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The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science
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Taste of Home Ultimate Baking Cookbook: 575+ Recipes, Tips, Secrets and Hints for Baking Success (Taste of Home Baking)
“The most comprehensive single-volume baking reference for beginners who want to master cookies, cakes, breads, and pies from the ground up without buying….”
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Why it's worth it
The most comprehensive single-volume baking reference for beginners who want to master cookies, cakes, breads, and pies from the ground up without buying multiple specialty baking books.
From our review of 10 cookbooks for beginner home cooks, by Genevieve Dubois, Home & Living Expert
What we like
- +575+ baking recipes covering cookies, cakes, breads, muffins, and pies
- +Trusted Taste of Home community with real home-cook testing behind every recipe
- +Tips, secrets, and hints integrated throughout to prevent common beginner mistakes
- +Exceptional breadth covering every major baking category in one volume
What to know
- –Baking-only scope means it does not help build general savory cooking skills
- –Less focus on the underlying science of baking compared to dedicated technique texts
How it ranks in our lineup
Every product from The Best Cookbooks for Beginner Home Cooks, by Genevieve Dubois, with today's Amazon price. Deals are only ever on products from this list.
| # | Product | Our award | Price now | Deal |
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| 1 | The Complete Mediterranean Cookbook Gift Edition: 500 | — | $15.16 | −62% today |
| 2 | How to Cook Everything: 96 Inspired Recipes from Mark | Budget pick | $1.99 | no deal today |
| 3 | Joy of Cooking by Irma & Marion Rombauer Becker Rombauer | Top pick | $19.98 | no deal today |
| 4 | The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science | Upgrade pick | $23.25 | −53% today |
| 5 | [Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics: Fabulous Flavor from | Runner-up | $35.99 | −27% today |
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