Ashlee Redger

Title: Writer

Location: Denver, Colorado

Education: Johnson & Wales University

Expertise: Equipment testing and reviewing, Midwestern food, baking, photography and food styling

Ashlee Redger is a writer for Serious Eats based in Denver, Colorado. She has spent most of her career in test kitchens, where she’s developed hundreds of recipes for home cooks and national brands. In 2022, Ashlee left her research chef job to write about food and cooking full-time.

Highlights:

Before joining Serious Eats, Ashlee wrote about the Denver food scene for Westword magazine.
She's created consumer food products, developed restaurant menus, and interned at America's Test Kitchen.
Ashlee has written about hundreds of products, including matcha powders, induction burners, and infrared thermometers.

Experience

Prior to joining Serious Eats, Ashlee managed the test kitchen for a spice brand and led the menu innovation for 50-plus restaurant locations. She also wrote about restaurants and farmers markets for Denver's independent weekly magazine, Westword. In addition to her work on the commerce team, Ashlee has developed several recipes for Serious Eats, including one for her favorite Midwestern dish, bierocks.

When she's not geeking out about food gear, Ashlee loves hosting dinner parties, drinking whiskey cocktails, and combing through the cookbook sections at thrift stores.

Favorite Purchase

My ThermoWorks ChefAlarm probe thermometer fills me with delight every time I unzip its little carrying case. I pride myself on making the best Thanksgiving turkey, and it is my secret weapon every November. For the other 364 days a year, I use it for roast chickens, steaks on the grill, and even baked goods.

Education

Ashlee has a B.S. in Culinary Arts and Nutrition with a concentration in Research & Development from Johnson & Wales University.

About Serious Eats

Serious Eats, a People Inc. brand, is an award-winning food and drink website visited by over 7 million hungry readers every month. Our audience comes to us for rigorously tested recipes, science-driven cooking techniques, robust equipment reviews, and stories that offer cultural and historical context to the foods we love to eat.

People Inc. is among the largest and fastest growing publishers online, and has won over 50 awards in the last year alone, including Digiday's 2020 Publisher of the Year. People Inc. brands include Verywell, Investopedia, The Balance, The Spruce, Simply Recipes, Serious Eats, Byrdie, Brides, MyDomaine, Lifewire, TripSavvy, Liquor.com, and TreeHugger.