Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This book has lots of recipes, and the various techniques (such as pot in pot) are useful. However, the recipes are not for me. They are very "semi-homemade"--full of processed ingredients. Not for people who prefer to cook from scratch from real ingredients. For example, here's a recipe for a pork roast: pork, can of golden cream of mushroom soup, can of root beer, packet of dried onion soup mix. I would never use any of those ingredients, so that recipe could just as well have been a blank page. Probably about every fourth or fifth recipe is like that. Had I know this, I definitely would have chosen a different book. For now, I am just using the few recipes that came in my America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook, which I trust. All that said, the techniques are a valuable resource, so if you either like "semi-homemade" or don't mind flipping past many of the recipes, the book is useful. I love using my pressure cooker in the simplest of ways (poached chicken breasts in half a cup of water are done in 4 minutes) but looking at this book has inspired me to try cooking new things in different ways