America's Test Kitchen From Cook's Illustrated S3E5 — Steak House Dinners
America's Test Kitchen From Cook's Illustrated•Season 3•Episode 5

Steak House Dinners

Feb 1, 200325 min
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The perfect steakhouse dinner—salad with creamy blue cheese dressing and seared filet mignon—is often a fantasy. In the real world, the lettuce is limp, the dressing gluey or watery, the steak overcooked or not properly browned, and the sauce characterless. The test kitchen shows you

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Episode Summary

"Steak House Dinners" is episode 5 of America's Test Kitchen From Cook's Illustrated season 3. It aired on February 1, 2003.

Next: E6 · Chinese TakeoutBest of Season 3