100 Techniques: Master a Lifetime of Cooking Skills, from Basic to Bucket List (ATK 100 Series)

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Pros

Techniques” is their opus maximum. It’s very thorough. They offer a lot of standard techniques and info but present it as though they are revealing a great secret.

Lavishly illustrated, making for good browsing. Many of the recipes lack color photos, but that’s a small price to pay for cramming in more recipes. Besides beautiful to look at the information is invaluable.

Cons

A shorter version of the cooks illustrated cookbook. More recipe's than technique's. The introductory explanation of each technique adds little to what is already explained in the individual recipes.

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Quality

The crust on the cherry pie was the best i have ever made.

Each of the 100 cooking techniques features one page with a detailed description of the technique and a facing page of step-by-... Read More

It’s a strange mix of absurdly basic and fairly advanced while never crossing the line into expert.

They call it “waterproofing”, where you create a paste of butter and flour first to coat all the flour with butter to ‘waterpro... Read More

Price

The techniques alone are worth the price of the book, but the added benefit are the wonderful recipes.

Many of the recipes lack color photos, but that’s a small price to pay for cramming in more recipes.

Packaging/appearance

The pages are jam packed with information and instructions that seem rather disorganized.

Competitiveness

'techniques' is a whole lot more than your mom's recipe codex.

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This product had a total of 848 reviews as of our last analysis date on Aug 8 2024.