Of all the cooking shows I watch - LOTS - America’s Test Kitchen’s is the only one that has me taking notes to reproduce their stuff. Lots of technique/equipment gems to be mined from those folks. They tend to use 10X too many dishes on everything, but they have to for the recipe to sink in if you aren’t taking notes.
I love it when they cook Nostalgia, stuff from turn of the century through the 50s. Don’t like their tasting/audience poll segment.
They’re my husband’s ‘go-to’ gurus for cooking, too. If we’re not at home every Saturday, both of their shows get taped.
I especially like the equipment reviews; but we actually like the taste-testings because we love Jack Bishop - he knows exactly how to handle the curmudgeon Kimball :-)
-JT
You can get both the cookbooks for under $20 each on Amazon. Great price, considering the huge size of the cookbooks. They have all the recipes for all 14 seasons of the shows, plus all the gadget information.