Cook's Country From America's Test Kitchen on WXXI-TV

Pictured, Christopher Kimball (center) flanked by cooks Erin McMurrer (left) and Bridget Lancaster (right) and equipment expert Adam Ried (upper left) and the Tasting Lab's Jack Bishop (upper right).

Photo by Daniel J. van Ackere © 2008 Boston Common Press, DBA America's Test Kitchen.

The Cook's Country crew tackles an old-fashioned roast beef dinner.

Hosts Christopher Kimball and Bridget Lancaster prepare a classic American meal. First, Kimball reveals the test kitchen’s top cut for a roast. Then, Bridget makes a juicy roast beef and tops it off with rich and meaty gravy. Next, equipment expert Adam Ried challenges Kimball to a plastic wrap “tug-of-war” to find out which brand is best. And finally, Lancaster uncovers the secrets to baking perfect popovers at home.

Cook's Country From America's Test Kitchen, airing Saturdays at 2 p.m. beginning August 28 on WXXI-TV (DT21.1/cable 1011 and 11), takes viewers inside the test kitchen of Cook's Country magazine to discover the best American home cooking.

Cook’s Country From America’s Test Kitchen features the cast and crew of the top-rated cooking show on public television America's Test Kitchen, which includes Christopher Kimball, Bridget Lancaster, Julia Collin Davison, Jack Bishop, Adam Ried and Erin McMurrer. Cook's Country From America's Test Kitchen is filmed in a renovated 1806 farmhouse with a full working test kitchen.