Welcome to our Test Kitchen — where all the magic happens! Our Test Kitchen is built on real kitchens, real cooks, and real feedback. Our goal? To save you time, effort, and money with recipes you can always count on!
We never want you to waste your time, or ingredients, on a recipe that simply doesn’t work. Every recipe you see with a test kitchen review has been carefully developed, tested, and perfected. And not just by one person — each recipe is tested by at least three different people before it ever reaches you!
Our readers trust us to get it right — and we take that trust seriously. While a recipe may not be your personal favorite, you can have confidence that if you make it as written, it will turn out as promised.
We’ve built a network of friends, family, and home cooks, from across the United States, who are paid to test our recipes. That means they’re encouraged to be completely honest — not just rubber-stamping a recipe as approved. If something needs fixing, they’ll tell us the truth — and we love them for it!
Our testers make each recipe exactly as it’s written and give us detailed feedback of their results, along with a photo and honest review of how it turned out. They are testing for clear instructions, easy-to-find ingredients, reliable results, and great taste.
If a recipe doesn’t earn consistent 5-star feedback from our testers, we make adjustments and test it ourselves again. Then we send the updated recipe back to the test kitchen to be tested once more. We continue this process until the recipe is foolproof. We do all of this for you, because we believe you deserve recipes you can trust the very first time you make them!