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Imserba Webstore - Cook's Illustrated
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List Price: $35.70
Our Price: $26.95
Your Save: $ 8.75 ( 25% )
Availability: Usually ships in 2 to 4 months
Manufacturer: Boston Common Press
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Average Customer Rating:  
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Binding: Magazine
First Issue Lead Time: 12-16
Format: Magazine Subscription
Issues Per Year: 6
Label: Boston Common Press
Magazine Type: Consumer magazine
Manufacturer: Boston Common Press
Number Of Issues: 6
Publisher: Boston Common Press
Studio: Boston Common Press
Subscription Length: 365
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Editorial Reviews:
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Cook's Illustrated provides readers with recipes, cooking techniques, and product and food recommendations exhaustively developed in our extensive Test Kitchen facility - the same kitchen featured on our cooking show, America's Test Kitchen. Included are best ways to prepare favorite American dishes -- from pot roast and chocolate chip cookies to grilled salmon and fruit cobbler. Best (and worst) cooking equipment -- from chef's knives to cookie sheets. Best brands -- from canned tomatoes to baking chocolate. Best cooking techniques - from brining shrimp to baking ham. And all of this is provided without a single page of advertising - just 100% cooking information.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Consumer Reports for food
Comment: We've subscribed for years and along with the companion "Best Recipe" cookbook it's my most trusted resource. The dear, departed Gourmet mag and cookbook run a close second. Some people get all worked up over Chris K to which I say relax already. He doesn't write the recipes and if you ignore his letter from the publisher you won't know he's there.
Customer Rating:
Summary: eh. not that great.
Comment: sorry, but I don't feel like their experiments are very well done. They just don't seem to have thought things through, or researched at all, before trying stuff out. Issues are short and fail to innovate.
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Summary: best cook guide ever
Comment: I have read 10-12 alternatives over the years. This is clearly the best. Hands down. Why?
1. No ads
2. Simple, creative, tested recipes which work and can be duplicated.
3. Great gadget reviews
4. Easy reading.
5. Recipes worth sharing.
Some alternatives which I subscribed to for years were useless. I rarely ever used a Gourmet recipe.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Decent magazine, terrible sales tactics
Comment: Cook's is an above average cooking magazine, don't get me wrong. Its format gets a bit stale after awhile, but the magazine itself is ok. The sales techniques used are what makes me give this a 1 star.
I had a representative of Cook's call me and ask me if I would like to buy their cookbook. I answered "no thank you". As a typical sales call, they continued their rehearsed sales techniques on how it would be worth it, told me if I didn't like it, I could simply send it back within 30 days. I restated my no thank you. He asked me why I wouldn't just try it and send it back if I didn't like it. I told him that I don't want to be hassled and I don't want to have to remember to return something in 30 days.
The Cook's Illustrated representative then began a personal attack on me, asking me how I manage to pay my bills on time if I'm that unresponsible. I was speechless. I was hoping that this was a one time thing - a rogue employee on a bad day, but after googling the magazine, I'm afraid it is more par for the course.
Above average magazine, TERRIBLE sales techniques.
Customer Rating:
Summary: wasn't impressed
Comment: the magazines are short and not very informative. they are way too expensive, especially to be a bi-monthly subscription. i canceled mine after the first year, then they sent me a cookbook and ask for $25 or ship it back. I shipped it back and called customer service for a refund on shipping($10). They said they didn't refund shipping!! In my opinion it is a waste of time and money.
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