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Beef Stroganoff

129 recipes, read so you don't have to.

Every recipe is a different answer to the same few questions. Tell us the beef stroganoff you are after and we will hand you the closest one anyone has published, plus what to change to suit you.

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Beef Stroganoff, as published.
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      More braising liquid went with recipes that came out thinner, across 55 versions.

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      Every beef stroganoff recipe we measured

      The five above are the ones we would point you to. This is every recipe we measured, if you would rather look yourself.

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      Where we would be guessing

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      Comparisons, not scores

      We can say one recipe reads further along an axis than another. We cannot put a number on it, and we do not pretend to.

      Direction, not magnitude

      Where we can name something that measurably changes the result, we can say which way it pushes. We still cannot tell you where your own beef stroganoff will land, because that also depends on your kitchen and your equipment. here is what we can tell you when it goes wrong.

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      A few publishers load their reviews from somewhere we cannot read. Their star ratings count toward how trusted a recipe is; their comments could not tell us anything about what cooks changed.