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Default America's Test Kitchen

I rarely have the opportunity to watch, but I is usually pretty good.
This afternoon they cooked carnitas. Since the meat was cooked in lard
they had a review of lards. A guy had cooked three batches of biscuits,
each using different brand of lard. One of the hostesses did a taste
taste. She thought they all tasted pretty good and when forced to make a
choice she chose the one in the middle, which was made with the mid
range product. One of the others was made with a lard that is available
online only, and sells for more than $11 per pound. The other also ran
was cheap brand that sells for $1.69. Considering how similar the
finished biscuits were. It is hard to say that it is with it to spend
the extra money on the expensive lard when that cost 6 times are much.


The other dish they cooked was shrimp tacos. Wow they looked good.