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As I enter the final week of my 12 week internship at America’s Test Kitchen, I realize it’s been a few weeks since I’ve provided any kind of update. To make a long story short, as a result of some of the things that I’ve previously blogged about, current ATK employees are no longer allowed [...]

Week 7 of my internship has come and passed, with this week marking the end of the three week filming period for the America’s Test Kitchen TV show. As far as I can gather, filming went off without any major glitches or snafus. I imagine that after 11 years of doing this, the film crew, [...]

The end of my sixth week at America’s Test Kitchen means that I am now halfway through my internship; I really can’t believe how quickly it has flown by so far. TV show production continued this week, the highlight of which included a full day devoted to filming a number of outdoor grilling segments. Here [...]

As promised, I finally brought my camera into work with me, just in time to capture the filming of America’s Test Kitchen’s 11th season, which began this week. My regularly scheduled work as an intern continued this week with grocery and mise en place duties still being my primary responsibilities. On top of that, myself [...]

TV filming begins next week and you can cut the tension in the test kitchen with an 8″ chef’s knife as people (including all of us interns) spent a good part of the week cleaning, organizing and getting ready for the ensuing madness. For the 11th season of the America’s Test Kitchen TV show, the [...]

Unfortunately, this week, I don’t have too much that’s terribly exciting to report. The chocolate testing from the previous week continued this week with me preparing another six batches of tasty chocolate brownies. I also prepared the next round of chocolate testing, which will involve 12 different preparations and tastings of ganache, a mixture of [...]

The internship program at America’s Test Kitchen is rotational, meaning that over the course of my 12 week internship, I will work with two different teams for a period of six weeks each. Last week, I was assigned to the Cook’s Country team and things were just a bit slow in the test kitchen because [...]

Last week was the first full week of my 12 week internship at America’s Test Kitchen. As a kitchen intern, my primary responsibility is to assist the test cooks and editors as they go about their daily business of researching and testing recipes. That encompasses many different tasks so rather than bore you to tears [...]