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A Better Skillet Cheeseburger
A good skillet cheeseburger needs a browned exterior, a juicy but safely cooked center and a bun that can carry the filling.
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Familiar favorites, better techniques and the comfort of a home-cooked classic.
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These American home adaptations range from skillet burgers and buttermilk pancakes to covered-oven pulled pork and chilled cookie dough. Match the cut and cooking method: ground beef, bone-in chicken and a shoulder roast need different checks. For baking, weigh the structural ingredients and include tray cooling or pie settling in the meal plan.
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Creamy Baked Mac & Cheese
Baked macaroni and cheese should have a creamy interior beneath its browned crumbs, not a tight block of pasta.
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Buttermilk Fried Chicken
Buttermilk fried chicken requires two results at the same time: a craggy cooked-through coating and safely cooked meat beside the bone.
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New England-Style Clam Chowder
This New England-style chowder uses clam juice for its main flavor and only enough flour to give the milk a gentle body.
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Deep-Dish Apple Pie
A deep-dish apple pie must bake long enough for the fruit juices to thicken while keeping the pastry flaky.
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Fluffy Buttermilk Pancakes
Fluffy pancakes are a balance between a batter that can hold gas and a pan gentle enough to cook the center.
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Crisp Oven Buffalo Wings
Oven Buffalo wings need a dry crisp skin before they meet the butter-and-hot-sauce coating.
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Slow Oven Pulled Pork
Pulled pork is ready when the shoulder separates easily into moist strands, which takes much longer than reaching the minimum safe temperature for an intact pork roast.
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Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Brown butter gives these cookies a nutty aroma, but controlling dough temperature is just as important as browning the fat.
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Golden Skillet Cornbread
Skillet cornbread is about the contrast between a crisp browned edge and a moist tender middle.