
In the Test Kitchen
Hosted by Nik and Bryan and Lan and Lidey and Lan Lam and Nik Sharma and Bryan Roof and Dan Souza and Lidey Heuck · America's Test Kitchen
4.3from 160 ratings
- 36
- Episodes
- 15
- Transcribed
- 160
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
- 243
- YouTube views
About In the Test Kitchen
This video podcast from America’s Test Kitchen takes you behind the scenes of a bustling test kitchen. Our test cook hosts dive deep into their favorite dishes, taste recipes, and talk about how culture, history, and science influence the foods we love to eat. Discover the messy, fun, and (mostly) delicious work that goes into creating America’s favorite recipes.
- Publisher
- America's Test Kitchen
- Category
- arts · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 31 Mar 2025
- Latest episode
- 10 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
15 of 36 episodes have a transcript.

10 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 15: What makes the best red sauce?

27 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 14: What makes a dumpling comforting?

13 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 13: What's your favorite cold treat on a hot summer day?
Inside a recent episode

Episode 15: What makes the best red sauce?
Published 10 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Texture is really varied. It was... You know, I think one of the things that's happening with red sauces and the canned jarred ones, they're getting access to better tomatoes now. They're paying attention and also technology has improved. Yeah. Yeah. Like certainly the processing to like maintain flavor is different. Like you're not, you know, people put more thought into it. Yeah. Next question. Is putting sugar in tomato sauce cheating? No. Yeah, I like seasoning with sugar. I think that's fine. I agree. It needs it sometimes. Yeah. Tomatoes can be really acidic depending on how ripe they are, so sometimes it just bumps it up. […]
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Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- Grace Young
- Rick Martinez
- Roy Choi
- Dan Pashman
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 243
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.2 / 5
- 134 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 26 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 42 / 100
A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.
- Quality
- 21
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 72
- Engagement
- 84
Questions about In the Test Kitchen
Who hosts In the Test Kitchen?
Nik and Bryan and Lan and Lidey and Lan Lam and Nik Sharma and Bryan Roof and Dan Souza and Lidey Heuck host the show. Published by America's Test Kitchen.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
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