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Serious Eats does a lot of double blind testing and analysis of long standing culinary myths.

• bryanlarsen 4y ago
  They're mostly Cook's Illustrated personnel who have been doing similar testing for many decades. Similarly, many of the Serious Eats alumni have moved on to do their own thing. (J. Kenji López-Alt for example). But their focus is very much on taste, sacrificing convenience to maximize taste. Only when the double blind shows taste to be equivalent do their recipes contain the more convenient step. If you read the entire article prose it'll give you some hints on which conveniences will have little effect on taste and which will significantly compromise the dish.