Cook's Illustrated

The Best Broth

Chicken Broths

Most commercial chicken broths are dreadful, "fowl" concoctions. So what is the time-pressed home cook to do?

Favorite Snacks

Potato Chips

There are endless chip varieties and flavors, but which bag of plain chips should the purist reach for?

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Pantry Staples

Balsamic Vinegar

Few foods demonstrate such a wide range in price or quality. Our tasters decode the mysteries of balsamico.

A Better Bread

Whole Wheat Bread

We rounded up nine types of 100-percent whole wheat bread and headed into the tasting lab to sample them plain and toasted with butter.

Inside The Test Kitchen

Supermarket Extra-Virgin Olive Oils

Supermarket Extra-Virgin Olive Oil

You get what you pay for with most supermarket extra-virgin olive oils: bland, bottom-of-the-barrel, and boring. Is there a brand worth buying?

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Hot Sauce

Our favorite won points for its "bright" and "tangy" notes and potent heat, making it good enough to be not just an ingredient, but also a condiment.

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Flour

Flour

We set out to learn if there was a single all-purpose flour that could best handle most any recipe. Six months later, we had the answer.

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