Secrets America's Test Kitchen Desperately Tried To Hide

Do you think ATK changed for better or worse after Kimball's departure?

Shame. They should change the name too cause it's not the same. Profit over people in the kitchen. Milkstreet was good too. Doro wat.

ATK has NEVER been as good since Kimball left. Bridget, Julia, and Adam are great, but some of these others they've shoe-horned into the line-up are just plain annoying. Milk Street isn't perfect, but at least it isn't the dish-watery thing that ATK has become.

So basically what happened to Kimball was a normal company dispute.

Like the title kinda makes it out like something big, but it wasn’t anything special, not even something like a kinda controversial tweet

Next Up; Sesame Street SCANDALS too big to ignore. Bert is EVIL!

My only reason to cancel my subscription was Kimball’s removal after noticing he is not the chief editor.

Cut the annoying background noise/"music."

I never knew it was that involved! Great show!

This is all well known. No desperate hiding by anyone. But I guess you are desperate for click-generating controversy? Please exit the internet if you can't use it responsibly.

Christopher Kimball was the show. Without him it's been a lame Duck. The interest is gone. It's a shadow of it's former self even though I like Bridget, Julia, Jack, and Adam. The fun of the show was watching the batter that took place between Christopher and Jack in the taste test segments. This is the trouble when a company goes from private to public. All continuity disappears.

ATK with Kimball was good I watched it. After he left I don't watch it, or Milk Street. They both suck.

I find the show creepy. The presenters robotic Stepford Wives delivery and almost parody level corny scripting feels bizarre. I loathe fake laughing when nothing particularly funny is being said and they do this all the time.

Sorry,not sensing the "desperation".

Narcissists: The world must revolve around and adapt to me. I'm not taking my talents to where I'll get paid nor will I learn skills that employers will pay a high dollar for.
Words narcissists use: union/unionize, solidarity, scab labor.
Tactics narcissists use: Finger point, blame, gaslight, peer pressure, violence against the innocent, burn, loot murder.

So, they started shutting down units and laying off workers after they voted to unionize. That's what usually happens.

Give me a break this is the food industry. If it's so bad.Why are so many of them for so long?

ATK has helped me more times than I can count. I've saved a lot of money, learned a lot of great recipes along with cooking tips watching ATK. Love that channel.

Better.

I read it was disagreement on monetary compensation.

Did we really need to see a close-up of someone flossing?

Was it really necessary to show someone up close flossing their teeth on a cooking video?

When Kimball left, he took the soul of the show with him. The hosts are nothing but accessories. Kimball provided a lead and had a nice procrastinating edge to the show they since lost

If you watch closely on some of the testing segments you can see when they scoop, spoon, dip or even taste a product. If THEY don't like a particular product they will scoop or press harder to get bad results. Just watch some of the cut aways for subtle clues.

Christopher Kimball made the magazine what it was but the shows just grew beyond him. It's better he left and found a new outlet that suits him and ATK is better now without him.

I stopped watching when they gave Mr Kimball the boot.

i dont like how when they are teaching you a recipe they always do the meat medium rare and don't teach you how to cook it any other way

sounds like just another company on its way out to the delight of the left

I guess unionizing didn’t help in the end.

Lost interst since Kimball left, his new show is interesting

It sounds like chatgpt did the transcript for this with computer generated audio. The result and the accompanying visuals are finally just barely good enough. Does this mean we are at an inflection point in computer generated content?

What do you mean? America's Test Kitchen and Cooks Country have been paid to be on PBS for decades and they are sponsored.

they got me to start cooking bacon in water

This is a very sad story. It is like a person who built an amazing brand, went public and got fired from their own idea and labors! 😢Think twice before selling out, look what happened to ETSY! 😏

Love ATK.
Gotta say it was awkward watching Kimball get so close to that tall woman when she started.
He was practically smelling her hair every chance he had.
Milk Street also a good show.

Unionized workers who later go let go should be proud of the fact that they exposed their managaement to be the greedy, malevolent a-holes that they are.

You didn't think they weren't going to punish those who voted in the union, did you? This Nussbaum guy sounds like a real charmer...

Can you send your mortgage company leftovers? These people need to be paid better.

As soon as hard-working people build a company, union parasites come in to try to tear down. If they don't like their working conditions or pay they should go start their own company. But they won't do that because they don't know how to to create a company only how to feed off the host

People who do the least always make the most. Do as little as possible and become a shareholder.

Company grows, company expands, workers unionize, workers are laid off, remaining workers look around uncomfortably while blaming corporate greed. The American story.

Julia Collins Davidson has been a favourite of mine from the first episodes I've watched.
Newer faces, same show. Kimball, though a founder is not needed for it and Cook's Country to continue to be great shows.
Though l must admit, l miss Doc. 🥲

I am sad to hear that they were not paying people satisfactorily. I have been a long-time fan and enjoy Cooks Country.

How much money does ATK's CEO make per year...and how many recipes do they create, develop and share to earn that salary?

Personally, I ignored the show when Kimbel was at the helm.. When Bridget and Julia took over as the lead hosts I found interest in it. There personal knowledge and skills in the kitchen made the helpful information more valid and trust worthy and because of that held my attention.. Kimbel lost my interest and I would often flip the channel..

When ATK went public and brought in new leadership, I told my co-worker then Kimball would be gone. That NEVER works out for the founder at ANY company. Amazing, unexpected, shocking...NOT! Bring in a union, demand more money and jobs are lost! So much for more money! Just like all these people in CA are learning about what $20/hr wages for unskilled work is doing for them. Stores closing, jobs gone, robots and automation replacing them. Nobody was forced to work there. If they didn't like the wages, LEAVE! If enough people were leaving, by simple laws of supply and demand, wages would have to change to keep staff. It's not a government job, its private, if you're good, negotiate better terms for YOURSELF. Now if you work harder, the slacker get the same wage as you do, because the UNION says so. Unions had their place 100 years ago and in small cases of dangerous jobs, but for the most part they've become just a slush fund for the leftists and the democrat party.

American companies are built on the backs of its workers labor. Workers deserve a living wage. Unfortunately greed has taken over our corporate culture and while the top get astronomical salaries, the workers suffer. I see the reason for the union and am glad staff diversity is part of it. I ❤ the show.

On screen and publications, better. Treatment of employees -- the usual corporate exploitation. I bet the upper managers got a good bonus for cutting costs by firing people or reducing benefits. But, that's Capitalism.

What idiot employees wanting some kind of "fair" wage no wage is fair and then being so stupid to buy into the union propaganda, then out of jobs union thuggery never ends ripping people off for dues and costing jobs...they brought it onto themselves...good for them cutting jobs to keep in business