. Cooking the eggplant over high heat in a shallow skillet allowed the eggplant's excess moisture to evaporate quickly, leaving the eggplant browned…

We set out to make a smooth, creamy, cheesy sauce without the bother of a béchamel or custard. Making the whole dish in just 25 minutes was a bonus. Inspired by an innovative macaroni and cheese recipe that calls for adding sodium citrate, an emulsifying salt, to cheese to keep it smooth when heated (instead of adding flour to make a béchamel), we based our sauce on American cheese, which contains a similar ingredient. Because American cheese has plenty of emulsifier but not a lot of flavor…

Learn how to prepare Chicken Piccata from "America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated."

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It's been 25 years since America's Test Kitchen debuted on public television and changed the way America cooks. Here's some of our most useful and innovative information from the show.