Cooks Illustrated 

I love this website. Chris is a uber geek but he's the man

Yeah I think they do a really good job, it's too bad you have to subscribe though! How much is the subscription and is it worth it?

This site was great.

I have a magazine subscription. What sucks is that you need to subscribe separately to the website (for extra $$$). I wish they just had a single combined subscription. Then I'd use the website more.

I should mention that the magazine, on its own, is totally worth it.

i used to subscribe to that magazine. too pseudo highbrow. ("most recipes call for 1/2c. cream, but we experimented with different quantities and settled on 5/16c. as the perfect amount.")