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''America's Test Kitchen'' is a half-hour cooking show distributed to public television stations (reruns airing on Create) in the United States, which are also available in most Canadian markets. The show's host is ''Cook's Illustrated'' editor-in-chief Christopher Kimball; the show and the magazine are affiliated, and the magazine's test kitchen facility in Brookline, Massachusetts, is used as a set for the show. ''Cook's Illustrateds parent company, Boston Common Press, while retaining its corporate name, has marketed its publishing and media activities under the ''America's Test Kitchen'' brand beginning in 2004. ==Show format== A typical episode contains two or three recipes joined by a common theme (e.g., "Quick Tuesday Night Pasta Dinners", "Comfort Food Favorites", "Supermarket Steak Recipes", "Making Chinese Take-Out Dishes"). Each recipe segment opens with Kimball showing the problems inherent in cooking the recipe (e.g., waterlogged pasta dishes with jarred sauces; tough, leathery supermarket steaks that don't hold up well in skillet recipes) or in ordering out for the dish (e.g., overcooked meat in tasteless soy-laden brown sauce with a few vegetables thrown in for a so-called "steak and peppers" Chinese takeout meal), leading up to Kimball urging everyone to "join (chef ) in the test kitchen as we make (recipe ) the right way." During the cooking of the recipe, usually at a fairly mundane step of the recipe (e.g., browning onions; baking item for ___ minutes; letting finished dish cool), other segments are shown, usually consisting of two or more of the following: * A Tasting Lab segment, where an ingredient or prepared food product is run through a tasting panel and then taste-tested by Kimball; * An Equipment Corner segment, which gives reviews and rankings of kitchen gadgets; * A periodic "Science Desk" segment, discussing the science behind a pertinent technique used in the recipe; * A "Quick Tips" segment, inserted as a 15–30 second mock-bumper, to demonstrate tips and tricks from ''Cooks Illustrated'' magazine and viewers' mail. Up through season 6, the show was taped in standard definition, 4:3 video; season 7 saw the show switch to widescreen 16:9 video. The high definition version of the show is shown as part of PBS HD's master digital schedule and, by some PBS affiliates, as part of their normal schedules. Eps: 163 During recording, 26 recipes are videotaped during a three-week period. Six recipes are recorded per day, and there are two recipes demonstrated per episode. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「America's Test Kitchen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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