Kitchen Tools

The freezer is not a pause button. While your beautiful fillet of wild sockeye sits in the dark, the appliance slows chemical reactions taking place, … Read more

Without some sort of rotation system, most people’s home freezer turns into a graveyard of forgotten protein. During a sale, you bag up that big … Read more

Turn your back, turn off the oven, mix some sourdough and go to bed. You has an hour of life ahead of you. But wait: … Read more

The first time you cook, you spend hours tweaking temps and playing with the smoke rings to get things just right. Then some klutz tries … Read more

The magic of fermentation is when the cabbage tastes like itself. It transitions from tasting like salty vegetable to tasting like what it is going … Read more

So you open the fridge, grab a pack of ground beef, and everything seem okay. Human memory’s fuzzy; something doesn’t feel quite right in your … Read more

Panic: You grab a pack of chicken breasts from fridge; they’re coming up on their sell-by date. Here’s the truth: That date stamped onto the … Read more

It sounds delicious; the pot of rice smells good. And it certainly appears innocent enough on your plate. You dig in, and all goes well…until … Read more

The freezer is a time machine for most folks. The moment you stick that ground beef in there while your fridge overflows, it will be … Read more