Americas Test Kitchen has a new home

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America’s Test Kitchen has a new home in the Hub at the Innovation and Design Building in Seaport — and it’s a far cry from its former, brick-covered Brookline Village abode.

“It would have been a much easier project if we had gone to an office park off of Route 128,” joked Jack Bishop, the media company’s creative director.

“In addition to the complicated build-out internally with venting for 50 different ovens, we have to grill,” Bishop said. “So we needed grilling space that’s going to be built next month behind the building.”

The brand spanking new kitchen, where 42 test cooks work each day, comprises 15,000 square feet of prime Drydock Avenue real estate. While they don’t have the dimensions of their previous space at Brookline’s 17 Station St., a rep for America’s Test Kitchen said it’s safe to say the new space is more than double the old.

Walking around the new test kitchen, you’ll see it’s chock-full of high-end appliances — 339, to be exact — a library containing more than 4,000 recipe books, photo and video studios, and a take-home fridge where employees can call dibs on completed dishes that their co-workers were testing.

Now that America’s Test Kitchen has moved to the Innovation and Design Building, it has become part of a Boston ecosystem filled with our city’s startups and creative types.

“We wanted to be at a destination, someplace that felt like, ‘I’ve arrived,’?” Bishop said. “Besides what’s going on here at America’s Test Kitchen, there’s so much creative energy in this 1-million-square-foot building with several thousand other people working here.

http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/inside_track/2017/10/test_kitchen_opens_new_boston_home

https://www.americastestkitchen.com