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Since she started writing her column Absolute Best Tests in 2019, Ella Quittner has been fearlessly tackling some of our toughest cooking quandaries. In each installment of the long-running series, she goes to extreme lengths to answer a seemingly simple question: What is the best way to make a given dish? Through tests and trials, she applies her painstaking (but also delightfully wry) research to everything from hot dogs to boxed cake mixes—all in the name of making your home cooking experience better and more seamless than ever.
Whether you’re cooking up steaks for a crowd, attempting homemade potato chips for the first time, or looking to refine your repertoire of desserts, we’ve compiled all 41 of Ella’s tests right here.