TV America's Test Kitchen - Season 7 Episode 12 : Not Your Average Stir-Fry America's Test Kitchen - Season 7 Episode 12 : Not Your Average Stir-Fry 6.4/10 by 11 users We wanted a complex dish with carefully balanced flavors—without an extensive list of hard-to-find ingredients and hours in the kitchen. Thai-style stir-fries are a refreshing alternative to Chinese stir-fries. Spicy, sweet, sour, and salty, the flavors are well-balanced and complex. But who has the ingredients often required, such as shrimp paste, tamarind pulp, galangal, and palm sugar? And while the more familiar Chinese stir-fry is fairly quick to prepare, a Thai stir-fry can take hours. For our starting point, we looked to a restaurant favorite—Thai chile beef—and set out to streamline this dish without compromising its interesting combination of flavors. Potstickers are another Asian favorite we wanted to enjoy at home. At their best, potstickers are light dumplings filled with a well-seasoned mix of pork and cabbage. Dunked into a soy dipping sauce, they make a terrific start to a meal. Unfortunately, we’ve eaten more than our share of truly awful potstickers—leaden balls of pasty meat in a doughy wrapper. All it took was one bite for us to put our chopsticks down. We wanted to find out the secret to making great potstickers—the right filling, the right wrapper, and a method of assembly that wasn’t overly complicated and didn’t take all day. Most of all we wanted these potstickers to be so good, we’d rather make them ourselves than call for our favorite takeout. Recipes: Stir-Fried Thai-Style Beef with Chiles and Shallots Potstickers Scallion Dipping Sauce Equipment Center: Nonstick Skillets, Update Details Casts Posters Images Title America's Test Kitchen - Season 7 Episode 12 : Not Your Average Stir-Fry Alternative Titles America's Test Kitchen From Cooks Illustrated First Air Date 2001-08-04 Last Air Date 2025-11-22 Number of Episodes 656 Number of Seasons 26 Genres Documentary, Networks PBS, Casts Julia Collin Davison, Bridget Lancaster, Jack Bishop Plot Keywords , Self Julia Collin Davison Self Bridget Lancaster Self Jack Bishop Episodes List America's Test Kitchen Season 7 :Episode 1 Meatloaf Dinner Meatloaf Dinner 2007-01-06 Equipment reviews, taste tests, and recipes from the test kitchen to the home cook. A team of test cooks that viewers have come to love and trust... America's Test Kitchen Season 7 :Episode 2 Streamlined Chicken Skillet Suppers Streamlined Chicken Skillet Suppers 2007-01-13 Equipment reviews, taste tests, and recipes from the test kitchen to the home cook. A team of test cooks that viewers have come to love and trust... America's Test Kitchen Season 7 :Episode 3 Best Beef Stew Best Beef Stew 2007-01-20 Equipment reviews, taste tests, and recipes from the test kitchen to the home cook. A team of test cooks that viewers have come to love and trust... America's Test Kitchen Season 7 :Episode 4 Sunday Roast Chicken and Stuffing Sunday Roast Chicken and Stuffing 2007-01-27 Equipment reviews, taste tests, and recipes from the test kitchen to the home cook. A team of test cooks that viewers have come to love and trust... America's Test Kitchen Season 7 :Episode 5 Two Ways with Pork Two Ways with Pork 2007-02-03 Equipment reviews, taste tests, and recipes from the test kitchen to the home cook. A team of test cooks that viewers have come to love and trust... America's Test Kitchen Season 7 :Episode 6 Faster Family Favorites Faster Family Favorites 2007-02-10 Equipment reviews, taste tests, and recipes from the test kitchen to the home cook. A team of test cooks that viewers have come to love and trust... America's Test Kitchen Season 7 :Episode 7 Lighter Family Favorites Lighter Family Favorites 2007-02-17 Equipment reviews, taste tests, and recipes from the test kitchen to the home cook. A team of test cooks that viewers have come to love and trust... America's Test Kitchen Season 7 :Episode 8 Fish and Chips at Home Fish and Chips at Home 2007-02-24 Equipment reviews, taste tests, and recipes from the test kitchen to the home cook. A team of test cooks that viewers have come to love and trust... America's Test Kitchen Season 7 :Episode 9 Chicken Kiev Chicken Kiev 2007-03-03 Equipment reviews, taste tests, and recipes from the test kitchen to the home cook. A team of test cooks that viewers have come to love and trust... America's Test Kitchen Season 7 :Episode 10 Meat and Potatoes for Company Meat and Potatoes for Company 2007-03-10 Equipment reviews, taste tests, and recipes from the test kitchen to the home cook. A team of test cooks that viewers have come to love and trust... America's Test Kitchen Season 7 :Episode 11 Staying in For Chinese Take-Out Staying in For Chinese Take-Out 2007-03-17 Equipment reviews, taste tests, and recipes from the test kitchen to the home cook. A team of test cooks that viewers have come to love and trust... America's Test Kitchen Season 7 :Episode 12 Not Your Average Stir-Fry Not Your Average Stir-Fry 2007-03-24 Equipment reviews, taste tests, and recipes from the test kitchen to the home cook. A team of test cooks that viewers have come to love and trust... America's Test Kitchen Season 7 :Episode 13 More Tex-Mex Favorites More Tex-Mex Favorites 2007-03-31 Equipment reviews, taste tests, and recipes from the test kitchen to the home cook. A team of test cooks that viewers have come to love and trust... America's Test Kitchen Season 7 :Episode 14 Even More Italian Classics Even More Italian Classics 2007-04-07 Equipment reviews, taste tests, and recipes from the test kitchen to the home cook. A team of test cooks that viewers have come to love and trust... America's Test Kitchen Season 7 :Episode 15 Flambé at Home Flambé at Home 2007-04-14 Equipment reviews, taste tests, and recipes from the test kitchen to the home cook. A team of test cooks that viewers have come to love and trust... America's Test Kitchen Season 7 :Episode 16 Hearty Eggs for Breakfast Hearty Eggs for Breakfast 2007-04-21 Equipment reviews, taste tests, and recipes from the test kitchen to the home cook. A team of test cooks that viewers have come to love and trust... America's Test Kitchen Season 7 :Episode 17 Summer Cooking Summer Cooking 2007-04-28 Equipment reviews, taste tests, and recipes from the test kitchen to the home cook. A team of test cooks that viewers have come to love and trust... America's Test Kitchen Season 7 :Episode 18 Barbecued Brisket and Corn Fritters Barbecued Brisket and Corn Fritters 2007-05-05 Equipment reviews, taste tests, and recipes from the test kitchen to the home cook. A team of test cooks that viewers have come to love and trust... America's Test Kitchen Season 7 :Episode 19 Beer Can Chicken Dinner Beer Can Chicken Dinner 2007-05-12 Equipment reviews, taste tests, and recipes from the test kitchen to the home cook. A team of test cooks that viewers have come to love and trust... America's Test Kitchen Season 7 :Episode 20 Rainy Day Barbecue Rainy Day Barbecue 2007-05-19 Equipment reviews, taste tests, and recipes from the test kitchen to the home cook. A team of test cooks that viewers have come to love and trust... America's Test Kitchen Season 7 :Episode 21 Strawberry Cream Cake Strawberry Cream Cake 2007-05-26 Equipment reviews, taste tests, and recipes from the test kitchen to the home cook. A team of test cooks that viewers have come to love and trust... America's Test Kitchen Season 7 :Episode 22 Dark Chocolate Desserts Dark Chocolate Desserts 2007-06-02 Equipment reviews, taste tests, and recipes from the test kitchen to the home cook. A team of test cooks that viewers have come to love and trust... America's Test Kitchen Season 7 :Episode 23 Old-Fashioned Chocolate Cake Old-Fashioned Chocolate Cake 2007-06-09 Equipment reviews, taste tests, and recipes from the test kitchen to the home cook. A team of test cooks that viewers have come to love and trust... America's Test Kitchen Season 7 :Episode 24 Easy Apple Desserts Easy Apple Desserts 2007-06-16 Equipment reviews, taste tests, and recipes from the test kitchen to the home cook. A team of test cooks that viewers have come to love and trust... America's Test Kitchen Season 7 :Episode 25 Favorite Citrus Desserts Favorite Citrus Desserts 2007-06-23 Equipment reviews, taste tests, and recipes from the test kitchen to the home cook. A team of test cooks that viewers have come to love and trust... America's Test Kitchen Season 7 :Episode 26 Lighter Cheesecake Lighter Cheesecake 2007-06-30 Equipment reviews, taste tests, and recipes from the test kitchen to the home cook. A team of test cooks that viewers have come to love and trust...