Are the testers trained cooks or just amateurs? Although I love the
magazine, I have trouble believing the story behind their arrival at
some recipes. For instance, there was one article about how
"research" suggested that beating softened butter with sugar was
making their cookies puffy. And another about how they had to invent
the idea of a two-level fire on a grill. I mean, these are basic
concepts. I suspect that the author of the story was taking great
liberties with the facts in order to make it sound more like an
adventure.